The vac­u­um doesn’t for­give mis­takes. Nei­ther does cor­po­rate greed on the lunar frontier.

If you’ve rid­den the regolith with Nils Carmike in Thun­der Moon Tus­sle, felt the pull of low‑g des­per­a­tion, and won­dered what came before—how Con­rad Sta­tion first teetered on the edge of chaos—then step back into the Fab­u­lae Lunae timeline.

The Luna­dyne Inci­dent and Oth­er Sto­ries col­lects the ear­ly tales that set the stage for every­thing that follows.

• In The Luna­dyne Inci­dent, Sher­iff Del Ander­son stands alone against a mer­ce­nary siege at Con­rad Sta­tion. Coal Co.’s hired guns, led by the infa­mous Nin­ja Cranston, aim to crush a min­ers’ strike and force a con­tract. Del turns the unfor­giv­ing lunar envi­ron­ment itself into a weapon—outwitting cun­ning adver­saries, pro­tect­ing a hun­dred souls, and pay­ing a bru­tal price for sur­vival. It’s a hard vac­u­um thriller at its rawest: every choice is life or death, and vic­to­ry tastes like dust.
• Golf and Out­gassing send Annie and Milt back to the Fra Mau­ro high­lands, chas­ing Apol­lo-era mys­ter­ies and KREEP deposits amid unknown haz­ards and lega­cy risks.
• CME races Nils against a killer solar storm, enforc­ing the prospector’s unbreak­able Rule 1: Survive.
• Descent into Dark­ness and Morgan’s Road fill in the cracks—early astro­naut days, per­son­al agen­das, and one man’s last bid to stay on the Moon.

These sto­ries bridge the hard sci­ence foun­da­tions to the big­ger lunar sagas in *Thun­der Moon Tus­sle* and the upcom­ing *Mask of the Joy­ful Moon*. Cor­po­rate shad­ows stretch long across the regolith; betray­al brews in the hab mod­ules; and the Moon itself is the harsh­est judge.

Near-future sci-fi ground­ed in real lunar geol­o­gy, astro­physics, and human grit—no hand-wav­ing, just the bit­ter truth of liv­ing off-world.

Grab your copy now on Ama­zon (Kin­dle and paper­back): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5F7L3QS

Dive into the ori­gins of the Fab­u­lae Lunae uni­verse. The Moon was nev­er welcoming—but the sto­ries are.

(What hap­pens when the thin blue line wears a suit rat­ed for vac­u­um? Read and find out.)

Torn MacAlester’s Fabulae Lunae

The Lunadyne Incident  and Other Stories (buy now)

Fabulae Lunae 1

Thunder Moon Tussle (buy now)

Fabulae Lunae 2

Mask of the Joyful Moon