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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 ...

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 make amends, he pledges to help the mining station negotiate with the nearby planet's mysterious magical inhabitants.With nothing but the bankrupt station as severance pay, Director Fujita Hiroko moves to the edge of the galaxy t...

"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...

The galaxy isn't ready for Mort and Chuck.A traveling con man poses as a vintage comedian, touring the galaxy with his wife and kids in tow. When he picks up a hitchhiking wizard desperate to flee Earth, they become a hilarious mixed family. Crime, comedy, and magical mayhem are in store.Mission 1: Know When to RunA prominent wizard makes a deadly mistake and runs out his welcome on Earth. A shady comedian with a family and his own starship...

This AI parable is 100% the product of human creativity—no AI was involved in its creation.How many times will AI destroy the world?The first AIs were video game monsters. LLMs spewed semi-intelligible gibberish. The bots were mathematical super geniuses but intellectual children. EDICT will usher in the AI Singularity.Who do you want shaping that singularity?Dr. Addison Akers was a child prodigy. Now, nearing 30, she's on ...

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 out of trouble, let the heat die down, and slink back quietly to civilized space.But these two aren't good at keeping out of trouble.Before long, they're exposed to the rotten core beneath this purported Utopia. Bitter feuds...