Who is Jon Ryan? He’s a fighter pilot/astronaut with the future of humankind in his hands. Earth is doomed. Flying solo, Jon must search the galaxy to find us a new home world. To do this he must have his mind transferred into an experimental android host. Can Jon save our species? More importantly is the galaxy ready for Jon? No way. Poor aliens!

In ninety-seven years, Jupiter will collide with Earth and end humanity.

Major Jonathan Ryan, USAF, astronaut, decorated combat veteran, doesn’t believe in waiting around for the end of the world. So when the President of the United States offers him a one-way ticket out of his own body and into an immortal android — and a mission to fold space looking for a new home for the human race — he doesn’t hesitate.

Then the rules change.

The transfer works. Ryan wakes up in a body that doesn’t sleep, doesn’t age, and doesn’t die. He’s the first human ever to do it, and he’s about to find out what immortality actually feels like: alone in a tin can for forty years, hurled at velocities his old human heart could never have handled, talking to a wisecracking AI named Al, on his way to a planet nobody on Earth has ever seen.

What he finds out there will change humanity forever.

What it costs him will haunt him longer than any human has ever lived.

In order to save humanity, sometimes you have to stop being human.

The Forever Life is Book 1 of the Forever Series, the saga of one immortal soldier and the people he was sent to save. If you’ve ever wanted to know what military sci-fi looks like when Spider Robinson, Heinlein, and the Bobiverse get to share a beer, start here.

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An immortal android must battle alien invaders while facing a resurrected mad president who becomes his eternal foe. As Jupiter destroys Earth, Jon Ryan uses advanced technology to protect the worldships carrying humanity’s last survivors. On a new colony planet, ancient enemies threaten his family, forcing him to confront both interstellar war and personal vendetta in this clean military sci-fi adventure.

Jon Ryan has everything — an intergalactic cube, immortality, and a war hero’s legend — and none of it matters. Nursing whiskey in a dive bar on a smelly farmship, he’s content to let the galaxy move on without him. Then the President of the New United States shows up in blue jeans to deliver an uncomfortable truth: somewhere out there is another Jon Ryan, one who lost not a handful of people but nine billion — an entire world. That Jon Ryan needs to be found. Whether he’s a ghost, a threat, or the only mirror Jon can stand to look into, the quest can’t wait any longer.

Part space opera, part deeply human reckoning with grief, loss, and purpose, The Forever Quest sends Jon Ryan hurtling across the galaxy — chasing a mystery that may be the most dangerous thing he’s ever hunted: himself.

Jon Ryan earned his rest. Two centuries of fighting, losing, and saving humanity gave him the right to settle down, change diapers, and mow the lawn on a worldship in peace. But the Berrillians didn’t get the memo. They’re coming back — harder, faster, and in greater numbers — and this time Jon can’t afford to be caught off guard.

While a scientific breakthrough gives humanity a fighting chance against the alien war machine, Jon’s beloved colony of Azsuram is tearing itself apart. His niece Dolirca and her fanatical followers are pushing toward something dangerous, and JJ can only hold the line for so long. Meanwhile, ancient cosmic entities — the Last Nightmare — are waking from their long sleep, hungry for destruction on a universal scale.

The Forever Alliance is a pulse-pounding, emotionally rich installment in Craig Robertson’s landmark sci-fi series. Witty, warm, and utterly relentless, it proves that Jon Ryan’s greatest battles aren’t always the ones fought in space.

Jon Ryan is the last original android in TCY, a three-hundred-year veteran in a military that’s quietly moved on without him. His kids are grown, his wife is away doting on grandchildren, and the galaxy has dared to be calm. He spends his days annoying officers who resent him and waiting for the universe to remember it hates humanity.

It doesn’t take long. Anganctus is gone, but his son Erratarus — the Berrillian Nero — is already in motion. Scouts have been embedded on unsuspecting alien worlds. The war machine has never stopped building. And when the reports start coming in from a forgotten corner of the galaxy, Jon Ryan realizes the ceasefire was never anything but a countdown.

The Forever Peace is the stunning conclusion to Craig Robertson’s Forever Series — funny, fierce, and filled with the irrepressible spirit of Jon Ryan. Peace was never guaranteed. It has to be earned, again and again, by those willing to pay the price.

A Middle Grade Science Fiction Apocalypse Adventure

YA Science Fiction Adventure by Craig Robertson

a Post Apocalyptic Voyage With A Twist!

     It’s Chris’s 1st of 7th Grade. Anxiety and Peer Pressure Await Him. But So Does an Alien Invasion! A Teenager. Angst. Aliens. It’s Going to Get Messy! YA Science Fiction Apocalypse — Chris finds first love, battles a robot invasion, and becomes a hero.

The Dostivex invaders are gone. Earth is free. And Christopher Alan — thirteen, sarcastic, and operating a captured alien spacecraft with no flight training — has absolutely no idea what comes next.

