Michael Cobley

First contact: the dream that became a nightmare when the first alien life encountered swarmed locust-like through the solar system....

Darien is no longer a lost outpost of humanity, but the prize in an intergalactic power struggle....

For Pyke and his crew it should have been just another heist. Travel to a backwater desert planet, break into a museum, steal a tracking device then use it to find a ship buried in the planet's vast and trackless sandy wastes....

The Warcage: 200 worlds harnessed to an artificial sun in a feat of unprecedented stellar engineering....

Battle-ready factions converge above Darien, all with the same objective. The goal is control over this newly-discovered planet and access to the powerful weapons at its heart....

Sixteen years it has been since the dazzling Khatrimantine Empire fell to the vast hordes of the Mogaun....

Emperor Magramon is dead and his only son, Ilgarion, will finally ascend to the Khatrimantine throne, guided by the Archmage Tangaroth and protected by the Iron Guard....

Shadowgod continues the epic tale, begun in Shadowkings, of resolve and sacrifice, and a world teetering on the brink of endless, terrible night....