Robert Kroese Books in Order

This early humor collection gathers satirical pieces on pop culture, politics, and everyday absurdity. It is a good snapshot of Kroese's blog-born comic voice before the novels took over.

This comic nonfiction book collects some of the most unintentionally funny church signs around, along with sharp commentary. It is equal parts photo album, roast, and study in public messaging gone very wrong.

Religion reporter Christine Temetri thinks she is covering another failed doomsday story until she meets Mercury, a rogue angel with a talent for making the apocalypse worse. Together with a very unlikely Antichrist, they have to stop the end of the world.

A funny essay collection on pop culture, nerd life, and whatever else catches Kroese's sideways attention. The jokes are dry, odd, and happy to wander somewhere unexpected.

Christine, Mercury, and FBI investigator Jacob Slater are pulled into a plot involving natural disasters, war, and a billionaire chasing the deepest secrets of the universe. If Horace Finch succeeds, reality itself may not survive.

This comic prequel sends Mercury to ancient Mesopotamia on one of his earliest assignments for the Apocalypse Bureau. His job is to stop the jazz age from arriving thousands of years too soon, which turns out to be harder than it sounds.

Kroese's practical guide walks through the nuts and bolts of self-publishing, from editing and formatting to marketing and visibility. It is aimed at novelists who want a clear picture of the indie path.

King Boric is dead, but death has not made life simpler. To avoid spending eternity as a cursed wraith, he must find the man behind his enchanted sword and cross a very strange fantasy world to do it.

Mercury heads to ancient Troy and tries to engineer the most unnecessarily complicated sneak attack in history. It is a quick, funny prequel that shows just how long he has been making simple missions complicated.

With Mercury missing, Christine Temetri and Jacob Slater are left to face Lucifer's latest apocalyptic scheme on their own. To save Earth and Heaven, they first have to find the one angel least interested in being found.

This slim collection gathers three speculative stories that lean darker than much of Kroese's comic fiction. It is a quick sampler of his taste for sharp ideas, uneasy turns, and strange futures.

This short collection leans into Kroese's love of the absurd, mixing speculative setups with dry, off-center humor. The title piece suggests exactly the kind of cosmic bureaucracy he enjoys skewering.

Paul Bayes survives a suicide attempt and meets Tali, a young woman who can foresee disasters and stop them. But once Paul starts pushing back against fate, he learns the future has ways of fighting back.

A software tester and a fringe reporter uncover evidence that angels have infiltrated the U.S. government. Exposing the conspiracy will require Mercury, old enemies, and some very uneasy alliances.

Rex Nihilo is a swaggering space con man who wins a prison planet in a poker game and owes more than he can ever pay back. Escaping that mess means pulling off an even bigger scam in the middle of imperial politics and rebellion.

Retired cop Benjamin Stone comes to dot-com boom Sunnyview looking for his estranged daughter and finds her dead instead. His search for answers uncovers a startup conspiracy and old crimes buried under Silicon Valley's shiny surface.

After a magical accident, knight Vergil wakes as an old man in a world transformed by a long-finished battle between good and evil. He sets out to uncover the real threat to Dis, armed mostly with outdated ideals and stubbornness.

Young missionary Wyngalf wants to prove his faith, but his potential converts are more worried about a dragon. Alongside a stowaway and a shunned goblin, he has to find the courage to face a problem no sermon can fix.

Years after Earth is cut off from Heaven, Mercury decides he should be the one to fix it. His plan triggers time travel, parallel universes, and a fresh threat to the fabric of reality.

In 2039 Los Angeles, eccentric investigator Erasmus Keane is hired to find a missing genetically altered sheep. The case leads him and Blake Fowler into a fractured city where corporate science and personal danger are tightly tangled.

Rex and his robot partner Sasha hijack a cargo ship and stumble into a frozen fanatic, a galactic conspiracy, and several groups that want them dead. Saving the galaxy was not part of the original plan.

Forced into smuggling on a food-starved world, Rex and Sasha uncover the ugly secret behind a corporation's synthetic rations. To get out alive, they have to start a rebellion with some very unlikely allies.

Keane and Blake chase a rare coin tied to an untraceable virtual currency just as a woman goes missing and a murder points back at them. The deeper they dig, the more the case looks like a citywide conspiracy.

Pepper Melange swore off crime, but debt to the Ursa Minor Mafia pushes her toward one last heist, stealing the most valuable gem in the galaxy. The job gets much bigger once she learns what the Emerald really means.

Stranded in medieval Europe, three travelers from the future try to build the foundations of a starbound craft in secret. When war closes around them, they have to defend Paris and keep the Iron Dragon dream alive.

A far-future war with aliens ends in disaster when a human survey ship is thrown back to 885 A.D. Engineer Carolyn Reyes must survive among Vikings and somehow build a path back to the stars.

