Craig A. Robertson

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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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.

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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.

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