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A fisherman’s son, a hero to his clan, risks everything to bring a terrible truth to his people. After three years living inside the ark of Panadawn, Fengtai Ryoshi is returning home to Penti Prime. With him, he is carrying copies of his friend and shogun’s book, A History of Evigone. Based on papers thought lost, the book contains the facts about how their people began – facts that won’t be popular among the clans. To help and protect him, Fengtai is wearing a sentient suit of Vespillon armour, a creation of Panadawn and a representative of its technology. Together, they will ...

Faced on all sides by enemies too powerful for his allies and friends, James Stone has one final option left to him; to take the throne of Panadawn. But will it be the cage he has always feared? Or will it be a new kind of freedom?

James Stone has travelled across the galaxy to a remote colony on the planet Redren in the artificial constellation of Evigone. With the help of the microscopic mus, he has learnt to speak their language and can even read ancient texts. At first, he is suspected of being a spy and kept under the watchful eye of Bulsar, a king in exile. He has used his carpentry skills, taught to him by his father, to help Bulsar renovate his boat. But before they can finish, the Tax Collectors of Rickoby arrive on Redren. They try to run and hide in the ancient ruins of Zagan’s Tomb but are caught and ...

While on the Felspar, James Stone has learnt some terrible truths about the artificial constellation of Evigone. Giant, murderous insects, a great war and a secret the quasi-human spider Sanidine is prepared to kill to keep; all lead him and the human crew to mutiny. But worse still, James Stone has discovered he can read minds – and now they suspect he’s an emissary of the ancient enemies, the tsars of technology or Zarktek. While Bulsar tries to get help from the people of Aagau, the remaining crew trick him into leaving the ship and abandon him to the fate of the security forces of ...

James Stone has led a successful life, comes from a good family, has been an excellent student and has excelled at sports. But none of his experiences have prepared him for the job he’s offered after his graduation. Twenty thousand years ago, the Earth was copied by visitors from another galaxy. They went on to build the constellation of Evigone: three great spheres of over three hundred solar systems. They populated them with ultra-aliens, collected on their journey, and with early humans from Earth. But the question is – why? Another visitor to Earth’s solar system, a tower three ...

James Stone's journey across the artificial constellation of Evigone reaches its final phase. With war facing him on all sides and the avatars of Panadawn plotting in the background, does he have what he needs to win? Or is there another solution he hasn't seen? Having been promised an army, what will the Sagan make of Panadawn? What will happen to Cromorna and to their king's dreams of independence if they change their minds? And what hidden horrors lies among the abandoned worlds of the Third Sphere?

The fish have turned James Stone into a wealthy man. They’ve built him a house under the dome of Panadawn and filled it with antiques from Earth. They even commissioned his father to build him a yacht, the St Mawr, to continue to exploring Evigone with. And they have paid for it all with the rare metals harvested from the giant slugs of Haliotis. With some of their bounty converted into diamonds, James Stone and the eta-fish, Ecru, are heading to Rhyton and its famous university. If the Lords of Wuminger will let them…

James Stone has failed to save the Sagan on his own. Will he have better luck saving Cromorna? Even though he’s joined on the Romulus by Sagan volunteers and an ancient War Master, will they be enough to defeat the regiments of Black and White Hussars?

During his first mission to Evigone, James Stone was arrested and sold into slavery within days of his arrival. On board the Felspar, he helped the crew to mutiny, fought giant insects, and was then betrayed. On the Cissoid Corindon he was employed as a bodyguard for the beautiful Faam. After another betrayal, he had to escape from the pirate Kruvak, only to be tricked by a giant centipede, re-captured and taken to Penti Prime to be interrogated. On the up-side, only half of Evigone believes him to be an emissary of tsars, the ancient enemy. The other half wants him dead. Thrown out of ...

Having been abandoned by the crew of the Felspar and then arrested for piracy, James Stone never expected to find himself on a university ship full of beautiful women or called upon to protect one of them from his friend, Bulsar. Unfortunately, becoming a bodyguard has had its downsides too, not least the jealousy of a Sagan student and an attempt on his life while staying on Arroba. However, while in Faam’s company, he has learnt a great deal more about the spheres of Evigone – including the fact the Lords of Wuminger, builders of the constellation, have not interfered in the ...

