It takes a dwarf to be homesick for a place he's never been.Ninety years ago, the dwarves of the Dragonhammer Clan were driven from their ancestral home. Now, a small band from a new generation, raised in exile among humans, are mounting a venture to retake it.These young dwarves aren't fools. They don't have an army. They don't even know the old ways. Led by the young heir to the clan, Genrik Dragonhammer, they seek to carve out a foothold within a nearby mountain...

Hitchhikers are trouble in any galaxy.Carl Ramsey has a starship to run. Down on his luck, struggling to pay the cost of fuel, he's just looking for some quick, easy cash. While looting the wreck of passenger ship, they discover that one escape pod never ejected, and the passengers are still alive. A routine salvage job turns into a rescue mission, and a good deed never goes unpunished. With two refugees aboard, Captain Carl Ramsey finds that his ship, the Mobius,...

She's the good thing that happens to bad people.Esper is the galaxy's worst bounty hunter.Maybe she dresses 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 most cold-blooded profession: get paid.At least she's not alone. Her partner Kubu is an alien who gets mistaken for a dog.One is a wizard on the run from her past. The other is a lovable eating machi...

"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 come out ahead—and head for cheaper pastures.Enter Mordecai The Brown. Once the golden boy of the Convocation, Guardian of the Plundered Tomes and the Convocation's number one hunter of dark wizards, "Mort" has found h...

Professor Rachel Jordan committed the ultimate heresy: she dared to teach that the Angels were never humanity's saviours.For three thousand years, Angelic doctrine has shaped civilisation. The Redeemers—fanatical guardians of that doctrine—will stop at nothing to silence her. Branded a heretic and hunted by zealots determined to erase her beliefs, Rachel flees to the edge of civilised space.But she isn't hiding.The only proof of her theories lies in...

These days, even the humans are built by robots.Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world—Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling—a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap.Geneticists have restored Earth's biome and begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human cloning is banned.Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is bri...

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 to college for magic. But fate wasn't having it. Eric was expelled. Jessie went AWOL. Now, due to a magical mishap that wasn't entirely anyone's fault (we swear!), they're stranded 5 years in the future on a Mars that's no longer fr...

Friends, enemies, veins of ore: take your pickRaised in exile, the children of the Dragonhammer Clan embark on a quest to retake their ancient home. A century ago, the legendary city of Skrasforge fell. Ancient enemies and foul alliances proved more than the defenders could withstand. The few survivors fled, finding refuge among the humans of Halibut Harbor. Their leader, Gradrak Dragonhammer, vowed never to return to the site of such horrendous tragedy.Now, the dw...

Kyrus dreams of being a knight. Fate has so much more planned for him.As an apprentice scribe, Kyrus has always dreamed of becoming a master and opening his own shop.Developing magical powers and becoming a wizard? Not so much.After all, wizards are the stuff of his dreams. Dreams where Kyrus is Brannis Solaran, a powerful knight who wields an ancient sword crafted from the essence of magic and who's responsible for defending a city from an army of goblins ...

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 years.Until Alex Truman shows them a new path.Raised by Charlie7 and cloned from the original Charles Truman, Alex feels that it's his right to rule mankind. With the entirety of human history as his guide, he learns from t...

Maybe those who study history hard enough can get ALL of it to repeat.Earth has fallen and Mars is in chaos. With their coup behind them, the Arete crew regroups and plans for life beyond the civil war. There's only one problem: one of their number has yet to return from his undercover mission.Stranded behind enemy lines. Cooped up in a bunker with paranoid generals. Generally lonely. Eric Ramsey hasn't enjoyed his diversion on Mars. Suspected of being a s...

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 manner of monsters. But she has an ace up her sleeve; one of her closest allies was born there.But even with the help of a local, can Tanny and her crew survive long enough to contact help?Lair of the Dog is th...