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Is In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight for you?

In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight is a dark, morally charged space opera about smugglers, pirates, crime families, slavery, scripture, and the terrible cost of justice in a corrupt galaxy. It delivers a tense, fast-moving science fiction adventure with the hard edges of military SF, the moral intensity of religious fiction, and the larger-than-life presence of a vigilante privateer who may be a madman—or exactly the kind of man the galaxy needs.

What Kind of Reader Will Love This Book?

If you love…

Space opera with smugglers, pirate hunters, frontier systems, crime syndicates, and corrupt interstellar powers
Military science fiction where battle tactics, starships, boarding actions, and hard choices drive the plot
Morally serious science fiction about justice, conscience, slavery, tyranny, and redemption
Religious science fiction that draws from scripture, especially Isaiah, without turning into a sermon
Antiheroic vigilante figures in the tradition of Solomon Kane, but reimagined for a far-future galactic setting

…then In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight is probably your kind of story.

What You’ll Find Inside

In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight follows Captain Victor Andrecek, an ex-rebel commodore turned smuggler, as a suspicious distress signal pulls his small freighter crew into the path of Zedekiah Wight, a feared privateer whose brutal crusade has made him enemies among pirates, crime lords, slavers, and empires alike. Along the way, the story explores moral compromise, righteous judgment, human trafficking, rebellion, loyalty, and the difference between revenge and justice. The result is a tense, violent, scripture-haunted space opera that feels both pulpy and prophetic: a fast-paced adventure about what happens when ordinary sinners are forced to choose sides in a galaxy where evil has become respectable.

What Makes It Different

Fans of Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane will recognize the appeal of a grim, uncompromising wanderer who brings judgment to evildoers, but In the Wake of Zedekiah Wight takes that archetype into a far-future space opera setting of jump-hubs, smugglers, superintelligences, battle armor, crime families, and galactic power politics. Where many vigilante stories focus on lone-wolf revenge, this story leans into conscience, command, loyalty, and the terrifying question of whether justice can remain just when the world itself has gone mad.

It also stands apart from mainstream space opera by treating religious imagery and scripture as central to the story’s moral atmosphere rather than as exotic window dressing. The Isaiah references, the biblical cadence, and the question of who Zedekiah Wight really is give the story a distinctive identity: part military SF thriller, part anti-slavery crusade, part religious science fiction, and part dark frontier adventure.

What You Won’t Find

If you’re looking for lighthearted space adventure, cozy science fiction, secular-only space opera, or a clean-cut hero who never gets blood on his hands, this probably isn’t that kind of book. The story includes brutal violence, disturbing criminal evil, and morally uncomfortable questions about justice, vengeance, and complicity.

But if you want a dark yet purposeful science fiction story where evil is treated as evil, where conscience still matters, and where redemption is possible even for characters who have compromised themselves, you’ll feel right at home.

Why I Think You Might Love It

I wrote Zedekiah Wight because there comes a point when the lies, hypocrisy, corruption, and gaslighting become too much to bear, and you either take a stand or go quietly insane. This story grew out of my love for science fiction, my fascination with scripture—especially Isaiah—and my desire to create a character who feels less like a conventional protagonist and more like a force of nature. Zedekiah’s methods are brutal, and readers may argue over whether he is righteous, mad, or both, but that tension is exactly what makes the story matter to me: in a galaxy where powerful people profit from evil while calling it good, what kind of man would it take to refuse the lie completely?