Space Military

Centuries after an asteroid smashes into a star ship, the inhabitants must learn to survive space without technology or perish. With the ship split in two and the citizens fragmented, disaster is imminent. Join princess Airomem and Horatius the historian in their adventures that range from fighting cannibals to preventing starvation to discovering long hidden secrets of the ship. Can they survive? Or will the thousand-year journey end in failure?

Kael will never open his heart again after losing his Drakonian mate. He also doesn’t know how to deal with his grief or his nine-year-old daughter, who has retreated deep within herself. If he doesn’t find help soon, he will lose the only person left in his life. Kael didn’t think he could love again, but meeting the kind, caring and beautiful nanny gives life to emotions he thought dead. Years after losing her mother, Sarah Meericino still hasn’t emotionally healed and leaves Earth to find a new start. When learning her new ward is a little girl who has lost her mother too, Sarah ...

When Carson Flint traded his Commonwealth military badge for the quiet life, he thought he'd left his battles behind. Two years of running a saloon called the Bulwark, a volatile hub for refugees, smugglers, and the occasional war-weary soldier, was the peace he'd been looking for. He's never had it easier, or been so bored. But when a fugitive Commonwealth operative arrives with dangerous secrets and a war criminal on his tail, Carson's sanctuary quickly becomes a target.

The Earth is gone. On the planet Focal Point, far from home, humanity must rebuild the society they lost. Under the leadership of Colonel Joe Hunt, there are two priorities: rescue the slaves held in bondage amongst the cosmos and ensure humans have a voice in the Grand Marshall’s new Empire. But all is not well. A last-minute diplomatic mission to the planet Axis reveals an unexpected threat that poses a risk to all life in the universe. To defeat this danger, humanity must join forces with Etelainen and Pohjois in one final battle for peace in the galaxy.

Earth has been nothing but bad luck for Mia Ambrose. So when the opportunity arises for her to be a nanny on a different planet, she jumps on it. But she should’ve researched her new employer a bit more. When he turns out to be a strict, super hot and stuffy military commander, she wonders if her bad luck followed her. Tharon is the highest-ranking commander in the Tor’vian military. And he has no idea how to take care of his children, a set of eight-year-old twins. Help comes in the form of hiring a nanny from the planet Earth. Mia isn’t exactly what he expected in a nanny. She’s ...

Compelled by her dwindling bank account, Katie agrees to be a nanny for the niece of a Luxenian military commander. Little Ayla, orphaned and entrusted to her cold and demanding uncle, captures Katie’s heart instantly. Katie’s desire to help the child is made more difficult by Axur’s handsome features and heated looks. As a general in the Luxenian army, Axur cannot have a family or mate. It is strictly forbidden. Staying away from them isn’t working. He wants something he can’t have. He’s not looking for a family but the new nanny is strong, beautiful and making him become a ...

The Iron Belt is at war! Corporations fight in the street, employing mercenaries controlling powerful armoured mechsuits in their pursuit of victory. The war is a lie, provoked by the sinister terrorist group known as Black Rose. Xander Cain and his friends have beaten them once before. Now their newly formed mercenary company has been tasked with assaulting a Black Rose on the planet Cyclops. A bizarre tidally locked world, Cyclops is a place of eternal night and freezing cold. Winning will be Xander’s biggest challenge yet, as his company charges into the waiting jaws of the enemy. ...

Regan is back and has had enough of the war. Pushing himself and his forces, he works to put an end to the war that is raging on multiple fronts. At the same time, he sends his forces in the Beneath rumored to be home of the most powerful races on Murgin to find the missing Queen Louella. He quickly finds the Terra wave from Starfall had caused more of a mess than he originally thought, with the Beneath's political situation almost more of a mess than the surface.

He was the highly decorated Battle Commander who won the Slave War. Power hungry bureaucrats want him dead. They didn’t send enough ships… The Slave War lasted a thousand years. Oman Lim destroyed the enemy with uncanny skill and battlefield ingenuity. Now, power hungry bureaucrats are afraid he will interfere with their arrogant pursuit of greed, power and control. Sending him on a death mission was easy. Having him die there? Not so... His keen and unconventional battle tactics make it difficult to kill him at every turn. They were fearful of his skill and ability. They had a right to...

