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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2009
  • Latest Book:
    September 2020
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Full Series List in Order

David Birkenhead

1 - Ship's Boy (Jun-2012)
2 - Midshipman (Aug-2012)
3 - Lieutenant (Sep-2012)
4 - Commander (Oct-2012)
5 - Captain (Nov-2012)
6 - Commodore (Nov-2012)
7 - Admiral (Dec-2012)

Descent

1 - Descent from Man (Oct-2012)
2 - Descent into Madness (Dec-2012)
3 - Descent Into Hell (Jan-2013)

No Glory Sought

No Oath Sworn (Jul-2011)
No Battle Fought (Sep-2011)
No Victory Won (Dec-2011)

Book List in Order: 28 titles



  • Why would any sane person pay to have themselves remade into a half-rabbit freak? Any religion which asks its members to do that would sink without a trace... or would it? Find out more in THE FIRST BOOK OF LAPISM...



  • "How Did You Celebrate Your Fifth Twelfth Birthday?" Jobee Abrams spent his sitting at the Captain's Table of a luxury spaceliner, wearing a dorky make-believe uniform and being fawned over by rich old ladies. His birthday wish was that maybe someday...



  • No Glory Sought Series, Book 1: No Oath Sworn By Phil Geusz: Is War What Makes Us Human? Tommy Longo was just fifteen when his brain was removed so that he could become a superfighter pilot; any older and it would've been too late. The separation was...



  • Lt. Larry Highridge was a good Narcotics cop until a routine drug bust went bad. The perp unexpectedly turned out to be a werewolf and Highridge was bitten. Now a werewolf himself, Highridge refuses to let his monthly handicap stand in the way of hi...



  • Having sacrificed his humanity, you'd think Gregory Lombard had nothing left to lose, but it turns out even animals can't escape the burdens of duty and family. Powerful magic has restored his sentience, if not his body, but only at a terrible cost. ...



  • What exactly does it mean to be human, anyway?Jack Strafford, aging action-adventure star, is about to find out. He's taken on a new body to make a movie, but instead finds himself reluctantly starring in a real-life action-adventure d...



  • Retirement can be hard...But never more so than when it's forced. Tom Hill thought he had adjusted to living in a quarantine center and only dealing with other Lokis like himself, but a new arrival is forcing him to re-evaluate his choices. A writer ...



  • "Today's mission, Commander, is revenge. And may God have mercy on your soul." Even the ordinary sort of war is awful enough- people die, resources are wasted, and the survivors are scarred forever. But when unstoppable force comes up against an indo...



  • Nobody ever comes back from war the same...But some transformations are more obvious than others.Wine of Battle is a collection of short stories dealing with transformation in times of war and conflict, from the ancient past through the civil war and...






  • How can any conceivable military victory be worth the death and suffering of billions? That's the question Commander Thomas Longo must confront as against all odds the tide turns against his Dracan foes and final victory begins to beckon in the dista...



  • Stick and Bones - By Phil Geusz -- Can a slave be freed entirely by the efforts of others? Or must he free himself, lest the chains remain locked around his heart? Simeon Bolivar carries the taint of slavery in every cell of his body-he's been geneti...



  • Spur - Phil Geusz -- What would it take to persuade you to be turned into a horse? Merle Castison, perpetual ne'er-do-well, accepted a rich man's horse-curse for a mere ten thousand a month plus room, board and free shoeings. After all, he only expec...



  • Once upon a time there was a boy named David, who slew a terrible foe… David Birkenhead might have been only twelve years old, but his entire life was already laid out for him. First his father was supposed to teach him how to run a starship's engi...



  • For centuries noble houses have struggled with the problem of what to do with their younger, non-inheriting sons. It's even tougher when one of these younger sons is a Rabbit and therefore by definition a former slave. In this second volume of the Da...



  • "Whatever you do, please, don't throw me in that brier patch!" Rabbits have been outwitting their enemies for as long as rabbits have had enemies, and that's a very long time indeed. But few bunnies have ever found themselves in as tight as a spot as...



  • The man who has everythingMoney, power, nobility, and a fast car; what more could a man want?Well, having hands would be a good start.In a world where nomadic elven tribes fight with interstate traffic, Gregory Lombard must decide how much he's willi...



  • "We have not yet begun to fight!" John Paul Jones once declared not long before snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. But even the immortal Captain Jones might've flinched at the prospect of a months-long odyssey through the heart of Imperial sp...



  • The king is dead! Long live the king! David Birkenhead never expected that his adopted brother James would have the throne handed to him on a silver platter. But even David, veteran of some of the most brutal and merciless battles ever fought, is sho...



  • "War is cruelty," General William Tecumseh Sherman famously asserted. "There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over." David Birkenhead is not by nature a cruel Rabbit. Yet he's been assigned one of the most miser...






  • Having sacrificed his humanity, you'd think Gregory Lombard had nothing left to lose, but it turns out even animals can't escape the burdens of duty and family. Powerful magic has restored his sentience, if not his body, but only at a terrible cost. ...



  • By now David Birkenhead has all but defeated the Boyen Emperor, whose strength is but a shadow of what it was before the Battle of Wilkes Prime. His fleet has been shattered and with it his dreams of conquest. Yet the Emperor and his court fight desp...



  • Disaster has been averted, but only at a terrible cost. Where once 5 sentient races populated the Earth, now only 4 remain. Can King Gregory strike a bargain with the devil to bring back the Elves, or will the consequences of such a deal prove even m...



  • ALL HUMANS WERE CREATED EQUAL UNTIL WE DECIDED TO MAKE OURSELVES BETTER

    A millennium after the resulting Extinction Wars nearly drove mankind to the brink of annihilation, the survivors reach out to the stars to gather the lost tribes of...



  • What happens to that which is stressed beyond its strength yet cannot bend? It breaks, of course. But what happens when a college campus full of gengineered anthro-rabbits hard-wired to be non-violent find themselves living through and beyond Armaged...



  • Lost wars have consequences, and it's usually the innocent who suffer most. Young Robert and Timothy Byrd learn this firsthand when empire-building aliens threaten the extinction of all humanity via asteroid strike. Resistance proves futile, and the ...





  • If waging war is stupid, why do we work so hard at it?Christopher Speiss is a familiar, transformed into a Kodiak bear while still just a boy, and now an American military officer as well. When the First World War breaks out in Europe, he soon learns...



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    A familiar storyGrowing up a half-breed orphan is hard, but Chris Speiss is off to a special school to learn if he's destined for a life of magic. But circumstances of birth have marked Chris as a familiar, not a Wizard. He and his fellow candidates ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Phil Geusz has published 28 books.

Phil Geusz does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Aquarius, was published in September 2020.

The first book by Phil Geusz, The Book of Lapism, was published in June 2009.

Yes. Phil Geusz has 3 series.