Welcome to Outrageous Fiction, a gateway to fast-paced adventures, found families, and all the snark you care to entertain.

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Who We Are

Individually, we are Kathleen McClure, Kelley McKinnon, and L. Gene Brown. Collectively we create outrageous stories of distant worlds, all populated by living, breathing, flawed characters engaged in all manner of hijinks, heists, and mysteries.

If you’re looking for analogues, think of authors Martha Wells and Terry Pratchett, or the television shows Leverage, and Strange New Worlds.

About Our Worlds

At present, Outrageous Fiction includes two series: The Fortune Chronicles and The Zodiac Files.

The Fortune Chronicles take place in the distant future on the planet Fortune, where tech is low, tensions high, and heroes unlikely. Think Firefly meet's Anne McCaffery's Pern novels.

The Zodiac Files are a spy-fi space opera set in a high tech future populated by a multitude of species (or, as Kathleen loves to say, "Spies! In space!").

No matter the universe, all of our stories feature character-driven adventures, found families, optimistic futures, and yes, all the snark you care to entertain.

Our Books

The Fortune Chronicles

Soldier of Fortune

Wrongly convicted of treason, Colonel Gideon Quinn has endured six grueling years harvesting crystal under the killing suns of the Morton Barrens, and fully expects to die there. But the former soldier’s fate twists when a general of the Colonial Corps offers Gideon his   freedom, and a chance to clear his name.

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The Fortune Chronicles

Outrageous Fortune

Six years ago, a single act of rebellion cost Captain John Pitte his command and his honor. Now captain of the light freighter Errant, all his hopes rest in keeping his ragtag crew together and their battered airship aloft.

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The Fortune Chronicles

Fortune's Fool

Gideon Quinn has barely set up shop as the first private facilitator in Nike when a case of multiple missing person's drops in his lap. 

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The Zodiac Files

The Gemini Hustle

In the underworld of the Known, secrets are currency and trust is a dangerous game.

Zodiac operative Ray Slater is tracking two of the Known's most wanted when his manhunt collides with Harry Finn's deeply personal mission—with literally explosive results. 

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The Zodiac Files

The Libra Gambit

Prison break! In space!

Harry, Ray, and company are on the move, prepping to exfil a Rasalkan exile from Libra Prison Station. But when they discover the prison is also the center of a dangerous conspiracy, the mission takes on an even greater urgency.

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