J.S. Morin

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  • Bibliography:
    94 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2013
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Black Ocean

0.5 - Tech, Lies, and Wizardry (Dec-2014)
1 - Salvage Trouble (Oct-2014)
2 - A Smuggler's Conscience (Jan-2015)
3 - Poets and Piracy (Feb-2015)
4 - To Err is Azrin (Apr-2015)
5 - Alien Racer (May-2015)
6 - Retro Version (Aug-2015)
7 - Siege of Mortania (Sep-2015)
8 - Moon of Odysseus (Nov-2015)
9 - Adventure Capital (Apr-2016)
10 - Collusion Course (Jun-2016)
11 - You, Robot (Sep-2016)
12 - Stowaway to Heaven (Nov-2016)
13 - Mission Inadvisable (Mar-2017)
14 - Moral and Orbital Decay (May-2017)
15 - Planet Hustlers (Aug-2017)
16 - Eternity or Bust (Oct-2017)

Black Ocean: Astral Prime

1 - Shadow Planet (Jun-2018)
2 - Wizard Zero (Jul-2018)
3 - Shielded Sun (Jul-2018)
4 - Prime Guardian (Jul-2018)
5 - Systemic Treachery (Jun-2019)
6 - Astral Messiah (Jul-2019)
7 - Parallel Enforcers (Aug-2019)
8 - Multiversal Truth (Sep-2019)
9 - Void Kraken (Sep-2019)
10 - Stellar Rampage (Oct-2019)
11 - Core Threat (Nov-2019)
12 - Terminal Gambit (Nov-2019)

Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire

1 - Wayward Saint (Sep-2018)
2 - Behind Blue Skies (Oct-2018)
3 - House of the Orion Sun (Oct-2018)
4 - Break the Chain (Nov-2018)
5 - Sunshine of Your Cult (Jan-2019)
6 - Walk Like a Magician (Feb-2019)
7 - Hotel Caledonia (Mar-2019)
8 - Eye of the Pharaoh (Apr-2019)
9 - Ship with No Name (Feb-2020)
10 - No More Mr. Nice Girl (Mar-2020)
11 - Magic's Little Helper (Apr-2020)
12 - Mortanian Rhapsody (Apr-2020)
13 - The Girls Are Back In Town (Jul-2020)
14 - Stuck in the Astral with You (Jul-2020)
15 - Lair of the Dog (Aug-2020)
16 - Empathy for the Devil (Sep-2020)

Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem

1 - Know When to Run (Jul-2021)
2 - Low Flyer (Aug-2021)
3 - The Good Die Young (Oct-2021)
4 - Lyin' Guys (Nov-2021)
5 - Viva, Las Vega IX (Feb-2022)
6 - Ventura Starway (Mar-2022)
7 - Fly Like an Ego (May-2022)
8 - Sixteen Tomes (Jun-2022)
9 - Live and Let Kill (Aug-2023)
10 - 50 Ways to Leave a Planet (Sep-2023)
11 - Blowin' in the Wind (Sep-2023)
12 - We Drink Alone (Oct-2023)
13 - Life is a Crime Wave (Oct-2023)
14 - Same as the Old Boss (Nov-2023)

Black Ocean: Passage of Time

1 - Tempus Fugitive (May-2023)
2 - Terran Incognito (May-2023)
3 - Xeno's Paragon (Jun-2023)
4 - Time and Punishment (Jul-2023)

Mad Tinker Chronicles

0.5 - Inventing a Tinker (Mar-2015)
1 - Mad Tinker's Daughter (Mar-2014)
2 - Rebel Skyforce (May-2014)
3 - World-Ripper War (Jul-2014)
4 - Tinker's Justice (Sep-2014)

Robot Geneticists

1 - Extinction Reversed (Apr-2017)
2 - Brain Recyclers (Jun-2017)
3 - Weaponized Human (Jul-2017)
4 - Rebel Robots (Sep-2017)
5 - Engineered Tyrant (Feb-2018)
6 - Human Phase (Apr-2018)

Shadowblood Heir

1 - Shadowblood Heir (Feb-2018)

Twinborn

0.5 - War-Bringer (Aug-2013)
1 - Firehurler (Feb-2013)
2 - Aethersmith (Jun-2013)
3 - Sourcethief (Nov-2013)
4 - Between the Worlds (Mar-2015)
5 - Murder in Marker's Point (Jun-2018)

Book List in Order: 94 titles

  • Firehurler

    Twinborn - 1

    Life was looking up for Kyrus.

