Story Collection Kickstarter

I’m publishing two collections of my short stories and RPG scenarios on Kickstarter. Ultimate Conclusions has 14 short stories, including three new stories in the Torchship universe, looking at the end of the war of the AIs and how to deal with the forcibly uploaded people. There’s also another dozen gaming articles, including the RPG…

New Releases: Swim Among the People & Trouble In My Day

Because I’m terrible at marketing, I failed to update this blog with my spring release, so here’s the announcements for books 5 and 6 together. Swim Among the People: Fiera’s victories angered the Censor into deploying the force needed to retake his lost worlds. Marcus Landry is now trapped on an occupied world, trying to…

Free Short Stories

I’m starting a mailing list to give away a short story each month. The first story, “Justice,” looks at how far Supreme Court packing could go. Check it out, and please subscribe if you’d like more.

John W. Campbell vs. The Pulps

There’s some writers out there who push a conspiracy theory that “John W. Campbell murdered pulp fiction”. JWC didn’t kill the fantasy adventure pulps. They were destroyed by something else that happened at the same time JWC took over Astounding: World War Two. The war took millions of readers away from their pulp collections and…

New Release: Captain Trader Helmsman Spy

Niko Landry needs to infiltrate the Censorate to find a weakness before it launches its next assault. The Censor bans maps of hyperspace, forcing freighters to find their way by word of mouth. He and his crew will pretend to be ordinary traders while finding out all the secrets they can. Any mistake could leave…

Between Home and Ruin & Seize What’s Held Dear are Award Finalists

I’m pleased to announce that my novels 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑢𝑖𝑛 and 𝑆𝑒𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑟 are finalists for the Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian Science Fiction Novel. 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑢𝑖𝑛 is the struggle of a newly discovered free world to survive against a government that erases history to suppress any challenge to its…

Plans Gang Agley

At the end of Seize What’s Held Dear, I promised the next book, Captain Trader Helmsman Spy, would be out this winter. I do have a full draft of CTHS and am working with a cover artist to get it ready to publish. But it’s not coming out this winter. Unfortunately, when I set up…

The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile

One of the most common ways for someone to start reading science fiction is picking up one of Robert A. Heinlein’s “juveniles”—a series of novels aimed at teen readers. Fans tell stories of finding one in the library or having their father hand them a copy. My father died too young to push books on…

New Release: Seize What’s Held Dear

New book out: Seize What’s Held Dear (book 3 in Fall of the Censor): A dozen cities nuked. Millions dead. The Fierans are burning for revenge. Marcus Landry is eager to fight the Censorate, but desperate to protect the innocents oppressed by Censorate rule . . . including his beloved, trapped behind enemy lines.

Storm Between the Stars is a Finalist for the Prometheus Award

The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the finalists for this year’s Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian Science Fiction novel. My novel Storm Between the Stars is included along with Who Can Own the Stars? by Mackey Chandler, The War Whisperer, Book 5: The Hook, by Barry B. Longyear, Braintrust: Requiem, by Marc Stiegler, and Heaven’s…