Blaze Ward

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  • Bibliography:
    206 Books (32 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2014
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Agent Kiesler's Secret War

1 - The Rescue (Jul-2017)
2 - The Machine (Jul-2017)
3 - Rocketman (Jul-2018)

The Airpirates of Cyrenaica

1 - Flight of the Cerberus (Aug-2024)
2 - Flight of the Condor (Sep-2024)
3 - Top of the World (Oct-2024)
4 - Flight Into Sunrise (Nov-2024)

Akahana

1 - The Eight-Petaled Rose (Mar-2019)
2 - Backwards on the Way (Mar-2019)

Augustus Derlyth: Occult Detective

1 - Ill Tidings (May-2023)
2 - Dream Thief (May-2023)
3 - Equal Before the Blade (May-2023)

Blaze Ward Presents

1 - An Interpretation Of Moles (Jun-2019)
2 - I Like My Science...Mad (Nov-2019)
3 - Nuns With Guns (May-2020)
5 - Crime And... (May-2021)
6 - Small Gods (May-2022)
7 - Every Tomorrow Worse (Sep-2023)

Boundary Shock Quarterly

1 - Captain's Log (May-2018)
2 - Tuesday After Next (May-2018)
3 - Grand Theft Starship (Jun-2018)
4 - Robots, Androids, Cyborgs, Oh My! (Oct-2018)
5 - Boneyard Of Lost Dreams (Jan-2019)
6 - Ray Guns And Space Babes (Apr-2019)
7 - Apocalypse Descending (Jul-2019)
8 - Asteroid Miners And Comet Wildcatters (Oct-2019)
9 - Alien Dreams (Jan-2020)
10 - Homo Futuris (Apr-2020)
11 - What Might Have Been (Jun-2020)
12 - Lawmen And Crimefighters (Oct-2020)
13 - Solarpunk (Jan-2021)
14 - Space Marines (Apr-2021)
15 - Cargo Wars (Jul-2021)
16 - Wandering Monsters (Oct-2021)
18 - Veterans (Apr-2022)
19 - Sea Stories (Jul-2022)
20 - New Worlds, New Civilizations (Sep-2022)
21 - Avast (Dec-2022)
22 - Cyberpunk (Apr-2023)
23 - Tramp Freighter Captains (Jul-2023)
24 - Science Fiction Holidays (Sep-2023)
25 - Gulliver's Other Travels (Jan-2024)

The Brak Stories

1 - Meat Shield (Mar-2014)
2 - The Popcorn Kitten (Apr-2014)
3 - Destiny (Jul-2014)
4 - Feet of Clay (Nov-2016)

Captain Daring

1 - Revoked (Jul-2022)
2 - Returned (Aug-2022)
3 - Reborn (Sep-2022)

A Chase Haig Mission

1 - Assumed Identity (Aug-2023)

Corsac Fox

1 - Flight of the Corsac Fox (Jun-2023)
2 - Mistaken Identity (Nov-2023)
3 - Lords of the Endless Plains (Jun-2024)
4 - Warlord of the Spinward Reaches (Jul-2024)

CS-405

1 - Queen Anne's Revenge (Feb-2019)
2 - Packmule (Jan-2019)
3 - Persephone (Jan-2019)

An Earth Force Sky Patrol File

1 - Birth of the Star Dragon (Jul-2018)
2 - Awaken the Star Dragon (Aug-2018)
3 - Flight of the Star Dragon (Jun-2019)
4 - Call of the Star Dragon (May-2019)
5 - Shadow of the Star Dragon (Jul-2019)
6 - Trial of the Star Dragon (Aug-2019)

Everymart

1 - Punks (Apr-2023)

Fairchild

1 - Fairchild (Sep-2016)
2 - Strawberry Dragon (Aug-2021)

First Centurion Kosnett

1 - Encounter at Vilahana (Oct-2021)
2 - Consensus at Aditi (Nov-2021)
3 - Hegemony at Dalou (Apr-2022)
4 - Princes at Ewin (May-2022)
5 - Empire at Gloran (Oct-2022)
6 - Domain at Yaumgan (Nov-2022)

A Handsome Rob Gig

1 - Can't Shoot Straight Gang (Mar-2020)
2 - Can't Shoot Straight Gang Returns (Nov-2018)
3 - Hunting Handsome Rob (Mar-2020)
4 - Handsome Rob Assassin (Sep-2020)
5 - Kinetic Solutions (Jun-2022)

Harper Morita

1 - The Grifter (Feb-2024)

Hive

1 - Myrmidons (Nov-2014)
2 - Moonshot (Aug-2015)
3 - Menelaus (Apr-2017)

Hunter Bureau

1 - Mirrors (Oct-2020)
2 - Latency (Nov-2020)
3 - Pleasure Model (Feb-2022)
4 - Inhuman (Mar-2022)

The Jessica Keller Chronicles

1 - Auberon (Apr-2015)
2 - Queen of the Pirates (Aug-2015)
3 - Last of the Immortals (Oct-2015)
4 - Goddess of War (Sep-2016)
5 - Flight of the Blackbird (Jun-2017)
6 - The Red Admiral (Mar-2018)
7 - St. Legier (Dec-2018)
8 - Winterhome (May-2019)
9 - Petron (Dec-2019)

Kincaide's War

1 - The Eden Package (Jan-2022)
2 - Vehicles of Epiphany (Jul-2023)

Last Stand

1 - Lost Dreams (Jan-2023)
2 - Ghost Towns (Feb-2023)
3 - Games People Play (Mar-2023)
4 - Prophet and Loss (Apr-2023)
5 - Dandelion (Jun-2023)
6 - Emergency (Jun-2023)
7 - Warchild (Jul-2023)
8 - Moot (Aug-2023)
9 - Doomsday Girl (Sep-2023)
10 - Princess (Oct-2023)
11 - The Coven (Nov-2023)
12 - Preacher Man (Dec-2023)

The Lazarus Alliance

1 - Escape (Jan-2021)
2 - Return (Feb-2021)
3 - Rebellion (Mar-2021)
4 - Revolution (Apr-2021)
5 - Liberation (May-2021)
6 - Retribution (Jun-2021)
7 - Alliance (Jul-2021)

Modern Gods

White Crane (Jun-2016)
Kid Lexington (Sep-2017)
The Breakfast Dragon (Sep-2017)
The Coffee Doctor (Sep-2017)
Stand Up (Nov-2017)
Expectations (Mar-2018)

Operation Marrakesh

1 - Trial by Leviathan (Jan-2024)
2 - Diplomat At Arms (Feb-2024)
3 - Varfelis Station (Mar-2024)
4 - Radio Silence (Apr-2024)
5 - Crossroads (May-2024)

Pacific Force

1 - Pacific Force (Feb-2023)
2 - Starfall (Mar-2023)

The Science Officer

1 - The Science Officer (Dec-2014)
2 - The Mind Field (Jan-2015)
3 - The Gilded Cage (Dec-2015)
4 - The Pleasure Dome (May-2017)
5 - The Doomsday Vault (Aug-2017)
6 - The Last Flagship (Oct-2017)
7 - The Hammerfield Gambit (Dec-2017)
8 - The Hammerfield Payoff (Dec-2017)
9 - The Bryce Connection (Dec-2020)
10 - Alien Seas (Dec-2020)
11 - Buried Among the Stars (Dec-2021)
12 - Captain Navarre (Dec-2022)
13 - Dragoon's Honor (Dec-2023)

Shadow of the Dominion

1 - Longshot Hypothesis (Jun-2019)
2 - Hard Bargain (Sep-2019)
3 - Outermost (Oct-2019)
4 - Dominion-427 (Nov-2019)
5 - Phoenix (Jan-2020)
6 - Princess Rualoh (Feb-2020)

Shepherd of the Word

1 - Way of the Sword (Dec-2020)

Star Tribes

1 - WinterStar (Apr-2020)
2 - SeekerStar (May-2020)
3 - SeptStar (Jun-2020)
4 - SwiftStar (Jul-2020)
5 - MorningStar (Aug-2020)

Yasmin of the Desert

1 - Avalon (Sep-2021)
2 - Gawain (Sep-2021)

Zolnerovy

1 - Valeriya (Nov-2014)
2 - Tatiyana (Nov-2014)

Book List in Order: 206 titles

  • Death Key For The Great Khan

    Kaleph squanders his life away in a desert border town, using his wizardry in small ways and easy chores. Then the money changer arrives with an ancient artifact, shrouded in sorcery, and Kaleph’s path veers from safe and ordinary to following a gr...

