Malory

Sci-Fi, LitRPG & Progression Fantasy

Winner of the 2026 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award

Swashbuckler cover — Arcane Galaxy Book 2 by Jake Malory
Jake Malory
Arcane Galaxy · Book 2

Swashbuckler

Book 2 of Arcane Galaxy. Rivers and the crew get further into the System — and further into trouble they can’t walk back.

Space Western LitRPG Progression Fantasy Sci-Fi

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About the Book

Swashbuckler picks up after the wreckage of Chaos Protocols. The crew is intact — just — and the System has registered Rivers as a problem it would prefer to manage. The book carries the same Firefly-on-a-stat-sheet rhythm as Book 1, with the crew dynamics tighter and the stakes pushing into territory the first book only sketched.

Co-authored with Troy Osgood, published by Aethon Books. The space-western LitRPG continues to behave like a heist film that occasionally remembers it’s also a war.

Published by Aethon Books. Audiobook narration by Daniel Wisniewski.

For Readers Who…

read Chaos Protocols and want the next caper. Same crew, same ship, sharper enemies.

Book 2 is the latest entry in Arcane Galaxy. Browse the full catalogue or the series overview for what comes before.
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