Military Science Fiction

Stories forged in
duty and fire.

Science fiction built on the things that matter. Brotherhood. Sacrifice. The line between the mission and the man who carries it.

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About the Author

Built different.

Brent Gaskey

Brent Gaskey spent a career in the fire service before turning to fiction. The job taught him what most people only read about: how men act under pressure, what loyalty costs when it's tested, and what happens when the plan falls apart and someone still has to move.

He writes military science fiction published through Aethon Books. His work is built on history—ancient and modern—and written deliberately for men and young men who want stories where duty, honor, and brotherhood aren't treated as relics.

He lives in Oregon.

Published Works

The books.

Outland Stars · Military Science Fiction

The Outland Stars Trilogy

Garrett James grows up on Calvary Four, an isolated colony world cut off from the rest of humanity for centuries. When he survives the ARCLITE procedure and bonds with an ancient combat AI, he inherits more than enhanced biology, he inherits a galactic war. Armed with a centuries-old warship, an ancient combat android, and the mandate of a dead civilization, Garrett leaves behind everything he knows to reignite the war between the Independent Frontier Systems and the Union of Core Worlds, a sprawling aristocratic regime that treats its frontier colonies as resource-extraction operations and its gene-engineered populations as property. Across the trilogy, Garrett gathers unlikely allies — Rutger, a brawler turned strategist; Klaxion, a Starborn spy, Brandur, a Stoneborn exile nursing a generational grudge; and Aleksandra Popov, a high-born hussar lancer whose storied mecha cavalry company has spent four centuries waiting to fight alongside the frontier again. He forges them into the core of a rebellion that frees the Outlands from the chains of their oppressors, and ignites the fires of revolution across the galaxy.

Book I — Vanguard Ranger
Book II — Rebel Phoenix
Book III — Fires of Liberation

Coming Soon
LitRPG Series

Rifles of Acadia

A colonial-era secondary world where black powder meets old magic and the familiar races of high fantasy face a frontier that doesn't care about prophecy. Aldwyn Brant didn't ask for this fight. He got it anyway.


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Writing as Brett Bearn

Short fiction.

Shorter work under a different name. Different genres, different rules—same instinct for the gut punch.

Ps and Qs Publishing Presents · Anthology

Killer Kaiju

A multi-author anthology of giant monster mayhem. One of nine authors in the collection, published March 2026.


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Weird West

Blood Debts in High Timber

Oregon Territory, 1882. A disgraced Arcanewright turned frontier gunslinger finds out that some debts don't settle with silver.


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Beyond the Page

The craft, out loud.

FNG Authors Podcast

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FNG Field Notes

Short-form craft breakdowns on YouTube. Scene-level analysis of what makes great storytelling work, pulled apart and examined under good light.


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