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By Darkness Forged by Nathan Lowell
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsProfits. Coffee. Extortion.All in a day’s work.When Ishmael takes the Chernyakova back into Toe-Hold space, he finds a lot more than profit. A quick pass through the Telluride system reveals the answer to one question but leaves him docked without a cargo until the owner of Dark Knight Station makes him an offer he can’t refuse... -
![Retribution by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole]()
Retribution by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsVICTORY 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... -
![Hero Code by Lindsay Buroker]()
Hero Code by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsCasmir Dabrowski is finally heading back to his home world, determined to gain an audience with the queen and convince her to tell him the secret of his genes. But the terrorists who have been sending robot assassins after him are still there—and still want him dead. As soon as he lands, the trouble starts...Categorized as:
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![In Ashes Born by Nathan Lowell]()
In Ashes Born by Nathan Lowell
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsAn old friend. A new course.A deadly ship with a secret cargo.Ishmael Wang returns to Port Newmar but ghosts from his past have followed him. His old shipmate, Phillip Carstairs, offers him the opportunity to track down the man who killed his lover. The catch? He must take command of the Chernyakova, a ship that still stinks of death and haunts Ishmael's nightmares... -
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![She is the Principle: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Michael Anderle]()
She is the Principle: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA teenage boy with a terminal condition, a group of school bullies, and an incognito Empress with a short temper…Kirian Larsen knows he won’t live to see adulthood. Dex and his gang only care that he’s a human living on “their” planet.Their determination to make his life harder bothers Kirian less than their efforts to do the same for their other victims... -
![Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy by Timothy Zahn]()
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy by Timothy Zahn
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe 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... -
![Boneshaker by Joshua Dalzelle]()
Boneshaker by Joshua Dalzelle
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsMarine First Lieutenant Jacob Brown is bored.For months he's been sitting around on an alien planet, waiting for command to recall his scout team so they could rest and be re-outfitted. The team went through hell during their previous mission, losing both their commanding officer and their ship...Categorized as:
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![Message for the Dead by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole]()
Message for the Dead by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSurvive the Future. As Legion Commander Keller attempts to coax the Republic and Black Fleet into a winner-take-all battle at the heart of the Galactic Core, Wraith uncovers secrets from Tyrus Rechs’s past. Determined to liberate his crew from the clutches of a dormant fleet controlled by a hostile AI, the soldier-turned-rogue comes face to face with the galaxy’s greatest threat... -
![UnArcana Stars by Glynn Stewart]()
UnArcana Stars by Glynn Stewart
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA humanitarian mission into unfriendly starsA training cruise under the watch of a fortified fleet baseThe closing jaws of a trap years in the makingIt has been over a year since the UnArcana Worlds of the Protectorate of the Mage-King of Mars seceded, shattering the unity of the human race...Categorized as:
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![Fortitude by Glynn Stewart]()
Fortitude by Glynn Stewart
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn 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...Categorized as:
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![Star Force: Rift by Aer-ki Jyr]()
Star Force: Rift by Aer-ki Jyr
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe 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... -
![Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn]()
Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsGrand Admiral Thrawn faces the ultimate test of his loyalty to the Empire in this epic Star Wars novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn.“If I were to serve the Empire, you would command my allegiance.” Such was the promise Grand Admiral Thrawn made to Emperor Palpatine at their first meeting...Categorized as:
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![Iron Wolves by Jonathan Yanez, Jason Anspach]()
Iron Wolves by Jonathan Yanez, Jason Anspach
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere can be no victory without sacrifice. The Iron Wolves are a company of legionnaires whose legendary exploits date back to the Savage Wars. When they are invited to be guests of honor at a ceremony on a small, backwater planet, they look forward to some precious time away from the constant conflicts of galaxy's edge... -
![Order of the Centurion by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole]()
