Science Consortium

Out past Earth's crowded lanes, the Science Consortium runs everything worth running — the money, the laboratories, the long reach into deep space. Then the aliens they call the gomesh come knocking, and an empire built on certainty learns how fast certainty burns. This is the shared future of indie author Michael Penmore, carried across four interlocking series. Jane Poole Genesis (five books) lays down the origins; Fall of the Space Marine opens the wider war with Prox Doom; Her Last Run is a two-part escape thriller breaking out of the Rockwall; and the On the Anvil novellas ride shorter and lighter, right down to a Christmas on a mining rock. The action favors barren moons and frontier outposts — Formosan, Rockwall — the sort of place where a tax inspector's dull errand turns, without warning, into "look out for dragons." What you get is brisk, human-scaled space opera: ordinary people wedged between a vast machine and the things that want it dead, working out where they belong and who has already sold them out. Belonging, betrayal, and saving the world, at speed. No official reading order stands; take it in publication order and let Jane Poole Genesis be your ground floor.