Not long from now, in our own milky way…The name's Sam Kletchka. Perhaps you've heard of me: captain of the Star Runner, military contractor for Earthfleet, and interstellar privateer. But before all that, I was a hired gun, freelancing across the galaxy one gunslinging job at a time.This, my friends, is how I went from being stranded in the armpit of the galaxy to becoming the luckiest human being in the universe. Not that it was easy, of course. I've look...

Join Sam Kletchka, freelance gunslinger and interstellar privateer, and Jane Carter, xenolinguist and alien anthropologist, on their intergalactic adventures as they travel the stars, make first (and sometimes last) contact with exotic alien races, and uncover the truth about the Immortals who secretly run our galaxy.This omnibus edition contains:Gunslinger to the StarsGunslinger to the GalaxyGunslinger to Earthand the short story "Jane Carter...

Ten more stories to heal the divide between man and machine.This is the sixth volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:Quantum WorldsWill AI herald the death of human creativity, or its startling rebirth?Bloody Justice (by J.M. Wight)The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed…A Mother's Last GoodbyeWhen the living and the dead ...

My name is Jane Kletchka, and I'm here to set the record straight.Jane Kletchka here. By now, I'm sure you've heard how my dear husband Sam saved the Gorinal star cluster and stopped the Immortals from throwing the galaxy into chaos. Unfortunately, he didn't thwart their plans; he only accelerated them.As the galaxy fell into chaos, Earthfleet commissioned us to find out what was happening before Earth became the next planet to fall. Little did we know, it ...

Ten brutally honest and politically incorrect stories for times such as these!This is the second volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It contains:The Paradox of ChoiceIf post-birth abortions are legal, when does life actually begin?PaydayA near future sci-fi thriller about the perils of a universal basic income.Utahraptors at DawnWhen the mem...

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil!When Captain Victor Andrecek and his crew of down-and-out smugglers respond to a deep space distress call, what they find shocks them to their very core. The victim is dead, his EVA suit nailed to a cross and launched on the head of a repurposed missile, with the words of an ancient scripture burned on a plaque at his feet. And he is not the only one.The madman behind the murders is a privateer known as Zedek...

Eleven short stories and a poem that show us what comes after the end of all we know.This is the fourth volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:The Manchurian ParadoxWe have met our timeline's enemy and he is us.A Fatal RebirthNothing in this world should live forever—not even civilization itself.The Final TurningThis is how the worl...

Where were you on the day the Earth disappeared?So there I was, on an awkward first date with my secret crush, when the colonies went into revolt. They nuked the moon and hijacked half of Earthfleet—and that was just the opening salvo.Then I learned that my date was one of the terrorists (or patriots, depending on your political beliefs), and I had to make a choice: join her, or spend the next few days stuffed in an EVA suit locker. I chose the former, and ...