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Liminal Sky: Oberon Cycle: Complete Box Set
Oberon is unique among the Common Worlds - a half-world with a strange past and an uncertain future.
Jameson Havercamp and Xander Kinnson are thrust into the middle of a world-ending event and have to scramble to save the world - and themselves.
Along the way, they peel back the layers of the onion to discover secrets wrapped in secrets that will eventually take them to where it all started - and may provide the key to saving Oberon and everyone on it.
SKYTHANE
Jameson Havercamp, a psych from a conservative religious colony, has come to Oberon—unique among the Common Worlds—in search of a rare substance called pith. He’s guided through the wilds on his quest by Xander Kinnson, a handsome, cocky skythane with a troubled past.
Neither knows that Oberon is facing imminent destruction. Even as the world starts to fall apart around them, they have no idea what’s coming—or the bond that will develop between them as they race to avert a cataclysm.
Together, they will journey to uncover the secrets of this strange and singular world, even as it takes them beyond the bounds of reality itself to discover what truly binds them.
LANDER
The world needs saving, again.
Xander and Jameson thought they’d fulfilled their destiny when they brought the worlds of Oberon and Titania back together, but their short-lived moment of triumph is over.
Reunification has thrown the world into chaos. A great storm ravaged Xander's kingdom of Gaelan, leaving the winged skythane people struggling to survive. Their old enemy, Obercorp, is biding its time, waiting to strike. And to the north, a dangerous new adversary gathers strength, while an unexpected ally awaits them. In the midst of it all, Xander’s ex Alix returns, and Xander and Jameson discover that their love for each other may have been drug-induced.
Are they truly destined for each other, or is what they feel artificial? And can they face an even greater challenge when their world needs them most?
ITHANI
Time is running out.
After saving the world twice, Xander, Jameson and friends plunge headlong into a new crisis. The ithani―the aliens who broke the world―have reawakened from their hundred millennia-long slumber. When Xander and Jameson disappear in a flash, an already fractured world is thrown into chaos.
The ithani plans, laid a hundred thousand years before, are finally coming to pass, and they threaten all life on Erro. Venin and Alix go on a desperate search for their missing and find more than they bargained for. And Quince, Robin and Jessa discover a secret as old as the skythane themselves.
Will alien technology, unexpected help from the distant past, destiny and some good old-fashioned firepower be enough to defeat an enemy with the ability to split a world? The final battle of the epic science fiction adventure that began in Skythane will decide the fate of lander and skythane alike.
And in the north, the ithani rise….
Jameson Havercamp and Xander Kinnson are thrust into the middle of a world-ending event and have to scramble to save the world - and themselves.
Along the way, they peel back the layers of the onion to discover secrets wrapped in secrets that will eventually take them to where it all started - and may provide the key to saving Oberon and everyone on it.
SKYTHANE
Jameson Havercamp, a psych from a conservative religious colony, has come to Oberon—unique among the Common Worlds—in search of a rare substance called pith. He’s guided through the wilds on his quest by Xander Kinnson, a handsome, cocky skythane with a troubled past.
Neither knows that Oberon is facing imminent destruction. Even as the world starts to fall apart around them, they have no idea what’s coming—or the bond that will develop between them as they race to avert a cataclysm.
Together, they will journey to uncover the secrets of this strange and singular world, even as it takes them beyond the bounds of reality itself to discover what truly binds them.
LANDER
The world needs saving, again.
Xander and Jameson thought they’d fulfilled their destiny when they brought the worlds of Oberon and Titania back together, but their short-lived moment of triumph is over.
Reunification has thrown the world into chaos. A great storm ravaged Xander's kingdom of Gaelan, leaving the winged skythane people struggling to survive. Their old enemy, Obercorp, is biding its time, waiting to strike. And to the north, a dangerous new adversary gathers strength, while an unexpected ally awaits them. In the midst of it all, Xander’s ex Alix returns, and Xander and Jameson discover that their love for each other may have been drug-induced.
Are they truly destined for each other, or is what they feel artificial? And can they face an even greater challenge when their world needs them most?
ITHANI
Time is running out.
After saving the world twice, Xander, Jameson and friends plunge headlong into a new crisis. The ithani―the aliens who broke the world―have reawakened from their hundred millennia-long slumber. When Xander and Jameson disappear in a flash, an already fractured world is thrown into chaos.
The ithani plans, laid a hundred thousand years before, are finally coming to pass, and they threaten all life on Erro. Venin and Alix go on a desperate search for their missing and find more than they bargained for. And Quince, Robin and Jessa discover a secret as old as the skythane themselves.