  • Meat Shield

    The Brak Stories - 1

  • Approacheth The Wyvern

    Horatio entertains people. Up on stage, the thespian channels the great heroes of legend, rescuing princesses, fighting bandits, and slaying dragons. And then one day, he slays a real dragon. Can he discover what it really means to be a hero?...

  • The Mirror

    Wizards, elves, warriors, professional adventurers, and actors trapped in a role. Here is a collection of fantasy short stories set in fantastic worlds: From an Imperial Rome that never was, to forgotten towers on the edge of the Wastelands, to a ma...

  • The Slave Market

    Set in an Imperial Rome unlike our own, where centaurs and elves rub shoulders with common Citizens. The oracle gives Suren a quest: Find and rescue a Brigante half-elf from slavery, protect her from her enemies and his, and then convince her to help...

  • Beyond the Mirror, Volume 1: Fantastic Worlds

    Wizards, warriors, professional adventurers, and actors trapped in a role. Here is a collection of fantasy short stories set in fantastic worlds: From an Imperial Rome that never was, to forgotten towers on the edge of the Wastelands, to a magical mi...

  • The Popcorn Kitten

    The Brak Stories - 2

    Bob only wants gold. Lots and lots of gold. A new clue on his quest for unbelievable wealth leads him and his team of wizards, elves, and other misfits, to lost ruins at the edge of the Wastelands, where the riches promise to be very rich indeed.But...

  • Rebels

    Elves have pushed the orks out of their forest lands and into the swamps. Shrike and Cullen fight back to make the land safe for the orks to live in peace. When they rescue a maiden from monsters, everyone must confront age-old assumptions about goo...

  • The Blacksmith's Song



  • Blueberry

  • The Changestorm

    A group of professional adventurers must hire a new wizard. Someone recommends Kaleph Sa’id. Can they learn to work together, and to trust each other, before the desert swallows them all up?...

  • Falling Into The Giant's Spine

    Jesilyria longs to escape her life of peasant drudgery, but she’s a practical girl -- she can’t just run away and leave everyone to pick up the mess. Then one day, she finds the something in a cave. Something astonishing. Something wonderful. Som...

  • The Horse Thief

    Suren and Enica continue their travels north through the outskirts of Imperial Rome to meet the Queen of the Night Elves, where they encounter a thief far more than he appears to be. Can their magic and determination win out?...

  • Lokisdotter

    Alicia, just a normal teenage ork girl, spends her time studying magic and goofing around with her friend Ealisaid, until her fate finds her and she discovers a truth that sends her on a grand quest to free the Northern Gods from their ancient prison...

  • Beyond the Mirror, Volume 2: Fantastic Worlds

    Revisit many of the exciting places you visited in Volume One. Whether it is the meddling of the Gods in their endless games, a magical Imperial Rome, or adventures in the desert, the mountains, and the forest, the tales continue with new heroes retu...

  • Destiny

    The Brak Stories - 3

    When Brak destroys his mighty axe Woodchuck in battle against an evil necromancer, Sleipnir undertakes to find him a replacement. Nobody counts on the Gods themselves taking an interest in the outcome, nor the path that opens for a half-wit half-trol...

  • Greater Than The Gods Intended

    Youngest Brother holds the greatest treasure of his clan: an icon cast of unknown material, bearing words none can read.His quest? Seeking vengeance on those who massacred his family.But for that, he needs a wizard. Even if those with magic have no s...

  • Moscow Gold

    Tor and Dead-eye confront must outsmart their old foes once again and steal enough treasure to save the Spanish Civil War. In a world of dieselpunk airships and underwater bullet trains good old-fashioned heroes stop the Nazis....

  • Beyond the Mirror, Volume 3: Alternate Worlds

    Come with us as we explore Alternate Worlds, places where Science and Fiction intersect. See how the past could have changed, how the present might be greater than you imagine, or how different futures could unfold. Return to the dieselpunk pulp era ...



  • The Librarian

    Someone accesses the outer hatch sealing one of Suvi's information kiosks. She giggles at the prospect of customers. Company. A person. Yay!For an advanced AI, living at 20,000 times faster than humans, not having contact with anyone for 800 plus yea...

  • Myrmidons

    Hive - 1

    Hive sees the future. Confronted by impending calamity, she must face the ultimate sacrifice and dance with the most dangerous of gods: Man.Also read the continuing adventures of Hive in the sequel "Moonshot."...

  • Tatiyana

    Zolnerovy - 2

    The Nazis super-weapon -- a giant fighting robot -- protects Berlin from the Red Army. Sergey and his tank crew must again become heroes and confront the unkillable to keep the Nazis from winning the Great Patriotic War. All futures depend on Sergey ...

  • Valeriya

    Zolnerovy - 1

    Sergey and his tank crew fight to survive the Great Patriotic War. When a cybernetic assassin from the future arrives to kill him, and his distant descendant psychic granddaughter arrives to protect him, he confronts what it means to be an Ancestor....

  • Beyond the Mirror

    Come with us as we explore Alternate Worlds, places where Science and Fiction intersect. See how the past could have changed, how the present might be greater than you imagine, or how different futures could unfold. Return to the dieselpunk pulp era ...

  • The Science Officer

    The Science Officer - 1

    Javier lives quite happily on his long-range scout. Alone. Away from everyone, with his chickens, his fruit trees, and Suvi, an artificial intelligence who keeps him company and runs the ship.When space pirates attack Javier's ship, they get much mor...

  • The Earthquake Gun

    After eight years, Angler was finally ready to turn over power and go home. But first, Angler must initiate a new member into the circle of ultimate power, an old foe who will become the most dangerous man in the world when Angler hands him the key...

  • The Mind Field

    The Science Officer - 2

    The importance of tea mugs cannot be overstated. Javier didn't start a war because of one, but only just.Instead, he decides to prove his point by having a special one made, just for him.The Science Officer.Who, though still a slave to the pirates, w...

  • Auberon

    The Jessica Keller Chronicles - 1

    Jessica Keller has a reputation as a maverick commander. It almost got her court martialed. Now it has gotten her a new command in an obscure sector, with orders to ignite a new front in the eternal war.But her old nemesis, Imperial Admiral Emmerich ...

  • Imposters

    Rick Pine -- veteran, ex-convict, and now, chef and part owner of a French bistro -- needs a cigarette and about twenty hours of sleep after working all day at the restaurant. He does not need this cute Japanese-American woman coming into the bistro ...



  • The Shipwrecked Mermaid

    The tsunami didn’t destroy the Pacific Northwest, but it was bad enough.Rick cooks in a prison work camp during the cleanup, and dreams of opening his own bistro when he gets out.Amaleti is trapped, far from the sea, her scientific mission in tatte...

