Joe Vasicek fell in love with science fiction and fantasy when he read A Wrinkle in Time and The Neverending Story as a child. He wrote several unfinished novels in high school and took Brandon Sanderson's writing class at Brigham Young University. He first came onto the indie writing scene in 2011 with his debut novel Genesis Earth. Since then, he has written more than twenty novels and novellas, including Genesis Earth, Gunslinger to the Stars, The Sword Keeper, and the Sons of the Starfarers series. His stories have been published in Perehilion, Mirror Dance, Sci Phi Journal, Uprising Review, Kasma SF, and Leading Edge. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus Mountains. He has also traveled across the United States, and has lived in Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, California, Utah, Washington DC, and Iowa. Wherever he goes, though, he's always writing.
Series
Books
Brothers in Exile
2014
L'enfer, c'est la Solitude
A Short Story
2016
Gunslinger to the Stars and Stars of Blood and Glory
2018
The Gettysburg Paradox
A Short Story
2016
Heart of the Nebula
2015
From the Ice Incarnate
An excerpt from Genesis Earth
2011
The End of Elysium
A Short Story
2021
Starchild
2015
Payday
A Short Story
2020
Stars of Blood and Glory
2013
The Complete Genesis Earth Trilogy
2021
Rescuer's Reward
2024
Strangers in Flight
2014
Dreamweaver
2013
Desert Stars
2011
Fidelity
2012
Utahraptors at Dawn
A Short Story
2016
My Name Is For My Friends
A Short Story
2017
Bloodfire Legacy
2025
The Widow's Child
2024
Lord of the Slaves
A Short Story
2021
Edenfall
2019
The Janus Anomaly
A Short Story
2018
A Queen in Hiding
2018
Homeworld
2012
Outworlder
2012
Jane Carter of Earth and the Rescue that Never Was
A Gunslingers Short Story
2017
A Hill on Which to Die
A Fantasy Novelette
2015
The New Covenant
A Short Story
2022
Friends in Command
2015
Genesis Earth
2011
Memoirs of a Snowflake
A Short Story
2011
Comrades in Hope
2014
Gunslinger to the Stars
2017
Deliverance
2014
In The Beginning
After Dinner Conversation Short Story Series
2020
Decision LZ1527
A Short Story
2011
Lizzie-99XT
A Short Story
2019
Gunslinger to the Galaxy
2018
The Sword Keeper
2017
An Empire in Disarray
2018
Star Wanderers
2019
Queen of the Falconstar
2021
Patriots in Retreat
2018
Captives in Obscurity
2016
Benefactor
2013
The Stars of Redemption
2021
Sacrifice
2012
Bringing Stella Home
2011
The Winds of Desolation
2024
Victors in Liberty
2018
Gunslinger to Earth
2019
Reproach
2013
The Paradox of Choice
A Short Story
2019
A Fatal Rebirth
A Short Story
2021
