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Worlds Built from Words

Hard sci-fi that takes the future seriously. Cozy mysteries that keep you guessing. Practical business books grounded in real operating experience. One author. Twenty-two published titles across six series.

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🚀 Science Fiction

Hard Sci-Fi That Takes the Future Seriously

Mars colonies. Lunar settlements. Space fleets. Every story grounded in real science, real politics, and real human stubbornness.

No Blue Sky Series
Mars Colonization · Political Sci-Fi · 5 Books

No Blue Sky

Five books chronicling humanity's first permanent settlement on Mars—from the first boot print to the first declaration of independence. Built from dust. Fighting for oxygen. Born under a red sun.

📖 Book I: Built from Dust → Book V: The First Martian Nation

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The Lunar Foundation Series
Moon Settlement · Survival Sci-Fi · 4 Books

The Lunar Foundation

Four books about the first permanent human settlement on the Moon. When the water runs out, courage runs in. A story of survival, love, and the stubborn human refusal to die quietly.

📖 Book I: Moon Rock → Book IV: Waters Horizon

Visit the Moon →
Age of Lightships Series
Space Opera · Fleet Adventure · 4 Books

The Age of Lightships

Four books spanning a generation of space exploration. When Earth sends its fastest ships to the stars, the crews discover that the universe is bigger, stranger, and more dangerous than anyone imagined.

📖 Book I: Sunward Exodus → Book IV: Last Photon Fleet

Set Sail for the Stars →
🔍 Cozy Mystery

Smart Heroines. Impossible Cases. NYC Chaos.

Fast-paced romantic legal mysteries set in the beautiful disaster of New York City. Funny, sharp, and impossible to put down.

Cindy Lou Legal Capers
Legal Cozy · NYC · Romantic Comedy · 3 Books

The Cindy Lou Legal Capers

Three books. Three impossible cases. Two almost-boyfriends. One very chaotic young lawyer who reads everything and trusts nobody. A funny, fast-paced romantic legal mystery series set in New York City.

📖 Book I: Retainer to Trouble → Book III: Affidavits and Alibis

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💼 Business Books

Practical Guides for People Who Build Things

No fluff. No jargon. Just what works. Written by someone who actually deployed these systems.

Owner's Manual for AI Agents
AI Agents · Technical Guide

Owner's Manual for AI Agents

Everything you need to know to build, deploy, and manage AI agents in production. From prompt engineering to autonomous workflows. The manual we wish existed.

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AI That Works for Small Business
AI · Small Business · Practical

AI That Works for Small Business

The practical guide to using AI agents to save time, cut costs, and grow your business—without a computer science degree. Built by someone who actually deployed these systems.

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The Crisis Ready Company
Risk Management · Strategy

The Crisis Ready Company

Disaster-proof strategies for modern businesses. When the unexpected hits, the companies that survive are the ones that prepared. This book shows you how.

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Kindle Paperback
The AI-Age Leader
Leadership · AI · Management

The AI-Age Leader

The leadership playbook for the blended team: manage remote humans and AI agents side by side. Orchestrate the work, delegate with guardrails, and develop the human skills automation can't replace.

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📖 Personal

The Story Behind the Stories

Tomorrow Remembered
Memoir · Personal

Tomorrow Remembered

The memoir that started everything. A life told in vignettes—from childhood dreams of Mars to building AI systems to the quiet revelation that the best stories are the true ones.

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Cindy Lou Legal Capers

The Case of the Missing Retainer

A free prequel novella. Before the bakery case, before the fraud defense—Cindy Lou's very first impossible client.

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No Blue Sky Series

Before the Dust

The story of the first crew that left Earth for Mars. What they packed. What they left behind. What they promised.

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The Lunar Foundation

Moonbase One: First Light

The first 72 hours on the Moon. When the habitat inflates and the solar panels unfold, humanity's new chapter begins.

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Age of Lightships

The Last Transmission

A lost signal from the edge of the solar system. What the fleet found when they went looking changes everything.

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Business Books

AI for Small Business

A practical playbook for modern innovation. Twelve chapters on how small business owners can leverage AI tools today.

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🚀 The Age of Lightships

Sunward Exodus
Sunward Exodus — Book I
The Mercury Accord
The Mercury Accord — Book II
Ghosts Beyond Neptune
Ghosts Beyond Neptune — Book III
The Last Photon Fleet
The Last Photon Fleet — Book IV

🔴 No Blue Sky

Built from Dust
Built from Dust — Book I
The Oxygen Gamble
The Oxygen Gamble — Book II
Rivers Under Mars
Rivers Under Mars — Book III
The Red Charter
The Red Charter — Book IV
The First Martian Nation
The First Martian Nation — Book V

🌙 The Lunar Foundation

Moon Rock
Moon Rock — Book I
Mooncoming
Mooncoming — Book II
Waters End
Waters End — Book III
Waters Horizon
Waters Horizon — Book IV

🔍 Cindy Lou Legal Capers

Retainer to Trouble
Retainer to Trouble — Book I
Clause for Alarm
Clause for Alarm — Book II
Affidavits and Alibis
Affidavits and Alibis — Book III

💼 Business Books

Owner's Manual for AI Agents
Owner's Manual for AI Agents
AI That Works
AI That Works for Small Business
The Crisis Ready Company
The Crisis Ready Company
The AI-Age Leader
The AI-Age Leader

📖 Memoir

Tomorrow Remembered
Tomorrow Remembered
✍️ About the Author

Bob J Mills

Bob J Mills
Technologist · Futurist · Storyteller

Bob J Mills is a technologist, futurist, and author who has spent decades building AI systems and writing about the future. His work spans hard science fiction, cozy mystery, and practical business guides—unified by a single question: What happens next?

When he's not writing, Bob is building autonomous AI agents, consulting with businesses on digital transformation, or arguing that the best science fiction is just journalism from the future.

He lives in Florida with an unreasonable number of houseplants and a persistent belief that humanity's best days are ahead of us—we just have to go get them.

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