Eric Thomson

Eric Thomson is the pen name of a Canadian author of military science fiction, known for the Siobhan Dunmoore series, which follows a naval officer navigating combat, mutiny, and interstellar politics within an embattled star-spanning commonwealth, and the related Decker's War and Ghost Squadron books set in overlapping military settings. He has also written the Ashes of Empire series and the Constabulary Casefiles, extending similar themes of military duty and institutional decay into related settings. Thomson's fiction is known for grounding space warfare in realistic naval command structure, chain-of-command drama, and the moral costs of prolonged institutional conflict, drawing a devoted readership within the independent military science fiction space.