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  • Point of Impact by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Point of Impact by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Awash with conflict and a building war, the known stars align against Van and his wing of the Guild in a fight for the ultimate control.But Van and his crew suspect there’s more to the Equal Grasp than just a band of thieves, and they begin their campaign at Bopul Station, a lonely outpost where corruption rules and Peacemakers are feared...
  • Critical Mass by Craig Alanson

    Critical Mass by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The 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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  • Hand of Fate by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Hand of Fate by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For the first time ever, Van has to deliver the remains of fallen comrades. At the Starsmith, he’s presented with an opportunity to change the face of the war, even as Torina and Van begin planning for the ultimate shift in their Parenthood.But first, the crew must prepare for an unexpected gift-- a new, unknown fleet of ships, uncrewed and hidden deep out in the black.There’s just one problem...
  • Retribution by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Retribution by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    VICTORY is at hand. With the galaxy in tatters, Chhun and Wraith lead Kill Team Victory and the remnants of the Legion in a clandestine final effort to bring about Article Nineteen...
  • Citadel by Marko Kloos

    Citadel by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    An interplanetary battle is renewed in an epic novel of a warring solar system by the author of Ballistic.The war should have been over. But it’s not for a group of nationalists grabbing for control.It’s been two weeks since a missile with a nuclear warhead tore through the planetary defenses in the most blistering large-scale attack ever committed in the history of the Gaia system...
  • 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...
  • Fires of Oblivion by Anthony James

    Fires of Oblivion by Anthony James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Captain John Duggan rots in his cell, facing execution at the hands of his captors. Having discovered the secret which the Ghasts wished to remain hidden, he is left powerless to find answers to the questions which will determine the future of the Confederation. Elsewhere in the Garon sector, the Dreamers have been putting their own terrible plans into action...
  • Galaxy in Peril by Raymond L. Weil

    Galaxy in Peril by Raymond L. Weil

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    he situation in the galaxy is growing desperate. Every day the Vorn are harvesting world after world to be used as food for their Queens. The Vorn ships are nearly indestructible and destroying every fleet that dares to oppose them.Lakiam Fleet Commodore Dreen is trying to form an alliance to try to stop the Vorn, but he needs a victory to bring other Protector Worlds to his side...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Nemesis of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    Nemesis of Mars by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A failed attempt on the Mage-QueenAn old friend from the gutterAn enemy that should be dead...When a kidnapping attempt on the Mage-Queen of Mars is thwarted by luck, leaving thousands dead in its wake, Prince-Chancellor Damien Montgomery returns to field operations one more time. The evidence leads to one place: Tau Ceti...
  • Prisoners of Darkness by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Prisoners of Darkness by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The galaxy is spiraling into all-out war. The Battle of Tarrago was just the beginning. Following Goth Sullus's ruthless onslaughts against the Republic, a desperate House of Reason searches for scapegoats—and finds one, deserving or not, in Commander Ellek Owens. His sentence is cruel, unjust—and final. Unless Victory Squad has anything to say about it...
  • No Quarter by Joshua Dalzelle

    No Quarter by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Humanity is fractured and on the brink of war…The United Terran Federation and the Eastern Star Alliance have been fighting in minor skirmishes along the border region for the last few years, but now it threatens to break out into a full-on war with the victor assuming control of all human space...
  • 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...
  • Imperial Recruit by Terry Mixon

    Imperial Recruit by Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Andrea Tolliver—a genetically designed human from the Singularity—has finally earned a spot in the Imperial Marines. If she makes it through training, she’ll earn citizenship.If not—well, best not to think about that.With ruthless enemies willing to do anything to stop her, she’ll need all the help she can get to survive...
  • Guns of the Valpian by Anthony James

    Guns of the Valpian by Anthony James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Captain John Duggan and his crew are stranded deep in hostile terrritory. Their spaceship, the ESS Crimson is damaged beyond repair. Enemy warships hunt them, eager to locate the vessel which has caused so much damage to their military. All seems lost. Duggan is not a man to go down without a fight...
  • 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...
  • Paying the Price by Terry Mixon

    Paying the Price by Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No good deed goes unpunished… Admiral Jared Mertz and Princess Kelsey Bandar saved billions of lives and staved off an invasion of the Terran Empire, but not everyone is cheering their success. Their triumphant return sets off a chain of events that threaten not only their lives, but everyone they hold dear...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Stowaway by Z.D. Dean

    Stowaway by Z.D. Dean

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lt Zade, on his last days of his last deployment to Afghanistan, still couldn’t find the excitement he so desperately needed. A chance encounter, on his last mission, sends him hurtling through space on the Unity exploration ship XES01. Surrounded by aliens, Zade must quickly learn to interact with the non-soldiers on the crew...
  • Border Wars by Evan Currie

    Border Wars by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The 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...
  • Duty Calls: The adventure continues by James Haddock