  • The Story Road

    Henri sets out across space to find the perfect wood for his violins. However, star travel takes time, as humanity still digs itself out of the Great Darkness.On his quest, he gets help both from his shipmates and his muse, the unreachable lady of hi...

  • Moonshot

    Hive - 2

    Hive’s dreams saved the future. Now she dreams bigger.The Gods have language. They can be contacted as equals. She will do so, and discover a greater secret than she ever imagined possible.With this new-found knowledge, she will set out to conquer ...

  • Queen of the Pirates

    The Jessica Keller Chronicles - 2

    If Jessica Keller wants to advance in the Republic of Aquitaine's Navy, she must become more than just Aquitaine's best fighting commander: she must learn diplomacy. The First Lord sends her to a safe backwater ally, Lincolnshire, to learn. However, ...

  • Last of the Immortals

    The Jessica Keller Chronicles - 3

    Jessica Keller has stopped the Red Admiral more than once. Now he intends to go to Ballard and kill Suvi, the last genie in the last bottle, unless Jessica can get there first. Then she must stop an Imperial Battleship with her out-gunned squadron.It...

  • The Gilded Cage

    The Science Officer - 3

    Javier is still a slave, still paying off a life debt to Zakhar Sokolov and his pirate crew. Then Wilhelmina returns, asking for his help. Now, Javier must rescue his worst enemy, the ship's Dragoon, Djamila Sykora. Will Javier's honor or his hatred ...

  • Siren

    Vo Arlo survived the destruction of Alexandria Station and RAN Auberon.In between assignments, at a small college on a back-water planet, he stumbles into a mystery when the prettiest girl on campus suddenly starts throwing herself at him.Vo, the for...

  • White Crane

    Modern Gods

    Kai Di laments the death of her best friend, who, it turns out, lived a double life as a super villain. A secret life she hid from everyone, including Kai Di.Kai Di’s anger at the world smolders, unquenched by family and the rituals of death.How ca...

  • Demigod

    Piper hates the thought of dressing like the natives on the planet below. Of even going there. However, someone must go down and steal a clean copy of the local star charts, or they'll be forever lost in this star system, unable to go home. Piper can...

  • Fairchild

    Fairchild - 1

    Fairchild loves to fly. Particularly through the awesomely huge storms that the planet Escudra VI forms, creating the best whitewater that she can find in the sky. Never mind that the scientists back at base camp warn her off the beast coalescing in ...



  • Goddess of War

    The Jessica Keller Chronicles - 4

    Jessica faces her most intimidating, most intriguing invitation: Dinner with the president of the Republic of Aquitaine. The Presidential Palace lives up to its name, along with the stellar company invited for private dinner. All women of the highest...

  • Feet of Clay

    The Brak Stories - 4

    When the Night Elf assassins come for him, Sleipnir the Centaur must fight for his life against his own kin.But in order to survive, he must give up his entire past and become something else: A hero.Be sure to read the other Brak stories:Meat ShieldT...

  • The Adventuress

    An English Barrister’s wife should be faithful and subservient to her husband, even as the Edwardian Age replaces the Victorian and loosens the strangling ties of modern culture. But she finds herself facing the might of His Majesty’s Government ...

  • Uniforms of the Fleet: Volume 1

    You fell in love with Jessica Keller and her crew, now see what they look like.This collection of color plates and descriptions showcases a dozen of your favorite characters, from Jessica and Moirrey to Denis and Dash.Every plate shows a different un...

  • Beyond the Mirror, Volume 4: Dramatic Worlds

  • Beyond the Mirror, Volume 5: Dramatic Worlds

  • Menelaus

    Hive - 3

    Hive's rockets have conquered the Moon. Now she dreams of leaving the Earth forever on a sleek, new rocketship. But the enormous risks darken her precognitive vision. She must roll the dice on her greatest gamble and cast herself into the...

  • The Pleasure Dome

    The Science Officer - 4

    As Captain Navarre, the Science Officer rescued his greatest enemy and destroyed her captors. Now, someone else wants to hire the ruthless pirate Navarre, and Javier must take Sykora with him to help. Their mission? To raid the most...

  • Flight of the Blackbird

    The Jessica Keller Chronicles - 5

    Jessica Keller's conquest of an Imperial world drives the Fribourg Empire to seek a 25-year Peace with Aquitaine. Now the harder challenge awaits: an Invitation from the Red Admiral to his youngest daughter's wedding. On the Imperial Capital world of...

  • The Machine

    Agent Kiesler's Secret War - 2

    Special Agent Eva Kiesler gave up Hollywood fame to battle the Nazis with the assistance of Dr. Slate, a living clone of N. Telsa. Now, British Intelligence has tracked their enemy to a warehouse down on the docks. Eva must lead her team t...



  • The Rescue

    Agent Kiesler's Secret War - 1

    The Nazis thought a secret base in the New York mountains impregnable, but British Intelligence has sent their best team, led by formidable agent Eva Kiesler, once the most beautiful actress on the silver screen, now lethal and implacable.But the sci...

  • The Doomsday Vault

    The Science Officer - 5

    It seemed like a legitimate heist when someone hired Storm Gauntlet and her crew to go hijack some cargo. Pirate ships did that sort of thing. However, whoever hired them didn't count on the Science Officer's sneakiness. Paranoia. Whatever....

  • The Breakfast Dragon

    Modern Gods

    Norbert dreams of power. Fame. Respected villainy. Maybe even girls.If his inventions would just work how he wants them to, all that would be his. And more.And there would be toast. A Modern Gods story...

  • The Coffee Doctor

    Modern Gods

    Wet, cold, and tired of every inanimate object trying to talk to her, Anna still walks. Twice during her journey, someone flies overhead. Superhero on patrol? Super villain escaping? Impossible to tell. She travels on, compel...

  • Kid Lexington

    Modern Gods

    Kid Lexington wants to be a respected superhero, more than anything. Bad enough that he pretends to be the teenage sidekick of a better-known hero.His teammates must never uncover his true identity.When a message arrives, it looks like a trap. Kid Le...

  • The Last Flagship

    The Science Officer - 6

    She disappeared more than eighty years ago. Lost forever to myth and legend like Excalibur tossed into the waters.When The Science Officer leads the crew to the last flagship of the Neu Berne fleet, they must risk awakening a Sentient warship if they...

  • The Last Ranger

    The old-timers say it started back in the middle somewhere, when hope was still an option. Before some idiot decided the best way to break the back of the Resistance was to use The Bomb. Everything went to hell at that point....

  • The Rangers

    The old-timers say it started back in the middle somewhere, when hope was still an option. Before some idiot decided the best way to break the back of the Resistance was to use The Bomb. Everything went to hell at that point.Dale just wants to be a P...

  • Sins Of The Fathers

  • Stand Up

    Modern Gods

    Jocelyn never rode her longboard on Emerald’s streets with her headphones in. Too dangerous. That probably saved her life. Particularly when she gets trapped in a superhero battle between Captain Wintergold and the villainous MacChruim, Jocelyn has...

  • The Hammerfield Gambit

    The Science Officer - 7

    The Science Officer has done the impossible and stolen the Last Flagship. With the help of his friends, Javier will take his private war to Valko Slavkov and the pirates with a theft so audacious, so brazen, nobody could predict it.And so big that th...

  • The Hammerfield Payoff

    The Science Officer - 8

    Icy cold revenge. The best kind. Unless it requires the purging fires instead.Javier owns the Land Leviathan. Now, the payoff.Javier and Zakhar’s retribution on Valko Slavkov challenges everyone to take sides: Walvisbaai Industrial, the Concord, an...