What comes next, it turns out, is worse. A new fleet of alien ships materializes in orbit and parks directly above his location. The president can’t get out of his bunker. The only functioning government is too busy misidentifying insect species to be useful. And Christopher, armed with a telepathic AI and an increasingly inconvenient sense of responsibility, is being treated as humanity’s unofficial representative to the rest of the galaxy.

He did not raise his hand for this.

How To Survive Surviving the Apocalypse is the fast, funny, emotionally honest second book in Craig Robertson’s A Teenager’s Guide to Saving the Earth — because nobody tells you that the apocalypse doesn’t actually end when you win.

Christopher Alan didn’t ask to be taken off-world. He didn’t agree to be Visquisor’s personal diplomat, social experiment, or — though he doesn’t know it yet — his most promising candidate for a soul transplant.

Visquisor has lived for ten thousand millennia and felt nothing for most of them. He has power, ships, and a galaxy of terrified underlings. What he doesn’t have is any reason to keep going — unless he can find a way to transfer his dying essence into someone worth inhabiting. Someone young. Someone alive in all the ways he isn’t. Someone like Christopher.

In the meantime, they’re heading to Dez Falls — a poisoned, protein-fogged nightmare planet where the only thing being mined is Bliss Shale, the most addictive and deadly substance in the known galaxy. The only thing standing between Christopher and a paradise he’ll never wake up from is a weapons-grade alien mechanic who really doesn’t want to be there either.

Is This Apocalypse Over Yet? is Book 3 of Craig Robertson’s A Teenager’s Guide to Saving the Earth — where the enemy turns out to be loneliness, the prize is a soul, and the hero is a fourteen-year-old who just wants to go home.

Jon Ryan was supposed to be decommissioned. He’s two billion years past that appointment, his right arm is in an alien’s satchel, and the galaxy he just woke up in is owned by an empire called the Adamant that has never lost a war. He has no allies, barely enough power to keep his android body running, and a grudge the size of the known universe. Embers is Book 1 of Craig Robertson’s Galaxy on Fire series — military space opera at full throttle, with a protagonist who responds to impossible odds by asking whether the universe has a complaints department.

The Adamant know his name. That’s the first sign things have gone wrong for them.

In the outer sectors of the galaxy, prisoners are being tortured for information about a single rogue android. Their torturers — the Adamant’s finest Inquisitors — are methodical, efficient, and increasingly alarmed by what they’re hearing. Jon Ryan has been busy. He’s made allies in species the Adamant considered broken. He’s acquired shapeshifter partners the empire can’t track. And he’s operating with the kind of cheerful disregard for his own survival that no Adamant military doctrine has a procedure for.

While the empire’s internal politics grind through blame and denial — the Grand Inquisitor trying to make sense of intelligence reports that suggest an actual rebellion is forming — Jon Ryan is doing exactly what he said he would: making the Adamant pay attention.

The problem with paying attention to Jon Ryan is that it tends to cost you something.

Flames is Book 2 of the Galaxy on Fire series. The spark is real. The galaxy is starting to notice. And Jon Ryan, for the first time in two billion years, is beginning to feel like himself again.

The empire convenes. The android doesn’t wait.

In the chamber of the High Adamant Domination Council — a room designed to amplify the emperor’s voice and remind everyone else of their place — something unprecedented is happening. A single rogue entity has forced a session. Jon Ryan, android, rebel, and the most improbable military threat in galactic history, has graduated from a minor irritant to a line item on the imperial agenda.

The council debates. The emperor fumes. The Inquisitors compete for credit and argue about jurisdiction. The bureaucracy of evil does what it always does: it generates paperwork and punishes messengers.

Meanwhile, Jon Ryan is not at the table. He’s in the field, hitting targets while the empire is looking at a map. He has allies drawn from species the Adamant broke and discarded. He has technology scavenged from the empire’s own abandoned installations. And he has the one thing the Adamant’s entire military doctrine never prepared for: someone who genuinely doesn’t care how many of them there are.

Firestorm is Book 3 of the Galaxy on Fire series. The Adamant are taking Jon seriously now. That’s not going to help them.

Jon Ryan is sitting at a bar in the least respectable drinking establishment in the galaxy, nursing something that might be whiskey and thinking very carefully. He’s been known to make deals. The question is always whether he can get out of them on his terms. The Adamant Emperor — vain, distracted, and surrounded by incompetent subordinates — is about to have his overconfidence weaponized against him. Jon is the weapon. Fires of Hell is Book 4 of Craig Robertson’s Galaxy on Fire series — politics, negotiation, and the careful art of making promises to people who can kill you.

The Adamant Secure Council meets to discuss an intelligence report that has frightened their most senior analyst. The council Prime dismisses it. That is the last mistake he will be positioned to make.

