Space Military

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.

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. ...

The crew of the Harpy are back and this time they’re armed for a battle. Half the known systems want to kill them. The other half wants to be them. It’s hard trying to save the universe when the universe can’t make up its mind. But when a gap appears in the Belt enticing every known species to peek through to the other side, things go from bad to worse. And that’s not even taking into account the rogue Originator Class vessel out of New Earth. Secret science stations, nimble gunboats, and a missing High Councillor; you’d think the crew have enough on their hands. But there’s ...

The first alien fleet – twenty-six ships – was destroyed. But now a splinter fleet of two hundred and sixty ships was heading their way. And, behind them, they were another four hundred and forty two alien ships. How could Cody – and mankind – survive? Cody’s War: Flight Of The COVERT. Read it Now!

BETRAYAL STRIKES FROM WITHIN... Captain Joel Richmond and his allies finally have a chance to strike at the heart of the Vasyke empire—but overthrowing a corrupt regime is never simple. As Richmond takes command of the Thalek rebels, he discovers a deadly conspiracy reaching into the faction's highest ranks. With time running out and enemies closing in from all sides, Richmond must figure out who he can truly trust. When a fleet of mysterious warships appears in the skies over Nesara, the stakes become deadlier than ever. In a world of shifting loyalties, sometimes the greatest danger ...

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 ...

In the far future among the colonized worlds of the galaxy, there's a war going on between the majority of civilized worlds and a colonial theocracy. Trystin Desoll grows up fighting against religious fanatics and becomes a hero, a first-class pilot, then, amazingly, a spy. What do you do if you're a relatively humane soldier fighting millions of suicidal volunteers on the other side who know that they are utterly right, and you are utterly wrong, with no middle ground? Trystin Desoll has an idea.

Out of the blue, a young Space Fleet officer's dream becomes reality: He's made captain of a starship. Just in time for the return of humanity's most terrible enemy, after 50 years of peace. To survive against this enemy, Captain Tad Thatcher will have to do more than learn how to become an effective commander, or how to wrangle his wayward crew. He will need to reinvent space combat. From scratch.

Embark on a gripping journey through the treacherous reaches of space in "The Salandra Path: A Coalition Series Book - 4" by Andrew Charles. Shri Gusway, determined to redeem former Ensigns Bala Scyan and Jorl Frine, faces unexpected peril when their shuttle explodes over Byrex. Presumed dead, they are actually abducted by pirates traversing The Salandra Path, forcing them into a life-altering decision: serve or die. As Gusway and Scyan escape their captors, a harrowing adventure unfolds. With the crew of Vanguard mourning their loss, they embark on a mission to challenge the escalating ...

Alex Archer is a soldier now, the only civilian survivor from Scorpio to join the NAC Defense Corps. With their training complete, Alex and her friend Private Isa Cressey find themselves on emergency combat deployment with their new unit. The destination is the Alpha Corvi system, where an allied warship has vanished. Alex can guess why.

"The only one enjoying himself in there is the grim reaper." The Crossroad system is a battleground. The Keerah only want to conquer. The Ralnor want control. The Trixone want new eating grounds. All of them want what they think Jon Hunter has. Jon is fighting a war on seven fronts, while trying to stay out of politics and diplomacy at home. As the death toll mounts, Jon is confronted with options, all of which carry an unacceptable body count. And in the midst of it all, old choices suddenly have consequences. In the middle of everything, lies the Reaper's Crossroad. The Hunter Legacy ...

After a fateful expedition to Antarctica, Alexander Hawkes finds himself catapulted across the stars into a galaxy in chaos. The Emperor is assassinated. The Eternum Empire, already fading, has collapsed. But he has a starship now. And friends. Alongside a crew of unlikely allies—Ban Tarro, an honorable Barundi soldier; Diliseth, a genetically-engineered Nacendo handmaiden; and Four, a sentient AI—Alexander witnesses the brutal aftermath of imperial collapse on the planet Twilight. Driven by an innate sense of justice, Alexander proposes a radical solution.

After a cataclysmic interstellar war that came very close to exterminating humanity, the Daybreak Republic has risen from the ashes and embarked upon a mission to unite hundreds of human colony worlds under its banner. The Republic hopes to prevent a second and final conflict that will complete the destruction of the human race. But not everyone agrees that the empire's ends justify the means.

THE DARKEST SECRETS ARE THE ONES WORTH DYING FOR... After surviving a brutal attempt on his life, Captain Joel Richmond discovers a horrifying truth at the heart of the Vasyke empire—one that changes everything. As the movement to overthrow the Vasyke gains momentum, Richmond must decide if he's willing to sacrifice his chance at freedom to fight an evil far worse than the Necrodrome itself. With his allies scattered, time running out, and enemies closing in from all sides, Richmond faces an impossible choice: escape to safety, or stay and fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. ...

It started as a job – now, her heart is on the line! Women have been disappearing all over town. As a police investigator, it’s Lori’s job to get to the bottom of it. She works long nights to uncover the mystery – and soon discovers the truth is stranger than fiction! Abducted by the very people – or rather, aliens – she’s been trying to track down, Lori is whisked away to another planet, displayed as a prize in a massive gladiator tournament. She’s determined to escape – until she sees a gladiator who doesn’t fight back. Unable to stand by and watch him be killed, she ...

Xenocide is the third installment of the Ender series. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to transform into adults.

Frustrated by restrictive rules, maverick warship commander, Dalton Reeves, has crossed the line one time too many. Disciplined for violating orders, Reeves is packed off to “The Abyss”–a dangerous and isolated space city named Concord Station, and officially the worst assignment in the galaxy.

The universe is in peril as a massive alien ringworld known as the Gem, housing over 30,000 alien species, hurtles toward a Bridge in space. This Bridge, a tear in the fabric of reality connecting to a higher energy universe, threatens to unravel the very existence of everything. The Gem's arrival was preceded by a wave of smaller alien ships that surrendered to humanity. However, the Gem itself remained silent, its motives shrouded in mystery. Humanity, having recently faced devastating attacks from other alien species, the Thrakzz and the Mynix, finds itself on the brink of annihilation. ...

Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.

Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in Central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.