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Brian Niemeier is an American editor, theologian and #1 best selling author of horror and science fiction novels.

He is best known for writing Souldancer (2016), the second book in the Soul Cycle Series, which won the first ever Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel.

Raised in Peoria, Illinois, Niemeier did his undergraduate at Bradley University in Peoria before earning his MA from the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Although he had acquired formal training in history and theology, Niemeier chose to follow a path in writing as his preferred career.

This came after his long-suffering gaming group shrewdly mentioned that he enjoyed telling stories more than scheduling and adjudicating games.

Besides writing, Niemeier also runs a 5-star rated professional editing service where he helps his top selling clients to turn “3-star writing into 5-star writing”.

More about Brian Niemeier

Genres: Fantasy / SF, Horror

United States

Website: https://brianniemeier.com/

Anthologies

  1. Corona-Chan Spreading the Love Infectious Tales of Fantasy and Suspense Designed to Spread the Pulpdemic (2020)

Combat Frame XSeed: Illustrated

  1. Combat Frame XSeed: Illustrated Combat Frame Tech Guide (2020)

Non-fiction

  1. Don't Give Money to People Who Hate You (2020)

Novellas

  1. The Hymn of the Pearl (2017)

Collections

  1. Strange Matter (2018)

Combat Frame XSeed

  1. Combat Frame XSeed (2018)
  2. Combat Frame XSeed: Coalition Year 40 (2019)
  3. Combat Frame XSeed: CY 40 Second Coming (2019)

Combat Frame XSeed: S Series

  1. Combat Frame XSeed: S (2020)
  2. Combat Frame XSeed: SS (2021)

Soul Cycle

  1. Nethereal (2015)
  2. Souldancer (2016)
  3. The Secret Kings (2016)
  4. The Ophian Rising (2017)
Collections

Detailed book overview

Anthologies

Corona-Chan Spreading the Love Infectious Tales of Fantasy and Suspense Designed to Spread the Pulpdemic

Stuck inside? Quarantine got you feeling down… or even worse, BORED? Corona-Chan: Spreading the Love is here to rescue you from the existential horror of indoor life, by offering you a glimpse into other worlds of wonder, whimsy, and warped humor. 

Tales of high adventure, escapist fantasies, and thrilling stories of suspense await within, from some of the keenest and most rebellious minds in pulp fiction, with a foreword by the infamous Daddy Warpig. With 200,000 words of exciting fiction, most never before published, including four books, Corona-Chan is serious about spreading the love!

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2020
ISBN: 979-8630454270
Publisher: Independently published

Combat Frame XSeed: Illustrated

Combat Frame XSeed: Illustrated Combat Frame Tech Guide

The future is over

Yet weapons technology marches on, reaching its pinnacle in the mighty combat frame! The Combat Frame XSeed saga chronicles the battles waged by these and other awesome war machines!

Get the official specs on every Coalition era CF, plus fighters, ships and more!

Learn the histories of these futuristic weapons and their pilots!

See your favorite combat frames illustrated in full color!

Access exclusive mech data you won't find anywhere else!

Get the secrets of every SOC and EGE mech at your fingertips. Buy the guide now!

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2020
ISBN: 979-8652482589
Publisher: Independently published

Non-fiction

Don't Give Money to People Who Hate You

Everybody thinks Hollywood is political. Everybody’s wrong.

You know that the big movie studios, comic book companies, and video game publishers push an agenda. What you don’t know is that the corporations in control of your entertainment aren’t grifters or ideologues. They’re evangelists of a fanatical anti-religion.

Movie producers don’t ruin beloved film franchises for profit. Comic book writers don’t warp iconic superheroes into self-parodies to sway voters. They hate their audiences with zealous fervor. They want you demoralized, they want your kids propagandized, and they want you to pay for the privilege.

Nostalgia-fueled habit keeps many of these cultists’ victims coming back for more abuse. But you can escape the cycle. In this book you’ll see how the corrupt entertainment industry hooks its customers, and you’ll gain the tools to reclaim your dignity from the Pop Cult.

