Peter Rhodan

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About Peter Rhodan

I grew up in Sydney Australia but have lived on the Gold Coast, Australia for over thirty years. I have been many things over my life, courier driver, retail sales assistant, casino croupier, small business owner, a bankrupt former small business owner, a graphic designer, poker tournament operator and most recently an Uber driver.

I have a marvellous wife and two great kids (both adults now) plus a border collie cross dog who thinks she’s a human.

I have always liked science fiction books, especially gung-ho space opera, time travel and alternate history genres. The first fiction book I read that I liked was Eagle of the Ninth and fist Science Fiction book I read and liked was Foundation by Asimov.

My favourite authors, at the moment, are David Weber, Lois McMaster Bujold, Christopher Nuttall and Pam Uphoff. Weber writes the best space opera while Bujold is simply the best writer and Miles Vorkisgan an amazing character. Chris Nuttall rarely writes anything that is only so-so and his Schooled in Magic books are the best magic school series I have read so far. Pam Uphoff writes primarily a cross dimensional series called the Wine of the Gods with the Directorate stories offshoot. These are delightful, entertaining and often thought provoking books that I love.

Chris Nuttall and Pam Uphoff inspired me to “have a go mate” and so I have.

My first novel is On the Rocks, the first story of Arturo Sandus (Sanders) and his adventures as a Space Ship captain marooned on a primitive swords and sandals era planet. Sort of…

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Kyron the Bowman (Ithria Book 2) May 22, 2022

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Like a lot of younger sons, Kyron decided on a military career. Not being a noble, he settled for the Malian Royal Bowmen, as he had some skill with a bow. He was accepted without a problem and began his career by fighting off bandits in the north of the Kingdom. While attempting to evade a mob of villains, he stumbles across a magic sword, a priceless relic. He kept quiet about his find for fear of it being taken off him by someone rich and powerful. Follow Kyron as he makes his way through the lands at the eastern end of Ithria, battling invading armies, saving an ambushed Prince, and almost winning the girl of his dreams. That is, until Prince Lyren decides he wants Kyron's magic sword.

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Taroniah at School (Ithria Book 1) Mar 6, 2022

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Taroniah was the natural born daughter of a liaison between the King of Marland and her mother, one of the Queen's Ladies in Waiting. Sadly, her mother died while she was still quite young and the King's Master of Arms, Robard, and his wife, Terencia, happily adopted her. The Queen hated Taroniah on sight as she represented her husband's infidelity, and although she was brought up in the Palace like the other noble children, many of them treated her poorly because her official status what that of a bastard. She found she got on far better with the common-born children of the Palace staff rather than with her noble-born peers.
With puberty, her magical potential was spotted by the Court Magician, Ratarthen, and the idea of sending her to a magical college in an outlying province of an allied Kingdom appealed to the King. This was the ideal opportunity for not only getting her out of the sight of the Queen but also out of the view of the court, who were already comparing the healthy Taroniah with her young, sickly half-brother, Prince Patros, who was the official heir to the throne.
So Taroniah was bundled off to a magic school, the Lightbearer Academy. This is the account of her four years there and the things she learned about herself as well as what others learned about her.
An abbreviated account of Taroniah's last few weeks of her final year at the Academy appeared in Fantastical Schools volume 3. This is the full account of her time at the school.

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Foreign Travels (Arturo Sandus Book 7) Dec 31, 2021

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Arturo Sandus, starship Captain and inadvertent time traveler, is now working on improving the tech level of the Roman Empire, stepping away from civil and military activities. His aim now is to build up the tech level to a point where he can build a spaceship that will hopefully take him home. A development that is still decades away, at least.
Others are taking advantage of the advances he has introduced to further Roman knowledge and power. Cymlac Rolfson has purchased the old warship Caesar to sail around Africa while the beginnings of a petroleum industry has begun growing in the Caribbean.
But others have their eyes on the Empire too. A civil war amongst the Sassanians has brought Ardashur to the throne with an agenda of regaining the territories so recently lost to Arturo and his Romans. Meanwhile, further to the east, the kingdom of Liu Sung has no desire to be left behind and sends a commando team to kidnap the most important man in the world.

