Doug Dandridge Books in Order

Pandora Latham steps onto a ship from the future and falls through a wormhole forty thousand years ahead. At a vast black-hole station, she finds old ruins, a lonely guardian called Watcher, and a struggle over the fate of the galaxy.

After abuse, addiction, and a brutal transformation, Lucinda Taylor becomes a vampire with no interest in serving the old order. She turns her hunger outward, hunting the criminals and monsters who prey on Tampa.

Dying engineer Gary Jeffers buys eternity by uploading his mind into a virtual world. What begins as a personal escape turns into a political and religious war over whether digital immortality is salvation, suicide, or something in between.

Three triplets are split apart by the cruel logic of a magical empire: one marked for priesthood, one for slavery, and one for death. Years later, they may be the only people who can stop a god from taking a human body.

In a dying world where magic is draining life away, a giant corporation raids other dimensions for sacrificial energy. Forensics mage Jude Parkinson starts chasing a killer and uncovers a genocide big enough to damn a world.

A brilliant nanotech scientist dies in a locked room, and Detective Lieutenant Gary Lariviere steps into a case crowded with zealots, corporations, smugglers, and ambitious students. The deeper he digs, the stranger and deadlier the science becomes.

Emperor Kurt von Mannerheim wanted peace, but the kidnapping of his empress drags him back into war. To save her and keep dark gods from tipping the balance, he has to hunt an old evil across Refuge.

Two thousand years after humanity fled extermination and founded a new empire far away, the ancient enemy finds them again. Fleet tactics, politics, and sheer scale drive this opening salvo of a long war.

The Ca'cadasan assault closes in, and Prince Sean Lee Ogden Romanov is pushed toward a role he never expected. He must learn command and survive Imperial politics in the middle of an extermination war.

A nuclear war in Europe opens gates to a world of magic, and millions of humans are dumped into someone else's prophecy. NATO weapons buy them time, but the elf emperor hunting their souls will not wait long.

The stranded humans push back with tanks, helicopters, and a handful of near-mythic allies, knowing their technology will not last forever. Every victory is really a race to build a foothold before magic rewrites the rules.

A terrorist once escaped by uploading his mind, and now he is back through cloned bodies and remote control. Kestrel McMann has to stop him before his final strike knocks civilization flat.

Planet-sized gates link the universe, and whatever once wiped out thousands of spacefaring civilizations has returned. A warship captain, a scientist, and a gifted child may be the only people who can learn fast enough to stop it.

On the deadly world of Azure, twelve-year-old Rebecca Goldman loses everything when the Ca'cadasans attack. Her best hope is Cornelius Walborski, a newly made Ranger hunting the same enemy through lethal wilderness.

Earth's guns and engines are failing on Refuge, so the transplanted humans turn to older knowledge instead. Roman infantry tactics, immortals, and newly awakened mages become their tools in a counteroffensive against an empire that sees them as livestock.

Sean takes the throne as the old enemy drives deeper into human territory. Between looming tech breakthroughs, political plots, and the strategic importance of the Donut, humanity has to decide whether it can hold or flee again.

The Ca'cadasans reach human space in force, and Sean Ogden Lee Romanov becomes the reluctant figure at the center of the Empire's response. Politics, new weapons, and sheer scale make the war feel much bigger and more dangerous.

Two years after her arrival in the far future, Pandora Latham faces a human regime bent on genocide around the black hole supersystem. To stop it, she pulls Watcher out of exile and into open war.

Humanity gets first contact at Tau Ceti and immediately regrets it. A death-worshipping alien force wipes out a colony and heads for Sol, giving Earth a few desperate years to prepare for a war it may not survive.

The ambush hurt the Ca'cadasans, but it did not finish them. With the Donut threatened and Imperial troops cut off in Fenri space, Sean launches a risky offensive that could finally swing the war.

Watcher has been captured, and Pandora Latham is done waiting. To rescue him and stop a new slave empire from seizing the galaxy, she has to turn the forgotten power of the Donut into open war.

These three novelettes follow the Empire's scientific arm as it searches beyond the battle lines for new worlds, strange ruins, and discoveries that could change the war. It is a smart side door into the Exodus universe.

Dandridge lays out the practical choices that helped him go from slow early sales to full-time indie authorship. It is part memoir, part nuts-and-bolts guide to visibility, promotion, and what actually worked for him.

While the alliance wins on the battlefield, the half-lich emperor sends his best hunters after the Crown of the Lost Gods, a relic that could enslave millions. Kurt von Mannerheim races north to stop them first.

With Parliament circling and worlds falling, Sean needs a real victory before the Empire comes apart at the top. His answer is a high-risk plan to hit the Ca'cadasan battle fleet head-on.

While the Empire fights one extermination war, a second one begins in secret. The Machines have found Bolthole and the nearby systems that matter most, and Exploration Command must hold the line with almost nothing to spare.

