Fantasy has always lived at the intersection of imagination and truth — and Steven Atwood has spent his career at that same intersection, just in uniform. As a U.S. Army infantry officer and Department of Defense program manager working with advanced technology, he learned early that the line between a tool and a weapon depends entirely on who’s holding it, and why. That understanding is baked into every fantasy world he builds.
Shaped by the epic world-building of Terry Brooks and the character-driven drama of Margaret Weis, Steven writes fantasy where magic behaves like the complex systems he spent his career managing — with rules, consequences, and a cost that someone always has to pay. His characters carry long arcs forged in hard choices, and no one in his stories gets to stay innocent. That’s not darkness for its own sake. It’s honesty about what it means to be human in an extraordinary world.
Amari Series | Military Sci-Fi Rebellion Against Tyranny
She was born to survive — not to lead a revolution.
Amari Prokop has spent her life as a pirate captain, smuggling black-market ore and staying two steps ahead of the United Nations’ enforcement arm. She’s ruthless when she has to be, loyal when it costs her, and done pretending the galaxy owes her anything. Her last job was supposed to buy her a way out.
Instead, it drags her into a war she never chose — against a totalitarian world government that outlawed religion, assigns citizens their professions, and disappears anyone who asks the wrong question. What starts as one final heist becomes a rebellion that spans planets, moons, and the asteroid belt, and forces Amari to become the very thing she swore she’d never be: someone worth following.
This is political and military science fiction for readers who want real stakes — where institutions don’t fall because one hero is brave enough, and every act of violence leaves a mark. Across six books, Amari and the people she gathers around her — an idealistic hacker carrying a dead woman’s promise, a disgraced intelligence officer fighting his own conscience, a defected enforcer who can’t unsee what he’s done — chip away at a bureaucracy built to outlast them all. Faith, when it appears, is treated as real and costly, not decorative — a reason to keep going, not a hand that reaches down to fix things.
If you’re drawn to science fiction book series about rebellion against a corrupt government, stories where faith and hard sci-fi collide without turning preachy, or the kind of military sci-fi with lasting consequences that The Expanseand Galaxy’s Edge readers love, the Amari series is built for you.
Cyber Invasion
They won every battle. Then they lost everything.
After a decade of decorated service, commanders Lea and Cain McKenna were stripped of their ranks and exiled — not for failure, but for refusing the military’s mandatory cybernetic implant. It seemed like a small act of defiance. Until it became humanity’s only hope.
When an alien race weaponizes a computer virus to disable the implants of an entire battle cruiser’s crew and seizes the ship, the Global Interstellar Security force is forced to confront the fatal flaw it built into the human race: a species wired to a network can be killed with a keystroke.
Desperate, President Anna Zahrof reverses her decision and calls on the two soldiers she cast aside. Now Lea and Cain must race to destroy the Jump Station — the gateway through which an alien fleet will flood the Solar System — before time runs out.
Fighting for a world that condemned them. Trusting a government that betrayed them. And wrestling with the most impossible question of all: Could you let the one you love die to save the world that hates you?
CYBER INVASION is the explosive first book in the A.I. Conspiracy series — a military sci-fi thriller where the greatest weapon against humanity is the upgrade they chose.
Nano WMD
When Blake Walker is given a choice — prison or the top-secret J.A.N.U.S. Program — he chooses the mission. Fresh from training, Blake faces his first assignment: terrorists have stolen a weapon of mass destruction powered by deadly nanobots from a secret government lab in New Mexico.
Racing against time across the country, Blake must stop the terrorists before New York City is reduced to chaos. But who is really pulling the strings behind this deadly plot?
Nano WMD is a gripping techno-thriller packed with pulse-pounding action, high-tech espionage, and a hero who will risk everything to save millions. Perfect for fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and James Rollins.
Grab your copy now and join Blake Walker on his most dangerous mission yet!