Michael D. Smith

Michael D. Smith’s Jack Commer, Supreme Commander science fiction series is published by Sortmind Press. In addition, Sortmind Press publishes his novels Sortmind, CommWealth, Jump Grenade, The Soul Institute, Akard Drearstone, Asylum and Mirage, and The University of Mars, as well as a new science fiction series, Supreme Commander Laurie.

Newest Titles:

The Benign Incursion, 2026

Book Two of the Supreme Commander Laurie series. Six months after becoming supreme commander, Laurie compromises her career by falling in love with brilliant young engineer Rod Morgan. Is she in any shape to deal with the wise and imperious dog-aliens her protégé Mavis Wheeler just discovered?

Zarreich, 2024

An adolescent sent to live in a small town after his mother’s death finds his memories wiped out. He kills a gang leader invading his grandmother’s home, then becomes the subject of a botched police investigation. Yet he’s soon drafted into a mystical commune of twelve dreamers five levels beneath the ruined city of Zarreich.

The University of Mars, 2024. In a dysfunctional 2065 where religious zealots restrict the world to outdated twentieth-century technology, eighteen-year-old Zeke Venan dedicates himself to the life of the mind and to the further evolution of humanity.

Supreme Commander Laurie, 2024, Book One of the Supreme Commander Laurie Series. Before he shot his spaceship through a star to probe a cosmic anomaly, Jack Commer resigned as leader of the United System Space Force, elevating physician/engineer Laurie Lachrer to take his place. But now, inexplicably transported onto his doomed ship, she struggles to assert herself as the new supreme commander.