If you liked these…
The Fracture Cosmology is hard science fiction that reads like an adventure — action on the surface, honest science underneath, and not a word of technobabble. There is no single required first book: several series are built as front doors, in deliberately different registers. Find the one that sounds like your kind of night. Every one of them finishes its own story.
Wide Sky
A warm civilian crew, strange new worlds, and a bill nobody wants to read.
Written deliberately as the most accessible way in: a new era, a new cast, no prior reading of any kind, and a complete trilogy already finished. If you have never read a word of this universe, start here.
Dead Reckoning
One ship, no map, no rescue, and a long way home by dead reckoning.
A self-contained first-command thriller: competent people working an impossible problem with the gear to hand, and navigation done honestly with the error growing in the count.
The Signal
An astronomer, an impossible reading, and the slow institutional weather around being right.
Where the whole universe begins, and the most literary way in: patient, precise, and interested in what it costs a careful person to be the one who noticed.
Shakedown
A new captain, the deep frontier, and twenty-eight years of consequences.
The most straightforwardly propulsive way in — ship engagements with real thermodynamic weight, a captain who shows what he feels, and a crew that trusts him for it.
Cohort
Forty years of deep-field navigation, starting with the people learning to do it.
For readers who want the institution as much as the frontier: training, procedure, pressure, and the quiet accumulating cost of the work.
The Wrong Number
The golden age of expansion — and the slow proof that the golden age is the crime.
Politics with teeth, a cold war that goes hot, and the deepest cosmological reckoning the universe has reached. The one series written to be read in order.
Wide Sky
The road has never been opened. A human voice is already waiting at the other end.
Then take this one. It was written to be the widest door in the whole universe — a new era, a new cast, nothing before it required, and a complete trilogy waiting if you want more. Free to read on Kindle Unlimited.