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Earl T. Roske

Biography

Earl T. Roske is a San Francisco Bay area writer. He lives with his wife, daughter, a silly poodle, and two neurotic cats.

Where to find Earl T. Roske online

Website: https://www.earltroske.com

Series

Seasons of War on Abira by
Midwinter at Bhisho
Price: Free!
Wintertide at Knynsa
Price: $2.99 USD.
Spring at Nongoma
Price: $2.99 USD.
Summer at Xawela
Price: $0.99 USD.
Stories of the Orphan Corps by
Rescue on Gimhae
Price: Free!
Deceit on Panchala
Price: $1.99 USD.
Standoff on Oulu
Price: $2.99 USD.
Counter Offensive on Arda
Price: $2.99 USD.
Defiance on Vargo
Price: $3.99 USD.
Orphan Corps Shepherds, Lost Sheep by
Diversion in Raziel
Price: $2.99 USD.
Reckoning in Samael
Price: $3.99 USD.
The Last Wave Series by
Last Wave
Price: $2.99 USD.
Last Dance
Price: $3.99 USD.
Dewey Tyler, Orphan Corps by
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Secrets on Wenshen
Price: $2.99 USD.
Abandoned on Juracan
Price: $3.99 USD.

Books

Summer at Xawela by
Series: Seasons of War on Abira, Book 4. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 85,120. Language: English. Originally Published: April 10, 2024 by Earl T. Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Hospitallers be careful what you wish for. In the wake of the Nongoma action, Sergeant Fermo's team has been confined to base duty — and base duty makes for a long season on Abira. But when a peace talks mission goes bad and ends in an ambush, they are the only team available to respond. Eager for action, Fermo's team jumps at the chance to rescue their fellow Hospitalers. But the ambush is...
Tale of the Music-Thief by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 100,250. Language: English. Originally Published: March 1, 2024 by Earl T. Roske. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
What if you started forgetting every song you know? And what if everyone else did, too? By day, an opera performer. By night, a minstrel. Music is Allegra's life, and now it's being stolen from her mind, from her music sheets, even from the crystals. With each lost song, more of Allegra's buried past is revealed to her. They are memories filled with a pain she doesn't feel ready to face. But...
Counter Offensive on Arda by
Series: Stories of the Orphan Corps, Book 4. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 44,560. Language: English. Originally Published: March 1, 2024 by Earl Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Aid and comfort was the mission. Now, it's all about survival. Arda was supposed to be a vacation in terms of missions. But when Capt Morris learns the Garnier will be out of system for five days, she loses that vacation feeling. Morris wouldn't normally pack rapid response vehicles, shoulder rockets, and a cargo hold full of ammo to rebuild a town on a peaceful planet. But the mission no...
Defiance on Vargo by
Series: Stories of the Orphan Corps, Book 5. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 54,610. Language: English. Originally Published: March 1, 2024 by Earl Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
How many must die to keep an ancient secret buried? Padilla thought that rescuing civilians from a derelict ship was all he and the crew of the Zlotterie would have to do. After all, providing aid and comfort were two of the most important things the Hospitallers did. No good deed goes unpunished. An accident in space puts Padilla at odds with an aggressive planetary government. To live, he'll...
Standoff on Oulu by
Series: Stories of the Orphan Corps, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 37,540. Language: English. Originally Published: February 29, 2024 by Earl Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
VetTech Pagnotto is about to find out if he has what it takes to be a Hospitaller. Oulu is Pagnotto's first mission off Hephaestia as a Wutenigel handler. He and the Wutenigel he's named Thumb have come with Ascalon company to Oulu as a supernumerary. Thumb can identify and name every scent it encounters. With Pagnotto and Thumb as part of Ascalon company, the Hospitallers hope to find the...
Deceit on Panchala by
Series: Stories of the Orphan Corps, Book 2. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 32,820. Language: English. Originally Published: February 29, 2024 by Earl Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
VetTech Pagnotto is about to find out if he has what it takes to be a Hospitaller. Oulu is Pagnotto's first mission off Hephaestia as a Wutenigel handler. He and the Wutenigel he's named Thumb have come with Ascalon company to Oulu as a supernumerary. Thumb can identify and name every scent it encounters. With Pagnotto and Thumb as part of Ascalon company, the Hospitallers hope to find the...
Rescue on Gimhae by
Series: Stories of the Orphan Corps, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 25,510. Language: English. Originally Published: February 29, 2024 by Earl Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Could Sgt Seavers's mission kill him? Yes. Yes, it could. Sgt Seavers of the Orphan Corps is having a run of bad luck. First, he gets in a fight with three marines while on a space station. Second, he wins that fight. And now, after learning he was being considered for officer candidate training, he is informed of his penance. Can Seavers handle a resentful platoon of Marines? Can he do it...
Reluctant Symbiosis by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 21,580. Language: English. Originally Published: May 17, 2020 by Earl T. Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Couldn't any mission be simple? Lt Derinzinski could count the number of people he trusted on one hand. None of them included the butterflies of Novjaro. When one of the two-meter-tall butterflies interferes with Derinzinski's mission, he trusts them even less. Then the mission goes sideways. The team is in trouble. They're tens of kilometers from help. Unless you count the butterfly, which...
