The Antithesis Progression
Colonization historically leads to wars of revolution. – Rueben Briggs
In 2124, the human race is spreading out from its cradle. It’s a fragile time, the second generation of humans who’ve never set foot on Terran soil are coming of age in a world still dominated by Earth-bound politicians and warlords. All of them know the revolution is coming, but none of them could have predicted that it would begin with the fall of a card.
Poker is not a game of chance. It’s a game of survival. – Joss Kyle
Under these conditions, only fools, dreamers, madmen, and scoundrels strike out to the frontier–and only the most ruthless, bloody-minded, and lucky survive there.
The Antithesis Progression is a five-volume series that begins with a crooked card game and tracks its terrible, tragic, and momentous consequences as they echo through the halls of power in Washington, Tehran, Luna, and out into the rest of the solar system. Rampaging through a twisting maze of political gamesmanship, divided loyalties, obsession, redemption, and damnation, this character-driven espionage thriller follows the adventures of ten people from different worlds, and the personal obsessions that send them hurtling headlong into history.
“I’m a lot of things. A ‘good man’ isn’t among them.” -Rueben Briggs
Humanity stands at the foot of its longest ladder, and those who climb it will determine the face with which the children of Earth greet the galaxy. In this world, new religions, secret societies, long-buried grudges, and new discoveries conspire together to turn the lives of ordinary people upside down as they risk everything to see their personal vision of the future painted across the stars.
All understanding moves inevitably from thesis, to antithesis, to synthesis. But sometimes, something gets stuck. -Douglas Reeves
The game is on with the podcast of Book 2: Free Will (and Other Compulsions).
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The Short Stories
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Mondu, once an AI designer at the top of the Nigerian IT industry, needed to escape from a life that was eating him alive. He found refuge as a shopkeeper in the depths of the Amazon, at a unique resort. It’s a preserve for all forms of Amazon life–reptiles, mammals, and human and material culture. No modern technology allowed.
In a world of dictators and perpetual surveillance, it is one place where a man can disappear–and Mondu isn’t the only one who knows it. When the tourist traffic is driven out by torrential rains, only the businessmen and the scientists remain–until the day when a man walks into Mondu’s shop. He wants to disappear–and the Yakuza are hot on his tail.
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The Novels
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Predestination (and Other Games of Chance)
A man walks into a bar…
Joss Kyle is a one-time National Security Advisor who barely escaped Washington D.C. with his skin intact. For three years he’s lived by his wits and the fall of the cards in the criminal underworld of South America, but jumping planet for Space Station Sidon means walking into a ambush more dangerous than any he’s yet faced:
A man named Alex Hart wants to play cards with him.
Their meeting will fling Joss into a game playing for highest stakes in town: control entire solar system. Chased by a revolutionary leader, agents of a corrupt senator, and an underworld boss known only as The Green Lady, he quickly discovers that in the looking-glass world above the gravity well, survival, like poker, is just another sport. And in this contest, it isn’t whether you win or lose, it’s how you rig the game.
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Free Will (and Other Compulsions)
The Lunar Revolution is faltering. The Persian Fleet is on the move. And Douglas Reeves is convinced that the resistance has a traitor.
But with The Green Lady on the warpath, a psychopath on the loose, and Senator Shelley inches away from achieving his aims, the fate of Reeves’ conspiracy of freedom rests in the unlikely hands of a fugitive trapped between planets, with no way to clear his name or rid himself of his sworn enemy.
And his name is Joss Kyle.
From the surface of Mars to the forests of Vermont, the players are at the table, their antes are in, and the next round of cards is about to hit the felt. And this hand will change the face of the solar system, and the fate of the human race.
Forever.
The question isn’t any longer about who will win and who will lose, but who will survive the game?
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Avarice
(and Other Acts of Charity) |
Forthcoming |
Anarchy
(and Other Forms of Government) |
Forthcoming |
Predation
(and Other Acts of Mercy) |
Forthcoming |
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