Girella, just seventeen, is the youngest member of the Parrhesia family. She lives in the shadow of her brother, sister and her famous mother. Sheltered from the world around her, lonely and lacking in confidence, her solace is her radio and the sounds of alien music from the far side of the galaxy. But when her grandfather is murdered and her brother inherits the vast estates of Smorzando, everything changes. They move from the security and comfort of a world she knows to a rural backwater surrounded by hostile locals and a deadly threat lurking in the shadows. Against a backdrop of ...

Nicholas Coot: a small town lawyer with one big client When Coot begins to receive strange documents from his client’s equally strange associates, he starts to suspect they are not what they seem. But the truth is more extraordinary than he could ever have imagined and will take him far from home and the laws he knows. Along the way, he will learn new lessons, represent his client at the highest levels and nearly die in a hail of bullets. But he’ll also experience beautiful places, find love where he least expected it and become the lawyer his father always wanted him to be, all against...

Quagga follows the story of fourteen-year-old Allis as she tries to stop a man determined to re-start a war that ended forty years before she was born. Allis has lived all life on the Picarel, a small trading ship, where her mother is captain and her two uncles plus their chef and his cat, are crew. Her father was a quasi-human, semi-telepathic, and Allis has inherited his ability. When the ship falls into financial difficulties, her mother takes a job from an archaeologist and explorer, not realising he knows about Allis’s father and wants to use her for his own agenda.

Following on from his triumphs in The Karasor, Prince Narikin is now a special ambassador to the Emperor. But everything he thought he’d won turns out to be an illusion. Despite Emperor’s blessing, the other clans refuse to believe his story about phantoms and mantids and his father still wants him dead. Worse still, the Eirenarch, the oldest living Penti, tells him his people have lost the favour of the Lords, the makers of the Evigone. The Eirenarch predicts the empire will fall and the people will starve if Narikin cannot find a way to unite them against the chaos that’s coming. ...

At the University of Panadawn, Professor Faam tells the true story of Nacyon and the fall of the Quill Empire to three special students: Fratris, nephew of the great historian, Frim Folderol; Crotal Cucurbit, the Sultan of Saron; and Fengtai, the bodyguard to Shogun Penti.Nacyon, the Rao of Sapadilla, was tasked by his king to report on his daughter, Princess Zizania, while she was studying on the university ship, Cissoid Corindon. But Zizania, wild and angry at her father, had become an embarrassment to the Quill Empire and Nacyon was tempted intomaking a fatal decision.

Prince Narikin lives a solitary life on the island of Kimidori on Penti Prime. His father, Shogun of clan Karasor, has no use for him, so he spends his time taking and developing photographs, pruning his miniature trees and walking his dog, Tosa. On a rare outing to another island, Narikin discovers the elite rangers, the heroes of his clan, are looking for volunteers. Rather than appear a coward, he joins the queue, knowing full well they will take one look at his weedy body and reject him. Unfortunately, his skill with a camera is exactly what they’re looking for. The story of Narikin ...

Eon ‘Fadge’ Dirigent, Marquis of Ytterbia, is over-privileged, over-educated and over-weight. He returns home after three years at the University of Rhyton to marry his fiancé of twenty years but as soon as she sees him, she calls him fat. He calls her arrogant. The Royal Court is appalled. The engagement is off. To avoid further humiliation, Fadge’s father finds him a position with the diplomatic corps. But a simple task to claim unpaid taxes from Baron Yataghan of Quathlamba, turns into a fight for his life. On his journey, he discovers giant insects, mysterious ships and a ...

Narikin Karasor and his friend Fengtai are living in exile on the university world of Rhyton. Their host is Moloch, the last tsar in the Third Sphere, guarded by the Sagan and a prisoner for all eternity. Desperate to see Evigone again, Moloch tells Narikin about a device, a panopticon, that allows telepaths to communicate across the spheres. It may even allow Narikin to speak to the Lords and save his people... All he has to do is steal a book from a locked vault, travel to a world inside the Taira mandate and defeat the genetically-modified monsters guarding it.

After his successes comes disaster. Wider forces are at work in the Third Sphere, ones with more ambition, more vision and more ships. As James Stone seeks to be reunited with Faam, even his home world begins to turn against him.

Calefact lies in ruins, Dux has been burnt to the ground, and the rest of Cromorna is facing bombardment from the Tun Imperial Navy. If they are to avoid genocide, they will need an army to defend them but the greatest army in Evigone once belonged to the tsars. James Stone has murdered a senior officer and killed another with a sword in the Circle of Fire. He has committed treason by freeing Cromornan traitors. What began as a promising career in the Green Hussars has ended in betrayal and death. He’s is on the run again. But this time, he’s on the right side.