Blaze Ward

Blaze started coming into his own in 2014 when he published several novellas, short stories, single-standing novels, and several novels in the Beyond the Mirror series. Given that “Fabulous Publisher Babe” who was his wife had several titles published, it was not so hard to convince her husband that he could write and make a career out of it. Even though he was making good money in software, he quit to write full-time in 2018 and has published a novella or novel every month for years.

The best place to start is The Science Officer series, the earliest of Blaze Ward's multi-book series: it opens with The Science Officer (2014) and runs to 16 books across 2014–2025, ending with Guardians of Tomorrow (2025). Blaze Ward's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Blaze Ward has 319 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2014 and 2027. 254 of them belong to 43 named series — the largest being the Boundary Shock Quarterly series with 34 books — and 65 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Blaze Ward's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Science Officer (2014–2025, 16 books), Beyond the Mirror (2014–2018, 7 books) and Brak Stories (2014–2016, 4 books), plus 40 more.

This guide splits Blaze Ward's 319 books into 43 named series and 65 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Boundary Shock Quarterly (34 books, 2018–2026); Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem (26 books, 2020–2026); Business for Breakfast (20 books, 2015–2024); The Science Officer (16 books, 2014–2025); Last Stand (12 books, 2023), plus 38 further series.