About Adaptive Reasoning and Other Stories
Buckle up for nine stories of exploration and adventure as humanity expands to distant stars, as told by John M. Olsen, with four debut stories never seen in print.
Unacceptable Losses – (Mech short 1) The first of four unrelated adventure stories using the same suit of mechanized armor. Sergeant Carolyn Storm tries to get home alone through enemy territory.
Mechanized Militia – (Mech short 2) Commander Jared Tucker must discover who is pitting two armies against each other.
Maintenance Mode – (Mech short 3) The life of a mech maintenance tech gets interesting when the space station is invaded.
The Order of Things – (Mech short 4) What do you do when Company 1337’s food shipment turns out to be a mech, and you’re the cook?
Consolation Prize – Two teens get cut off from their settlement in the ever-present fog of Consolation, unable to call home.
Three Strikes – How far would you go to defend your family? An orbital cargo inspector has her limits tested.
Last Chance – A starship captain must chase down and eliminate rebels who escaped on a generation ship before he was born.
Retirement Plan – All he wanted was to retire in peace on a backwater world, but no plan survives contact with the enemy.
Adaptive Reasoning – Amidst an alien plot to conquer Earth, an android discovers what it means to be human.
Sneak preview ofDiscovery: Polecat Protocol Book 1, an introduction to John M. Olsen’s new Polecat Protocol science fiction series. Space miners must save themselves after disaster cuts them off from all outside contact. Then they discover it’s much worse than they could have imagined.
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John M. Olsen edits and writes speculative fiction across multiple genres and he loves stories about ordinary people stepping up to do extraordinary things.
He loves to create and fix things, whether editing or writing novels or short stories or working in his secret lair equipped with dangerous power tools. In all cases, he applies engineering principles and processes to the task at hand, often in unpredictable ways.
He lives in Utah with his lovely wife and a variable number of grown children and a constantly changing subset of extended family.
Check out his ramblings on his blog. Safety goggles are optional but recommended.