Steve Rzasa

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2001
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Face of the Deep

1 - The Word Reclaimed (Oct-2009)
2 - The Word Unleashed (Apr-2010)
3 - Word Endangered (Sep-2016)

A Rescue Ops Mission

Broken Sight (Oct-2011)

A Sark Brothers Tale

1 - Crosswind (Nov-2012)
2 - Sandstorm (Aug-2013)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • This Stirring Strife

  • The Word Reclaimed

    The Face of the Deep - 1

    Finders keepers. . .  Spare parts -- that's all Baden was looking for. Even then, whatever wrecks the pirates leave to rust in some corner of space are hardly worth the time he spends salvaging them. But a book? A Bible, no less? Now, that's d...

  • The Word Unleashed

    The Face of the Deep - 2

    Come out, come out wherever you are. Hiding from the secret police offers Baden time for reflection. Specifically, what has he learned about taking things that don't belong to him? Never again. Ever since he salvaged an outlawed book from a space wre...

  • Broken Sight

    A Rescue Ops Mission

    Be careful what you fight for... In a realm where religious freedom has just been restored, Commander Brian Gaudette feels more isolated than before. His wife left with their daughter. His crew is bickering. Even his God seems distant.A distress...

  • Crosswind

    A Sark Brothers Tale - 1

    AEROPLANES AND INTRIGUE - It's been almost five hundred years since the collapse of the Great Commonwealth. The plagues left folk few and far between. City-states rule the continent of Galderica. There's coin to be had in trade-whether you take your ...

  • Sandstorm

    A Sark Brothers Tale - 2

    Dirigibles and Danger

    It's been four months since the city-state of Perch turned away the invading army of its southern rival, Trestleway, and sent the dark forces of the Cythraul packing.

    Thanks in no small part, everyone reckons,...

  • The Bloodheart

    The world is gripped by magic. Islands soar. Ships fly. And whispers abound: the Bloodheart. Long has it remained dormant, hidden from the dark forces that would tap its power. Waiting. Bowen Cord seeks only treasure, and despises his heritage as an ...

  • For Us Humans

    Caz Fortel is a great liar. In fact, he's a professional.It's his job to lie to people who steal works of art, and to get the goods back. But when Caz gets the big call from the FBI -- a million bucks to recover a stolen statue of significant cultura...

  • Word Endangered

    The Face of the Deep - 3

    So much for peace and quiet.  Now that the government overthrow is said and done, a new frontier awaits colonization. That's where Zarco Thread and his wife enter. He and Ria head up a surveying crew, commissioned to report on worlds with potent...



  • Empire's Rift: The Baedecker Invasion

    The Naplian Empire’s war of expansion against the Grand Alliance has taken a turn for the worse.With vital serjaum fuel reserves wiped out by a surprise attack, Admiral Daviont of the III Corps makes a long, desperate journey to the fringes of Terr...

  • Man Behind the Wheel

    You do not have the right to drive. Roman Jasko patrols the automated highways of 2067 America, watchful for illegal cars. He’s put on a robbery case that leads to a band of sophisticated thieves armed with stolen military technology. Things take a...

  • Multiverse

    From author Steve Rzasa comes a collection of short stories written over the past eight years, encompassing a multitude of worlds. Good and evil, faith and doubt, collide in ten tales, including. A starship captain recovers a dangerous passenger. A d...

  • The Lightningfall

    An ancient darkness reawakens. An empire casts its shadow over the East.And together they seek: the Lightningfall.Bowen Cord has embraced his gift. He uses his ice-summoning in service of others, whilerelishing the quiet comfort of raising his family...

  • Severed Signals

    The enemy of my enemy…Vincent Chen keeps star systems in close communication with each other as he tends to the comms ferry satellites that connect the Realm of Five. When he responds to small colony’s apparent malfunction, though, he stumbles on...

  • Cryptic Commands

    Watch your back…Vincent Chen makes sure his comms ferry satellites don’t harbor malfunctions. He’d prefer they didn’t hide people inside, too.The woman left comatose aboard one he recovers is on a vital mission. She must stop criminals from s...

  • Reciprocity Road

    Up in arms...In this prequel to Man Behind the Wheel, Pursuot Specialist Roman Jasko and his partner, Aldrich Burns, get more than they bargained for when a routine arrest unearths contraband cargo of a robotic kind....

  • Failed Frequencies

    There’s no place like homeworld… Vincent Chen would rather stay far away from his birthplace. But when he’s called back to Tiaozhan, it’s his job that’s on the line. His superiors at MarkTel don’t like the publicity his adventures have br...

  • The Face of the Deep

    A young spacer sifting through a wrecked starship finds the last Bible, upending the balance of power in the galaxy for years to come.Includes the complete 1,300-page The Face of the Deep saga by Steve Rzasa in one ebook volume.Book 1: The Word Recla...

