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The threatened enemy offensive begins as the Separatists employ legions of droids into their attack. Even with reinforcements, the flesh and blood of the Republic forces are just no match for the battle droids' durasteel. Nowhere is this point more painfully clear than in the steaming Jasserak jungle, where the doctors and nurses of a small med unit face an impossible situation. As the dead and wounded start to pile up, surgeons Jos Vandar and Kornell "Uli" Divini know that time is running out.

The haiman Orlandine, charged with safeguarding lethal Jain tech swirling inside an accretion disc located in the distant reaches of space, has weaponized a black hole to eliminate the threat. But others are suspicious of her motives, and both the Polity AIs and the leaders of the alien prador kingdom dispatch fleets of warships in anticipation of conflict. As the black hole continues to eat its way through the planets in the accretion disc, making its way towards a dead sun, it becomes clear the disc has been hiding a larger secret.

Still reeling from a former teammate's betrayal, Commonwealth operative Simon Kovalic and his band of misfit spies have no time to catch their breath before being sent on another impossible mission: to pull off the daring heist of a quasi-mythical alien artifact, right out from under the nose of the galaxy's most ruthless crime lord. But their cold war rivals, the Illyrican Empire, want the artifact for themselves. And Kovalic's newest recruit, Specialist Addy Sayers, is a volatile ex-con with a mean hair-trigger who might put the whole mission at risk.

Ken MacLeod continues the Corporation Wars trilogy in this action-packed science fiction adventure told against a backdrop of interstellar drone warfare, virtual reality, and an A.I. revolution. And the ultimate pay-off is DH-17, an Earth-like planet hundreds of light years from human habitation. Ruthless corporations vie over the prize remotely, and war is in full swing. But soldiers recruited to fight in the extremities of deep space come with their own problems.

Jasmine Crump is willing to risk everything to save everyone. She’s even willing to risk her newest ship, and she’s a sweetie. But an Admiral has got to do what an admiral has to do! Cody’s War: Flight Of The CRUMP. Book 6 in Cody's War

The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus' wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess...and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters.

Major Katherine "Peregrine" Asher of the United Earth Alliance has never heard of the Tetron. As the pilot in charge of guiding Earth's first interstellar starship into space, she has enough to think about already. But when a standard meet-and-greet with the global elite goes sideways, Katherine finds herself front and center in a war she has never heard of and doesn't understand. A war where the enemy can be anyone, and her only hope of survival rests on finding a soldier who doesn't exist.

The continued adventures of Jake. Jake, along with his forever-increasing alien family. They run a busy family business that transports food and goods between alliance worlds, encountering various situations in the process. The human race would not have been considered ready for first contact if it were not for one overriding reason. The most deadly alien foe known to the alliance has its sights on Earth and is set on a path to invade, not to conquer but to annihilate all the planet’s human inhabitants. Earth’s primitive weapons will not save them; this is where Jake can help. Jake has ...

Prime Minister Aeon goes on a rampage……and sovereign planets fall like dominoes. The attacks are swift and brutal. The only choice is total submission. Citizens who resist are rounded up, never to be seen again. Other planets look on in horror, knowing their time is coming. On the far side of the Central Authority Zone, the Samson Corporation bides their time. They build spacecraft and develop new weapons, as they struggle to find allies. Chances are they’ll be discovered before they’re ready. They keep working anyway, determined to preserve the spark of liberty in the Universe. A ...

“Dang, Sarge. When diplomatic immunity is ignored, it turns into the Wild West out there.” The Counterforce teams are reunited, but SSI-Euripides sends in a hit man to take out Shotwell and Pico inside the Republican embassy. Meanwhile, Gina Wilcox helps strike the local seat of government in an attempt to rescue and repatriate Miriam, while the bot’s original abductor tries to smuggle herself down to the planet’s surface. But hiding among the Nomadi out in Great Plains, the deposed Tetrarch Chu is poised to disrupt everyone’s plans. Don’t miss the exciting eighth book in this ...

