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A Grimm Sacrifice by Jeffery H. Haskell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn order to survive, Interceptor must change the rules.The Consortium is in real trouble. Caliphate Naval forces have stepped up their raids on the border planets and are taking people by the thousands. They can defend the wormhole, or they can defend their planets, not both...Categorized as:
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Forever Defend by Michael Anderle, Emily Beresford
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSome forget why she was called the Queen Bitch. Not Anymore. Bethany Anne is going stir crazy after more than a decade of having to be 'The Empress.' Now, her advisors have to deal with an Empress who is determined to be on the front line.The Ixtali's come to the Etheric Empire, hat in hand.Nathan decides that the best way to handle soft intelligence, is to create a new company...Categorized as:
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Might Makes Right by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe Leath are fighting for their Gods, but Bethany Anne is fighting for freedom. Then, the Leath make a very fatal mistake. On another planet, the Leath dishonor the Etheric Empire's warriors and Bethany Anne unleashes her new avatar and there will be hell to pay. For those that believe Might Makes Right, Bethany Anne is about to explain how that can be so, so wrong...Categorized as:
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Life Goes On by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt is finished... Sweat dripping off her brow as the threads started long ago start to fuse together. It’s time to make plans, hide the truth, and get the HELL off her throne.But, how to accomplish creating a Federation, when those coming together want to gut her Empire?Anyone who understands the Queen Bitch, knows she won't accept that condition without a fight...Categorized as:
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsWith no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop...Categorized as:
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The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is what happens when, in the chaos of an alien apocalypse where the all-powerful galactic empire of Congress has laid the smackdown on Earth for breaking its universal laws on genetic experimentation, the world's smartest human (sort of) swears to obey the galaxy's greatest assassin (definitely) on Wednesdays through Mondays, if she will give him Tuesdays in turn...Categorized as:
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The Legend of ZERO: The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThis is what happens when, in the chaos of an alien apocalypse where the all-powerful galactic empire of Congress has laid the smackdown on Earth for breaking its universal laws on genetic experimentation, the world's smartest human (sort of) swears to obey the galaxy's greatest assassin (definitely) on Wednesdays through Mondays, if she will give him Tuesdays in turn...Categorized as:
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Ahead Full by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe Kurtherian's which rule the Leath have made a fatal mistake. Their prime intelligence officer finds what they have done in his past.Other people have made moves against the Queen Bitch's people, and she sends Baba Yaga after them...Categorized as:
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My Ride is a Bitch by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt's out there, it's ALWAYS been out there - just no one believed it.Governments, Black Ops, Rich Businessmen...All want alien tech and some are going to great lengths, illegal lengths, to procure it.Someone went so far as to endanger a young girls family. A young girl who wrote a letter to the Queen Bitch. Now, those that are searching for the technology will have to deal with TQB...Categorized as:
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Fires of Oblivion by Anthony James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaptain 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... -
Nightfall by Jay Allan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNight is falling. The unstoppable Hegemony invasion has reached the very heart of the Confederation. Battle after desperate battle has been fought, and each time, the Confeds have been pushed back, columns of battered and blasted ship retreating from system to system. Now, they prepare to grimly defend the capital world of Megara, the very center of the Confederation...Categorized as:
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Cauldron of Fire by Jay Allan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Deadly Fight to the Finish… The warrior culture of the Alliance has fragmented, and comrade fights comrade, brother kills brother. The Red Alliance forces, backed by the Union and its propaganda machine, have the advantage in numbers and position, and they are pushing forward, driving relentlessly toward the final attack, the one that will destroy their enemies...Categorized as:
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Dauntless by Jay Allan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe pulsar…an ancient weapon of unimaginable power, one that threatens the Confederation with total destruction. The Union is preparing for the final invasion, one that cannot fail with the great artifact at the head of their fleet. The clock is ticking quickly toward midnight. There is a chance to avoid annihilation, a small one...Categorized as:
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Resolve by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe unmissable conclusion to the science fiction series that has it all—ancient aliens, rogue AIs, beleaguered royalty, semi-repentant pirates, and the chance to go where no humans have gone before (well, not for five hundred years)—all wrapped up in the possibility of a happy-ever-after for everyone (bad guys excluded)...Categorized as:
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Give No Quarter by Jamie McFarlane
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAlternate cover for ASIN B01FQ57I7G can be found here: Give No Quarter Branded criminals and on the run from the most powerful corporation in the known universe, Liam Hoffen and the crew of Hotspur have a simple choice to make...Categorized as:
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Imperial Recruit by Terry Mixon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAndrea 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... -
The Ceph Sector by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe legendary Ceph have been in stasis for forty two millennia. In a century, they’ll wake. History remembers them as an unstoppable force, employing a mysterious power to decimate sentient life on the planets they attacked. Jaya’s first mission as a new Shaman Justice is to lead an expedition into the perilous Ceph Sector...Categorized as:
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Zero Recall by Sara King