    Then his dreams came real.

    Magic became real.

    Spells half-remembered from a slumbering world seeped into his mind. And they worked.

    Now, he's caught between the waking and dream worlds. Force...

  • Aethersmith

    Twinborn - 2

    Loyalty is a bond that spans worlds. Deceit among twinborn is doubly deadly.

    Soria Coinblade has a simple task in mind: to find the twin of the lover she has been denied in the other world. What she finds instead is a path beset by pirates and...

  • War-Bringer

    Twinborn - 0.5

  • Demon in the Bloodline

  • Sourcethief

    Twinborn - 3

    Two worlds aren’t big enough for the both of them.

    Kryus has found himself a rival of the most dangerous creature he’s ever met. The problem? The demon warlock who might kill him may also be the best hope for the future of the empire. With...

  • Knight in the Nighttime

  • Sorcerer in the Mirror

  • Mad Tinker's Daughter

    Mad Tinker Chronicles - 1

    It isn't the Human Rebellion yet. Someone needs to invent it.

    Rynn scrubs floors at the university to eavesdrop on lectures. In a just world, she would be free to attend those classes. But in Korr, humans are the working class: the serfs, the ...

  • Rebel Skyforce

    Mad Tinker Chronicles - 2

    The rebel underground takes to the skies.

    After escaping Eversall Deep in what has become known as the Great Slave Revolt, Rynn and her fellow rebels are on the run. In their stolen airships, they must evade airships from nations across Korr a...



  • World-Ripper War

    Mad Tinker Chronicles - 3

    In a war without borders, you’re always behind enemy lines.

    The sides are drawn. The war has begun. The Human Rebellion is constantly on the move, knowing that their enemies possess the same world-ripper technology that allows them to appear...

  • Tinker's Justice

    Mad Tinker Chronicles - 4

    Justice can’t be built in a workshop. That won’t stop a tinker from trying. The members of the Human Rebellion face a war spread across three worlds. Their enemies are multiplying. Their allies are becoming increasingly tenuous. With the war spir...

  • Salvage Trouble

    Black Ocean - 1

    The escape pods are long gone.

    A distress beacon is still active.

    Chase off the pirates and the wreck is all theirs. What was a crime scene moments before just became legitimate salvage, fair game for an opportunistic starship captain.<...

  • Tech, Lies, and Wizardry

    Black Ocean - 0.5

    Welcome to the Black Ocean Missions, a high fantasy space opera series by J.S. Morin, author of the best-selling Twinborn Trilogy and Mad Tinker Chronicles. Science to build a starship. Wizardry to take it past light speed. A crew to give it a soul....

  • A Smuggler's Conscience

    Black Ocean - 2

    The job: a delivery, no questions asked. The problem: curiosity is a deadly sin.

    A simple pickup and delivery. No questions asked; no looking inside the cargo. All it requires is a fast, stealthy ship and a crew who can keep their imaginations...

  • Poets and Piracy

    Black Ocean - 3

    In a crime family, there’s a thin line between the Christmas list and the hit list.

    When the crew of the Mobius takes on passenger Bryce Brisson to make some easy money, they find themselves caught up in his business dealings with Tanny’s ...

  • Inventing a Tinker

    Mad Tinker Chronicles - 0.5

    Connect the gears of a clock and it tells time. Connect the gears of a tinker, and it’s time for a reckoning. Cadmus Errol is an apprentice clockmaker rankling under the tutelage of a master he has already surpassed. He has dreams of greater thing...

  • Between the Worlds

    Twinborn - 4

    Gamblers and goblins. Dragons and duels. Scoundrels of every make and description.

    Dive back into the worlds of the best-selling Twinborn Trilogy with this collection of eight short stories -- including three exclusive, never-before-published ...

