John Van Stry

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2011
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Portals of Infinity

1 - Champion for Hire (Aug-2014)
2 - The God Game (Sep-2014)
3 - Of Temples and Trials (Oct-2014)
4 - The Sea of Grass (Apr-2015)
5 - Demigods and Deities (Aug-2015)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Lead, Follow, or Suffer the Consequences

    Koen's been nothing but a screw up his whole career. He's gotten in trouble so many times and had fines added to his debt that he'll never make buyout, and that's just for the times he's gotten caught! Assigned to a fast packet ship as punishment for...

  • Waiting for Shadamehr,

    A Gnome cleric and his charge are trying to find an old acquaintance of the gnome's to teach his young charge Shelana certain things she needs to know.He's not there when they arrive, but someone else is...Short Story, Fantasy, Weres...

  • Children of Steel

    Raj is just your average everyday genetically modeled and artificially created anthropomorphic worker for one of the many corporations of the future. Extensively trained and conditioned from birth he's now indentured for the next fifty years of his l...

  • Danger Money

    Jotun was born and bred to be a corporate assassin, back in the days of the Corporate Wars. Confined these days to life in a gilded cage, Jotun welcomes any opportunity to get out and lately he's been getting out a lot. But as a genetically designed ...

  • Dialene

    Dialene's Captain decided to play pirate, and one well placed nuclear torpedo later she finds herself prisoner of the Corporation whose ship they were attempting to raid; all of her friends and her lover now dead. With no corporation to ransom her ba...

  • Shorts

    A collection of short stories that were written years ago for a couple of different anthropomorphic (furry) fanzines. Includes the following short stories:Changes: The hero of the story wakes up in the morning to find his world has changed, rather dr...

  • The Hammer Commission

    Mark's job seems pretty dull, working as an investigator into crimes committed against Church property, theft of holy objects, vandalism; nothing terribly exciting but he does get to travel the world.That's just the window dressing. Mark does work fo...

  • Champion for Hire

    Portals of Infinity - 1

    William is just your typical engineer fresh out of college with a stressful job, a boring life, and not a lot of prospects of anything better in the future.Until one weekend while hiking in the woods he stumbles across a portal to another time, or pe...

  • The God Game

    Portals of Infinity - 2

    Will’s life has definitely changed since that day he went hiking in the woods of Pennsylvania. He’s discovered that reality is a lot bigger and stranger than he had ever imagined. Learning about the portals that link the infinite number of worlds...



  • Of Temples and Trials

    Portals of Infinity - 3

    With the first of what he suspects will be many favors completed, William finds himself busy with important tasks back at his home on Saladin. Queen Rachel has several jobs she needs him to do, and Feliogustus has similar tasks in mind for him as wel...

  • The Sea of Grass

    Portals of Infinity - 4

    With no otherworld tasks to run for Fel, Will has spent the last year mainly helping Rachel consolidate her hold on her expanded kingdom. Barassa has been set back, for now, but Will knows it's only a matter of time until they're at odds once more an...

  • Interregnum

    The war is over, Raj and Cassandra are together, and everything should be 'happily ever after', and return to normal, right?Well, they would be, but Cassandra still has issues to overcome after spending three years in POW camps where abuse and even t...

  • Lost Souls

    Years ago Jarith was exiled from his home for purely political reasons. The leader of the Elven Queen's armies he was shocked by this betrayal, but loyal to a fault he followed his orders and left.

    But now, eight years later, he is being summo...

  • Demigods and Deities

    Portals of Infinity - 5

    Jarith was exiled from Elsheval, one of the great Elvin kingdoms, eight years ago for political reasons. A powerful and loyal warrior who led the Queen's armies to many victories, he was angry and upset, but he followed his orders and left. Now, eigh...

  • Reprisal

    William is the champion of a god in the sphere that he now calls home. Being a champion comes with certain powers and advantages; however it can also come with fearful and powerful enemies. When William's oldest enemy attacked his family, Will chased...

  • The King of Las Vegas

    An American college student on holiday in India, Rafael fell afoul of a Rakshasa, an old and very powerful tiger-demon. When he finally manages to escape from his captivity, he is left with two small problems; the first is that he is now a Rakshasa h...

  • Kaiju

    For years now Barassa and Hiland have been at odds and after a failed invasion two years ago, Barassa now finds itself on hard economic times. The northern kingdoms however now see their opportunity and launch a holy war against Barassa, in its weake...

  • Wolf Killer

    With having to leave the Commission for a year while things cool off politically, Mark finds that the Church has loaned him out to the FBI, who have been trying for years now to get an experienced monster and demon expert in their newest division, to...

  • Past Tense

    Paul's been having a bad day, perhaps one of the worst days he's ever had. And now into the middle of all this, his instructor just got drafted by some mystical goddess to help save a world.As for Paul? Well, he's really not supposed to be there, and...



  • Loose Ends

    Being on loan to the FBI has its advantages, and for the first time in far too long, Mark is taking a few weeks off with his family. But he's barely gotten started when he finds his brother unwittingly entangled in a mess that can be traced directly ...

  • Present Tense

    Coyote has a new task for Paul, one that involves him traveling north hundreds of miles over the post-apocalyptic landscape of California, the place that Paul once called home.Thankfully, Sarah and Heather have both decided to go with him and between...

  • Future Tense

    Since being brought forward in time to the post apocalyptic wastelands of what was once his home, life has been pretty hard on Paul. Though it has had two good points, namely Sarah and Heather. But now Coyote wants him to take care of the task that h...

  • The Seven Worlds

    After two long years in the void, Will is glad to be home, and so is his family. However he still has his job to do: Feliogustus has favors to pay back after being without Will for so long and some of those favors are coming due. So while having his ...

  • Summer's End

    SOMETIMES A DARK PAST CAN HAUNT YOU. OTHER TIMES, IT JUST MAY BE THE ONLY THING KEEPING YOU ALIVE.Fresh out of college with his Ship Engineer 3rd-Class certificate, Dave Walker’s only thought is to try to find a berth on a corporate ship plying...

  • Single Servings of Liberty

    Twenty stories, short and sweet, each one with the image that inspired it. Bite-sized fiction that will tantalize and thrill you. Come, read a little, and see how it expands your dreams.50 words, no more, no less. And the universe is at your command....

  • Some Time in the Fall

    If someone gave you all the money in the world, just what would you do with it?Finally free of Earth and all of his connections to it, David can now focus on his and Kacey’s fledgling cargo company, and start considering his future goals as an ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Van Stry has published 26 books.

The next book by John Van Stry, Some Time in the Fall, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by John Van Stry, Lead, Follow, or Suffer the Consequences, was published in May 2011.

Yes. John Van Stry has 1 series.
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