    Duty Calls: The adventure continues by James Haddock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Duty Calls continues the story of Nic, Mal, Jazz and Jade as they fight to hold what belongs to them. The Corporations are becoming more aggressive in their effort to steal their inventions. Our four friends are matching the corporate's aggression blow for blow. The fight has already turned deadly, and the Corporation has shown they aren't afraid to spill blood...
  • 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...
  • Ballistic by Marko Kloos

    Ballistic by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    There is a personal price to pay for having aligned with the wrong side in a reckless war. For Aden Jansen it’s the need to adopt a new identity while keeping his past hidden. Now he’s integrated himself aboard the Zephyr, a merchant ship smuggling critical goods through dangerous space. But danger is imminent on planet Gretia, as well...
  • Valdar's Hammer by Richard Fox, Scott Moon

    Valdar's Hammer by Richard Fox, Scott Moon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    War has come to Syracuse, and only one team of Terran Strike Marines can save the planet. They are Valdar's Hammer. Admiral Isaac Valdar leads the Breitenfeld, and a fleet of Dotari allies, in a last ditch attempt to break a Kesaht blockade over the human colony. Failure means the death of millions of innocent lives - but the aging carrier, and her commander, have a reputation for miracles...
  • Superdreadnought 3 by C.H. Gideon, Craig Martelle

    Superdreadnought 3 by C.H. Gideon, Craig Martelle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Military AI Space Opera The superdreadnought gates into the middle of a battle. Whose side do they take? Krokus 4. The system’s nexus of intelligent life. Who are the Krokans? Who are the Orau? Are there any good guys to protect?It’s a dog’s breakfast from the word go. Reynolds is positioned to keep the sides from killing each other while he and the crew try to figure out what is going on...
  • Dead Man's Debt by Elliott Kay

    Dead Man's Debt by Elliott Kay

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    “WE REQUIRE A DIFFERENT BATTLEFIELD.” Nobody expected the war to last three hours, let alone three years. The star system of Archangel holds the line against invading corporate fleets, but a quarter of its territory is already lost. The navy can’t hang on much longer. Faced with this grim truth, Archangel’s leaders shift their strategy to diplomacy and espionage...
  • The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 3 by David Drake

    The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 3 by David Drake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With a veteran ’s eye for the harsh and gritty details of war, David Drake depicts a futuristic analog of Vietnam-era tank combat in his Hammer’s Slammers fiction. Upon this tactical foundation, Drake uses historical metaphor to provide a rich and detailed future-history that is both unique and strangely familiar...
  • Inheritance by Ivan Kal

    Inheritance by Ivan Kal

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A growing Empire...The end of the Sowir Dominion draws near as the Empire resumes its offensive. The retaking of Guxcacal home-world begins, as the Empire's fleets invade the remaining Sowir territory. But the Sowir still have surprises up their sleeves.Adrian Farkas awakens new abilities, buried deep inside the human genetic code by their ancestor Axull Darr...
  • Race to Terra by Terry Mixon

    Race to Terra by Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Separated by an almost unimaginable gulf in space, Princess Kelsey Bandar and Admiral Jared Mertz must fight to stop the diabolical artificial intelligences that destroyed the Old Terran Empire. Though unable to communicate with one another, they must overcome terrible odds and defeat foes determined to kill or enslave them. They cannot allow themselves to fail. Yet time is running out...
  • Terminus Gate by Anthony James

    Terminus Gate by Anthony James

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After their recent victory over an incredibly powerful alien foe, Captain John Duggan and his crew are expecting some downtime while the ESS Crimson is refitted. It is not to be. In a war for survival, the Space Corps’ best officer can’t be permitted to languish on base with his feet up. Soon after landing on planet Atlantis, Duggan gets the call once more...
  • Stand Against The Storm by Peter Grant

    Stand Against The Storm by Peter Grant

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When duty and honor collide... An emergency recall to his ship short-circuits Senior Lieutenant Steve Maxwell’s plan to get rid of a long-standing personal burden. Instead, he finds himself dumped into a war zone on a peacekeeping mission hundreds of light years away. He doesn’t have enough people, equipment or information...
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  • Star Force: Ysalamir by Aer-ki Jyr

    Star Force: Ysalamir by Aer-ki Jyr

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    V'kit'no'sat and Star Force must unite for a special project in order to find a better way to fight the Hadarak...
  • Behind Enemy Lines by Terry Mixon

    Behind Enemy Lines by Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cut off from home, Princess Kelsey Bandar needs a place to hide from the vengeful Rebel Empire. The secrets she stole give her people a fighting chance in the war that brought down the original Terran Empire. If she gets them home. If her prisoners cooperate. Should that prove impossible, she must then convince a long-hidden people to help her. After she finds them, of course...
  • Hidden Enemies by Terry Mixon

