The week before last, I was under the weather, so I turned to science fiction, which is my comfort food when it comes to reading. So I just finished "Space carrier avalon" by Glynn Stewart. It's the first book in the Castle Federation series and the first book I've read by glynn Stewart. It took a while to get into it, which I find to be true with any new science fiction novel, given all of the new unfamiliar worlds and stuff. By the end, I really liked it, and I'm looking for to reading more books by glynn Stewart and the next book in the Castle Federation series.

The description on BARD is:

Space carrier avalon DB113957
Author: Stewart, Glynn
Reading Time: 10 hours, 53 minutes
Read by: Eric Michael Summerer
Subject: Science Fiction
"Avalon was the flagship of the Castle Federation in the last war, now twenty years past. The first of the deep space carriers, no other warship in the fleet holds as many honors or has recorded as many kills. No other warship in the fleet is as old. Accepting the inevitable, the Federation Space Navy has decided to refit her and send her on a tour of the frontier, showing the flag to their allies and enemies as a reminder of her glory-and then decommission her for good. But Avalon has been a backwater posting for ten years and has problems a mere refit can't fix. The systems along her planned tour have been seeing pirates for the first time in decades, and there are rumblings of Commonwealth scouting ships all along the border. It may be Avalon's final tour, but it looks to be anything but quiet." -- Provided by publisher.

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“I would have followed Admiral or Marshal Walkingstick into hell and back again,” James said. “You were my guiding star, my mentor, my commander.
“But the day you became Imperator Walkingstick, the man I served died alongside the Commonwealth you destroyed.”

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“This isn’t your type of battlefield, my love. This is diplomacy and lies and shadows.” She smiled coldly. “And you never thought I was just a secretary when you met me.”

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“The hard part done. Right.” He met his boss’s gaze. “Now all we have to do is stop one of our allies stabbing us in the back, our other allies from charging off blood-mad, and, oh, the actual enemy from killing us before we finish putting the boot in."

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“Minister, I am here to help,” the Admiral said, his voice surprisingly cold. “I am not here to throw away my people’s lives for nothing. I will fight for your Republic. I will not die for it.”

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#WritingWonders Does your MC have any nicknames? If so, how'd they come by them?

Answering all of these for Dakotan Confederacy subseries of Castle Federation, so the MC in question is James Tecumseh.

James, unlike his counterpart Kyle Roberts in the original series, has not suffered the indignities of an adoring media.

He is, however, slowly realizing that when ANYONE in the newborn Dakotan Confederacy says "The Admiral" they only ever mean one person...

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“While destroying the enemy is unquestionably a victory, victory itself does not require the destruction of the enemy,” he said firmly. “The first question you must always ask is not _how do I destroy the enemy_. It is _how do I win_."

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“The other three used to have different job titles. Lovely ones. Like Director of System Security. Senior Trade Route Security Manager. Vice President of Special Operations.” She let the titles hang in the air. “Since I know you lot are as pure as the driven snow in some ways, let me translate: they were corporate mercenaries."
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“You broke faith with the Commonwealth, Envoy. The entire Sector broke faith with Terra.
"You betrayed your oaths, breached treaties and promises a quarter-millennium old, and now you ask us for help.”
He raised a hand before she could speak.
“You broke faith with us,” he repeated. “WE will not break faith with YOU.”

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"James Walkingstick has honor. It is a flexible honor, one prone to fits of convenience, but it exists."

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