Near Space Books in Order

Construction crews in Earth orbit think they are building a solar power satellite, until the job starts to look far darker. Steele's debut brings blue-collar grit and political anger to a very plausible near future.

On a huge orbital colony, Sheriff John Bigthorn has to juggle mob violence, local politics, and separatist tension. It is a lively Near-Space story that mixes frontier law, crime, and orbital realism.

Life at a lunar mining station is already hard enough before trouble erupts far from help. Steele focuses on the workers, security staff, and fragile machinery that make a Moon settlement feel real.

An expedition to the Face on Mars uncovers a far older mystery beneath the dust. Steele turns one of science fiction's favorite Martian myths into an adventure about ruins, obsession, and what humans hope to find.

A man expecting death wakes more than a century later in a new body and a very different society. Steele uses that premise to ask who owns a life, and what freedom means when the future has already claimed you.

This big collection gathers Steele's Near-Space stories into one place, including award-winning work set across Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars. It is the best single map to his grounded solar-system future.