"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...

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 ...

"[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....

Concordia’s mission reflects the best of the human race. Crew and scientists from both of Earth’s rival factions journey for years at relativistic speeds to reach Bravo Charlie, a life-bearing planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B, to expand the frontiers of knowledge for all.Concordia’s mission also reflects humanity at its worst. Corrupt bureaucrats and ambitious political leaders in both factions maintain a status quo backed by weapons of mass destruction. The facti...

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, ...

Three young men.One telekinetic power.How far will they push their luck?When my homey Jaymz said LeRoi—the weird guy who stares at his shoes through thick glasses—could make stuff move with his mind, I didn’t believe him. I knew telekinesis wasn’t real. But I got them into that street craps game, where everyone packs heat.I believed after that.I joined them on a trip to a real casino in Louisiana, where we kept gold d...

…then he learns the truth about the planet's "animals."Ross Cantrell joins the animal control mission on the planet Azureseas to earn the money he needs to start married life with his girlfriend.The tourist corporations pay well. The psych technicians keep his brain focused. Neutralizing the large, dangerous native lifeforms is dirty work, but necessary to keep people safe. Like plinking tree cats back home.Then Ross learns the truth about ...

Smuggle the “reborn” spiritual leader of an oppressed people past their conquerors.What could go wrong?Solitary spacejock Landry Krieger ekes out a living transporting data through the galaxy—and smuggling people past the watchful eyes of governments, in hiding places he builds in his ship.When the priests of Tao Pacem ask for his help, Landry resists. Dow patch’em? Yin-yang symbols? A plan to sneak a young boy, the “reincarnation” ...

President Archer faced an imminent war in the Middle East.The audio-visual recording crew following his every public move limited how he could resolve the crisis.Or did they?America's founding ideals clash with shadowy statecraft in this near future short story of political science speculation by the author of New California and the Stone Chalmers series.

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...

Carnival 1919.Horrors of the war just ended.Visions of the war to come.Hans returned from the Great War, haunted. Not only by the horrors of the trenches, but haunted by visions of a more terrifying war to come.Would the parties and parades of Carnival 1919 offer him love and hope? Or doom him and his country to the devastation he foresaw?

Only a bastard can save a kingdom from chaos.A childless queen confined to the palace.A king overly enamored of male companionship.The kingdom desperately needs an heir.Who will father one?Two courtiers ask Keladon, retired battlemage and the king's bastard half-brother, to make his way in secret to the queen's bedchamber. His loyalty to the kingdom overcomes his dread of palace intrigues and his guilt in turning her, a foreign princ...