Novels

THIS PAGE LISTS my book-length works, including some barely underway. Like everyone else, I also wrote a practice novel or two not listed here; no need for details. Check back for updates and news!

Want to get a glimpse inside? Click the links to read sample chapters or full downloads of my released work. I'll continue uploading works when they reach publication!

Transcendence

Empire Ship

Hard-edged far-future SF. A menace from the ancient past threatens galactic civilization. Aboard a world-sized Empire Ship, a boy comes of age in a society that sharpens men into weapons while the ship's Captain plans to resurrect the Empire. Meanwhile, a woman launches a mission to destroy the threat and must decide how best to save the human species. Along the way, she works to save her father from her boss while teaching a couple of borderline-psychopaths about loyalty and love... sorta.

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NEWS

• Just now finishing revising the final draft, then off to agent-land! Fingers crossed for 2013 release.

• Novel complete!

The Adventures of Jack and Stella

Present-day young-adult SF. When a brother and sister reach adolescence and begin to remember things they never learned, they discover that they're only half human. This revelation throws them into the middle of a millennia-long galactic conflict that threatens not only to destroy Humankind, but throw the galaxy back into devastating war! In the first book, they must discover whom they can trust, both human and alien, while on the run across the United States... all the while learning how to build a star-drive (which can destroy planets) and how to modify the human body to survive the winnowing plague that has been unleashed on our world.

By the end of the first book, they are capable of traveling to the stars... and living on their own. This is an ongoing series of adventures as our heroes travel the galaxy as secret representatives of humankind, traveling to alien worlds - both inhabited and ruined by the last war - facing down crises that they can only solve by embracing their new-found skills.

NEWS

• May 23, 2012: Draft underway! ETA to agent: June 2012.

• December 14, 2011: Outline complete!

Time Clogged with Space

Medium-future SF. Two hard-drinking spacecraft pilots wreck their supercargo ship on an alien planet and stumble into a secret interstellar war. While dealing with the fallout, one man comes to terms with losing his son while the other falls deeper into the external drama.

Status: Draft complete, needs revision.

One Good War

Near-future SF. A disturbed software engineer tells two parallel tales: The first is his personal story of coming of age in small-town America; the other is an adventure arising from first contact with aliens and conspiracy to commit terrorism on a vast scale... and why he ended up saving the human species he sought to destroy.

Status: Draft complete, needs revision.

Breakthrough

Near-future SF. Beings from another universe tunnel into ours and download a vast amount of data into one man's mind. They tell him that they hope to save their vastly superior civilization by enlisting us in a grand scheme: For those willing to help, they promise eternal life and paradise... but - even if they can be trusted - the price might be the destruction of our universe and surrendering our humanity. Our protagonist must decode the aliens' agenda while human civilization shudders under the revelation he offers. Only when he recognizes that he holds the key to unlock the passage between our universes does he realize how he can save both... but time is short as the Earth teeters toward self-immolation: Religious ideologies first reject the news and then fight to incorporate what they have learned into their structures, economic and political structures are shaken to their roots, and our protagonist faces not only the loss of his world but the woman closest to him if he cannot solve the problems he has caused.

Status: Outlining phase.

The Vivisectionist

Modern SF-horror. One of our main characters is "the Vivisectionist," a self-styled superhero... and serial murderer. He decided at a young age to use his power to sustain life (while doing horrible things) for good; that is, to remove bad people from the streets, torture confessions out of them, distribute their detailed confessions, and then transform his subjects into tools to help perpetuate his mission. The other main characters include a man who receives one of these confessions - a recording of his child's murderer - and a cop who discovers the Vivisectionist's identity.

Status: Draft begun, researching.