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  • Severed Ties by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Severed Ties by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The universe is hungry.For power. For money. For war.And—revenge. Stripping osmium from across the stars, thieves will stop at nothing to fuel the nightmarish industry of Stolen Persons, their souls locked away in chips made of the rarest metal known.Among these thieves is Helum Gauss, the visionary criminal whose empire spans a hundred worlds...
  • Echoes of Empire by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Echoes of Empire by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Van and his crew have killed an empire.The problem is the empire doesn’t know it’s dead. Moving among the stars, the Peacemakers are faced with their greatest challenge—removing and evil so vast, it has a presence in every known star system.To that end, they’ll need to move fast. To move fast, they must be mobile, and that means big changes in their tactics. . . and crew...
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    space-opera  military  aliens  pulp  ai  space-fleet  invasion  sci-fi
  • Shattered Will by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Shattered Will by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Earth is no longer alone, and Van isn’t happy about it.When the Equal Grasp and other unsavory aliens launch their plot to open humanity up to the stars—in the name of profit, of course—Van and his crew spring into action, fearing the fallout of a world gone mad...
  • Red Bounty by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Red Bounty by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Van left his old life behind, but some things remain the same.Even in space, crime still exists.After taking a Peacemaker job to find missing fuel, Perry finds something far more sinister than simple theft—a voice, crying out in a forge of heat and flame, and the discovery reveals a series of acts so vicious that nothing short of revenge will suffice...
  • Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy by Timothy Zahn

    Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy by Timothy Zahn

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The fate of the Chiss Ascendancy hangs in the balance in the epic finale of the Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. For thousands of years The Chiss Ascendancy has been an island of calm, a center of power, and a beacon of integrity. Led by the Nine Ruling Families, their leadership stands as a bulwark of stability against the Chaos of the Unknown Regions...
  • Brushfire by Craig Alanson

    Brushfire by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Peacetime can be a rough adjustment for the battle-hardened Merry Band of Pirates.Especially when aliens don’t get the memo that the shooting is over...
  • Livesuit by James S.A. Corey

    Livesuit by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the endless slaughter is the Livesuit forces. Soldiers meld their bodies to the bleeding edge technology, becoming something more than human for the duration of a war that might never end.The first novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey's epic Captive's War series...
  • Acheron Inheritance by Ken Lozito

    Acheron Inheritance by Ken Lozito

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    First, the Federation Wars toppled the galactic order.On a dying world along the galactic fringe, Quinton Aldren awakens in the body of an archaic android that’s barely operational. He has only vague memories of who he was and no idea what has happened...
  • Edge World by B.V. Larson

    Edge World by B.V. Larson

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A lonely planet circles a star on the very border of Province 921. Critical resources produced there are claimed by both the Mogwa and the Skay. War between the Galactic giants becomes more likely every day.James McGill and Legion Varus are deployed to protect Edge World, a planet that rotates at a walking pace. Each day is as long as a year back on Earth...
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    ai  aliens  invasion  military  pulp  space-fleet  space-opera  war
  • Turning Point by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Turning Point by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fight to Win. With the galaxy in turmoil, the Legion initiates Article Nineteen, a hard reset designed to halt the corruption and ineptitude that continues to spill forth from the Galactic Core. But when the House of Reason aligns itself with the bloodthirsty zhee extremists, the Legion has no choice but to commit to a savage campaign of Total War...
  • The Service of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    The Service of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Secrets and warships combined to turn the tide of the Siege of Legatus, delivering the capital of the Republic of Faith and Reason into the hands of their enemies. With Damien Montgomery called away to lead the entire Protectorate of Mars, fighting the war falls to Mage-Admiral Jane Alexander and Mage-Lieutenant Roslyn Chambers...
  • Defiant Exile by J.N. Chaney, M.F. Lerma

    Defiant Exile by J.N. Chaney, M.F. Lerma

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cole and his crew are lost in space and stranded with no way home.After escaping from the colony ship in a faraway system Cole has uncovered sinister evidence of August Walton's oppression: A castoff civilization living in the past and forced to comply with the Eternal leader's unjust edicts.It doesn't take long for Cole to realize that the planet has its own secrets...
  • Delphi Alliance by Bob Blanton

    Delphi Alliance by Bob Blanton

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The McCormacks have their floating city growing in the South Pacific, and their space station well underway. As they continue their quest to unite Earth and bring her into the modern age of space travel and repair her environment before it’s too late, they have to fight with the major powers that aren’t too sure they want to change the status quo...
  • Valkyrie by Craig Alanson