Learn to stop paying people who hate you, take back your life, and have fun while you’re at it! Read on!

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2020
ISBN: 979-8638613471
Publisher: Independently published

Novellas

The Hymn of the Pearl

Vestiges of the Saronican Empire litter the known world, proclaiming the truth that even the greatest powers must bow to fate’s decrees.

Humanity’s misfortunes were once moderated by an ancient line of priests. Now the order of Advocates lies fallen, afflicted with every curse their cheiromancy had lifted from the shoulders of men. Into the ensuing chaos step the Arbiters: a new order of cheirologists who boast the power to change fate…for a price.

When a warring nation petitions the Arbiters for victory over a superior foe, the order dispatches Manthus, a cheirologist known for his unorthodox thinking and his flexible morals. Manthus seeks help from a sister Arbiter even less scrupulous than he is. Despite the aid of a disgraced general, their combined powers prove unequal to the task.

Their only hope of stopping a senseless war lies with the last Advocate: a man who bears a curse so terrible that all who approach him risk death—and worse. As fortune turns and armies clash, Manthus enters a perilous alliance that could destroy him or free the world from fate itself.

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2017
Ebook: B073J58F96

Collections

Strange Matter

In these pages you’ll meet an investigator tackling an apocalyptic mystery, a Cold War reporter pursuing terrors beyond understanding, a working stiff thrust into an impossible dilemma, a team of Moderns pitted against an ancient evil, one soldier who seeks immortality in death and another who’s outlived his usefulness. You’ll share the struggles of a scholar tempted with a terrible choice and a counter-revolutionary fighting a lost and lonely war of the mind.

Can you handle Strange Matter?

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2018
Ebook: B07C2ZCFPZ

Combat Frame XSeed

Combat Frame XSeed

The future is over.

Civilization on Earth has collapsed. Oligarchs have established a new order in manmade space colonies at the Earth-Moon LaGrange points.

A group of powerful colonies form the Systems Overterrestrial Coalition to re-civilize the earth, but grounders view the colonists as hostile meddlers. The Coalition counters the rising violence with giant manned robots called combat frames.

The independent L3 colonies denounce the war on Earth. In response, Coalition Security Director Sanzen takes L3 leader Josef Friedlander's wife and daughter hostage. Amid the tense standoff, Friedlander's son Sieg launches an unsanctioned rescue mission to L1's Byzantium colony.

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2018
ISBN: 978-1792894947
Publisher: Independently published
Combat Frame XSeed: Coalition Year 40

They made him necessary. He’ll make them pay.

Earth groans under the yoke of the Systems Overterrestrial Coalition. Socs enjoy privileged status while grounders languish as second-class citizens.

Student Thomas Arthur Dormio leads the Brussels Service Academy’s history club, a front for a dissident grounder cell. The Human Liberation Organization conducts a campaign of blackmail, sabotage, and terrorism to free Earth from the Socs.

En route to make contact with the HLO, Second Lieutenant Theodore Red arrives in orbit over Western Europe. But before he starts the next phase of the resistance on Earth, Red has a man to kill.

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1098515744
Publisher: Independently published
Combat Frame XSeed: CY 40 Second Coming

It’s not over.

Genius or madman? Monster or Savior?

Arthur Wake is missing in action. His fragile HALO alliance shatters under the Coalition’s counterattack.

Desperate to recoup their losses, the Coalition turns to a pilot with a grudge against HALO. Brutal false flag attacks soon jeopardize Hainan Island’s hard-won independence.

Sullia Zend uses the fray on Earth as cover for her secret agenda. But can even the Sentinel manage a ruthless lawman, her own estranged sister, and a HALO defector on the eve of a cataclysmic reckoning eons in the making?

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1652992202
Publisher: Independently published

Combat Frame XSeed: S Series

Combat Frame XSeed: S

An unstoppable scourge lays siege to Earth.

