Exile

Exile, Book 1

By: Glynn Stewart

Narrated by: JD Jackson

A shackled Earth, ruled by an unstoppable tyrant. An exiled son, and a one-way trip across the galaxy. A perfect world, their last hope for survival.

Vice admiral Isaac Gallant is the heir apparent to the First Admiral, the dictator of the Confederacy of Humanity. Unwilling to let his mother’s tyranny stand, he joins the rebellion and leads his ships into war against the might of his own nation.

Betrayal and failure, however, see Isaac Gallant and his allies captured. Rather than execute her only son, the First Admiral instead decides to exile them, flinging four million dissidents and rebels through a one-shot wormhole to the other end of the galaxy.

There, Isaac finds himself forced to keep order and peace as they seek out a new home without becoming the very dictator he fought against - and when that new home turns out to be too perfect to be true, he and his fellow exiles must decide how hard they are prepared to fight for paradise… against the very people who built it.

©2018 Glynn Stewart (P)2018 Podium Publishing

Critic reviews

"A failed rebellion against a tyrannical space confederacy is exiled to a remote corner of the galaxy in this political space drama, the first full novel in Stewart’s Exile series (after the novella Ashen Stars). In the colonized cosmos of 2386, Isaac Gallant, the son of the dictatorial president of the interstellar Confederacy, is a high-ranking officer in the Confederacy fleet. He’s also secretly part of a rebellion against the Confederacy. Alongside rebellion leader Amelie Lestroud, a former movie star, Isaac helps to colonize a verdant planet. Moral dilemmas and political intrigue follow as they struggle to establish a new government on an idyllic world that might belong to someone else. Though there are few complicated relationships, the diverse cast of characters is refreshing, and Isaac and Amelie’s agonies over their growing romantic feelings are convincing. At the center of the story is the human will to adapt to new modes of existence. This fast-paced starfaring adventure succeeds with a thrilling mix of space battles and tender emotions." (Publishers Weekly)

Great political sci-fi

I loved the sorry, good political science fiction is hard to find, and colonization stories aren’t much more common. That said there is an element of military sci-fi that’s sort of forced in, a genre I like too.

I wish Stewart had been confident in her ability to wright a story without navel battles. However the book is great and defiantly worth the purchase!

had me hooked from the beginning.

this is a type of space Opera I really enjoy. great character development a wonderful story and the performance was great, highly recommended

good book, only a few minor issues

I like the book and story as a whole which allowed me to forgive the use of the word "chuckled" making it feel like every conversation in the book took place between two Santa Clauses.

Giving exotic matter a name would probably not have hurt either.

(minor spoiler) at one point they want to create a modern constitution, and their idea of that is some kind of shitty first past the post voting system, its a little thing but it bothered me.

enjoyed very much

characters that are easy to like. just right amount of sexual tension. interesting problems with mysterious aliens. looking forward to book 2.

AWESOME. FANTASTIC SPACE OPERA.

Glynn Stewart did it again. His story of an only son of a dictator joining with the rebels is fantastic. Admiral Isaac Gallant and his fellow rebels were exiled to the other end of the Galaxy. He is a true hero and he fought hard to protect his people from their enemies. A very interesting storyline and performed by JD Jackson. I hope book two will be published soon.