The Committee to Ban Shane Lochlann Black
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It’s my bestselling book of all time. It broke the top 1500 of all books published measured by sales rank. It anchors the largest single-character science fiction universe in print. And now it’s available as a signed and dedicated paperback complete with an all-new updated cover just in time for the Ten Year Anniversary of the Bandit Jacks!
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Happy New Year! 🎉 Welcome to the Committee! This is my flagship site, where the most useful information is published for the convenience of my readers and guests. Above you will find a menu to some of the cardinal attractions on our network. Chief among them is the Gateway Link which will provide you a menu of roughly ten sites you can explore. I also maintain an oft-updated Blogroll and links list, which I plan to expand considerably in 2026.
This site is now the primary source of official news regarding my various book series, outbound links, merchandise, crowdfunding and most other projects I publish for readers, subscribers, customers and supporters. I have several social media pages which are active to varying degrees, but I don’t update there quite as often, so if you are looking for the latest information it will be found here. Feel free to bookmark Lochlann.Black. I also invite you to follow my RSS Feed.
The Starships at War Series is arguably the largest single-character single-author science fiction series ever published. There are now six full-length novels, fourteen novellas, two spinoffs, the Infamous 24 series and the Jacks to the Nines Action Faction story plus the upcoming Advanced Starship Tactics series. A total of 24 titles have been published featuring Captain Jason Hunter and the Bandit Jacks. They are variously available in ebook, audiobook and dedicated hardcover editions exclusively at Getabook.today.
Note: All the books on the store now have genre and series included in their descriptions. You can browse the store by genre using the drop-down menu on mobile or the menu bar on PC.
Here is the reading order for most of the Starships Universe books organized according to plot chronology. The most recent installment appears last on the list:
Strike Battleship Argent
Let None Return Alive
When most people think of electronic books, they think of trillion-dollar companies and mobile tablet devices. It might surprise you to know the electronic book was invented long before our modern notions of e-commerce and mobile devices became popular. For example, the epub can trace its lineage back to 1999, when the OEB was first established. This happened only six years after the PDF format was first released.
Epub is the format I use for all of my works. It is the default electronic format for getabook.today. Epub is not proprietary. It is easy to author and distribute and it is easy to read. I also make my books available to my readers without DRM, so you can install and read them on the device of your choice. All my electronic books validate to the epub3 standard before they are made available for distribution, so they should function identically on any device that can read them.
An epub format book or “ebook” is technically a web site (made up of html pages, css styles and web-compatible images) contained in a specially-formatted zip file. You could extract the archive and open the book with your web browser if you prefer, but there is an easier way.
The best way to think about electronic books is that the epub (a file with an extension of .epub) is just a document. You use an e-reader application to open it in much the same way you open a .doc file with Microsoft Word or a PDF file with Adobe Acrobat.
The good news is there are numerous high-quality free e-reader applications available on both mobile devices and on PCs. If you have an iPhone or an iPad, everything is pretty much done for you. The Apple Books app uses epub as its native format. If it doesn’t open the book for you right away, just e-mail it to yourself. When you tap and hold on the attached book icon, you should have the option to share it to Apple Books.
On Android devices, you can use either the FBreader or the Moon+ Reader apps. Both are quite popular and give you many options for organizing your digital library. The Google Play Books App also uses epub as its native format. You can upload your epub books to Google Play and read them on any device that is logged in to your account.
There is also Bookfusion, the Librera App on Android and of course Kobo, which has both an ereader device and an app.
On PCs (Linux, Mac or Windows), you can use the Calibre application. Once installed, Calibre will make all your .epub files double-clickable which will open them in a desktop e-reader. The application also has a multitude of other functions which will make your electronic books much easier to manage.
If you have a Nook device or the app, you can read epub format books on either as well.
If you have a Kindle device, you can read epub format electronic books on it. PC World has a helpful guide. Note that importing your epub to Kindle will convert it to a proprietary format which you likely won’t be able to convert back, so be sure keep a copy of the original.
Note: When you make a purchase of a digital book from my store, you will ALWAYS receive a DRM-free original epub edition. You have full rights to back up your original if needed and to install it on as many of your own devices as you like.
My store has a cloud-based e-reader service called Bitbook, where you can read ebooks purchased from Getabook.Today without having to download or import them to a local e-reader application. For most titles, the downloadable epub and the Bitbook edition are delivered together, so you have the choice.
Note: Nobody has the authority to restrict your access to my books. I hold exclusive rights in all my works worldwide. Use the contact link above to notify me if someone interferes with your access and I will see to it your title(s) are restored.
For the record, as copyright holder to any epub distributed by my bookstore at getabook.today, you have my permission to make copies of books acquired from my store for personal use and to install or import those books to the device or devices of your choice. Why, you even have permission to share my books with your friends and family! (within reason, of course). As always, if you have questions, use the link above to e-mail. Black out.
I just released Chapter Fifteen of The Infamous 24. To make things easy for readers, the entire story archive is now available at Bitbook. If you don’t have an account, email to set up access.
In addition to new free chapters, you will find gift codes, promo codes, all your Getabook purchases, your call sign, awards, pirate nickname and more on your Bitbook electronic bookshelf. We make this free service available for reader convenience so everything you need is in one easily accessible place.
Dreadnought Ascendant joins the Starships at War Signature Hardcover Collection!
