Return to the Galaxy – The multi-award-winning series that hit #1 Best Seller in seven Amazon categories

Winner of the London Book Festival 2025 (Science Fiction)

The Humans Are Coming. The Galaxy Better Be Ready.

The astonishing truth? The human race didn’t evolve on Earth.

Ewan Scott was a dying SAS veteran, until a 300-year-old alien AI Avatar offered him a second chance: rebirth in a bio-engineered body, fitter, stronger, movie-star handsome. His mission? Reunite humanity with its parent civilization, the Saret Federation, before merciless enemies erase all life on Earth.

Frigate Captain Velal is haunted by her past and bound by impossible orders. As worlds fall to alien invasion and nuclear fire, the ancient monsters she dreads are closing in on Earth.

An ancient empire fractures under betrayal. A merciless enemy closes in. Earth stands defenseless.

Its last hope? A flawed hero reborn with the power to change humanirty's fate, and a woman who will fight until the stars go dark.

Join Ewan, Velal, and wise-cracking Jera in an epic, fast-paced space opera packed with:

– Savage interstellar war
– Planetary colonization
– Special Forces combat
– Found alien tech
– The secrets of a dying empire

Perfect for fans of John Scalzi and Craig Alanson, with the epic scope of The Expanse and the fleet warfare of David Weber.

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Humanity thought they were the only intelligent life in the universe. They were wrong.

An alien spacecraft has crashed on Earth.

A group of scientists want to establish contact with the aliens.

A hostile government wants to nuke the crash site.

Special Forces Major Joe Hunt is caught in the middle.

With time running out to establish a peaceful relationship with the aliens, Joe must battle his instincts and unexpected forces that threaten the very future of humanity. Regardless of what happens, Earth risks being dragged into a galactic civil war it's not ready for.

Minus Epsilon is classic military science fiction that fans of Marko Kloos and Joe Haldeman won’t want to miss. Readers call this thrilling first-contact novel “the most amazing action sci-fi romp”.
The Earth Saga:
Minus Epsilon, Book I
Defiant Order, Book II
Horizons, Book III
Remnants of Empire, Book IV
Edge of the Vortex, Book V
Condition Zero, Book VI

Earth Saga Standalones:
Standish
Love in a Time of War
The Gauloi
A War Beneath the Clouds
Murder on Valtameri
Arpina & Fairlight
Escape from Jarosis
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He never imagined he’d be playing God that day.
Brian Partridge leapt at the chance to buy the personal property of his favorite historical author following his death, although what he received was far more than he bargained for. It didn’t take him long to discover just how the author was able to write scenes from the past with such accuracy.
Of course, Brian was familiar with time machines in movies, but that was fictional—not real—and yet, before him stood one of his very own. He knew he shouldn’t step inside and turn it on, but the temptation was more than he could bear.
Following in his hero’s footsteps, Brian starts off on an adventure that he could never have imagined, although the dream begins to drift into a nightmare as he encounters dangers more than he can handle. Now he’s barely one step ahead of the FBI, who would love to get their hands on the man swirling his finger in the sands of time.

What will you sacrifice to save the whole universe?

Following Jim’s audacious plan, Kurt and a team of Marines traveled to the future to destroy Voltex. However, in doing so, they inadvertently started a chain reaction that ended with the elimination of all life in the universe.

Now, as the clock ticks relentlessly, our heroes must get together one more time to save the universe before it is too late.

Valkyrie, the fifth book in Starships in the Abyss series, is a thrilling cosmic odyssey. Brace yourself for the mind-bending allure of time travel, heart-pounding space battles, and a maze of unpredictable twists that will leave you breathless. Get ready to immerse yourself in characters who leap off the pages and a narrative so gripping that you won't be able to put the book down until you've devoured every word.

Pick up Jim’s latest adventure today!

Note from the author: This is a dark and gritty reboot of the humorous Crimson Deathbringer series. Please see “From the Author” for more information. If you’ve read and enjoyed the original series, I don’t think you should read this; you’ll probably hate it. On the other hand, if you read The Crimson Deathbringer and liked the story but not the comedy, maybe give this version a chance.

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It's a lighthearted murder mystery ... with space aliens!

Gabriel Lake is a not so hard-boiled computer guy who finds himself swept up into a web of interstellar crime when he is recruited into the Galactic Detective Agency, led by the brilliant Oren Vilkas. Can a mere Earthling track a killer across the stars before more lives are lost? Can he negotiate his way around other worlds and understand the ways of extra-terrestrial cultures? Can he even figure out how to use a bathroom designed for aliens? And can he uncover the mystery of A Town Called Potato?

INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR
Q. How did you come up with the title A Town Called Potato?
A. I didn’t. It was a random thing one of my grandsons said at eight years old one day while we were playing. I often keep track of funny things my grandkids say, but this one really stuck with me. I kept thinking about that town and why it might be called Potato. I already knew I wanted to write a comedy sci-fi story, and the title just seemed to fit. The book evolved from that, and I named the protagonist after my grandson.

Q. What authors inspired you in writing A Town Called Potato?
A. Given that the story is a mash-up of comedy sci-fi and detective fiction, authors from each of those genres inspired me. In detective fiction, I love Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe books. In fact, it isn’t too hard to see that Oren Vilkas is a homage to Nero Wolfe. And it was Rex Stout, along with Sue Grafton and Arthur Conan Doyle, who inspired me to write the book in first person. Of course when you think of comedic sci-fi, Douglas Adams is the king, and I have tried to capture a fraction of his sense of imaginative. Terry Pratchett is another comedic writer who has always inspired me with his brilliance. And I have to mention P. G. Wodehouse the OG of character-driven comedy novels.

Q. Did you find it difficult to mash up so many genres?
A. I did at first. I kept veering off just into comedy or just into detective noir. So it needed a few passes through the text to make sure I got all the boxes ticked and to get into the swing of things. I wanted Gabriel Lake to be so infused with detective fiction that his inner monologue just naturally takes on the cadences of film noir. The trick was to make that comedic and not just cheap parody. I think I found the balance by making Gabriel self-effacing in describing his fish-out-of-water adventures in space and in bringing everyone else in on the joke as well. By the end I found it easier to find Gabe’s voice, and as I got into the sequel, The Maltese Salmon, it started feeling more and more like home.

Q. Where did you get the idea for the chrono engine?
A. Every sci-fi novel that deals with interstellar travel has to deal with how to cross the mind-boggling vast expanses of space. You can devise some kind of faster-than-light travel (warp drive, hyperspace, etc.), or hypothesize traversable wormholes, or imagine a constant acceleration drive that achieves some significant fraction of light-speed, or have generation/sleeper ships. But I was shooting for comedy sci-fi. I knew I needed some preposterous tongue-in-cheek technology, something Douglas Adams might come up with. So I thought for a long time about “What Would Doug Do?” My answer with the chrono engine weaves together a wee bit of hard science (the fact that the universe used to be mush smaller) with the most outrageous hand-waving technobabble that I could come up with. I hope it makes you chuckle.
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