Category: Empire Of Humanity

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW9288ZF Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/m2KD0G “Esteban Scimtar di Juarez, you have passed the threshold of adulthood.  There is no return to childhood in this life.” The ceremony was pure show.  My eldest had wielded most of the trappings of adulthood for years.  The few deficiencies had already been rectified within a second of his…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SKN2Y6Y Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/mKpGlP Our own lessons complete, the boys and I moved to the side in order to watch Asto’s splinter take on his grandfather’s.  Asto was seven years younger than I was, but he’d been learning from his grandfather since he was old enough to hold the lightest practice blade, and…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KTF1YGW Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31xj8a Ilras, quit trying to squirt your sister with ketchup.  The inverse square law is on her side. But mom!  I’m just trying to teach her defense!  Meanwhile, baby Imtara giggled in delight at frustrating her brother’s dastardly plan. Dear, even if she was asleep, she’d have plenty of time…

Politics Of Empire is four novels, with Graciela Juarez (‘Grace’) as main character. It is not necessary to read the Rediscovery series to understand what’s going on. It is written largely in parallel with Preparations for War, but where the latter series is written grunt-level from the viewpoint of someone in the frontline, Politics of…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075X4L8ZJ Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzaevD “Well, mother, I’m all ears,” I told her.  She wasn’t my mother, but she was a wonderful mother-in-law, and we had a great relationship.  Plus she had been one of my legal parents when I came to the Empire, which was how I’d met Asto.  Mother was a title…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SP1Q66M Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31RXpa It was hard to believe she was gone. For over an Earth century, Sephia had been the commander of Bolthole Base.  She’d been the one constant, unchangeable thing about the mission on Calmena.  The base was four times the size it had been when I started, Calmena itself was…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WQGYK7L Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/3JDXpK You play with fire, you’re going to get burned. Abraham Lincoln once observed, “Nearly all men can stand adversity.  If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”  It might scandalize my fellow Americans to say it, but Mr. Lincoln failed his own test by almost any…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072J6YML1 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4AwOxA The forges of N’yeschlass began their beat at dawn, every day without fail.  Things had changed since we began. The town had never been officially named.  The name had grown from the unofficial motto of what my wife and I and the original group of refugees cowering in the…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E1PZL5S Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bPJxR7 The view inside a time-jammer bubble is pretty. Not that the Imperials built ships with windows.  It almost defeated the purpose of having a hull, to leave a hole in it where radiation could get in or some random piece of debris could punch a hole and let your…

Preparations for War is a four-book series in the setting of the Empire of Humanity, but outside the Empire. It consists of Preparing The Ground, Building The People, Setting The Board, and Moving The Pieces. The series title might be a little bit misleading to someone who just gives it a casual glance, but it…