Space opera with a bang as a young rogue from a noble family is caught up in an interstellar war DISOWNED IN A HARSH GALAXYCast out by his family & exiled from the Rimward Commonwealth Simon Forrester must make a new life for himself as an apprentice to the powerful Commerce Guild But others aboard the merchant vessel Stacked Deck have a hidden agenda that might lead directly to interstellar war Now when rising tensions between the Commonwealth & the neighboring League of Democracies threatens to erupt into open war Simon finds himself forced to choose between old & new loyalties with the fate of an empire at stake! Meet the Author Born in Southend-on-Sea a fading costal resort at the mouth of the Thames Estuary Alex Stewart has been writing stories since he could first hold a pen Introduced to science fiction at an early age by his grandmother’s enthusiasm for Thunderbirds Godzilla movies & weekly gift of comic books he rapidly exhausted the local library’s stock of juvenile SF & resorted to raiding the adult shelves with his mother’s ticket Since his debut in British SF magazine Interzone Stewart has has written short stories novels screenplays comic scripts reviews criticism & RPG scenarios both under his own name & the pseudonym Sandy Mitchell As Sandy Mitchell he’s best known for the popular Commissar Cain series of Warhammer 40000 tie-ins described by David Drake as “ First rate military SF” In the late Nineties he was also a staff writer on the BBC prime-time technothriller series Bugs