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Clara Hope EllwoodTHE WORLDS & THE WORDS
The cover of A Ship Worth Saving, showing a ship beneath an immense fungal canopy

SPACEFARING ADVENTURE · ILLUSTRATED FICTION

Iron Reproach

Some things are worth repairing.

Meet the crew of the Iron Reproach: six former military specialists and a winged android, making a living among the wreckage other people leave behind. Salvage pays the bills. Getting everyone home is another matter.

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THE BOOKS

The Iron Reproach novels

Begin with A Ship Worth Saving, then return to the crew in No Long Meridian. Both illustrated novels are available in Kindle, paperback and hardcover.

A Ship Worth Saving - Book One cover

Book One

A Ship Worth Saving

Elias Rook knows how to bring damaged ships home. Keeping his own flying is the harder part. Six former military specialists and a winged android share the work, the debts and a flexible understanding of salvage law. A derelict repair tender could change their fortunes - but it lies inside alien territory, above a beautiful and dangerous fungal world. To leave together, they must decide what they are willing to take, what they owe, and what is worth repairing.

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Book Two

No Long Meridian

A recorder-recovery contract could help pay for the Iron Reproach’s repairs. An unexplained air bottle in the survey photographs changes the job: nine people are sheltering aboard the damaged tug, each with different needs, obligations and hopes for what comes next. Commander Elias Rook and his crew must preserve evidence, find breathable air and onward passage, and avoid turning rescue into another claim on the people rescued. The second illustrated Iron Reproach novel follows a warm, weathered crew through the costs and complications of bringing people home.

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