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Critical Mass by Craig Alanson
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe Merry Band of Pirates are in desperate trouble after the end of their last mission, and the real danger to humanity is just getting started. Hostile aliens have discovered there is something odd going on with wormholes in the galaxy, and their investigations could lead to finding a shortcut to Earth... -
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Brushfire by Craig Alanson
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsPeacetime 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... -
![When Words Fail by J.N. Chaney, Jonathan P. Brazee]()
When Words Fail by J.N. Chaney, Jonathan P. Brazee
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe Galaxy is growing...and it's more dangerous than ever before.An all-out war within humanity has been narrowly avoided, and peace is finally at hand.Yeah, right.Human ships are being taken, their crews disappearing... -
![Livesuit by James S.A. Corey]()
Livesuit by James S.A. Corey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHumanity'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... -
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![USS Hamilton: Ironhold Station by Mark Wayne McGinnis]()
USS Hamilton: Ironhold Station by Mark Wayne McGinnis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe surprise attack within the Auriga Star System was worse than brutal, it was heinous—leaving the US-Navy's 3rd Fleet decimated. Thousands of crew are reported dead, including the ship’s Captain. Reluctantly, the young XO, Galvin Quintos, will be taking command of the fleet's crippled dreadnaught, the USS Hamilton, while doing his best to bring fleet survivors back to Earth... -
![Madame Guillotine by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole]()
Madame Guillotine by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLeave no man behind. On Detron, a simmering protest boils over and turns deadly when militants hiding among the demonstrators deliberately shoot down a group of legionnaires, executing one survivor and taking two for ransom. The only Republic asset the captured leejes can rely on is a lone marine sniper who defies orders in a desperate attempt to save them... -
![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 ratingsEvery 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... -
![Fallout by Craig Alanson, R.C. Bray]()
Fallout by Craig Alanson, R.C. Bray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsListening 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... -
![Governor by David Weber, Richard Fox]()
Governor by David Weber, Richard Fox
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA 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... -
![Border Wars by Evan Currie]()
Border Wars by Evan Currie
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe mission continues as Sorilla, the Green Berets of the Fifth, and the Lucian Sentinels take their investigation to the colony world claimed by Islamic separatists during the very earliest of Earth's Diaspora period... -
![Raven's Peace by Glynn Stewart]()
Raven's Peace by Glynn Stewart
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTen thousand stars, once chained, taste freedom An eternal empire, once undefeated, falls to pieces An alliance, once united, now lacks a common foe War was hard enough. Peace may be impossible For seventeen years, Colonel Henry Wong and the United Planets Space Force have fought the Kenmiri Empire... -
![Freefall by Craig Alanson]()
Freefall by Craig Alanson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe 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 ratingsThe 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... -
![Planet Fall by Toby Neighbors]()
Planet Fall by Toby Neighbors
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe highly anticipated conclusion to the Kestrel Class Saga is here.The crew of the Modulus Echo are trapped on the planet Gershwin. The Krah Empire has returned with overwhelming force, and the Royal Imperium fleet is divided by petty rivalries and opposing political views. The path to victory is clear - close the worm hole, defeat the aliens, and retake what has been lost... -
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![Fortitude by Jonathan Brazee]()
Fortitude by Jonathan Brazee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe aliens arrived… …they weren’t looking to make friends. Can Beth fight back the invasion? She has spent her career building a reputation. No one wants to mess with Beth when she’s behind the stick of her fighter, but this time, she’s not flying it. Can the Navy’s biggest badass ace get the job done without her tech? Now, three years into the struggle, the aliens have made a statement... -
![Childers: Absurd Proposals by Richard F. Weyand]()
Childers: Absurd Proposals by Richard F. Weyand
