Sign-In
Cart
The Orphaned Fleet
Paperback
Series: The Penitent War, Book 2
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN13: 9798193347279
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.11
Height: 1.14 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.11
Height: 1.14 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Thirteen salvage-built ships. A hundred and eighty crew from six species. One engineer who never wanted to command anything - and a war that doesn't care what he wanted.
James Malwyn holds the Scavenger Fleet together the way he holds everything together: with his hands. Welding compound, structural patches, and the specific stubbornness of a man who has spent thirty years keeping ships alive and isn't about to stop because the ships are at war. His crew is human, Koss, Lumi, Shenn, Vreth, and Eld - six species who were never designed to share atmospheric systems, let alone fight as one.
James Malwyn holds the Scavenger Fleet together the way he holds everything together: with his hands. Welding compound, structural patches, and the specific stubbornness of a man who has spent thirty years keeping ships alive and isn't about to stop because the ships are at war. His crew is human, Koss, Lumi, Shenn, Vreth, and Eld - six species who were never designed to share atmospheric systems, let alone fight as one.
But the Penitent don't care about design. They care about silence - the systematic extinction of every conscious species in charted space, guided by a theology that calls genocide sacred and a stolen navigation database that tells them exactly where to find their targets.
When evidence surfaces that a founding species of the Compact has been secretly communicating with the Penitent advance force, Commander Roth faces an impossible choice: expose the conspiracy and bury the fleet's chance at political recognition, or stay silent and become complicit. She chooses the larger problem. She always chooses the larger problem.
Meanwhile, aboard a Penitent vessel, an observer called the Listener keeps an unauthorized record of destroyed civilizations - and discovers that the founding texts of the Work contain a gap where dissent was erased. The unanimity was constructed. The silence was never unanimous.
The Orphaned Fleet is military science fiction for readers who believe the best weapons are competence, stubbornness, and a crew that refuses to stop being a crew. Book Two of The Penitent War.
When evidence surfaces that a founding species of the Compact has been secretly communicating with the Penitent advance force, Commander Roth faces an impossible choice: expose the conspiracy and bury the fleet's chance at political recognition, or stay silent and become complicit. She chooses the larger problem. She always chooses the larger problem.
Meanwhile, aboard a Penitent vessel, an observer called the Listener keeps an unauthorized record of destroyed civilizations - and discovers that the founding texts of the Work contain a gap where dissent was erased. The unanimity was constructed. The silence was never unanimous.
The Orphaned Fleet is military science fiction for readers who believe the best weapons are competence, stubbornness, and a crew that refuses to stop being a crew. Book Two of The Penitent War.
Also from
Harlan, Rex
Also in
Science Fiction
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
Balle, Solvej
Paperback
$14.36
Red Rising 3-Book Box Set: Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star, and an Exclusive Extended Excerpt of Iron Gold
Brown, Pierce
Paperback
$55.10