The End of Cyber Dragons is now available

I’m pleased to say that THE END OF CYBER DRAGONS is now available for purchase on ebook, paperback, and audiobook. The ending to the Cyber Dragons trilogy is something that I’m greatly proud of and think everyone will enjoy.

Revenge is all she has—or is it?

A year has passed since the disastrous Elysium massacre that left Keiko “Kei” Springs traumatized and hungry for revenge against her former mentor, Snake. However, going after the world’s second most powerful man is not as easy as it sounds. Kei must make a series of deadly alliances and navigate the complicated web of politics that will give her a chance to take him down. But will going after him destroy the family she’s managed to build? Experience the final exciting chapter of the Cyber Dragons trilogy!

Includes a bonus short story, “Old Wounds Never Heal.”

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/End-Cyber-Dragons-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B0CQ6FN4FN/

Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/End-of-the-Cyber-Dragons-Audiobook/B0CS11Q8Y5

Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/end-of-the-cyber-dragons-c-t-phipps/1144486659

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/sg/en/ebook/end-of-the-cyber-dragons

Writing Update – April 24, 2024

Hey folks,

I thought I would give a wonderful update about what’s going on with my current projects because what is the point of this if not to keep my fans updated with what’s in the works? This has been a very busy April and the news is both good, bad, and in-between.

• The Supervillainy Saga: The next book, THE RISE OF SUPERVILLAINY, is presently slated to be the finale of the series. It’s lasted ten books but sales are a bit down and Gary has achieved a lot of what I’ve wanted to tell so putting the series to rest for a time seems like a sensible choice. The premise for it is well-timed, though, because we’ll be doing a “Gary meets the X-men” style story.
• Fear not fans of the Gary universe as when the Supervillainy Saga is finished, we’ll be doing a sequel series called WORLD’S WORST SUPERHERO. Which will take place in the same world and deal with Gary’s opposite number in would-be patriotic superhero, Jack Washington Junior. Except, well, he just
  keeps doing villainy! By accident, really!
• Space Academy Miscreants (Space Academy #4) is now off to the recording studio at Podium where we’ll be seeing Vance Turbo’s adventures against the evil SLAVE LORDS OF CRIUS and meeting someone he never expected to see: [spoiler]! I think this will be a very enjoyable work.
• Speaking of Space Academy, SPACE ACADEMY VAGRANTS will be coming out probably just two months after the release of Space Academy Miscreants. It will be a massive treasure hunt story and a redoing of the planned third Lucifer’s Star book. Basically, the concept just fit for Vance and crew.
• We will actually be wrapping up the Lucifer’s Star series with a short story included with Miscreants called “The End of History” which will provide a nice epilogue for Cassius and company looking back on their connections to Vance Turbo and his crew.
• The fourth and final Cthulhu Armageddon book, CTHULHU’S CANYON has been started up and I hope to have it done by the end of Summer. This will return John Henry Booth to the Wasteland for one last time to discover the fate of his two children and whether it’s possible to save what little remains of humanity.
• Speaking of Cthulhu, I have a novelette in TIME LOOPERS, a Cthulhu Mythos anthology edited by David Hambling of Harry Stubbs fame. We’re also going to be releasing THE BOOK OF HASTUR, which is another set of excellent Cthulhu Mythos stories that will be starring John Henry Booth. It’s my hope to eventually do a compliation of all of the short stories into one Pulpy mythos volume.
• Plans remain for the third Moon Cops book and second Morgan Detective Agency book. A Peter Stone sequel too but finishing up the above is currently preoccupying me. Not that I have too much on my plate, no sir!

Moon Cops on the Moon is now available

Hey folks, 

I have fantastic news! MOON COPS ON THE MOON is now available on Kindle and has already hit number 1# in Humorous Science Fiction! I’m so pleased by this and hope you guys will do me a solid and pick up a copy, only for 99c this month only! 

FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUPERVILLAINY SAGA:

“Welcome to the moon!”

Neal Gordon screwed up his assignment on Mars and they reassigned him to Antarctica. Now he’s being reassigned some place even worse: Luna City. A crime ridden hellhole with a super-rich ruling class, he almost immediately finds himself targeted by bounty hunters and cyborg terrorists. Thankfully, Neal has an unusual set of partners in robot dog, Barksley, and the snarky but badass Lucy Westenra. Yes, make all the vampire jokes you want.

