R. Sterling is an author from Garibaldi, Oregon. He writes dark, character-driven fiction that blends history, speculative ideas, and occasional absurdity.
Across his work, Sterling explores resilience, moral ambiguity, deeply flawed characters, and the human inclination toward self-destruction. He is the author of Iko and the Golden Dragon, The Exiles and the Damned, Captain Jonathan Statham and the Liberty Engine and Where the Manō Swim.
R. Sterling is an author from Garibaldi, Oregon. He writes dark, character-driven fiction that blends history, speculative ideas, and occasional absurdity.
Across his work, Sterling explores resilience, moral ambiguity, deeply flawed characters, and the human inclination toward self-destruction. He is the author of Iko and the Golden Dragon, The Exiles and the Damned, Captain Jonathan Statham and the Liberty Engine and Where the Manō Swim.
Malie has always been taught to respect the manō, the sharks that guard her family’s waters. When one nearly takes her life, she is saved by a young Hawaiian fisherman who asks her to forgive the creature rather than fear it.
As affection grows between them, unrest spreads across the islands. Foreign businessmen conspire against the...
The year is 1778, and the American Revolution has escaped all reasonable control.
The Continental Army commands resurrected soldiers, mechanical warships and weapons centuries ahead of their time. Behind it all lies the Liberty Engine, a machine that has transformed a colonial rebellion into a threat to the British Empire itself.
In the frozen wilderness of 1930s Manchuria, thirty disgraced cavalrymen are sent on a mission from which they were never meant to return.
Branded failures, criminals, and political embarrassments, the soldiers of the Manchukuo Imperial Army’s infamous “Damned” are ordered to hunt a ruthless bandit gang terrorizing the frontier. Their commander,...
The Crane Fly is a story I’ve carried with me for a very long time. I’ve made previous attempts at writing it, but I was never completely happy with how it turned out. This...
I just wanted to take a moment to say how genuinely humbled I am by the response to the five-day free promotion for Captain Jonathan Statham and the Liberty Engine.
I’m very excited to share that I’ve dived straight into my next project, titled Where the Manō Swim, a historical romance set during the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
