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The Once and Future War
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before the Dominion ruled the stars, a living world called Xylos was consumed by an ancient force known as the Void Sovereign. In its final hours, the Makers of that world sent one last answer into the future: the living ship Prydwen and a blade named Excalibur, sealed with a command to find the one hand capable of turning memory into war.
Ages later, on the ash world Camlann-7, scavenger Gwenna Vere is looking for salvage, not destiny. What she finds instead is a crashed vessel unlike anything the Dominion has ever built and a man in impossible armor who wakes with a sword across his lap and the name Arthur Pendragon on his lips.
As Dominion Inquisitor Lancel Korr closes in, Gwenna is forced into flight alongside Arthur, rebel pilot Mira Calen, and xenobiologist Toren Vahl. What begins as survival quickly becomes something much larger. The Dominion is not just a galactic empire built on violence and machine law. It may also be the perfect structure for the return of the same ancient hunger that erased Xylos from the stars.
To stop it, Arthur must become more than a resurrected legend. Gwenna must become more than a scavenger. And the outcasts gathered around them must decide whether hope is still worth carrying when every rational system in the galaxy says surrender is cleaner.
The Once and Future War is a dark science fantasy epic about Arthur reborn in a far-future empire, a living ship carrying the memory of a dead civilization, a blade built as an act of defiance, and the war that begins when myth returns to a galaxy that no longer deserves to believe in it.
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