Adventure Space Opera

In the University Revolution, the State is losing the battle against forces of freedom. In a last ditch effort, a ship from Old Earth rushes to Redwood on a mission to capture a vampire primate in hopes of creating a virtually indestructible army and a means of winning the war. Marcus and Dee Dee Savitch are already vampires. With a small contingent from the Corps of Cadets, they'll wage guerilla warfare in Redwood City against a determined enemy, and fight to the death to protect the planet's secrets. But is it too late to stop a conspiracy put in motion by the last power-crazed Commander ...

Despite political foes, professional jealousies, and the scandal which drove her into exile, Capt. Honor Harrington has been offered a chance to reclaim her career as an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy. But there's a catch. She must assume command of a "squadron" of jury-rigged armed merchantmen with crew drawn from the dregs of her service and somehow stop the pirates who have taken advantage of the Havenite War to plunder the Star Kingdom's commerce.

The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, homeworld of the legendary Jedi Master Mace Windu, has become a battleground in the increasing hostilities between the Republic and the renegade Separatist movement. The Jedi Council has sent Depa Billaba - Mace’s former Padawan and fellow Council member - to Haruun Kal to train the local tribesmen as a guerrilla resistance force. But now the Separatists have pulled back, and Depa has not returned.

Dr. Xandria Trebelin, graduating her studies as the galaxy's most skilled physician for both humans and aliens, can't find work despite her impeccable credentials. Dubbed "Dr. Trouble," Xandria's reputation for attracting bizarre medical cases leaves her shunned by colleagues. Desperate, she applies for a position on a distant, remote planet, hoping to escape her undeserved reputation. However, her journey takes an unexpected turn when she literally collides with an unknown-to-her species. This encounter leaves her with a debilitating condition that prevents her from physically touching ...

The path of the gunslinger Van awakens to find that he is a clone of the infamous Gun Sage, a powerful essence user who has mastered every firearm and achieved an incredible amount of power, and an incredible number of enemies. The edges of human territory are filled with mining worlds where the only sort of peace one might find is brought about by a sheriff, they are hard places to survive where everyone is running from something. On the run Van meets up with a woman who is also a clone, and has as many secrets chasing her as she does. A powerful user of essence she begins to teach ...

Seb thought he had it all: a dream ship, a crew of beautiful women, and enough credits to get them by. All he had to do was work for the very corporation that caused his incarceration 10 years ago. But with war breaking out across the galaxy, Seb gets a unique opportunity to free himself from his employer's yoke. One last impossible job: find a way to turn the tide of war. Seb and his crew will travel all over the galaxy, crash eccentric parties of the elite, and explore ancient ruins. But the journey won’t be without peril, as bounty hunters are pursuing the reward still on Seb’s head.

A thrilling space opera adventure with the mystery and action of Indiana Jones. Hudson Powell had always been a drifter, but after his father died he vowed to turn his life around. He quit freelancing as a starship pilot and joined the Relic Guardian Force as a 38-year-old rookie. That was a big mistake. The RGF police the alien wrecks that have been found on every portal world discovered in the last century. They make sure the relic hunters pay taxes on the priceless alien tech they scavenge from the hulks. The snag is that the RGF is corrupt.

The year is 2081. Earth is recovering from a devastating nuclear war. An age of technological advancement. A find at the bottom of the Ocean. A man driven by a dream. The time for humanity to reach to the stars is now. A find provides Tomas Klein with the tools to speed up his timetable and execute his plans. He will reach for the stars, the only question is will humanity follow? Adrian Farkas an orphan boy, is given opportunity to change his bleak future. To go to space, and shape the future of all mankind. Will he rise up to the challenge?

Humanity needs help, and they need it fast. Following a particularly devastating loss, Liam learns that the All-Kind have found a suitable candidate species to become humanity’s allies: a species called the Sulti. This might seem like a stroke of luck, except the Sulti have fought the Deathbringers before, and there is no love lost between them. But they’re going to have to put all that behind them. Because the Sulti Empire, which spans thousands of populated worlds, is where the Ferox have chosen to mount a full-scale invasion.

In the hilarious, quantum-entangled second adventure of the Felix Bumblesnap series, everyone's favorite accidental physicist, Felix Bumblesnap, is back—and this time, things are getting cosmically complicated. After accidentally engineering a robotic kitten utopia in "Oops, We Saved Humanity," Felix and his intrepid (if reluctantly assembled) team believed life might return to something resembling normal. But normalcy explodes spectacularly once more when Felix's latest "harmless" experiment in quantum communications attracts some unexpected attention: interstellar mail delivery via ...

Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure.

While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying to assure that hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been stranded on the planet they nicknamed "Paradise". The Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission, and the UN wants the ship to find out the status of the humans on Paradise. But Colonel Joe Bishop warns that they might not like what they find, and they can't do anything about it without endangering Earth.

What price victory? The war with the Republic of Haven has resumed . . . disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington, Steadholder and Duchess Harrington, the single victorious Allied commander of the opening phase of the new war, has been recalled from the Sidemore System to command Eighth Fleet. Everyone knows Eighth Fleet is the Alliance's primary offensive command, which makes it the natural assignment for the woman the media calls "the Salamander."

Heroic pilots must rely on their psychic gifts, archaic swordsmanship, and advanced combat training to survive deep space dogfights and bloody close quarters melee. They step up to defend the universe, and then come back to a harem of beautiful women, if they survive. Pretty good deal for a couple of top gun starfighter jocks. Corwin and Tank have earned some much deserved rest and relaxation after, but they soon find their victory over the Roka short lived, as they must engage in deep space dogfights against a highly organized criminal cartel that is selling the disturbing new drug Black ...

Time and again, the vicious raiders known as the Nihil have sought to bring the golden age of the High Republic to a fiery end. Time and again, the High Republic has emerged battered and weary but victorious thanks to its Jedi protectors—and there is no monument to their cause grander than the Starlight Beacon.

Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the International Fleet became the arm of the Ministry of Colonization, run by Hirum Graff. MinCol now runs Fleet School on the old Battle School station, and still recruits very smart kids to train as leaders of colony ships, and colonies.

Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.

Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atredies. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal of the Bene Gesserit. She has already betrayed her ancient order, but now she must decide if her loyalty to the Sisterhood is more important than the love of her own family. Meanwhile, events in the greater empire are accelerating beyond the control of even the Reverend Mother, and Lady Jessica's family is on a collision course with destiny.

The battle-scarred star carrier Flying Dutchman is finally on her way back to Earth, after an exceptionally successful series of missions that have once again saved the world. The ship needs a serious refit, and her exhausted crew just wants a break from constant clandestine warfare against a vicious and superior enemy. Wishes come true, right? Not for the Merry Band of Pirates.

Sasha Naradnyo is a gangster. He's a gangster with heart, sure, but Sasha sticks his neck out for no man. That's how you stay alive in Crack City, a colony stuffed deep into the crust of the otherwise unlivable planet Peezgtaan. Alive only - because if you're human, you don't prosper, at least not for long. Sasha is a second generation City native. His parents came to this rock figuring to make it big, only to find that they'd been recruited as an indentured labor force for alien overlords known as the Varoki.