Iron & Blood: Book Two of The Expansion Wars Trilogy

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  Afterword

  From the Author:

  Thanks for reading everybody, hopefully this continuation of the Black Fleet Saga is living up to expectations. I'll keep this short as I'm working as quickly as I dare to get this book wrapped up and released and press ahead with other projects. While it was with the editor I was plugging away on the next Omega Force book so look for that this spring.

  With this book I wanted to get away from the story being on such an epic scale like the survival of the entire species. I thought it might be interesting to concentrate on the comparatively small story of fighting for a single planet and all that goes into that. Sometimes writers fall into a trap of making each subsequent chapter of a long-running series bigger and grander and far more complex than it needs to be and in the middle of all that the entire point they were trying to make gets lost.

  This brings me to my next point: While Omega Force is pure escapism and adventure sci-fi without much of a message past having some fun, with this series of books I've tried to lightly touch on some of ethical and practical issues around using force to gain a political objective. I've tried to make sure it doesn’t come across as heavy-handed or that a reader starts to suspect I'm using a sci-fi book as a soapbox to talk about my own political views (something I don't inject into my writing) and puts it down. The title and quote at the beginning of this book may raise a few eyebrows, but I assure you that it's meant to be taken at face value and completely within the context of this story, not as a statement on Otto von Bismarck's entire political history.

  Anyway … this is book five so we have four more to go after this before the entire saga is wrapped up. The next book is titled Destroyer and following that will be The Unification Wars Trilogy. Thanks for the patience as I know this one is a little late from the initial planned release date.

  Cheers!

  Josh