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BENJAMIN KAMPHAUS

Author of the Vaskania Prime series

The Vaskania Prime trilogy

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Vaskania Prime · Book 1

Rites of the Renouncer

Three decades ago, Viktor Goto left his home planet, Vaskania Prime, for remote orbit on Oneiri Station. With AI assistance he altered his body chemistry, using a mix of synthetic hormones and neurotransmitters. He spent his time training, learning to extend his REM sleep by several hours and project new powers into the Dream World. Now he’s back on Vaskania Prime to dream again and find out what happened to his childhood friend, Owen.

★★★★★ A fantastic book, fulfilling that other-worldly wanderlust we all harbor at our cores. This world begs to be explored and to be revisited over and over.

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Vaskania Prime · Book 2

Wake of the Wanderer

The Renouncers of Oneiri Station have dedicated their lives to exploring the Dream World. On a routine excursion, two Renouncers discover a clue left behind by the founder of their order—one that promises to upend their understanding of the planet’s history and the Dream World’s origins. As they race to unravel the Dream World’s secrets, the ancient powers that have been waiting inside it are beginning to stir.

★★★★★ … considered and intelligent, with faultless science …
★★★★★ … an intense science fiction/thriller mystery that never lets up.

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Vaskania Prime · Book 3

Mistakes of the Makers

In days long past, on Earth, Mariko Ito’s lab invents a new kind of AI technology and uses it to clear the planet of the deadly remnants of the last wars, setting the stage for the fleet project that will colonize the stars.

On Vaskania Prime, the Renouncers of Oneiri Station are recovering after a hard-fought conflict deep inside the heart of Prime’s mysterious Dream World, when a new challenge emerges.

A mysterious vessel, now voyaging through interstellar space, holds the secrets that connect the two. And its arrival will either finally free Prime’s inhabitants from the Dream World’s grasp, or doom them forever.

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Microfiction

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256

Micro Length Science Fiction Stories

I fled Ulu, shed my caste and name, and apprenticed myself to the Prognostics. When I returned, I was unrecognizable: a foreign curiosity. I was selective in what I revealed of their future—never lying, but withholding just enough to seed their undoing.

What kind of story can you tell with fewer than 256 characters? This collection of 256 extremely short works of micro length science fiction pushes the limit of what you can do with plot, character, and world building in a handful of words.

The stories inside are set everywhere from ten years to millions of years in the future and explore themes from cyberpunk, space opera, and hard science fiction.

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The world

Vaskania Prime is one of many exoplanets that was targeted for colonization from Earth in the late 23rd century. To reach other habitable systems, humans designed large-scale, self-replicating robotic fleets. Modeled on Von Neumann probes, the ships of the fleet were built with minimal resources in the inner Sol system. They mined raw materials, hydrocarbons, water, and other resources from asteroids and Kuiper belt objects as they traveled through the outer system on the way to interstellar space. These fleets were operated by distributed AI systems, and were capable of self-repair and complex planning. They carried a seed vault and multiple copies of all information networks from Earth.

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About

Benjamin Kamphaus is a keytarist and semicolon apologist living in the Front Range of Colorado. He has collected and discarded many exotic careers, among them: archaeologist, Earth scientist, and space industry software engineer.

He produces electronic music, including soundtracks to accompany the Vaskania Prime books, as PatternShift.