  • To Err is Azrin

    Black Ocean - 4

    She killed her brother. She saved his son. Can one good deed repay a blood debt?

    When a foiled bounty job results in the Mobius rescuing Mriy’s nephew, they divert course for Meyang to deliver him home. Upon her return, Mriy finds that grati...

  • Alien Racer

    Black Ocean - 5

    The need for speed meets the need for greed.

    Ex-starfighter pilot Carl Ramsey, now captain of the Mobius, can't watch race pilots without scoffing that they've never faced hostile fire. When the ship's mechanic and warp drive wizard can't take...



  • Retro Version

    Black Ocean - 6

    Simpler times don’t always mean simpler troubles. With captain Carl Ramsey presumed dead, the Mobius crew heads off to a retrovert colony, among the history-loving residents and old-Earth lifestyle. With limited scanning tech and access to the omni...

  • Siege of Mortania

    Black Ocean - 7

    Never look a strange wizard in the eye. The problem: all wizards are strange.

    Mort has been on the run from the Convocation for decades. Time and again, they've tried -- and failed -- to capture him. But a new adversary is taking a crack at cl...

  • Moon of Odysseus

    Black Ocean - 8

    One man’s crash is another man’s treasure. “Blackjack, this is Scarecrow. I finally found it. We’re going to be rich.” Carl Ramsey gets a comm from an old squadron mate with a lead on the salvage of a lifetime: an ARGO battleship. The ENV O...

  • Adventure Capital

    Black Ocean - 9

    There's a new crime lord in this galaxy. Time to make crime actually pay.

    Carl Ramsey had a derelict battleship and a hundred stranded navy veterans fall into his lap. With Earth Navy happier pretending none of them existed, it only seemed log...

  • Collusion Course

    Black Ocean - 10

    The biggest problem with employing criminals is that they're criminals. What's a guy gotta do to get a little respect? As the head of an up-and-coming criminal empire, Carl Ramsey just can't seem to catch a break. Stranded in the middle of nowhere, h...

  • You, Robot

    Black Ocean - 11

    He knows the three laws, but they’re really more what you’d call "guidelines."

    Two and a half million terras worth of contraband won’t do Carl Ramsey any good unless he can find a buyer. But when dealing with that kind of money, any deal...

  • Stowaway to Heaven

    Black Ocean - 12

    If you can't beat 'em, hijack 'em.

    Push a man hard enough and long enough and he's going to push back. Carl Ramsey finally has a plan to deal with transgalactic megacorp Harmony Bay. With the aid of a new ace up his sleeve, the Mobius crew fin...

  • Mission Inadvisable

    Black Ocean - 13

    Part-time heroes. Full-time outlaws.

    Carl Ramsey has done the unthinkable: he turned down a lucrative job. When the deed is too despicable even for outlaws like the Mobius crew, someone nasty had to be behind it. Carl and his friends decide to...

  • Extinction Reversed

    Robot Geneticists - 1

    A.I. didn’t destroy humanity.It didn’t save us, either.The robots we built in our final days preserved human minds. They survived the end of life on Earth and embarked on the greatest single project in all recorded history.They rebuilt.The result...

  • Moral and Orbital Decay

    Black Ocean - 14

    Reminder: science and magic don't mix.

    If anyone were ever to forget that magic can disrupt science and technological equipment, they need only refer to the incident at Mobile Mining Station YF-77. That poor, unfortunate station had a wizard f...



  • Brain Recyclers

    Robot Geneticists - 2

    Immortality is a prison of fear.With humanity out in the open, Eve and her sisters are now the subject of worldwide adoration -- and constant surveillance. With Eve as humanity’s spokeswoman, it’s up to her to bargain for the freedom she craves n...

  • Weaponized Human

    Robot Geneticists - 3

    The greatest threat to humanity might be one of their own.

    Eve has responsibilities now. As chairwoman of the Human Welfare Committee, she is humanity’s voice in a world run by robots. Her job includes approving geneticists who want to engag...

  • Planet Hustlers

    Black Ocean - 15

    The hottest card game in the galaxy puts the fates of three worlds at stake.

