Holo, Jacob
Entry updated 3 February 2025. Tagged: Author.

(? - ) US author, married to H P Holo, active from around 2010, much of his work being in collaboration with Holo or with David Weber; his first novel, like almost all his titles a Space Opera, is The Dragons of Jupiter (2013). In his first series, the Young Adult Seraphim Revival sequence beginning with Bane of the Dead (2015), a narrative line involving the Equipoisal presence of the dead tends to boil down to Military SF, with attention paid to Mechas and other implements. Holo is of most interest for the Gordian Protocol sequence beginning with The Gordian Protocol (2019) with David Weber, a complex tale in which, at least initially, our world after World War Two is seen as a terrible Alternate History that must be prevented from taking over the much juster mainline post-war reality, the heart of a relatively clement home Multiverse which the protagonists of the series defend, acting at points as Time Police guarding against enemies from the future (see Changewar; Time Opera; Time Travel). Stephen King is homaged through the use of his fictional town Castle Rock. [JC]
Jacob Holo
works
series
Seraphim Revival
- Bane of the Dead (no place given: Holo Writing, 2015) [Seraphim Revival: pb/Adam Burn]
- Throne of the Dead (no place given: Holo Writing, 2015) [Seraphim Revival: pb/Adam Burn]
- Disciple of the Dead (no place given: Holo Writing, 2015) [Seraphim Revival: pb/Adam Burn]
Gordian Protocol
- The Gordian Protocol (New York: Baen Books, 2019) with David Weber [Gordian Protocol: hb/Dave Seeley]
- The Valkyrie Protocol (New York: Baen Books, 2020) with David Weber [Gordian Protocol: hb/Dave Seeley]
- The Janus File (New York: Baen Books, 2022) with David Weber [Gordian Protocol: hb/Kurt Miller]
- The Weltall File (New York: Baen Books, 2023) with David Weber [Gordian Protocol: hb/Kurt Miller]
- The Dyson File (New York: Baen Books, 2023) [Gordian Protocol: hb/Kurt Miller]
- The Thermopylae Protocol (New York: Baen Books, 2024) with David Weber [Gordian Protocol: hb/Kurt Miller]
Monster Punk Horizon
Sol Blazers
- Freelancers of Neptune (New York: Baen Books, 2024) [Sol Blazers: hb/Sam R Kennedy]
individual titles
- The Dragons of Jupiter (no place given: Holo Writing, 2013) [pb/Robert Chew]
- Time Reavers (no place given: Holo Writing, 2015) [pb/Robert Chew]
- The Wizard's Way (no place given: Holo Writing, 2016) with H P Holo [pb/Mandy O'Brien]
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