Sal Russo
Sal Russo is a Tier 2 IT Tech and an 80's / 90's / 00's era movie enthusiast.
He is also a black belt in Taekwondo who enjoys video, tabletop, and role playing games.
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RED SHIFT
ASTRAEUS SOS
New Adult SCIFI
In the distant future, socially awkward rocket scientist Svante Björk never planned to pilot a war machine, but when terrorists attack his asteroid research facility and kill his aunt, that's exactly what he finds himself doing.
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Barely escaping with his life and a fragment of the facility's Non Human Person, Svante is rescued by the Red Shift freelance mech team—a ragtag group of mercenaries with questionable pasts. Their intervention thrusts him into a world of interplanetary mech combat far beyond his scientific expertise.
The attack was no random raid. His aunt's research on consciousness transfer for clone technology drew the attention of cybernetically enhanced intelligence officer Jacinda Vachart, who is tracking a terrorist organization's plan to replace influential leaders with mind-altered clones—a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of corporate power.
As the mega-corporation evacuates the entire star system, Svante must choose: retreat to laboratory safety or join Red Shift's custom war machines to uncover the truth.
​The Portal Finder
Young Adult Fantasy
Sixteen-year-old Joon Song has spent his life walking between two worlds. Literally.
Since childhood, he's used hidden portals to attend Korean school by day and return to his American family by night.
His half-fae heritage grants him sight beyond the ordinary, a gift his biological father taught him to cherish and conceal.
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But navigating between cultures proves just as challenging as crossing between realms.
In Korea, he's expected to embody traditional discipline and respect.
In California, his mother pushes him toward American success while his stepfather tries to understand a son who doesn't quite fit anywhere.
When Joon's supernatural abilities begin manifesting in ways he can't control, staying hidden becomes increasingly difficult.
As family expectations collide with his emerging powers, Joon must choose not just which abilities to embrace, but which version of himself to become.
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With the help of unlikely friends—Victoria, whose self-made Bible holds more than scripture, and Danyael, a seminary student fascinated by forbidden knowledge—Joon discovers that being the portal finder means more than seeing doors between worlds.
It means finding where he truly belongs.
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A story of identity, heritage, and the magic that lies in embracing who you are meant to be.