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Starquest: Scourge of the Spaceways
Athos, now Captain of a cutthroat pirate band, slays devil priests and burns slavers' palaces! How long before the menace of Ahab, King of Pirates, lays him low?
Ansteel, exiled from life as a legionnaire, approaches the jeweled world where his destiny awaits. Will he hold to the Empire of his birth, or enter a strange, new life?
Nightshadow has lost a useful agent, but Napoleon has lost a lovely girl! What faceless force corrupts even men of sterling honesty in the senate?
Has Lyra lost all hope? Will her foster father be never found? Will her dead world be forgotten?
Where is Arcadia?
DIRE DEATH AND DARK DEEDS TO BE SEEN
IN OUR NEXT EXCITING
SCOURGE OF THE SPACEWAYS
Ansteel, exiled from life as a legionnaire, approaches the jeweled world where his destiny awaits. Will he hold to the Empire of his birth, or enter a strange, new life?
Nightshadow has lost a useful agent, but Napoleon has lost a lovely girl! What faceless force corrupts even men of sterling honesty in the senate?
Has Lyra lost all hope? Will her foster father be never found? Will her dead world be forgotten?
Where is Arcadia?
DIRE DEATH AND DARK DEEDS TO BE SEEN
IN OUR NEXT EXCITING
SCOURGE OF THE SPACEWAYS
345 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 30, 2025
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John C. Wright
146 books453 followersJohn C. Wright (John Charles Justin Wright, born 1961) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels. A Nebula award finalist (for the fantasy novel Orphans of Chaos), he was called "this fledgling century's most important new SF talent" by Publishers Weekly (after publication of his debut novel, The Golden Age).
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December 8, 2025
Great book in a great series
This is another entertaining novel in a great series by a science fiction master and I am going to read it until the end!
This is another entertaining novel in a great series by a science fiction master and I am going to read it until the end!
January 21, 2026
Starquest book 5. And it is seriously a running story. Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes.
After a flashback to Athos's last meeting with his brother Ozymandias, the tale returns to Athos's quest to track down the pirates, which predominates in this volume. We have intrigue, lies, and battles.
Other threads advance, with Flint's becoming friends with Sir Orgulus, and later learning more of the Empire's lies; Lirazel and a dead world; Napoleon's attempts to issue a report meeting difficulties. This includes the problems with talking with Horses, Ducks and their eggs, a world where it is seldom night, discussions of the Empress, and more.
After a flashback to Athos's last meeting with his brother Ozymandias, the tale returns to Athos's quest to track down the pirates, which predominates in this volume. We have intrigue, lies, and battles.
Other threads advance, with Flint's becoming friends with Sir Orgulus, and later learning more of the Empire's lies; Lirazel and a dead world; Napoleon's attempts to issue a report meeting difficulties. This includes the problems with talking with Horses, Ducks and their eggs, a world where it is seldom night, discussions of the Empress, and more.
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