  • Beyond the Mirror, Volume 6: Alternate Worlds

    Come with us as we explore Alternate Worlds, places where Science and Fiction intersect. See how the past could have changed, how the present might be greater than you imagine, or how different futures could unfold. Return to the Dieselpunk pulp era ...

  • Expectations

    Modern Gods

    Petra is a Modern God, a human with superpowers, if weaker than her twin sister or her parents. Learning all the family’s deep secrets just reinforces her intention to make the world a better place. Everyone expected Elise to put on a mask and figh...

  • The Red Admiral

    The Jessica Keller Chronicles - 6

    Jessica Keller replaces Emmerich Wachturm as The Red Admiral. Her first task: returning home and not only convincing Aquitaine to build her a new fleet, but then to allow her to use it to help the Fribourg Empire.Their common enemy? An A.I. in contro...

  • Captain's Log

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 1

    For many of us, those opening words “Captain’s Log…†were our introduction to our science fiction dreams. Voyage to explore strange, new worlds, seek out new life, and boldly go. What will we find there when we go? What dangers will we confro...

  • Tuesday After Next

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 2

    Science fiction does not have to be about alien planets, galactic exploration, and huge space battles. Instead, science fiction can cover the future that lurks just around the corner. Science fiction that exists after Dieselpunk and before Cyberpunk,...

  • Grand Theft Starship

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 3

    The future is not always a bright and shining beacon on a hill somewhere. Crime will follow us into space and the future. What will you steal, with the whole galaxy to pick from? Seven syndicate authors let their criminal side out for a joyride on a ...

  • Birth of the Star Dragon

    An Earth Force Sky Patrol File - 1

    Two tiny lizardmen scientists/criminals power up their illegal wormhole generator, getting ready to kidnap their next victim by pulling the poor human across the galaxy in an instant, forever trapping him in the Accord of Souls.

    Maybe th...

  • Rocketman

    Agent Kiesler's Secret War - 3

    Eva rescued the clone and then thwarted the German invasion. Now she faces her greatest challenge: she must stop Nazi agents from kidnapping the most brilliant rocket scientist in America.With Nik Slate and her team behind her, Eva must dash cross-co...

  • Awaken the Star Dragon

    An Earth Force Sky Patrol File - 2

    Two tiny lizardmen scientists/criminals power up their illegal wormhole generator, getting ready to kidnap their next victim by pulling the poor human across the galaxy in an instant, forever trapping him in the Accord of Souls.Maybe this human wonâ€...

  • Beyond the Mirror, Volume 7: Heroic Worlds

    Come with us as we explore Heroic Worlds, places where larger-than-life superheroes struggle to defeat their enemies, keep their secrets, and live a normal life. Visit the 1950's to help Kid Lexington face down Lady Mockingbird. Delve into the Waterg...

  • Phantom in the Factory

    Though the world has changed in the year 2053, some things remain the same.Nilsson and his friends drive from town to town in Belorussia, looking for a good time. Important family connections protect them and provide the necessary social introduction...

  • Daddy's Girl

    Mom’s accidental death let Grandmother declare Angus an orphan, because Dad was an alien, an Aracheed. Worse, the crazy old bitch got custody, and plans to trap Angus on her estate, away from the alien half of the family until Angus reaches eightee...

  • Unintended Consequences

    Carl loves his wife, even if he only sees her occasionally because they both live in the shadows. When she comes to town, and has a job for him, it feels like a setup.Would his own wife burn him and Deke? Worse, if she has been turned by somebody, c...

  • Robots, Androids, Cyborgs, Oh My!

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 4

  • Can't Shoot Straight Gang Returns

    A Handsome Rob Gig - 2

    Handsome Rob, Secret Agent

    At least until the Lincolnshire government mucked everything up, reactivating his commission in the space fleet.

    Time for another impossible mission: destroy a secret space station set up by a crime syndicate...

  • The Science Officer Season One

  • St. Legier

    The Jessica Keller Chronicles - 7

    Buran returns, a greater raid than ever envisioned striking the Imperial capital and forever changing everything about the war in a single afternoon.Unlikely heroes must rise, in the face of unimaginable tragedy.Jessica Keller must press her personal...

  • Two Bottles of Wine with a War God

    A nav anomaly on RAN Mendocino’s journey home turns into the greatest archaeological find of the modern age. Or their worst nightmare cast in steel and anger.Worse, the ancient warship awakens and invites them aboard.Can Yan Bedrov outwit one of th...

  • Boneyard Of Lost Dreams

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 5

    All spaceships, like all travelers, grow old and retire someplace quiet, until someone comes along. What will you find on the old derelict? Or hiding in the junkyard of forgotten starships and lost dreams?Join over a dozen of today's most exciting SF...

  • Packmule

    CS-405 - 2

    At Laptev the crew of CS-405 stole enough food to make it home if they wanted. But a bigger question looms.

    What does Buran do with all the prisoners captured over the decades? Phil Kosnett and his crew demand answers. And they won’t let a...

  • Persephone

    CS-405 - 3

    They’ve done the crazy, the stupid, and the impossible. Established a secret base behind enemy lines. Stolen a sector supply vessel, a scout, and a pocket warship. Now Phil Kosnett and his crew set their sights on something really ambitious.

    ...

  • Queen Anne's Revenge

    CS-405 - 1

    A JumpSail breakdown after the battle at First Severnaya Zemlya and strands CS-405 deep behind enemy lines. One barely-armed scout corvette must cross Buran’s star empire to make it home.But first, they need to commit a little piracy.Part of the Al...

  • Backwards on the Way

    Akahana - 2

    The god disguised as a goldfish doesn't command. Still, Akahana knows better than to refuse his "requests", especially to help a pair of lovebug crabs.Even if it might turn out to be the greatest risk she will ever face."Backwards on the Way"--the se...

  • The Eight-Petaled Rose

    Akahana - 1

    Familiars don't survive their master's death, so why did Akahana? She finds that she needs the help of a god disguised as a goldfish to get even. Nobody  can stop this tree octopus sorceress from getting her revenge.The Eight-Petaled Rose--...

  • Ray Guns And Space Babes

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 6

  • Call of the Star Dragon

    An Earth Force Sky Patrol File - 4

    Six hundred and twenty-seven convictions later, the career criminals Morty and Xiomber have seen the light and joined the good guys. Gareth must go undercover to stop his nemesis from unleashing another crimewave across the Accord of Souls.While the ...

  • Winterhome

    The Jessica Keller Chronicles - 8

    Jessica Keller keeps pushing Buran back, using chaos and surprise as her weapons, as well as the warriors of First Expeditionary Fleet.

    When her reinforcements arrive, she pushes even harder, though honestly, it doesn't matter if she wins. S...

  • Flight of the Star Dragon

    An Earth Force Sky Patrol File - 3

    A Vanir cop stares back when Gareth St. John Dankworth looks in a mirror these days. However, that will not stop him. He will happily embrace any cost to stop the man who was once his best friend in the solar system from conquering the galaxy.Even if...

  • An Interpretation Of Moles

    Blaze Ward Presents - 1

    Moles.Seriously?Yes. Mostly seriously.Chemists, Zoologists, Dermatologists, Government Agencies, and Mexican Food.Over a dozen modern authors offer their take on an Interpretation of Moles. Every kind, every definition.From silly to sublime, this ant...

