Bøker av Glynn Stewart

Her family, gone, destroyed from withinHer kingdom, doomed, tainted by bloodUnless a scion rises to become something... moreIn a single ruthless blow, Commander Lorraine Adamant's favorite uncle murders everyone ahead of him in the succession for the Star Kingdom of Adamant. Only luck and the paranoia of her bodyguard, Vigo Jarret, saves Lorraine's life.On the run in a single starship Lorraine should never have commanded, with a crew she can not trust, she swiftly learns her uncle's hounds are hot on her heels. She must gather every skill, every trick, she has ever learned if she is to survive-and pray the uncle who taught her those tricks is a step behind.Because one thing is certain: Lorraine Adamant will save her Kingdom-or die.

When allies call for helpThe conquered call for libertyThe dead call for vengeance...With whom do you keep faith? After two years, the collapse of the Terran Commonwealth has finally slowed. With communications networks rebuilding, the Successor States are beginning to look to the future-but for some of these states, that is a future to be forged in fire and conquest! With warlords leading fleets into their stars, the newborn Weston Republic has called for help from every Successor State they could find. Now, James Tecumseh, founder of the Dakotan Confederacy finds himself fighting shoulder to shoulder alongside Imperator Walkingstick-the man he blames for the fall of the Commonwealth itself! As defeats, victories, and lies pile up all around them, the two leaders find themselves at a nexus of blood and fire that will define the future of the Commonwealth's Successor States for all time-if they survive!

In times of peace, alliances wither and are forgotten.In times of war, honor must reforge them in fire and steel! The United Planets Alliance fought the Kenmiri Empire with a hundred allies at their side. Bound in common cause until genocide broke the Kenmiri-and Kenmiri schemes broke the alliance in turn-those one-time allies still left deep debts of blood and friendship behind.Still, the UPA has forged ahead in the post-Kenmiri times, weaving new economic and military alliances despite their more limited reach. The last thing they are expecting is for a soldier of the Londu, one of those half-forgotten allies, to arrive in Sol itself and ask for help.An unknown alien force, armed with weapons thought unique to humanity, has assaulted the Londu people. To honor debts and promises alike, Rear Admiral Henry Wong and Ambassador Sylvia Todorovich find themselves called to take a fleet farther than any human ship has gone in half a decade-and challenge an enemy they know nothing about.If the Londu are even still there when they arrive...

"It's only in the darkness that you find the true measure of a hero."-Glynn StewartSeven short tales, from the almost-extinct slivers of humanity in Excalibur Lost to the doomed space city carrying the titular monarch in Mage-Queen's Thief. These stories contrast superheroes and knights, galactic empires and cursed villages.Excalibur Lost (2021)"Fire, Steel & Petroleum: A Dieselpunk Short Story" (2023)Balefire: A Dark Fantasy Novella (2022)"Blue Lancer: A Superhero Short" (2023)A Question of Faith: A Castle Federation Novella (2020)Pulsar Race: A Starship's Mage Universe Novella (2020)Mage-Queen's Thief: A Starship's Mage Universe Novella (2023)Best known for his genre-blending epic, Starship's Mage, Glynn Stewart explores the wonder and enchantment of scattered worlds. Often high tech, sleek, and utterly magical, these stories explore society's fault lines and drag into the light the very best-and the very worst-that our human souls have to offer.

A homeworld is not always home.Family is not always blood.Enemies are not always who you expect. Captain Evridiki "EB" Bardacki wants nothing more than to quietly ride off into the sunset with his fiancé, his crew, and his adopted daughter, Trace. But when a strange message brings them all to Trace's home star system of Icem, it turns out the fragments of the crime syndicate that kidnapped her have one last trick to play.An old enemy has betrayed their former compatriots and set into motion events that may allow EB to save hundreds of children like his daughter from the traffickers who stole them away. When that enemy shows up dead, the crew of Evasion must decide whether to chase the leads left by a dead monster or protect themselves.Those leads will take EB and Trace into the dens of crime lords, the homes of judges, the hearts of secret bases-and the presence of the foster parent Trace ran away from at the beginning of everything...

The star system of Apollo has fallen!Her fleets are scattered and her enemies victorious.Apollo's last hope: an exile mercenary coming home at last!Ace pilot Kira Demirci fled her home system of Apollo five years ago. Betrayed by her own government and one step ahead of enemy assassins, she smuggled a squadron of star fighters into the Outer Rim and forged a mercenary fleet of old friends and new alike.Many of the aces of Apollo's war against Brisingr weren't as lucky.Kira has a new home, but a scheme hatched by her enemies has brought her to the edge of her old stomping grounds. This close to Apollo, she's one of the first to hear the devastating news: Brisingr has achieved its ultimate victory and captured her home. To take a star system should be impossible, but the reality is clear.With family, friends and old comrades in the hands of the Brisingr Kaiserreich, Kira mobilizes her mercenary fleet to seek out the scattered remains of Apollo's fleets and allies.Even if she can manage the merely difficult and bring the broken factions together, the hard truth remains: Brisingr's victory was impossible. To undo it, Kira will have to duplicate it...