Order of the Centurion by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA PRICE PAID IN BLOOD “The Order of the Centurion is the highest award that can be bestowed upon an individual serving in, or with, the Legion... -
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![Marine by Joshua Dalzelle]()
Marine by Joshua Dalzelle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAliens exist… and, as it turns out, most of them aren’t that friendly. Jacob Brown wasn’t even born yet the first time they attacked Earth. He was only fourteen the second time it happened. When Earth finally came together and fielded its first spaceborne military, Jacob didn’t hesitate to volunteer...Categorized as:
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![To Fire Called by Nathan Lowell]()
To Fire Called by Nathan Lowell
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA dead ship returns to the Deep Dark with a live crew.Captain Ishmael Wang finally gets the Chernyakova out of the yard and embarks on a voyage into the Toe-Holds where the Confederated Planets Joint Committee on Trade has no authority. Where the law is whatever you say it is as long as you can enforce it.Where he learns that some will do anything to hide their secrets and everybody has a secret... -
![Slave Trade by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle]()
Slave Trade by Craig Martelle, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsNo respect for life. Or the law. It’s the trade. In sentience. Run by the Corranites, creatures that have always traded in intelligent alien life.Bought and sold. Nothing more than property.Rivka is having none of it. With an eye toward taking the entire supply line down, she launches into the greater galaxy. All the way to the heart of the Federation.It’s bigger than anyone knows... -
![Allies by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller]()
Allies by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEven Clan Korval needs friends, and the kinds of friends they often need aren't simply buddies and pals, but allies. As Cantra so succinctly put it:"In the matter of allies only two things are important...Categorized as:
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![Defiant Ruin by Marie Andreas]()
Defiant Ruin by Marie Andreas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fight for the Commonwealth comes to an explosive conclusion! The good news is that Captain Vaslisha Tor Dain and most of her rag tag band of mercenaries managed to survive a devastating confrontation with the resurrected ancient enemy the Asarlaí. The bad news is that the WARRIOR WENCH has crash landed on a deserted planet in an unknown galaxy... -
![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 ratingsThe onslaught has begun and the galaxy must cope with a very slow moving certainty of its eventual destruction... -
![Kill Team by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole]()
Kill Team by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAlways make 'em pay. In the aftermath of the Battle of Kublar—and the destruction of the battleship Chiasm—Legion Dark Ops recruits Chhun, Wraith, and the survivors of Victory Company to form an elite Kill Team of legionnaires. Their secret mission is as clear as it is deadly: find and eliminate those responsible for the Kublar disaster... -
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Throne of Stars by David Weber, John Ringo
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBooks 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 ratingsAs 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...Categorized as:
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April by Mackey Chandler
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsApril is an exceptional young lady and something of a snoop. She finds herself involved with intrigues that stretch her abilities after a chance run in with a spy. There is a terrible danger she and her friends and family will lose the only home she has ever known in orbit and be forced to live on the slum ball below. It's more than a almost teen can deal with...Categorized as:
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![To End in Fire by David Weber, Flint]()
To End in Fire by David Weber, Flint
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE CROWN OF SLAVES SAGA CONTINUES. ADVENTURE AND INTRIGUE IN THE STAR KINGDOM FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHORS DAVID WEBER AND ERIC FLINT.The Solarian League lies in defeat, crushed by the Grand Alliance of Manticore, Haven, and Grayson...Categorized as:
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![Spinward Fringe Broadcast 7: Framework by Randolph Lalonde]()
Spinward Fringe Broadcast 7: Framework by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe crew of the Triton find themselves marooned in the Rega Gain solar system. Refusing to abandon the refugees and liberated slaves who joined them along the way, Ayan Rice and her friends negotiate a deal with the Carthan Government to found a home on a terraformed moon...Categorized as:
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![Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture by Randolph Lalonde]()
Spinward Fringe Broadcast 5: Fracture by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe crew of the Triton, a rare, Earth built Space Combat Carrier, make their way to Ossimi Station, a safe haven for independent ships and traders. In a galaxy gripped by conflict and teetering on the verge of chaos, Captain Jacob Valance and his crew will be faced with the unexpected, the unknown, and an opportunity to save thousands of lives...Categorized as:
