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

Humanity scattered to the stars and forgot what held it together. In the deep black, where clans carve civilizations from hollowed-out asteroids and empires rule through control of a single irreplaceable resource, one fight decides whether the Outlands burn or break free.

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.


Coming Soon

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

A multi-host conversation about the craft of writing fiction—what works, what doesn't, and what nobody tells you about the business of getting books into hands.


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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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