Joe Vasicek

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  • Bibliography:
    87 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2011
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Gaia Nova

0.5 - Sholpan (Sep-2011)
1 - Bringing Stella Home (Aug-2012)
2 - Desert Stars (Aug-2012)
3 - Stars of Blood and Glory (Mar-2013)
4 - Heart of the Nebula (Nov-2015)

Genesis Earth

1 - Genesis Earth (Jul-2012)
2 - Edenfall (Dec-2019)
3 - The Stars of Redemption (Nov-2021)

Gunslinger

0.5 - Jane Carter of Earth and the Rescue that Never Was (Apr-2017)
1 - Gunslinger to the Stars (May-2017)
2 - Gunslinger to the Galaxy (Dec-2018)
3 - Gunslinger to Earth (Jun-2019)

Sons of the Starfarers

1 - Brothers in Exile (May-2014)
2 - Comrades in Hope (Jul-2014)
3 - Strangers in Flight (Sep-2014)
4 - Friends in Command (Jul-2015)
5 - Captives in Obscurity (May-2016)
6 - Patriots in Retreat (Jan-2018)
7 - A Queen in Hiding (Mar-2018)
8 - An Empire in Disarray (May-2018)
9 - Victors in Liberty (Jul-2018)

Star Wanderers

1 - Outworlder (Apr-2013)
2 - Fidelity (Nov-2013)
3 - Sacrifice (Nov-2013)
4 - Homeworld (Nov-2013)
5 - Dreamweaver (Apr-2013)
6 - Benefactor (Dec-2013)
7 - Reproach (Dec-2013)
8 - Deliverance (Jan-2014)

The Twelfth Sword Trilogy

1 - The Sword Keeper (Sep-2017)

Book List in Order: 87 titles

  • From the Ice Incarnate

    When Michael Anderson wakes up from cryo at a distant alien star, he has no idea how cold and alone he'd feel. No idea, that is, until his sole mission partner starts to die in the thawing process. Twenty light-years from the nearest human being, cut...

  • Memoirs of a Snowflake

    The life and times of a December snowflake.Every death is a rebirth. Every end is a new beginning. Though I do not know what awaits me as I leave my cloud-mother, I am not afraid....

  • Decision LZ1527

    A BOY, A GIRL, AND A WHOLE CREW OF MATCHMAKERS.Ryan Murray wants to ask Michelle on a date, but he just doesn't have the courage to do it. Fortunately, there's a whole crew of matchmakers running around inside his head.A 2,500 word short story. Origi...

  • Sholpan

    Gaia Nova - 0.5

    SHE'D RATHER DIE THAN BE A SLAVE TO THE CONQUERORS OF HER HOME WORLD.Stella McCoy never thought she'd fall prisoner to the barbarian Hameji. The oldest daughter of a working class family, all she wanted was to finish her apprenticeship and start a ca...

  • Genesis Earth

    Genesis Earth - 1

    The ultimate voyage of discovery ends when you learn the truth about yourself.

    Michael Anderson never thought he would set foot on a world like Earth. Born and raised on the farthest edge of the solar system, he only studied planets from afa...

  • Bringing Stella Home

    Gaia Nova - 1

    WAR TAKES ALL FROM SOME PEOPLE. OTHERS GIVE ALL TO SAVE THE ONES THEY LOVE. The war has arrived at home. James McCoy, the youngest son of a starfaring merchanter family, never thought he would face an invasion. But when an undefeated enemy slags his ...

  • Desert Stars

    Gaia Nova - 2

    A TALE FROM THE FRINGES OF AN INTERSTELLAR EMPIRE THAT HAS FORGOTTEN ITS HOLIEST LEGEND -- THE STORY OF EARTH. He was the sole heir to the Najmi camp, a young man raised by tribesmen after falling to the desert from his home among the stars. She was ...

  • Stars of Blood and Glory

    Gaia Nova - 3

    THE ONLY HOPE FOR THE LAST FREE STARS NOW LIES ON THE PATH OF BLOOD AND GLORY. The princess of Shinihon could not have picked a worse time to run away. The largest Hameji battle fleet ever gathered threatens to overrun the last of the free stars. To ...