    Valkyrie by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    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 homeworld. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans...
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    ai  aliens  humor  military  pulp  space-fleet  space-opera  war
  • The Lost Earth by Vaughn Heppner

    The Lost Earth by Vaughn Heppner

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It finally happened. Commander Thrax Ti Ix created a hyper-spatial tube for the Swarm Imperium. Across thousands of light-years, a vast armada of warships is heading for Earth to burn the homeworld down to its bedrock as the Swarm begins its genocidal campaign against the human race. No one—not the New Men, the Spacers, the Wahhabi Caliphate or Star Watch—has faced such staggering odds...
  • Destroyer by Joshua Dalzelle

    Destroyer by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A relentless enemy… An old wolf's last hunt… The future of two species hanging in the balance… The Darshik war machine is flagging, but the war is far from over. Even as an exhausted Federation military tenses up for a counterattack after repelling the last Darshik invasion, reports are coming in of a new, more powerful class of ship that's striking deep into Terran space...
  • Race Rivalry by S.H. Jucha

    Race Rivalry by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sisters’ leader, Miriamal, and three mining chairpersons investigate an unexplored wormhole for possible economic expansion. Aboard the Dominance, they exit the wormhole and are stunned to find the nearby system inhabited. More troubling, technologically advanced warships hold station above the system’s exoplanet...
  • Zero Hour by Craig Alanson

    Zero Hour by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite Expeditionary Force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-Merry Band of Pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of lightyears from home...
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    ai  aliens  humor  invasion  military  pulp  space-fleet  space-opera
  • Fields of Fire by Marko Kloos

    Fields of Fire by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The time has come to take the fight to the Lankies.Mars has been under Lanky control for more than a year. Since then, the depleted forces of Earth's alliances have rebuilt their fleets, staffing old warships with freshly trained troops. Torn between the need to beat the Lankies to the punch and taking enough time to put together an effective fighting force, command has decided to strike now...
  • Galaxy's Edge: Takeover: Season Two: Book One by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Galaxy's Edge: Takeover: Season Two: Book One by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every disaster brings an opportunity. Goth Sullus and his empire have fallen. With the Legion and the rest of the galaxy watching from the still-smoldering galactic core, Carter, a former legionnaire turned private contractor, and Jack Bowie, a Navy spy with nowhere left to turn, sign up to work for an enterprising private contractor looking to make a statement on the planet Kublar...
  • Star Force: Origin Series Box Set  (97-100) by Aer-ki Jyr

    Star Force: Origin Series Box Set (97-100) by Aer-ki Jyr

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Origin Series is empire building at its finest, with 100 episodes and over 2.5 million words in the military science fiction serial detailing the rise of Star Force from corporate entity into an interstellar empire over the course of more than a millennium...
  • Star Force: Rift by Aer-ki Jyr

    Star Force: Rift by Aer-ki Jyr

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The temporary truce between Star Force and the V'kit'no'sat sends shockwaves throughout the galaxy. No one has ever defied the V'kit'no'sat and lived, but now Star Force has and many races are taking notice...including one that no one expects, on either side...
  • Warrior King by Evan Currie

    Warrior King by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Battle-weary after a desperate fight to save Earth from the Drasin alien onslaught, Confederation Captain Eric Weston is tasked with a perilous new mission. He and the crew of the Odysseus must hunt down those who unleashed the hellish attack on his homeworld and that of Earth’s Priminae allies...
  • Fallout by Craig Alanson, R.C. Bray

    Fallout by Craig Alanson, R.C. Bray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Listening time 22 hours 29 minutesThe Expeditionary Force saga continues with Fallout, the eagerly awaited sequel to number one Audible-ranked and New York Times best-selling Breakaway, from an epic sci-fi writer at the top of his game. Join the millions of listeners who have enjoyed R.C...
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    space-opera  military  aliens  humor  war  ai  sci-fi  audiobook
  • Breakaway by Craig Alanson, R.C. Bray

    Breakaway by Craig Alanson, R.C. Bray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Expeditionary Force saga continues with Breakaway, the eagerly awaited sequel to number-one Audible-ranked and New York Times best-selling Brushfire, from an epic sci-fi writer at the top of his game. Join the millions of listeners who have enjoyed R.C. Bray’s hilarious portrayal of Joe, Skippy, The Merry Band of Pirates and so many other unforgettable characters...
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    space-opera  military  aliens  humor  war  ai  sci-fi  audiobook
  • Crusade by Glynn Stewart