Will alien technology, unexpected help from the distant past, destiny and some good old-fashioned firepower be enough to defeat an enemy with the ability to split a world? The final battle of the epic science fiction adventure that began in Skythane will decide the fate of lander and skythane alike.
And in the north, the ithani rise….
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J. Scott Coatsworth
90 books188 followersScott lives with his husband in a leafy Sacramento, California suburb, in a cute yellow house with a pair of pink flamingoes in the front yard.
He has always been in the place between the here and now and the what could be. He started reading science fiction and fantasy at the tender age of nine, encouraged by his mother. But as he read the golden age classics and more modern works too, he started to wonder where all the queer people were.
When Scott came out at 23, he decided he wanted to create the kinds of stories he couldn't find at the bookstore. If there weren't gay characters in his favorite genres, he would reimagine them, filling them with a diverse universe of characters. He'd remake them to his own ends, and if he was lucky enough, someone would even want to read them.
Scott's brain works a little differently from most folks - he sees connections where others don't. Born an introvert, he learned how to reach outside himself and connect with other queer folks.
Scott's fiction defies expectations, transforming traditional science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something fresh and surprising. He also created both Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with his husband Mark, and is an associate member of the Science Fiction Writer's Association (SFWA).
His writing, both romance and genre fiction, brings a queer energy to his work, infusing them with love, beauty and strength and making them fly. He imagines how the world could be, and maybe changes the world that is, just a little.
Scott was recognized as one of the top new gay authors in the 2017 Rainbow Awards, and his debut novel "Skythane" received two awards and an honorable mention.
He has always been in the place between the here and now and the what could be. He started reading science fiction and fantasy at the tender age of nine, encouraged by his mother. But as he read the golden age classics and more modern works too, he started to wonder where all the queer people were.
When Scott came out at 23, he decided he wanted to create the kinds of stories he couldn't find at the bookstore. If there weren't gay characters in his favorite genres, he would reimagine them, filling them with a diverse universe of characters. He'd remake them to his own ends, and if he was lucky enough, someone would even want to read them.
Scott's brain works a little differently from most folks - he sees connections where others don't. Born an introvert, he learned how to reach outside himself and connect with other queer folks.
Scott's fiction defies expectations, transforming traditional science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something fresh and surprising. He also created both Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with his husband Mark, and is an associate member of the Science Fiction Writer's Association (SFWA).
His writing, both romance and genre fiction, brings a queer energy to his work, infusing them with love, beauty and strength and making them fly. He imagines how the world could be, and maybe changes the world that is, just a little.
Scott was recognized as one of the top new gay authors in the 2017 Rainbow Awards, and his debut novel "Skythane" received two awards and an honorable mention.
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November 21, 2025
The Oberon Cycle (complete box set)
By J. Scott Coatsworth
Published by Other Worlds Ink, 2020
I read the first book in this trilogy, “Skythane,” back in 2017. I loved it and posted my five-star review for the Paranormal Romance Guild (sadly, now defunct). I finally got to sit down and read the full trilogy, and I was overwhelmed. The Oberon Cycle is 950 pages of remarkable sci-fi fantasy, replete with vivid characters I cared about, and a plot that grows increasingly complex and compelling through each successive volume: Skythane, Lander, and Ithani. Scott Coatsworth’s imagination is impressive, and his world(s) building and skill with prose and dialogue are up to the task of such a monumental work.
Skythane are just people with wings. They’re not angels, nor magical. They just have wings. On the split planet Oberon/Titania, they were the first colonizers, but have become both less commonplace and marginalized since the second wave of colonizers—ordinary humans referred to by the Skythane as “landers.” Even the Skythane don’t fully understand their own history.
As you can imagine, there’s a story there, and this first book in Scott Coatsworth’s Oberon Cycle only begins to reveal it. It is always hard, when reviewing a hugely imaginative work like this, how to talk about it without spoiling surprises. Coatsworth has taken us to a distant planet hundreds of years in the future, where, unsurprisingly, the economic culture is largely controlled by a capitalist enterprise known as OberCorp. Not only has corporate greed survived, but so has judgmental conformity, as espoused by the Christianists. I guess some things are just hardwired into humanity.
Our central protagonist is Xander Kinnson, a twenty-something Skythane with iridescent black wings like a raven’s. Xander has spent his whole life on Oberon, and it has for the most part not been an easy life.
Xander’s counterpoint (antagonist?) is Jameson Havercamp, a meek conformist from the Christianist planet Beta Tau. Jameson has been assigned by his employer, the Psych Guild, to visit Oberon to look into a recent supply reduction of a drug known as pith—both very addictive and highly useful in psychological medication. Pith can only be harvested from Oberon’s split twin, Titania, which exists simultaneously in a parallel universe. (Gulp.)
