Science Fiction Marine

"How do you stop yourself from growing up?" Unlock the continuing mind-bending possibilities of ethical and moral dilemmas with "After Dinner Conversation - Season Five," the next installment of the must-read collection of the best short stories from the critically acclaimed After Dinner Conversation magazine series. Spanning all genres, from science-fiction to historical fiction and everything in between, each story is guaranteed to captivate you and leave you questioning your own beliefs. Perfect for philosophy students and fiction lovers alike, each story comes with five suggested ...

In this final installment of the Offensive series, Jason Renault leads his allied fleets to the precipice of the Chartean seat of power, only to find fierce enemy resistance, casting doubt on the entire mission. With cunning and clandestine forces working nebulously to feed him intelligence, Jason Renault goes on the warpath, hitting enemy targets in the heart of their own empire. The final battles are set, and the chess pieces are on the board for the showdown between the allied fleets of humanity and their allies and the vile emperor who seeks to enslave humanity. Humanity's fate hangs in...

Once he was the gaijin champion of a cruel and oppressive empire. Now Dev Cameron is a military commander for the rebellious newborn Confederation and at tentative peace with the galaxy's all-powerful rulers. But treachery has shattered the uneasy truce, as the imperial lords prepare to rain destruction down upon the outpost of New America, delivering the final death blow to the still young revolution.

Gideon Joiner has been given a second chance at life. Now he serves the trees, learning secrets from the oldest one of them all. As their agent, he returns to the Eos and the team of Space Marines he was forced to leave behind. Here, naiads have assembled the largest gathering of spirits in millennia. Crystal Keller and others have only one chance to stop them . . . Woodsman Rising contains episodes 45 through 86 of the Kindle Vella story ParaDiv Ops. Two time Kindle Scout winner Jaxon Reed presents an epic tale of legendary proportions. Featuring gun battles and ghost fights, time travel ...

Raleigh and his crew are tasked with guarding an outlying planet from enemy incursions, when they capture an old friend off a smuggler's ship. The possibilities for an enormous sum of gold prove tantalizing . . . if they can survive the League Navy's attempts at eradication. Meanwhile the frontier planet of Halcyon stretches its wings, and pulls in support from Lute to begin a new planetary alliance. And Sergeant Wilcox teams up with Julia Thrall to help soften up the Republic's next target . . . if the Ultima Mule can successfully port them in without detection. Don't miss the latest ...

I’m the youngest of a set of triplets, and I share little in common with my sisters. Larimar and Lazuli don’t seem bothered by the fact that they’re destined to live their semi-immortal lives controlled by their salt cycle. But after it took Mom, I flipped the ocean a set of double-birds. The salt can’t have me. My life is mine. My voice is mine. My fins and legs are both mine—and I prefer the latter. I try to live as a normal high school senior (I'm even on the swim team) but I have my own personal bully who makes my life hell.

“You know, Sarge, sentience is a funny thing. You could probably program a bot to think it was self-aware." A stolen droid from Verberger has awakened, and former Space Marine Gina Wilcox finds herself babysitting a childlike young woman who has no idea she's not human. Why, then, does the corporation want her back so badly? In darkest space, the Captain of a giant zodiac vessel dies and throws the ship into default mode just as his crew mutinies. An SOS reaches Counterforce One where Commander Hamilton Wolf leads his team with some newcomers on a rescue mission. Don't miss the fifth ...

What started out as a relaxing summer weekend for a former Marine Scout Sniper and his children quickly turned into the hardest battle of his life, after a multinational conspiracy to cripple the United States, brings unintended consequences of unleashing a biological evil the world is not prepared for. - A mostly fictional story with a mix of technical sniper knowledge, geopolitical strategy, medical horror and military humor.

The first colonial ships left our solar system 200 years ago. The closer they approach the speed of light, the more supernatural disturbances seem to occur... Something has attacked one of the earliest colonials, leaving mass casualties. The Navy sends in a Marine Emergency Response Team and one Q officer to investigate. Crystal Keller will uncover the ship's mysteries. Or die trying. Because even in death questions must be answered... Earthbound Spirits contains the first 44 episodes of the Kindle Vella story ParaDiv Ops. Two time Kindle Scout winner Jaxon Reed presents an epic tale of ...

This publisher's pack contains Ascendant (book 3) and Gunboat (book 4), the next two books in The Royal Marine Space Commando series. Ascendant (book 3): Aboard the captured enemy ship, Ascendant, Captain Warden and Lieutenant Commander Cohen must lead a mission to explore a star system held by the Deathless. NewPet is close to the colony world of New Bristol, and they must discover what threat it poses to the Commonwealth. Gunboat (book 4): A space fleet in shambles. A captain facing annihilation. There's never been a better time to play dirty....