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Taking Off (Arturo Sandus Book 6) May 1, 2021

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Arturo Sandus, starship Captain and inadvertent time traveler has finally defeated the last remnants of the old Imperial forces and secured the borders of the Empire. He has restored the Roman Republic, admittedly an all-new modern and hopefully longer-lasting Republic, and is looking forward to some time at home with his lovely wife, Morghanna.
Flavius Theodosius Iunior, former child Emperor of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire has finally achieved his long-held aim and been assigned to one of the new, huge, armored, and steam-powered battleships of the new Roman Republican navy.
Unfortunately for both men, the Huns have other ideas. They mount a successful raid on the Roman provinces on the lower Danuvius and once more Arturo must lead his army to war.
Flavius is also sent to war, only not as he expected as he is transferred to a new unit, the Ala Caelum where he will be the navigator in a balloon. Whatever the hell that is.
The Huns are the lords of the steppes and have whole armies of subject people at their beck and call... pity they hadn't caught up with the fact the new Roman Republic reacts aggressively to people attacking the Empire and that the Romans have weapons like nothing the Huns have ever seen before.

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Rolling South (Arturo Sandus Book 4) Nov 18, 2020

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Arturo Sandus, former Federation Space Captain is building a new life in Britannia of the early 5th Century. He is industrializing the moribund northern part of the dying Roman Empire while slowly expanding his control to areas of Gaul and Hispania.
The Emperor Honorius in Ravenna is not amused and decides enough is enough from these uppity Republicans and sends his armies north to deal with this Arturo fellow. After waiting a year so he could re-arm his troops with copies of a purloined musket as used by the Republicans a couple of years ago.
The spectre of the Visigoths continues to dominate the western half of the Empire. The Imperial Roman leadership haven’t forgotten Hadrianopolis and are still scared to face the Visigoths in battle.
The Vandali in Hispania, while cowed, are not conquered yet.
Will the eastern half of the Empire send aid to Honorius in the west?
Such are the threats facing the Republican cause.
Expecting Arturo Sandus to be intimidated by a bunch of Romans with outdated weapons, to be scared of a horde of Germani squatting in southern Gallia or to be afraid of the threat of Eastern intervention is not something a good gambler would put money on.

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On The Rocks (Arturo Sandus Book 1) Feb 4, 2020

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Captain Arturo Sanders was having a bad day. First the routine destruction of some ancient automatic defence batteries became a disaster when his ship’s screens failed and he had no choice to abandon ship. Then he had to rescue two left behind crew people which meant he missed the main shuttle evacuation leaving him and his two companions in a shuttle on their own at the rear. Then the shuttle was hit by enemy fire just as they traversed the jump point, of course! This sent the shuttle through something to somewhere but not the safe system the rest of the crew had jumped to! The damage to the shuttle meant they would need a dockyard or failing that they would have to land on a planet to affect repairs which seemed likely as the system had no electronic signature, so space docks looked unlikely. The third planet was in fact inhabited, but by primitives armed with swords and spears, probably an old Imperial colony that had been cut off and regressed tech-wise. They should be able to land and repair their shuttle somewhere out of the way except of course the engines decided to fail halfway down! This led to a close encounter with the side of a mountain, followed by a crash landing into a lake. And then his day got really bad!

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Sailing East (Arturo Sandus Book 5) Feb 26, 2021

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Flavius Theodosius Iunior, by the grace of God, Augustus of the Eastern Half of the Roman Empire was having a bad day. The damn Republicans had sent their fleet to attack Constantinopolis, his elder sister, who was no longer his Regent, yet still acted like she was, along with his Praetorian Prefect thought the Empire needed someone more mature in charge during these trying times, not the sixteen-year-old on the throne.
Arturo Sandus was coming, everyone was sure of that, but he doubted anyone could stop him. You only had to look out from the palace balcony to see the enormous metal ship sitting offshore to know the Eastern Empire was simply outclassed.
He had no desire to be “put aside” which he rather thought would involve something other than a comfortable retirement. When you thought about the Imperial Court, one could be mistaken for thinking he’d be safer with the Republicans!

Arturo Sandus has resumed his drive to restore the Republic. His friend and second in command, Valerius, is staging a seaborne attack on Constantinopolis to distract the Imperials while he sails down the Danuvius and takes their Field Army in Thrace by surprise.
And then there are the Sassanians to try to keep the peace with. Nobody has done well against them, so at this stage he would be happy for peaceful relations. The trouble is the King of Kings has personally guaranteed young Flavius as Imperator as a favor to the now-dead Emperor Arcadius.
If it’s not one thing, it’s another!