  • Longshot Hypothesis

    Shadow of the Dominion - 1

    Valentinian just wants to make a living hauling cargo between planets and stations. His new charter promises to be profitable, hauling an all-girl-band all over the Dominion. But trouble starts before they take off, and Valentinian has just hired ...

  • Apocalypse Descending

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 7

    The world is ending.Right here. Right now. How? Why? What’s next?Join us to explore eighteen different interpretations of the end of the world, from the amazingly silly to the darkest nightfall.Be sure not to miss every issue of Boundary Shock Quar...

  • Shadow of the Star Dragon

    An Earth Force Sky Patrol File - 5

    An alien imposter sneaks into the most secured facility in Earth Force, confronting Earth’s top scientist Royston with his worst nightmares.Gareth’s near death at the hands of the rogue androids fuels his rage to use the Star Dragon to pursuing j...

  • Trial of the Star Dragon

    An Earth Force Sky Patrol File - 6

    PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, YOU WILL HEAR ME.The Gods of the Accord of Souls return to judge humanity itself, intend on simply eradicating the species to make the galaxy a safer place.Gareth finally confronts his old enemy again, as well as the very Gods of...

  • Hard Bargain

    Shadow of the Dominion - 2

    Valentinian and Dave have escaped the Dominion’s Internal Security Bureau. Now they’re fleeing for their lives, heading for systems outside of Dominion control, looking for a place where they can rebuild their lives. Figure out what comes next...

  • Asteroid Miners And Comet Wildcatters

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 8

    So it turns out Einstein was right. FTL is not possible and we are pretty much stuck here. What happens to humanity when the stars turn out to be unreachable dreams?Join this unusual cast of authors as they explore what it means when your science fic...

  • Outermost

    Shadow of the Dominion - 3

    Kryuome - the desert world on Valentinian's treasure map.

    A place where he hopes to find friends and surprises, if his crew can survive the dangerous aliens of Wildspace.

    While the Widow tracks him and his crewmate.

    The next exci...

  • Dominion-427

    Shadow of the Dominion - 4

    The Widow never rests. She takes the ship Dominion-427 across the galaxy to chase down her ex-husband and his friends.

    Athanasia and Glaxu duel on far-flung planets, and double-cross one another again and again, until someone dies.

    And...

  • I Like My Science...Mad

    Blaze Ward Presents - 2

    I like my science...mad.How mad, you ask? Come with us on a twisted journey of science gone wrong and gods rising to threaten us all. Of private detectives on the moon and dieselpunk ladies saving the day. Academics making dark pacts and taking venge...

  • Petron

    The Jessica Keller Chronicles - 9

    In the Twelfth Year of Jessica Keller, Queen of the Pirates: January the Twentieth at Petron.You are cordially invited to the wedding of Queen Jessica to Torsten Wald.But trouble never sleeps. Assassins strike, and the entire galaxy staggers angrily ...

  • Alien Dreams

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 9

    What is science fiction, if not an exploration of who we’ll find when we get out there? What will they be like? Alien life. Alien viewpoints. Alien Dreams.Join us as we explore worlds where humans aren't always the heroes. Maybe the villains. Possi...

  • Phoenix

    Shadow of the Dominion - 5

    Valentinian won a treasure map in a crooked card game. Its call brings him back to the planet Kryuome.

    There, he and the crew must outsmart the locals, the mutants, as well as the Widow aboard her new warship, in order to uncover a secret tw...

  • Princess Rualoh

    Shadow of the Dominion - 6

    Valentinian and his friends never imagined being trapped underground with their worst enemies -- the Widow and her crew.

    Above-ground, an entire tribe of sex-crazed cannibal mutants rampages, coming for their souls.

    Enemies must make d...

  • Can't Shoot Straight Gang

    A Handsome Rob Gig - 1

    Handsome Rob, Secret Agent. At least until the Lincolnshire government mucked everything up, reactivating his commission in the space fleet.Time for another impossible mission: destroy a secret space station set up by a crime syndicate.Just him....

  • Hunting Handsome Rob

    A Handsome Rob Gig - 3

    Zero-dark-thirty and a boot slams into Handsome Rob's front door. He has ten seconds to escape his apartment, as somebody has just arrived to kill him.And the day is just starting.Hunting Handsome Rob is a pulse-pounding race of firefights through th...

  • Homo Futuris

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 10

    Medicine is on the verge of conquering disease and aging. Of making it possible to clone ourselves and make our children super beings.Or morlocks.What will the world be like when science conquers life itself?Join us as we explore all the possible fut...

  • WinterStar

    Star Tribes - 1

    Daniel has had enough as a chef. The burnout convinces him to sell the restaurant to his Sous Chef, walk out the door, and never come back. A new job takes him into deep space on an adventure he never imagined.Kathra Omezi's star tribe faces poverty ...

  • Nuns With Guns

    Blaze Ward Presents - 3

    Nuns With Guns.Nuns. With Guns.I challenged folks to give me a story with that as their theme. Here are nearly twenty authors who answered that crazy call, ranging from fantasy to science fiction. Modern. Historic. Urban fantasy and gritty realism.Co...

  • SeekerStar

    Star Tribes - 2

    Does a star-born species ever actually die out? Daniel has his ghosts, and a book so ancient that nobody but him can read it. He seeks the truth.Kathra seeks a place for the Mbaysey star tribe to be safe from their former lords in the Sept Empire.Sep...

  • SeptStar

    Star Tribes - 3

    Daniel still doesn't understand why he lives, but the Commander won't allow him to die, so he still has a purpose. And a book in a language nobody recognizes.Kathra welcomes the first alien into her comitatus, a young Kaniea woman named A'Alhakoth. T...

  • What Might Have Been

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 11

    Time travel stories are as old as science fiction, wandering backwards to change the past or forward like Buck Rogers trapped in that abandoned mine shaft. Perhaps you will step through a mirror darkly. How will the world change? How will you?Join us...

  • SwiftStar

    Star Tribes - 4

    Daniel must become a warrior and not just a chef.Kathra embodies her rage as a new warship, SwiftStar, with Ife and Ndidi in command and a mission to raid the Sept Empire and finally fight back.Amirin Pasdar and Hadi Rostami study the arc of empires ...

  • MorningStar

    Star Tribes - 5

    The final struggle looms. Daniel and Ndidi take a captured Ovanii Battlemaster directly to war with the Sept Empire, even as Amirin and Hadi strike for imperial glory and eventually the throne itself. Septagons will be destroyed in their pr...

  • Handsome Rob Assassin

    A Handsome Rob Gig - 4

    A surprise arrest sends Handsome Rob, Assassin, off planet after one of the worst arms smugglers known. But he needs a team for this, so Mac comes with him. How deep into their cover identities will they go to catch a criminal? =======...

  • Lawmen And Crimefighters

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 12

    Crime moves faster than law enforcement can keep up. What will the wild west of the future look like to the men and women who have been tasked with protecting it?Seven stories here explore what it means to wear the badge. To try to make the galaxy a ...

  • Mirrors

    Hunter Bureau - 1

    When the Hunter Bureau drags Greyson Leigh out of retirement, he has to hunt one of the most dangerous of the alien species who came to Earth fifteen years ago.The Phrenic kill you, then steal your memories, your face, and your life.Partnered with a ...

  • Cloak And Dagger

    Cloak And Dagger.These words were the inspiration, the dare I put to the writers out there. Create for me art on that theme. They responded with music, words, and excitement.Science fiction, urban fantasy, or sword and sorcery fantasy. Come explore t...

