The Borrowed Navy
By Gavin Marden
Working crews, live ships, and the cost of an order.
Every authority has a cost and a boundary.
About the series
The Borrowed Navy is space-opera adventure about working crews, difficult machines and the obligations that survive a war. It begins with practical problems and grows into questions of authority, loyalty, and who gets to own the evidence.
It begins with Five Shares of War: five salvagers, a dead warship, and a combat intelligence still obeying a war that ended forty years ago.
What you’re in for
- Space opera
- Salvage crew
- Ship intelligence
- Found family
- Competence under pressure
Reading order
Read in order; each book is a complete movement of one closed arc.
- Book 1:
Five Shares of War
Coming soonFive salvagers board a dead warship and wake its combat intelligence. When a hidden military receiver destroys their tug, the crew must turn the derelict into a moving refuge, warn twelve threatened ships, and decide whether an AI still obeying a forty-year-old war can become their ally. Five Shares of War begins The Borrowed Navy.
About the author
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.