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  • 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...
  • Mage-Commander by Glynn Stewart

    Mage-Commander by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Some soldiers are the shields of innocent soulsOthers are the fanatics of their causeAnd for them…no war is ever truly over!Tempered on the anvil of the war against the secessionist UnArcana Worlds and tested against the evil of Project Orpheus, Mage-Commander Roslyn Chambers has risen through the ranks of the Royal Martian Navy to serve as second-in-command of one of their most prestigious...
  • 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...
  • The Price of Liberty by D.J. Holmes

    The Price of Liberty by D.J. Holmes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    War has been declared. The Indian Star Republic has landed ground troops on the newly discovered colony of Haven as they seek to seize access to the alien worlds of Vestar and Kulthar. The British Star Kingdom has reacted. A battle fleet has been formed with orders to drive off the Indians and retake Haven...
  • Echoes of Eternity by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Echoes of Eternity by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Siege of Terra Book 7With the walls of the Imperial Palace in ruins and the end in sight, Sanguinius prepares one final stand. The loyalists are desperate, and the Warmaster’s hordes are certain of their coming victory.READ IT BECAUSEThe myriad battles of the Siege of Terra series are pulling into a taut weave of tension, horror, and certain doom. Just when you thought it was bad, it gets worse...
  • A Grimm Decision by Jeffery H. Haskell

    A Grimm Decision by Jeffery H. Haskell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Jeffery H. Haskell comes book six in the military science fiction epic in the tradition of Honor Harrington and Star Trek...
  • 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 Worst Spies in the Sector by Skyler Ramirez

    The Worst Spies in the Sector by Skyler Ramirez

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It sucks being dead...... especially when you're broke. Former Captain Brad Mendoza and former Commander Jessica Lin would be two of the most wanted people in the galaxy, except everyone thinks they're dead. Now, they're desperately trying to find a new way to make a living before they run out of fuel, food, and hope.Enter a mysterious stranger with an offer that's too good to be true...
  • Fortitude by Glynn Stewart

    Fortitude by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An offer that no one else could matchA mission that no one else could achieveAn enemy only a few know they share…Commodore Kira Demirci is now the commander of a small but powerful mercenary force—one of the most dangerous in the cluster of stars she now calls home. Her own actions have brought peace to the Syntactic Cluster, though, and a mercenary is in limited demand...
  • The Lion: Son of the Forest by Mike Brooks

    The Lion: Son of the Forest by Mike Brooks

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Lion. Son of the Emperor, brother of demigods and Primarch of the Dark Angels. Awakened. Returned. And yet... lost.The Lion. Son of the Emperor, brother of demigods and primarch of the Dark Angels.Awakened. Returned. And yet lost...
  • Secret of the Phoenix by Joshua Dalzelle

    Secret of the Phoenix by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Captain Jason Burke has begun to suspect that the random attacks on his ship and crew over the last couple of years may not be so random after all. Evidence is mounting that there is something on the Phoenix ... something that powerful factions will stop at nothing to get their hands on...
  • Echoes in the Deep by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Echoes in the Deep by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mark Tudor is learning a valuable lesson about being a Peacemaker.With Veteran pay comes veteran problems. And the Guild, more often than not, is the issue.He’s become an effective enforcer of the law, but unfortunately, crime is growing a lot more complicated...
  • Foundations of Glass by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Foundations of Glass by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The road between the stars was paved in platinum ore. But as Mark Tudor is about to learn, the cost of justice is paid in blood.And no one is truly safe.Gyl Mareth’s Rot corrupts the Guild, and Mark means to cut it out at the source. To do that, he’ll have to lobby powerful supporters—spindly, blue aliens, toads infatuated with buearcracy, and maybe even an influential bartender or two...
  • A Darker Magic by Glynn Stewart

    A Darker Magic by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A bloody war has ended in a restored peaceAnd the shield of Martian magic guards the starsTwo centuries of spell and steel to ward all humanityTwo years ago, Lieutenant Commander Roslyn Chambers stood witness to the surrender of the last remnants of the Republic...
  • Buccaneers by Jamie McFarlane

    Buccaneers by Jamie McFarlane

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The crew of the Hotspur just happens to be looking for a new home. If Nick James is right, and he usually is, the Tipperary solar system is about to become the busiest trading hub in the galaxy. To sweeten the pot, the cloud-city of Lèger Nuage is offering free warehouse space to qualified traders. It's a deal that seems too good to pass up. Of course, nothing's as simple as it seems...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Shield of Terra by Glynn Stewart

