Speculative fiction by Steven Nash

Stories about what systems remember—and what they erase.

A five-volume series and ten standalone novels of suspense, identity, memory, and dangerous certainty.

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New releases

The Falling Moon series and new standalone novels.

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Political science fiction

The Falling Moon

The Moon is falling. As evacuation, lunar engineering and political fear pull humanity apart, five people must decide what survival should mean.

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The Falling Moon · Book 2

Acceptable Parameters

The Moon has stopped falling. The danger has not. As 623 lunar drivers hold the Moon's orbit, a monitoring analyst discovers that safety has a price — and contracts decide who gets warned.

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The Falling Moon · Book 3

Lift Capacity

Book Three of The Falling Moon. Pioneer's long voyage ends at Proxima — but arrival raises harder questions than departure ever did.

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The Falling Moon · Book 4

The Boost Window

Kindred is already underway when a transmission arrives from the star it is trying to reach. Venture got there first — and its message may be a warning, or a request not to come.

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The Falling Moon · Book 5

The Correspondence

Book Five of The Falling Moon. A conversation across decades with a ship that may not answer back.

Coming soon
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Literary speculative suspense

The Entropy Wife

Daniel can hold back his wife's cancer. But each treatment reaches into Ellie's memories—and the records of the life she wants to keep begin to disagree.

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Science fiction

The Gravity Index

In Axiom City, the upper tiers live lightly while workers below bear the load. Dax Arden must confront the gravity system he helped build—and the people paying its price.

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Science fiction

The Work of Strangers

A standalone science-fiction novel of first contact, difficult repairs, ordinary humor, and the unexpected intimacy of working beside someone you may never fully understand.

The Rustmour Chronicles

Begin with The Forging.

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Book one · Primary entry

The Forging

Start the four-volume Rustmour Chronicles here, then continue in the reading order below.

More standalone novels

Choose another mystery.

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Speculative suspense

The Shape of What Remains

A speculative suspense novel about search, grief, consent, and the dangerous certainty of being known.

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Dark gaslamp fantasy mystery

False Sigil

In a city where magic obeys official records, a murder investigation reveals that someone is rewriting the truth.

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The Rustmour Chronicles

First Light

A sentient sword recounts the nine mortals who bore it — discovering that the pain it takes from them is also what makes them human.

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The Rustmour Chronicles

The Carrying

Forced to confess the three bearers it erased from its own history, the sword faces revenge, corrupted justice — and a humble carter's costly kindness.

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The Rustmour Chronicles

The Reach

After failing to save the emperor it loves, the sword returns to its maker for a final reforging — one that tests whether it can care without taking or controlling.

The Falling Moon · Watch, sample, or read

The Moon is falling. Humanity cannot agree what comes next.

Watch the released original trailer, then open the novel's Amazon page to read the free sample or choose Kindle or paperback.

Also watch · False Sigil

The records lie. The magic obeys.

A short narrated glimpse of the records, wards, and erasure at the center of False Sigil.

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Stories in motion.

Trailers, excerpts, and short films from the worlds of the books.

The Falling Moon
Eight billion on Earth. Twelve hundred leaving on Wave 1.

The Falling Moon
In 105 years: Roche limit.

The Falling Moon
Elena Vasquez denied an application — an excerpt.

The Falling Moon
The Elena Vasquez excerpt, with audio.

The Falling Moon
The Moon is falling — trailer.

Short film
A missing boy is found alive.

False Sigil
The magic works. The records lie.

About the author

Steven Nash

Steven Nash writes speculative fiction about systems, memory, identity, and the choices people make when institutions stop protecting them. He lives in Maine.

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