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe concluding two novels of the Childers Trilogy, in one volume... -
![Junkyard Raiders by Jamie McFarlane]()
Junkyard Raiders by Jamie McFarlane
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDumped on a backwater planet, heroic old vets will risk everything to take a stand against vicious alien invaders.On the pastoral, backwater planet of Fimil Alpha, something or someone is eradicating the tribespeople of the Gauder Plains. Back on Earth, Albert Jenkins and his crew are enjoying the short-lived fame that accompanied their last adventure... -
![Rebirth by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle]()
Rebirth by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMolly is back from the dead. And now even more capable. But the transformation is not without more serious issues. Problems that not even ADAM can help with. Feeling cursed, she undergoes a Vision Quest. The rest of the team prepare for the General's clandestine assignment back at the base. But with the fate of the Federation hanging in the balance, a question arises... -
![Galactic Judge by J.N. Chaney, James S. Aaron]()
Galactic Judge by J.N. Chaney, James S. Aaron
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsVigilante justice is on the rise.Criminal attacks across Taurus Station have left the casinos, clubs and heavy industry in freefall.Deputy Gage Walker is sent on a mission to stop attacks on local mining rigs. On the edges of a vicious space battle, Walker finds a criminal operation beyond anything the local law had imagined... -
![Galactic Breach by J.N. Chaney, Christopher Hopper]()
Galactic Breach by J.N. Chaney, Christopher Hopper
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA city on the brink of war. Marines held hostage by merciless warlords. After Lieutenant Magnus awakes from the orbital strike that nearly killed him, he discovers that a small contingent of his Marine platoon has also survived. Hope glimmers as he devises a plan to rescue them. But when Magnus learns that his men are being held hostage by a deadly tribe, he fears the worst... -
![To Stand or Fall by John Scalzi]()
To Stand or Fall by John Scalzi
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPart four of four parts of the full-length novel, The End of All Things.Back on Earth, the beginning and end of all things. The nations of humanity's home planet have parted ways with the starfaring Colonial Union, the human interstellar empire originally established to keep the home planet free. The Union needs to regain Earth's trust... -
![Hard Contact by Karen Traviss]()
Hard Contact by Karen Traviss
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAs the Clone Wars rage, victory or defeat lies in the hands of elite squads that take on the toughest assignments in the galaxy–stone-cold soldiers who go where no one else would, to do what no one else could. . . . On a mission to sabotage a chemical weapon research facility on a Separatist-held planet, four clone troopers operate under the very noses of their enemies... -
![Into the Chaos by James Rosone, T.C. Manning]()
Into the Chaos by James Rosone, T.C. Manning
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA terrible massacre was discovered……Did the same fate befall Sumer?Captain Brian Royce brings Hadad to his home planet, which shows obvious signs of battle. Did any of his family survive?Where are all the children…did the Zodarks take them?Admiral Miles Hunt finds himself appointed to a new position beyond his current skillset... -
![Valkyrie Rising by Evan Currie]()
Valkyrie Rising by Evan Currie
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwo years after the initial invasion of Hayden's World, the newly reinforced Hayden Militia is in a state of stalemate with the remaining enemy forces but neither side is content to leave things at that.The alien alliance has dispatched their varsity to clean up the resistance on Hayden while the USF has officially activated Task Force V, the latest and most advanced combat ships built by humans... -
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![Into the Chaos by James Rosone, T.C. Manning]()
Into the Chaos by James Rosone, T.C. Manning
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA terrible massacre was discovered……Did the same fate befall Sumer?Captain Brian Royce brings Hadad to his home planet, which shows obvious signs of battle. Did any of his family survive?Where are all the children…did the Zodarks take them?Admiral Miles Hunt finds himself appointed to a new position beyond his current skillset... -
![For Honor We Stand by H. Paul Honsinger]()
For Honor We Stand by H. Paul Honsinger
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIn 2315, the Earth Union is losing a thirty-year-long war with the Krag Hegemony.Having encountered the Krag before, Space Commander Max Robicheaux now faces daunting challenges aboard the USS Cumberland: the dangers from the enemy without… and clashes with crew and superiors within... -
![Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric S. Nylund]()
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric S. Nylund
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsContinuing the saga of the award-winning Xbox(TM) game!The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend... -
![Flight of the Reaper by J.N. Chaney, Scott Moon]()
Flight of the Reaper by J.N. Chaney, Scott Moon
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVice Admiral Nebs and his Archangels are coming for the Last Reaper, and they’re out for blood.Halek Cain and his crew jump into one slip tunnel after another to escape a psychopath with an armada of deadly warships. Every system is a trap; every encounter a potential battle.When Cain and his friends receive a distress call from the Bold Freedom, innocent lives will hang on their every decision... -
![Rage of Winter by Richard Fox, Scott Moon]()
Rage of Winter by Richard Fox, Scott Moon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne Shot. One Kill. One sniper to strike fear in the heart of alien invaders. Hoffman’s Strike Marines pursue enemy agents across a wintry world, desperate to stop an insidious threat festering in the heart of the Terran Union. Their hunt is disrupted when the fanatical Kesaht invade and the team is split across the snow and ice of a harsh planet... -
![Valor's Child by Kal Spriggs]()
Valor's Child by Kal Spriggs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.Jiden's parents barely scrape out a living on the dry, dusty world of Century. Jiden wants more for herself and she is ready to step into a bright future, one which may lead her far from the frontier world of her birth... -
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XD-317 by S.J. MacDonald
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The committee has planned a task series for you, Alex..." With an alien aristocrat joining the crew, the Fourth Fleet Irregulars embark on a mission that will take them beyond the League's borders - and beyond their wildest dreams... -
![Star Force: Mak'to'ran (4) by Aer-ki Jyr]()
Star Force: Mak'to'ran (4) by Aer-ki Jyr
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGaining greater responsibilities, Mak'to'ran continues his push to reforge the V'kit'no'sat empire while uncovering yet another mystery of the past... -
![Welcome To The Wolfpack by Toby Neighbors]()
Welcome To The Wolfpack by Toby Neighbors
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEverything has changed… A new threat has emerged… The fate of mankind hangs in the balance… Dean Blaze is now a Captain in the infamous Off World Force Recon division of EsDef. His heroics on the Valkyrie have made him a celebrity, but all he wants is another platoon and a fresh assignment doing what he does best... -
![Indomitable by Mike Shepherd]()
Indomitable by Mike Shepherd
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGrand Admiral, Her Royal Highness Kris Longknife, commander of the Iteeche Imperial Combined Fleets has the enemy on the run. Literally. The last time she entered a rebel system, every disloyal ship picked up its skirts and ran... -
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![Flight of Freedom by Jeffrey Burger]()
Flight of Freedom by Jeffrey Burger
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmond Burke...The adventure continues - with one major difference: Jack Steele's Freedom is no longer the wounded duck she once was. They leave UFW Blackmount Station repaired and retooled, with a complete crew, fully armed and resupplied, ready to hunt... -
![Sergeant by Jonathan P. Brazee]()
Sergeant by Jonathan P. Brazee
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRyck Lysander has proven himself as a Marine, as a warrior. As he is promoted to sergeant, though, his responsibilities expand beyond merely fighting to leading other Marines into battle... -
![Manxome Foe by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor]()
Manxome Foe by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn the midst of recovering from their successful if casualty prone first mission, the crew of the Alliance Space Ship "Vorpal Blade" are suddenly scrambled back into action. All other priorities take second place as word arrives on earth of a gate colony which has fallen to an unidentified alien assault... -
![Vanguard by Christopher G. Nuttall]()
Vanguard by Christopher G. Nuttall
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe third trilogy in the hit ‘Ark Royal’ series begins now! HMS Vanguard is the most powerful battleship ever to be commissioned by the Royal Navy, but she is not a happy ship. Her commanding officer is eccentric, rarely seen on the bridge; her former XO has deserted his post and her first middy is resentful because he hasn't been promoted as he deserves .. -
![The City and The Ship by Anne McCaffrey, S.M. Stirling]()
The City and The Ship by Anne McCaffrey, S.M. Stirling
