Kerry Nietz

Jebediah has a secret that will change his world forever and send his people into space. The Amish world of Alabaster calls upon an ancient promise to escape destruction. Then end up on a cargo ship bound for the stars....

Software developer turned storyteller Kerry Nietz brings artificial wonders to life. Digital Dreams and Other Distractions is essential Nietz—nine tantalizing tales of synthetic futures, unfolding across a background of stars....

The last thing K-404 remembers is a happy home with the human child Ele, whose care is his primary purpose. So, when he wakes up in a landfill of tossed-away technology, his only thought is to reunite with his family. This world is not his own, though....

As battles rage and allegiances shift, the muto Frohic returns home a hero. Now rich beyond measure, fat from the spoils of conquest, he takes his place among the Emperor’s champions. For somewhere in the dark reaches of....who is writing this stuff? That isn’t how it is at all....

First, vampires in space. And now...zombies. Really? Jebediah and the others are trying to get over the horrors they faced in deep space, and now this....

Beyond the boundaries of civilized space lies the region of the Muto Empire. Mutos are a mammalian race that resembles a cross between a human and a Terran rat. Though spread across thousands of worlds, mutos - or rhats, as they are sometimes called....

The genre-busting Peril in Plain Space trilogy is complete! In 2013, author Kerry Nietz stunned the world with his science fiction take on a seemingly nonsensical title--Amish Vampires in Space.

For the Amish community of Alabaster, it seems to. They've maintained an uneasy alliance with the vamperkinder, the altered humans that rescued them from the zombies seven years ago.