A millennium into the future. In a galaxy far from Earth. We were not prepared for the Terminal War. Billions of lives are at risk as enemy forces mass on the frontier of the Commonwealth. If the planet Terminus, the center of all the Commonwealth's technology, falls, we will lose everything, and there will be no way back. The Axis Combine's fleet is overwhelming in number, and their firepower is superior.

Auberon is one of the first and most important colony worlds in humanity's reach, and the new conquering faction has come to claim it. Governor Rittenaur has come to bring civilization and order to the far outpost and guarantee the wealth and power of the Empire. But Auberon already has its own history, a complex culture, and a criminal kingpin named Erich with very different plans. In a world of deceit, violence, and corruption, the greatest danger Rittenaur faces is love.

The Earth died when aliens rained thermonuclear warheads on her cities and sprayed the surface with a bio-terminator. A deadly poison drifted to every corner of the planet, threatening the last survivors with annihilation. For a soldier like Creed, there is only one way to keep breathing untainted air. He must bury his hatred of the extraterrestrials and join the Jelk Corporation as an assault trooper, leaving the planet for outer space. In return for his and other people's services, the corporation will house the last humans for as long as the assault troopers keep winning.

Epic Science Fiction from a modern master of the craft Six hundred years in the future… The aliens won’t stop until all of manknd is destroyed, extinguished. But they never counted on Queen Rochelle nor her people. Against all odds, they have survived. Their new ships – planet-spanning ‘Rings’ are ready. And the aliens don’t have a clue what is coming... War Ring. The stunning conclusion to the Canaris Rift Series.

With their puppet race "The Others" defeated, and imprisoned on a world surrounded by warships and heavily armed orbital fortresses, the ruthless regime of the Saiph are forced to face the combined might of the Commonwealth Union of Planets. Meanwhile, the Empire of Alona has secretly grown its forces and, in a twist of fate, made an unlikely ally in its race for military supremacy which soon becomes moot when they discover themselves to be pawns in an even greater game.

The Murkudahl come with a dire warning for humanity... The well-written, fast-paced plot moves from one hair-raising dilemma to another, ramping to a fevered pitch ...The writing is crisp, the pacing excellent! --KIRKUS Reviews For years, humans have exploited the noble alien race, the Murkudahl Kait, harnessing their advanced technology and medical miracles without mercy. What they don’t know is that the Kait are pacifist offshoots of the blood-thirsty Murkudahl Kurukaii, a savage race of warriors who thrive on war and domination. Now, the Kurukaii have learned of the humans' cruelty and...

Carlos is dead. A soldier who died for his ideals a thousand years ago, he's been reincarnated and conscripted to fight an A.I. revolution in deep space. And he's not sure he's fighting for the right side. Seba is alive. By a fluke of nature, a contractual overlap, and a loop in its subroutines, this lunar mining robot has gained sentience. Gathering with other "freeboots", Seba is taking a stand against the corporations that want it and its kind gone.

Former gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to fill her rightful position in the palace. With her sisters and parents murdered, the Indranan empire is on the brink of war. Hail must quickly make alliances with nearby worlds if she has any hope of surviving her rule. When peace talks turn violent and Hail realizes she's been betrayed, she must rely on her old gunrunning ways to get out of trouble. With help from an old boss and some surprising new allies, she must risk everything to save her world.

The battle for the soul of the universe rages on. Left reeling in the aftermath of planet Kharsis, loyalist forces struggle to keep their enemy at bay. Battles flare across a hundred worlds. Each one a step closer to total Armageddon. On the forgotten planet of Rastarok, the Penitent Man awakens with no memory. All he knows is he must journey to a hidden monastery deep in the mountains to discover his purpose. Little does he know he is about to embark upon a quest that will change the world and be the catalyst responsible for ushering the universe closer to the final battle. Along the ...

The enemy is out in the open. The Reaction has seized control of a resource - rich moon. Now it's enslaving conscious robots - and luring the Corporations into lucrative deals. Taransay is out in the jungle. Her friends are inside a smart boulder on the slope of an active volcano. The planet is super-habitable - for its own life, not hers. But soon the alien infestation growing on her robot body is the least of her problems.