  • Outworlder

    Star Wanderers - 1

    He wanders the stars in search of a home. Instead, he got a girl without one. When Jeremiah arrived at Megiddo Station, all he wanted was to make some trades and resupply his starship. He never thought he'd come away with a wife. Before he knows it, ...



  • Dreamweaver

    Star Wanderers - 5

    He saved her from death, but to save him she must command the power of dreams.Noemi fully expects to die before her twentieth birthday. With a famine ravaging her home system and the neighboring stars refusing to offer assistance, her only escape lie...

  • The Jeremiah Chronicles

    ***Special offer for the first week of March!*** This omnibus edition contains the first four parts of the STAR WANDERERS series. Set on the Outworld frontier thousands of years after the exodus from Earth, it follows the story of starship pilot Je...

  • Fidelity

    Star Wanderers - 2

    IS FIDELITY WORTH THE PRICE OF FREEDOM? CAN LOVE TAKE ROOT BEYOND THE STARS? Oriana Station: a bustling frontier settlement between the Outworlds and the Coreward Stars. A popular port-of-call for free traders and independent starfarers alike -- and ...

  • Homeworld

    Star Wanderers - 4

    THEY'VE FINALLY FOUND A WORLD TO CALL HOME. BUT FIRST, THEY HAVE TO FIGHT FOR IT. For years, Jeremiah has wandered the stars in search of a home. With his wife Noemi about to have a baby, he thinks he's finally found a place to settle down. The Zarmi...

  • Sacrifice

    Star Wanderers - 3

    SHE GAVE UP EVERYTHING TO WANDER THE STARS WITH HIM. NOW, HE MUST DO THE SAME. When Jeremiah found himself alone on his starship with an accidental bride, he had no idea how much his life would soon change. Now, with Noemi's quiet confidence supporti...

  • Benefactor

    Star Wanderers - 6

    IN A COLD AND LONELY UNIVERSE, A SIMPLE ACT OF GRACE CAN RESONATE ACROSS WORLDS. An outworlder is nothing if not fiercely independent, and Jakob is no exception. But ever since he brought his family of starbound refugees to Alpha Oriana, he's felt in...

  • Reproach

    Star Wanderers - 7

    ON THE OUTWORLD FRONTIER, GOOD MEN ARE SCARCE AND FRIENDS ARE EXPECTED TO SHARE. The Far Outworlds: an endless frontier of uncharted worlds and alien stars. A vast, unsettled stretch of space where generations can pass without outside contact and col...

  • Deliverance

    Star Wanderers - 8

    SHE NEVER TOOK A CHANCE AND HE NEVER HAD A PLAN UNTIL THEY MET IN THE OUTWORLD STARS. Lucca Tajjashvili isn't a typical star wanderer. The youngest son of a wealthy planetborn family, he took out his inheritance early in order to build his own starsh...

  • Brothers in Exile

    Sons of the Starfarers - 1

    To wake a lost girl from the ice, two brothers must face an empire.Deep in the Far Outworlds, a derelict space station holds the bones of a long-dead people -- and a beautiful young woman locked in cryofreeze. When the star-wandering brothers Isaac a...

  • Comrades in Hope

    Sons of the Starfarers - 2

    War brought them together, but only hope can unite them.War has come to the Outworlds. An Imperial expeditionary force has taken the frontier systems and threatens to strike at the heart of the New Pleiades. The only thing standing in their way is a ...



  • Strangers in Flight

    Sons of the Starfarers - 3

    Fate has brought them across time and space, but war will drive them farther.For countless ages, Reva Starchild has slept in perfect cryostasis. Frozen in secret to escape a catastrophic death, she awakens only to find herself the sole survivor of a ...

  • Friends in Command

    Sons of the Starfarers - 4

    The future of the Outworlds now lies in uncertain hands.The war for the Outworlds is on. The Imperials may have lost the first round, but they're back -- and this time, a ragtag flotilla isn't going to stop them.When Aaron recieves a captain's commis...

