Author guide
Richard Swan Books in Order
Richard Swan is an English author born in North Yorkshire who spent much of his early life on Royal Air Force bases. He studied law at the University of Manchester and was called to the Bar in 2011. He began self-publishing military science fiction with The Art of War Trilogy before publishing the epic-fantasy Empire of the Wolf trilogy with Orbit Books. He lives in Sydney, Australia, with his family.
fantasyscience fictionmilitary science fictionspace opera
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The Justice of Kings
The first novel in the Empire of the Wolf series and Swan's major fantasy debut.
Reclamation
The first novel in The Art of War Trilogy and Swan's debut novel.
Grave Empire
The first novel in The Great Silence, a distinct story set later in the Empire of the Wolf universe.
Read in order
Books by series
trilogy · completed
The Art of War Trilogy
A military-science-fiction space-opera trilogy, accompanied by the prequel novel Hadan's Reach and two related novellas.
- 1 ReclamationAmazon ↗
Book 1 · novel · 2015
- 2
The Ascendancy WarAmazon ↗Book 2 · novel · 2016
- 3
Empire of the FallenAmazon ↗Book 3 · novel · 2016
- 6
Hadan's ReachAmazon ↗Book 0.5 · novel · 2018 Optional
- 4 VIPER OneAmazon ↗
Book 1.1 · novella · 2016 Optional
- 5 VIPER One: CountervalueAmazon ↗
Book 1.2 · novella · 2017 Optional
series · ongoing
Empire of the Wolf
An epic-fantasy series about Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Emperor's Justice serving a crumbling empire, including the prequel novella The Scour.
trilogy · ongoing
The Great Silence
A flintlock-fantasy trilogy set roughly two hundred years after the events of Empire of the Wolf.
shared-universe · ongoing
Warhammer 40,000
A shared-universe line of separately published short fiction set in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe.
