Blaze Ward: 119 books

Despite the best efforts of both the Republic of Aquitaine Navy (RAN) and the Freiburg Empire, pirates remain a problem for smaller communities, away from the main starlanes. Due to Jessica Keller's success on her previous mission to cause problems for the Freiburg Empire, the head of the...

The entire crews of Auberon, Rajput, and CR-264 gather together to celebrate the promotion of one of their own: Moirrey.  Jessica Keller knows that she owes Moirrey her life. Everyone attending the ceremony still lived because of this woman, many times over. Their cheers and shouts...

Javier lives quite happily on his long-range scout. Alone. Away from everyone, with his chickens, his fruit trees, and Suvi, an artificial intelligence who keeps him company and runs the ship. When space pirates attack Javier's ship, they get much more than they bargained for. Much more. Join...

Jessica Keller faces court martial for disobeying a direct order. Her actions also prevented a massacre during the latest starship battle between the Republic of Aquitaine Navy (RAN) and the Freiburg Empire. What does this maverick commander have to do to impress the RAN high command?...

So. You’re a writer. Do you know the bones of what makes a good story? It’s not the same thing as being a writer, not at all. How do you learn to tell a good story? There’s trial and error, sure. But there are also books like this, to help you along, making it easier to...

You’ve learned how to use the Seven Point Plot Structure to tell a good story. However, a good writer needs more tools in her toolbox. Understanding the three act dramatic structure can give you a new way to build stories. Expanding to four acts, five, or even two, greatly enhances your repertoire. Come...

Suren’s quest brings him to an Imperial Rome unlike our own, where centaurs and elves rub shoulders with common Citizens. The oracle has given him a quest: Find and rescue a Brigante half-elf from slavery, protect her from her enemies and his, and then convince her to help him find the Queen of...

The war between good and evil cycles on, forever and more . Foes become allies. Lovers become enemies. In the forest depths, the Earthmother issues the call to battle. Who heeds her call?   Previously published as part of the poetry collection, "The Forestal."

For many of us, those opening words “Captain’s Log…” were our introduction to our science fiction dreams. Voyage to explore strange, new worlds, seek out new life, and boldly go. What will we find there when we go? What dangers will we confront? Who will survive? And who will not? Twelve...

Science fiction does not have to be about alien planets, galactic exploration, and huge space battles. Instead, science fiction can cover the future that lurks just around the corner. Science fiction that exists after Dieselpunk and before Cyberpunk, where the Makers and the Hackers dwell,...

Join us for the next exciting issue of Boundary Shock Quarterly! We can make her better than she was. Or build a better one to replace him. What does it mean to be Sentient? Human? Or even alive? Fifteen stories and essays explore what it means to be sentient in the present and future...

Jocelyn never rode her longboard on Emerald’s streets with her headphones in. Too dangerous. That probably saved her life. Particularly when she gets trapped in a superhero battle between Captain Wintergold and the villainous MacChruim,  Jocelyn has no superpowers, no special abilities....

Stars in the Darkness is a collection of stories about why being just matters, and what the ramifications are for individuals, groups, towns, countries, or even worlds if justice is not expected, encouraged, or enforced. The stories cover a wide range, from historical fiction to fantasy to...

ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS, a fvisionairy anthology dreamed up by two Pacific Northwest authors In the aftermath of the presidential inauguration, Bob Brown and Phyllis Irene Radford asked the science fiction writers they know to imagine a post-Trump, post-truth world ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS is about the...