I spent three months researching moon bases before writing a single chapter. NASA announced a $20 billion lunar base plan the same month my book launches.
A Graveyard of Empires short story. On a dead colony world sixty years after the bombardment, salvage captain Ria Velko finds something in the ruins that was never meant to be found — and something out in the deep places notices her.
A World of Shadows short story. Four years before the basement at Saint Joseph's, Father Niccolo Paladina stood in a shanty in Tondo with the wrong rite in his hands. He has never written the case file. He writes it now.
A side tale from The Ashen Kingdoms. The night before conscription, an old hedge witch reads the embers for the mothers of boys being marched off to war — and sees the mouths under the world.
A Forest Service ranger's Tuesday morning stop at a small Rocky Mountain town goes wrong. A side tale from the Raven's Peak era of the World on Fire trilogy.
A Last Light short story. Dr. Marisol Vega is alone on Listening Post Seven when a transmission comes in from a moon nobody pronounces out loud. She is the first to hear it. She will not be the last.