A failed attempt on the Mage-QueenAn old friend from the gutterAn enemy that should be dead...When a kidnapping attempt on the Mage-Queen of Mars is thwarted by luck, leaving thousands dead in its wake, Prince-Chancellor Damien Montgomery returns to field operations one more time. The evidence leads to one place: Tau Ceti.In Tau Ceti, Mage-Commander Roslyn Chambers finds herself without a posting as her teaching tour ends. Before she can take any kind of vacation, an old friend from her pre-Navy days shows up claiming to have information about the attempt on the Queen.Montgomery is the Mage-Queen's adoptive father and right hand man. Chambers is one of her few true friends. Neither will let the blood of innocents go unpunished.Neither believes the traitors called Nemesis are dead - but finding them may cost more than either of them can pay!

A crew, scattered across enemy linesA father, separated from his daughterA daughter who will not wait for rescueThe bounty for bringing down a major crime syndicate may have removed Captain Evridiki "EB" Bardacki's immediate financial needs, but no freighter captain wants to fly empty between the stars.A cargo mission to run a blockade seems within his crew's unique mix of talents, and he agrees to supply weapons to one side of a stalemated civil war in the Estutmost star system.The sudden collapse of the stalemate puts EB on the wrong side of the front lines from his adopted daughter.He took down a crime syndicate to protect her once-what's a planetary military or two?

A peaceful world in the crosshairsA rising threat armed by an old foeA call to arms she can't ignore...Admiral Kira Demirci lost the coin toss with her second-in-command and was supposed to be taking a holiday. That meant waiting in the Redward System while Memorial Force's new carrier Huntress was commissioned and turned over to the mercenary space fleet.But when a stranger arrives looking to hire Memorial Force to protect her homeworld, Kira finds money, boredom and altruism combining to bring her into action. The majority of her fleet is elsewhere, but she has two heavy warships, including Huntress. More than enough to protect the pacifist system of Samuels from their neighbors.Those neighbors were armed by Kira's old foes in the Brisingr System, and she smells the hand of the Equilibrium Institute behind the scheme. A chance to protect the innocent and frustrate two old foes at once is hard to turn down-and even if things go wrong, the rest of her fleet is on their way.She's planned for everything. Hasn't she?

An empire broken by hubrisAn officer raised by chanceOaths that must be honoredOaths that must be betrayed Rear Admiral James Tecumseh barely survived his last mission against the Alliance of Free Stars with his reputation and life intact. Under a cloud of suspicion, he has been assigned to a quiet sector far from the front of the Terran Commonwealth's war with the Castle Federation and its allies.But when the Federation's Operation Medusa cripples his nation's communications and plummets an interstellar empire into silence, Admiral Tecumseh finds himself thrust into command of an entire fleet-and responsible for the safety of billions of innocent souls.Enemies internal and external alike challenge the nation he is sworn to serve. Duty and honor call him to action to protect the innocent, and the Admiral and his new fleet are called to war once more.But the darkest treason lurks where no one expects it...

A captain on the run from the horrors of his pastA girl on the run from the trap of her presentA ship that will bring them togetherCaptain Evridiki "EB" Bardacki was once a nova fighter pilot for a nation he truly believed in. Betrayal and failure sent him into exile and flight. Now owner-operator of the freelance star freighter Evasion, he treks the edge of human space, taking cargos that lead him ever onward-but there are lines he will not cross.When those lines are challenged, EB makes enemies of the most powerful crime syndicate for a hundred light-years. When one of their victims stows away on his ship, he finds himself pursued by an enemy with assets everywhere he turns.Caught between the devil and the deep dark void, EB has run out of places to run-but in a child looking to him for salvation, he may have found something to fight for!CONTENT WARNING: This novel deals with themes and details of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Some soldiers are the shields of innocent soulsOthers are the fanatics of their causeAnd for them...no war is ever truly over!Tempered on the anvil of the war against the secessionist UnArcana Worlds and tested against the evil of Project Orpheus, Mage-Commander Roslyn Chambers has risen through the ranks of the Royal Martian Navy to serve as second-in-command of one of their most prestigious battlecruisers, Duke of Magnificence.A desperate call for help sends Roslyn and her new ship deep into the frontiers of Protectorate space, where they discover that hold-outs of the UnArcana Worlds' fleets have returned to plunder innocent ships across the Fringe.To protect the innocent and serve her Queen, Roslyn Chambers must rise to the task before her. She must learn to command-both herself and a warship of the Mage-Queen of Mars!

An offer that no one else could matchA mission that no one else could achieveAn enemy only a few know they share... Commodore Kira Demirci is now the commander of a small but powerful mercenary force-one of the most dangerous in the cluster of stars she now calls home. Her own actions have brought peace to the Syntactic Cluster, though, and a mercenary is in limited demand.A mutual interest brings her into the circle of the heir to the Royal Crest, a wealthy kingdom dozens of light-years away. Jade Panosyan has a nightmare brewing-and a plan to deal with it.In the Crest, a powerful political party beholden to Kira's own enemies is maneuvering to remove Jade's father before he can free a dozen star systems from the clutches of the Equilibrium Institute. If they are to fail and the Institute's plans be thwarted once more, Jade Panosyan needs someone to complete an impossible mission.The payment? The fleet carrier Fortitude, unmatched by any ship within a hundred light-years.The catch? Kira Demirci has to capture the carrier-from the elite forces of her employer's nation!