Fantasy – Science Fiction – Comics – Games
This web site is dedicated to the legends and lore, characters and history of Jay Veloso Batista’s adventure novels. This is the only place to learn of upcoming releases, understand the tales behind the novels and keep in touch with the author. Exciting adventures await…
Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction!
The Terran Hunters
Slaughter on Arwen Station!
Suspected pirates living large…
Gangsters muscling onto new turf…
Persons of Interest evading authorities…
A typical day on Arwen, the hub station at the edge of Terran influence.
Until a surge in gruesome homicides and airlock executions confound the already strained security force… And when gangland-style slayings and ad hoc gun battles endanger station integrity, suddenly all lives on the orbital platform are in jeopardy.
It’s ALL-HANDS-ON-DECK for Sargent Bax Anders and Immigration Enforcement, his extrajudicial team commissioned to capture and repatriate wayward delinquents, criminals and fugitives. Waves of tight-lipped assassins with vague motives, baffling felonies, inexplicable murders, political rivalries, and rival spies from three planets. Can Bax and the AIE squad stop the crime wave before the station collapses in civil war?
THE TERRAN HUNTERS is a police procedural thriller set in orbit and based on the author’s popular short story ‘Fugitive Holiday.’ If you like the space opera of Corey’s ‘Expanse’ and Scalzi’s ‘Interdependency,’ you will love this new thriller from Jay Veloso Batista.
Learn about Norse Legends, Viking history and the craft of writing Fantasy novels
The Forerunner wins SECOND International Book Award!
Reader’s Favorites International Book Awards has awarded “Thorfinn and the Witch’s Curse” its 2021Bronze Medal winner in Fiction- Fantasy-General...
Fantasy Maps Guest Blog
Recently FANTASY MAP SYMBOLS let me submit a guest blog...I chose to write about the differences between making maps for TSR Inc in the 1980s to...
What’s in a Name?
In my effort to be historically authentic, I adopted medieval names for my Danish and Saxon characters, however, there appears to be lingering...
Meet the Author
Jay Veloso Batista
Author of science fiction, fantasy, short stories, comics and games, Jay is best known for creative worlds, thrilling plots and fascinating characters. His work “dives into what it means to be human, even in the wild frontier of the outer solar system.” Author of ‘The Forerunner Series’ of Viking Age Fantasy novels, comics and graphic novels in ‘The Lost Landers’ series, science fiction novels, short stories, poetry and games, Jay’s work has been awarded multiple international book awards including The Wishing Shelf Book Award for ‘Thorfinn and the Witch’s Curse’ (2019), a Wishing Shelf Honorable Mention for ‘The Vardoger Boy’ (2020) and Readers’ Favorite Book Awards for both ‘Thorfinn’ (2019) and ‘Kara, Shieldmaiden of Eire’ (2022).