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, and Captain Jonathan Statham and the Liberty Engine.
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, and Captain Jonathan Statham and the Liberty Engine.
Books
Captain Jonathan Statham and the Liberty Engine
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.
Captain Jonathan...
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The Exiles and the Damned
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,...
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Iko and the Golden Dragon
The year is 1999.
The earth is turning to dust. Crops fail. Rivers dry. Borders collapse. The few stable governments that remain rule by brutality and fear.
Iko Nakamura is someone who has already given up. She does not chase meaning, does not believe in causes, and does not imagine that her choices matter beyond the next day. If anything, she...
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