  • Latency

    Hunter Bureau - 2

    An assassin barely misses killing Greyson and Rachel, but the Metropolitan puts him on the case anyway.However, the conspiracy runs deeper and more twisted with every clue.Greyson risks spilling his secrets, along with everyone else's, unless he can ...

  • Alien Seas

    The Science Officer - 10

    A new mission takes Javier and the crew halfway across the galaxy, looking for friends and trade that will help them face the gathering storm. Places like the ocean world of Ugen where they explore alien seas in a submarine. But danger loom...

  • The Bryce Connection

    The Science Officer - 9

    Having won, Javier sets out to explore the larger galaxy and maybe avoid the Concord until they get a little less pissed off. But he'll need friends. So he goes looking. A new adventure awaits you with four new Science Officer short stories...

  • Way of the Sword

    Shepherd of the Word - 1

    After five hundred years of cryogenic sleep, Mina Teague still seeks the trail of Rama Treadwell. Five years after her rebirth, she has a long-planned date with Javier Aritza, the Science Officer. He won't be there. In his place, a cou...

  • Escape

    The Lazarus Alliance - 1

    Even in space, a captain goes down with his ship. When that fails Lazarus finds himself in an alien realm that nobody knew existed.Alone and bereft, Lazarus must find a way to survive in this foreign empire, make alien friends, and then find a way ho...

  • Solarpunk

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 13

    Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question 'what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there? That was the challenge put to the writers, to show #13 m...

  • Los Angeles 2170

    A dark and violent future awaits us, when technology run rampant threatens the planet and the people. When money divides us into Haves and Have-nots. When life proves cheap and danger lurks around every corner. Seven stories of a twisted future,...

  • Return

    The Lazarus Alliance - 2

    Lazarus has alien friends. Now, he needs human allies to find the spies that nearly killed him. A stop at a pirate world goes all wrong, but even those people won't stop Lazarus from getting home. No matter who he has to kill to get there. ...

  • Egon the Bold

    This orc does not fight for glory or treasure. Egon fights because someone has to take up the hammer and the shield, to take a stand against evil.When a dashing Puck and his unlikely friends recruit him to go into the darkwilds, Egon the Bold will di...

  • Rebellion

    The Lazarus Alliance - 3

    Brasilia. Capital of the Rio Alliance. Nest of bureaucrats, thieves, and liars.Lazarus and Eha must plunge into that mess and try to find the alliances they need to fight the Innruld.Meanwhile, Addison and his alien crew take the starship Ajax into d...

  • Revolution

    The Lazarus Alliance - 4

    Lazarus leaves for Innruld Space with Eha. Addison must take both of their places on Brasilia and convince the High Council to help the aliens start a revolution, before Westphalia steals a march and conquers Innruld Space themselves. The Lazaru...

  • Space Marines

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 14

    Space opera is more than just starships boldly going. It is also the grunt on the ground with the rifle, just trying to survive.Come explore seven new stories of the things we might find out there, the battles we might face, and the horrors we need t...

  • Crime And...

    Blaze Ward Presents - 5

    Crime And...I challenged folks to give me a crime story with a one word title that could complete that phrase above.Many answered, and nearly twenty made the final cut, from coziest fun to darkest noir, always with Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment i...

  • Liberation

    The Lazarus Alliance - 5

    Lazarus returns to Innruld Space with new allies. He must find a way to prevent Westphalia from gaining a toehold that would let them conquer all these species and maybe the entire galaxy.Eha and the Gnashiiley Captain, Carlos Nguema, lead a rag-tag ...

  • Retribution

    The Lazarus Alliance - 6

    Lazarus and Ajax can crush anything they encounter in Innruld Space, but that won't win the war. He has friends, though, and they will help. When Westphalia launches an invasion of Innruld Space, the entire Species Underground must come together...

  • Alliance

    The Lazarus Alliance - 7

    Yisan conquered by Westphalia? Can the enemy win the war by cutting the lines of communication between the allies? When Eduardo shows up, running for his life, Lazarus and his friends must fly to the rescue. But a straight-forward assault is doo...

  • Cargo Wars

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 15

    Traders and Merchants and Goods, Oh My! From families just trying to eke out a living in space to monsters lurking in the darkness of unlit cargo bays, come with us on a journey through a Baker's Dozen stories of the places and risks that cargo might...

  • Strawberry Dragon

    Fairchild - 2

    Already famous for accidentally discovering clues of the elder race, Fairchild still just wants to fly.Until a chance encounter on the planet Biysk upends the entire galaxy.Cute, little dragons that live in the forests, no longer than her arm.Oh, and...

  • Avalon

    Yasmin of the Desert - 1

    The American Satans destroyed the world before Yasmin was even born: first the Oil Wars, which led to the Water Wars, and eventually, the Green Wars. Only a few hidden cities survive in Persia's radioactive ruin. Each afternoon, after finis...

  • Gawain

    Yasmin of the Desert - 2

    Yasmin has rebuilt the American Mechaniod named Gawain with the help of Behrooz and her Grandfather Ardashir, the Lion of the Desert. New monsters lurk everywhere. A chance radio call draws Yasmin into a battle for the very future of humanity in...

  • Consensus at Aditit

  • Encounter at Vilahala

  • Encounter at Vilahana

    First Centurion Kosnett - 1

    Phil Kosnett, Explorer Extraordinaire! Now, as a First Centurion, his mission will take him to the distant west, into the very darkness between the galactic arms. He plans to visit those people who live so far away from Aquitaine as to be merely...

  • Wandering Monsters

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 16

    Kaiju and blobs and science gone wrong. Monsters from deep space come to destroy us all or the ones quietly hiding below as colonists and Terraformers arrive.Come explore heroes and horror with fifteen new takes on the things that you might find out ...

  • Consensus at Aditi

    First Centurion Kosnett - 2

    Phil's victory at Vilahana opens up the interior of the Balhee Cluster to diplomacy and trade, even as it upends centuries of piracy by all the major players. But the Ingham Syndicate won't go down easy. Basant Utkin—Commander of the pirat...

  • Buried Among the Stars

    The Science Officer - 11

    A hidden map. A mystery that draws Suvi and Bethany into a deep conspiracy. An advanced starship, abandoned forever among the stars like a Flying Dutchman? Javier and the crew must race against their enemies to find it, because nobody ...

  • The Eden Package

    Kincaide's War - 1

    The aliens of the Gage Empire rule the galaxy. Humans live as slaves on a single moon of the Gage homeworld, valued for their ability to power starships through warpspace. Not everyone likes that arrangement. When a conspiracy of Humans ste...

  • Pleasure Model

    Hunter Bureau - 3

    Murder. On the Moon. The aliens in charge need the best to solve this case, so they call in Greyson and Rachel. The victim? Utterly perfect in every way, but there's a hitch. Is she even human? The Hunter Bureau, a series about a ...

  • Inhuman

    Hunter Bureau - 4

    Greyson solved the murder of the clone. Now a bigger conspiracy awaits. Out there, among the stars. Greyson and Rachel must travel to the homeworld of the Illymus Merchant Guild itself in pursuit of someone able to clone and replace anyone....

  • Hegemony at Dalou

    First Centurion Kosnett - 3

    With Meerut secured, First Centurion Kosnett asks Dalou for permission to present the Captain of Morninghawk with the Republic Cross, at the Dalou capital. This sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to bring down the entire Hegemony, u...

  • Veterans

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 18

    What happens to all the fighter pilots after the Galactic War ends? What happens to all the Super Soldiers after World Peace is declared? What do they do with all the leftover Admirals when everyone just wants to move on? How do the soldiers react? O...