    Crusade by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A newborn Alliance, forged to stop the destroyers of worldsA potential ally, with secrets hidden by a thousand liesA long-doomed star, whose ruins hold a vital answer...
  • Winds of Vengeance by Jay Allan

    Winds of Vengeance by Jay Allan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Earth Two. A new home for the survivors of the fleet, the men and women who battled against seemingly insurmountable odds to survive the assault of the First Imperium and to destroy the homicidal Regent, the artificial intelligence committed to their destruction...
  • Family Law by Mackey Chandler

    Family Law by Mackey Chandler

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    People love easily. Look at most of your relatives or coworkers. How lovable are they? Really? Yet most have mates and children. The vast majority are still invited to family gatherings and their relatives will speak to them. Many have pets to which they are devoted. Some even call them their fur-babies...
  • The Xaros Reckoning by Richard Fox

    The Xaros Reckoning by Richard Fox

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The final battle begins.The Xaros Masters destroyed Bastion, the Alliance against the alien invaders has failed. Earth stands against the full force of the enemy's unending drone fleets.With their backs against the wall, Captain Valdar and the Breitenfeld must lead a last ditch mission to end the war against the Xaros...
  • It Ain't Over... by Robert M. Kerns

    It Ain't Over... by Robert M. Kerns

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Buy a planet and disappear...That's all Cole wanted.He spent thirteen years hiding on the fringes of society, piloting freighters for criminals and building a stash to do just that.But life happens when you're busy making plans.When Cole chooses to save an ejected castaway and stumbles into a crew of his own, he starts down a path that will force him to choose...
  • Renegades by Craig Alanson

    Renegades by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The battle-scarred star carrier Flying Dutchman is finally on her way back to Earth, after an exceptionally successful series of missions that have once again Saved The World. The ship needs a serious refit, and her exhausted crew just wants a break from constant clandestine warfare against a vicious and superior enemy. Wishes come true, right? Not for the Merry Band of Pirates...
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    ai  aliens  humor  military  pulp  space-fleet  space-opera  war
  • Refuge by Glynn Stewart

    Refuge by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A dying world, shattered by a broken machineA desperate flight, their only hope for refugeA robotic race, ally and destroyer alikeThe Republic of Exilium has grown in strength and confidence at the far end of the galaxy from the rest of mankind, sending out scout ships to survey the worlds around them as they try to learn more about the mysterious Construction Matrix AIs...
  • Governor by David Weber, Richard Fox

    Governor by David Weber, Richard Fox

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A NEW MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR AND CREATOR OF THE HONOR HARRINGTON SERIES DAVID WEBER AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR RICHARD FOXSix Billion Dead—And One Man Intent on Putting a Stop to the Killing For more than fifty years, the Terran Republic and the Terran League have been killing one another...
  • Exile by Glynn Stewart

    Exile by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A shackled Earth, ruled by an unstoppable tyrantAn exiled son, and a one-way trip across the galaxyA perfect world, their last hope for survivalVice Admiral Isaac Gallant is the heir apparent to the First Admiral, the dictator of the Confederacy of Humanity. Unwilling to let his mother's tyranny stand, he joins the rebellion and leads his ships into war against the might of his own nation...
  • Space Team: Planet of the Japes by Barry J. Hutchison

    Space Team: Planet of the Japes by Barry J. Hutchison

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    While trying to stop a cyber-attacker stealing all Space Team's hard-earned money, the cyborg, Mech, unlocks a secret partition in his hard drive, revealing a mysterious set of co-ordinates. The co-ordinates lead the team to Funworld, a planet-sized theme park with a worrying number of artificially intelligent clownbots, and a shocking disregard for Health & Safety...
  • Sting of the Mustard Mines by Barry J. Hutchison

    Sting of the Mustard Mines by Barry J. Hutchison

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Space Team Universe has been changed forever!Having journeyed through time in order to restore peace to the galaxy, Cal Carver and Space Team are a little dismayed to find out they may have inadvertently made things even worse.Whoops...
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    humor  aliens  space-opera  ai  military  space-fleet  sci-fi  fiction
  • SpecOps by Craig Alanson

    SpecOps by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The sequel to 'Columbus Day'. Colonel Joe Bishop made a promise and he's going to keep it; taking the captured alien starship Flying Dutchman back out. He doesn't agree when the UN decides to send almost 70 elite Special Operations troops, hotshot pilots and scientists with him; the mission is a fool's errand he doesn't expect to ever return...
    Categorized as:
    ai  aliens  humor  invasion  military  pulp  space-fleet  space-opera
  • Black Ops by Craig Alanson