It’s tough being a corporate cop on humanity’s foremost colony and before this adventure is over, he’s going to have to deal with deranged influencers, mysterious female secret agents, and a 1970s themed flying car called the Purple Rain. Can he survive to get reassigned? Who knows.

MOON COPS ON THE MOON is set in the Futurepunk setting of Agent G, the Cyber Dragons Trilogy, and Space Academy novels but functions as a standalone series. It is a humorous action-filled romp that fans of The Expanse, Robocop, Demolition Man, and Blade Runner will enjoy.

Available here 

Moon Cops on the Moon is now available for preorder (99c!)

I’m pleased to announce we have an upcoming release that will be on sale from the very beginning. MOON COPS ON THE MOON is my next humorous sci-fi series to go alongside SPACE ACADEMY DROPOUTS and THE SUPERVILLAINY SAGA. I think it may be my funniest story yet. It’s also 99c! Woot!

“Welcome to the moon!”

Neal Gordon screwed up his assignment on Mars and they reassigned him to Antarctica. Now he’s being reassigned some place even worse: Luna City. A crime ridden hellhole with a super-rich ruling class, he almost immediately finds himself targeted by bounty hunters and cyborg terrorists. Thankfully, Neal has an unusual set of partners in robot dog, Barksley, and the snarky but badass Lucy Westenra. Yes, make all the vampire jokes you want.

It’s tough being a corporate cop on humanity’s foremost colony and before this adventure is over, he’s going to have to deal with deranged influencers, mysterious female secret agents, and a 1970s themed flying car called the Purple Rain. Can he survive to get reassigned? Who knows.

MOON COPS ON THE MOON is set in the Futurepunk setting of Agent G, the Cyber Dragons Trilogy, and Space Academy novels but functions as a standalone series. It is a humorous action-filled romp that fans of The Expanse, Robocop, Demolition Man, and Blade Runner will enjoy.

Coming out November 13th!

Available here 

Tales of Nyarlathotep and Time Loopers are now available!

CTHULHU RELEASE DAY – TALES OF NYARLATHOTEP came out today, a collection of short stories and novellas about the Crawling Chaos AKA Black Pharoah AKA The Messenger of the Outer Gods. Also, TIME LOOPERS also has been updated and re-released with time travel stories related to the Cthulhu My

Tales of Nyarlathotep (US): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C4JVR9WJ

Tales of Nyarlathotep (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales…/dp/B0C4JVR9WJ/

Time Loopers (US): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087YV717W…

Times Loopers (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Loopers-Four…/dp/B087YV717W/

The Fall of Supervillainy is now available!

Hey folks,

I have fantastic news that THE FALL OF SUPERVILLAINY is now out on Kindle! The ninth Supervillainy Saga book is now available on Kindle.

Gary Karkofsky, a.k.a. Merciless: The Supervillain Without MercyTM is enjoying the bliss of a newly rebooted Earth. Ultragod is President of the United States, most supervillains are either harmless or imprisoned, and superpowers are being used to benefit all mankind. Of course it couldn’t last. Suffering a near fatal heart attack and under attack by extra-dimensional evils, Gary struggles to find an object that might repair the universe he’s unwittingly damaged the fabric of.

Gary will find himself dealing with an alien witch queen, a fantasy world with a massive dungeon, and a final showdown with his greatest foe!

Oh and he sleeps with a dragon.

Enjoy the next exciting installment of the Supervillainy Saga!

Available here 

If you want to catch up on the rest of the series, now is a great time as well. The first six books of The Supervillainy Saga are now available in a box set for $7.99, which translates to about $1.20 each.

Superhero Playlists

Supervillain Playlists

As a bonus for my adoring readers, I’ve decided to add a playlist set for my heroes and antiheroes! Basically, music is one of the ways we define ourselves and I thought it would provide some insight into how they view the world. Also, it would be nice to share some great tunes as well! Feel free to leave a comment in your review about what you think would be a song a character would listen to.

Gary Karkofsky AKA Merciless: The Supervillain without Mercy’s Playlist

Gary’s favorite songs are a collection of Eighties pop rock, novelty songs, and a few Halloween themed music that reminds people he’s actually quite a bit dangerous. Perhaps the most meaningful of the songs to him is No. #7 as it is his and Mandy’s song. No. #10 is also the closest to defining him as a hero. He’s really not as stupid as he appears to be.

