Strange Space Adventures

Adventures happen when you least expect them... In the time of the Novan War, the pilots of the 2nd Darter Squadron "Musketeers" are no strangers to peril. Even the little Florivan kitten who serves as their mascot has a tendency to get into trouble. When two of the Musketeers and their mascot find themselves stranded on a seemingly deserted mining colony, though, they find themselves in a situation none of their previous adventures could have prepared them for. With no way to contact the rest of the Defense Fleet, they'll have to find their own way to repair their darters and get back to their starship. To make matters worse, enemy forces are lurking in the nearby asteroids. The Mayview outpost was abandoned at the start of the War, but the Musketeers aren't alone here. Someone is watching them from behind the overgrown vines...

The journey home is only the beginning... Pilot-Sergeant Julian Potts is a long way from where he's supposed to be. He's not sure how he ended up needing to hitchhike across the galaxy with any alien ship that would take him in the right direction. He suspects it has something to do with Mirawynd, the tiny Florivan kitten who's taken up residence in his pockets. All Mirawynd knows is that it's a lot harder to keep their human safe than they expected... No Amount of Trouble is the seventh title in Katie Silverwings' award-winning Strange Space® Adventures series of optimistic science fiction stories. Featuring friendly aliens, the occasional talking bird, and a future in which people are accepted for who they are, the world of Strange Space® offers tales of adventure and friendship for readers of all ages.

It's the dawn of a new era...​ The Novan War has just begun. All that stands between humanity and utter destruction are the ships of the Sol Coalition Defense Fleet. ​The only problem? None of those ships are equipped with the all-important Quantum Space Drive which allows humanity to travel between planets and stars at a reasonable scale of time. The Drive needs Florivan QSD Engineers to run it, and Florivans are pacifists. Their Council of Elders has never allowed service on military vessels. ​The Fleet can do little more than sit at the edges of the Coalition's seven member systems and wait for the Novans to attack. ​Celadon Toreval is the Youngest of the Florivan Council of Elders. If anyone can come to Fleet Admiral Marvin's aid and help her save her people-and theirs-it's them. ​Celadon, though, has their own reasons to get involved...​​The time to act has come. Celadon: A Strange Space™ Novel received the 2023 Richard Wright Literary Award for Best Adult Science Fiction/Fantasy from the Memphis Public Libraries. It is the second installment in Katie Silverwings' award-winning Strange Space™ Adventures series of optimistic science fiction stories. Featuring friendly aliens, the occasional talking bird, and a future in which people are accepted for who they are, the world of Strange Space™ offers tales of adventure and friendship for readers of all ages.

Every starship wanting to use the veiled dimension of “Quantum Space” as a shortcut around the physical distance between planets and stars needs a Florivan to run the Drive. Every Florivan QSD Engineer needs an Astral Navigator to orient them and keep them anchored to Normal space. Finding the right human to be their life-long counterpart is one of the most important choices a young Florivan ever makes. What happens, then, to someone like Ocean Merlani Barker, who can't seem to click with any of the highly qualified Navigator prospects their instructors have to offer? Ocean themself seems content to spend their second year in the Nav/Quan training program alone and taking extra classes for their secondary degree in geosciences. Content, that is, until a chance encounter with a certain graduating student from the Security and Tactical program changes the course of their life forever... “How Ocean Merlani Stole their Navigator: A Strange Space™ Novel” is the next installment in Katie Silverwings' award-winning “Strange Space™ Adventures” series of optimistic science fiction stories. Featuring friendly aliens, the occasional talking bird, and a future in which people are accepted for who they are, the world of “Strange Space™” offers tales of adventure and friendship for readers of all ages.

Ranger Captain Taimri Hämäläinen loved playing in the snow as a child. Now, on a vacation with her family in the snow-covered mountains of a certain planet in the Beta Centauri sytem, she has a chance to share all of her favorite winter games with her own children.Taimri's three adopted Florivan kittens, of course, have never seen snow before; they live on a space station with her husband, George Barker. That only makes it more fun to dress Sky, Storm, and Ocean up in their warmest clothes and take them out into the frosted wonderland, in Taimri's opinion.While her Florivan counterpart, River Myrval, stays behind in the cozy comforts of the lodge, Taimri and her kittens are in for a bit of an adventure they hadn't expected... On the Subject of Kittens and Mittens is the sixth title in Katie Silverwings' award-winning Strange Space Adventures series of optimistic science fiction stories. Featuring friendly aliens, the occasional talking bird, and a future in which people are accepted for who they are, the world of Strange Space™ offers tales of adventure and friendship for readers of all ages.

Even in the depths of space, you can find warmth...Admiral Jennifer Marvin used to think she'd seen everything the galaxy had to throw at her. That, though, was before she met the Florivan Elder Celadon Toreval. She can sum up this Quantum Space Drive Engineer and dear friend of hers in two words: cryptic chaos. Their preference for the company of the most troublesome humans they can possibly find in the Fleet's ranks doesn't make matters better.These days, Admiral Marvin is just grateful that the galaxy occasionally sends her a sign that something unusual is about to upset her carefully laid plans. Whether she manages to see those signs in time to do anything about it, though, is always a gamble.Join Admiral Marvin's crew aboard the starship SCV Aegolius as they face the next chapter in the tales of the Novan War, and find out what new adventure waits for them in the darkness. Warmth and Darkness is the fifth book in Katie Silverwings' Strange Space Adventures series of optimistic science fiction stories. These books take place in a distant future where humanity has its collective act together and people are accepted for who they are by default, and feature friendly aliens, themes of found family, friendship, and adventure, and the occasional talking bird. More information about Warmth and Darkness and the rest of the Strange Space Adventures series can be found at www.KatieSilverwings.com

The first installment in the award-winning Strange Space Adventures series of optimistic science fiction books by Katie Silverwings, Feathered Friendship: A Strange Space Novella is a tale of friendship, family, and finding one's place in the galaxy. Follow along as Bernadette, a young budgerigar, explores the starship MSS Venture with her Florivan best friend, Cobalt Mereday, and does her best to convince the scientist who hatched her that she is, in fact, much more than an ordinary little bird. Dr. Ariadne Salzar-Newman is NOT a mad scientist. She is a scientist-and a brilliant one at that-but she's hardly mad. According to MSS Venture's resident psychologist, the Florivan Elder Navy Irleeim, she's only "amusingly eccentric, with a bit more of a fascination with the Strange than is healthy for a human." Navy would know, too, considering how long they've been officially observing her and occasionally assisting with her experiments. If their Navigator's wife has to be set on studying things that could kill her, they'd rather be involved from the beginning. ​ Dr. Salzar-Newman's latest endeavor towards mitigating the dangers of starships traveling via the so-called "Quantum Space shortcut" is not one Navy would ordinarily have approved. Bottled miasmas are one thing; eggs are another entirely. Still, having taken one of their Florivan patients under her wing as a part-time assistant, she's safer than usual this time. Working with her will be good for Cobalt Mereday-if only because her unique brand of oddity seems to be the only thing capable of helping them. ​ Even Dr. Salzar-Newman has no reason to suspect just how much of an effect this particular project will have on her family and her protégé, nor how far-reaching the consequences will be. ​Something new is about to hatch...