Jessie Kwak

Three novellas in Jessie Kwak's Durga System series, a fast-paced series of gangster sci-fi stories set in a far-future world where humans may have left their home planet to populate the stars, but they haven't managed to leave behind their vices. And that's very good for business.

When Willem Jaantzen is approached for help by local casino magnate Phaera D, he has the sinking feeling the only way to end this war is to betray the people he loves the most. And he's starting to suspect that Phaera wants more from him than just his help.

Trouble is dead. Long live trouble. Killing the leader of a violent cult was supposed to make the city a safer place, but instead it created a power imbalance that's left a deadly war raging in the streets of Bulari. When Willem Jaantzen is approached for help by local casino magnate Phaera D, he has the sinking feeling the only way to end this war is to betray the people he loves the most. And he's starting to suspect that Phaera wants more from him than just his help. Whatever decision he makes feels like the wrong one. And as his goddaughter chips away at the mystery surrounding their latest discovery, bringing peace back to the Bulari underground is quickly becoming the least of his worries. The Bulari Saga series is part of Jessie Kwak's Durga System universe, a fast-paced series of gangster sci-fi stories set in a far-future world where humans may have left their home planet to populate the stars, but they haven't managed to leave behind their vices. And that's very good for business.

Thala Coeur--Blackheart--is dead. Willem Jaantzen has been waiting to hear those words for almost twenty years. But he was also hoping they'd hold more satisfaction. Because it turns out his arch enemy has died as she lived--sowing chaos and destruction--and when a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, he realizes she's sent him one last puzzle from beyond the grave. As Jaantzen and his crew are plunged back into a game he thought they'd left far behind, one thing becomes painfully clear: Solving Coeur's puzzle could be key to preventing the city from crumbling back into another civil war--or it could be the thing that destroys them all. Because this secret isn't just worth killing for. It's worth coming back from the dead for. The Bulari Saga series is part of Jessie Kwak's Durga System universe, a fast-paced series of gangster sci-fi stories set in a far-future world where humans may have left their home planet to populate the stars, but they haven't managed to leave behind their vices. And that's very good for business.

It's been five years since Starla Dusai's home station was destroyed by the Alliance, and when she receives a tip that her beloved cousin Mona is alive and well on an astroid station out in Durga's Belt, she drops everything to find her. She'll do anything to bring her cousin home. If it doesn't get them both killed first.

Starla Dusai is fifteen, deaf - and being held as an enemy combatant by the Indiran Alliance. Willem Jaantzen is a notorious crime lord about to end a fearsome vendetta - and most probably his life. When he learns his goddaughter has been captured by the Alliance, will he be able to save her? And her, him?

This is an anthology. It is not literary, as much as the cover might suggest otherwise. It's not even a themed anthology. However, it definitely staggers across all sorts of interstitial slipstreamed speculative fringes. It's got--well, look. There are space pirates. There's space cocaine. There might be a dragon (but probably not). And stuff definitely blows up. You're welcome. Space Cocaine contains fiction by Jessie Kwak, Gr Linnaea, Andrew McCollough, and Mark Teppo. They're the responsible ones.

Manu Juric is a mediocre bounty hunter. But he's damn good at reading people and creating unexpected explosions - and that can take you a long way in this business. Just not far enough, he learns when he tries to take out one of Bulari's most notorious crime lords: Willem Jaantzen.

Worried about the state of business during the zombie apocalypse? You're not alone. In my quest to document our new reality, I've spent the past year collecting stellar examples of how everyday businesspeople like you and me are keeping their chins up during the apocalypse: In a transcript titled "Don't Miss Today's Webinar on ExitZ, the World's Only Zombie Employee Offboarding Software Solution," Chief Training Officer Margot Sanchez provides a very real-life demonstration of her company's early-warning system for employee zombieism. In an email chain titled "Notes to Creative on the Fall 1 Catalog: Zombie Apocalypse Special Edition," Creative Director Joanna Ecco fights to meet the print deadline for her company's Fall 1 catalog, even while the world disintegrates around her. And in a memo titled "Despite the Tragic Events of Day 2, I Think We Can All Agree Days 1 & 3 of GeoMundo's National Sales Meeting Were Transformational," National Sales Manager Gerry Eltayeb gives us a glimpse into the insights--and chaos--of his company's annual national sales meeting. I've also managed to collect other fragments of business as usual: conference brochures, leadership-training advertisements, and an all-staff company birthday email that proves festivity can still coexist alongside weapons trainings during hard times. Taken all together, this collection is a testament to future generations that business does indeed go on. May it inspire you to persevere yourself.

An Alliance prison is no place for a deaf teen girl. Fortunately, Starla doesn't intend to stay for long. Starla Dusai is fifteen, deaf - and being held as an enemy combatant by the Indiran Alliance. Willem Jaantzen is a notorious crime lord about to end a fearsome vendetta - and most probably his life. When he learns his goddaughter has been captured by the Alliance, he understands he's her only hope. But saving a girl he barely knows means letting his wife's murderer walk free. Will Jaantzen be able to put aside his anger before Starla's time runs out? STARFALL is a standalone novella in Jessie Kwak's Bulari Saga, a fast-paced series of standalone gangster sci-fi stories set in a far-future world where humans may have left their home planet to populate the stars, but they haven't managed to leave behind their vices. And that's very good for business. For fans of Firefly, the Godfather, and the Expanse.