    Pirates have taken over and occupied a refugee world, and the exile government turns to the only human they can trust -- Carl Ramsey. Trying to make a better man of h...

  • Rebel Robots

    Robot Geneticists - 4

    ""Never in a thousand years" just expired. Charlie7 has his secrets. Every robot knows that history has a dark period where he was the only one alive, with no one to corroborate his story. That was before an old adversary,"...

  • Eternity or Bust

    Black Ocean - 16

    One mission short of retirement. What could possibly go wrong?

    Carl's looking forward to a quiet life with his soon-to-be wife and the child they're expecting. But when Amy makes a simple request, there's a catch. She wants their wedding on Ea...

  • Engineered Tyrant

    Robot Geneticists - 5

    Those who learn history can doom others to repeat it.

    A new generation of humans has entered adulthood. Raised by robots, these freshly minted citizens of Earth struggle to fit into a society that has gotten by without them for a thousand year...

  • Shadowblood Heir

    Shadowblood Heir - 1

    Magic: As Seen on TV

    Aspiring author Matt Lee delivers pizza by day to scrape together the pittance he contributes for the Cambridge apartment he shares with best friend Judy and her boyfriend.

    He also hears voices.

    During the se...

  • Human Phase

    Robot Geneticists - 6

    The red planet will run red with blood.

    Martian terraformer Kaylee Fourteen is a recent immigrant from Earth. Residents of the domed colonies of Mars can practically smell the day they’ll be able to walk outdoors on their own planet without ...

  • Murder in Marker's Point

    Twinborn - 5

    Have you already read the Twinborn Chronicles? Feel like you have a pretty good handle on what it means to be Twinborn? Think you could survive a world where hidden enemies lurk around every corner?

    Why not try your hand at this choose-your-...

  • Shadow Planet

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 1

    A space station at the edge of the galaxy just found a planet that’s slipping off the edge entirely.

    After losing control of his magic, wizard Cedric The Brown blew up his boss and nearly crashed a space station into a planet. Determined to ...



  • Prime Guardian

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 4

    Magic and technology don’t mix. Now, the one exception to that rule is up for grabs.

    The ancient solution to get magic and tech to coexist lies within an alien structure older than any race in the galaxy. Now, the balance of power threatens ...

  • Shielded Sun

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 3

    Most energy shields keep weapons out. This one traps everything inside.

    With rival factions in orbit around Shadow Planet, the obvious threat was one another. When the defenses of an ancient alien outpost activate, trapping everyone in the sta...

  • Wizard Zero

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 2

    An ancient ruin holds miraculous technology and a deadly secret.

    When a survey team unearths buildings on prospective mining planet, at first, it’s hailed as an archeological jackpot. But the ancient structures are more advanced than anyone...

  • Wayward Saint

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 1

    The galaxy’s worst bounty hunter just might be its most relentless hero.

    Esper may dress the part. She has her own ship. She even carries a blaster -- not that she ever uses it.

    But she violates the cardinal rule of the galaxy’s mo...

  • Behind Blue Skies

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 2

    Laying low isn’t supposed to work this way.

    Esper and Kubu take an outlaw vacation to a remote planet whose tiny colony seems idyllic. It’s far enough for the Convocation wizards dogging them to lose their trail. The plan is simple: stay o...

  • House of the Orion Sun

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 3

    Core World problems…

    Rigel IV glistens beneath a giant, blue-white sun. Its vast surface is covered in tall cities shining like hope itself. Law enforcement protects the people. Or at least… most of the people.

    Because even core wor...

  • Break the Chain

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 4

    The jig is up. The news is out. They finally found her.

    As Esper has tried to save the galaxy’s wayward children, she’s done it with the looming threat of the Convocation dogging her steps. She knows why they’re after her, even if she ca...

  • Sunshine of Your Cult

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 5

    Almighty Ra looks down not from one sun but from all.

    When a client hires Esper and Kubu to find a missing holovid costar, they stumble onto a recruiting effort for an ancient cult with a new look. The Cult of Ra died out in Egypt before the I...

