Quarkfolio Books: 12 books

What's a poor goblin to do when a life of pillaging, barn burning, and general mayhem has lost its luster? Find out in this short story about Gorko, a goblin who wants to learn what life is like outside his Cave and Kin.

A short story with a humorous and somewhat insensitive take on alien abductions. Harry Hindman has been repeatedly abducted by aliens since he was sixteen. Now, with the end of the world near, he finds out just what was up with those probes...

Blogs are becoming a thing, flip phones are the epitome of texting tech, and AOL still sends out those freebie trial discs.  They're also tough times in Detroit, especially for Hamtramck girl and part-time tech blogger Toni Dzielny. Within days, she's lost her technical writing job, has to swear...

The Andean Commonwealth is a land where humans use their Faith to magically shape the world around them. Warrior-priests called dahkshari keep order by serving as judge, jury, and executioner. And "heretics" strike out into the unknown frontier along Andea's borders to escape the overcrowded...

Marcus Antonius Primus began a golden age for humanity when he liberated Roma from Octavian Caesar and became sole Consul. With wisdom from the gods, future Antonii Consuls conquered the world and spawned an interstellar civilization. Three weeks before the millennial anniversary of the Antonii...

Reason and science gave the Recindian Compact wonders like steam engines, telegraphs, and gunpowder. The world had order. It made sense. Until one night two multi-colored bands of light split the sky, spanning the horizons like rings around the planet. Soon after, unnatural storms assaulted...

Remington Blakes, a magus from a 21st century where magic powers the world, has a big problem.  His former mentor, William Ford, stranded him in ancient Rome without a memory as to how or why. Well a guy has to eat, so he's forced to eke out a living as a magus-for-hire among Rome's plebeians....

Marcus Antonius Cordus thought he'd left his past behind when he escaped Terra six years ago. Namely, being Consular Heir of the disintegrating Roman Republic and sole carrier of the sentient alien Muse virus that once ruled the Republic. All he wants is to explore the universe with his mercenary...

In a universe where the Roman Empire survived and spawned an interstellar civilization, Marcus Antonius Cordus fights to free his people from enslavement by a merciless alien intelligence that has watched humanity since its beginnings.  Now you can get all three volumes in the Codex Antonius series (MUSES OF ROMA, MUSES OF TERRA, and MUSES OF THE REPUBLIC) in one low-priced ebook.

Natta Magus watched Helva, the granddaughter of Cleopatra, literally leap into hell to save him and Augustan Rome from annihilation. The least he could do was bust her out. His twenty-first century honor would accept nothing less. So along with Cana, a slave-turned-magi apprentice, and...

Having saved Terra from annihilation, Marcus Antonius Cordus is awarded something he fought his whole life to avoid: the Consulship of the Roman Republic.  Cordus's only joy comes from his secret relationship with Aquilina Servilia, his Praetorian Prefect and the woman who coaxed him out of...

Natta Magus is getting used to life in Augustan Rome. While it doesn't have twenty-first century perks like baseball or coffee, at least his unique magical skills can help his Aventine Hill friends. But the Roman government has noticed his talents, and they call on him when a religious artifact from...