Below are all of my books and stories, listed in series order.
Joe Vasicek
Sons of the Starfarers
This is my flagship science fiction series. The books are all short novels, and fall under space opera. It is a linear series, and the series is complete.
- Brother in Exile
- Comrades in Hope
- Strangers in Flight
- Friends in Command
- Captives in Obscurity
- Patriots in Retreat
- A Queen in Hiding
- An Empire in Disarray
- Victors in Liberty
Genesis Earth Trilogy
This young adult science fiction trilogy takes place in the near to mid-future, after a scientific experiment on the fringes of the Oort cloud creates mankind’s first artificial wormhole. Genesis Earth is my first published novel.
Gunslinger Trilogy
These short novels are space opera / action adventure sci-fi. They take place about 40 years in the future, after Earth makes contact with the galactics. “Jane Carter of Earth and the Rescue that Never Was” is a prequel short story.
Gaia Nova
These books take place in the same universe as Sons of the Starfarers, but 1,000 years later. They all stand alone and can be read in any order, but take place in the same universe with recurring minor and major characters. They are listed in the order in which they were published. Heart of the Nebula is a direct sequel to Bringing Stella Home.
Falconstar Trilogy
This trilogy is set in the same universe as Sons of the Starfarers and Gaia Nova. It takes place a couple of hundred years before Bringing Stella Home.
- Queen of the Falconstar
- Captive of the Falconstar (forthcoming)
- Lord of the Falconstar (forthcoming)
Outworld Trilogy
The books in this trilogy take place in the same universe as Sons of the Starfarers, with the first book happening slightly before the events of that series and the second and third books happening a generation later, with a few recurring characters from that series. Outworlder is a novella that covers the first part of Star Wanderers.
- Star Wanderers
- Children of the Starry Sea
- Return of the Starborn Son (forthcoming)
Twelfth Sword Trilogy
These books are all epic fantasy.
- The Sword Keeper
- The Sword Bearer (forthcoming)
- The Sword Mistress (forthcoming)
The Xulthar Cycle
This is sword and sorcery / heroic fantasy, and also my first foray into writing AI-assisted novels. Currently a standalone with potential to turn into a series.
The Sea Mage Cycle
This is an ongoing series of short fantasy adventure novels with recurring characters in the same world. As the series title suggests, these books are all nautically themed.
Originally published under the pseudonym J.M. Stormrider, these novels are all written with AI assistance.
- Rescuer’s Reward
- The Widow’s Child
- The Winds of Desolation
- The Call of the Tide (forthcoming)
Short Stories and Novelettes
Below are all of my short stories and novelettes, listed in the order in which they were first published. If they’ve appeared in a magazine or anthology, the publication information is in parentheses. I’ve also included my short story collections.
Only a handful of these stories are currently available as free ebook singles. Those that aren’t are either still under exclusivity, or are available in one of my short story collections.
Short Story Singles (Current List):
All Short Stories (Comprehensive List):
- Memoirs of a Snowflake (Bards and Sages Quarterly, January 2024)
- From the Ice Incarnate (Vera Hinckley Mayhew Short Story Contest, BYU, 2009)
- Decision LZ1527 (Leading Edge Magazine, December 2009; Digital Fiction Publishing’s QuickFic, December 2016; Bards & Sages Quarterly, October 2021)
- A Hill on Which to Die (The Great Tome of Fantastic and Wondrous Places, September 2016)
- Starchild (Bards and Sages Quarterly, October 2019)
- The Gettysburg Paradox (Gallery of Curiosities #61, June 2018; Bards and Sages Quarterly, July 2019)
- Utahraptors at Dawn
- Welcome to Condescension (Space Squid, August 2018)
- L’enfer, c’est la Solitude (Perehilion SF, March 2016; The New Accelerator, August 2018)
- Killing Mister Wilson (Uprising Review, September 2017; Unrealpolitik, November 2018)
- My Name is For My Friends (Mirror Dance, Autumn 2017)
- Jane Carter of Earth and the Rescue that Never Was
- The Open Source Time Machine (The New Accelerator, January 2019; Bards and Sages Quarterly, April 2020)
- The Curse of the Lifewalker (Sci Phi Journal, June 2016; The New Accelerator, August 2019)
- The Janus Anomaly (Kasma Magazine, May 2019; Twilight Tales, February 2021; Fire For Effect, January 2023)
- Time and Space in Amish Country
- The Paradox of Choice
- Lizzie-99XT (Serial Magazine, August 2019)
