The Stardock Trilogy eBooks have needed an update for quite a while. I freely admit I’ve been putting it off because they were originally generated directly from LibreOffice’s EPUB3 export, which uses a third-party software library called libepubgen, which generates unspeakably ghastly XHTML that would make Howard Phillips Lovecraft quail in horror and hide under his desk. (Have you ever noticed that H. P. Lovecraft and Mark Zuckerberg look like twins separated at birth? It’s disturbing.) This means that it is a massively daunting task, even after multiple manual interventions to partially clean up the godawful XHTML, to perform any non-trivial update to them, let alone a major update. And the scope of this task has dissuaded me from spending the time to do it.

Well, I just bit the bullet and did it. All three volumes have been fully updated, enhanced, and brought into sync with the softcover print editions.

Amazon won’t tell you there's an update available, because… Well, let’s not get into that. The short version is that Amazon COULD push an update to you, but realistically, they won’t. But if you’ve already bought the Stardock Trilogy in ebook form, and you go back to the Amazon page and re-download the books in EPUB3 format, you should get the latest, fully updated version.

And if you can’t get it that way, but you bought the eBook… well, talk to us, and we’ll find a way to set you up.

A heads up for those who are paying attention: The eBook edition of In Flux (in your choice of Kindle or EPUB3 format) will be offered in a free book promotion from Saturday, January 31, through Monday, February 2.

We have been informed that Podium Entertainment, our audiobook publisher, has added Agency to expanded platform distribution. The Agency audiobook edition will now be available on all major audiobook platforms, including in public libraries that use the Libby and/or Hoopla services.

This is Fenian House's second major distribution improvement for 2026. As previously mentioned, from January 20 forward, you will be able to buy all Fenian House eBooks through the Kindle store either in Kindle native format, or in EPUB3 as Fenian House originally publishes them.

We at Fenian House hate vendor lock-in.

We really, really hate vendor lock-in.

This is a part of why all Fenian House eBooks are published DRM-free. But that only goes just so far. Your Kindle book purchases come in Kindle's native file format, which is horribly obfuscated. Seriously, we could point you at the long post from the person who finally managed to successfully reverse-engineer it, but take it from us, the level of obfuscation is truly Byzantine.

However, Amazon just announded that beginning January 20, 2026, Amazon will allow titles published without DRM to be downloaded in PDF or native EPUB3 format. This means you, our readers, will no longer be tied to a Kindle reader app or device; you will be able to download our books in EPUB3 format and read them on any eBook reader.

We have just performed the necessary steps to make this happen for all existing Fenian House eBooks. This is a retroactive change. If you have ever bought any Fenian House eBook on Amazon Kindle, then starting January 20, the Kindle store will allow you to go back and re-download it as an EPUB3 that you can take with you wherever you go.

Because at Fenian House, #WeLoveOurReaders.

A few months ago, we tried removing Becoming Real from KDP Select to try cross-listing it on Kobo, at the request of a number of our readers who prefer not to buy from Amazon.

To put it mildly, this was not a success. The cross-listing generated one sale.

For those who really do not like Amazon (believe me, we understand*¹), we still have a plan for implementing a way for you to buy Fenian House books in epub3 format *direct from Fenian House. That plan is not near to fruition yet, but it’s still on the roadmap. We ask for your continued patience. There are a perhaps-surprising number of moving pieces involved, and some of them we cannot run ourselves.

¹ Honestly, if I had a non-Amazon alternative that would pay my bills, I’d gladly use it. But so far it appears there isn’t one. Amazon is the 800lb gorilla in this market.

NASA famously destroyed a Mars mission by making an error of units, performing a vital orbital-entry calculation in feet that should have been done in meters.

I didn't do that. But there is a typo in Appendix 2 of A Line In The Stars that I only spotted today. A Warlord class missile cruiser is of course 454 METERS long, not 454 MILLIMETERS.

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Be advised that there are issues with the softcover print edition of In Flux. At this time, the softcover edition is (at least in the US Kindle store) not properly linked to the Kindle edition, and may not show up correctly in all stores. (The link for amazon.de for example does not resolve.)

However, this is STARTING to clear up. If you cannot find In Flux in softcover in your Amazon store yet, please be patient.

What Is Old Is New Again:

Sean Fenian's Becoming Real is now available in a softcover print edition on Amazon Books, priced at $13.99.

Coming Soon:

Years ago, Justin—we'll call him Justin—escaped from a hated orphanage, and from his own time. Now he will give a woman whom he does not know a last-second escape from hers—and also from her imminent brutal murder. Together, they will learn and share mysteries and wonders, pain and joy, make new friends and face new challenges, in a strange place outside of time and space as we think of it, where possibility can become reality—if your will is strong enough, and your vision clear and firm.

But be careful. There are deadly dangers hiding within the Flux.

Sean Fenian's upcoming novel In Flux draws inspiration in part from sources including Jack L. Chalker and Julian May, in a setting with distant echoes of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, to tell a vaguely steampunk-era tale—without the steam. In Flux is in the final stages of production and should be on sale before Hallowe'en.

I have just been informed by Podium Entertainment that beginning this week, The Stardock Trilogy in audiobook format is being added to extended distribution. and will now be available on an additional twelve major audiobook platforms including Spotify, Apple, and Audiobooks.com, as well as in libraries via the Libby and Hoopla apps.