  • A Hill on Which to Die

    Is this the hill on which you want to die?That is the question on Garak-Nur's mind every time he draws his trusted sword Blacknife. A battle-hardened mountain orc, he knows when to turn from an unwinnable fight -- and when to face death head-on, swor...

  • Starchild

    The revolutions passed, and the stars spun silently underfoot.Starchild's father was a star wanderer, and that was what set her above her peers. It gave her the freedom to choose her own mate, no small thing on an isolated space colony. In her innoce...

  • Heart of the Nebula

    Gaia Nova - 4

    They lost the war, but the peace is still within their grasp.Five years have passed since the Hameji conquered James McCoy's homeworld, all but enslaving his people. Now, the occupation threatens to destroy them.Deep in the heart of the Good Hope Neb...

  • Captives in Obscurity

    Sons of the Starfarers - 5

    There is no escape beyond star's end.The deadliest pirates in the galaxy have stolen the technology that will transform it. Now, on the edge of known space, they are poised to start an empire of their own.Isaac and Reva are running out of time. Neith...

  • The Gettysburg Paradox

    The greatest battle of all time, secretly fought by time travelers.It was madness, sheer madness. Soldiers from the future fighting a battle in the past. And did Gettysburg even belong to the 19th century anymore? Had it ever? Never before and perhap...

  • Utahraptors at Dawn

  • Welcome to Condescension

    They graying of fandom was never this much fun.SALUT, SALAAM, and SALUTATIONS to CONdescension 373, proud denizens of fandom! We welcome you to our convention this year, held in the beautiful underwater city of New Galveston.We hope that you will hel...

  • Killing Mister Wilson

    Every time traveler wants to kill Hitler. Only one actually stopped him.The event was an open air parade, my vantage point, an abandoned building. I arrived in the early morning, and set up for the gruesome deed just as the crowds were starting to ga...



  • My Name Is For My Friends

    When fellowship draws the line between life and death, trust must be proven.Two men, both strangers, hardened by blood and steel. Both are poised to kill. Neither knows whom to trust. Only one thing is certain: any mistake will resu...

  • Jane Carter of Earth and the Rescue that Never Was

    Gunslinger - 0.5

    To boldly go where no Earthfleet Academy Xenolinguistics major has gone before.Jane Carter never thought she'd be the first human in the galaxy to be sold at an alien slave auction. As a xenolinguics major, she always wanted to expl...

  • Gunslinger to the Stars

    Gunslinger - 1

    Not long from now, in our own Milky Way…The name's Sam Kletchka. Perhaps you've heard of me: captain of the Star Runner, military contractor for Earthfleet, and interstellar privateer. But before all that, I was a hired gun, freelancing across the ...

  • The Open Source Time Machine

    Just like information, time wants to be free.The day Carl Kearsley proved that time travel was impossible was the day he received a visit from his future self. But was it too late to finally realize his dream? The answer would change the course of hi...

  • The Curse of the Lifewalker

    When all the world is afflicted by the plague, sometimes the greater curse is to be whole. In a post-apocalyptic world where everyone normally dies before the age of twenty-five, one man searches for meaning when he realize...

  • The Sword Keeper

    The Twelfth Sword Trilogy - 1

    Only those who rise to their calling discover why they were chosen.A thousand years ago, an order of twelve magic swords kept the world at peace. Each sword had a personality, a mind, and a memory. Through the bonds they shared with their bearers, th...

  • Patriots in Retreat

    Sons of the Starfarers - 6

    When all else is lost, the bonds of war become a cause all their own.It is the Outworld's darkest hour. Gulchina's betrayal has eliminated the Outworld Confederacy's only strategic advantage in their war for independence. As the full force of the Gai...

  • A Queen in Hiding

    Sons of the Starfarers - 7

    Without redemption, there is no peace. Without forgiveness, there is no redemption.Reva never asked to be the queen of an alien-human hive mind, but she never shirked from it, either. Now, she and the survivors of Star's End share a telepathic bond t...