  • Walk Like a Magician

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 6

    The witch is back!

    Esper tracks the Cult of Ra to an arms factory on a grimy colony world. With limited magical resources, they're reduced to doing their vigilante act the old fashioned way. But when their best efforts fall short, Esper is for...

  • Hotel Caledonia

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 7

    A murder mystery you can sink your ship into.

    Esper has a rendezvous with a mysterious contact aboard an undersea luxury cruise ship, an exclusive submarine hotel for a cozy five-day getaway. She's going to get all the intel she needs to cut o...



  • Eye of the Pharaoh

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 8

    "We’re going to find someone with a nice ship. Someone who doesn’t deserve one. And we’re going to steal it."

    Esper made that promise. Now it's time to make good. The Cult of Ra has a flagship, and thanks to a turncoat in their ranks, Es...

  • Systemic Treachery

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 5

    An old foe returns to collect a high price.

    The syndicate had given her an ultimatum: disappear. Watched and wary, Fujita Hiroko obeyed for years, burying herself in work. Now one of the galaxy's most recognized faces, owner of the universe's ...

  • Astral Messiah

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 6

    Some actions can't be undone. Some can, but shouldn't.

    With Astral Prime in chaos, Kendra hatches a desperate attempt to use forbidden alien technology to bring her lover back from the dead. As the struggle for control of the station unfolds, ...

  • Parallel Enforcers

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 7

    They stared too long into the abyss. The abyss is going to do more than just stare back.They toyed with forces they didn't understand. Now, the inhabitants of Astral Prime are going to pay the price.Their foray into an alternate universe has not gone...

  • Multiversal Truth

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 8

    The search for Truth meets the fight for dominance.In the aftermath of the station's invasion, Hiroko tries to rally the survivors around a new religion: hers. Combining her knowledge of anthropology with her alien enlightenment, she hopes to bring t...

  • Void Kraken

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 9

    That void kraken is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. And it eats planets.Unleashed from an alternate universe, the space-borne leviathan dubbed "void kraken" terrorizes the galaxy. The most powerful weapons barely scr...

  • Stellar Rampage

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 10

    The enemy of my enemy... is probably hoping we weaken each other until they can finish us off.The galaxy is in a state of panic. A horror has been unleashed, and it's a threat to every inhabited planet. Luckily, it currently rampages across a sparsel...

  • Core Threat

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 11

    To fight is to lose. Not to fight is to die.The galaxy has gone from troubled to doomed. Now faced with a multiplying threat, the races of the Milky Way are faced with a foe who cannot be stopped, cannot be turned back. And yet, for the sake of their...

  • Terminal Gambit

    Black Ocean: Astral Prime - 12

    Every mistake carries a price. The worst accrue interest. All come due eventually.Cedric has discovered the means to fight back, but the price is high. Not all species are capable of carrying out his methods. It's one thing asking ships and crews to ...

  • Ship with No Name

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 9

    You can't own a warship and still think small.With the capture of the Eye of Ra, Esper and her friends discover that small problems have started looking too small. When a plague breaks out on the occupied planet of Meyang, she decides it's time to se...

  • No More Mr. Nice Girl

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 10

    Even the best of us has a demon locked up deep inside. Sometimes, they get loose.In the constant war against her darker side, Esper was forced to win a daily battle for control. One loss was all it took for the roles of warden and prisoner to switch....

  • Magic's Little Helper

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 11

    Leaving an apprentice unsupervised has never been a good idea.With Esper neglecting her duties as magical teacher, Tiffany takes her education into her own hands. Struggling with self-esteem and credibility with the universe, she resorts to trying a ...

  • Mortanian Rhapsody

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 12

    It's time to fight dark with dark. Tiffany knows what happened. Esper has fallen to the darkness within her. Rather than fleeing to safety, she escapes the presence of Dark Esper to find a way to bring back the woman she thinks of as a mother. B...

  • The Girls Are Back In Town

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 13

    Two old friends set out to forge a new galaxy. Tanny and Esper may have grown apart, but they've joined forces to overthrow the Rucker Syndicate. Tanny's father has crossed too many lines, and now it's time for new leadership of the galaxy's&nbs...

