From the Pen of Sora Xenara
The Xenara Universe
Odyssey’s Journeys
Welcome to Xenara eBooks
First contact, interstellar war, ruthless alien empires, satire, and a touch of romance.
At Xenara, you’ll discover gripping space opera in which humanity is reluctantly thrust onto the galactic stage, with stories about aliens trying to start businesses and navigate Earth’s bureaucracy. From the tense first contact in Odyssey’s Journeys: The Mars Decision to the chaotic escapades in Illegal Aliens, these tales blend emotion, thrilling adventure, romance, and bureaucratic comedy. If you enjoy sci-fi with genuine stakes and a dash of humor, this is the place for you. The adventure is only beginning.
Book I
The Mars Decision
A First Contact Story
Two Destinations - One Choice
This novella launches the “Odyssey's Journeys” series with The Mars Decision and introduces some of the main characters for the planned four-book series.
Humanity’s first mission to Mars is a major step toward colonizing the planet.
Instead, it became the moment everything changed. Halfway to the Red Planet, the crew of the Odyssey discovers a damaged alien spaceship drifting silently through the solar system.
The crew faces a decision: investigate the mystery ship or continue the Mars mission.
One choice — two destinations.
The choice they make, unknowingly, may have repercussions for Earth’s future.
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First Contact Has Put Earth In Jeopardy
First contact has been made — and Earth now stands on the brink of annihilation. The Verya has left a trail from their escape from the Vorrak-controlled region, and although it is faint, the Vorrak are following it straight to Earth.
With only months to prepare, humanity launches a frantic race against time to build its first space defense force under the reluctant command of Captain Thren Toranki. Former geologist Sophia Chin shows another side when she tries her hand at peacemaking, while a growing rebellion seeks the aid of the Humans against the Vorrak Empire.
Can Earth fight a warlike race that has already destroyed or subjected 30 worlds? The Captain of the Verya and members of the Odyssey join forces to prepare Earth for a potential invasion.
Earth launches a desperate effort to build a war fleet from scratch. Will they have enough time?
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Just Released - Book III
Earth In Ascendance
Space Is A Dangerous Place
Earth is not alone.
While First Contact ushered in a new era, Earth can no longer be concerned with internal conflicts. There are enemies who care not for political intrigue, only world conquest.
Will Earth's leaders rise to the occasion or ignore the problem? Join the Odyssey II crew as they form alliances, end conflicts, intercept a fleet intent on wiping out all life on a planet, and confront an invasion fleet.
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About Sora Xenara
Sora Xenara writes character-driven space opera about competent people trying to hold a civilization together when first contact, politics, and human nature collide. His work includes the Odyssey’s Journeys series and Galactic Rogues, beginning with Real Illegal Aliens. The stories blend interstellar stakes with dry humor, practical problem-solving, and the quieter bonds that form among crews, families, and unlikely allies.
Readers who enjoy John Scalzi, Jack Campbell, and James S.A. Corey will recognize the influence — then find Xenara’s own slant: bureaucratic satire, grounded military and diplomatic tension, and characters who stay human even when the universe is not. When she is not writing, she is usually thinking about the next problem her characters cannot talk their way out of.