Marina J. Lostetter Books in Order

Three science fiction stories explore journeys through space and encounters with extraordinary discoveries. Lostetter’s collection brings together short adventures concerned with travel beyond familiar boundaries and the possibilities that emerge when explorers venture into the wider universe.

A convoy of cloned explorers sets out to investigate a star that defies scientific expectations. Across generations and centuries, their enclosed society changes while its mission persists, testing cooperation, identity and humanity’s determination to understand what lies beyond Earth.

Two human expeditions possess different clues to the purpose of an immense alien structure surrounding a star. As one begins working on the mysterious Web and another reappears far away, their discoveries raise urgent questions about its creators’ intentions.

Five science fiction stories follow characters including a would-be lunar traveler, a scavenger climbing an abandoned space elevator and a deacon trying to save a sun-god. Their different journeys bring ambition, survival and strange discoveries into focus.

After a hundred thousand years, a dormant convoy’s artificial intelligence awakens to unfamiliar visitors on a hostile young planet. Joining descendants of its human crew, it investigates the beings who revived it and the unfinished intentions of ancient alien builders.

Activated to defend a fuel mine above Jupiter, a biological robot finds troubling gaps in its knowledge and unexpected sensations in its body. As it follows orders to attack, emerging awareness exposes a conflict shaped by manipulation and misinformation.

Thieves steal a magical death mask containing a notorious murderer’s spirit, unleashing killings that suggest a new and deliberate purpose. Investigator Krona and her fellow Regulators must understand the mind behind the violence before its hidden question finds an answer.

After surviving a resurrected killer, Krona and the Regulators discover that their city’s familiar truths conceal elaborate deceptions. Challenging its powerful rulers and tightly controlled magic brings them toward mysterious manipulators and threats beyond the boundary of their world.