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo novels in one large volume, both set in the same universe as The Ship Who Sang: The City Who Fought: Simeon was bored with running the mining and processing station that made up his "body." Then the invaders came. If anyone was to survive, somehow he must transform his wargaming hobby into the real thing and become The City Who Fought... -
![Trouble on Paradise by Craig Alanson]()
Trouble on Paradise by Craig Alanson
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBook '3.5' in the ExForce series: While the crew of the UN Expeditionary Force's pirate starship Flying Dutchman are enjoying a luxury vacation cruise (not!), UNEF troops are still stranded on an alien-controlled planet. Major Emily Perkins and her team are busy picking up the pieces, and it's not easy, because there is trouble on Paradise.. -
![Halo: First Strike by Eric S. Nylund]()
Halo: First Strike by Eric S. Nylund
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe Human-Covenant war rages on as the alien juggernaut sweeps inexorably toward its final goal: destruction of all human life! Halo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemy’s clutches... -
![Brothers in Valor by H. Paul Honsinger]()
Brothers in Valor by H. Paul Honsinger
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIt is the year 2315, the 33rd year of the Krag Wars. The tide has been running against humankind and its allies. One small destroyer, the USS Cumberland, under the command of its young Cajun skipper, Max Robichaux, fights along with the rest of the Union and Allied navies to preserve the very existence of the human race... -
![Heirs of Empire by David Weber]()
Heirs of Empire by David Weber
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsRestoring the empire that had been destroyed 45,000 years earlier, Emperor Colin finds problems in the genocidal Achuultani and in his children Sean and Harriet, who have been marooned on a hostile planet...Categorized as:
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![Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe by Frank O'Connor, Tobias S. Buckell]()
Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe by Frank O'Connor, Tobias S. Buckell
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there. When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire, millions of lives were lost—but, millions of heroes rose to the challenge... -
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![Claws That Catch by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor]()
Claws That Catch by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt's Not Over Til The Skinny Lady Sings . . . Working off of a piece of intelligence from the alien Hexosehr, the Vorpal Blade is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the “black box” that drives humanity's only space ship... -
![Clidepp Requital by Thomas DePrima]()
Clidepp Requital by Thomas DePrima
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe long-awaited second book in the AGU: Border Patrol series, resumes the storyline of the first book. The severely damaged SC Destroyer Perry, nearly destroyed while battling the Clidepp destroyer Glassama, is awaiting the arrival of a Space Command ship-transporter vessel, which will convey it to the Mars shipyard for repairs... -
![Alliance by Jonathan P. Brazee]()
Alliance by Jonathan P. Brazee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLance Corporal Hondo McKeever is a peacetime Marine. Humanity is involved in a limited war with the alien Klethos, where gladitorial combat decides the fate of worlds, but that doesn’t affect the common Marine or sailor. His career has been training hard but never seeing actual combat. All of that changes when a new enemy invades the galaxy, one that threatens both humanity and Klethos... -
![Stalwart by Mike Shepherd, Lee Moyer]()
Stalwart by Mike Shepherd, Lee Moyer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe foolish Iteeche clans that hauled Grand Admiral Kris Longknife back to the Iteeche Capital and interrupted her campaign against the rebels, are dead. Very dead. Their clans are disgraced and their palaces in ruin. However, while Kris was handling that noise, the rebels took back one of the planets she had recently captured, Arteccia, and are planning to take more... -
![The Mercenaries by Bill Baldwin]()
The Mercenaries by Bill Baldwin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the ravaged postwar Imperial Fleet stands helpless, nearby worlds fall to the League of Dark Stars. Commanding a squadron of Starfuries, Wilf Brim sets course to save the star kingdom of Fluvanna. If he fails, the Empire is doomed... -
![First Light Chronicles Freeground by Randolph Lalonde]()
First Light Chronicles Freeground by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first book in the First Light Chronicles Series. Large enough to support an entire civilization, one of the last free ports all alone in the dark, Freeground Station is about to come under siege...
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