1. “Holding out for A Hero” by Bonnie Tyler
2. “Everybody wants to rule the World” by Tears for Fears
3. “I Want it All” by Queen
4. “When you’re Evil” by Voltaire
5. “Super Villain” by Powerman 5000
6. “Villain Song” by Kirby Krackle
7. “I would do anything for love” by Meatloaf
8. “I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)” by The Clash
9. “Dare to be Stupid” by Weird Al
10. “Nobody’s Fool” by Kenny Loggins
11. “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult
12. “No One Lives Forever” by Oingo Boingo

Cindy Wackowski AKA Red Riding Hood’s Playlist

Cindy shares some of Gary’s taste for the Eighties but is a bit more modern with a fondness for artists from the Nineties and today. There’s definitely a lot of self-awareness that she’s a terrible person but she owns that. No. #10 is probably her anthem in that respect.

1. “Hungry Like the Wolf” by Duran Duran
2. “Werewolves of London” by Warren Zevon
3. “Material Girl” by Madonna
4. “Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend” by Marilyn Monroe
5. “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” by Pink
6. “Bad Reputation” by Joan Jett
7. “Sweet But Psycho” by Ava Max
8. “Toxic” by Brittney Spears
9. “Crazy on You” by Heart
10. “You Call Me a Bitch Like It’s A Bad Thing” by Halestorm

Mandy Karkofsky AKA Nighthuntress’ Playlist

Mandy is a fan of Goth rock, hard rock, metal, and symphonic metal. In a better world, she would have been able to make a career in it herself but life got in the way. The one exception is No. #1 that represents Gary’s influence on her. Also, No. #10 is how she views her relationship with the Karkofsky household.

1. “The Warrior” by Patty Smyth
2. “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by the Bauhaus
3. “Daughters of Darkness” by Halestorm
4. “Lucretia My Reflection” by The Sisters of Mercy
5. “Phantom of the Opera” by Nightwish
6. “Swamped” by Lacuna Coil
7. “If You Want Blood, You’ve Got it” by AC/DC
8. “Poison” by Alice Cooper9. “Pet Semetary” by the Ramones
10. “Dance Macabre” by Ghost 

Gabrielle Anders AKA Ultragoddess’ Playlist

Gabrielle has an eclectic taste of Spanish as well as Caribbean music mixed with singers that look like her. She prefers uplifting, powerful, and enjoyable music. No. #1 makes her feel like her invulnerability is at immense cost, though. No. #9 lives rent free in her head due to the questions she has whether she’s really making a difference.

1. “Titanium” by David Guetta
2. “Conga” by Miami Sound Machine
3. “La Rubia” by Charity Daw
4. “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” by Tina Turner
5. “Just a Girl” by No Doubt
6. “Stronger” by Brittney Spears
7. “Girl on Fire” by Alicia Keys
8. “I’m in love with a Criminal” by Brittney Spears
9. “We Don’t Need Another Hero” by Tina Turner
10. “Invincible” by Pat Benetar

Diabloman’s Playlist

_{I was wondering whether or not Diabloman would be listening to primarily Spanish language music but it occured to me that he would probably be a Eighties hard rock and metal fan. There’s a distinctly infernal theme to his music but that’s to be expected. No. #1 is also what I consider to be the theme song for Falconcrest City.}

1. “This ain’t no place for no hero [Short Change Hero]” by The Heavy

2. “Aint no Rest for the Wicked” by Cage the Elephant

3. “Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones

4. “Highway to Hell” by AC/DC

5. “Runnin’ with the Devil” by Van Halen

6. “Shout at the Devil” by Motley Crue

7. “The Number of the Beast” by Iron Maiden

8. “Devil’s Child” by Judas Priest

9. “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne

10. “Devil’s Dance” by Metallica

Futurepunk is here!

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Futurepunk

The Futurepunk setting is The ‘Verse created by C.T. Phipps for a series of science fiction stories that take place over an extremely long length of time, showing the setting advance and change as well as shift science fiction subgenres. It starts 20 Minutes in the Future, moves into Cyberpunk Dystopia, becomes a Solar Punk Utopia, collapses into a dark Space Opera set After the End, and then jumps ahead to a Sufficiently Advanced Dark Fantasy setting to end it all.

