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At the age of five and a half, I saw my first episode of Star Trek, believing it to be a show about a strange airplane that only flew at night. As I continued watching, I discovered what those points of light in the sky really were. This awakened a lifelong fascination with space, science and speculative fiction. I devoured Asimov, Clarke, and books on astronomy and physics. I often made up Trek-universe stories set a century after Kirk’s adventures (an idea years ahead of its time), but soon shifted to creating my own original universe. I eventually realized I did this pretty well, and deluded myself into thinking I could make a career out of it. So far, that delusion has been working out for me.
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My Patreon prices have been slashed! Read my Reviews for just $2/month, Original Fiction for $3/month, and Behind the Scenes annotations and background notes for just $5/month! Now with one-week free trial periods!
Now on Patreon: “High and Flighty”: An unsold story featuring species later featured in the Arachne series and “Aleyara’s Descent,” and a technological concept later reused in Star Trek: Ex Machina.
Also on Patreon: An excerpt from my upcoming novel Arachne’s Legacy, third book in the Arachne series of interstellar intrigue and adventure. In this sample, the crew of the starship Arachne contacts a mysterious, dangerous new order of interstellar life in search of a way to fulfill their clandestine mission on behalf of humanity. To gain the information they need, will they have to sacrifice one of their own?
Current rewatch/review series: Blake’s 7, the dystopian 1978-81 science fiction series from Terry Nation, creator of Doctor Who‘s Daleks.
Previous review series: The Middleman, the 2008 cult-classic superhero parody from Javier Grillo-Marxuach (Lost, The Witcher). A comprehensive revisit covering every TV episode and comic.
Patreon fiction index: includes original fiction and exclusive behind-the-scenes content and annotations
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Aleyara’s Descent and Other Stories
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Infinite Dimensions. Endless Possibilities. Universal Questions.
Across multiple realities and millennia of past and future history, heroes human and otherwise challenge their limits and brave the unknown in pursuit of the fundamental truths of the universe—and each other.
From bestselling author Christopher L. Bennett comes Aleyara’s Descent, eleven tales portraying the search for understanding, connection, and hope that unites seekers of all species, eras, and realities.
- In an alien past, four impetuous youths brave a forbidden realm to discover their world’s true nature.
- A first contact between a UFO believer and a real alien doesn’t go the way either one expects.
- Scientists battling a kaiju invasion must overcome the mistrust of the insular enclave they strive to protect.
- A government agent’s drive to safeguard the future hits a speed bump when she questions a suspected time traveler.
- The inheritor of a fabled superhero name must prove herself by solving the one mystery her predecessor never could.
These and other diverse tales, many in print for the first time, bring a multiverse of aliens, monsters, time travelers, and heroes to life with plausibility and sensitivity.
Includes the brand-new tale “Nilly’s Choice,” a companion story to the Arachne novels.
Aleyara’s Descent is part of eSpec Books’ massive 10th-anniversary Kickstarter campaign to fund seven different novels and collections by seven authors, including Keith R.A. DeCandido, Lisanne Norman, Ef Deal, Ty Drago, Christine Norris, Christopher J. Burke, and myself.
Read more on Written Worlds: https://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2024/05/27/announcing-aleyaras-descent-and-other-stories-kickstarter-campaign-open-now/
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Star Trek Adventures: Synthetic Diplomacy
The Federation Council’s recent decision to outlaw the manufacture of synthetic life forms has jeopardized negotiations with the technologically-advanced Noariya, whose society has relied heavily on android labor for generations. Delicate negotiations on the planet Noaru must be undertaken to persuade the Noariya’s leaders that Federation membership is still worthwhile.
In the wake of the rogue synth attack on Mars, the Federation’s sudden outlawing of androids has undercut efforts to offer membership to the highly-advanced Noariya society. The player characters’ ship is sent to the planet Noaru to negotiate with their leaders and search for a way to salvage the relationship. The Noariya prize their androids and are unwilling to give them up for the sake of Federation membership.
The political situation on Noaru is complicated when an extremist group objects to their society’s dependence on high technology. A candidate from that group is running for president and, until now, had been a fringe concern, but since the synth ban, they’ve become vocal advocates for Federation membership.
