The Acosmist
On a distant world, an inhuman prince makes its move, hoping to unlock the secret to ultimate victory. All things are permitted on the road to paradise, and for the would-be Prophet, that road is terrible indeed.
The Prince of Man
Many tales are told of Hadrian Marlowe, and in the millennia that followed his dramatic victory over the Cielcin at Gododdin—across hundreds of thousands of worlds—some of those legends get out of hand. Here is one such tale, a tale all historians agree cannot have happened, unless . . . ?
The Guns of Pharos
Hadrian Marlowe is in chains, held by servants of Marius Whent, the brutal dictator of Pharos. Eager to rescue him and some other captives, Bassander Lin attempts to negotiate with the dictator’s underlings: the vicious Emil Bordelon and his superhuman enforcer, Otavia Corvo.
The Fangs of Oannos
In exile on the planet Jadd, Hadrian Marlowe attends the reception of a foreign dignitary: Prince Izemrasen of Oannos, a small multiplanetary kingdom between Jadd and the Lothrian Commonwealth. But not all is as it seems, and the Prince of Oannos may have plans other than peace.
The Royal Game
Not all is well in the court of the High Prince of Jadd. For more than a century, the Planet of Fire has played host to a deadly exile, and their offer of sanctuary has bruised relations between the Principalities and the Sollan Empire. When the prince will not act in his own interest or the interest of his realm and people, it falls to Yazdan ban Vahid, royal spymaster, to play the royal game…