Category: Empire Of Humanity

(This book is part of the First In Series sale, 99 cents e-book through Christmas Day 2024) https://danmelson.com/first-in-series-sale/ 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…

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FDLKNXU Books2Read: https://www.books2read.com/u/4AwOxJ No matter what the song says, it does rain in southern California. All the damn time in March of El Nino years. The most recent storm had finished blowing through earlier that evening. I didn’t like working after dark, but the compliance reports just couldn’t wait any longer. My boss, “Call…

With the release of Measure Of Adulthood, Politics Of Empire is complete as a series. It was written loosely in parallel with the Preparations For War series, in that they both take place in the same setting and at about the same time. The differences are that while Joe and his wife Asina in the…

For tolerably obvious reasons, our Morelli guests were kept confined in a special area of the ship; not really a jail or whatever they called a jail onboard a ship. Just spare crew quarters, modified for their use. Since I was their liason, I was summoned to the fabrication shop to hear the explanation of…

“The rest of you could try to disappear,” Motafo suggested, “If they do what they said, you can always step forward later.“ Tessa noted that none of them were pleading family, mates, or children. The Morelli were a matriarchal society; males such as these four owed taxes and labor to the Community, not to any…

The idea for the series is simple at its core: The fractal demons are well aware that the reason the Empire of Humanity is a match for them are the mental powers of operants. Suppose they decide they want some human operants loyal to them, allowing them to better infiltrate the Empire? So they kidnapped…

It took more than a day for the first response to reach them. The distance was to blame for three hours of it, but the rest was government dithering. Even so, all they did was ask for more verification. “Please detail survivors name, rank, and family den.” The human embassy promptly sent the requested information,…

Rediscovery was the series first of my books published. I’ve learned a bit more subtlety since then, but nowhere else do you find as much background for the Empire of Humanity. It is told through the viewpoint of Graciela Juarez (‘Grace’), an Earth native from Riverside California in the United States. When we meet her,…

This is a side project, a new story idea that wouldn’t let go until I wrote some of it. Set in the Empire of Humanity, roughly thirty-five Earth years after the events of Empire and Earth. To give you a time-line comparison, Grace is less than halfway through her time in the Planetary Surface Forces…

Calmena (Epsilon Indi A II) is a planet filled with humans descended from the Imperial ‘Lost Colony’ of Earth (Sol III). The Fractal Demons discovered Earth in its barbarous Stone Age state, and decided to see if they could domesticate humans. The experiment was not a success. There were a few lines or families that…