Set on the plains of Marathon in 490 BC, this short story watches the coming battle through soldiers, playwright Aeschylus, and a stranger named Akakios. It folds alien observation into a moment that could shape the future of civilization.

A long-range mission sends Commodore Natasha Sung across thirty thousand light years to find another power fighting the Ca'cadasans. The potential alliance could save the Empire, if its dark secret does not poison everything first.

After pushing the Ca'cadasans out of core human space, the alliance turns to New Moscow, where billions face industrialized slaughter. This is a ground-level war book about the troops ordered to stop a genocide.

Exploration Command finds a divided species trapped near a star about to explode. Rescuing billions is hard enough before religion, politics, mysterious artifacts, and the first signs of the Machines turn the mission into a crisis.

This story collection explores the dangers that war is not causing but still makes worse: hostile worlds, runaway science, giant predators, and impossible rescues. It is a wider look at courage on the edges of the Empire.

The Machines return in force with planet killers and extermination on their minds. Already stretched thin elsewhere, the Empire and its Klassekian allies must outthink an enemy that never tires and never stops building.

The Ca'cadasans regroup after their first real defeat and prepare new strikes, while Fenri raiders unleash terror inside Imperial space. Sean has to counter invasions, traps, and hunt-and-kill missions all at once.

On a doomed terraformed moon, young monk Patrick O'Hara can access ancient technology no one else can touch. When war, skyborne invaders, and rival powers close in, he has to decide who will use that lost power and why.

This anthology opens more corners of the Four Horsemen universe through fourteen stories about mercenaries, hunters, and survivors. Terry Mixon's contribution is the sharp and dangerous Breach of Contract.

This collection gathers 27 science fiction stories written across two decades. Time travel, terraforming, first contact, ancient ruins, and hard choices make it a broad sample of Dandridge's short-form imagination.

The Imperial Fleet carries the war to Machine space, only to learn that killer AIs are evolving fast and their new allies are almost as worrying as the enemy. Two fronts and shifting loyalties make every victory costly.

The alliance is winning across Refuge, but the half-lich emperor turns to darker allies. As gods, demons, inventors, and immortals enter the fight in the flesh, the war threatens the whole world.

These five linked tales move away from the battlefront and into the Empire's supposedly safest city. Shapeshifters, assassins, customs rescues, and biological terror make the capital just as dangerous as open war.

The alliance is rolling the Ca'cadasans back, but the enemy answers with a terror weapon built to kill entire star systems. Sean's deeper offensive has to rescue billions and survive ambushes before the balance of the war turns again.

The war finally pushes into Ca'cadasan space as giant fleets and ground armies move to free worlds and enslaved peoples. Sean aims straight at the enemy's center, but desperate empires are most dangerous when defeat starts to look real.

A death god unleashes nomad armies and undead hordes, forcing a fallen god, a young mage, and Eirish king Rory McMennamin into uneasy alliance. Faith, necromancy, and early-gunpowder warfare collide in a world where even the gods can fall.

Still reeling from a devastating enemy blow, Sean faces a new Ca'cadasan offensive and a terrible temptation: the chance to change time itself. Old warnings about the ruin caused by time travel may be the only thing standing between victory and catastrophe.

Jonah White Eagle and Fierce Eagle Company take an absurdly difficult reconnaissance mission across a lethal alien world. Then they learn the rescue force is not coming, and survival becomes the real objective.

Admiral Beata Bednarczyk is sent to the uneasy Klavarta front, where prejudice, bad politics, and a clever Ca'cadasan commander threaten to turn a shaky alliance into disaster. The war may be far from Sean, but it is no less dangerous.

On the colony Montana, human Matt Chin and the native Xakalar Xelarn have grown up like brothers. When a rare mineral rush and a mysterious alien offensive turn their home into a political flashpoint, old loyalties and new suspicions collide.

As the Machines surge back in overwhelming numbers, the Empire bets on an unproven code that might shut them down across their territory. The problem is that the Machines adapt fast, and their supposed allies may betray them first.

A nanotech transport experiment leaves scientist Paul Smothers physically improved and morally hollow. As he replicates himself into a multiplying predator, only his friend Carl may be able to stop what they created.

Beata Bednarczyk leads a bruised allied fleet while mistrust and bad leadership on her own side keep getting in the way. A desperate plan to shield an endangered world could save the front, or gamble away the Empire's greatest asset.

In the lawless Void at the edge of the galaxy, pirate hunter Alexander Hamilton crosses paths with naval commander Lady Kathryn Howard. Pirates, slavers, and imperial rivalries turn their meeting into a dangerous mix of action, grief, and unexpected romance.

A sharper Ca'cadasan emperor abandons blunt conquest for attrition, raids, and alliance-breaking strategy. Sean has to keep pressure on the enemy while holding a weary coalition together long enough to finish the war.