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  • Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey

    Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again...
  • Don't Cross this Line by Michael Anderle

    Don't Cross this Line by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It's been three years Bethany Anne and her team have been building, trying their best to stay off the radar and not fight with those they are trying to save. The emotions have boiled to the surface. The is a line drawn in the sand, and some idiots just have to step across it. Those that thought the cat didn't have claws are about to find out how very, very wrong they are...
  • Never Forsaken by Michael Anderle

    Never Forsaken by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Life is beyond dangerous when you are caught up in the ongoing war between Bethany Anne's group and the Forsaken.Both Vampires and Humans have been targeted, but if there is one thing that those who work with Bethany Anne learn, it is you are NEVER FORSAKEN.Never Forsaken, The Kurtherian Gambit 05 follows the story after Bite This. If you haven't read the preceding books YOU PRETTY MUCH HAVE TO...
  • We Have Contact by Michael Anderle

    We Have Contact by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When you least expect it, expect it. Bethany Anne has been notified there is a spaceship inside the system...but they can't find it. Is it Kurtherian, someone else? The governments have to be told about aliens, which sparks a worldwide effort by Governments to find what TQB has... Oh, and Eric wants to date Gabrielle but he wants her to know he can protect her if need be...
  • The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King

    The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is what happens when, in the chaos of an alien apocalypse where the all-powerful galactic empire of Congress has laid the smackdown on Earth for breaking its universal laws on genetic experimentation, the world's smartest human (sort of) swears to obey the galaxy's greatest assassin (definitely) on Wednesdays through Mondays, if she will give him Tuesdays in turn...
  • Under My Heel by Michael Anderle

    Under My Heel by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    "I love a good story especially if it can make me laugh, cry, cheer, and a host of other emotions. So far in this series I have hit them all." Europe is erupting is tension and violence. David is only adding to the conflagration by setting a trap, one that our team will trip to save those people still alive. There is one thing every enemy of Bethany Anne finds out...
  • The Legend of ZERO: The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King

    The Legend of ZERO: The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    This is what happens when, in the chaos of an alien apocalypse where the all-powerful galactic empire of Congress has laid the smackdown on Earth for breaking its universal laws on genetic experimentation, the world's smartest human (sort of) swears to obey the galaxy's greatest assassin (definitely) on Wednesdays through Mondays, if she will give him Tuesdays in turn...
  • Kneel or Die by Michael Anderle

    Kneel or Die by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The ongoing story that is Bethany Anne and her team! Can you say 'Die Terrorist, Die?'I took time to sleep last night. For anyone who hasn't read the first 6 books in this series, you won't understand what that means. For the rest of you, you know how hard that was.I love, love ,love this series! I don't want it to end! Bethany Anne just keeps getting better every book...
  • My Ride is a Bitch by Michael Anderle

    My Ride is a Bitch by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It's out there, it's ALWAYS been out there - just no one believed it.Governments, Black Ops, Rich Businessmen...All want alien tech and some are going to great lengths, illegal lengths, to procure it.Someone went so far as to endanger a young girls family. A young girl who wrote a letter to the Queen Bitch. Now, those that are searching for the technology will have to deal with TQB...
  • Black Legion by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Black Legion by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Abaddon returns from exile and raises the dreaded Black Legion. The Sons of Horus may be no more, but rising from their ashes come the Black Legion. Returning after his long self-imposed exile, Abaddon offers the disparate Chaos Space Marine warbands within the Eye of Terror a simple choice - join him or die...
  • The Talon of Horus by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    The Talon of Horus by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The rise of Abaddon, successor to Horus and Warmaster of the Black Legion.When Horus fell, his Sons fell with him. A broken Legion, beset by rivalries and hunted by their erstwhile allies, the former Luna Wolves have scattered across the tortured realm of the Eye of Terror. And of Abaddon, greatest of the Warmaster’s followers, nothing has been heard for many years...
  • Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks

    Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.It begins with a murder.And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit...
  • Wild Wastes 5 by Randi Darren

    Wild Wastes 5 by Randi Darren

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Before world war two could reach its conclusion, the world suffered what could only be defined as a cataclysm.Legend has it that an experiment failed. Catastrophically so. And when it failed, the center of the United States, from the Sierra Nevada to the Mississippi river became "The Waste", where everything changed.Except it didn't only happen in North America...
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    war  magic  romance  fantasy  harem  post-apocalyptic  litrpg  military
  • Void Stalker by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Void Stalker by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The third in the bestselling Night Lords series.Talos leads First Claw further down their dark path, until the eldar of craftworld Ulthwe foresee a great conflict centered around the Night Lords, and the xenos muster for battle!The third book in the Night Lords trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Aaron Dembski-Bowden...
  • Tasmanian SFG: Welcome to Hell by C.R. Daems

    Tasmanian SFG: Welcome to Hell by C.R. Daems

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jolie was three when she found she was ugly and deformed. She was five when she found she was a sub-human and an outcast. She was seven when five boys and two girls dragged her out of the orphanage and beat her unconscious, leaving her lying bleeding and broken in the street. She was content to lie there and die, tired of being hated and abused...
  • Shakedown by Scott Sigler

