Winner — 2026 Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal, Science FictionFinalist — Self-Publishing Science Fiction Competition 4Kirkus Reviews — 24 Indies Worth DiscoveringTALES FROM THE QUANTUM VAULTIn his debut novel, Bryan Chaffin transports us to the year 2139, where corporate combines have their own Senate seats, the surveillance-state is all-encompassing, humans live most of their lives in the Omninet, and sentient AIs are partners with the world government. It's not all bad, though. There are docbots, you never have to wait for a taxi, and if you can afford it, you can get your coffee made the old fashioned way, strained from the algae tanks.ACCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCEPrivate detective Mason Truman is being yanked around by invisible strings, and it's an AI doing the yanking. Miranda. She's subtle. Crazy. And she thinks she can see the future. It's enough to drive Mason nuts. Miranda believes her fellow AIs are up to some kind of grand conspiracy against the Terran Republic, and she wants Mason's help proving it. Conspiracies are above Mason's pay grade, though, the kind of time-sink that can put a crimp in more serious pursuits. Like drinking coffee. And staying alive.But Miranda won't take no for an answer. Mason can help or Miranda will make sure he becomes intimately acquainted with the finer conversational techniques of the secret police. So Mason digs until he uncovers a cache of stolen communications between a cabal of rogue AIs. They're planning what they call Eschaton—the divinely ordained end of humanity. Unless Mason and Miranda stop the arrogant pricks, the conspirators will destroy Earth.Mason and Miranda have one chance, a way of bottling up the rogue AIs. All Mason has to do is lure the conspirators to the right spot in a sim world. That's how Mason learns that when Miranda said she needed help, what she meant was bait.

Welcome to the Dismolle Peace Force, the most dysfunctional crime-fighting outfit in the galaxy.Their budget is stretched so thin the station commander is running a lottery scam to cover costs.They hire trainees by printing job ads on the back of old fast food flyers.Their armoury consists of one training pistol and several hundred boxes of old records.If you love cozy sci-fi, absurd galactic bureaucracy, and oddball team-ups, jump in now!1. Peace Force: When Harriet Walsh signs up, she doesn't expect to be given her first case with no training, no equipment and absolutely no idea about police work.Joined by a teenage pickpocket and an opinionated AI patrol car with a passion for the beach, Harriet has to figure out how to run an investigation before the whole operation collapses.2. Alpha Minor: Harriet's troublesome young trainee has a mind of her own, a talent for ignoring orders and a worrying habit of getting into trouble. Keeping Alice out of danger may be Harriet's toughest assignment yet.3. Sierra Bravo: A criminal gang takes over part of Dismolle, forcing Harriet to call on a group of retired Peace Force officers. They're outnumbered, outgunned—and some of them are very, very rusty.Three novels of science-fiction adventure, crime, mystery and comedy featuring Harriet Walsh and the dysfunctional Peace Force team of Dismolle.

USA Today Bestseller!A disrespected ship, exiled to lonely patrol in the dark corners of the solar system.A crew of screw-ups, written off by the entire fleet.They're about to change everything.If they don't blow themselves up first.Join the Endurance's crew - a trigger-happy first officer, a hyperactive engineer, a shy covert operative, a conspiracy-spouting physicist, and a captain trying to earn his way back into his superiors' good graces - as they explore the galaxy by accident and trip their way into saving the world.This anthology includes all five Endurance novellas, as well as two bonus short stories.

When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep. Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can't read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can't be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf's mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she's dragged deep into a hidden underworld of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.MINDJACKOpen Minds (Book One)Closed Hearts (Book Two)Free Souls (Book Three)Locked Tight (Book Four)Cracked Open (Book Five)Broken Wide (Book Six)Mindjack Short Story Collection (Book Seven)FORMATS AND TRANSLATIONSMindjack available in ebook, print, audiobook, French and GermanLIVE ACTION TRAILERVoted Best Trailer at the 2014 Illinois International Film Festival and one of 50 Most Cinematic Trailers Ever Made – check it out at Susan’s website.

What if every choice was optimized and every need anticipated?For fans of Black Mirror and speculative fiction that hits too close to home.Jordan Reese is the role model others aspire to be. She has the apartment. The access. The status that comes with an exceptional score. In a world where an algorithm measures every decision and rewards compliance with comfort, she is exactly what the system was built to produce.Then she starts asking questions.Not loudly. Not yet. But in this world, doubt is data and even quiet questions leave a record. Jordan is beginning to wonder whether the life she has optimized for is actually the one she wants, or just the one the system decided she should have.THE ALGO is Book 1 of the three-book THE ALGO Series, a speculative thriller about what it costs to think for yourself when the algorithm has already decided what you're worth.? "An engaging cautionary tale of what could lie ahead in a tech-saturated world." — Kirkus Reviews, GET IT verdict? "A wake-up call to humanity… impossible to put down." — IndieReader, IR Approved

At sixty, Johnny Pope thought he was taking one last road trip across America with his best friend Billy.Instead, a stop in Lubbock leads to alien seduction, a missing Great Dane, and a very bad morning on a space station fifteen quintillion miles from Earth.Now Johnny and Billy are stranded in a galaxy full of lizard princesses, smugglers, warrior races, strange monks, vampire assassins, dog cults, and an invasion that may be about to swallow the stars. If they want to get home, they’ll have to find Johnny’s dog, survive the Vorgarths, and stop a powerful old god from destroying the galaxy.Interstellar Road Trip is a funny, fast-moving comic space opera packed with friendship, danger, snarky banter, heroics, and a very long road home. Can they make it? I have my doubts.Take the journey with them. Read today.