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The Forever Life

The Forever Life: Earth has ninety-seven years before Jupiter ends humanity. Major Jonathan Ryan, USAF astronaut and decorated combat veteran, is offered 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 says yes before they finish asking. He has no idea what he just agreed to. Book 1 of the Forever Series is where the saga begins.

BOOK DETAILS


  • Series: Book 1 of the Forever Series (the saga begins here) 
  • Author: Craig Robertson 
  • Genre: Military science fiction · Space opera · Series opener 
  • Publisher: Imagine-It Publishing (El Dorado Hills, CA) 
  • First published: 2016 
  • Cover art: Starla Huchton — designedbystarla.com 
  • Editors: Michael R. Blanche, Neil Farr, Forest Olivier 
  • Formatting: Drew Avera 
  • E-book ISBN: 978-0-9997742-3-6 
  • E-book ASIN: B01CRFG2ZM
  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9896659-9-5 
  • Hardcover ISBN: 979-8-7667854-5-3
  • Hard Cover ASIN: B09LGNR683
  • Audiobook: Produced by Podium Audio
  • Language: English
  • Screen Reader: Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Word Wise: Enabled
  • Print length: ‏290 pages
  • Page Flip: Enabled

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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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Tropes in The Forever Life


  • Apocalypse Countdown
     — Ninety-seven years until Jupiter ends Earth. The clock is the plot. 
  • Mind Upload Into an Android — The premise that launches everything that follows. 
  • The First of His Kind — Jon Ryan is the prototype. There’s no manual for what comes next. 
  • Long-Haul Solo Space Voyage — Forty years alone in a ship designed to last centuries. 
  • The Snarky AI Sidekick — Al is born here. His comedic timing is, as the kids say, immaculate. 
  • First Contact With Alien Species — Sapale and the Kaljaxians enter the saga. 
  • Wisecracking First-Person Narrator — Jon’s voice from page one. 
  • Reluctant Hero Becomes Legend — Jon never wanted any of this. The universe didn’t ask. 
  • Immortality Is Lonely — The theme that quietly powers all six books of the Forever Series.
  • Origin Story for an Epic — Where the entire Forever Series and the Ryanverse begin.

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The Forever Series

The Forever Series follows Major Jon Ryan: decorated astronaut, combat veteran, and the first human to transfer his consciousness into an immortal android body. His mission was supposed to take a few decades. Instead, it stretches across centuries.

Earth sends him to fold space in search of a new home — somewhere a dying species can start over. What he finds is far more than a planet. Alliances. Enemies. A family. And the hard truth that immortality costs a man everything when he was never built to outlive the people he loves.

Across six books, The Forever Series follows one soldier’s endless fight to protect the people and the future he was sent to save. It’s military science fiction with heart, humor, and a long view only an immortal narrator could offer.

The Forever Life

The Forever Life

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 Forever Enemy

The Forever Enemy

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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THE FOREVER FIGHT

THE FOREVER FIGHT

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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The Forever Quest

The Forever Quest

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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The Forever Alliance

The Forever Alliance

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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The Forever Peace

The Forever Peace

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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