Historical & speculative fiction
Glen Ludlow
Fiction that lives in the space between history and obsession.
Feudal Japan. Roman Britain. Revolutionary Corsica. And the far reaches of interstellar space.
The work
Novels
Different centuries, the same few questions. The period is never backdrop — it carries the weight.
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Aiuchi Published
Two rival swordsmiths on the same mountain, each certain the other's work is the flaw in his own. Five acts, and a perfection that costs more than either will admit to wanting.
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Original Sin Published
First contact arrives before anyone aboard is ready for it. Out past the last relay, survival and colonial ethics stop pointing in the same direction, and the crew have to decide which of the two they can do without.
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Ravenous Published
A wound takes from Lord de Grey everything he was raised to be — the lord, the husband, the Christian — and leaves what was always underneath standing in the open, hungry and unashamed. Brother Anselm has watched a man shed that skin before, at Constantinople. He is an almoner in a worn habit, and nobody listens to almoners.
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DRVID Current work
Mona is ash. A druid initiate whose tongue was taken by her own order — as doctrine, long before the legions came — walks home to a capital that has already signed its pact with Rome. She has one interpreter, no private word, and a single season to do what she came back to do.
About
About the author
Glen Ludlow writes fiction that lives in the space between history and obsession. His work spans feudal Japan, Roman Britain, revolutionary Corsica, and the far reaches of interstellar space — but always returns to the same questions: what mastery costs, what sacrifice reveals, and whether belonging is possible for those caught between worlds.
His published work includes Aiuchi, a psychological horror set in 1550s Japan, and Original Sin — a sci-fi thriller exploring first contact, colonial ethics, and crew survival. Alongside a body of interconnected fiction across historical drama, science fiction, and noir.
When not writing, he practises Japanese calligraphy, shoots film photography, and builds software. He splits his time between England and France.
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