"Military science fiction concentrating on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict."---Analog, on the Confederated Worlds seriesThey gave him a soldier's skills.His war was still hell.Tomas Neumann wants off his backwater planet and away from his suffocating mother. "Taking the shilling"—joining the Confederated Worlds Ground Force—promises escape, purpose, and the father figure he's never had.T...

"[A] thriller-style science fiction tale that's a quick and fun read.... A good start to a promising series." - Sfreader.comOne man can make—or break—Earth's iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's top operative.On the newly-rediscovered colony world of Freeland, an Earth operative is murdered. Stone's mission: travel through an artificial wormhole to a distant planet. Find the killers. And terminate them....

Decades of interstellar history are a lie.One assassin will risk everything to prove it.Anara has never questioned an order. As a covert operative for the Democracy, she eliminates threats to the interstellar state. Cleanly, quietly, without hesitation. Her latest mission should be no different: encounter a man on his morning walk, poison him, jog away.But her target is a middle-aged college professor. An Incepti, like her—one of a ...

"I’m reminded of Poul Anderson’s Dominic Flandry series, or more recently, Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Anniversary Day saga." —AnalogThe war has ended.The real enemy hides in plain sight.Captain Tomas Neumann thought he'd left the battlefield behind. Assigned to the Confederated Worlds' capital planet, he's focused on rebuilding military morale after their devastating defeat. Politics? Not his fight.That changes when h...

Do you only read speculative fiction that's predictable? Filtered by sensitivity readers? Rewritten to the critical taste of a creative writing professor? Validated by a New York publisher*? Or that hits every trope, and only every trope, of one particular bookstore subcategory? Then this collection probably isn't for you.On the other hand, you might like speculative fiction where the author follows the muse wherever it leads him. Across time and space. Across genres and subgenres....

Americans under the thumb of interplanetary Russians. Can they strike a blow for solar system freedom? Andrew wanted a new start, far from a fallen USA under foreign hegemony. The American colony on a moon of Jupiter needed nuclear power technicians like him. To get there, he must journey for months on board a Russian ship. Not alone. Locked in with fellow American colonists who proclaim the New Covenant, just like hi...

"Military science fiction [concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict."—Analog, on the Confederated Worlds seriesThe Confederated Worlds lost the war.Can Lt. Tomas Neumann win the peace?The ceasefire holds by a thread. Under the fragile peace treaty, citizens of the strategic world Arden will vote to remain with the defeated Confederated Worlds—or defect to the victorious Progressive Republic....

One man can make—or break—Earth's iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's top operative.Somewhere on the devoutly religious colony world of Trinity, a prize beyond measure lies hidden: the last warpdrive ship outside Earth's control.Stone's mission: verify the reports. And if the ship exists, ensure Earth's enemies never use it.Going undercover with a false identity overlaid on his mind, Stone must navigate a socie...

War has come to the galaxy.What matters more—victory or truth?The secret masters of the Democracy have run out of patience. Anara Orden, along with the professor who carries the galaxy's most dangerous secret, have found shelter in Velan space.Until the Democracy demands their surrender.When the Velans refuse, fleets mass at the jump points.The Velans are outgunned. Their strategists debate impossible options: a mass...

"[U]nusual for military science fiction for its concentration on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict." —AnalogOne soldier. Three battles. The fate of worlds.A thousand years from now, while Earth dreams in virtual reality, three rival governments battle for control of humanity's scattered worlds. Connected by artificial wormholes, divided by ideology, they wage a brutal conflict that will reshape the galaxy.At the center of...

Join a double agent seeking to free Earth from alien tyranny. A Red Army pursuing the retreating Germans—across Transylvania. A mission to gather helium from the photosphere of the sun. A scientist who sees the last thing she expects: Christ's empty tomb.A distinctive voice in science fiction guides you on ten voyages to the asteroid belt, the coding regions of DNA, and the complexities of the human psyche. Includes Selling Short, The Imitation of Christ, The van der Rohe Forgery, ...

Stone Chalmers. Earth's top operative. But every spy has a breaking point.The high-tech colony of Minerva has submitted to Earth's control— or so its leaders claim. Stone's mission: travel to this newly-rediscovered world and investigate reports of strange beliefs simmering beneath the submissive surface.With a cloud over his career from his last mission, Stone has no leverage to refuse. Weeks trapped on a ship towing a wormhole to Minerva give him time to ...