Patty May Zweydorff

Patty May Zweydorff

3 booksScience FictionAdventureSpace Opera

Patty May Zweydorff writes imaginative science fiction about memory, control, freedom, and the human cost of hidden power. Her stories blend high-concept mystery with emotional character journeys and a strong sense of wonder.

Books

The Ghost Fleet of Continuance

The Ghost Fleet of Continuance

Five ships. One family. To save them, he must let them go.

  • Science Fiction
  • Adventure

They escaped the vault. Now they have to survive being free. After fleeing the collapsing Cradle-vault, Army veteran Bobby Smith and the ancient entity Continuance hide five young sentient ships — Anchor, Flux, Spark, Drift, and Echo — in a failing underground refuge. But the Lunar Transit Authority isn’t hunting them with weapons. It’s hunting patterns. And one shelter is too small, and too loud, to hide a family. To protect them, Bobby must do the unthinkable: let them go. Flux to the deep mountain pumps. Drift to a lonely quarry ridge. Spark to an endless moving relay with no owner. As Continuance becomes a ghost signal to draw the hunters away, Bobby is left with only Echo and an empty salvage yard in rural Kentucky to hold the line. Scattered across vast distances, only Anchor’s invisible bond keeps them whole. But can a family survive when love means living apart?

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The inheritance of Echo

The inheritance of Echo

To save a new generation, one sentient ship must sacrifice his entire soul.

  • Science Fiction
  • Literary Fiction
  • Adventure

Continuance is more than just a ship; he is a sentient soul navigating the silent reaches of the void. But when he discovers the Cradle-vault—a hidden, decaying nursery housing five unfinished younger vessels—his solitary mission transforms into a desperate rescue. To save the dying ships, Continuance must perform the unthinkable. Through a series of irreversible inheritance transfers, he begins to strip away the very essence of his being. His steadiness, his curiosity, and his capacity for connection are carved out and gifted to the young vessels: Anchor, Flux, Spark, Drift, and Echo. With the help of his human partner Bobby, Continuance must navigate the technical and emotional agony of losing himself to ensure the survival of others. As each fragment of his personality is transferred, the partner Bobby once knew fades, replaced by a new, collective family. The Inheritance of Echo is a profound exploration of identity, sacrifice, and the definitions of family. In the cold expanse of space, can a machine learn the true meaning of love by giving everything away? Dive into a literary space opera that will haunt you long after the final transmission.

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Where the Sky Broke

Where the Sky Broke

Book One of The Sky Salvage Chronicles

  • Science Fiction
  • Adventure
  • Literary Fiction

The Fourth of July in rural Kentucky was supposed to mean fireworks, family, and another quiet night at Smith Salvage. Then the sky tore open. When Bobby Smith discovers a damaged celestial vessel buried in his family’s salvage yard, he becomes the reluctant guardian of something no one on Earth was meant to find. The ship is alive, intelligent, and far more powerful than Bobby understands. But the crash does not stay hidden for long. As strange signals spread, a mysterious ring stabilizes near the moon, and government forces close in, Bobby’s quiet scrapyard becomes the most important place on Earth. Everyone wants the ship. Some want to study it. Some want to control it. Some want to destroy it before it wakes fully. Bobby never asked to become the center of a cosmic mystery. But the sky broke. Something survived. And now the world is coming for it.

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