  • The Janus Anomaly

    What do you do when you're the last sane person in a world gone crazy?EFS JANUSMISSION OBJECTIVES: Survey and patrol Gliese coloniesChart all potential FTL routesInvestigate any anomaliesMISSION OUTCOME: All hands lostSHIP LOG: ClassifiedThis story i...

  • An Empire in Disarray

    Sons of the Starfarers - 8

    Only those who stand united can bring peace from the chaos of war.The Outworld Confederacy has shattered -- but the Gaian Empire is shattering faster. Treasonous elements in both seek to reshape the galaxy in their own image.With Isaac and Reva's tel...



  • Victors in Liberty

    Sons of the Starfarers - 9

    One last battle before the Outworlds are free. Edenia is under attack. The pirate queen Gulchina, together with all her forces, now threaten the main planet with utter destruction. Trapped on the surface, Reva knows they wi...

  • Time and Space in Amish Country

    What if the Amish are secretly guarding a naturally-occurring time portal in the Pennsylvania countryside?It was thinking about Sarah that made me notice the unusual headline on the paper that the Amish man was reading. It had something to do with an...

  • Gunslinger to the Galaxy

    Gunslinger - 2

    My name is Jane Kletchka, and I'm here to set the record straight.Jane Kletchka here. By now, I'm sure you've heard how my dear husband Sam saved the Gorinal star cluster and stopped the Immortals from throwing the galaxy into chaos. Unfortunately, h...

  • The Paradox of Choice

    A chilling glimpse of an all-too possible future.“In cases where there may be severe deformities… I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if t...

  • Gunslinger to Earth

    Gunslinger - 3

    Where were you on the day the Earth disappeared?So there I was, on an awkward first date with my secret crush, when the colonies went into revolt. They nuked the moon and hijacked half of Earthfleet -- and that was just the opening salvo. Then I lear...

  • Lizzie-99XT

    To save humanity, she must become the machine.Lizzie's squadron of elite starfighter pilots is the only thing standing between Earth and annihilation. But to stop the alien invasion, she must fight at near-light speeds, merging her mind with her star...

  • Edenfall

    Genesis Earth - 2

    The ultimate truth requires you to sacrifice your innocence.Sixteen years ago, Estee's parents abandoned their scientific mission to the planet Icaria and made the new world their home. They thought it would be decades before anyone else came to this...

  • Payday

    A near future sci-fi thriller about the perils of a universal basic income.In a world gone mad with fake news, rising prices, job automation, and the welfare state, one man struggles to provide for his family and give them a better future than his ow...

  • Star Wanderers

    They wander the stars in search of a home. Finding it will change them forever.The Outworlds: an endless frontier of uncharted systems and unexplored planets. A vast, unsettled stretch of space where generations can pass without outside contact. Torn...

  • Pilgrims and Time Travelers

    This is the first volume of the collected short stories by Joe Vasicek. It contains:The Gettysburg ParadoxThe greatest battle of all time, secretly fought by time travelers.(Gallery of Curiosities, June 2018; Bards and Sages Quarterly, July 2019)Kill...



  • Sex, Life, and Love under the Algorithms

    In a world bound by algorithms and AI, the greatest liability is the human spirit. Welcome to the Algorithmocracy, a fully networked and automated society where all of your preferences are perfectly predicted, all of your choices are fully antic...

  • In The Beginning

    'Knowledge of good and evil'...would you really want to know? Synopsis: A retelling of Adam and Eve's fall from grace, with a cosmic twist.After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper ...

  • The Infiltrator

    The aliens are already among us, in a form we refuse to see. The aliens' physiology is unlike that of any other race we have encountered. Your carapace will have to be softened; your mid-limbs absorbed into your thorax; your abdomen shrunk to al...

  • In Times Such As These

    This is the second volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It contains:The Paradox of ChoiceIf post-birth abortions are legal, when does life actually begin?PaydayA near future sci-fi thriller about the perils of a universal basic incom...

