Matthew Tompkins Follow

U.S. Air Force and Army veteran Matthew Tompkins pairs adventure and military fantasy with expansive world-building to craft high-stakes sci-fi adventures. Holding an MFA in Creative Writing from Liberty University, Matthew blends his firsthand military background with rich narrative design to build gritty, functional universes focused on the human element of galactic conflict. Writing speculative fiction since childhood, Matthew writes the kind of books he loves to read—fusing the scale of epic space opera with the intricate, industrial machinery of steampunk technology. When he isn't charting new star systems, fine-tuning steam-powered starship blueprints, or engineering frontier worlds, he is a devoted father and an avid reader. He is the author of A Sword of Fire and the Steam and Empires series.