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BattleTech: A Bonfire of Worlds
A Galaxy Aflame....
The universe has gone dark. Interstellar communications has been lost across the Inner Sphere, threatening the corporate giant ComStar - and maybe civilization itself. Risking everything on a last chance for survival, ComStar has kidnapped the engineering genius Tucker Harwell, hoping he can unravel the mystery of the blackout. But Tucker isn’t just working on why it happened...he’s also trying to figure out who’s behind it.
Meanwhile, Khan Malvina Hazen solidifies her hold on a purified Clan Jade Falcon while hunting for the next enemy to crush under the talons of her brutal Mongol Doctrine. Hundreds of light-years away, Clan Wolf is carving out territory along the Lyran Commonwealth/Free Worlds League border - and Alaric Wolf is primed to make his moves in the halls of power.
Plans years in the making begin to come together across hundreds of star systems, and secrets hidden for decades will finally be revealed while an empire goes up in flames....
The universe has gone dark. Interstellar communications has been lost across the Inner Sphere, threatening the corporate giant ComStar - and maybe civilization itself. Risking everything on a last chance for survival, ComStar has kidnapped the engineering genius Tucker Harwell, hoping he can unravel the mystery of the blackout. But Tucker isn’t just working on why it happened...he’s also trying to figure out who’s behind it.
Meanwhile, Khan Malvina Hazen solidifies her hold on a purified Clan Jade Falcon while hunting for the next enemy to crush under the talons of her brutal Mongol Doctrine. Hundreds of light-years away, Clan Wolf is carving out territory along the Lyran Commonwealth/Free Worlds League border - and Alaric Wolf is primed to make his moves in the halls of power.
Plans years in the making begin to come together across hundreds of star systems, and secrets hidden for decades will finally be revealed while an empire goes up in flames....
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Published June 26, 2021
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Steven Mohan Jr.
91 books2 followersSteven Mohan, Jr. has professionally published more a half million words of military science fiction including the BattleTech novel A Bonfire of Worlds. He has sold original fiction to markets as diverse as INTERZONE, POLYPHONY, and PARADOX, as well as several DAW original anthologies. His short stories have won honorable mention in THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION and THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR and he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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January 6, 2026
In my attempts to get caught up in the lore/fiction of the Battletech universe, I found A Bonfire of worlds available as an audiobook. A Bonfire of Worlds is one of the "Spine" novels of the universe, with characters and plotlines set in a number of places and concerned with the "movers and shakers" of the universe.
The novel does a reasonable job giving a new reader the needed basic background information for most characters regarding the universe, but as it's set in the middle of an ongoing series, it also makes references to and involves people and events that only get a minimal amount of explanation. I won't knock points off for this, but it's worth keeping in mind.
Much of the novel is concerned with the machinations and conflicts of and between Clan Wolf, the Lyran Commonwealth/House Steiner, the Free Worlds League/House Marik, and Clan Jade Falcon, with warfare and political intrigue seen through the viewpoints of the leaderships of these star empires. A significant plotline is more narrowly focused on a character named Tucker Harwell and his investigation into the mysterious failure of the common interstellar communications network.
As always this isn't high literature by any means, but it's got entertaining characters, reads easily, and is chock-full of action and excitement; just be aware that it heavily references outside materials.
The novel does a reasonable job giving a new reader the needed basic background information for most characters regarding the universe, but as it's set in the middle of an ongoing series, it also makes references to and involves people and events that only get a minimal amount of explanation. I won't knock points off for this, but it's worth keeping in mind.
Much of the novel is concerned with the machinations and conflicts of and between Clan Wolf, the Lyran Commonwealth/House Steiner, the Free Worlds League/House Marik, and Clan Jade Falcon, with warfare and political intrigue seen through the viewpoints of the leaderships of these star empires. A significant plotline is more narrowly focused on a character named Tucker Harwell and his investigation into the mysterious failure of the common interstellar communications network.
As always this isn't high literature by any means, but it's got entertaining characters, reads easily, and is chock-full of action and excitement; just be aware that it heavily references outside materials.
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