Tales from the Cassidyverse

ENTROPY GHOSTS AND OTHER FIRST CONTACT PROBLEMSFirst contact was never supposed to involve extradimensional predators, impossible blue boxes, or a woman who treats the laws of physics like polite suggestions.When the Terran Federation starship Constitution encounters a threat from beyond known space-and beyond known reality-Fleet Admiral Kendra Cassidy and Captain Aiyana Cassidy find themselves facing an enemy that doesn't just want conquest. It wants erasure. Entire timelines reduced to raw material.Enter the Professor.Brilliant. Infuriating. Dangerously curious. She arrives with answers no one asked for, solutions that come with footnotes the universe hasn't approved yet, and a habit of saving civilizations while smiling like she knows the punchline. As the situation escalates from first contact to full-blown cosmic catastrophe, Kendra, Aiyana, and their crew must decide how much they're willing to risk-personally, professionally, and existentially-to stop something that should never have existed.What follows is a high-stakes collision of space exploration, alien contact, chaotic genius, and found family-where command decisions matter, humor is a survival trait, and sacrifice comes with consequences that linger long after the stars settle.Set in the Cassidyverse, Entropy Ghosts and Other First Contact Problems is a cinematic, character-driven space opera about curiosity, courage, and the dangerous business of poking the impossible until it pokes back. If you want strong FMCs who don't wait to be rescued, wit, and stories that will keep you up until 2am, then you're in the right place!What doesn't Adam Gaffen write?Well, hold on. He might be on it now.So far his Cassidyverse contains Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, and Rom-Com, with Dark Romance on the horizon.He's a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the Heinlein Society. He and his wife are owned by a pack of dogs and cats.

What happens when people, gods, AIs, and institutions stop behaving as designed?Out of Spec…As Designed is a science fiction and speculative fiction collection about systems under pressure-and the individuals who refuse to fit cleanly inside them. Across dark political SF, sharp satire, quiet domestic moments, cosmic horror, absurd bureaucracy, and hard-won hope, these stories explore what survives when rules fail, authority corrodes, and survival requires improvisation.You'll find familiar faces from the Cassidyverse-Kendra Cassidy, Dakota Chase, Kalili and Faith-alongside new voices who don't get monuments or victory parades. There are assassins and parents, soldiers and immortals, angels with terrible management skills, demons with performance reviews, AIs asking inconvenient questions, and ordinary people doing the unglamorous work of living after the explosion. Some stories are funny. Some are brutal. Many are both.This is fiction about agency, consent, and responsibility. About found family, moral injury, and the cost of choosing to intervene-or choosing not to. Humor here isn't an escape hatch; it's a survival tool. Hope isn't guaranteed, but it is chosen.You don't need to know the Cassidyverse to start here. These stories are designed to meet you where you are.Start anywhere. If you want strong FMCs who don't wait to be rescued, wit, and stories that will keep you up until 2am, then you're in the right place!What doesn't Adam Gaffen write?Well, hold on. He might be on it now.So far his Cassidyverse contains Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, and Rom-Com, with Dark Romance on the horizon.He's a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the Heinlein Society. He and his wife are owned by a pack of dogs and cats.