  • Mixed Messages

    Everything on the line…Vincent Chen is loyal to a fault. That's why the Intelligence Service of the Realm has tasked him with finding a lost operative—Izzara Neoh, the woman who broke his heart. He stopped her from stealing secrets from ...



  • The Echo Watch

    Dominic Zein is overwhelmed. Work pulls him in every direction except the one in which he wants to go -- home to his wife, out with his friends, away from the constant strain.Then Nick shows up.He’s the spitting image of Dominic, a man who can imit...

  • Strife's Cost: The Union Gambit

    It has been three years since the Naplian Empire invaded Terran space in a desperate gamble to secure serjaum fuel reserves. They conquered the Baedecker Star System, but not without making a dangerous new enemy.Humans.Squadron leader Taggart “Tagâ...

  • Airfoil: Origins

    Brandon Tusk is a dedicated librarian and a struggling father who would give anything to hold his wife again. When he fatefully discovers a mysterious medallion endowing him with the power to manipulate gravity, he finds he can suddenly stop bullets,...

  • Lines of Communication

    Ardan Verge doesn't want his family's homestead on Mars to fail. But the dust storms keep coming, and the debt keeps rising. He and his best friend have one shot to secure their futures, before a new exodus empties the Red Planet of their dreams....

  • Mercury on Guard

    Mercury Hale is not a hero. Not in his mind.He's happy spending his late nights slicing his way through monstrous astral fiends, using a weapon imbued with a mysterious power, at the behest of the secretive Procyon Foundation. It's a strange way to e...

  • Mercury Hale

    Mercury Hale is not your average guy.Sure, he's got a full-time job, and he likes pizza as much as anyone - and maybe too much.Catch is, he spends his late nights slaying monsters.San Camillo needs a defender from encroaching darkness. They've got Me...

  • Mercury for Hire

    Mercury Hale is out of a job. That's not stopping him from fighting crime in San Camillo - for a fee, of course. His much simpler yet financially unstable situation is interrupted when Procyon Foundation comes to him with a problem: one of their t...

  • Mercury at Risk

    Mercury Hale is on the warpath. His nemesis Alexander Arkwright has stolen an artifact of immeasurable power, one that threatens Earth and every world connected to the Interstice. Even when Mercury rescues his friends from torture, he's left scrambl...

  • Mercury Is Hot

    The hills of San Camillo are burning. Mercury Hale is preparing for his impending wedding, but those plans are interrupted by the assault astral fiend that's literally on fire. When he tracks it down, he runs headfirst into an unexpected ally. B...

  • Mercury Out Cold

    Worst. Party. Ever.Mercury Hale's dull day is interrupted by Dominic Zein and the rest of the Procyon heroes — the guys, that is. They take him across the world for a bachelor evening to relax after recent conflicts.But an enemy reappears in a ...



  • Mercury off Course

    Hold your breath... Mercury Hale is hunting Syndax, the evil soldiers bent on summoning astral fiends, when he finds himself reliving the trauma  of his battle against the Hedron of Orbits. Suddenly his bravado, his boldness, and his abilit...

  • Mercury with Style

    Mercury Hale has saved the world. A lot.So, no one can blame him for enjoying time off from the unending task of slaying astral fiends.For about five seconds.A daylight attack ends with the revelation of a mysterious voice-coming from the very monste...

  • Become the Past

    Anthony Moses has taken up arms against enemies. Some are terrorists. Some are insurgents. Some are nightmarish monsters best left to superheroes. He's willing to continue the fight, until one day his bosses at Procyon Foundation come to hi...

  • Remains

    It hungers...Decades before Mercury Hale takes up the pulsar stave, U.S. Army veteran Alonzo Vine trades in his police detective's badge to search the shadows for fiends endangering this world.When he receives a cryptic warning on a crumpled postcard...

  • Verge of Peril

    Marcus Verge is not who you think he is.Ostracized by the rest of the galaxy, he hides his name as he works in the shadows to make amends for his past.But when the king of the Realm of Five comes to him with a vital mission no one can know about, Mar...

  • Tangents

    The worlds expand.Mercury Hale's adventures have opened his eyes to more than just new friends and enemies. They've whispered hints about the larger reach of untold forces in this dimension and beyond. And the more he fights, the more comes to light....

  • Unsettled

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    Ardan Verge doesn't want his family's homestead on Mars to fail. But the dust storms keep coming, and the debt keeps rising.He and his best friend have one shot to secure their futures, before a new exodus empties the Red Planet of their dreams....

Award-Winning Books by Steve Rzasa

Broken Sight
2012 Carol Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Steve Rzasa has published 36 books.

Steve Rzasa does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tangents, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Steve Rzasa, This Stirring Strife, was published in December 2001.

Yes. Steve Rzasa has 3 series.
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