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIt's been 53 turns after the legendary Commander Zero graduated as a Congie warrior. Joe, now a battle hardened veteran, has spent his life surviving wars he had no right to survive. Yet his real test is coming: New forces are conspiring to start a great war like the universe has never seen, one that would rip apart the very fabric of Congress...Categorized as:
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Bane of Worlds by Anthony James
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing his successful mission to recover the missing warship ESS Crimson, Captain John Duggan finds himself unredeemed in the eyes of his superiors. His duties resume and this time he’s given something easy - escort a cargo ship to a distant planet and bring it home safely. But war is never so predictable and a straightforward mission becomes something much more important... -
Excalibur Lost: a Space Opera Novella by Glynn Stewart
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA broken speciesA broken manA lost legend…Only dreams and stories remain of the worlds humanity once called home, but scattered refugees live in the corners of the empire of their conquerors, the Sacred Council of Races...Categorized as:
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Vigilante: Age of Expansion by Natalie Grey, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne man leaves the life of a lawman behind him and works to clean up a new area in space. On the planet now known as High Tortuga, the mine workers are far too close to being slaves so the ruler of the planet shut them down. Except for the mine owned by Venfirdri Lan. He's taken his mine off the grid and decided to keep everything running. With no need to pay the workers, profits should be good... -
It Ain't Over... by Robert M. Kerns
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsBuy 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...Categorized as:
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Earth Unrelenting by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA fugitive captured. A hero forsaken. A secret revealed. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Three days. That’s what they promised. But on Earth the danger is unrelenting, and promises are hard to keep. Now Sheriff Duke is the one on the run, chased by an unexpected enemy eager to finish what they started. An enemy with an agenda that begins with killing him but ends with something worse... -
Earth Unknown by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA terrible discovery.A secret that could destroy human civilization.A desperate escape to the most dangerous planet in the universe... Earth.Two hundred years ago, a fleet of colony ships left Earth and started a settlement on Proxima Centauri...Centurion Space Force pilot Nathan Stacker didn't expect to return home to find his wife dead... -
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Call to Arms by Jay Allan
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCall to Arms: Blood on the Stars II War. The word spreads throughout the Confederation…the long-expected Union invasion has come. The enemy is strong, their fleets larger and more powerful than intelligence reports had predicted. They have broken through the forward defenses, sent the Confederation’s proud fleets into an ignominious retreat...Categorized as:
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The White Fleet by Jay Allan, Jeffrey Kafer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe war is over, but the struggle continues. Tyler Barron and his spacers have set out into the unknown, deep into the Badlands, seeking to discover the empire's old tech and the secrets of its tortured history before Gaston Villieneuve and the resurgent Union can beat them to it. The White Fleet is a vast force, powerful, and crewed by the toughest veterans from the war...Categorized as:
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Confederation by Michael R. Hicks
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the second book of the In Her Name science fiction & fantasy series, Reza Gard has been banished from the Kreelan Empire and is once again a stranger in a strange land as he returns to the human Confederation. Befriended by a marooned Confederation naval officer leading a desperate fight against the Kreelans on a distant colony world, she reunites Reza with Nicole Carré... -
Double Down by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the memory of their losses fresh on Hayley and Quark’s minds, they head for a meetup with one of the only individuals in the galaxy who might be able to help them handle the coming storm. But the enemy always seems to be one step ahead of them, ready to intercept at every turn and forcing them to make even more sacrifices along the way... -
Endure by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe journey of the starship Pioneer continues in the fourth thrilling installment of the Forgotten Starship series.The ship is in dire straits, deep behind enemy lines and on the verge of capture. While Tyson fights to prepare a defense, other forces work to ensure his ultimate failure as they seek to claim one of Pioneer’s few remaining secrets...Categorized as:
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Evolve by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeries Finale!The starship Pioneer’s voyage is coming to an end, and it won’t be like anything the passengers or crew could have imagined.If any of them survive to see it.Pioneer needs to reach the Forge, but the Forge is surrounded by the enemy’s massive fleet, which is preparing to launch an assault that could leave the station in ruins...Categorized as:
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Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life.Diplomat. Rebel. Fugitive. Nika Tescarav has lived many lives, though she no longer remembers most of them...Categorized as:
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Odysseus Awakening by Evan Currie
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsDefy the inevitable. Such is the stance of Confederation captain Eric Weston and the crew of the starship Odysseus, patrolling the outer limits of Priminae space, anticipating the Empire’s next attacks. Connected with the Terran FTL tech—the transition drive—humanity might stand a chance against the overwhelming forces. Until the entire planetary system goes dark...Categorized as:
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Ruins of Empire by Jay Allan
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsJay Allan's Blood on the Stars... War rages between the Confederation and the Union. Shattered fleets watch each other warily across a war torn frontier. Both sides are licking their wounds, gathering strength to continue the fight...Categorized as:
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Damnation by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe enemy is everywhere. Our existence hangs by a thread.On Earth we’re dying - the ships have landed.On Proxima we’re ignorant - the sabotage nearly complete.Our strongholds are routed.Our defenses crippled.Our wills are broken.Our hope is gone...… or is it?Three heroes.Two battlefronts.One desperate chance for victory... -