  • Stuck in the Astral with You

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 14

    It may not be healthy, or particularly tasty, but it's reasonably affordable and Earthlings LOVE it! Tanny and Esper's rebel syndicate needs to hit the Ruckers hard and where it hurts: in the finances. They decide on a target, one that most of t...

  • Lair of the Dog

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 15

    Home is where the bark is. Fleeing from an unwinnable battle, Tanny is forced to find a planet where she can take refuge from a syndicate with galaxy-spanning reach. The first planet that meets the bill is a wild, forbidden world, home to all ma...

  • Empathy for the Devil

    Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire - 16

    Meet the new boss, daughter of the old boss. Tanny and Esper are done with games and tricks. This war is costing both sides too much. The peaceful transition of power Tanny had dreamed of now seems impossible. It's time to do what they should ha...

  • Know When to Run

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 1

    Let's just say I have pressing business anywhere but Earth. Chuck Ramsey is a traveling comedian trying to turn a planetside gig on Earth into a cash cow. Of course, the cost of living on Earth is astronomical. He needs to get rich quick-or at least ...

  • Low Flyer

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 2

    You wanna go where nobody knows your name.Chuck takes the Radio City to a little out-of-the-way planet where the locals leave outsiders alone. The Ramseys meet up with some nomad friends. And while the adults drink and catch up, the younger...

  • The Good Die Young

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 3

    No good life goes unpunished. It seemed like a safe enough gig. A week aboard a One Church missionary ship. Bland entertainment for respectable money. A place where the family could relax and let their guard down. Until the pirates attacked...

  • Lyin' Guys

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 4

    It's not the crime, it's the coverup. A missionary ship hijacked by pirates. Legion of armed aliens burnt to a crisp. At the Convocation, something doesn't add up, and when the Grand Council gets word, they launch an investigation. Now, any...

  • Viva, Las Vega IX

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 5

  • Ventura Starway

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 6

    You can buy anything you need, but the best stuff isn't for sale. Operating in the uninhabited, the unexplored, and the uncharted systems of the Milky Way is a permanent swap meet. An ever-changing fleet of nomads, traders, and criminals follows...

  • Fly Like an Ego

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 7

    To the victor go the spoils. Works for racing. Works for piracy. Brad scams his own father and gets to go summer camp for starship racing. It starts out as a delightful getaway filled with competition and catching up with an old friend. Along th...

  • Sixteen Tomes

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 8

    That's the thing about unfinished business; it doesn't go away if you ignore it. Chuck and Mort team up to finish a job Mort had to leave undone. A dark wizard is on the loose with a head start and the entire galaxy in which to hide. Their only ...

  • Tempus Fugitive

    Black Ocean: Passage of Time - 1

    The next generation is here, and trouble is in their DNA. Jessie and Eric Ramsey have a family history of crime. Fighting back against heredity, each tried to make their way in the galaxy by respectable means. Jessie joined Earth Navy; Eric went...

  • Terran Incognito

    Black Ocean: Passage of Time - 2

    Sometimes you want to go where NOBODY knows your name. Space station Echo Niner remained neutral in the Earth/Mars civil war. For a pair of fugitives on the run from both sides, it sounded like the perfect place to regroup.But Eric and Jessie Ra...

  • Xeno's Paragon

    Black Ocean: Passage of Time - 3

    He's the elephant in the room that everyone is talking about. Jessie and Eric Ramsey finally catch a break. The League of Independent Planets has granted them asylum and allowed them to live on the techno-paradise world of Phabian. Jessie gets a...

  • Time and Punishment

    Black Ocean: Passage of Time - 4

    The rules to Hide & Seek just got a whole lot deadlier. The astral drop took out all the tech on the ship—maybe for good. They're so far down that rescue seems unlikely. If they had it to do over again, maybe Eric and Jessie would have fou...

  • Live and Let Kill

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 9

    A friend in greed is a friend indeed. Comedy doesn't pay. Some might claim that's the wrong cliché, but Chuck Ramsey knows the truth of it all too well. That's why he resorts to crime to pay the bills. His latest scheme isn't to pick up o...

