Space Military

Eleven short stories and novelettes, including “Weaponized Math,” a 2017 Nebula Award Finalist. This is Jonathan Brazee’s first collection of short stories, ranging from a future Marine Corps sniper as she faces deadly missions to a tale of paleontological teens to a story about augmented animal soldiers. Weaponized Math: Staff Sergeant Gracie Medicine Crow is a United Federation Marine Corps sniper who must hold off an enemy assault. BOLO Mission: a second Gracie story, she is assigned to a SEAL Team to destroy a deadly new piece of equipment. High Value Target: the third Gracie ...

Lord Indron is no stranger to war, but the mission before him is unlike any other. On the desolate, forsaken moon of Sakaratul Maut, buried beneath corporate failure and scavenger desperation, a nightmare of cybernetic horror waits to be unearthed. With his elite Echo Squad and hardened Salvage Marines, Indron must retrieve a classified Gedra Cyborg—a telepathic horror capable of controlling the dead, a weapon beyond human comprehension. But they are not alone. The desperate Red Listers who call this wasteland home will fight to the last breath, fanatics with nothing left to lose. And ...

Black Widows Complete Second Series includes the complete second season of six Black Widows episodes, previously only available separately: The Black Widows are an infamous, all-female mercenary unit. Aboard their heavily-armed ship Medusa, they embark on secretive missions throughout the crumbling Confederacy as it wages a terrible and bloody civil war. Each of the Widows is an elite operative, with skills and expertise that command a high price. Their very names spread fear and terror into the hearts of their foes. Episode 1 The Black Widows are offered a mission they cannot refuse, and ...

Things have gone bad among the colonies. Insurgents are building alien-hybrid armies and planet-killing weapons, threatening to upend the fragile balance of power in Province 921. There's not only trouble in the province—the Core Worlds are igniting as well. The Mogwa have asserted claims upon the Imperial Throne, causing their rivals to move against them. Earth's Hegemony and the rebels are pulled into a conflict that could tear the galaxy apart.

When aliens invade Las Vegas, one man is thrust into a battle beyond imagination, fighting the terrifying shock troops of a sprawling galactic empire. To protect a terrified child, he seizes the strange weapon of a fallen hero—an ancient, sentient sword—and is catapulted far into the future with no way back. Now trapped in an alien world, he must master the sword's mysterious power and navigate a deadly game of political intrigue. But time is running out for humanity.

A new generation of super-soldiers has been created... And the old generation isn't thrilled about it. Lucien Malum is a junior executive for the Research and Development section of The Corporation’s megastructure, that is safely nestled inside Olympus Mons on Mars. He has been slowly climbing the corporate ladder for well over a century. Since becoming the Assistant Director of the Special Projects division, Lucien has been secretly searching for a very special piece of ancient technology. A hyper-advanced fighter craft. He’s not the only one looking for it. The Council, a group of ...

An advanced combat droid on the loose. Only one team to turn to. Standish and her team are long overdue for some R&R, but when a spaceship carrying enough droids to defend an entire planet vanishes, her team is brought into the fold and sent to investigate. With the fate of a whole planet hanging in the balance, the Prime team is deployed in search of the missing freighter and its deadly cargo, unsure of what caused its disappearance but aware that they could be up against a machine more lethal than any they’ve faced before.

Lyla Cowan has given up fighting the changes in her life. The Unbound Mercenary Company is expanding ahead of schedule, and she’s just rolling with it now. They’ve made a name for themselves fighting pirates. But there are always more pirates. The human spine is on the way back to Ralnor space, if you take a dogleg. And with the lower end opening up for new colonization at long last, the piracy problem there needs a solution. What do you do with the unkind element making lives harder? You get Lyla interested. When Unkind is as Unkind does, you need the Unbound. The Hunter Imperium ...

It’s been four years since Earth threw its full military prowess against the Lanky incursion. Humanity has been yanked back from the abyss of extinction. The solar system is at peace. For now. The future for Major Andrew Grayson of the Commonwealth Defense Corps and his wife, Halley? Flying desk duty on the front. No more nightmares of monstrous things. No more traumas to the mind and body. But when an offer comes down from above, Andrew has to make a choice: continue pushing papers into retirement, or jump right back into the fight? What’s a podhead to do?

