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September 15, 2020
Pulsar Race, A Starship’s Mage Universe Novella, Available Now!
Mage Ivan Halloway’s old friend is in a dangerous amount of debt, and an illegal starship race is the only way out. Their ship is fast, but will that be enough? Pulsar Race, a Starship’s Mage novella is available now on Amazon!
For more information about Pulsar Race, check out the book summary below:
A retired Mage with no plan
An old friend with no hope
A ship built on a daring dream
Mage-Captain Ivan Halloway has retired from the Royal Martian Navy and the service of the Mage-King of Mars. He has returned to his homeworld to rest, but his only real plan is to avoid the war he sees coming to the Protectorate.
Captain Karl Charpentier is his oldest friend—Captain and pilot of an interstellar jump-courier. Crewless and drowning in debt due to a series of mistakes, Karl turns to his newly unemployed friend with a desperate plan to solve all his problems.
To save his friend’s ship and career, Ivan must help him take his courier into an illegal race through a deadly region of space—a race run by the very people Karl Charpentier owes money to.
How could it possibly go wrong?
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September 9, 2020
The Peacekeeper Initiative Audiobook Now Available
The audiobook of The Peacekeeper Initiative, book 2 in The Peacekeepers of Sol is available now, exclusively on Audible! Click here to get it.
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September 1, 2020
Pulsar Race, A Starship’s Mage Universe Novella, Available for Preorder
Surprise! Glynn has written a new novella in the Starship’s Mage universe. Pulsar Race releases September 15th and is available for preorder now.
Here’s more about the book:
A retired Mage with no plan
An old friend with no hope
A ship built on a daring dream
Mage-Captain Ivan Halloway has retired from the Royal Martian Navy and the service of the Mage-King of Mars. He has returned to his homeworld to rest, but his only real plan is to avoid the war he sees coming to the Protectorate.
Captain Karl Charpentier is his oldest friend—Captain and pilot of an interstellar jump-courier. Crewless and drowning in debt due to a series of mistakes, Karl turns to his newly unemployed friend with a desperate plan to solve all his problems.
To save his friend’s ship and career, Ivan must help him take his courier into an illegal race through a deadly region of space—a race run by the very people Karl Charpentier owes money to.
How could it possibly go wrong?
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August 25, 2020
The Service of Mars, the Latest Starship’s Mage Book, Available Now
The war against the Republic of Faith and Reason comes to its brutal conclusion in Starship’s Mage book 9, The Service of Mars. It’s available on Amazon now. Unfortunately, there has been a delay at Amazon and the paperback is not yet available. Please stay tuned and we will announce when the paperback can be ordered.
Here’s more about the book:
Secrets have been unleashed
Worlds have fallen
A Mage-King has died
But the war rages on!
Secrets and warships combined to turn the tide of the Siege of Legatus, delivering the capital of the Republic of Faith and Reason into the hands of their enemies. With Damien Montgomery called away to lead the entire Protectorate of Mars, fighting the war falls to Mage-Admiral Jane Alexander and Mage-Lieutenant Roslyn Chambers.
As the Martian Second Fleet moves against the remaining Republic worlds, Captain Kelly LaMonte’s covert stealth ship sweeps the worlds away from the conflict, searching for the Republic’s government-in-hiding and a chance to end the bloody conflict.
But this war began in the shadows, and the secrets hidden in those shadows threaten to turn the tide of the war once more—and bring it to the heart of the Protectorate!
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August 17, 2020
The Service of Mars Launch Q&A
Join Glynn Stewart for a live Q&A celebrating the launch of The Service of Mars (Starship’s Mage Book #9). Glynn will read from the book and also answer your questions about the Starship’s Mage universe, his writing process, and more! Submit your questions here.
**Note that this event will be streamed from Glynn’s Facebook page.
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August 12, 2020
The Service of Mars Available for Preorder
The war against the Republic of Faith and Reason comes to its brutal conclusion in Starship’s Mage book 9, The Service of Mars. It’s available for preorder on Amazon now. It will be available for download on August 25th.
Here’s more about the book:
Secrets have been unleashed
Worlds have fallen
A Mage-King has died
But the war rages on!
Secrets and warships combined to turn the tide of the Siege of Legatus, delivering the capital of the Republic of Faith and Reason into the hands of their enemies. With Damien Montgomery called away to lead the entire Protectorate of Mars, fighting the war falls to Mage-Admiral Jane Alexander and Mage-Lieutenant Roslyn Chambers.
As the Martian Second Fleet moves against the remaining Republic worlds, Captain Kelly LaMonte’s covert stealth ship sweeps the worlds away from the conflict, searching for the Republic’s government-in-hiding and a chance to end the bloody conflict.
But this war began in the shadows, and the secrets hidden in those shadows threaten to turn the tide of the war once more—and bring it to the heart of the Protectorate!