Can humanity survive a world-destroying force that has never known defeat?

The Ynzu Siege nears its third bloody decade. Battered to the breaking point, the United Commonwealth-Protectorate recalls its combat frame carrier fleet for a last stand at Earth.

Lt. Dex Trapper must battle for his life when the Ynzu strike his remote extrasolar colony. Cut off from the UCP, Dex and his CF tech Thatch make a desperate break for help in a century-old XSeed.

Fans of J.N. Chaney's Messenger series and Cole and Anspach's Galaxy's Edge will thrill to this new series in Dragon Award winner Brian Niemeier's XSeed saga! Buy it now!

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2020
ISBN: 979-8551317906
Publisher: Independently published
Combat Frame XSeed: SS

Space is a graveyard.

They came to destroy us …

… Now they’re humanity’s only hope.

The Guardian Angels race home to confront a traitor. Instead, disaster forces them into a savage battle with an invincible enemy bent on Earth's annihilation.

Can Jehu Red lead his team to victory over a power even greater than their XSeeds? Or will humanity burn on the funeral pyre of history?

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 979-8754652187
Publisher: Independently published

Soul Cycle

Nethereal

He was drawing closer...The flow of Teth had carried him to myriad worlds left diminished by his presence. Now his search had compelled him to take ship with scofflaws. And he was drawing closer.

The Sublime Brotherhood of Steersmen holds the Middle Stratum in its iron grip. Jaren Peregrine, last of the Gen, raids across fringe space with Nakvin—her captain’s best pilot and only friend, apprentice steersman Deim, and mercenary Teg Cross.

Hunted by the ruthless Master Malachi, Jaren and his crew join a conspiracy to break the Guild’s monopoly with an experimental ship. But when its maiden voyage goes awry, the Exodus flies farther off course than its crew could have imagined.

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1514299210
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Souldancer

Twenty years after the old world ended in fire, Xander Sykes travels the deserts of a drastically changed Mithgar. His fascination with the world he never knew—along with his strange abilities—divides him from his clan. But otherworldly forces interrupt his exile.

Pursued by enemies from above and beneath the world, Xander bands together with an ambassador from hell, his heavenly bodyguard, and a reformed guildsman seeking to right his order’s wrongs.

The search for answers leads to a vast, decaying city haunted by a presence as tormented as it is deadly. Xander finds a survivor who may give purpose to his nameless longing—if he can help her escape the terror that stalks them both.

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2016
ISBN: 978-1530021338
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
The Secret Kings

The god of the Void is free. Aided by a Night Gen fleet, Shaiel’s fanatical Lawbringers spread his Will throughout the Middle Stratum and beyond.

Teg Cross, whose mercenary career took him to hell and back, finds the old world replaced by a new order on the brink of total war. A fateful meeting with a friend from his past sets him on a crusade to defy Shaiel’s rule.

Meanwhile, Nakvin strives to muster a last-ditch resistance in Avalon. But can worldly kings and queens stand against divine wrath?

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2016
ISBN: 978-1541210578
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
The Ophian Rising

The Zadokim healed the cosmos from the ravages of the Cataclysm, and the survivors made them kings. Now the Ophians, a ruthless insurgent movement, wage a vicious uprising against their immortal rulers’ two hundred year reign.

Xander and Astlin have transformed the desert world of Tharis into the hub of a flourishing trade empire. Their Nesshin subjects spread a new faith promising true freedom in another universe. But when Astlin seeks forbidden knowledge to resurrect her long-dead family, sinister forces exact a terrible price from those she loves.

With the Ophian threat engulfing the spheres and a primeval terror rising from its prison, Astlin must turn to a shiftless gambler, the outlaw squire of a fallen knight, and a mismatched pair of smugglers to escape the ghosts of her past and save all souls from eternal death. But can mortals succeed where even gods have failed?

Author: Brian Niemeier
First Release: 2017
ISBN: 978-1973557975
Publisher: Independently published