This Audible Original drama voyages across the seas on board the USS Abraham Lincoln in pursuit of a mysterious monster that has been terrifying unsuspecting ships, in an expedition to hunt this creature down before more people are injured or killed. Amongst the crew are Professor Pierre Aronnax, who wants to be the first person to identify the creature, believing it to be nothing more than an oversized Narwhal. He’s joined by Ned Land, a Canadian harpoonist, believed to be the best in the world.

HUMANITY HAS FALLEN. ONLY ONE SHIP CAN SAVE US. After a disastrous encounter with an alien species, Captain Roc Masters finds himself exiled on a rundown station in the asteroid belt, commanding an ancient starship with a near-mutinous crew. Just as he finally resigns himself to his fate, the aliens return to attack Earth. With the inner worlds crumbling and most of the Earth and Martian navies sidelined or destroyed, it's up to Roc and his lone starship to hold the line. He knows he must gather together what little humanity there is beyond the asteroid belt and make a stand against the ...

There was a time when the Confederacy of Sentient beings ruled the galaxy. A time when the Legion of the Damned kept the peace. But no more. Autocrats rose and fell. Now mankind is ruled by a xenophobe named Cassidian, other races have retreated, and an interstellar war is brewing. The kind of war the Legion used to fight. But where are the legionnaires? “Retired,” some say. “Dead,” according to others. There are rebels, however, men and women who oppose Cassidian. But they need warships, and warships require pilots.

The quest to find the Destiny Stone, is now a race to discover the Amulet of Truth. Snark might have bitten off more than he can chew, but Jane and her team of AIs step up to provide even more military protection, while Duke Fred and his team provide some unusual diplomacy, taking the once private quest to a whole new level. The Brotherhood’s web of corruption, deceit, and deception, spreads wider than anyone suspects, and the mysterious Brother Prime lies at the heart of the growing unrest and attacks across four sectors. While Jamie seeks to re-join his friends from a backward planet ...

Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire. Jake, the man of Lexi's dreams, is trapped in the underworld. Only Hades can free him, but Hades is missing, presumably a captive of the shadow shapers. Lexi wants nothing more than to free both of them, but the shadow shapers have hidden their tracks well. She has no idea where to start looking for the missing Lord of the Underworld until a visit to Death himself reveals vital information.

Sergeant Leif a’Hope Hollow is the first of his people to earn the coveted title. He never knew how soon he and his fellow raiders would have to prove themselves on the field of battle. After the failed coup to oust the emperor, the Novacks do not fade quietly into the background. They continue a low-grade insurgency, but in doing so, they open the door to other players that bring the entire empire to the brink of destruction. Sergeant a’Hope Hollow must lead a ragtag group of fellow non-humans in an attempt to avert a catastrophe that can wipe out humans forever.

When an old enemy, long thought to be vanquished, reemerges in the war, humanity is plunged into chaos. The once-dim threat of the Charteans now intensifies with the arrival of a rogue human faction that has aligned itself with the emperor. Human-on-human combat—an unthinkable nightmare—threatens to erupt as Jason Renault takes command of a force that never intended to fight their own kind. As the gravity of their situation sinks in, the alliance faces a daunting dilemma: how do they confront this unprecedented threat without shattering the spirits of their warriors? Then, as if to ...

Rude awakenings and hard truths. That's war. Matthew's thrown one curveball after another as he learns that just about nothing is sacred in war. Nothing is guaranteed. No one is untouchable. Now he's afraid that he might just lose it. Problem is, he doesn't have the time to lose it or to even fear that he might go crazy when the war is over. Instead, he's got one task after another. One mission always has yet to be completed when no one else seems to be doing any of the fighting. Now Matthew has to venture into no-man's-land at midnight to recover his lost mechanized infantry unit, Firefly....

Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holiday: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But with a late-night knock on the door, the spell is broken. Ruth and G. H., an older couple who claim to own the home, have arrived there in a panic. These strangers say that a sudden power outage has swept the city, and - with nowhere else to turn - they have come to the country in search of shelter.

Persia has dedicated her life to saving the planet from greedy construction companies, even if that meant she lost out on a life filled with laughter, love, and passion. Considering she's generally surrounded by losers, potheads, and slackers, it's not such a big loss. Then she meets Warren - a tall, muscular hunk of hottie she wants to climb like the trees she's trying to save. Werewolf Warren Edgecomb lost out on love once and never imagined he'd find a woman for him. Then he stumbles across Persia, and he knows the gorgeous female is his.