By happy coincidence, Xander has been assigned to escort Jameson on his visit. The odd thing is, Xander and Jameson have entirely different ideas of where they’re supposed to be going. The catalyst, it seems, is Quince, a middle-aged Skythane woman with the great white wings of an angel. She knows something. She knows a lot in fact, but exactly who she is and what she knows is only hinted at in the book’s prologue.
Faint echoes of “Dune” flutter in your mind as you read this story; but Coatsworth’s narrative is more straightforward and its characters are not melodramatic, in spite of the wings. Jameson, Xander, and Quince form an unlikely trio for a road trip, especially once events begin to spin out of control and the tension ratchets up. They are the central characters throughout the trilogy—but by no means the only characters. Each successive volume adds more important players in this epic drama, and by the third book, “Ithani,” it’s a challenge to keep everyone in mind (I managed it).
The vividly depicted reality of Oberon is that of a high-tech world so corrupt and jaded after centuries of development that inconvenient scientific truths have been relegated to the realm of superstition. Only our mismatched trio—and the mysterious orphan child called Morgan they pick up on the way—have any idea what’s really going on and what they have to do to stop it.
I loved the characters, and the tantalizing mix of sci-fi and fantasy in the plot. Coatsworth builds up a lot of excitement, leaving his readers hungry for more. Reading the full work is a compelling and moving experience.
By J. Scott Coatsworth
Published by Other Worlds Ink, 2020
I read the first book in this trilogy, “Skythane,” back in 2017. I loved it and posted my five-star review for the Paranormal Romance Guild (sadly, now defunct). I finally got to sit down and read the full trilogy, and I was overwhelmed. The Oberon Cycle is 950 pages of remarkable sci-fi fantasy, replete with vivid characters I cared about, and a plot that grows increasingly complex and compelling through each successive volume: Skythane, Lander, and Ithani. Scott Coatsworth’s imagination is impressive, and his world(s) building and skill with prose and dialogue are up to the task of such a monumental work.
Skythane are just people with wings. They’re not angels, nor magical. They just have wings. On the split planet Oberon/Titania, they were the first colonizers, but have become both less commonplace and marginalized since the second wave of colonizers—ordinary humans referred to by the Skythane as “landers.” Even the Skythane don’t fully understand their own history.
As you can imagine, there’s a story there, and this first book in Scott Coatsworth’s Oberon Cycle only begins to reveal it. It is always hard, when reviewing a hugely imaginative work like this, how to talk about it without spoiling surprises. Coatsworth has taken us to a distant planet hundreds of years in the future, where, unsurprisingly, the economic culture is largely controlled by a capitalist enterprise known as OberCorp. Not only has corporate greed survived, but so has judgmental conformity, as espoused by the Christianists. I guess some things are just hardwired into humanity.
Our central protagonist is Xander Kinnson, a twenty-something Skythane with iridescent black wings like a raven’s. Xander has spent his whole life on Oberon, and it has for the most part not been an easy life.
Xander’s counterpoint (antagonist?) is Jameson Havercamp, a meek conformist from the Christianist planet Beta Tau. Jameson has been assigned by his employer, the Psych Guild, to visit Oberon to look into a recent supply reduction of a drug known as pith—both very addictive and highly useful in psychological medication. Pith can only be harvested from Oberon’s split twin, Titania, which exists simultaneously in a parallel universe. (Gulp.)
By happy coincidence, Xander has been assigned to escort Jameson on his visit. The odd thing is, Xander and Jameson have entirely different ideas of where they’re supposed to be going. The catalyst, it seems, is Quince, a middle-aged Skythane woman with the great white wings of an angel. She knows something. She knows a lot in fact, but exactly who she is and what she knows is only hinted at in the book’s prologue.
Faint echoes of “Dune” flutter in your mind as you read this story; but Coatsworth’s narrative is more straightforward and its characters are not melodramatic, in spite of the wings. Jameson, Xander, and Quince form an unlikely trio for a road trip, especially once events begin to spin out of control and the tension ratchets up. They are the central characters throughout the trilogy—but by no means the only characters. Each successive volume adds more important players in this epic drama, and by the third book, “Ithani,” it’s a challenge to keep everyone in mind (I managed it).
The vividly depicted reality of Oberon is that of a high-tech world so corrupt and jaded after centuries of development that inconvenient scientific truths have been relegated to the realm of superstition. Only our mismatched trio—and the mysterious orphan child called Morgan they pick up on the way—have any idea what’s really going on and what they have to do to stop it.
I loved the characters, and the tantalizing mix of sci-fi and fantasy in the plot. Coatsworth builds up a lot of excitement, leaving his readers hungry for more. Reading the full work is a compelling and moving experience.
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