Books by A. Scott Howe

A.S. Howe & B. Sherwood (eds.) (2009). AIAA History of Spaceflight series, Out of This World: The New Field of Space Architecture, ISBN 978-1-56347-982-3. Reston, Virginia, USA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

This collaborative book compiles thirty chapters on the theory and practice of designing and building inhabited environments in outer space.

A.S. Howe (2021). Theoloop. Science Fiction novel. ISBN 13-978-0985076573. Amazon.com.

A summer research trip in Japan turns deadly when surveying professor Tim Hughes’s geneticist daughter flees a murder and a sealed envelope of impossible notes. With teenage sons in tow, the family races across coasts and shrines while clues about wormholes, ancient treasures, and cosmic cycles pull them toward a secret that could reframe humanity’s place in the universe—Theoloop, a science-fiction mystery thriller by A. Scott Howe.

A.S. Howe (2014). Chronosphere. Science Fiction novel. ISBN 13-978-0985076559. Amazon.com.

On colonized Mars, engineer Tom Hildebrandt’s ordinary war with Murphy’s Law collides with a colony-wide catastrophe and a machine that can open a window through spacetime. As friends and family help fire up the Hyperaperture, shortcuts through years—and through danger—force a choice between sealing the unknown and building a future that depends on it. Chronosphere is a hard science-fiction adventure by A. Scott Howe.

A.S. Howe (2023). Replicycle / Retrocause. Science Fiction double novel. ISBN 9798394044427. Amazon.com.

Replicycle: Strange industry lights up on moons no colony ever settled—and the solar system starts to feel watched. Generations after Earth’s launch window slammed shut, prospector Teresa Hughes and Martian engineers race toward anomalies that look less like prospecting and more like an arrival. Replicycle is the forward-in-time hard-SF half of A. Scott Howe’s double novel Replicycle / Retrocause.

Retrocause: Mars technician Justin Williams steps through a Hyperaperture gate to show VIPs a new science probe—and begins living causality in reverse, rewriting his path through branching “Vectors” of the multiverse. To save shipmates trapped in a quantum-isolated voyage racing the wrong way through time, he must choose again and again which future (or past) to keep. Retrocause is the backwards-in-time, choose-your-vector half of A. Scott Howe’s double novel Replicycle / Retrocause.

A.S. Howe (2012). Waterball. Science Fiction novel. ISBN 13-978-0985076511. Amazon.com.

On Mother, a water-wrapped world of endless storms, generations of Technicians live in the serene green depths of a floating megacity—salvaging corridors, riding thrash tides, and re-discovering contraptions in the ruins of Those Who Went Before. But something ominous orbits below them in the deep, causing quakes every time it passes.

A.S. Howe (2013). Blister. Science Fiction novel. ISBN 13-978-0985076542. Amazon.com.

A generation after Waterball, Mother’s people climb to the ancient orbital station Destiny—and through Bridgestar, a self-assembling gate between the stars—to Blister, a pressurized bubble hundreds of kilometers across packed with wrecked ships in freefall. Flesh crews, rocker-linked Wardens, and newborn digital minds must explore a junkyard megastructure already claimed by scavengers and forgotten wars. Blister is hard core science fiction at its best by A. Scott Howe.