The First Shadow
A Colorado geologist falls through a hole in the Rockies. His red heeler is waiting when he comes back. Then a buried war names itself.
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The Billy Thinx Saga
One man. One impossible discovery. A war reaching from beneath the Earth to the far edge of the stars.
Billy Thinx went up the mountain an ordinary man. He came down knowing too much — about Earth, about humanity, and about who has been quietly steering both. The books that follow chase that knowledge under the ice, into the Codex, and out past the last honest chart. Through all of it, the porch still matters. So does the dog.
Six novels. One interlude. The final chapter is still being written.
The Fourth Shadow
A year after the Governors fell, Billy finds a human ideology fused with stolen science under Antarctic ice. He cannot end it with force. He might end it by refusing the system that feeds it.
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Harvest Code
The signal did not call Billy Thinx as a soldier. It recognized him as something far more dangerous, a witness who could not be controlled.
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Architects of Illusion
This time, Billy is not fighting to defeat an enemy. He is fighting to prove that reality belongs to those willing to face the truth.
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The Harlan Vales Chronicles
They need his blood. They’ll have to reckon with the man carrying it.
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Edge Star
Billy Thinx leaves Earth searching for peace. At the edge of existence, something ancient is waiting to remember him.
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Mindforge Convergence
Beneath the Arctic ice, an ancient intelligence awakens. The first life it recognizes is Billy Thinx’s dog.
Pictures & synopsisGraphic Novels — Billy Thinx and the First Shadow
The pictured origin of The First Shadow. Book 1, Book 2, or both in the Collector’s Edition.
Billy Thinx and the First Shadow — Graphic Novel 1
A man walks into a buried world. The governors still sit at the table.
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Billy Thinx and the First Shadow — Graphic Novel 2
What Book 1 opened, this volume names.
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Billy Thinx and the First Shadow — Collector's Edition
The complete pictured origin. The cave, the bear, the reversal, the council, and the shot. Panels, not the prose novel.
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Between Lives. The Time Blanket. Stones River. Worlds that are not the saga — and still belong to the same hand. The Era Before Time and The Time Masters are not yet published.
Between Lives
Douglas Hartwell wanted to prove there was more to reality. He never intended to disappear from it.
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The Time Blanket
After a Gleason-eight diagnosis, a man tries to negotiate with time itself — 1968 Las Vegas, Time Masters, and a Creator who will not be dodged.
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Stones River
They grew up working the same land. Now each wears the uniform the other has been ordered to fight.
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Book One, Book Two, and Book Three. A true account, a companion for Scripture, and a question about love. Separate from the saga. The Time Blanket, the author’s own illness and what came after, is with Other Fiction.
I Talked to God and Jesus
Steve talked to God. If you did, what questions would you have?
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Love's Eternal Voice
For anyone who has opened the Bible seeking comfort, carried questions they were afraid to ask, or wondered whether faith still has room for them.
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The Dream That Never Was
What if the peace we spend our lives searching for is not something we must earn, but something we have forgotten?
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Abundance Unleashed. A citizen’s map of the robot age: what happens when machines can produce, and who controls it.
Abundance Unleashed
A non-fiction roadmap to radical abundance: what happens when production detaches from labor, and who controls it once machines can produce it.
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Not Forgotten is free to read on this site. A Christmas story. Not public domain.
Not Forgotten
The Christmas gift was a sandwich, clean socks, and a small card. The words inside were harder to put away: “You are not forgotten.”
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Not yet published. The last chapter of the saga, and two novels still being written.
The First Projection
One last case. The origin of everything. An enemy who believes mercy means ending it all.
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The Era Before Time
Before Atlantis became a legend, it shared the ocean with powers it could neither conquer nor fully understand.
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The Time Masters and the Lost God of Rigel
The morning repeats. Billy Thinx notices. The stranger on the hill laughs.
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