A connected hard-SF universe spanning eight centuries — where every series is a front door you can walk in cold.
Action and adventure on the surface; honest, hard science fiction underneath. There is no required first book — several series are built as front doors, in deliberately different registers. Find the one that suits you.
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Centuries Span
One universe. Many front doors.
In 2047 a signal arrives that should not exist, and leaves microscopic fractures in spacetime — the Seams. Over the centuries humanity learns to cross them, and pays a cost it doesn't understand. That single thread runs under every book here.
But you never have to read it all, or in order. Every series is a complete story with no prior reading required — and most books stand alone within them. (A few, like The Reach, tell one continuous saga best read in order.) Read one and stop, or fall through the floor into a universe built like a wiki by the person who wrote it. Both work by design.
Where should I start?
Pick the door that sounds like you. You can't choose wrong — they all open onto the same universe.
The widest door
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.
Wide Sky → Free on KindleThe newest door
A station saga in the Deep Space Nine tradition: one place, twenty-four years, several kinds of people arguing their way into a government nobody meant to found. Ships rotate through; the Cairn stays and accumulates. Each of the five is a complete novel, and this is the most recently finished thing on the shelf.
Who the Door Admits → Free on KindleThe problem-solving door
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.
Dead Reckoning →If you want the whole shape
Three centuries, one connected universe — see how every series and book fits together.
The Timeline →See every door, filtered by what you like → · Or start from books you already love →
Fall into the universe
Optional, and deep. Primary-source canon by the author — not a fan wiki. None of it is required to read the books; all of it rewards the ones who do.
Star Charts
Interactive maps of the junction network and the spent far pocket — zoom into the systems.
Open →Glossary
The working vocabulary of the universe — the Seam, the Wound, the species, the ships.
Open →Artefacts
Ship logs, blueprints, intel, recovered fragments — primary-source canon, written by the author.
Open →Characters
The full cast across the published novels, grouped by series.
Open →The Reader List · Free
A new story in your inbox, every week
I serialise short fiction here first, for the list — a new installment each week, free, before any of it is collected into a book. Plus new releases and the odd free-book day.