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August 10, 2020
Hard Science Fiction: The Atomic Rocket Seal of Approval
For over 20 years, the Atomic Rocket website has been providing science fiction authors with the tools needed to write hard science fiction that follows physics and engineering principles in an internally consistent way. Webmaster Nyrath (also known as Winchell Chung) recently read the Peacekeepers of Sol series and awarded Glynn Stewart with the Atomic Rocket Seal of Approval for scientific accuracy, internal consistency and believability.
Having followed the website (and its pocketbook of rocket equations) since its early days, Glynn was thrilled to be included among works like Andy Weir’s The Martian and James S. A. Corey’s Expanse Series. When Glynn’s not deliberately breaking the laws of physics in The Duchy of Terra series, he tends to stick to hard science fiction principles, especially in series like Peacekeepers of Sol and Starship’s Mage, where he often makes calculations in a spreadsheet that no one will ever see.
Here’s what Nyrath had to say:
“Peacekeepers of Sol is the latest science fiction series by master story-teller Glynn Stewart, with Raven’s Peace the first novel in the series. Rob Davidoff brought Mr. Stewart to my attention, and it didn’t take much reading to find that here was an expert craftsman.
His scientific accuracy is very good, he won the heat radiator award on about page 94 of the very first book I read.
But where he stands head and shoulders above the rest is in his worldbuilding. Specifically how he has carefully thought out the unintended consequences. That’s rare among writers. In many cases it appears that Mr. Stewart specifically created the situation generating the consequences so that they could be explored by the novel.
The backgrounds of his series are composed of elements finely meshed like the tiny gears of a Swiss watch, ticking away precisely.”
Peacekeepers of Sol also gets called out for its exemplary uses of a monopoly over interstellar communication, synthetic gravity shielding on warships, and the sad overarching truth of the setting: that its major background event is a “Kill the Queen” style genocide of an alien race. Peacekeepers doesn’t shy away from that fact, nor from some of its more brutal worldbuilding. Which, as Nyrath points out, involves said alien race keeping its subjugates dependent by completely destroying the ability of factory worlds to feed themselves. Incidentally, that sets up ideal conditions for rebellion—and hope for a brighter future.
As for Starship’s Mage as a hard science fiction series? Well, “when you get right down to it faster-than-light starships are fantasy anyway, regardless of whether they use warp drive, stargates, or wizards casting magic spells. What I demand is internal self-consistency. Which the Starship’s Mage series has in spades.”
Read the full breakdown of the seal of approval for Glynn Stewart’s works here. And if you’re interested in learning more about writing hard science fiction, check out the great resources on the Atomic Rocket site on the Getting Started page.
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July 23, 2020
Relics of Eternity Audiobook Now Available
The audiobook version of Relics of Eternity, the 7th book in Duchy of Terra, is now available exclusively on Audible! Click here.
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July 21, 2020
Deception, the Sequel to Conviction, Available Now
A new home on the edge of nowhere
A new hope for a peaceful future
An old enemy that won’t let go
Kira Demirci left her homeworld of Apollo pursued by assassins seeking revenge for her victories in the war against the Brisingr Kaiserreich. Now she has a new home and a new role: as the nova fighter wing commander aboard the mercenary carrier Conviction under Captain John Estanza.
Conviction is on retainer with the royal family of Redward, who encourage Kira and her pilots to make themselves a new home on the frontier planet. But there is a reason they want to tie the mercenary carrier’s crew more tightly to themselves and stormclouds are brewing on the horizon.
Those clouds break when a Redward warship goes missing on a standard patrol. Conviction and her fighters are sent out to find the destroyer—but instead they find a deadly plot by old enemies that will bring down the Syntactic Cluster in fire and war.
Unless Kira Demirci can do the impossible.
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July 7, 2020
Deception Available for Preorder
The adventures of Kira Demirci and her Nova Squadron continues in Deception, Book 2 of Scattered Stars: Conviction. It’s available for preorder now.
Click here to preorder your copy. It will be available for download on July 21.
Here’s more about the book:
A new home on the edge of nowhere
A new hope for a peaceful future
An old enemy that won’t let go
Kira Demirci left her homeworld of Apollo pursued by assassins seeking revenge for her victories in the war against the Brisingr Kaiserreich. Now she has a new home and a new role: as the nova fighter wing commander aboard the mercenary carrier Conviction under Captain John Estanza.
Conviction is on retainer with the royal family of Redward, who encourage Kira and her pilots to make themselves a new home on the frontier planet. But there is a reason they want to tie the mercenary carrier’s crew more tightly to themselves and stormclouds are brewing on the horizon.
Those clouds break when a Redward warship goes missing on a standard patrol. Conviction and her fighters are sent out to find the destroyer—but instead they find a deadly plot by old enemies that will bring down the Syntactic Cluster in fire and war.
Unless Kira Demirci can do the impossible.
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