The situation worsens when an abduction by a group of androids forces the player characters to investigate, track down the captives, and negotiate with or outwit the captors. To protect Noaru’s peace, the player characters must expose the truth behind the android uprising and complete their delicate negotiations, or risk losing a prospective member of the Federation.
Although this is a standalone adventure, a bonus one-page mission brief provides inspiration for continuing the mission.
This 23-page PDF adventure for the first edition Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game is written by Christopher L. Bennett, and is set in the Picard era shortly after the events of 2385, with the player characters being the crew of a Federation vessel. This adventure also contains advice on adaptation for use in other Star Trek time periods.
This adventure requires a Star Trek Adventures core rulebook to use. You will receive a standard version of the adventure PDF. This PDF is on a white background, there is no separate printer friendly version.
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Synthetic Diplomacy is available as a downloadable PDF from:
Further Star Trek Adventures campaigns:
See my Star Trek Adventures RPG page.
Tangent Knights Series Set
Includes all three Tangent Knights volumes: Caprice of Fate, Tempest Tossed, and Gemini Ascendant.
Available from GraphicAudio
Tangent Knights 3: Gemini Ascendant
In a world where communication with parallel tangent Earths, known as “realms”, has brought a disruptive influx of new beliefs and scientific innovation, college-student and fangirl Corazon Kagami continues to discover astonishing new facets to the abilities she’s unexpectedly acquired in the accident that transformed her into Tangent Knight Caprice, the foremost of a growing ensemble of armored super-warriors very much like the heroes and villains of her favorite tokusatsu shows.
After a very personal betrayal, Malika Ramos, AKA Tangent Knight Gemini, finds herself captive of a powerful agency that polices the multiverse for inter-realm threats. They intend to use her as the means to lethally put down what they see as a threat disturbingly similar to the one that all but wiped out the highly advanced civilization of the Cefal. The menace at hand is Malika’s teammate Cory Kagami, Tangent Knight Caprice. And many of Cory’s comrades-in-arms have begun to suspect the danger is real.
Caprice’s ever-evolving, ever more godlike powers have triggered an intervention that will pit warrior against warrior, as Caprice refuses to turn away from a destiny that may save her tragically damaged family, or lead to horrific multi-versal catastrophe.
© & ℗ 2022 Graphic Audio, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Tangent Knights 2: Tempest Tossed
GraphicAudio’s spectacular original super-heroic series powers on to new heights of action and intrigue, available in no other format!
In a world where communication with parallel Tangent Earths has brought a disruptive influx of new beliefs and scientific innovation, college-student and fangirl Corazon Kagami continues to discover astonishing new facets to the abilities she’s unexpectedly acquired in the accident that transformed her into Tangent Knight Caprice, the foremost of a growing ensemble of armored super-warriors very much like the heroes and villains of her favorite tokusatsu shows.
Earth-shattering revelations about her technology magnate mother Morgan Herrera and her cyborg security team Fireforce have put Cory on the side of Matrix, the interdimensional law enforcement agency tasked with bringing Morgan to justice. Daniel Vajra, the Tangent Knight called Tempest, is increasingly driven by his pursuit of vengeance against those responsible for his sister Meera’s death, and an astonishing confrontation with Fireforce’s powerful new warrior pushes him over the edge. Tempest’s desperate use of dangerous, largely untested cutting-edge tangent tech weaponry in his vengeful quest sends him out of control, a menace to foe and friend alike.
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Tangent Knights 1: Caprice of Fate
GraphicAudio introduces a spectacular original Super-heroic Action Series available in no other format!
In the year 2046, on the artificial-island arcology of New Avalon, Corazón “Cory” Kagami is a bright but impulsive college student who follows her passions, resisting the will of her mother, Morgan Herrera, head of a tech conglomerate responsible for astonishing breakthroughs. Morgan controls Catchfire Industries, and is effectively the ruler of New Avalon through her near-monopoly of its technology and through the numerous government officials she keeps in her pocket.
