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  • Omega Force: Unleashed by Joshua Dalzelle

    Omega Force: Unleashed by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The ConFed has ruled the galactic quadrant for nearly two thousand years. During that time a relative peace has been kept by threat of force from their mighty fleet. But as with all things, their dominance must come to an end.Now that the ConFed is crumbling and their fleet is withdrawing back to the Core Worlds, the strong are once again preying on the weak...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Commander by Richard F. Weyand

    Commander by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    THE EMPIRE’S NEW NAVYThe Emperor Trajan is building a powerful new navy for the Sintaran Empire. Remotely piloted warships can accelerate faster than humans can withstand, and ships spend so much time in hyperspace, a single crew can man multiple ships, solving the perennial manpower problem...
  • Operation Medusa by Glynn Stewart

    Operation Medusa by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A battered but undefeated Alliance A war they cannot win by force A plan to turn the tide of history! For two years, the Castle Federation and the Alliance of Free Stars have stood against Marshal James Walkingstick of the Terran Commonwealth and his mission of conquest. Battles have been won and lost, worlds have died, and soldiers like Admiral Kyle Roberts have been forged on the anvil of war...
  • To Hell and Back by Joshua Dalzelle

    To Hell and Back by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A new killer is cutting a bloody swath through the frontier worlds.Rumors of its exploits are spreading and, like a ghost, nobody even knows what it looks like.Captain Jason Burke and his crew watch this growing menace with a mix of unease… and guilt. They know who this killer is. He used to be one of them.Seven, as he now called himself, is their former crewmate...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Indomitable by Jonathan Brazee

    Indomitable by Jonathan Brazee

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Beth “Fire Ant” Dalisay is the Navy’s top ace. But the alien Crystals really don’t care. They intend on wiping out humanity no matter who stands in their way. Pulled from her Wasp fighter, the Navy assigns Beth as a scout pilot with a mission to find the Crystal’s home world...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • A King's Ship by D.J. Holmes

    A King's Ship by D.J. Holmes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The war with China is over. But for Captain James Somerville there is a task still unfinished. Former Politburo Intelligence Minister Chang has evaded capture and escaped from Chinese space. Declared a war criminal by the UN and British law courts, James is given the Royal Space Navy’s newest exploration cruiser and sent after Chang...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Unification by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Unification by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Corps has been integrated by imperial decree—but that doesn’t mean everyone accepts the wyntonan Marines. Despite an impressive combat record as a grunt, Corporal Leif Hollow struggles to become an effective NCO and leader of Marines. When then the trumpets of war sound, however, Marines forget about differences and come together to accomplish the mission...
  • Crystals by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Crystals by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    War with the aliens has broken out, and they seem to have all the advantages. Engineers and scientists are scrambling to develop weapons to stand up to the threat, but when all is said and done, it is the Navy fighter pilots who have to take the fight to the enemy...
  • 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...
  • Ace by Jonathan Brazee

    Ace by Jonathan Brazee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alien Crystals don't recognize human boundaries. The Navy of Humankind has to hold them back. Small fighters in the vastness of space. Joint Task Force Iron Shield stands ready. Too small to defend everywhere, they need intel so they can go on the attack. Maximize their firepower. Maximize their impact. The Crystals do not know fear. They are coming for what they want...
  • Star Force: Dawn of the Apocalypse by Aer-ki Jyr

    Star Force: Dawn of the Apocalypse by Aer-ki Jyr

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The onslaught has begun and the galaxy must cope with a very slow moving certainty of its eventual destruction...
  • Spinward Fringe Broadcast 12: Invasion by Randolph Lalonde

    Spinward Fringe Broadcast 12: Invasion by Randolph Lalonde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All signs point to a looming invasion. The Edxi, an intelligent insect race, will lead the charge as they attempt to take the Tamber moon and the worlds around it to hatch their broods and create a new strategic foothold in the Milky Way. The entire fleet is rushing to make last minute preparations as Alice is forced to take a short relaxation leave to recover from recent events...
  • Scorched Earth by T.R. Harris

    Scorched Earth by T.R. Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when the Adam Cain—the Alien with an Attitude—gets really pissed off?Hint: It ain’t pretty.The scorched earth in the title doesn’t refer to the Human’s homeworld...
  • Throne of Stars by David Weber, John Ringo

    Throne of Stars by David Weber, John Ringo

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Books 3 and 4 in the New York Times best-selling Empire of Man series: March to the Stars and We Few, both New York Times bestsellers.Prince Roger MacClintock was an heir to the galaxy's Throne of Man and a self-obsessed spoiled young brat - that is, until he and the Royal Marines sent to protect him were stranded by an assassination attempt on the wild and dangerous planet of Marduk...
  • True Colors by Karen Traviss

    True Colors by Karen Traviss

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    As the savage Clone Wars rage unchecked, the Republic’s deadliest warriors face the grim truth that the Separatists aren’t their only enemy–or even their worst.In the Grand Army’s desperate fight to crush the Separatists, the secret special ops missions of its elite clone warriors have never been more critical . . . or more dangerous...
  • Colonel by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Colonel by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ryck has proven himself as a warrior, a fighter, and sometimes, in a peacetime Corps, that can get a Marine into trouble. Ryck’s temper gets the best of him, and because of that and with a heavy heart, he resigns his commission. As an old enemy comes a-calling, a new threat surfaces, and Ryck’s services are once again needed. Given a second chance, Ryck answers the call, determined to make good...
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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    military  space-fleet  war  adult  book  fiction  soldiers  space
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Admiral's Oath by Glynn Stewart

    Admiral's Oath by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    CASTLE FEDERATION RETURNSAn empire broken by hubrisAn officer raised by chanceOaths that must be honoredOaths that must be betrayedRear Admiral James Tecumseh barely survived his last mission against the Alliance of Free Stars with his reputation and life intact...
  • 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...
  • Spoils of War by Terry Mixon

    Spoils of War by Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They thought they could force her to conform. They were wrong.Inside a dystopian school in the Singularity, the twelve-year-old girl known as One Twenty-Four struggles to survive. Failure to conform means death at the hands of her teacher.Assuming her clone sisters don't kill her first...
  • 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 ratings
    A 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...
  • 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 ratings
    A 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...
  • 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 Guns of Tanith by Dan Abnett

    The Guns of Tanith by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The heretical forces of Chaos fight back in the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, cutting off Imperial forces. Gaunt and his men must recapture the key world Phantine, in order to save the Emperor's beleaguered forces. Now available in a brand new edition, with awesome new cover art...
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