  • The Scales of the Space Whale

    That's no moon...So there I was, trapped in a separatist prison on the wrong side of the Kanab system. Perhaps, if my pacifist starship had actually done its job instead of debating the finer philosophical points of the non-aggression principle, I wo...

  • Queen of the Falconstar

    From captive slave to star queen.Zlata always yearned to see the stars, but when a raiding party of starfaring nomads carries her off captive, she can't help but wonder if this is more than she bargained for. When their captain, Lord Khasan Valdamar,...

  • The Manchurian Paradox

    We have met our timeline's enemy and he is us.When Secret Service Agent Smith used the timeslip device to prevent the assassination of the most controversial political figure of our times, he had no idea what sort of a paradox he'd unleashed. As he r...

  • The Stars Our Destination

    Ten optimistic and forward-looking space stories that show how we journey to the stars!This is the third volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:The Scales of the Space WhaleThe most dangerous creatures in the universe will ...

  • The Other Side of Reality

    What if your future self came back to give you advice, and all it did was confuse you?We all wish that we could go back in time to help our younger selves avoid all of our stupidest mistakes. But what if you had a visit from your future self? Would y...

  • Lord of the Slaves

    Everyone secretly wants to be a slave. Those who deny it simply haven't found the right master.With those words, Tamara finds herself plunged into a dark and treacherous world where she must question everything she thought she knew in order to restor...

  • The Stars of Redemption

    Genesis Earth - 3

    The ultimate redemption can only be gained after you confront the past.When the scientists at Heinlein Station punched a wormhole through the stars, they created a temporal paradox with dire ramifications for the future of humanity. Now, Estee and Kh...

  • A Fatal Rebirth

  • The Promise of King Washington

    When the aliens came, it wasn't a military invasion: it was an economic one.Shortly after first contact, Earth became the latest proxy war between the two major alien empires in the galaxy. Now humanity is divided between Monarchist-sponsored nations...

  • Two Hours Ago

  • The Final Turning

    This is how the world ends: not with a bang, but with a whimper—thanks to me.Once every hundred years, humanity faces a generational crisis that defines the course that civilization will take over the next century. But this time, civilization ...

  • Beyond World's End

    Eleven short stories and a poem that show us what comes after the end of all we know.This is the fourth volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:The Manchurian ParadoxWe have met our timeline's enemy and he is us.A Fatal Rebi...

  • Calling Scam Likely

    An auto warranty scam he was sure to never forget!He was a telephone scam artist, the kind of lowlife scum who preys on the gullible, robs from the elderly, and annoys the rest of us with endless calls about our expiring auto warranties. But then, he...

  • After Dinner Conversation

    After Dinner Conversation Magazine - August 2020In The Beginning: A retelling of Adam and Eve's fall from grace, with a cosmic twist.Farewell, Odysseus: A genetically enhanced super-human has to make an important choice about the person he keeps...

  • Love and Truth at Universe End

    Where have all the aliens gone?That is the central question of the Fermi Paradox. In a universe like ours, there should be more aliens—so where are they? But Sheila's roommates are more interested in where all the good men have gone, since the...

  • The New Covenant

    Do you miss America yet?In a post-collapse world following a brutal civil war, a new Christian nation is rising from the ashes of the old America. Like the ancient children of Israel, their new nation is founded on a covenant with God. But to make th...

  • Blight of Empire

    A dying world. A decadent empire. A discovery that can save them both.Prince Vojtek gave their lives to save his inheritance: a failed terraforming project on the edges of the galactic empire. To give their sacrifice meaning, he has dedicated his lif...

  • Prison of Dreams

    A boy, a girl, and a starship gone mad.As the colony mission's historian, Hazel thought the voyage would be as uneventful for her as going to sleep and waking up on the new, alien world. She was wrong.It's unclear whether the ship's AI is crazy or me...

  • Christopher Columbus, Wildcatter

    Life as an asteroid wildcatter ain't easy!Hello, friends. The name's Christopher Columbus Jackson. When I set out to make my fortune as an asteroid wildcatter, I had no idea that I'd soon cross paths with a down-and-out warrior priestess of the Churc...