In a world where communication with parallel Tangent Earths has brought a disruptive influx of new beliefs and scientific innovation, Morgan promotes a strong defense against threats from within and beyond this world, developing advanced personal armor and weaponry for her cyborg peacekeeping team Fireforce.
When Cory is accidentally empowered with the most advanced armor system yet, Morgan tries to renew her bond with her daughter and train her to be a hero, a decision she may come to regret. Cory Kagami, a fan of Japanese tokusatsu action entertainment, has her own ideas about what it means to be a hero.
© & ℗ 2021 Graphic Audio, LLC. All rights reserved.
AudioFile Earphones Award winner, January 2022! “This is an aural treat for sci-fi fans everywhere.”
“[Tangent Knights] is a very nifty concept and is incredibly enjoyable.” — Keith R.A. DeCandido
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An interstellar saga in the universe of Among the Wild Cybers and Only Superhuman.
Arachne’s Crime
Is this a dream… or a nightmare?
The crew of the interstellar colony vessel Arachne is roused from artificial hibernation to face a horrific reality, as an alien boarding party takes them into custody to answer for the deaths of tens of thousands of sentient beings.
But there is more to their trial than meets the eye, and the threads of intrigue weave a tight web as crewmates and friends are divided between those who feel they owe restitution for the actions of the ship’s AI in their defense, and those who refuse to bow down to a judgment they see as persecution.
What future can they hope to build among aliens who see them as mass murderers… presuming they have a future at all?
“Christopher L. Bennett is a master of words and worlds — readers of his books can always count on being carried away on a fascinating ride!” — John Jackson Miller, author of Star Wars: Kenobi and Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War
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Arachne’s Exile
What a tangled web…
When the colony starship Arachne unwittingly destroyed a deep-space habitat of the Chirrn, her crew committed themselves to a lifetime of penance to repay their debt. But a brutal act of vengeance has now forced them into exile in a distant part of the galaxy.
Drawn into a cosmic conspiracy spanning millennia, the colonists learn that the Chirrn’s ancient choices have exacted a terrible toll on human history. Now, their only way to win true freedom may be to carry out a perilous theft aboard an extraordinary megastructure orbiting a neutron star.
Will Arachne and her crew pull off the heist of the millennium? Or are they being manipulated into committing a far more awful crime… one for which all humanity could pay the price?
“A different treatment of the relationship between humans and aliens. Arachne’s Exile is a fun, exciting read.” — Don Sakers, Analog
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The Arachne Omnibus
A deluxe volume available in trade paperback and e-book editions plus a limited-edition hardcover, collecting both Arachne’s Crime and Arachne’s Exile along with the prequel story “Comfort Zones” (for the first time in print) and the connected followup stories “The Weight of Silence,” and “Among the Wild Cybers of Cybele.”
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Further Arachne/Troubleshooter Universe fiction:
See my Troubleshooter and Among the Wild Cybers pages.
Star Trek: The Original Series — Living Memory
An all-new Star Trek movie-era adventure!
While attempting to settle in as commandant of Starfleet Academy, Admiral James T. Kirk must suddenly contend with the controversial, turbulent integration of an alien warrior caste into the student body—and quickly becomes embroiled in conflict when the Academy controversy escalates to murder. Meanwhile, Captain Spock of the USS Enterprise and Commander Pavel Chekov of the USS Reliant are investigating a series of powerful cosmic storms seemingly targeting Federation worlds—unstoppable outbursts emitting from the very fabric of space. Endeavoring to predict where the lethal storms will strike next, Spock and Chekov make the shocking discovery that the answer lies in Commander Nyota Uhura’s past—one that she no longer remembers….
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Further Star Trek fiction:
See my Star Trek page.
Marvel Classic Novels – Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours Omnibus
Collecting three classic fan-favorite Spider-Man novels together for the first time in a brand-new omnibus edition.
THE DARKEST HOURS by Jim Butcher
When Black Cat foils Spider-Man’s attempts to stop the Rhino rampaging through Times Square, she informs him the Rhino is just a distraction. The real threat comes from a group of Ancients, members of the same race as the being called Morlun, seeking revenge for Spider-Man defeating them years before. Spidey must rely on Black Cat if there’s any hope of stopping them again, before they can steal his life force.
DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS by Keith R.A. DeCandido
A mysterious drug known as Triple X has been giving users super-powers as well as rendering them mentally and physically unstable. Only by teaming up with a police force that hates him can Spider-Man find the source behind this lethal drug and protect people from those using it. But one of Spider-Man’s most fearsome enemies may be behind it all as part of a greater scheme to bring down the city.
DROWNED IN THUNDER by Christopher L. Bennett
The ongoing conflict between Spider-Man and his longtime outspoken nemesis, crusading newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson, reaches a whole new level when JJJ exploits several mysterious attacks on Manhattan island in his propaganda war against the web-slinger.
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The X-Men: Watchers on the Walls
At last, an audiobook adaptation of my original X-Men adventure from 2006, read by Frankie Corzo and published by Dreamscape Media.
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Further Marvel fiction:
See my Marvel Fiction page.
Crimes of the Hub
The hapless heroes of Hub Space return with new jobs, new allies, and new adventures at the heart of the galaxy, in a novel expanded and revised from stories originally appearing in Analog.
Just when cynical space pilot Nashira Wing has finally started to enjoy helping David LaMacchia with his clueless quest to crack the secrets of the Hub Network, he’s hijacked by a crew of kittenish thieves and trapped in the treasure vault of a far older civilization. What he finds there gives Nashira a shot at the score of a lifetime—but changes David’s life in ways that threaten their friendship. To keep the devious masters of the Hub from getting their tentacles on Nashira’s prize, she and David must mend frayed relationships and navigate new ones, all while facing adventures in larceny, sex, bureaucracy, hyperspatial geometry, and radical body modification. Can they come through it all with their hearts, their identities, and their dignity intact?
Now in trade paperback! Available from:
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Further Hub fiction:
See my Hub Series page.
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Footprints in the Stars (Beyond the Cradle Book 2)
To follow in the footsteps of those who have gone before, first we must find them.
Dreaded hope settles over mankind as we stare into the heavens, looking for a sign we are not alone. Fearing we will find it, puzzled when we don’t.
Among the stars or in our own backyard, lose yourself in the wonder of these tales as we humbly posit mankind’s reaction to the awesome certainty that ‘they’ are out there…or at least, they were…
Footprints in the Stars
With stories by Gordon Linzner, Ian Randal Strock, Robert Greenberger, Dayton Ward, Aaron Rosenberg, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Jody Lynn Nye, Christopher L. Bennett, James Chambers, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Russ Colchamiro, Judi Fleming, and Bryan J.L. Glass
Featuring “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of,” a brand-new tale of the founder of Only Superhuman‘s Troubleshooter Corps!
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“The Melody Lingers”: My first published fantasy story, a tale of magic and grief channeled through music, appearing in issue #39 of Galaxy’s Edge Magazine.
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“Twilight’s Captives”: Original novelette appearing in Jan/Feb 2017 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, still available on Magzter
“Abductive Reasoning”: A comedy short story in the September/October 2017 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, still available on Magzter
“The Caress of a Butterfly’s Wing”: Original novelette appearing in Buzzy Mag
“No Dominion”: Original novelette appearing in DayBreak Magazine
“Though Worlds Divide Us”: Online flash fiction from AmazingStories Magazine, about a proud Mars colonist unhappy at the impact of easy multiverse travel. Set in the “Braneworlds” continuity of my self-published Patreon story “What Slender Threads”.
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Recent Releases
- “Aleyara’s Descent” in ANALOG
- Tangent Knights 1: Caprice of Fate
- Tangent Knights 2: Tempest Tossed
- Tangent Knights 3: Gemini Ascendant
- Arachne’s Crime
- Arachne’s Exile
- Star Trek: Living Memory
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Christopher L. Bennett: Written Worlds 
Uncertain Logic is just a fantastic read. With Enterprise being my favorite Star Trek series I’m always looking for a reason to adventure with that crew again. The way you have written them makes it feel like I’m just joining back up with them after a layoff and its just feels right and believable. The absolute best compliment I can give is that this book reads just like a new episode of Enterprise and thank you for that.