What If Your Memories Were Never Yours?
The countdown has begun for the release of my new book, Periphage Blues. In the next two months there will be opportunities for you to get pre-release copies and to sign up to get the official copy on the release day. What’s Periphage Blues about?
Smuggler Samuel Whitt has a past he doesn’t fully remember. When he crosses paths with Color of Air—an enigmatic shapeshifter—he thinks he’s playing her. But she turns the tables on him and steals his body, his memories, and his ship.
Samuel should be dead. Instead, he’s trapped inside her mind, forced into an uneasy alliance to survive. Now, they’re one body with two minds, hunted by the Concordium’s black ops division, which will stop at nothing to turn Color of Air into a weapon.
As they race across the stars—through crime syndicates, shadowy outposts, and buried secrets—Samuel begins to realize his past isn’t just missing. It might never have been his to begin with.
For fans of Murderbot, The Expanse, and Timothy Zahn, Periphage Blues is a gripping sci-fi thriller of survival, intrigue, and an unlikely partnership that may unlock the galaxy’s deadliest secret.
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Sellenria: The Starship and the Citadel
Chuck Boeheim, Daniel Elswit
Believing in the impossible may be my only chance of survival.
As a professor of archaeology at the University of Trondhjem, my life revolved around telepresence digs and simspace classroom lectures—stable and predictable, exactly as I preferred. But the discovery of a peculiar artifact — a gem owned by my ancestor — upended everything. Now I’m in a dire situation, stranded on a pre-technological planet hundreds of light-years from civilization. A fey swordswoman has made me her apprentice after saving me from a creature that couldn’t possibly exist. I became advisor to the king. And now all three of us are fleeing an assassination plot. It’s mad enough to be a fantasy simspace, but it’s deadly real.
The most confounding part is that these people think my ancestor was an ancient warlock and that I’ve returned with his gem to wield his magical powers in the fight against the Blight. I’m a man of science, of order, of logic; I don’t believe in magic.
But that’s not the way this world works.
Void Birds
Chuck Boeheim
Lieutenant Yusmara doesn’t pilot by numbers—she flies by instinct, feeling the currents of space as if by rope and canvas. But when the starship Gemini encounters an unknown presence beyond the edge of Human space, her intuition tells her something is different.
Humanity has never made first contact. This should be a moment for history books. But the thing pacing their ship does not respond. It does not signal. It does not behave like anything they’ve seen before.
And Yusmara may be the only one who can understand it.
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The Maze Maker
Michael Ayrton
This novel is a retelling of the myths of Daedalus, the master craftsman of ancient Crete, best known for fashioning wings that sent his son, Icarus, soaring to his doom. Told as an autobiographical epic, the story follows Daedalus from youth to old age, tracing his triumphs and downfalls. As in many Greek myths, tragedy looms large—his fate is shaped not just by his own genius but by the whims of the gods he offends, most notably Apollo. At its heart, the novel explores the contrast between human ingenuity and divine caprice, where even the most brilliant plans can be overturned in an instant by the will of the gods.
Well-known events—such as the design of the labyrinth at Knossos, the birth of the Minotaur, and the crafting of Daedalus’s legendary wings—are woven together with other feats of engineering, including the construction of statues of monumental scale. Ayrton’s background as a sculptor shines through in these passages, particularly in his detailed descriptions of the challenges involved in smelting and casting bronze on such a scale.
For me, this wove the fragments of myth about Daedalus into a cohesive narrative, placing him among the other legends of his age. If you like historical or mythological fiction, this is a good read.
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A Coming of Age
Timothy Zahn
On the planet Tigris, a mutation has given children telekinesis (“teek”) from the age of five until the onset of puberty. Children with little self-control or judgement are far more powerful than adults. After a generation of chaos, a new social structure is put in place to keep children compliant and controllable during their dangerous years, and contributing their talents to society. But the tradeoffs society made are oppressive, and set back children’s development by a decade or more.
Lisa Duncan is at the brink of puberty, and terrified of losing her powers. She witnesses a kidnapping, which brings her to the attention of Detective Stanford Tirrell, who is investigating a ring of fagins – people named after the Dickens character and every bit as unsavory. Together they uncover something much more sinister: a plot to break society and cast it back into the chaos it fought free of centuries before.
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Building Harlequin's Moon
Larry Niven & Brenda Cooper
The generation ship John Glenn fled the solar system amid fears of uncontrolled nanotech and AI, vowing to establish a new society free from these dangers around the distant sun Ymir. But midway through their journey, their ram scoop fails, leaving them stranded in a barren star system with only a few gas giants. With no habitable worlds, they embark on a desperate project: over 60 millennia, they construct a moon where they can manufacture enough antimatter to continue their journey.
To sustain this effort, they must raise a new generation of workers, seeding a future conflict between the Moon Born, who know no other home, and the Earth Born, who remain committed to Ymir. The grim reality is inescapable: there isn’t enough room on the ship for everyone, and the moon won’t support life for more than a few generations.
This growing divide is explored through Rachel, a leader among the Moon Born, and Gabriel, the chief terraformer. Their evolving relationship forces them to confront an impossible question: What does it mean to be born for a purpose, only to be left behind? Is the abandonment of an entire people justifiable if it offers humanity’s only hope of survival—especially when they may be the last humans left in the universe?
Larry Niven’s signature world-building powerhouse meets Brenda Cooper’s nuanced character development, elevating this collaboration beyond Niven’s usual scope. The result is a compelling exploration of survival, sacrifice, and the unintended consequences of human ambition.
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Jess Amiko is long past her days as a space marine, with all the glory of that time tarnished beyond repair by what came after. Trying to rebuild from the ashes, she’s taken a job as a security guard on Kenai, a lonely world far from the Council systems. It’s supposed to be easy duty – quiet and peaceful, on a docile world with no real threats, watching over an archeological dig at a site built by a race long vanished.
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