  • Princes at Ewin

    First Centurion Kosnett - 4

    An Ewin attack on Meerut provoked First Centurion Kosnett to strike back. Boldly. Rudely, even. Now, he must travel to the heart of the Ewin Principalities and negotiate a new peace. Except that the King orders an attack that will turn into...

  • Small Gods

    Blaze Ward Presents - 6

    Small Gods.They aren't the earth-shakers, but the quiet ones. Or perhaps the loud, brash ones.We challenged the writers to give us stories without much more than Small Gods.They came through, as usual, ranging all over the spectrum, as well as all ov...

  • Kinetic Solutions

    A Handsome Rob Gig - 5

    When a Salonnian spy threatens to publish a tell-all memoir, every spy agency around leaps into action. Some want to capture her. Some want to kill her. Handsome Rob wants to see how much damage she can cause. And how he can help. ...

  • Revoked

    Captain Daring - 1

    Two years ago, the government burned Joie Daring. Revoked, Demilitarized, Retired. All her cyberware destroyed in an instant, then she was thrown out of the military. Tonight, the man who did it shows up at her door, with more questions. Mo...

  • Sea Stories

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 19

    Science fiction also deals with the sea. How will technology allow us to explore those other worlds beneath the waves? Who will we find?Join us for voyages of discovery to the depths, as the Boundary Shock Quarterly writers go sailing....

  • Returned

    Captain Daring - 2

    One conspiracy solved, Joie faces an even greater problem: What happened to Romana Pham?With new allies and a new mission--even a new lease on life--Captain Daring is back, and deadlier than ever.Will it be enough?Returned, Book Two of a new, cyberpu...

  • New Worlds, New Civilizations

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 20

    New worlds, new civilizations. What will we find out there when we go looking? Who might find us?Join us as we go looking for life beyond the farthest star.Be sure to pick up the whole set of Boundary Shock Quarterly at your favorite retailer....

  • Reborn

    Captain Daring - 3

    Captain Daring has her team. And a mission to save the world. They will make her better than she was before. Will it be enough? A high level general's actions threaten to bring down everything if she can't stop him in time. Reborn, the...

  • After The Fall

    In a snap, the apocalypse descends, wiping out almost everything.Almost.A few survivors struggle in the ruins, fighting until the bitter end.After The Fall (A Blaze Ward Presents Special Edition) brings together twenty different visions: some ...

  • Empire at Gloran

    First Centurion Kosnett - 5

    First Centurion Kosnett takes his fleet to Gloran, to meet the Emperor as his grand journey continues. When a pirate attack on a Gloran world turns into something darker and more sinister, Phil must step in to prevent a general war with Aditi fr...

  • Domain at Yaumgan

    First Centurion Kosnett - 6

    The Domain of Yaumgan live quiet, contemplative lives in the back corner of the Balhee Cluster. However, under that calm facade lurk ancient and terrible secrets that must be dealt with, when their past catches up with them in the form of an invading...

  • Avast

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 21

    Pirates!Space Pirates, Cyberpirates, Sea Pirates, Ice Pirates. Tales of adventure and derring-do as we stick it to the man.Join your rowdy crew on the high seas and cold spaceways for another,exciting adventure of Boundary Shock Quarter...

  • Captain Navarre

    The Science Officer - 12

    Strangers arrive to hire Zakhar and Excalibur to help fight pirates. However, they don't understand the full extent of their problem. What they need is something more. Something bigger. Something sharper. They need Captain Navarre.&nbs...

  • Fugitive

    Marcus works for the US government as a professional assassin. Until he becomes the target. Betrayed on all sides, Marcus must disappear, all the while wondering why his bosses ordered him to kill a US Congressman. And everyone after him kn...

  • Lost Dreams

    Last Stand - 1

    Tessa and her crew want to stay out of debt. Maybe get a little ahead. Even if that involves looting wrecks and occasionally robbing banks. When three new passengers bring a passel of trouble with them, Tessa and the gang must define what family...

  • Ghost Towns

    Last Stand - 2

    A map that shows a world nobody knows has Fin all a-lather to go investigate. He draws the rest of the crew with the craziness. New friends, new enemies, and ghosts before they’re done. Book Two of the Last Stand, a shiny, new space western science...

  • Pacific Force

    Pacific Force - 1

    After capturing their greatest nemesis, Pacific Force retires. When Nathaniel Hoestler breaks out of prison, Jake must convince the gang to come back together. The world needs Pacific Force. The first of a new modern thrill-packed acti...

  • Games People Play

    Last Stand - 3

    An old flame from Abigail's past turns up, still holding on the dream that she'll fall madly in love with him. When he won't take no for an answer, things get a little dangerous. Good thing Tessa and her crew are there. Book Three of the Last St...

  • Starfall

    Pacific Force - 2

    Nathaniel got away from Pacific Force in the end. Now, he's back in business and ready to take on the world. The only problem? The man who hires him is insane—intent on destroying the entire world. Only one person can Nathaniel turn t...

  • Labyrinth

    Dan and Stewie get call the call from a real estate agent friend. Issues with a distant property, outside of Seattle. In the middle of a labyrnth built by a now-deceased wizard, they must clean up a stepping disk—a type of portal—so ...

  • Cyberpunk

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 22

    Dark futures and neon dreams. Technology that makes us more than human. Or less. What awaits us as we move into that future where the world of today is transformed by all the promises of the next technological breakthrough?...

  • Prophet and Loss

    Last Stand - 4

    Auntie just wants a day off. No systems to fix. Nobody breathing her air. Then she runs into the most interesting gentleman in a pub, and finds out just how dangerous love can be. Book Four of the Last Stand, a shiny, new space western scie...

  • Punks

    Everymart - 1

    Trevor works the day shift. Coffee, egg rolls, hot dogs, and cans of cold drek.And, occasionally, dangerous revolution, like when Neon Butterfly needs to break in and hack the store's control systems. And then, it gets worse. Three stories ...

  • Dream Thief

    Augustus Derlyth: Occult Detective - 2

    An anarchist assassin threatens all royal families, everywhere. Helpless, His Majesty's Government summons Augustus Dexter Derlyth, metaphysician and scoundrel to solve this trouble. They might be fighting fire with fire. And everyone ...

  • Equal Before the Blade

    Augustus Derlyth: Occult Detective - 3

    A spree killer in South London that might be this generation's Ripper. Prostitutes missing and forgotten. Magical troubles. And then someone asks Lady Claudette for help. She turns to Augustus Dexter Derlyth, metaphysician, scoundrel, and killer...

  • Ill Tidings

    Augustus Derlyth: Occult Detective - 1

    Somewhere, a demon runs amok, loosed in a museum and now free in the London sewers. In desperation, the authorities summon metaphysician Augustus Dexter Derlyth to solve this trouble. Then it gets worse. What evils lurk in the shadows,...

  • Dandelion

    Last Stand - 5

    When Tessa and Last Stand get hired to inspect an old wreck for overlooked cargo, they find far more than they expected. Enough weapons to start a war. Or at least a revolution. But Tessa has been hired to do a job, and she will. Regar...

  • Emergency

    Last Stand - 6

    Spaceships break down. Suffer troubles. Hell, sometimes they just grow old and ornery. When Last Stand answers a distress signal in orbit, they step into more trouble than they expected, but that's never stopped Tessa before. The rest of th...

  • Flight of the Corsac Fox

    Corsac Fox - 1

    Lost. Abandoned behind enemy lines. On a captured, enemy vessel. Ensign Ulysses Fortier must figure out how to fix the damaged freighter he has taken command of, even though his people are severely outnumbered by the existing crew. And...

