Welcome to my worlds.
There’s a lot of ’em, many have been written, and it’s going to take a while to get them all ready for their debut. Here are the ones that are available, organized by world type. If you want to know more about each one, just click on the series.
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The VectorShip Archives
NA01 – Ecdysis
Something impels people to leave their land to travel elsewhere. In the beginning, it was a series of disasters capped by the start of a new Ice Age that forced Miles Gauthier to take that big jump to interstellar colonization using commercial off-the-shelf components. Only things we don’t have now, one of which is long-term hibernation, are needed to take us from the present to this amazing future.
Hop aboard a VectorShip, take a nap for a few dozen lightyears, and find worlds of endless opportunity.
Riddled Space
P1 – A Necessary Trigger
This series inverts four tropes that infest science fiction: space war, World governments, orbital stations, and the Earth/Moon system. Welcome to Earth of not-long-from-now, where the UN is in charge of space, safety regs are given lip service, and program managers are masters of CYA, blame-shifting, and graft.
Join Celine and McCrary and Lisa and John, along with a cast of dozens as they cheat death to return to Earth from a space environment that turned from dangerous to actively lethal in The Event. And they leave space with a legacy that will last for centuries.
Family of Grifters
No matter how advanced human civilization gets, some things remain the same. Most people live within the rules of civilization. Others cannot. They are called criminals. The highest rank among those of the criminal class is that of grifter. It is the dream of every grifter to be part of a long-con crew. In mid 2100s, the best long-con crew is Swenson’s Squad. Family of Grifters tells some of their tales on and off Earth.
Family of Grifters (FoG) is not be a linear series. That is, you can read the tales in any order. I promise never to ‘cliffhanger’ you, so that you have to buy the next tale to find out how things work out. You see, even long-cons have to end at some point. The longer they go on, the more likely it is that our crews will be discovered. So, I promise you an ending to each tale. Warning: they will not always work out in our crew’s favor. Hmmm–how would I con myself out of jail on Mars? There has to be a way….
Paradisi Chronicles Stories
In the last decades of the twenty-first century, ten families seeking to escape a devastated Earth focus on constructing spaceships to colonize the world they call New Eden, in the Paradisi System. But the world they claim for their own is already inhabited, and the Ddaerans, although human in appearance, possess abilities that the Founders and their descendants do not…
In this latest title in the acclaimed ‘Future Chronicles’ series of speculative fiction anthologies, twelve authors take us on that incredible journey with adventurers, scientists and colonists, as they push the boundaries against the unknown, against alien civilization, and themselves.
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