Forthcoming
Starstrike
Moonstorm Trilogy #2
As a clanner child on the world of Carnelian, Hwa Young had navigated by means other than the stars: familiar trees and boulders, land formations and the give of the ground underfoot, a subtle awareness of characteristic smells and air currents. How the clanners navigated in space, where there was a paucity of trees and boulders and land formations, she didn’t know. But the clanner fleet that she and her lancer squad had defected to, they knew the way. That had to be enough, she thought as they flew toward their current objective—New Joseon’s Jasper Research Station, located on the largest outpost moon of the world Jasper.
This mission—this one mattered more than usual.
If the intel she’d retrieved from her friend Geum proved reliable, and if they extracted a critical codebase on lancer-pilot neural interfaces from Jasper Research Station, Commander Aera— Hwa Young’s long-lost heart-mother—might finally allow her to enact her plan to retrieve Geum. Her best friend, a skilled technician, was stuck on the Imperial flagship, where they’d been forced to leave zir behind when Hwa Young and her lancer squad turned against the Empire—a memory that still crushed Hwa Young. Even worse was the fact that Geum remained imprisoned after helping Hwa Young escape.
Code & Codex
I’ve sold a new book! I’ll quote the Publishers Marketplace entry, with the proviso that publication date now looks like sometime in 2026 (sorry!).
…CODE AND CODEX, about plans to reach backwards and forwards in time by revising history in this space opera adventure of linguistics magic in the author’s return to adult science fiction, to Joe Monti at Saga Press, in a pre-empt, for publication in summer 2025, by Seth Fishman at The Gernert Company (NA).
Ninefox Gambit RPG
NINEFOX GAMBIT RPG is a tabletop roleplaying game of heresy and hard choices set in the tyrannical interstellar empire known as the Hexarchate.
YOU belong to one of the Hexarchate’s six factions. YOU are entangled with a regime that can change the very laws of physics—at the cost of human sacrifice.
Ninefox Gambit RPG
You are a citizen of the Hexarchate, a tyrannical empire that spans countless systems and star fortresses. The vast majority of the population labors under the rule of six Hexarchs and the factions they control. In exchange for power or prestige, you’ve joined a faction yourself.
These truths you know:
The Hexarchate’s technologies depend on consensus mechanics, with the population holding identical beliefs. Heretics who defy its laws and traditions—collectively known as the high calendar—threaten everything from the functioning of FTL stardrives to medical care and power generation. The ritual sacrifice of heretics, a practice demanded by the high calendar, is a small price to pay for the collective good…a price that increasingly troubles you.
But the Hexarchate is at war, and without the great and terrible weapons fueled by those sacrifices, it would lose. As awful as the Hexarchate is, its enemies are worse.