  • Tramp Freighter Captains

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 23

  • Vehicles of Epiphany

    Kincaide's War - 2

    Kincaide has led Dashavatara and his crew to freedom. At least for now. When Ildar's latest model finds them across the light-centuries, the chase begins Can Kincaide get to the one star that even the Alvar fear? And what will the...

  • Warchild

    Last Stand - 7

    When a deal with a new contact goes bad, Tessa and Constanz find themselves prisoners. Then an old friend of Wyatt's turns out to be behind their kidnapping. And the blackmail. Then the bank robbery. Maybe a shootout before everyt...

  • Assumed Identity

    A Chase Haig Mission - 1

    When a man named Chace Haig dies or retires—and they almost never retire—the next one steps up to replace him, as close a copy as diet, training, and plastic surgery can make him. His first mission? Seduce the woman he fell in love w...

  • Moot

    Last Stand - 8

    Ten thousand folks getting together for their annual fair on Atwick, when the Red Cough breaks out. Fin and Tessa must race for Beaumonde to bring back enough vaccine to keep people alive. Constanz will not leave. Will not stop working. Wil...

  • Doomsday Girl

    Last Stand - 9

    Brianna's past catches up with her, when one of the men who programmed her originally captures her. Wyatt leads the team to rescue her. And things will get ugly before he's done. Book Nine of the Last Stand, a shiny, new space western ...

  • Every Tomorrow Worse

    Blaze Ward Presents - 7

  • Science Fiction Holidays

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 24

    What will the winter holidays be like in the future? Not just Christmas, but all the ones that revolve around the winter equinox? How will people celebrate?Come explore the holidays with over a dozen different takes on a Science Fiction place there t...

  • Princess

    Last Stand - 10

    Travelers take passage on Last Stand. One of them might be a daughter of the last emperor of Zaddinul. And her bodyguard might be working with Lorastir Intelligence on at least a triple-cross. Then Fin steps in. Book Ten of the Last Stand, ...

  • The Coven

    Last Stand - 11

    Strange things at Alfann have Tessa and the crew heading out on a long run to hide from Masterson Ops. Where better to hide, then, than a return to Lacot and the pirates? This time, however, Brianna brings her whole coven to play. Book...

  • Mistaken Identity

    Corsac Fox - 2

    The Corsac Fox returns. Uly intends to convince the merchants of Z'Gosza to hire him. To end piracy. Better than becoming a pirate himself. When they ask him to conquer a notorious pirate enclave, Uly has his work cut out for him. ...

  • Dragoon's Honor

    The Science Officer - 13

    Javier wants to see a megastructure: a small moon hollowed out and turned into a starship. All part of his plans for surviving the Rising Storm.Djamila accidentally meets an old enemy that everyone else in the galaxy has forgotten.Everyone except the...

  • Preacher Man

    Last Stand - 12

    A new preacher has come to Wabrook to revive the faith. Except that under that disguise, Auntie recognizes the man. And his trouble. Then more trouble bubbles up, and the whole crew must get involved. Book Twelve of the Last Stand, a shiny,...

  • Gulliver's Other Travels

    Boundary Shock Quarterly - 25

    Jonathan Swift sent Lemuel Gulliver to a variety of interesting places. The lands of giants, tiny people, flying islands, and even Houyhnhnms.Come see what the Boundary Shock Syndicate did when challenged to think about Gulliver's Other Travels and t...

  • Trial by Leviathan

    Operation Marrakesh - 1

    A test run of an experimental weapon turns unexpectedly deadly when Marrakesh and its crew run across a Wronlori Leviathan, who charges in to destroy them. A game of cat and mouse ensues, the two ships hiding in a deep nebula. Captain Boru ...

  • Diplomat At Arms

    Operation Marrakesh - 2

    When a murder interrupts a diplomatic mission, Captain Boru gets called in by the local governor to solve it. Or become the sacrificial goat. The political currents run deep and murky, and Radio Officer Nyssa Taggart must rise to the occasion to...

  • The Grifter

    Harper Morita - 1

    Harper Morita wants to play in the big leagues. To be invited to the biggest, richest cons against the wealthiest marks. She has the brains and the smile for it. Best of all? The girl has luck. Time and again, she falls into the crap, and someho...

  • Varfelis Station

    Operation Marrakesh - 3

    Recruited by A'Zedi Intelligence, Marrakesh heads deep into the interior to scout a nearly-forgotten system. And meet the locals without pushing them to support Wronlori. When a pirate squadron shows up, Marrakesh must dispense with all the subt...

  • Radio Silence

    Operation Marrakesh - 4

    A missing ship, seemingly lost without any emergency signal. Without any trace. Marrakesh is dispatched to discover what happened to the Northwind. And rescue the crew if they can. What they find threatens a whole new front in the ongoing A...

  • Traveler From the West

  • Crossroads

    Operation Marrakesh - 5

    When an Wronlori exile asks the A'Zedi government for exoarchaeological help, Intelligence Services decides to send Marrakesh and Captain Boru. They'll be operating beyond the edge of any maps. There will be no help if something goes wrong. Will...

  • Lords of the Endless Plains

    Corsac Fox - 3

    Uly continues to hunt down and destroy pirates. Meanwhile Lukyan returns to the Ononguli Sphere bearing messages from the Corsac Fox.And inviting the Lords of the Endless Plains themselves to come visit. First, though, he must deal with his own past ...

  • Warlord of the Spinward Reaches

    Corsac Fox - 4

    When a new species of alien pirates decide to raid Uly's Bastion, they draw the ire of the Corsac Fox himself. But Uly also understands mercy, and travels to their homeworld to understand his new neighbors. Thus begins a sail into the very legen...

  • Flight of the Cerberus

    The Airpirates of Cyrenaica - 1

    When Finn gets hired by an Anglo-Persian Princess/Adventurer to fly her to a secret rendezvous in the Egyptian desert, his troubles mount, as the Fascists in Rome and Nazis in Berlin seek to conquer the entire world. Her enemies become his, and ...

  • Flight of the Condor

    The Airpirates of Cyrenaica - 2

    Having beaten the Frenchman, Finn and Zareen go into hiding. And sell the airship Cerberus to trade for a stolen Nazi bomber. With surprise on their side, they strive to strike the Italian authorities in Bengasi with a vital blow, and free leade...

  • Top of the World

    The Airpirates of Cyrenaica - 3

    The Man With No Face has vanished, hiding somewhere in British Palestine. Worse, the Frenchman has gotten support from the Nazis in Berlin to chase Finn and Zareen across the entire world. In Soviet Central Asia, the double-crosses will see the ...

  • Flight Into Sunrise

    The Airpirates of Cyrenaica - 4

    Finn and Zareen escape from the Frenchman and his Nazi allies in Central Asia. From British India, they attempt to find an alien base, hidden deep in the secret depths of the Tibetan plateau. Nothing, however, can prepare them for what they...

  • Exile

    A break sounds good after the stresses of this long mission, but trouble follows the Science Officer everywhere he goes. When four pirate squadrons drop out of jump, Suvi has to run, leaving Javier and Djamila behind on the surface. Suvi an...

  • The Gunderson Case Files: Volume Two

    Gunderson, P.I. A tough man in a tough town. He likes Ike, but not many other folks. Los Angeles hides some weird and menacing things in her shadows. If you have the need, and can pay his daily rate plus expenses, maybe you can hire the man...

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Blaze Ward has published 206 books.

The next book by Blaze Ward, The Gunderson Case Files: Volume Two, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Blaze Ward, Meat Shield, was published in March 2014.

Yes. Blaze Ward has 32 series.
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