Science to build a starship. Wizardry to take it past light speed. A crew to give it a soul.The Mobius is a cobbled-together ship with a matching crew. Captain Carl Ramsey is an ex-Earth Navy pilot whose crew won't let him fly his own ship. The pilot is his ex-wife, the mechanic is a drunk, and the chief of security is from a predatory species. Instead of a star-drive to travel through the astral space between worlds, the ship's wizard does it by hand.

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...

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 have done long ago: take the fight to the Rucker Syndicate and worry about the fallout afterward.What sacrifices are Esper and Tanny willing to make to reshape the galaxy into a better place, and who will be asked to pay the pr...

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. But before she can drag Esper down the road to redemption, she'll first have to wade into hell to find her.Meanwhile, Esper is being hunted by the latest in a long string of bounty hunters and assassins looking to collect the ...

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 can't remember the events.She's shaken them across a dozen star systems.She's bested their hunters the few times they've caught up.Now, Esper is about to face her greatest fear: the truth about what she's done.T...

They sought the mountain for its history. What they found was a future.The city of Skrasforge is thriving, but the goblins who'd lived there before the dwarves weren't feeling so lucky. Downtrodden and indentured to a band of trolls, they owe a debt that will not be easily repaid.The Empress of the trolls wants her tribute, and if the goblins can't pay, they'll serve in her army to take what she's owed. And she plans to take it from Skrasforge.Entrenched on...

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 in return. However, talks take a turn for the worse when half the ship's delegation is kidnapped—and the other half doesn't notice.Who leaked their itinerary to the kidnappers? What will become of the negotiations? Who is even qualified...

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 the galaxy is blissfully unaware is owned by a vicious criminal gang: Friendli Foods. Purveyors of the Milky Way's favorite junk foods, they make shipments to Earth on a megafreighter large enough to feed billions. Tanny has a plan to...

Some people are haunted by their past; others actively hunt it down.Fresh off an inglorious defeat, the starship Arete has been thwarted in its noble mission. Unable to move on and find some other way to use the awesome technology at her disposal, Captain Jessie Ramsey seeks payback. The unidentified interloper of a starship may have won the battle, but she's determined to make this rivalry a war......and win it.With the whole crew working on solut...

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 engage in ethical human cloning as well as overseeing the agency that hunts down threats to mankind. So when one of her sisters vanishes, Eve can't afford to abandon her post to personally search.Eve's agents hunt for her missing sist...

Meet the new boss, daughter of the old boss.It was a possibility she'd never considered and a friend she'd thought long gone. But when Tanny Rucker came to Esper for help overthrowing her father's criminal empire, it was an offer she couldn't refuse.Armed with Tanny's loyalists from her father's syndicate and the magical might Esper brings, the pair embark on a course to rewrite galactic history. To win, they might ruin countless innocent lives and even some of the...

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 ...