Wintertide at Knynsa by
Series: Seasons of War on Abira, Book 2. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 63,300. Language: English. Originally Published: September 25, 2021 by Earl T. Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
(3.00 from 1 review)
Sgt Imara Fermo keeps her promise at Bhisho. Though everyone, including herself, was wounded, no one died. And they saved a lot of other lives in the process. But can she do it again? The Rhone have not honored their ceasefire. The war rolls on across the planet. Now, the Hospitallers must employ the third tenet of their mission. They must defend a Serdoban city from a Rhone assault. That's...
Reckoning in Samael by
Series: Orphan Corps Shepherds, Lost Sheep, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 70,980. Language: English. Originally Published: November 4, 2021 by Earl T. Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
How complicated can rescuing orphans be? Kori's simple mission of escorting orphans to a new world has become anything but. Instead of completing his assigned duties, he has come to station Samael. He is here to reclaim the children taken from him on station Raziel. It's a case of out of the airlock, into cold space. Samael is a fully operational, centuries-old station, with its own culture...
Novjaro by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 93,330. Language: English. Originally Published: June 6, 2020 by Earl T. Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Tane only wanted space to breathe. Tane joins the Navjaro colony to get out of the overcrowded Sol system. This is a chance to put his past behind him and have a new start. Unfortunately, one painful part of his past is on the colony ship, too. Now Tane's future is as damaged as the ship they're on. Tane is saddled with the blame. Already disliked by many of the colonists, Tane wonders if...
Spring at Nongoma by
Series: Seasons of War on Abira, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 68,280. Language: English. Originally Published: September 25, 2021 by Earl T. Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
(3.00 from 1 review)
Some people don't like Hospitallers. Despite the floods from the melting snow and the impending destruction, the people of Tanzi would rather the Hospitallers just go away. Better they take their chances with raging rivers and rising waters than trust child abductors. Such is the power of good propaganda. However, Imara and her squad have a job to do. So far, they've never failed to complete a...
Last Wave by
Series: The Last Wave Series, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 73,330. Language: English. Originally Published: May 14, 2020 by Earl T. Roske. Categories: Fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Is being alone worse than death? Acharon has no interest in finding out. He and Sovelet are two of the last humans on Earth. They've lived an idyllic existence on their man-made island over the decades. For Acharon, these have been good times, quiet times. Life, though, has other plans. Murphy's suicide and Sovelet's medical diagnosis have shattered the illusion Acharon has so carefully crafted...
Midwinter at Bhisho by
Series: Seasons of War on Abira, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 50,870. Language: English. Originally Published: May 13, 2020 by Earl T. Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
(3.00 from 1 review)
Providing aid becomes a fight for survival. When Imara lands on Abira with the rest of her company, things don't feel right. And it's not just the constant, falling snow. Bhisho's townsfolk are nervous. This makes the Hospitallers wary. Then, thieves come in the night. But the thieves aren't just thieves, they're citizens of Grabouw, the other town in the valley. The Hospitallers learn that the...
Abandoned on Juracan by
Series: Dewey Tyler, Orphan Corps, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 89,240. Language: English. Originally Published: March 30, 2021 by Earl T. Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Juracan was supposed to be abandoned. A global nuclear war forced those not killed to flee their damaged world. Then came the Radial War, and Juracan was lost to history. So why now is there a signal for help? The revelation of a lost planet's existence raises many questions. Who sent the message? Why do they need help now after all these centuries? And how is the cry for help coming from a...
Last Dance by
Series: The Last Wave Series, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 73,870. Language: English. Originally Published: May 23, 2020 by Earl T. Roske. Categories: Fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Acharon can prepare for the worst. But can he survive it? He and Sovelet have barely made it out of San Francisco alive. Now, they're heading east to join the enclave in New York city. It is the last bastion of human existence in the Western Hemisphere. From there, they'll cross the Atlantic by boat. In Paris, they'll join all that remains of the human race. But the journey has its own plans...
Diversion in Raziel by
Series: Orphan Corps Shepherds, Lost Sheep, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 51,140. Language: English. Originally Published: October 28, 2021 by Earl Roske. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Chaperoning orphans was supposed to be easy. Sgt Kori Eldersun believed it, too. Until the ship engines failed and the pirates attacked. Unfortunately, Kori didn't start the journey dressed for combat. All he has are his wits and an unexpected ally. Nine young orphans who are counting on him to keep them safe. He is determined not to let them down. Unfortunately, it's one against dozens. Kori...

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