Gideon is a full member of the SFWA, a four-time Hugo Finalist, and winner of both the Serling and the Space Cowboy Awards.

Books:

Kitra — The Kitra Saga #1

By Gideon Marcus

Stranded in space: no fuel, no way home… and no one coming to help.

From the pen of Hugo Finalist Gideon Marcus comes the found-family, YA Space Adventure you’ve been waiting for:

Nineteen-year-old Kitra Yilmaz dreams of traveling the galaxy like her Ambassador mother. But soaring in her glider is the closest she can get to touching the stars — until she stakes her inheritance on a salvage Navy spaceship.

On its shakedown cruise, Kitra’s ship plunges into hyperspace, stranding Kitra and her crew light years away. Tensions rise between Kitra and her shipmates: the handsome programmer, Fareedh; Marta, biologist and Kitra’s ex-girlfriend; Peter, the panicking engineer; and the oddball alien navigator, Pinky.

Now, running low on air and food, it’ll take all of them working together to get back home.

With illustrations by Lorelei Esther.

 

 

Sirena — The Kitra Saga #2

By Gideon Marcus

One starship, six friends, 10,000 lives in the balance.

Hugo Award Finalist Gideon Marcus has done it again with this second installment in The Kitra Saga. Sirena is a thrilling YA space adventure, unusually hopeful and optimistic in a sea of grimdark, dystopian releases. Enhanced with beautiful illustrations, fans of Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers and Emily Skrutskie’s Bonds of Brass will adore Sirena.

Young captain-for-hire Kitra Yilmaz has gotten her first contract: escort the mysterious Princess of Atlántida beyond the Frontier and find her a new world. It’s a risky job, fraught with the threat of pirates, dangerous squatters, and rising romantic tensions.

Still, Kitra and her crew are up for anything – until they find a lush world, perfect for settlement…with an enormous ghost ship already in orbit.

What secret does the crippled vessel hide? And is Kitra ready to take responsibility for its precious cargo?

 

Short Fiction

Andy and Tina:  Tales from Alternate Earths 2, 2018
Catnap:  Simultaneous Times, 2020
Manhunt:  Simultaneous Times, 2021
Home Insurance:  Dark Matter, 2021
Nonstandardized Testing:   Utopia, 2022
Clairvoyage:   Utopia, 2022
See No Evil:   Wyngraf Fantasy Anthology, 2023