Military Engineering

Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson, and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the science fiction and fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.

Things always go wrong when you try to be God. In the case of Reinhardt Base, the Coalition's attempts have now cost them an entire planet. Now the survivors are just trying to get out with their lives. Can they do it? Read Flight From Reinhardt today!

The latest novel in the War Fleet series. A new weapon puts old alliances to the test. War Fleet: Conspiracy is a non-stop thrill ride that will leave military science fiction fans hungry for more!

Wally Schirra was the only one of the original seven NASA astronauts to command a spacecraft in all three pioneering space programs - Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. This chronicle of his experiences takes us into space on Schirra's 1962 Mercury flight that orbited Earth six times and aboard Gemini for the first rendezvous of two manned craft in space.

PLAYING WITH REALITY explores the riveting history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, biology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and the future of democracy. As neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy shows us, games have been deeply intertwined with the arc of history. War games shaped the outcomes of real wars in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Game theory warped our understanding of human behavior and brought us to the brink of annihilation.

The secrets of science meet the drama of the high seas. Amir D. Aczel - the distinguished science writer behind God's Equation and Mystery of the Aleph - turns detective as he uncovers the fascinating story of the invention of the compass.

Adam awakened after decades of suspended animation with a genetically enhanced body and an implanted A.I. named Nan. He was now endowed with boundless potential but unrealized potential is of little benefit. With Nan's help he overcame many challenges but his greatest and most dangerous challenge was fighting and defeating a gang of slavers. He realized that one victory was not the end of the issue and his goal became permanently ending this evil organization that threatened the very survival of the fragile remnants of humanity. In order to accomplish this he would have to fully realize his...

ALWAYS HAVE A PLAN. OR MAKE ONE UP REALLY QUICKLY. Slim Taggart has stolen plenty of things in his short life. That's what happens when you come from a family of planet-hopping thieves. But when he somehow finds himself in possession of a shard from an ancient alien tech known as the Emberling, things start getting hotter than he likes. Before Taggart knows it, a half-dozen criminal syndicates are on his tail, desperate for the powerful payload. And that's before he manages to take aboard a motley crew of characters who each openly admit they'd kill for it, too. Luckily, Taggart has a plan....

CT has one goal: to take on the most powerful planet colonization corporation in the world and bring them to their knees. The corporation wasn't worried. After all, CT was just one man with a small crew of beautiful women. They should be worried. They should be very worried.

The ongoing adventures of the Marathon, a gunship with a crew long on exotic creatures and short on common sense. They (almost) always get the job done. Eventually. Lost Star is the fourth book in the Marathon series, an action-packed carnival ride of a space opera that will leave you breathless.

Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed - refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples - causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl.

When it comes to motley crews, the Blackout has most starships beat. But as a ruthless force swarms over the quadrant, crushing and enslaving all civilizations in its path, it falls to this unlikely band of non-heroes to turn the tide. If they don't kill each other first. Escape, the second book in the Blackout series, is old-fashioned space opera at its best, perfect for fans of action-packed drama and fun! Note: The Blackout series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you're interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you're looking for action-packed ...

***2022 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Silver Medal Winner in Action Fiction*** A dark and gritty page-turner set in a dystopian near-future Los Angeles the year 2048. Written in the spirits of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Tom Clancy. Gripping characters are put through hell pursuing a worthy goal in a thrilling story of war, romance, betrayal, and secrets. In this sequel to Cold Solar, the fragile “cease-fire” between Earth and Mars depends on finding Princess Elaina. Marcus Bowen joins his most hated enemy, Prince Dothan, on the Martians’ elite warship to find out ...

The Darkness is coming. When it strikes, Volka, Carl, 6T9, and Sundancer will have to join forces with an unlikely ally to learn the key to defeating it. An ally who is cold, cunning, and despises all of them - Alexis, Captain Darmadi's wife. If Volka and Carl can manage not to kill her, 6T9 can refrain from sleeping with her, and Sundancer can keep them all from being blown up, humanity may have some hope. Strap in! It's bound to be a bumpy ride.

The remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife - and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape.

This book is about air combat in WWl aircraft. The author's exceptional tally of over 40 air victories contains many vivid portrayals of air combat. The style is light and engaging.

Missy Carter leads a rather boring, overworked life as a system analyst for the State Department, or rather that’s what she lets everyone believe. As a Shadow Agent with the Paranormal Security and Intelligence, she’s seen and done it all. Intelligence is her specialty; assassination is her hobby. She’s learned to handle anything life can throw at her. That is until the biggest paramilitary pain in her backside shows up again. Lucky for him, he’s good looking.

While the big bad corporation has often been the offender in many of the world’s greatest environmental disasters, in the case of the mass poisoning at Camp Lejeune the culprit is a revered institution: the US Marine Corps. For two decades now, revelations have steadily emerged about pervasive contamination, associated clusters of illness and death among the Marine families stationed there, and military stonewalling and failure to act.

A generation starship can hide many secrets. When an Executive clan suspects Oichi of insurgency and discreetly shoves her out an airlock, one of those secrets finds and rescues her. Officially dead, Oichi begins to rebalance power one assassination at a time and uncovers the shocking truth behind the generation starship and the Executive clans.

IF THERE'S ONE THING ADAM ECKHART KNOWS, IT'S THAT HUMANS ARE TROUBLE. He should know. He is one. As captain of the Marathon, a cobbled-together ship crewed by aliens and androids scraping by on odd jobs at the outskirts of settled space, Adam has plenty to worry about without adding his own species to the mix. But when a pair of mortally wounded humans cross his path during a heist gone wrong, he finds himself compelled to save them. Big mistake. Because if there's one more thing Adam knows, it's that the universe never leaves a good deed unpunished. He and his crew are about to find out ...