Brian H Roberts
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Brian H. Roberts writes science fiction thrillers that blend scientific realism, emotional authenticity, and moral tension—stories where ordinary people are thrust into extraordinary systems and forced to confront the true cost of progress. A lifelong student of science and technology, Roberts absorbed the craft of storytelling through decades of reading the masters of Hard Sci-Fi and high-stakes thrillers—Asimov, Clarke, Herbert, Weir, Crichton, Clancy, and more. Their influence shaped his commitment to believable worlds, precise scientific logic, and characters whose humanity matters as much as the ideas driving the plot. Before turning to fiction, Roberts built a diverse career rooted in real-world problem-solving. He has been a contractor, a successful civil engineer, a husband, father, and grandfather, and an avid outdoor adventurer. Those experiences—marriage, family, loss, reinvention, and the grind of complex work—ground the emotional texture of his stories just as his technical background informs their scientific plausibility. Now retired, he and his wife traded the bustle of Seattle for the wide-open spaces of Central Oregon, where high desert, pine forests, and endless sky provide both adventure and inspiration. When he isn’t writing, he’s often outdoors hiking, mountain biking, skiing, or contemplating the thin boundary between human intention and the systems we create to shape our future.
Brian H Roberts' books
Genres: Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
Dustin “Dusty” Gordon, a quiet mechanic in the corporate Mars colony of Ep City, is thrust into a violent struggle between blue-collar guilds and EPSILON, the corporation racing to replace workers with a quantum AGI called MAGIQ. After an accident leaves Dusty brain-damaged, neurosurgeon Dr. Jenner’s experimental nanite treatment unintentionally links Dusty’s consciousness with MAGIQ, creating a powerful human-machine synergy. As sabotage, political manipulation, and escalating guild conflict threaten civil war, Dusty reluctantly rises to leadership, uniting rival guilds and exposing COO Randall Skinner’s brutal attempts to crush the strike—including an EMP attack that nearly kills him. With MAGIQ’s help, Dusty prevents bloodshed, rescues his captured former girlfriend Ellen, and forces Skinner’s retreat. In the aftermath, Dusty proposes a radically collaborative future: a slower automation rollout, retraining for displaced workers, and shared governance across all guilds. His unexpected rise from timid mechanic to a leader capable of reshaping Mars reveals...
Genres: Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
A privately funded mission races to become the first human expedition to Mars, driven by the promise of vast rare earth mineral wealth that could break China’s stranglehold on global technology markets. But when the spacecraft Prospector 1 is sabotaged during its journey, commander Dallas Gordon and his crew are forced into a catastrophic emergency landing far from their intended destination on the Martian surface. Stranded with damaged equipment and limited supplies, the crew must undertake a perilous 75-kilometer trek across the hostile Martian landscape to reach Prospector Base before their life-support systems fail. As tensions rise both on Mars and within EPSILON’s mission control on Earth, the novel combines hard-science realism, corporate intrigue, survival adventure, and high-stakes suspense into a gripping story about humanity’s first fragile foothold on another world.