Crusade
ืืืืข ืขื ืืกืคืจ ืืืืืืืื ืืื
A potential ally,ย with secrets hidden by a thousand lies
A long-doomed star,ย whose ruins hold a vital answer
Isaac Lestroud, Admiral of the Exilium Space Fleet, has spent the last three years working with Ambassador Amelie Lestroud to build an alliance against the Rogue Matrices, AIs bent on converting every world into a paradiseโregardless of whether anyone lives on it.
As Isaac hunts the Rogue that destroyed one of their alliesโ homeworlds, Amelie begins negotiations with a potential new ally that could tip the balance. The Governance is a power to rival the human homeworlds the Lestrouds were exiled fromโbut like those homeworlds, not all is as it seems.
And far from the war, Octavio Catalan leads an expedition into the shattered wreckage of the home system of the Matricesโ builders. Among those dead worlds, he hopes to find the answer to the question that haunts the survivors of that race: whyย didย their AIs go genocidally insane?
ืืืจืืืื ืืืืงืืจืืช
ืขื ืืืืืจ
Glynn Stewart is the author of Starshipโs Mage, a bestselling science fiction and fantasy series where faster-than-light travel is possibleโbut only because of magic. Writing managed to liberate Glynn from a bleak future as an accountant, and today he is the author of over 60 books, including the urban fantasy series Changeling Blood and the far-flung space adventure Exile.
Glynn lives in Canada with his partner, their cats, and an unstoppable writing habit.
