Welcome to Dib! Dib is an Earthlike planet, only slightly smaller, with shorter days and longer years, in orbit around twin suns.
On the continent of Geo, in the city of Velon in the nation of Inimata, a man lies dead in his study.
The Murdered Monk In life, Professor Orno Linus was a world-class scholar: an astrophysicist, a dead-language linguist, and an expert in (and apparent true believer of) the religious concept of the Cull, i.e., the end of the world. Widely respected, nothing about Linus’s expertise suggests somebody might want him dead.
Professor Linus is also Brother Linus, a high-ranking member of an ancient, powerful religious organization known as the House. This makes his murder much more complicated, but no more explicable, because murder on House grounds just doesn’t happen. Not even when one of the last things the victim did was steal something important from the House vault.
Finally, Orno is also the younger brother of Calcut Linus, one of the most powerful and criminally dangerous people on the planet. Killing any Linus means incurring the wrath of a man for whom laws very rarely apply.
In short, Professor Orno Linus is a highly unlikely murder victim.
And yet, somebody killed him.
The Cursed Detective Detective Makk Stidgeon already knows he’s unlucky. He’s a cholem: an outcast. A bad-luck charm. He was born this way, and has the brand on his wrist to prove it.
But in terms of bad luck, the gods have really gone overboard by sticking him with the Linus case.
Between a House leadership that seems more interested in retrieving their stolen artifact than in solving the murder of one of their own, the demands of the murderous Calcut Linus, a new partner who seems to know more than she’s telling, and an omnipresent news media constantly looking for an angle on the biggest story of the year, Makk barely has time to just follow the clues.
And that’s before an impossible video surfaces that purports to reveal the killer’s identity. What makes it impossible? The person in the video couldn’t have possibly done it.
To get to the bottom of the Orno’s murder, Makk will have to navigate between the House and the Linus family, find the source of the video, and figure out what’s missing from the House vault. Even if he can pull all that off, he may discover he’s not at the end of a mystery at all, but at the beginning of a much larger one.
Tandemstar: The Outcast Cycle. The journey begins here.

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When the League moves on a golden planet deep inside Republican territory, war breaks out. Competing forms of galactic government fight to the death. AIs strategize, teleporting star fleets and space-based weapons systems across vast distances in an epic interstellar conflict. Outgunned and desperate for more ships, the Republic turns to privateers, recruiting law-skirting companies from the fabled planet of Lute and offering huge rewards for their service. One man, Captain Christopher Raleigh, flies the Ultima Mule with a crew of brilliant misfits. Together, they set out to teach the League a lesson or two, and collect multiple bounties along the way . . . Fans of The Expanse and Firefly, your next series is here! This epic space opera is finally available in one volume! With hundreds of five-star ratings and over a quarter million online views while running as a serial, Pirates of the Milky Way has entertained thousands and can now be easily binged. Download all ten books, the complete series, for one low price today! Two-time Kindle Scout winner, veteran science fiction and fantasy author Jaxon Reed presents a magnum opus, featuring ten full length, rip-roaring, action-packed space opera novels. Fist fights, gun battles, intergalactic warfare . . . it’s all here, along with touching love stories and wicked bad guys. See who wins, who loses, who dies and who changes sides in this epic tale of adventure set in deep space! Books in this box set include the following: Digital Assassin Clarion's Call Condor Rising Halcyon's Heirs Solar Storm Tetrarch's Dilemma Operation Starfold Golden Alliance Subversive Elements Terminus Epsilon Trigger warning: Rape is mentioned in the past tense via memories and discussed as a tool of government oppression along with other forms of state-sponsored torture.

When a street?smart hustler from the Grey District lifts the wrong control card, he puts a target on his back—and a dying Moon on the clock.Reviews:“It’s a cinematic experience that manages to be both a gritty social commentary and a high?octane thriller. It’s exactly the kind of ‘newness’ the genre needs right now.” — Abel Montero, Science Fiction and Fantasy Insiders“Ethan, a charismatic thief and the unexpected hero of Stephen Gay’s enthralling novel, Night Owls.” — Literary Titan“A phenomenal read for fans of space science fiction and ragtag?crew adventures.” — Reader ViewsEthan Keller keeps the lights on by throwing illegal after-hours dome parties and running small hustles by day. But the high?level card in his pocket connects to vanishing fusion cells and a blackout crisis that New Luna can’t survive. A relentless security enforcer wants Ethan erased. The outages are stretching longer. Air is running thin. And the only way out is through.Outmatched, Ethan leans on the people who never let him fall—his crew. The Night Owls: a relentless hacker, a class?crossing girlfriend, and a ride?or?die family willing to cross vacuums, outsmart sentinels, and crack systems to expose the truth.This is the choice that breaks people—or makes them.Can Ethan and the Night Owls rip the mask off a lunar conspiracy before the next blackout turns deadly? Or will the music die with the lights?The Night Owls series delivers sci?fi thrillers with lunar heists, corporate conspiracies, and found family—what begins with a stolen card becomes a fight to keep the lights on for everyone. Download Night Owls today—or read free with Kindle Unlimited. The series is complete—binge all 7 books.Perfect for fans of Firefly; Killjoys; The Expanse (James S. A. Corey); Red Rising (Pierce Brown); The Maze Runner (James Dashner); Ready Player One (Ernest Cline); and Artemis (Andy Weir)—Night Owls blends space?opera scope with a heart?forward sci?fi thriller punch: found family, lunar heists, clean high?stakes action, and a closed?door romance.©2023 Stephen Gay (P) 2023 Stephen Gay