The lone survivor of a battle in space, Jarl Hawkins fights for survival as his dying spaceship, the Cassiopeia, drifts out of control. But there is nothing he can do and his own death is certain.
But his rescue comes in the form of an old wizard named Kvasir, who offers Jarl his chance at a new life on Vanir, a planet with black-powder weapons, wild nomads who roam the Ghost Plains, sorcerers who use magic, and a church seeking to be all powerful.
Bookwright is book one of a sci-fi trilogy featuring magic, space travel and epic battles.
Jarl Hawkins is a modern spaceman marooned on the planet Vanir—a backward world with sorcerers, black-powder weapons, nomad raiders, and a church seeking to become all powerful. He has lost track of his friend, the great wizard Kvasir Haroldson, and is desperate to find another wizard who can help him get off Vanir and back to his home world.
Kiska is book two in a sci-fi trilogy featuring magic, space travel and epic battles.
In Book Three of the Vanir Trilogy, Hawkins continues to help his friend, Will James, the king, fight the invading Glassey armies. At the same time, he; the great wizard, Kvasir; his wife, Kiska; and the star reporter for his newspaper, Janis begin to search for advanced technology left by the original colonists of the planet. This quest is interrupted by the return of the Space Empire, and now Jarl with the help of his friends travels into space, where he fights to save one of the great, golden colonization ships and a supercomputer named Sam. Jarl learns the secret of the smoky quartz crystals, and he struggles to prevent the subjugation of the planet by the brutal and all-powerful empire.
Scarecrow is book three of a sci-fi trilogy featuring magic and space travel.
This is the story of Akiko, a tiny Moon Elf of the Assassin Guild, who is one of five sent to kill the King and Princes of the Kingdom of Nivava. Akiko is a singularly bad assassin, and ends up saving the Prince and the Princess. She is captured, and taken as a prisoner to the Kingdom of Adhara. Abandoned by the Guild, an outcast marked by blue eyes and tartans, and bound to a wagon wheel at night, she has not a friend in the world. She is destined to be a beggar, always on the verge of starvation, roving from town to town, and wanted by no one. Or is she?
Morgan Hunter, while backpacking in Scotland, explores the ruins of an ancient castle. He finds refuge from the wind in an underground room, where there is a deep pool of water.
He naps and wakes. And naps. And discovers he is not alone—there is an old man on the other side of the pool. This man waves one hand, and Morgan falls into the pool and surfaces in a tropical garden. There is another pool, and the old man once again appears, and this time Morgan finds himself at a lonely desert pool. The old man appears a third time, and Morgan finds himself at a mirror in a castle stairway.
Morgan and Hannah are Mirror Walkers who are asked to explore an old salt mine, and—while doing so—they blunder into several mirrors that lead to World War I and two other Mirror Walkers, Josephine and Rodney. They also discover a young woman, Esther, who can also travel through the mirrors as long as someone holds her hand, and the five attempt to solve a series of gruesome murders that take place both inside the mirrors and in Hannah’s home of Kazamura. The trail leads through the salt mine and in and out many mirrors, and the five ultimately discover that it is one of their own who is responsible for the killings. Hannah has a secret that is revealed, and the groups’ investigations eventually lead them to a commercial beach in California, where they must battle the killers and their hired cohorts.
Abigail is a person with a secret, she is of Aouli royalty, and—as such—will be forced to marry a man she cannot tolerate, the thin, deformed Prince Ovee’or, who is a member of the Wettong dynasty. The family who has occupied the Kingdom of Pentara through deception and evil magic. And worse, she cannot flee the castle and escape this nightmare, because she must take Liceen, a concoction that the Wettong manufacture to keep each Aoili woman under their absolute control.
Abigail has been sneaking out of the castle and has covertly become a D’lurian, or Cloud Dancer, one of the few who fly the small, one-person sky ships around the Kingdom of Pentara, delivering messages and small packages. But what happens when the Wettong discover this and how will the Aouli survive?
Eric Sojonson is a Lesser Ambassador who travels by ship to the land of Honakei, a fantastic country that has long been off-limits to foreigners. Now, as one of the few people invited to explore this wonderful land, he begins a journey south through the great agricultural province of Utila.
All seems perfect in this beautiful land of green and flowers—the people are polite and most respectful, and there seems to be no threat of any kind. But then the group hears word of a Swamp Devil, a woman who is either very young or very old, and who is a murderer who comes at night and rescues young girls who have been sold to brothels. And there is also hints that things are not perfect between the king and the queen. She has three sons and a daughter (are they really the children of the king?) and seems to lust for power, and he is old and sickly and may not have long to live. And there are whispers of another princess, one who disappeared three years previously, and who was a product of the king’s first marriage. What happened to her? There had to have been foul play.
Morgan and Hannah are Mirror Walkers who are services are requested by the elfin kingdom of Hualalai to search for a long-lost treasure—a library of great importance. They traveled by sky ship to that coastal city, and began a series of explorations. These lead to several mirrors that are dangerous, and ultimately to one that traps them for several weeks. A rescue attempt by Rodney and Esther fails, but the foursome are eventually able to free themselves and ultimately find the library. But there are others who do not want the library found, and they capture the four Mirror Walkers to use them as a commodity to transport explosives through the mirrors to destroy the library.
The desert was a place of great beauty, especially on this, a night with a full moon. It was, however, a terrible beauty, because of its remote location, the bitter cold and the wind that never seemed to end, and the acute lack of water. It was, in fact, an extremely dangerous place.
But the desert was not an evil place. It was rather, like the high mountains and deep ocean, just indifferent to the passage of men. It was a timeless thing that could be learned from, and which—with that learning—could be safety negotiated and lived in.
They call themselves the Tskkannee, or the People of the Autumn Moon. They live in poverty and were at one time the lowest and poorest of the tribes on the great steppe on which they live.
But then they discovered horses, and began great migrations in the spring and fall, following the bison that also inhabit their great plains. And they became the most fearsome of the tribes on those plains, dedicated to warfare and “the joy of killing.”
The Tskkannee now number in the thousands, and nothing can stand in the way of their next—and final—attack. Nothing except a small group of humans and elves, and the dragons themselves. And the Endunnlin, the small, blue-haired, blue-eyed Moon Elf, Akiko.
G.R. Dasher has worked as an EMT, paramedic, a coal and an oil-and-gas geologist, and finally as an environmental geologist, where he oversaw the remediation of contaminated groundwater throughout West Virginia. Now retired, his hobbies include diving, downhill skiing, hiking, biking, camping, and especially caving, about which he has written approximately ten books describing the known caves in West Virginia. He obviously enjoys writing, and has also written ten fantasy and sci-fi novels. He currently lives in the Elk River Valley near Charleston, West Virginia.