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![Cauldron of Ghosts by David Weber, Eric Flint]()
Cauldron of Ghosts by David Weber, Eric Flint
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSequel to national bestsellers Crown of Slaves and Torch of Freedom, Cauldron of Ghosts is the return of Secret agent Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat in the Wages of Sin, the classic tie-in series set in David Weber's Honorverse...Categorized as:
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![Spinward Fringe Broadcast 4: Frontline by Randolph Lalonde]()
Spinward Fringe Broadcast 4: Frontline by Randolph Lalonde
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat at first seemed to be a chaotic uprising of machine against man is becoming a controlled event, destroying the lives of billions and hurling the known galaxy into a state of utter discord. The fourth fall of mankind is well underway. The Order of Eden seems to be the only force for order and peace, offering a place in their new society in trade for a large investment and their freedom...Categorized as:
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![Malleus by Dan Abnett]()
Malleus by Dan Abnett
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIn the 41st Millenium, the enemies of mankind are legion, omnipresent and utterly deadly. While the warriors of the Imperium fight with firepower and faith, the Holy Inquisition hunts the shadows for the most terrible of foes – rogue psykers, xenos, and daemons. Inquisitor Eisenhorn must track down and defeat the forces who would destroy him or face the wrath of the Ordo Malleus...Categorized as:
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![Fractured Stars by Lindsay Buroker]()
Fractured Stars by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMcCall Richter finds criminals, con men, and deadbeats better than anyone else in the empire. She’s proud of her success and that she owns her own spaceship, especially since she struggles to understand human motivations, can’t tell when people are lying to her, and is horrible at recognizing faces... -
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Special Forces 01 by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B00AO8CO02Captain Arystair Savar has seen more of war in his seventeen years than most retired officers. He has been defending his home colony from the Nova Federation ever since he graduated from the Army Academy at 14 years old...Categorized as:
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![Krimson Run by Julia Huni, Craig Martelle]()
Krimson Run by Julia Huni, Craig Martelle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Federation will make you pay for your crimes, even the fake ones.Tony, a spy from a rival star system who is the scion of a galactic crime family. Quinn, falsely accused former military, betrayed by her husband. A conspiracy that intertwines their lives.Where did the government go wrong? When they separated Quinn from her kids... -
![Embracing Oblivion by Toby Neighbors]()
Embracing Oblivion by Toby Neighbors
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHumanity has a new enemy The threat is no longer in doubt Three questions remain: When will they come? How will they attack us? Can we survive? The Kroll are real, but very little is known about humanity’s strange new enemy...Categorized as:
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![Through the Nether by Richard Fox, Jason Anspach]()
Through the Nether by Richard Fox, Jason Anspach
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNether Ops works in shadows, and those shadows taint all they touch. Soren Voss believes in the Republic. But when he puts a promising Navy career on hold to serve as a covert agent, he encounters truths that throw everything he knows into turmoil... -
![A Question of Faith by Glynn Stewart]()
A Question of Faith by Glynn Stewart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo star nations struggle for primacyA protectorate of both left defencelessA call for help from any who can hearThe Castle Federation and the Coraline Imperium have built pocket empires on the fringe of human space. Tiny by the standards of the behemoth Commonwealth born of Terra, they remain unchallenged in their own sectors—but their fleets watch the border between them with careful eyes... -
![Star Force: Essence by Aer-ki Jyr]()
Star Force: Essence by Aer-ki Jyr
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe ever-growing peace and order in the galaxy has nearly run its course as a new series of events begin to take shape. Buckle your seat belt, Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye bye.. -
![Space Rogues 3: The Behemoth Job by John Wilker]()
Space Rogues 3: The Behemoth Job by John Wilker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor the crew of the Ghost, it's never just a job The last one nearly cost them a member of the crew.Well, they fight spider-bears, meet Bennie’s family and learn more than anyone wants to about Wil’s digestive tract, and Wil reveals what he’s been hiding under his bed all this time... -
![Imperial Twilight by Eric Thomson]()
Imperial Twilight by Eric Thomson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe most powerful empire in human history is rushing headlong toward destruction, ending our species' supremacy in the known galaxy.Two men with widely divergent visions are on a mission to save civilization in at least one sector, far from the imperial capital where a demented ruler holds sway... -