    Black Ops by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The elite crew of the pirate ship UNS Flying Dutchman had a simple mission: determining whether the Thuranin are sending another starship to Earth. Along the way, they became sidetracked by securing a future for the UNEF troops on the planet Paradise. When asked whether Earth was now safe, their ancient alien AI responded 'Not so much'... now they have to deal with the consequences...
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    ai  aliens  humor  military  pulp  space-opera  war  action-adventure
  • The Lost Patrol by Vaughn Heppner

    The Lost Patrol by Vaughn Heppner

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    We learned a terrible secret last voyage, the Swarm exists. It has a monstrous imperium, expanding, evolving and receiving incredible Builder tech. Captain Maddox heads into the Deep Beyond to find the Swarm Imperium. We must know the worst so we can prepare against the deadliest species in the galaxy...
  • Haraken by S.H. Jucha

    Haraken by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nine years of tranquility came to an abrupt end when a Méridien starship entered the Hellébore system, sounding a dire warning for Alex Racine, the Haraken president. Unwanted visitors had arrived again. But this time, they’re not alien; they’re human...
  • Earth Defiant by Richard Fox

    Earth Defiant by Richard Fox

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the battle for humanity's future, no one can be trusted. Betrayed by allies. Beset by new foes. Earth faces its darkest hour since the Xaros invasion. The Toth come to the Solar System with a fleet of warships, and they want for the only tool that can rekindle the human race...
  • Freefall by Craig Alanson

    Freefall by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Alien Legion has a new mission, and this time, they are working for the enemy. Also against the enemy. Like every operation that Emily Perkins plans, it’s complicated...
  • Deathtrap by Craig Alanson

    Deathtrap by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The human soldiers stranded on the planet Paradise have been recruited into an Alien Legion, to do the dirty jobs that the high-tech species won't do. Their first mission is to kick the enemy off a backwater planet no one cares about. It's a simple assignment, except everyone has a hidden agenda, and the planet could become a deathtrap...
  • Blue Shift by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Blue Shift by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When Van gains rank as a Peacemaker, he becomes a bigger target for the criminals scattered among the stars.And he wouldn’t have it any other way.On a distant world under an alien sun, hunters and their companions—the Rovan—bond in a ritual as old as their civilization. But one of the hunters is missing, and Van, along with his growing crew, knows where to look...
  • Orders of Battle by Marko Kloos

    Orders of Battle by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The battle against the Lankies has been won. Earth seems safe. Peacetime military? Not on your life.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...
  • Gott Mit Uns by Richard Fox, Scott Moon

    Gott Mit Uns by Richard Fox, Scott Moon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Terran Strike Marines fight for victory. No matter the odds. No matter the cost. The final battle against the Kesaht begins. Lieutenant Hoffman and the exhausted Marines of Valdar's Hammer are called upon to make a desperate assault against the enemy's home world. But the foe is prepared, and their planet is a death trap...
  • The Dragonback Series Books 4–6: Dragon and Herdsman, Dragon and Judge, Dragon and Liberator by Timothy Zahn

    The Dragonback Series Books 4–6: Dragon and Herdsman, Dragon and Judge, Dragon and Liberator by Timothy Zahn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The final three novels in the Dragonback sci-fi saga from the #1 New York Times–bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author of Star Wars: Thrawn—“Enthralling” (Science Fiction Chronicle).   Young fugitive Jack Morgan and alien K’da warrior Draycos are inseparable—quite literally. They’ve been together since a desperate Draycos was forced to bond with Jack as his host in order to survive...
  • Star Force: Maty by Aer-ki Jyr

    Star Force: Maty by Aer-ki Jyr

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The universe is not predictable, no matter how much experience you gain. You may delude yourself into thinking so...until the universe educates you otherwise in dramatic fashion...
  • Out of the Black by Evan Currie

    Out of the Black by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Deep in blackest space, the Drasin have watched humanity’s journey to the stars—and determined that a species as barbaric as ours has no place in the cosmos.The wreckage of the starship Odyssey, once Earth’s greatest guardian, lies strewn across New York City. Abandoned by all but its captain, Odyssey’s sacrifice covered the withdrawal of countless troops as the Drasin assault ravaged the planet...
  • The Crucible by Richard Fox

    The Crucible by Richard Fox

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The Xaros broke against Earth's defenses, but the war may be lost.The alien ships of former allies rule Earth's skies, threatening to obliterate cities and turn the planet into a barren wasteland if humanity refuses their demands. With their backs to the wall, the scattered crew of the Breitenfeld must work together to foil the enemy's plan before time runs out...
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