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She has everything to die for.

Death begins at home…

The Milky Way. Sixty thousand light years across. A hundred billion planets to explore. Most of them out of reach, even of the Mannix-Alcubierre Warp Drive. In 2235, Earth's few well-worn neighbors brim with colonists and terraformers. Humanity now faces the final limits of its growth.

When Chan Xiyi Aya's dream of life beyond the rim lands her in hot water with the Foundation who employs her, she gets her shot at the job she's aching for: chronicling the history of a planet she'd kill to protect, three hundred light years beyond the rim of human space.

The catch?

Only the dead can go.

A young radio engineer travels across an alt-history America, encountering primeval gods, mythical beasts, and tall tales come to life, in a quest to build a radio transmitter that can reach the stars. It all starts in the mountain town of Porterville. Twelve-year-old Philo starts a pirate radio station with his friends, and learns that the world is a stranger place than he ever imagined. The Ancient Marauder, the Bright and Terrible Birds, the Mishipeshu, and other creatures of myth and legend populate this enchanting mixture of science and fantasy.

Niko Landry needs to infiltrate the Censorate to find a weakness before it launches its next assault. The Censor bans maps of hyperspace, forcing freighters to find their way by word of mouth.

He and his crew will pretend to be ordinary traders while finding out all the secrets they can. Any mistake could leave them broke . . . or executed.

Inspiration is the father of invention. In CERES 2525 you fly along on the Scifi Action Adventures of Ceres Tauri, 25, superstar of the zero-gravity league. He desperately searches for his mother, long held captive among the Galactic's 500 colony worlds. When he too is kidnapped by the pirate fleet, forced to duel to the death to save a slave with powerful secret abilities, he determines to fight his way to the top of the pirate ranks. Did he just find the love of his life? While Ceres duels to save her from slavery, does she fight his sins, to save his soul?

Inga Alenir is a Swordbearer. She is the latest in a long line of women to inherit a magical weapon called Deathbringer. She's also dead, murdered on her wedding day by the ruthless and covetous noblewoman Yenda Avard, who steals the sword after killing Inga and her entire family.

And yet, some secrets won't stay buried. Deathbringer has a will and a consciousness of its own, and even has the power to raise Inga from the dead for a short time. It warns her that she has one week to find and retrieve the sword before death reclaims her—permanently. With each day bringing her doom and final demise ever closer, Inga will have to see just how far she's willing to go to achieve her vengeance.

What began as a teen boy's curiosity became a physics research project into the time effects of the Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

At first, the excitement of the project hid the dangers, even from experts like Professor Pratt.

But an accident created an ever-expanding bubble of time that threatened to send the world back to the Big Bang.

A novel about teenage boys, grandpas, robots, time travel, and sacrifice.
Hard Science Fiction - Old School.

Al Gore wins the 2000 election, and two oddly cheerful agents from an agency no one has heard of give him the METTA, a device that can send his mind back to election night. He'll need it. An asteroid hits the Earth in 2003.

So Gore starts over. He fixes the asteroid problem but instead gets nuclear war. Every journey back in time brings a different apocalypse, then another, and another, living a thousand lifetimes of the presidency. Each time, the only way out is the METTA.

An Inconvenient Presidency is a quick, ridiculous, surprisingly thoughtful time-loop satire about a man who keeps winning and can't stop the world from ending.

The ice is retreating. Her people will follow it north. But Eirleida must go south.

At the end of the Younger Dryas, strangers emerge from an ancient refuge with news that will change Eirleida's life forever: she is a Transcendent. She will not grow old, even as everyone she knows and loves ages and dies.

The strangers are survivors of a civilization destroyed by catastrophe. They offer her a chance to find others like herself, but only if she leaves her people behind and helps them reach a distant sanctuary. There, they hope to preserve an important warning for generations yet unborn.

Their technology is extraordinary, but their supplies are dwindling and the machines they depend upon cannot be replaced. As the travelers cross an unfamiliar wilderness, Eirleida discovers abilities she barely understands—and learns that extraordinary power cannot solve every problem.

He used to weaponize contracts from a desk. Now he enforces them at gunpoint in deep space.

Cal Ransom is a corporate lawyer with a career in freefall—and TrustUs! has found the perfect use for him: indenture on a spaceship repossession crew. His first assignment is straightforward on paper: recover the Celestial Aura, a missing research vessel last seen heading for the dead Koschei system.

Except three other repo ships are already racing toward the same prize.

Which means someone leaked the mission. And since Cal is the new guy, he’s the obvious suspect.

As the Hard Bargain closes on Koschei, the job turns into a three-way scramble for possession, with rival crews, corporate secrets, and a target ship that doesn’t behave like any ship should—because something aboard the Celestial Aura is talking back.

To survive, Cal will have to out-argue killers, outmaneuver a hidden power with its own enforcement muscle, and decide how much of the law he’s willing to break to keep breathing.

Perfect for fans of:

hard-edged space opera with tactical action
corporate intrigue and legal chess moves
tight, wry, character-driven science fiction

Book 1 of the Ransom’s Law series. Start here.

Immortality doesn't make a man invincible.

Leontios of Miletus is a Maker, gifted with the power to create extraordinary devices from ordinary materials. He would much rather pursue his studies, enjoy good food and wine, and leave the fighting to others.

Unfortunately, the world has other plans.

In ancient Greece, an innocent observation earns him a powerful enemy. In Roman Africa, a friend's business dealings test his conscience. In Britannia, a militant faction wants to put his talents to work.

Across centuries of shifting kingdoms and familiar human failings, Leontios survives through ingenuity, good fortune, and a willingness to abandon everything he's built.

But even an immortal can only run for so long.

The Long Retreat is a standalone historical fantasy novella set in the world of The Severed World.