Craig A. Robertson

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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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As an alien armada threatens Earth, Jon must defend a fleet of worldships carrying humanity’s last survivors toward a new home. The conflict turns personal when an old enemy resurfaces, determined to destroy everything Jon holds dear.

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Matt Dunsratty has discovered the cure for regret. He can change his past.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

By projecting his adult consciousness into his younger self, Matt can correct what he considers to be the mistakes that shaped his life. Missed opportunities. Bad decisions. Women he could have loved. Every trip backward gives him another chance to finally get things right.

But there’s one unyielding barrier to fulfilling his wishes.

Every change he makes creates a different Matt.

Soon one seemingly harmless correction demands another, and then another. Matt discovers that his increasingly frantic alterations to the past can erase marriages, children, friendships—and entire futures. And once he’s tasted such power, the temptation to keep meddling becomes irresistible.

Whether it’s saving John Lennon’s life or altering his best friend’s path to self-destruction, Matt discovers that the road to Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions. Matt is building his own personal Hell—one correction at a time.

Letters From Hell is a darkly funny, wildly whiplashing time-travel novel about regret and unintended consequences. Most of all, it’s the story of one ordinary man’s catastrophic determination to make everything better—and how he continually achieves the exact opposite.

Every. Single. Time.

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Endless fighting. Hopeless odds. Then things got worse. Jon Ryan has beaten the odds so far. He saved humanity from a sinister alien threat and he stopped the insane android president of the United States three separate times. But the president won’t stay dead and a super race threaten to end Jon’s hopes for a peaceful future. Jon’s mind-boggling alien technology has been enough to keep everyone alive. But, just when there’s reason for hope, a new, more deadly race sets it’s sights on him. This threat may just be unstoppable. They made Jon fight. He plans to make them very sorry they did. Can Jon save humanity, his family, and himself when defeat looks absolutely certain?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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