Maybe not so ancient, but the Eugenicists that originally 'created' the mages were already subtly manipulating lineages before they took over the Mars colonies and began overtly manipulating the population and force-breeding test subjects.Ambiguously Brown: The aristocratic mages on Mars, especially.Almost Out of Oxygen: See Assassin Outclassin'.Treating her as a Damsel in Distress would be ill-advised. Action Girlfriend: Damien's college sweetheart was Grace McLaughlin, granddaughter of the planetary governor of Damien's homeworld and Commodore of the Sherwood Interstellar Patrol by the time he meets her again.Action Girl: A number, most notably Julia Amiri, ex-bounty hunter and more recently bodyguard on a quest to keep the Hand alive even though he has no sense of self-preservation.As of the Unarcana Rebellions trilogy, the audiobooks are now being done by Podium Publishing with Jeffrey Kafer still narrating. Tantor Media began publishing an Audiobook adaptation of the series in 2015, narrated by Jeffrey Kafer. (2014)Ī spin-off trilogy featuring the adventures of David Rice and the crew of the Red Falcon following the events of Starship's Mage and the subsequent interest the mob, the Legatans, and the Protectorate all have in him, much to his own chagrin. The Starship's Mage Omnibus (Book One) combines five novellas that were originally published separately.

Stewart has described the series as The Dresden Files meets Miles Vorkosigan, with magic taking the place of the usual hand-wave that accompanies faster-than-light travel in science fiction. The opening novellas chronicle Damien's adventures on the Blue Jay, an interstellar cargo freighter captained by David Rice, a man just principled enough to severely piss off the local crime syndicate.

The second through fifth books, Hand of Mars, Voice of Mars, Alien Arcana, and Judgement of Mars follow Damien as judge, jury and executioner, as he completes regime-toppling troubleshooting missions for Mage-King and Protectorate. The first book, Starship's Mage: Omnibus was originally published as a series of five novellas following the young mage Damien Montgomery as he goes from a nobody with no family connections to a fugitive on the run from one of the Mage-King's 'roving warrior-judges' to one of the most powerful mages alive and a student of the Mage-King himself. Starship's Mage is a Science Fantasy Space Opera series by Glynn Stewart. No one on this planet really knows what it means for a Hand to go to war.

Voice of Mars by Glynn Stewart