Gavin Marden

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Gavin Marden

Writes space-opera adventure about working crews and live ships

Gavin Marden writes space-opera adventure about working crews, stubborn ships, and the political consequences of physical problems. Five Shares of War begins The Borrowed Navy.

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  • Competence under pressure.
  • A crew with receipts.
  • The machine is not your villain.

Biography

Every solution leaves a bill.

Gavin Marden writes space-operatic adventure about working crews, difficult machines, and the obligations that survive a war. The books begin with practical problems: a damaged drive, a sealed compartment, a claim nobody can authenticate. They grow into questions of authority, loyalty, and who gets to own the evidence.

Marden’s ships are places where competence is shared, humor comes from disagreement, and every solution leaves a bill. Five Shares of War is the first book in The Borrowed Navy.

What you can count on

The signature under every Gavin Marden novel

  1. A problem on page one

    A damaged drive, a sealed compartment, a claim nobody can authenticate. The story starts with something that has to be fixed.

  2. Humor that belongs to the speaker

    The jokes come from people who disagree about how to do the job, not from a narrator winking at you.

  3. A ship with its own logic

    The intelligence aboard is neither servant nor monster. It follows rules of its own, and the crew has to learn them.

  4. Stakes grown from hardware

    The politics get bigger because a physical thing happened and somebody decided what to do about it.

  5. A complete story, a bigger sky

    The immediate story ends. The galaxy is larger at the end than it was at the start.

Books by Gavin Marden

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    The Borrowed Navy · Book One

    Five Shares of War

    The war ended forty years ago. Aster never received the order.

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Contact

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