  • The Complete Sons of the Starfarers

    Two brothers, one starship. A girl frozen in cryostasis. A galaxy on the verge of war.This omnibus edition contains the complete Sons of the Starfarers series, including:BROTHERS IN EXILEIsaac and Aaron are nothing if not survivors. Their homeworld l...

  • The Body Tax

    Our government's most heinous crimes are the ones we never question.In a future society where citizens pay a quarterly body tax by serving as mindless automatons under the watchful eye of an all-seeing police state, a young woman discovers that she's...

  • Abductors

    Ever wonder what an alien abduction looks like from the aliens' point of view?The human was never supposed to see the space ship, let alone be brought on board. But when the crew's bumbling incompetence gets the human caught up in the engines' back-b...

  • Christopher Columbus, Treasure Hunter

    There ain't no such thing as a free voyage through a trans-dimensional pocket singularity!Hello, friends. Christopher Columbus Jackson here. After my last adventure, I set out to make my fortune as a treasure hunter. Unfortunately, I crossed paths wi...

  • The Library of Fate

    He rewrote his past in the library of fate. Now, his kingdom is falling.When a wicked chancellor weaves the threads of fate to catch the crown prince in his web, the young prince must make the ultimate sacrifice to save his family and his kingdom...

  • Children of the Starry Sea

    Tradition decrees that he must leave his homeworld forever, but destiny has other plans.From the moment Isaiah Edeni was born, the course of his life was sealed. As the firstborn son of a star wanderer, tradition decrees that he must leave his belove...

  • The Riches of Xulthar

    When all he wanted was a cause to die for, he found one to live for instead.In a broken world where money is cursed and men care for nothing but coin, one man seeks to restore his name and sacred honor by facing the sorcerous powers that seek to ensl...

  • We Should Have Named You Corona

    Why do hard times break some men, while making others stronger?So there I was, a disheveled wreck, standing across the kitchen table from my lovely wife as I desperately tried to convince her that the seductive mirror universe version of myself was, ...

  • Quantum Worlds

    Will AI herald the death of human creativity, or its startling rebirth?Quantum Worlds is a science fiction story about Robert, the editor-in-chief of a struggling science fiction magazine. In a last ditch effort to save the magazine, he and his wife ...

  • The Solace of Truth

    Ten stories that show why the freedom of truth is worth the price of loneliness.This is the fifth volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:Love and Truth at Universe EndWhere have all the aliens gone?Calling Scam LikelyAn aut...

  • Hunter, Lover, Cyborg, Slave

    A woman needs a man like an authorized cyborg bounty hunter needs an AI familiar.Meet Gini, a petite raven-haired femme who weighs all of 105 pounds galactic in a dripping wet shirt—before her carbon-fiber bone implants, of course. As one of t...

  • The Freedom of Second Chances

    Clones were meant to be obedient, but to what? Or to whom?Two sister-clones, torn apart by the rigid expectations of their interstellar society. One rebels, while the other conforms. But when they reunite on a desolate planet, their conflicting belie...

  • Schrodinger's Diaper

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    Stays clean and dry until you're free to change it!Mommy and Daddy are overwhelmed with babycare, and just want to enjoy some family time together at the library. A trendy new diaper product promises to bring them relief, but what will the quantum su...

  • Welcome to Our Crazy Family

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    Two genderqueer lesbians and a tranny have a rebellious daughter who does the unthinkable and decides to marry a Christian.If I'm being totally honest, a part of me was looking forward to introducing my straight-edge Christian fiance to my stodgy, ol...

  • When She Awakes

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    To pay her father's debt, she must offer herself as coin.In the Pleiadean Satrapy of New Amman, women are not just slaves, or even property—they are commodity money for the wealthiest and most powerful elites. Stores of value, units of account,...

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Joe Vasicek has published 87 books.

Joe Vasicek does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Freedom of Second Chances, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Joe Vasicek, From the Ice Incarnate, was published in July 2011.

Yes. Joe Vasicek has 6 series.
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