Robert Kroese launches Ransom’s Law, a five-novel SF series about corporate law in an interstellar future


By Michael Grossberg

Prometheus-nominated SF author Robert Kroese has launched an ambitious five-novel series about corporate law in an interstellar and entrepreneurial future.

Acceleration Clause, published April 29 in 255 pages by St. Culain Press, is the first book in Kroese’s Ransom’s Law series about a corporate lawyer struggling to find new footing after a career misstep as part of a spaceship repossession crew.

Kroese is of interest to Libertarian Futurist Society members because he was nominated for the Prometheus Award for Best Novel in 2022 for Titan: Mammon Book 1.

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More new, emerging authors recognized in this year’s large slate of Best Novel nominees

If one of the salutary effects of the Prometheus Award for Best Novel over the decades has been to help raise the visibility of new, young or emerging talent, that goal might well be furthered by this year’s larger-than-usual slate of nominees.

These 16 novels, published in 2021 and listed below, reflect a wide range of styles, from the satirical to the sorrowful and from hard sf to mythic fantasy.

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