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Pursuit of the Bold by Jamie McFarlane
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA world-shattering invasion. A long-dead rumor. A death-defying risk to save humanity. If the Kroerak Empire had a soft spot, Liam Hoffen would have found it by now. After years of fighting the blasted bug invaders, he’s all but thrown in the towel. To make matters worse, intercepted enemy plans show the empire’s next attack could wipe them off the map...Categorized as:
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Incursion at Elea Station by Jamie McFarlane
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAn alien invasion. A home-world destroyed. Can an embattled captain survive a daring fight to save the remnant of his colony? Privateer Liam Hoffen can’t wait to reunite with his family. But after he emerges from a 20-year stasis, he’s shocked to discover a hostile enemy has razed his home and exiled his people...Categorized as:
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Deep Space - Hidden Terror by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThis hard Sci-Fi novel is the sixth book in the “Stasis Stories,” a series of optimistic tales of technological innovation in the near future. They follow Kaem Seba, a young man with extraordinary math talents. With his friends, he’s come up with a device that allows time to be stopped within limited volumes of space-time... -
Emerge by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter 100 years crossing the expanse, the generation starship Pioneer is nearly halfway to her destination. The horrors of her first few days in space have been erased by time and forgotten by the residents of the city nestled inside.But all good things must come to an end.Deputy Niko Nori finds that out the hard way...Categorized as:
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Out of the Ashes by Ivan Kal
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings-NOTE- This book has been professionally re-edited as of April 2, 2016 Victory against the Sowir at the battle for Nuva gave Olympus and their new allies time to fortify their positions. Meanwhile Olympus stretches its already limited resources on a mission to aid their home planet - Earth, which had been enslaved by an alien race called Ra'a'zani... -
Ashes of War by Kevin O. McLaughlin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe alien Naga tried to destroy all life on Earth, but what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Six months ago we fought a short but devastating war against the invaders. Our ships burned, and whole cities were annihilated, but we defeated them. Now out of the ashes rises a new Space Force, led by the heroes from that final terrible battle... -
Andromeda Rising by Jay Allan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Hero is Born The Gut. An industrial hell. The foulest and most decrepit slum on Parsephon. A nest of human misery, where hope is word long forgotten, and the dead are carted away every day. It is the worst pit in the Confederation’s great industrial machine known as the Iron Belt...Categorized as:
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Earth Undefeated by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratings3 enemies... 2 cities... 1 sheriff... BOOM! For Sheriff Duke, the danger has reached the final countdown. Captured, tortured, beaten but undefeated, it's sixty seconds to midnight and the only way to save his wife and daughter is through the fugitive he left home to hunt. The real enemy isn't what they seem and the history of the forgotten Earth is about to be rewritten.. -
Rogue World by B.V. Larson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. Today, Battle Fleet 921 is returning to Earth. It hasn’t been seen by human eyes since our blissful day of Annexation...Categorized as:
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...Till It's Over! by Robert M. Kerns
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsClaim an inheritance.It's a simple goal, right?Nothing is simple when Cole returns to Centauri, the seat of Coleson Interstellar Engineering. Challenges at every turn, with no idea who he can trust. And then...the Solar Republic gets involved...Categorized as:
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Judgment of the Bold by Jamie McFarlane
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA retreating alien enemy. Civilization's new beginning. A terrifying threat could postpone his victory lap… forever. After discovering an indefensible weapon, Liam thought he had the Kroerak invaders on the ropes. But as he and his crew root out the last alien strongholds, he comes face to face with the staggering damage the invaders wreaked on the crew’s now-inhospitable homeworlds...Categorized as:
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Formation (Forgotten Space Book 2) by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter narrowly escaping destruction, Nicholas and his crew find themselves flung far across the universe with no way home. When a distress call from a nearby planet catches their attention, they decide to investigate with the hope the signal is somehow connected to their arrival.It isn’t long before the truth of Foresight’s mission comes into clearer focus, and Nicholas doesn’t like what he sees...Categorized as:
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Invasion by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo hundred years ago, aliens invaded Earth. A violent war followed. The enemy won. Some of us escaped... ...most of us didn’t. On Proxima they flourished - the invasion forgotten. On Earth we floundered - the horror began. Their world is advanced, peaceful, and secure. Our world is broken, savage, and overrun. A new invasion is coming. A hunger that has swallowed half the universe...Categorized as:
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Destruction by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Deliverance isn’t alone.That’s not a surprise. The planet was chosen for a reason.But the situation is more dire than Caleb ever imagined. The enemy he’s encountered isn’t the enemy he was seeking, and the conflict is expanding in ways he can barely conceive...Categorized as:
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Olympus by Ivan Kal
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings-NOTE- This book has been professionally re-edited as of March 17, 2016 The year is 2081. Earth is recovering from a devastating nuclear war. An age of technological advancement. A find at the bottom of the Ocean. A man driven by a dream. The time for humanity to reach to the stars is now. A find provides Tomas Klein with the tools to speed up his timetable and execute his plans... -
The Forgotten: The Complete Trilogy by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSome things are better off forgotten.Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the Pilgrim, and he expects to die on the Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him.That's the way things are on a generation starship centuries from home. He's never questioned it. Never thought about it...Categorized as:
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