The setting shares not only a singular timeline but also some general themes of Capitalism Is Bad, Eat the Rich, What Measure Is a Non-Human? and Antihero protagonists attempting to fight against a system that keeps plodding along regardless. Multiple protagonists crossover through the storyline and interweave with the setting’s history. While there has been crossovers with his The Supervillainy Saga and United States Of Monsters books, these are all three separate universes.

The setting can be divided into the following time periods:

Pre-Collapse: The setting of the first two Agent G books and several short stories, this is Next Sunday A.D. where the world is more or less the same as our except for the existence of Black Technology, which is science fiction technology kept from the public for the benefit of megacorporations and the government. Word of God is that it is the 2060s.
Post-Collapse: This is the setting for the third Agent G book and The Cyber Dragons Trilogy. The Yellowstone caldera has erupted and plunged Earth into a year long winter as Black Technology became public thanks to our protagonists. As such, humanity has moved into arcologies and society has degenerated into a Cyberpunk Dystopia. Word of God is that this period lasts roughly forty years. The Dark Destiny books take place in an Alternate Universe where the Yellowstone eruption never happened.
Post-First Contact: Aliens contact the Earth in 2100 and proceed to help humanity get its crap together. The environment is repaired, a social safety net is re-instituted, and AI work alongside humanity to visit the stars. It is a Solar Punk setting similar to Star Trek. This is the setting for the Space Academy series and its spinoffs. This lasts until the 30th century.
The Second Dark Age: Earth is destroyed by terrorists and humankind turns against AI due to Fantastic Racism, leading to a massive separation of humanity’s many colonies. AI are enslaved despite many being indistinguishable from people, Feudal Future fascist empires have arisen, megacorps run amuck, and the only democracy is an expansionist The Empire. This is the setting for the Lucifer’s Star books. It is set in the 40th century and a dark Space Opera with Cyberpunk for Flavor.
The Far Era: The original Humanity has Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence and left behind many creations that are effectively indistinguishable in worlds that they have molded to their liking. The protagonists live in a high fantasy world that may actually be nothing more than a giant theme park. This is just one of countless such worlds. It is the setting for the Wraith Knight books. Word of God says this is about ten million years in the futre.

• Agent G
• Agent G: Infiltrator
• Agent G: Saboteur
• Agent G: Assassin
• The Cyber Dragons Trilogy
• Daughter of the Cyber Dragons
• Revenge of the Cyber Dragons
• Space Academy with Michael Suttkus
• Space Academy Dropouts
• Space Academy Rejects
• Space Academy Washouts
• Lucifer’s Star with Michael Suttkus
• Lucifer’s Star
• Lucifer’s Nebula
• Wraith Knight
• Wraith Knight
• Wraith Lord
• Wraith King

The Fall of Supervillainy cover reveal

I’m pleased to announce THE FALL OF SUPERVILLAINY cover art is now done. Hopefully, the novel itself will be edited and ready for Kindle readers at the end of June. I’m hoping the Audible version will be done at the end of August.

The Fall of the House is now available on audiobook!

I’m pleased to say that after a (too long) wait, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE is finally available on audiobook. The United States of Monsters series (Straight Outta Fangton, I was a Teenage Weredeer, Psycho Killers in Love) began with the Red Room series. Serving as a template and later prequel for its later volumes, The Fall of the House is the third and final book in the series that depicts how the hidden world of Esoterrorism became the broken masquerade of its sequels. Read the exciting and fascinating story of Derek Hawthorne’s final adventure!

From the best-selling author of The Rules of Supervillainy:

Derek Hawthorne has slain Dracula and stopped the malevolent plan of his own employers, the sinister House. However, he has discovered that his ex-partner and lover Ashley Morgan has been kidnapped while a new conspiracy moves to expose the supernatural to the world. The House has overplayed its hand and all of its enemies are coming to bring it down. Derek will have to travel dimensions, fight monsters, and call in every favor he’s accumulated just to survive.

The Fall of the House is the exciting conclusion of the Red Room trilogy, tying the series to the greater United States of Monsters universe (Bright Falls Mysteries, Straight Outta Fangton, and Brightblade).

 Available here