  • 50 Ways to Leave a Planet

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 10

    No need for a ploy, boy. Just set yourself free. On the heels of a crazy, dangerous scheme that he barely got away with, Chuck Ramsey presses his luck and keeps trying. But on Ganymede, in the heart of Sol's wine country, in the territory of a s...

  • Blowin' in the Wind

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 11

    Once you've made lemonade, do you even want the lemons back? Brad went on the run with his sister Michelle. He got away. They're safe. With new identities and a clean start, all Brad has to do is fake being a responsible, law-abiding adult until...

  • Life is a Crime Wave

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 13

    They're going to make you a counteroffer you can't refuse. When a cooperating witness seems beyond reach, Don Rucker needs a killer capable of getting to anyone. The problem: Mort's a cantankerous wizard who doesn't care about the money. Enter C...

  • We Drink Alone

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 12

    Beer: the cause of, and solution to, all the galaxy's problems. Mordecai The Brown has killed more than his fair share of his fellow humans. Once a mighty hunter of wizards, life has reduced him to chasing down mundane miscreants in a complex sc...

  • Unfortunate Son

    He ain't no millionaire's son. The Eyndar War is heating up, and Earth has implemented a draft. With one child already lost to the fighting, there's no way notorious swindler Chuck Ramsey is letting Earth Navy get a hold of his son. He'll do eve...

  • Same as the Old Boss

    Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem - 14

    Stuck around New Singapore when I saw it was time for a change. Don Rucker has seen what Mordecai The Brown is capable of. Now the second in command of his father's syndicate wants Mort's help with an even bigger job: killing Theo Rucker. I...

  • And Drift Away

    A comedian takes his final bow, and a wizard knows when it's time to disappear. They had an unlikely friendship from the start. One was a mighty wizard, fallen from grace. The other, a never-was comedian who made his living through cons and scam...

  • Mirth & Mayhem Mission Pack 3

    Suckers earn money. Truly epic idiots trick wizards into making it for them. Chuck Ramsey had come up with the best money-making plot of his entire career. His best friend is an unemployed wizard with a resume that would make a contract killer b...

  • Mirth & Mayhem Mission Pack 4

    Crime may kill, kidnap, and blackmail, but it DOES pay.Chuck and Mort up the stakes and up the danger as they get tangled up with a crime syndicate. Meanwhile, we see an older Brad Ramsey turning into the man he'll become.Mission 13: Life is a Crime ...

  • Empty Jesters

    Stealing from pirates: victimless crime, or moral imperative? Captain Jessie Ramsey has a problem. Her giant ship, the newly renamed Arete, needs more crew to keep up and running than she can currently muster. Also, she can barely feed the ones ...

  • Realspace Real Chase

    They can run but they can't hide. Also, they can't run. A routine resupply stop takes a terrifying turn when the crew of the Arete realize they're unable to access astral space. Now, intelligence services across the galaxy are realizin...

  • Outlaw World

    It's all fun and games until someone loses a captain. Desperate for allies, captain Jessie Ramsey enters negotiations with an independent border colony. The planet has food and basic essentials aplenty; the Arete can offer protection i...

  • Who Let the Dogs In

    What's worse than an 8-ton eating machine loose on your ship? Four of them. The galaxy's most feared pirate raiders are the megalodogs. Massive, nearly indestructible, and knowing just enough magic that science cannot save defenders. The be...

  • Horns and Halos

    Before you play the game, know which side you're on. Captain Jessie Ramsey has brought the starship Arete to the hostile Eyndar Empire. She and her crew have traded the complexities of the Earth/Mars wars for the open hostility of a sp...

  • The Art of Where

    When you don't know where to go, a wizard's magic steals the show. The hunt for captive humans still held in Eyndar Empire space has hit a wall. Captain Jessie Ramsey's assault on Outpost 71 resulted in the liberation of hundreds but little in t...

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J.S. Morin has published 94 books.

The next book by J.S. Morin, The Art of Where, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by J.S. Morin, Firehurler, was published in February 2013.

Yes. J.S. Morin has 9 series.
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