After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's home world. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans.

A seemingly simple detour during a routine military night route has consequences that Sargent Desiree Waters didn't expect. Unique experimental hybrid aircraft and a secret base, and then....nothing, yet everything. But something happened, and people are after her. Part of her knows why, but there has to be more. She is in trouble and has no where to go. History might repeat itself if Desiree can't figure it out. Can she trust her partner or anyone else? What does she need to do to save her name, and hence herself?

They told him he was finished! That he’d never again command a starship. Because, while he’d been languishing as a POW, things had moved on. Now, the key word was diplomacy. So, when a new threat appears from the depths of space…everything changes. And suddenly, Faulkner’s unique skill set is very much in demand. R.L Giddings’ Silver Fleet series is a masterclass of action and suspense, sure to please Military Sci-Fi readers everywhere. A must read if you love Old Man’s War and Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet series. Grab your copy of Eve of War and read the book that launched a ...

Unite, Fight, Survive: A High-Stakes Mission to Rescue Loved Ones, Stop an Alien Invasion and Take Down an Evil Corporation Elliot: Trained from birth to be a killer, he's the best in the business. But when his only two friends are kidnapped by a shadowy corporation, he'll have to use his deadly skills to bring them home. Arthur: Life as a D-list celebrity has left him wanting more. But when Hellinix kidnaps his wife and daughter, he'll stop at nothing to get them back. When these two men with nothing to lose cross paths, they'll have to rely on each other to take down the evil corporation ...

If you like a fast-paced, convoluted story where occasionally the good guys think they win before a bigger problem comes along, and don’t forget counting all the homepage to classical science fiction easter eggs, check this affordable series out. In this the continuing adventures of Gordon Rogers, he got the girl, but can he survive being married, or is that martyred? The loyalty of his Oathbond nine seems assured as they will blaze into any battle with weapons drawn, but what to do when one of your own is betrayed, awaiting a date at the alter? Wrench discovers his betrothed is not; his ...

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater.

One man's epic story of loyalty, perseverance, and hope in a galaxy at war. Now in a single volume. Alliance Navy Commander Grayson Stone is patrolling a nearby space station when a mysterious starship appears. It emerges from a storm of fire, its shields impenetrable, its weapons overwhelming, attacking without provocation and annihilating everything in its path.

For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The Dread Empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order...and bloody chaos. A young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly birth, Lt. Gareth Martinez is the first to recognize the insidious plot of the Naxid - the powerful, warlike insectoid society that was enslaved before all others - to replace the masters’ despotic rule with their own.

Recently outclassed and outgunned by advanced civilizations, the Coalition embarks on an unprecedented program to develop new weapons. A crisis emerges when mercenaries hijack convoys of vital materials. Mikal Rush, a junior lieutenant in a local defense squadron, is chosen to infiltrate the mercenaries to discover who is behind the attacks. As a child, Rush was found roaming the streets of Mermak. His lack of societal markers and piloting skills make him the ideal choice for the dangerous mission. Rush is joined by Ensign Plia Salkey, a Wylin Ensign with comparable skills who is equally ...

Superweapon stud? That's what the doctor ordered. The Beastmasters are dwindling. The Mekanics are growing bolder. Everyone's desperate for the next magic bullet. With no more Chimerics arriving, there's only one way to make more Beastmasters. Me. I'm not against making baby Beastmasters with the hotties on my squad. The problem is that they're not telling me everything. The last time they tried this, things got pretty ugly... All hell's breaking loose. Secrets are spilling left and right. Even my alien cat Zoe can't keep all the facts straight. And everyone wants a piece of me. There's ...

Treachery stalks the red planet... Before he was Rick Bailey, before he hunted for the Treasure of the Black Hole, he was Titus Chumba of the Core Empire Intelligence Corps. Sent to Mars to investigate water smuggling, First Lieutenant Chumba finds a criminal conspiracy that spans from the red planet to the asteroid belt. Will Chumba discover the deadly secrets of the smugglers of Mars, learn the identity of the mysterious woman embroiled in the conspiracy, and prevent a cold war with the reptile-like Malvalkians from turning blazing hot?