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Miles Phoenix

Miles Phoenix writes military science fiction with the politics left in — fleet actions where the hardest problem on the bridge is usually a person, not a missile.

The Lightning War follows Polonia Prime, a Polish colony written off by Earth, from the moment it finds an alien drive in a derelict hull to the moment it stops asking anyone's permission. Five main novels, complete, plus six standalone stories in the same cluster.

He is Polish, which is why the ships are named the way they are.

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Before Maria Roszak commanded anything, she was an ensign on an obsolete destroyer, pulling refugees out from under a Caliphate fleet with nothing but a well-drilled crew and a ship everyone else had written off. First Thunder is the prequel novella to The Lightning War — free, and it's yours in about thirty seconds.

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