    Shield of Terra by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The mother, ruler of an entire world Sent to the heart of an old enemy to build a new peace The daughter, officer of a deadly warship Sent to the darkness to find the new enemy hunting them all A dozen inhabited worlds of the Kanzi Theocracy and the A!Tol Imperium are ash...
  • Rimward Stars by Glynn Stewart

    Rimward Stars by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A helpless ally calls for aid A ruthless enemy strikes without mercy The fate of empires turns on even the smallest actions When a minor trade partner sends the Castle Federation a desperate call for aid, they have few resources to spare from their all-consuming war against the Terran Commonwealth...
  • Survivors by Toby Neighbors

    Survivors by Toby Neighbors

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nothing in the Corps is guaranteed!Staff Sergeant Eli Vanhorn isn’t the man he used to be. Once a proud member of the Fleet Marine Corps’ elite Terrestrial Advance Combat teams, the battle on colony planet Luyten C left him broken and scarred. But after a year of surgeries and physical therapy, he’s ready to complete his enlistment as Master of Arms on the exploration vessel Rihla...
  • Equilibrium by Glynn Stewart

    Equilibrium by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Peace forged on the edge of civilizationLies forged in the heart of mankindA legend rises to the final challengeExile to the Syntactic Cluster has been good for Kira Demirci and her friends. Once elite pilots of the Apollo System Defense Force, they now own the most powerful mercenary warship in the entire star cluster...
  • Return to Haven by D.J. Holmes

    Return to Haven by D.J. Holmes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The revelation that the human race is not alone has sent shockwaves throughout Earth’s naval powers. Suddenly all eyes have turned to Haven and the trade routes to the Vestarian and Kulrean homeworlds.   Thinking he has nothing to lose, Haven’s First Councilor puts into motion a plan that threatens to turn star empire against star empire...
  • 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...
  • 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...
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  • The Slab by Karen Traviss

    The Slab by Karen Traviss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    MARCUS FENIX. WAR HERO. LOYAL SON. TRAITOR. Ten years after Emergence Day, as the Locust Horde advances on humanity’s last defended area—Ephyra—in a bloody war that has seen billions die, Marcus Fenix does the unthinkable: he defies orders and abandons his post during a critical battle in a bid to rescue his father, weapons scientist Adam Fenix...
  • Among Enemies by Evan Currie

    Among Enemies by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    For Sorilla Aida, the war has been ongoing. Peace was called, officially, but in the shadows her battles continued. The Alliance and SOLCOM are ready to call an end to it all now, but no one has yet been able to tell her why. Why the fighting began, why her allies, and enemies alike, died. Not even why it was over.She had to know, or at least she had to try to find out...
  • Raven's Peace by Glynn Stewart

    Raven's Peace by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Ten 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...
  • Imperium Defiant by Glynn Stewart

    Imperium Defiant by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The enemy promises conflict and annihilation.Their allies threaten betrayal and devastation, a daughter of Earth raises the call of defiance and the Imperium has never knelt!When the Taljzi’s genocidal invasion brought promises of aid from the oldest and greatest of the Core Powers, humanity and the Imperium looked to the Mesharom for salvation...
  • 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...
  • Rando Splicer by Joel Shepherd

    Rando Splicer by Joel Shepherd

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Separated from her ship, Major Trace Thakur is stranded on the reeh-occupied world of Rando. The native corbi have suffered beneath reeh tyranny for 800 years, and many have given up hope...
  • The Warmaster by Dan Abnett

    The Warmaster by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The latest novel in the hugely popular Gaunt's Ghosts series.After the success of their desperate mission to Salvation’s Reach, Colonel-Commisar Gaunt and the Tanith First race to the strategically vital forge world of Urdesh, besieged by the brutal armies of Anarch Sek. However, there may be more at stake than just a planet...
  • 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...
  • No Fail by Doc Spears, Jason Anspach

    No Fail by Doc Spears, Jason Anspach

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Failure is a Hateful WordFor Dark Ops Sergeant Kel Turner, it’s unthinkable. Until now. Kill teams are accustomed to achieving the impossible, and Kill Team Three has done the impossible more than any other. Tasked with mission after mission, against a never-ending list of enemies, Kel and Three brace themselves to rise to the occasion yet again...
  • Clad in Steel by Kevin McLaughlin

    Clad in Steel by Kevin McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the alien Naga attacked Earth, they took everything from Owen McInness. His home was destroyed, his parents killed in front of him. He hated the invaders with every fiber of his being and dedicated his life to making them pay for what they'd done. But that anger was burning him up from the inside. Soon his Academy career was in tatters...
  • 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...
  • Corvus by Marko Kloos

