Inside the fiction

Worlds to explore.

Introductions to the settings, people, and ideas named in the book descriptions. Explore confirmed series together and standalone settings individually. Every guide stays within the published premises.

Premise-level guide · 4 entries

The Peacekeeper frontier

Meet the cruiser, people, and rival powers at the center of Peacekeeper: a spacefaring series of patrols, war, and difficult alliances.

Peacekeeper: Prequel · Peacekeeper: 2nd Edition · Rising Tide · Star Rising · Star Destroyer · Peacekeeper: The Complete Series

Premise-level guide · 3 entries

The Vienna of Proletarian Hearts

A historical-fiction guide to Otto Haberle, his friendship with an aspiring artist, and the struggle to build a creative life in Vienna.

Proletarian Hearts: Part One · Proletarian Hearts: Part Two

Premise-level guide · 3 entries

A return to service in World Engine

Captain William Nagy returns to naval duty with a worn-out ship, an unconventional crew, and intelligence that makes his new mission increasingly uncertain.

World Engine

Premise-level guide · 3 entries

Corporate New York in Future’s Guardian

A future New York governed by a corporation forms the setting for Ylan’s encounter with instability, obligation, and an uncertain future.

Future's Guardian

Premise-level guide · 3 entries

Takali and Father in The Designer

An artificial intelligence’s work preparing a human settlement becomes the foundation for a later civilization’s political and religious questions.

The Designer

Premise-level guide · 3 entries

Human society through Zava’s eyes

Emily Reed And The Humans begins with an alien researcher choosing to participate in the society she has discovered.

Emily Reed And The Humans

Premise-level guide · 3 entries

An altered Earth in The Mycelial Invasion

An asteroid’s arrival in the southern Pacific disrupts ordinary life and introduces alien life capable of transforming Earth.

The Mycelial Invasion

Premise-level guide · 3 entries

Purpose and creation in Spliced

Liam-332’s belief in his protective purpose is challenged when an enforcer’s routine pursuit opens into a wider crisis.

Spliced

Premise-level guide · 3 entries

The refugee fleet of Journey Home

A defeated republic’s surviving fleet searches for a different future after a century-long war and years of pursuit.

Journey Home

Premise-level guide · 3 entries

Aldebaran’s escape in Pulses

Aldebaran’s chance to escape a deadly factory routine opens onto an unfamiliar world and a new struggle to survive.

Pulses

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