    Shakedown by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "A gritty tale of cosmic dread.”— Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of RED RISINGFew know the warship’s actual name. Fewer still know what it really is. And almost no one knows of its unique ability, an ability that could tilt the balance of power if not outright win the war.But everyone has heard the rumors. Rumors about the worst place the Planetary Union Fleet can send you...
  • Betrayer by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Betrayer by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Shadow Crusade has begun. While the Ultramarines reel from Kor Phaeron’s surprise attack on Calth, Lorgar and the rest of the Word Bearers strike deep into the realm of Ultramar. Their unlikely allies, Angron and the World Eaters, continue to ravage each new system they come across – upon the garrison planet of Armatura, this relentless savagery may finally prove to be their undoing...
  • Valley of Vengeance by Franklin Horton

    Valley of Vengeance by Franklin Horton

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In this fifth installment in The Borrowed World Series, Human Resources Manager Alice Watkins is finally making it home. In her journey across Virginia, she experiences a country disintegrating and collapsing in on itself in the wake of a nationwide terror attack. Her trip home is agonizing; her experiences indescribable...
  • Only in Death by Dan Abnett

    Only in Death by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    As the crusade to liberate the Sabbat Worlds continues, Colonel-Commissar Gaunt leads the Tanith First-and-Only into an unforgiving new warzone - the fortress world of Jago...
  • Blood Reaver by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Blood Reaver by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Driven on by their hatred of the False Emperor, the Night Lords stalk the shadows of the galaxy, eternally seeking revenge for the death of their primarch. Their dark quest leads them to a fractious alliance with the Red Corsairs, united only by a common enemy. Together with this piratical band of renegades, they bring their ways of destruction to the fortress-monastery of the Marines Errant...
  • The Lost Colony by Vaughn Heppner

    The Lost Colony by Vaughn Heppner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    We fought the invading New Men to a standstill and defeated the alien Destroyer sent to obliterate Earth. The worst should be over, but it’s not. Perfect android replicas are impersonating high-level officials so trust is failing. Worse, the New Men have found allies with an impenetrable stealth technology. This time, however, Earth is going on the offensive...
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    space-opera  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  aliens  audiobook  book
  • Zero's Return by Sara King

    Zero's Return by Sara King

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    THE AMAZING NEW VOLUME IN THE #1 BESTSELLING LEGEND OF ZERO SERIES!In this apocalyptic addition to the #1 Bestselling Legend of ZERO series, the PlanOps Prime veteran, universal hero, and living legend Joe Dobbs has become an icon of heroism to the Congressional citizenry—but his real adventure is only just beginning...
  • Soul Hunter by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Soul Hunter by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The Night Lords were once among the most potent forces of the Imperium, Space Marines who used fear itself as their weapon. Now, cast adrift from the Emperor's light and hunted as heretics after their monstrous betrayal, the Night Lords clad themselves in symbols of death and fight the Long War, bringing pain and terror to all who worship the corpse-god of Terra...
  • Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

    Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought...
  • Rogue Cell by D.J. Molles

    Rogue Cell by D.J. Molles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ...THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS AND TYRANTS. The country has become a warzone, and with a Coalition troop surge imminent, the resistance is on the ropes. Walter is in the city of Durham, fighting to survive. He has no idea that his wife, Carolyn, is only miles away, desperately trying to find him. She has information on a special target--a last ditch mission that could turn the tide for the resistance...
  • The First Heretic by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    The First Heretic by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Amidst the galaxy-wide war of the Great Crusade, the Emperor castigates the Word Bearers for their worship. Distraught at this judgement, Lorgar and his Legion seek another path while devastating world after world, venting their fury and fervour on the battlefield...
  • A Thousand Sons by Graham McNeill

    A Thousand Sons by Graham McNeill

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Censured at the Council of Nikea for his flagrant use of sorcery, Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons Legion retreat to their homeworld pf Prospero to continue their use of the arcane arts in secret...
  • River of Night by John Ringo, Mike Massa

    River of Night by John Ringo, Mike Massa

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A NEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BESTSELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES. Sequel to The Valley of Shadows. Tom Smith used to be somebody. Now he's just another refugee, fleeing the smoking ruins of civilization. Well, maybe not just another refugee. Late of the Bank of the Americas where he used to be the global managing director for Security, Tom and his fellow survivors watched New York City burn...
  • The Rookie by Scott Sigler

    The Rookie by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Set in a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, THE ROOKIE is a story that combines the intense gridiron action of "Any Given Sunday" with the space opera style of "Star Wars" and the criminal underworld of "The Godfather...
  • The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton

    The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Not every fallen angel comes from heaven...The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world...
  • First and Only by Dan Abnett

    First and Only by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In the Chaos-infested Sabbat system, Imperial Commissar Gaunt must lead his men through as much in-fighting amongst rival regiments as against the forces of Chaos. For a thousand years, the Sabbat Worlds have been lost to the Imperium, claimed by the dread powers of Chaos. Now, a mighty crusade seeks to return the sector to Imperial rule...
  • War Factory by Neal Asher