    Corvus by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When the aliens evolve, so does the threat against humanity in this thrilling sequel to Scorpio that finds Alex Archer in an epic battle of survival against the odds and the alien invaders.Alex Archer is a soldier now, the only civilian survivor from Scorpio to join the NAC Defense Corps...
  • War INC: Ace Evans Series book 1 by Toby Neighbors

    War INC: Ace Evans Series book 1 by Toby Neighbors

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Alex sees a Defender Class battle mech shot down just meters from where he’s hiding, he knows he has to do something. Getting into a mechanized battle suit isn’t easy, and controlling the powerful war machine shouldn’t be possible without Ahzco’s secret Implanted Neural Control (INC) chip, but Alex is about to do something no one on a hundred worlds has ever done...
  • Lucky Revenge by Joshua James

    Lucky Revenge by Joshua James

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The universe if FUBAR. Just when things couldn't get any worse, humanity finds a way. The invasion force is in shambles. The universe is on fire. An ancient enemy is about to end mankind for good. Sgt. Lucky Lee Savage saw it all coming. He warned all the right people. He took all the right steps. Look what that got him...
  • Red Team Alpha by Jay Allan

    Red Team Alpha by Jay Allan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A New Adventure Set in the Crimson Worlds Universe (Over 800,000 Crimson Worlds Book Sold) Red Team Alpha. An elite military unit. Twenty highly-trained veteran warriors, Mars’ best. They are ready to face whatever dangers threaten the Confederation. They are capable, dedicated, armed with the best technology Mars has to offer. And they don’t exist, at least not officially...
  • Lucky Empire by Joshua James

    Lucky Empire by Joshua James

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mankind's luck has run out... As humanity rushes toward universal slaughter, the last Marine standing in the way of extinction is the least qualified one around — just ask him. With the conspiracy now fully in power, Lucky & Co. have turned into fugitives within the Empire...
  • Atoned: The Wardens: Book 1 by Steve J. McHugh

    Atoned: The Wardens: Book 1 by Steve J. McHugh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Like a Saturday night 80's action film. Full of cool twists, grin-inducing banter, and explosive action. I loved it." Rob Hayes author of Never Die.Civil War tore across the Union Empire, leaving countless dead in its wake. It was a war started by one man, once beloved by the Empire. His betrayal still lingers in the memory of those who lived through it...
  • Savage Homecoming by Joshua Dalzelle

    Savage Homecoming by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Ever since he joined Omega Force, Captain Jason Burke has lived with the underlying fear that one day Earth would be discovered. His desire to keep Earth’s existence and location a secret has driven him to extremes, and kept him far away from his homeworld for a long time.But now Jason’s greatest fear is realized, and a fleet of alien ships has attacked his planet...
  • 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...
  • Cyborg Legacy by Lindsay Buroker

    Cyborg Legacy by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Former Cyborg Corps soldier Jasim Antar was relieved to come out of the war alive and looked forward to switching to a less violent line of work. But nobody wants to hire a brawny cyborg to do anything that doesn’t involve brutalizing people on a daily basis...
  • 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...
  • Raiders by C.R. Daems

    Raiders by C.R. Daems

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Anna and her Naval Intelligence Agency, NIA, teammates have a new high-priority assignment: foreign raiders who are wreaking havoc within the United Alliance of Stars. They hit high value targets, have access to inside information, kill the security guards, and leave no witnesses. The NIA team soon discovers the raiders' system has been well thought out and has no weak links to exploit...
  • Rich Man's War by Elliott Kay

    Rich Man's War by Elliott Kay

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Tanner Malone is starting to enjoy his navy post in the honor guard. After surviving violent conflicts with space pirates in the void, he hopes to stay out of the stars for a while. But when the government of Archangel, a prosperous Union state including four terraformed worlds, makes a dangerous decision to defy the Big Three’s corporate dominance, war threatens the galaxy...
  • Deception by Glynn Stewart

    Deception by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A new home on the edge of nowhereA new hope for a peaceful futureAn old enemy that won’t let goKira Demirci left her homeworld of Apollo pursued by assassins seeking revenge for her victories in the war against the Brisingr Kaiserreich. Now she has a new home and a new role: as the nova fighter wing commander aboard the mercenary carrier Conviction under Captain John Estanza...
  • Halo: Silent Storm: A Master Chief Story by Troy Denning

    Halo: Silent Storm: A Master Chief Story by Troy Denning

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series.2526. It has been almost a year since humanity engaged in its destructive first contact with a theocratic military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant...
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