THE GENESIS RENEWED SAGA
A pathogen from a frozen moon. A handful of survivors. A country that no longer exists.
Post-apocalyptic science fiction following former Marine and high school history teacher Dave Sharp and a band of survivors after a celestial pathogen nearly wipes out humanity.
BOOK 3 · COMING SOON
News from the Shaw Shack
What’s caught my interest in the indie world, what I’m reading, and how the next book is coming along.
Books
STAND-ALONE · 2023
The Tunguska Deception
What really happened over Siberia in 1908 is still classified at the highest levels of world powers.
GENESIS RENEWED · BOOK 1 · 2023
Genesis Renewed
Simple life beneath Europa’s ice turns out to be a pathogen, and it may have triggered the extinction of mankind.
GENESIS RENEWED · BOOK 2 · 2024
Oaths and Odysseys
Fewer than a thousand survivors remain in the United States, and the remnants of man are decaying rapidly.
Short fiction
“Fiddler”
in Contact This!: A First Contact Anthology · Bayonet Books, 2019
A teenager’s accidental trip through time.
“#ICETEROIDSURVIVORS”
in From The Ashes · Bayonet Books, 2020
A short story from the earliest days of the Genesis Renewed world.
“The Lost Fedora”
in The Fifth Fedora: Weird Noir & Stranger Tales · Borda Books and Wilder Utopia, 2022
A paranormal haberdashery offers a unique opportunity.
From the blog
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About Rick
I tell lies to strangers and kill people for their entertainment. It took a while to come to terms with that. By day I’m a husband, a father of four, and a semi-retired technology executive; by night I write science fiction, alternate history, and post-apocalyptic thrillers.