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Getting Fired Up (Arturo Sandus Book 3) Sep 1, 2020

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Arturo Sandus, Federation Space Captain is a long, long way from home, but he is building a new home in Britannia of the early 5th Century. His plan to industrialize a moribund northern part of the dying Roman Empire is progressing but not without issues.
His memory and lack of knowledge is proving troublesome. Just how do you make electricity?
The neighbours are even more troublesome, wanting to invade and get into that rape and pillage stuff.
The Christians are revolting, literally, at least some of them, while others are quite friendly.
Romance rears its head but what about the wife he has 5,000 light years away and 5,000 years in the future?
And every second person wants to know when he's going to invade the Empire proper and make himself Emperor. What the?
But Arturo presses on with his New Roman Republic despite everything thrown in his way...

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Raising Steam (Arturo Sandus Book 2) Jun 18, 2020

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Captain Arturo Sanders, former spaceship captain, now sword sandal epic lead character, has settled into his accidental time travel adventure. Sort of. Or is it time travel? All those paradox questions like if he changes his current now and as a result changes the history of the future, then how does come back to make those changes if his future no longer exists?
In the end he largely shelved these arguments as well as the ones that suggested he was in an alternate universe anyway. There was no way of proving or knowing the answers to any of these questions given the 5th century tech base the locals had available.
Of course, no sword and sandals epic would be complete without a horde of hairy barbarians – que the Selgovae just over the northern border. Or beautiful barbarian princesses, well one at least. Then of course there is the self-proclaimed Comes in Eboracum, the remaining local running dog lackey of the filthy imperialist oppressors. (That would be Honorius in Ravenna).
Oh and somebody wants him dead… as in personally.
It would all be so much easier if they all just left him alone to get on with railways, telescopes, two masted brigs, panes of glass and so for and so on…..

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The Princess & The Rebels (Princess Gizel Book 3) Oct 30, 2021

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Princess Gizel and Lord Karvon Alistair are officially engaged, finally. For political reasons their announcement was made on Brython and was quickly followed by a tedious round of social engagements culminating in their Brython Engagement Ball.
With all that hoopla out of the way, they are supposed to be heading home to Kimeria, where they will be forced to face the music all over again before their Kimerian Engagement Ball.
Officially they are taking the slow route back to Kimeria, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Instead, Karvon has been offered a clandestine human smuggling job in Iskander space. After having to grin and bear his way through the recent social whirl, he can’t resist the chance for a little action. After all, what could go wrong?

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The Princess & The Privateer (Princess Gizel Book 1) Jun 30, 2021

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Princess Gizel stood second in line to the throne of the largest empire in her part of the galaxy. She was also a teenager. So when her parents tell her she can't go to Starfire, THE music festival, for the third year in a row, she does the normal teenage thing. She sneaks out of the Palace and goes anyway.
Her illicit fun is interrupted when armed thugs render her unconscious. She wakes to find herself on a spaceship in a different system, crewed by people who claim they were rescuing her from the thugs.
Are they telling the truth? Can she trust them? And if they are being honest, then who was really hunting her?
The Captain of this unusual cargo ship with all its secrets is a tall, enigmatic Brython. A very handsome Brython at that.
Princess Gizel has to discover the truth about the Kormorant and her vagabond crew. And if they weren't responsible, then who was trying to kill her. Along the way, she will learn things about herself she never knew and would maybe have never learned.
And we simply won't talk about the Captain's dimples!

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The Princess & The Corsair (Princess Gizel Book 2) Aug 30, 2021

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On Brython, Princess Gizel and her almost fiancé, Karvon Alistair are being bored to tears by the political tedium that their impending engagement has inflicted upon them. That is until Ilsa, a school friend of Gizel's, turns up with tales of horror from Ilsa's home system of Rathage. A formerly strong Kimerian ally, the government has fallen to a revolution, and the new masters are wielding a harsh whip. Isla's boyfriend is conducting a one-ship war against the oppressors of the new Commonality government, and Ilsa hopes to persuade her friend, the Imperial Princess, to come out publicly and support Kimerian intervention. Or, at the least, urge her father, the Emperor, to provide material support for the rebels.
Gizel and Karvon think this sounds like a job for the Kormorant, Karvon's rather unusual cargo ship. They happily leave the politics on Brython behind and intent on paying a personal scouting visit to the good old Rathage system and its new Commonality masters.
Things are not going to go well for somebody...

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