"Escort the Federation team. Keep them out of trouble." Those were Octavia Tiberius's first orders out of cryosleep. As a Guardian of the Amaranthian Empire, it was her duty to represent and protect her people. She expected it to be just like the simulations; guns, ships, explosions and the like. Wh...

The Sapient Union city-ship Craton, twenty-five light years out from Sol have an encounter with a terrifying life-form.  The giant entity, known as a Leviathan, has been asleep for deep ages of time, but now . . . they may have woken it up. Other-Terrestrial is a hard sci-fi story with cosmic horror...

Servitor 090177101 had no dreams of grandeur or even so much as a humble desire for something more. But the Omni Animus's arrival on the galactic stage changed that, for 090177101 and everyone else like her. Witness the beginning of the Omni Virus, and ponder what it means to be a thinking thing....

After hundreds of years traversing the vastness of interstellar space, the ship's artificial intelligence begins gestating frozen embryos. It will raise and educate the men and women who will colonize a new world. Unfortunately, the gestation chamber fails after only two children are birthed. With q...

Two minds; one body.Two souls; merged perceptions. I thought I knew what it meant to be human, until I crossed those boundaries.I believed I knew my limits, until I expanded all I am. My senses mapped over hers, and I learned how incredible her alien world was for us.Her senses mapped over mine, and...

After barely surviving their encounter with the sleeping Leviathan twenty-five light years from Earth, Captain Brooks and his crew search for an individual whose mere presence may protect them from the reality-warping abilities of the beings.  While officially called Cerebral Readers, they are known...

Set in the Pinwheel universe, where an alliance of friendly species fights a never-ending war against the merciless insect hordes, the mission to retake a lost colony is underway. The largest Coalition fleet ever assembled descends on the moon of Kerguela, where a peaceful civilization met its end a...

The Craton travels to Medical Station 29 - the Chain.  This immense, deep-space station cares for the most serious medical cases in known space, perhaps even able to save the thousands of developing clones rescued from the colony of New Vitriol. But in The Chain are also those who have been touched ...

Book 1 COMPLETE (beefy one at 259,005 words). It has a satisfying conclusion as well as a good settlement of many plot-points (no Part 1 vs Part 2, this is a complete book). This was my first book so the quality steadily improves as the story progresses. Everything has a reason/purpose behind it. A ...

The Craton and her crew return to the Sol System, the original home of humanity.  For many of her crew, born far from the cradle of our species, it is a unique event, to see the world that nurtured us into existence.  For those from Earth, though, a harsher reality is known, as the history of our wo...

After two years away from her family, Tasia Laevinus returns to the space station she calls home. She quickly learns that her arrival is anything but welcome. What happens when harmless revenge against your family becomes anything but harmless? When one bad decision leads to another, when does it en...

Aubrey, a brilliant but lonely ten year old girl who is above all things, kind, is about to learn a hard truth. That war makes monsters of us all. Her mother always told her that her father died in a car accident. She lied. Bored by her advanced classes and tempted by an irresistible opportunity to ...

The Convention of Sophonts brings together species from countless alternate earths. Worlds-spanning deals are brokered, inter-species wars are averted, and humans...do their best. At the United Nations Embassy, the only person who knows how to deal with non-humans is the cook, Koen. When some of the...

Disclaimer: Prior knowledge of the Halo video game and universe is not required to read this story. ___________________ When the Aliens, the Covenant, invaded, it seemed as if Mankind had no hope. Then the Spartans came to the rescue. These genetically modified super soldiers, originally meant to qu...

Captain Ian Brooks, accused of failure to follow orders, must stand trial on the mighty Korolev Station, capital of humanity. This is no simple trial, but a battle in a political power struggle within which he is only a pawn.  Despite being aware of this, there is little he can do except try to surv...

All you can do with life is waste it. Xan is the world's most dangerous criminal mastermind.  He’s also in hiding and completely broke.  That’s fine.  He’s between master plans.  It’s normal to be at rock bottom between master plans.  He also forgets stuff and may be trapped in a dream. Because at n...

A small group of aliens have begged the Sapient Union for aid, and the Union will answer. Faced with imminent destruction at the hand of a vicious warlord who has sworn to destroy them to the last being, Captain Brooks must maneuver carefully.   While he is empowered to negotiate and seek peace, the...

The City and the Stars The City and the Stars is a crossover young adult/science fiction novel, but heavily influenced by historical and military fiction. Set hundreds of years in the future mankind has established star spanning empires. One of the new powers is the Corporation of London, which has...

The Craton, damaged in battle, goes for repairs in the neutral territory known as Gohhi Station.  This collection of independent space stations is the marketplace of the universe; home to the most wretched and the most obscenely wealthy beings in known space. In this melting pot, friends and enemies...

Time tastes like overcooked steak covered in black ashy sand. Nona is the girl who knows how Time tastes. A flavour that alerts her that she is about to witness a time-event from anywhere and anywhen. Scenes played on mute. A never-ending banter from loud, annoying lips. The scent of danger and tear...