    Hidden Enemies by Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Trapped between murderous xenophobes and calculating artificial intelligences, an interstellar war threatens to wash Princess Kelsey Bandar away in a tide of blood. With her most powerful ship crippled, only a desperate mission to steal what she needs right out from under the noses of her enemies offers a way to get her people safely home...
  • Wolf's Bane by Christopher G. Nuttall

    Wolf's Bane by Christopher G. Nuttall

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Commonwealth has won a great victory, smashing Wolfbane’s attempt to take Corinthian and driving Admiral Singh’s forces back into enemy space. Now, as the Wolves reel under the impact of their defeat - and powerful factions plot to take control of the government and military - Edward Stalker plans a final offensive to bring the Wolves to their knees...
  • Chains of Duty by Anthony James

    Chains of Duty by Anthony James

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Captain John Duggan, it seems like war never ends. Each success brings another mission and more death. Following events at the Helius Blackstar, Duggan is given the Space Corps’ newest warship – a heavy cruiser armed to the teeth with the latest weapons and technology...
  • Lt. Reilly and the Black Bird Offensive by Matthew .O Duncan

    Lt. Reilly and the Black Bird Offensive by Matthew .O Duncan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sci-fi / Military Sci-fi - Fans of old school sci-fi will enjoy this book. It is full of action, space battles, star-ship and fighter combat, mysteries, conspiracies, and even little romantic complications. Told in the first person, Lt. Jack Reilly takes the reader along with him as he uncovers a plot to pull the Alliance into a new war and his life becomes even more complicated...
  • Reconnaissance in Force by Terry Mixon

    Reconnaissance in Force by Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When going to war, it pays to know your enemy. Particularly when they can crush you like a bug.Princess Kelsey Bandar has one slim chance to steal the tech her people needs to survive. Only a bold strike deep into enemy space keeps the New Terran Empire alive.Success gives them a chance. Failure dooms them to death and worse.Kelsey and her friends once again risk everything for their people...
  • Retaliation by Raymond L. Weil

    Retaliation by Raymond L. Weil

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Over 100,000 copies of the Slaver Wars series were sold in 2013. Operation First Strike is coming to an end. It has succeeded in buying the Human Federation of Worlds valuable time to prepare for the coming invasion. Now Fleet Admiral Streth needs to get his remaining warships back home to aid in the defense of the human worlds...
  • Endgame by Raymond L. Weil

    Endgame by Raymond L. Weil

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Federation is pushing the Hocklyns steadily back, but they still vastly outnumber the Humans and their allies by hundreds to one. Fleet Admiral Hedon Streth has to defeat them before they develop newer and more deadly weapons. In a bold move, Hedon comes up with a daring plan to attack the Hocklyn home worlds...
  • Qalea Drop by Joel Shepherd

    Qalea Drop by Joel Shepherd

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The UFS Phoenix embarks on a dangerous quest for the AI Ceephay Queen who rules at the heart of the Reeh Empire. For cover, Phoenix will use the enormous war being launched by the new rulers of the croma, Croma'Dokran, into reeh space...
  • The Siege of Earth by Richard Fox

    The Siege of Earth by Richard Fox

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Only an ember of humanity survived the first Xaros invasion. Now, the Xaros return to deliver the final blow to Earth and her defenders. A moon carrying an armada of Xaros drones unleashes its deadly cargo on the solar system. Fortress Mars stands between the enemy and an ill-defended Earth...
  • For Honor We Stand by H. Paul Honsinger

    For Honor We Stand by H. Paul Honsinger

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In 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...
  • Firestorm by D.J. Holmes

    Firestorm by D.J. Holmes

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Four peaceful years have passed since the liberation of Haven. Captain James Somerville has taken his command, the heavy cruiser Titan, to Earth for a much-needed refit. As he is there, shocking news arrives from the American colonies. Unknown ships have attacked a remote colony. Nuclear missiles have devastated the planet’s surface leaving almost no survivors...
  • The Battle of the Void by Richard Fox

    The Battle of the Void by Richard Fox

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The Xaros drove humanity to the edge of extinction. Now, an immense alien fleet is on the way to Earth to end the human race. Earth's defenses are in shambles. The planet needs time to ready for the next invasion, time it doesn't have. The Xaros are en route to Earth, and it will take a daring mission to buy Earth the chance it needs to survive the next attack...
  • Rage of Winter by Richard Fox, Scott Moon

    Rage of Winter by Richard Fox, Scott Moon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One 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...
  • Skandia Seven: Ace Evans Book 4 by Toby Neighbors

    Skandia Seven: Ace Evans Book 4 by Toby Neighbors

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes disaster can’t be averted…Ace Evans leads his team of Titan battle suit clad Operators to level one planet Skandia Seven. Their mission is to protect the factory where his father works. But as the protests on Skandia Seven grow violent, and mega-corporations are targeted, there may be nothing Ace can do to protect the people he cares most about...
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