In the vast and endless expanse of space, Evan Abel is living the life he always wanted as the commander of a Coalition fighter. Things are about to change... as death and chaos arrive in the form of an unknown and dangerous adversary. Rul Ursan's planet is dying. He knows that his people are unlikely to survive without an immediate infusion of material resources from the nearby Coalition worlds. He accepts the decision of his leadership to take what they need by force. The plan worked - for a time. In Abel, Ursan has found an equal on the cold battlefields of space. Someone willing to do ...

“Where do your loyalties lie?” The captain’s question rang in Klay Johnson’s ears. The son of a diplomat and grandson and great-grandson of Naval officers, his loyalties should never had been questions. However, his mother was a Galitian and Galitia was invading, taking the Space Fleet by surprise. He would have to prove himself to the captain and to his fellow pilots, while trying to survive an attack by a superior enemy force. Already fighting one galactic race and threatened by another, an invasion had been the last thing Earth’s Space Fleet expected from a quiet quarter. ...

Lyla Cowan still isn’t sure she’s doing what she should be. Democratic Union and Naranja space proved to be hostile, but they finally convinced her to upgrade. So where next for her fledgling mercenary misfits? They’ve been invited to Karn, but is the League of Worlds’ space too tame? But adjacent to Karn is the third of the core belonging to the kangaroo like Ralnor. No-one knows anything about what goes on there, except the Ralnor value law and order above all. But where the Keerah impose military order, the Ralnor are supposed to enforce laws. Exactly what the difference is, no-...

From the dawn of space exploration to the formation of the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Force - Guardians of the High Frontier provides a comprehensive and engaging look at how space has become the ultimate frontier for national security. In this insightful and meticulously researched book, readers will journey through the geopolitical and technological milestones that led to the establishment of America’s newest military branch—the U.S. Space Force. The narrative begins with the Cold War, where space was first recognized as a strategic domain, and traces the development of space-based ...

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 ...

Lyla Cowan is still fighting the good fight. Because a mercenary’s work is never done. She’s been the victim of lies, and has come back from that. She’s taken a stand against bullies, and holds firm to that. But what if the line between truth and lies, bully and victim, is blurred by reality and myth? Would you take up the cause of the Undead? The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage Chronicle Yesterday's Spacemage Today's Spacemage Tomorrow's Spacemage The Hunter Legacy Prequels 1969 Was That You? One Last Battle NPC PHQ The Hunter Legacy Hero at Large ...

The third volume of the scifi adventure that has thrilled readers the world over reaches a dramatic, thrilling conclusion - for lovers of Star Trek, Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica.

As the Project enters its final phase, air force majors Carson and Ourecky are dispatched on an urgent mission to intercept and investigate a massive orbiting object suspected of harboring nuclear weapons. Emotionally exhausted, with his marriage teetering on the brink, Ourecky reluctantly accepts the assignment; in return for his sacrifice, he is promised an opportunity to go to MIT to pursue the PhD he has long desired.

After the defeat of the evil Antaere in the first REV series, Zac and his super warriors carry on, as the hammer used against a myriad of obstinate races. The Union of Affiliated Systems (Earth's new stellar empire) is determined to expand far beyond the Grid, using the REVs as the means of convincing reluctant species to join. After all, its for their own good. Membership in the UAS will benefit all. So what if a little blood has to be spilled in the meantime? Zac didn't want command of the REV force in the first place, and now he's put in an impossible situation.

Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more - a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers.

In the shadowy world where technology and global intelligence collide, some discoveries change everything. METAL STORM is a high-stakes thriller that explores the razor's edge of human potential. When sixteen of the world's most brilliant researchers vanish from a top-secret Mars research base, veteran operative Mark Maxwell is called to uncover a mystery that threatens to redefine human communication, conflict, and consciousness. What begins as a standard extraction mission becomes a journey into the unknown—a discovery that could either save humanity or destroy everything we understand ...