![Terminal Secrets by Andy Peloquin]()
Terminal Secrets by Andy Peloquin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNolan Garrett is on the hunt for traitors, and it just got personal!His targets: a pair of thieves who broke into a military armory. Already, the stolen high-grade weapons have flooded the streets of New Avalon with blood.Nolan’s pursuit brings him to the last place in the universe he’d want to go…home...Categorized as:
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![Aftershocks by Marko Kloos]()
Aftershocks by Marko Kloos
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAcross the six-planet expanse of the Gaia system, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in the wake of an interplanetary war. Amid an uneasy alliance to maintain economies, resources, and populations, Aden Robertson reemerges. After devoting twelve years of his life to the reviled losing side, with the blood of half a million casualties on his hands, Aden is looking for a way to move on...Categorized as:
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![The Reservist by J.R. Handley, Jason Anspach]()
The Reservist by J.R. Handley, Jason Anspach
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThey promised him one weekend a month. The House or Reason swore the 9th would never leave their gentle homeworld. But after Kublar, things changed for Sergeant Fetch and the Caledonian Reserve Legion Corps. Thrown into a meat grinder conflict in a desperate bid to hold the line, it doesn’t matter whether you’re reserve or active, only that you kill and survive... -
![Wanderer - Extinction by Simon Goodson]()
Wanderer - Extinction by Simon Goodson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJess and the Wanderer race to save the Universe from extinction. Will saving everything just mean handing it to the Taint? The destruction of the Universe has started and only Jess and the Wanderer have the slightest chance of stopping it, but that's only the start. Jess must also find a way to stop the all-consuming Taint once and for all... -
![Invisible Sun by Charles Stross]()
Invisible Sun by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe alternate timelines of Charles Stross' Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun--the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State--as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination for humanity across all known timelines.A inter-timline coup d'état gone awry.A renegade British monarch on the run through the streets of Berlin... -
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![I Was Legion by Evan Currie]()
I Was Legion by Evan Currie
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEarth is not the cradle of humanity. It is the Throne.Almost four hundred years the Terran Imperium has languished, an Empire in name only. The young colonies exploded out of the Diaspora Era, supplanting the homeworld in importance as they left a broken world in their wake. Earth's people, guided by the Conwin line, have clawed and climbed from the darkness left the night the lights went out... -
![Space Rogues by John Wilker]()
Space Rogues by John Wilker
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens when your experimental spacecraft breaks down near Neptune? Dying alone in space is the likely answer, right?That's not how Wil Calder's story ends though; it's how it begins. Alien space outlaws rescue him and sell his pod for scrap. He's given a choice: join the crew or step out the airlock without his spacesuit... -
![Spy Night on Union Station by E.M. Foner]()
Spy Night on Union Station by E.M. Foner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSpy Night on Union Stationis is Book 4 of the EarthCent Ambassador series. The story picks up less than a year after the events of High Priest on Union Station, with Kelly coming to the conclusion that EarthCent needs an intelligence service. Of course, EarthCent has no institutional knowledge of what spies do, or how they work, so the new agency gets off to a slow start...Categorized as:
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![Dark State by Charles Stross]()
Dark State by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDark State is the second book in an exciting series in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series, following Empire Games.In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent... -
![Descent by Marko Kloos]()
Descent by Marko Kloos
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA nationalist uprising triggers an interstellar wrest for control in an epic novel of embattled worlds by the author of Citadel and the Frontlines series.POW Aden Jansen has lost a decade of his life to both the war and internment when he’s recruited by the Alliance...Categorized as:
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![Galactic Outlaws by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole]()
Galactic Outlaws by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA long, long time from now, at the edge of the galaxy… Seven years after the Battle of Kublar: A young girl searches the crime-ridden gutters of a seedy starport for a hero to avenge her father's murder. A short jump away, a double-dealing legionnaire-turned-smuggler navigates a treacherous course past Republic lackeys and wanton space pirates in search of an epic payday...
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