What is the Stellar Flash Series?

Captain Jonathan Hogart and his crew of aliens travel the universe in their triangular flash ship, on their ongoing mission to bring more aliens into the interdimensional coalition, while Admiral Victoria Heartness and her team on Space Station X-1a orbiting Saturn do their best to keep the Solar System safe from dangers.

2026 News. So, as many of you might remember, I took some time off from writing to focus on doing a PhD. I’ve got six months to go! So that means I’ve already started thinking about “The Return to Maldek” and making some notes. Nothing concrete as yet but having just bought a tiny piece of Moldavite for inspiration (after thinking about buying one 20 years!) I’m excited to move on from thesis writing and get back to space fiction writing. In the meantime I’ve been adding to the mythos by producing some short stories set in the same universe, though not necessarily with the same Hogart. Remember, there’s more than one! Stories so far:

Stellar Flash: Intermission 2134 (In Alien Dimensions #24)

Voice Zones (In Alien Dimensions #25)

The Frozen Galaxy (In Alien Dimensions #27)

And one that I just finished writing: ‘E-Waste’ though I need to relaunch the Science Fiction Weekly Series to get that published. Actually, if you can wait, those three stories above will be released as standalones in the Science Fiction Weekly series at some point, too.

If you’re curious about my PhD you can visit my academic blog. I haven’t updated it for awhile but it gives you the basics. Now I’m just putting all my research together in a thesis. This is the bit that takes the longest! I could write a 5000 word fiction story in a week from multiple drafts to good enough to publish, but it takes about a month to write a 500 word academic paragraph and even then I might end up deleting it!

Many thanks for your patience. If you’ve just discovered the series, scroll down to find out more about the main novels and the spin off series The Heartness Chronicles

The Robots of Atlantis: Stellar Flash Book Four

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Temporal Incursion: Stellar Flash Book Three

Dangerous temporal disturbances are appearing throughout the Proxima Centauri system, and 27 scientists have gone missing from the Frequency Research Institute’s base on Proxibee.

When Admiral Victoria Heartness declines the request to help, she mysteriously disappears, too.

Doctor John Patel quickly enlists Admiral Wei Zhou to manage the station, and look into Heartness’ disappearance. But with builderbot’s going rogue and attacking some of the station’s residents, Zhou’s hands get full pretty quickly.

Captain Jonathan Hogart would be the next best person to help track down Heartness, but then the Stellar Flash ship goes offline, internal doors stop working, and rooms start being erased. With just Raj Kumar and the ship’s Japanese avatar available, and no access to communications or flash jumps, Hogart is unable to even get his crew on board.

In desperation, Patel requests Commander Sue Lin of the Proxima Centauri Space Force to investigate the F.R.I hive,and find Heartness. But with her soldiers being wiped out by a crazed energy cloud, it’s all she can do to stop herself from destroying the base from orbit.

With micro time particles converging, a deadly alien entity expanding, a robot uprising spreading, and flash ship problems increasing, can the Stellar Flash crew get to Proxibee in time to not only rescue Heartness, but also prevent Commander Lin from making a mistake that could destroy the entire universe?

Temporal Incursion is Book Three in the Stellar Flash series. A self-contained story of about 63,000 words.

Available in Digital and in Print Formats

The Andromeda Effect: Stellar Flash Book Two

The Stellar Flash has been sent back 2.5 million years in time to the Andromeda Galaxy to investigate why there’s a record of them having been there. While attempting to avoid an ancient intergalactic war, they encounter a creature so powerful that it has taken control of the entire galaxy by thought alone.

With most of the crew unconscious, Captain Jonathan Hogart is in a race against time to defeat the plant-planet, save the galaxy, and find a way to return to 2133.

But another force is attempting to take control, to use the power of the creature from the past to take over the Milky Way Galaxy in the present. And, for this, Hogart has no defense.

How is the creature controlling an entire galaxy?

Who has the technology to transmit the creature’s power from the past to the present?

And will the Stellar Flash crew and the Space Station team be able to save both galaxies?

Find out more in The Andromeda Effect: Stellar Flash Book Two.

Approximately 78,000 words / 370 paperback pages

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Alien Frequency: Stellar Flash Book One

Captain Jonathan Hogart’s first mission to Frequency One seems to be going well. New crew, new flash ship, and a new race of aliens to make first contact with.

But the binary suns start affecting his team in strange ways, the friendly aliens turn out to be not so friendly, and now he finds himself glued to the ground awaiting possible separation if he doesn’t hand over flash relocation technology.

As the sticky situation gets more and more complicated, and the mushroom bugs reveal further surprises, the alien crew discover that it’s not only planet brown and purple that they have to worry about. There is a much greater threat towards the center of the star system.

One that none of them would ever have suspected.

Alien Frequency is the first in a series of complete scifi stories in the Stellar Flash series. This is a fully contained adventure of about 50,000 words.