Solstice 31 Saga Books in Order

In 2631, weapons engineer McDonald works with a prisoner on a project involving materials science and artificial gravity. Unaware of its wider implications, he helps develop an invention capable of altering history in ways its creators cannot anticipate.

Lieutenant Valerie Hume serves as a senior security officer aboard the survey ship Ventura when someone attempts to kill her. Facing danger before the Ventura Incident, she fights to survive and reach her next command posting.

After an automated planetary defense system destroys the survey ship Ventura, maintenance worker Barcus survives on the surface below. Assisted by an artificial intelligence, he searches for answers while becoming involved in violence against the local population.

Chief Adams occupies a heavily protected escape pod carrying the Ventura's records and artificial intelligence after the ship's destruction. As its orbit deteriorates, the pod's extraordinary defenses become central to preserving the story of what happened.

Maintenance worker Roland Barcus lives and works in the high-gravity outer ring of the deep-space survey ship Ventura. This short story follows events before the disaster, when he remains unaware of the catastrophe approaching his crew.