Matthew Jarpe (home.comcast.net/~m.jarpe/) lives in Quincy, Massachusetts, with his wife and son. “I currently work (as a biochemist) at a company in Cambridge, Massachusets, called Biogen Idec. I characterize interactions between molecules,” he says on his website, and “I like to cook, build things, and brew beer.” Jarpe has published six SF stories to date in six years, five in Asimov’s and one in Fantasy & Science Fiction. In the 1990s he was part of Hal Clement’s SF writing circle.
“City of Reason” was published in Asimov’s. It’s an exciting space opera with action, complex intrigue, a nuclear weapon, mind control, a post-human teenage girl, and much more. Out on the edge of the solar system, a man who is supposed to find out information about space ships for an agency that sells the information finds a ship containing two teenagers and a nuclear weapon, on their way to destroy a city.