The report describes something the Adamant empire has never encountered in its long history of conquest: enslaved species actively cooperating. Sharing intelligence. Coordinating. Preparing, ahead of an Adamant advance, as if they know it’s coming. The analyst believes this represents an unprecedented threat. The council believes the analyst is being dramatic.

Jon Ryan has been very busy.

The rebellion he started with nothing now spans sectors. The Deavoriath and their abilities have become something the Adamant cannot track or predict. Jon has found allies in places the empire never thought to watch, and he has done something even more dangerous than building an army: he has given enslaved species a reason to believe.

Dragon fire, in the old human sense, was the kind of flame that consumed everything in its path and couldn’t be put out. What Jon Ryan has built in five books is exactly that — and the Adamant are about to watch it arrive.

Dragon Fire is Book 5 of the Galaxy on Fire series. Believe in magic. It’s the only explanation the Adamant have left.

The galaxy is changing. The Adamant are retreating. An android who woke up alone and unarmed two billion years ago is finishing what he started.

Across the outer sectors, species who lived their entire lives under Adamant rule are testing new freedoms with the tentative wonder of creatures who don’t entirely believe the danger has passed. And they’re right not to be entirely sure — because the Adamant, whatever their losses, are not finished. They are restructuring. Regrouping. Still capable of savage reprisals against the species that dared to hope.

Jon Ryan knows this. He has been fighting long enough to understand that an empire built over millennia doesn’t disappear in a clean moment of victory. It has to be finished. Systematically. Thoroughly. With the kind of stubborn, comprehensive attention to detail that only an immortal android with a very long grudge can bring to the project.

But finishing a war costs things. It costs pieces of Jon that don’t grow back. It costs time he’s already spent more of than any human ever should. And it costs him the reckoning he’s been putting off — the accounting of everything he’s done, everyone he’s been, and whether the galaxy that emerges from the ashes is the one he would have chosen if he’d had the choice two billion years ago.

Ashes is the final book of the Galaxy on Fire series. The fire has burned. Now comes the quiet, and everything Jon Ryan has to figure out what to do with it.

Letters From Hell by Craig Robertson — A Novel of Regret, Damnation, and the Deadly Cost of Vanity

A Haunting Afterlife Thriller from the Time Diving Series

What If Erasing Your Regrets Only Deepened Your Damnation?

From beyond the Gates of Hell, a damned soul reaches out to warn the living in Craig Robertson’s darkly philosophical supernatural novel Letters From Hell — Book 1 of the Time Diving series. Narrated by a man who discovered he could rewrite his own past, this haunting afterlife fiction explores how the pursuit of a perfect life, driven by obsessive regret and consuming vanity, can unravel the very soul that sought perfection. Part cautionary morality tale, part time-travel thriller, and part meditation on free will and damnation, Letters From Hell delivers a chilling first-person account of how one man’s arrogant folly earned him an eternity of suffering — and why the choices we make, even the flawed ones, are what make us human. Perfect for readers of philosophical dark fiction, supernatural thrillers, and speculative afterlife stories, this Ecclesiastes-inspired novel asks a devastating question: what if erasing your regrets only deepened your damnation?

Matthew Dunsratty knows how to time dive. Through meditation, he can reach back into a younger version of himself and rewrite the past. He’s done it hundreds of times across countless lives. He’s had Shannon, lost her. Had kids, lost them. Made the right call, made the wrong one. And now, in this particular life, he’s spending year twenty in a state hospital for the criminally insane, medicated into a near-coma, being tortured by a guard named Tucker, and eating chocolate green bean surprise every weekday.

His plan to escape — through time, if not through the front door — depends on one thing: getting off his medications long enough to focus. And his means of achieving that depends on Billy Shovellbottom, the new night med tech who keeps offering him warm blankets and wanting something in return.

Matthew knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s not sure it’s going to work. He’s also not sure it matters.

Purgatory’s Best Shot is the second book of Craig Robertson’s Time Diving series — a brilliantly dark, savagely funny, and unexpectedly moving story about a man who has spent so many lives trying to fix his mistakes that he’s lost count of which mistakes were actually his.

The trilogy is over. The Mattverse is not.

Matt Dunsratty has walked away. From Maria. From the dive. From every regret he might be tempted to rewrite. He’s sitting on a Portuguese beach with a Sagres in one hand and a TV remote in the other, working very hard at having nothing left to do.

It would be a great plan if Morfran Gethin weren’t somewhere in 1975, buying weapons-grade plutonium from a sweating man in a Waco warehouse.

Of the Lords of Time, Biblico is dead. Collie Red is sealed in the Nexus. Katherine Bayer hides in her castle. Maurice was never going to help anyone. Matt is the last one left who cares — and the last one Morfran has to fear.

The Time Diving series continues.