Rival powers are battling for control of Orszag, and Konrad may be the piece that decides everything. To turn the game around, he has to go beneath Nagyvaros in search of an ancient book and truths that could destroy him.

Konrad carries a black brand that makes the world think he is a sorcerer, whether he likes it or not. Hunted across Orszag by monsters and power seekers, he has to survive long enough to learn what the mark really means.

A demon from the shadow world and its spectral army are closing on Nagyvaros. Konrad must master the warlock's brand fast, while plotting against the enemies who ruined his life.

Imprisoned by the Cult of Turelem, Konrad gets a chance at redemption when a dead prophetess begins haunting the land. His search for answers leads to a mountain fortress and a final clash with a mad sorcerer.

In ninth-century Iceland, the long effort to save humanity by building a craft for the stars continues. The technical challenge is huge, and the political and military pressure around it keeps growing.

Selling black market planets sounds like a fine way for Rex Nihilo to get rich, right up until everyone in the galaxy notices. Soon he and Sasha are outrunning empires, cultists, mobsters, and an ancient threat to humanity.

With most threats to Orszag gone, only the demon Arnyek remains, waiting to destroy the world. Desperate to stop him, Konrad turns to forbidden magic and risks becoming the very thing he fears.

Humanity's future now rests with Vikings who have taken to the stars and need uneasy allies to fight the Cho-ta'an. The search for answers leads across time, from shattered futures to first-century Judea.

The final Iron Dragon book sends a band of Vikings across space and time against an ancient alien race. Humanity's last hope is violent, improbable, and headed straight for Ragnarok.

In a debt-strangled near future, entrepreneur Kade Kapur offers America a miracle, exclusive rights to mine a mineral-rich asteroid called Mammon. The plan looks like salvation until the mission goes very wrong.

This anthology gathers short fiction built around unintended consequences, strange turns, and speculative twists. It offers a mix of bite-size stories with a darker edge than a simple comedy collection.

As economic collapse pushes the world toward war, a secret team of scientists and engineers works on a desperate asteroid mission. Their success could save Earth, or change the disaster completely.

In the wake of catastrophe, major powers fight over North Africa while a small band of engineers and mercenaries struggles to save millions from starvation. The future depends on whether they can build something better out of the wreckage.

A demonic cabal is trying to drag civilization into a new Dark Age, and only GRAIL can stop it. Their best hope is a dangerous trip into the past to recover a lost book of demonology.

As a powerful AI threatens human freedom, Martin Raines is forced back into medieval Europe to learn the truth about GRAIL and the Codex Babylon. The deeper he digs, the more dangerous the past becomes.

The final Cross-Time Crusade book brings GRAIL's long fight into its endgame. Old enemies, buried truths, and centuries of manipulation converge as the battle over humanity's future reaches its breaking point.

This short prequel offers a quick taste of Rex Nihilo and Sasha before the larger novels begin. A half-baked scheme, bad judgment, and comic fallout arrive right on schedule.

Marooned on a planet whose entire culture is built around World War II movies, Rex and Sasha need a hidden weapons cache to get off-world. Winning a fake war may be their only real option.

Arrested for crimes he has not committed yet, Rex gets one chance to earn his freedom by infiltrating a group of android assassins. The job drops him and Sasha into a corporate conspiracy on the neon-lit world of Sydmede.

Rex and Sasha land on the frontier world Tierra Grande expecting an easy job and find shootouts, troublemakers, and a conspiracy in the town of Last Chance. Their rescue mission quickly turns into a fight for survival.

This companion book gives readers a closer look at the ships, planets, factions, and characters behind Rex Nihilo's adventures. It works as a fun reference for fans who want more of the series' worldbuilding.

This collection gathers humorous short fiction from across Kroese's worlds, including new Mercury material. It is a lively sampler of angels, grifters, oddballs, and the author's off-center comic voice.

With the Disincorporated Zone close to civil war, Erasmus Keane and Blake Fowler follow a trail of riddles into a conspiracy that reaches well beyond the streets of Los Angeles. Every answer only makes the trap larger.

Corporate lawyer Cal Ransom is shipped off to a repossession crew and told to recover a missing research vessel in a dead system. Rival ships, corporate secrets, and something aboard the target vessel quickly turn the job deadly.

Cal's next repo mission sends him after a battered freighter, only to drop him into a colonial crisis shaped by life-saving cargo and alien ruins. To survive, he has to decide what the law is really for.

As hidden wars and alien intelligence collide, Cal and the crew of the Hard Bargain are forced into choices no contract can settle. Then faster-than-light travel begins to fail, and the galaxy changes around them.

Trying to prove the repossession jobs are part of a larger plan, Cal returns to the dead Koschei system. What he finds points to an alien extinction, a containment conspiracy, and enemies who write the rules as they go.

Following a dangerous lead to the edge of charted space, Cal uncovers a secret that turns allies into liabilities. On a quarantined world, even the machines begin to look like something far worse than tools.