Ikenberry, Kevin
Entry updated 20 March 2023. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Illegal" in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine for May 2012; much of his output has been Military SF, often couched in the form of Alternate Histories. The time-travelling (see Time Travel) protagonist of his first series, The Protocol War sequence beginning with Sleeper Protocol (2015), arrives in a moderately distant Near-Future world while suffering from induced Amnesia and under threat of termination. He must fight to find a role. The series expands into Space Opera territory, with Invasions, Alien civilizations, and Weapons. The Imprint War sequence beginning with Lancer One (2017 ebook) is similar in that here the minds of dead twentieth-century soldiers are transferred futurewards and imprinted (see Identity Transfer) into soldiers about to face challenges; the action has some of the dynamic thrust of Keith Laumer's early work. The Revelations Cycle, which has also been called The Four Horsemen Saga, begins with Peacemaker (2017), a wide-ranging exercise in Military SF with an emphasis, which persists with variations through the long series, on privatized security forces engaged in maintaining peace over the interstellar reaches of a Galactic Union enriched for Homo sapiens by a proliferation of Terraformed planets. The Murphy's Law sequence beginning with Obligations (2020) draws from the same storage facilities of the SF Megatext as Ikenberry's previous series. The Crossing (2022) is set in a Shared World universe created by Eric Flint.
Ikenberry's two singletons are Runs in the Family (2015), whose protagonist longs to leave her Rimworld home, and becomes a mercenary with at least one secret Weapon; the protagonist of Super-Sync (2019) is a civilian operative on a salvage ship en route to an abandoned Space Habitat full of mysteries. It should be noted that women protagonists seem to appear as frequently as males, and behave with similar competence, throughout Ikenberry's work (see Women in SF). [JC]
Kevin Ikenberry
born
works (selected)
series
The Protocol War
- Sleeper Protocol (Garner, North Carolina: Red Adept Publishing, 2015) [The Protocol War: pb/]
- Vendetta Protocol (Garner, North Carolina: Red Adept Publishing, 2017) [The Protocol War: pb/]
- Eminence Protocol (Coinjock, North Carolina: Theogony Books, 2021) [The Protocol War: pb/Streetlight Graphics]
Imprint War
- Lancer One (no place given: Soaring Leaf Press, 2017) [novella: ebook: Imprint War: na/]
- Dereliction of Duty: An Imprint War Novel (Coinjock, North Carolina: Theogony Books, 2020) [ebook: Imprint War: na/Ricky Ryan]
Revelations Cycle
- Peacemaker (Virginia Beach, Virginia: Seventh Seal Press, 2017) [in the shared world Revelations Cycle: pb/]
- Honor the Threat (Virginia Beach, Virginia: Seventh Seal Press, 2018) [in the shared world Revelations Cycle: Four Horsemen: pb/]
- Stand or Fall (Virginia Beach, Virginia: Seventh Seal Press, 2018) [in the shared world Revelations Cycle: Rise of the Peacemakers: The Omega Wars: pb/]
- Deathangel (Virginia Beach, Virginia: Seventh Seal Press, 2018) [in the shared world Revelations Cycle: Rise of the Peacemakers: The Omega Wars: pb/]
- Enforcer (Virginia Beach, Virginia: Seventh Seal Press, 2019) [n the shared world Revelations Cycle: pb/]
- Redacted Affairs (Virginia Beach, Virginia: Seventh Seal Press, 2019) with Kevin Stevenson [in the shared world Revelations Cycle: Rise of the Peacemakers: pb/]
- Fields of Fire (Virginia Beach, Virginia: Seventh Seal Press, 2020) with Kevin Stevenson [in the shared world Revelations Cycle: Rise of the Peacemakers: pb/Ricky Ryan]
- Set the Terms (Virginia Beach, Virginia: Seventh Seal Press, 2020) with Mira R Kleve [in the shared world Revelations Cycle: Rise of the Peacemakers: pb/]
- Redacted Vice (Virginia Beach, Virginia: Seventh Seal Press, 2021) with Kevin Stevenson [in the shared world Revelations Cycle: Rise of the Peacemakers: pb/]
- Harbinger (Virginia Beach, Virginia: Seventh Seal Press, 2021) [in the shared world Revelations Cycle: Rise of the Peacemakers: pb/]
- Redacted Weapon (Virginia Beach, Virginia: Seventh Seal Press, 2022) with Kevin Stevenson [in the shared world Revelations Cycle: Rise of the Peacemakers: pb/]
Murphy's Lawless
- Obligations (Virginia: Beyond Terra Press, 2020) [Murphy's Lawless: pb/]
- Desperado (Virginia: Beyond Terra Press, 2021) [Murphy's Lawless: pb/]
Assiti Shards
- The Crossing (New York: Baen Books, 2022) [in the shared world Assiti Shards series: hb/Kieran Yanner]
individual titles
- Runs in the Family (no place given: Strigidae Publishing, 2016) [pb/Buzzart]
- Super-Sync (Coinjock, North Carolina: Theogony Books, 2019) [pb/]
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