    War Factory by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Thorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier, continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy Prador, the crab-like alien species with a violent history of conflict with humanity...
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    space-opera  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  aliens  audiobook  book
  • Malleus by Dan Abnett

    Malleus by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In the 41st Millenium, the enemies of mankind are legion, omnipresent and utterly deadly. While the warriors of the Imperium fight with firepower and faith, the Holy Inquisition hunts the shadows for the most terrible of foes – rogue psykers, xenos, and daemons. Inquisitor Eisenhorn must track down and defeat the forces who would destroy him or face the wrath of the Ordo Malleus...
  • Hereticus by Dan Abnett

    Hereticus by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In this concluding novel of Dan Abnett's sensational trilogy, a dark figure from the past returns to exact a cruel vengeance upon Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn...
  • Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds

    Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors - alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons -and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them...
  • Da Big Dakka by Mike Brooks

    Da Big Dakka by Mike Brooks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Ufthak Blackhawk NovelUfthak Blackhawk reckons he’s in for it. Da Meklord has summoned him, and the Gargantsmasha just knows his boss wants to kick his teef in and be done with it.READ IT BECAUSEUfthak Blackhawk faces the Drukhari in the teeming flesh pits of their dark city of Commorragh as he finds himself challenged to gladiatorial combat against the masters of pain...
  • Horus Rising by Dan Abnett

    Horus Rising by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the imperium of man is at its height. His dream for humanity nearly accomplished, the emperor hands over the reins of power to his warmaster, Horus, and heads back to Terra...
  • The Lords of Silence by Chris Wraight

    The Lords of Silence by Chris Wraight

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The galaxy has changed. Armies of Chaos march across the Dark Imperium, among them the Death Guard, servants of the Plague God...
  • The Lost and the Damned by Guy Haley

    The Lost and the Damned by Guy Haley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With the solar defences overcome through the devastating strength of the Traitor armada and the power of the warp, Horus launches his assault on the Throneworld in earnest. After withstanding a ferocious barrage of ordnance, an immense ground war commences outside the Palace with every inch gained paid for in the lives of billions. On the thirteenth day of Secundus, the bombardment of Terra began...
  • The Emperor's Gift by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    The Emperor's Gift by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Grey Knights are all that stands between mankind and the ravages of Chaos. Since their secretive beginnings during the Horus Heresy, these legendary Space Marine daemon hunters have journeyed into the dark realms of the warp – and beyond – in pursuit of their supernatural enemies...
  • Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way...
  • The Moldy Dead by Sara King

    The Moldy Dead by Sara King

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Moldy Dead is one of the powerful and poignant "Creation Myth" stories for Sara King's overwhelmingly popular Legend of ZERO series. It is the history of Congress' First Contact with the sentient species known as the Geuji, and the unspeakable tragedy that befell their entire species in the early history of Congress...
  • Alone by Scott Sigler

    Alone by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler’s unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence.“We thought this place was our destiny—not our doom...
  • The Master of Mankind by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    The Master of Mankind by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    As war splits the galaxy, the Emperor toils in the vaults beneath the Imperial Palace. But his great work is in peril, and the forces of Chaos are closing in…While Horus’ rebellion burns across the galaxy, a very different kind of war rages beneath the Imperial Palace...
  • The Naked God by Peter F. Hamilton

    The Naked God by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The Confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the 'possessed' to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal doesn't quite match her own...
  • Siege by Rhiannon Frater

    Siege by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Siege is the conclusion to Rhiannon Frater’s As the World Dies trilogy, which should appeal to fans of The Walking Dead. Both The First Days and Fighting to Survive won the Dead Letter Award from Mail Order Zombie. The First Days was named one of the Best Zombie Books of the Decade by the Harrisburg Book Examiner. The zombie illness has shattered civilization...
  • Duty Calls by Sandy Mitchell

    Duty Calls by Sandy Mitchell

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    While assisting local forces quell widespread civil disorder, Commissar Cain and his regiment of Valhallans discover sinister forces are at work behind the scenes...
  • Aliens by Alan Dean Foster

    Aliens by Alan Dean Foster

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Having survived one encounter with an alien, Ripley is persuaded to return to the planet where her crew found the alien ship. A colony has been established there, but suddenly all contact with the settlers has been lost. Accompanied by marines, Ripley is going to find out why...
  • The Land of the Shadow by Lissa Bryan

    The Land of the Shadow by Lissa Bryan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the highly anticipated stand-alone sequel to The End of All Things, Lissa Bryan returns readers to a world devastated by disease, and the breakdown of modern society.Two years after a horrific virus swept the globe, decimating the world’s population, Carly Daniels and her husband, Justin, have made a safe home in the isolated southern town of Colby...
  • Tomb by Paul Elard Cooley

    Tomb by Paul Elard Cooley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Their mission was to recover an ancient derelict from the farthest edge of the Sol system. What they’ve found could spell the end of humanity. Trapped on the Mira, Corporal Kalimura must lead her squad of injured marines to safety. But, aboard the derelict, every shadow is a possible threat, and around every corner lurks another hazard...
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