- The Infiltrator (Not Far From Roswell, December 2019)
- Payday
- Sex, Life, and Love under the Algorithms
- In the Beginning (After Dinner Conversation: Season Two, August 2020)
- The Promise of King Washington (Again, Hazardous Imaginings, December 2020)
- Take Up Your Sword
- The Numismatist (Spaceports & Spidersilk, May 2021)
- The Scales of the Space Whale
- When She Awakes
- The End of Elysium
- The Manchurian Paradox
- The Other Side of Reality
- Welcome to Our Crazy Family
- Lord of the Slaves
- A Fatal Rebirth
- Two Hours Ago
- The Final Turning
- Schrödinger’s Diaper (Bards and Sages Quarterly, April 2022)
- Calling Scam Likely
- Love and Truth at Universe End
- The New Covenant
- Prison of Dreams
- Blight of Empire
- The Body Tax
- Abductors
- The Unforgotten Dream
- The Library of Fate
- The Princess and the Professor
- We Should Have Named You Corona
- A Mother’s Last Goodbye
- Quantum Worlds
- Hunter, Lover, Cyborg, Slave
Collected Short Stories:
- Pilgrims and Time Travelers (Collected Short Stories, Volume 1)
- The Gettysburg Paradox
- Killing Mister Wilson
- My Name Is For My Friends
- Memoirs of a Snowflake
- The Curse of the Lifewalker
- Decision LZ1527
- Jane Carter of Earth and the Rescue that Never Was
- Time and Space in Amish Country
- A Hill On Which To Die
- The Open Source Time Machine
- In Times Such As These (Collected Short Stories, Volume 2)
- The Paradox of Choice
- Payday
- Utahraptors at Dawn
- Sex, Life, and Love Under the Algorithms
- Welcome to Condescension
- A Less Than Perfect Game
- Take Up Your Sword
- The Numismatist
- Elusive Eden (J.M. Wight)
- Worlds Without Number (J.M. Wight)
- The Stars Our Destination (Collected Short Stories, Volume 3)
- The Scales of the Space Whale
- In the Beginning
- From the Ice Incarnate
- When She Awakes
- The Infiltrator
- Abductors
- Starchild
- L’enfer, c’est la Solitude
- The Janus Anomaly
- Lizzie-99XT
- Beyond World’s End (Collected Short Stories, Volume 4)
- The Manchurian Paradox
- A Fatal Rebirth
- The Final Turning
- The New Covenant
- Hearken and Behold (J.M. Wight)
- The End of Elysium
- The Promise of King Washington
- Lord of the Slaves
- The Other Side of Reality
- Schrödinger’s Diaper
- Two Hours Ago
- Welcome to Our Crazy Family
- The Solace of Truth (Collected Short Stories, Volume 5)
- Love and Truth at Universe End
- Calling Scam Likely
- Prison of Dreams
- Blight of Empire
- The Library of Fate
- In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight (J.M. Wight)
- Hunter, Lover, Cyborg, Slave
- The Body Tax
- We Should Have Named You Corona
- The Freedom of Second Chances
Star Wanderers (no longer published)
The Star Wanderers series ran from 2014 to 2020, when I novelized them all into Star Wanderers and took the original books down. The first four books were linear, while the last four were parallaxes of the first four, from the point of view of the side characters.
- Outworlder
- Fidelity
- Sacrifice
- Homeworld
- Dreamweaver
- Benefactor
- Reproach
- Deliverance
Miscellany, Non-Fiction, and other Odds and Ends
- Science Fiction from A to Z (Newsletter exclusive)
- Journey to Jordan (Unpublished)
J.M. Wight
This is my pen name for LDS and Christian science fiction.
Christopher Columbus, Interstellar Explorer
Christopher Columbus Jackson is a working-class guy in the post-Earth future who is just trying to hit his lucky break, working a variety of hard jobs and side hustles. When he encounters the warrior monks of the Church of Jesus Christ of Post-Millennial Saints, Orthodox, though, everything begins to change.
These are a bunch of fun and upbeat stories, with an optimistic view of the future and a ridiculously wacky view of the past. If you enjoy sci-fi humor and space opera, you will probably love these.
- Christopher Columbus, Wildcatter
- Christopher Columbus, Treasure Hunter
- Christopher Columbus, Wormhole Mechanic (forthcoming)
Zedekiah Wight
Zedekiah Wight is a vigilante space pirate who has sworn be an instrument in God’s hands in bringing justice to a corrupt and decadent galaxy. His stories take place in our distant future, long after the end times of Earth.
Most of these titles are free short stories, though In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight is a $2.99 novella. When I have enough stories to put into a collection, I will take the singles down.
Starship Lachoneus
The Starship Lachoneus stories take place on Earth during Christ’s Millennial reign, and chronicle the construction and voyage of the Starship Lachoneus, a generation ship that will take humanity—and the restored gospel—to the stars.
