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  • Fire and Song by Bryce O'Connor

    Fire and Song by Bryce O'Connor

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    *The Iron Prince will claim his crown.*Reidon Ward’s first semester at the Galens Institute hasn't been without reward. In just over half a year he’s gone from the weakest cadet at school to one of the strongest in his class, and there’s no one left who would argue that his Device, Shido, isn’t the most terrifying CAD they’ve ever laid eyes on...
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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 ratings
    Survive 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...
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    cyberpunk  military  soldiers  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  aliens
  • Prisoners of Darkness by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Prisoners of Darkness by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The galaxy is spiraling into all-out war. The Battle of Tarrago was just the beginning. Following Goth Sullus's ruthless onslaughts against the Republic, a desperate House of Reason searches for scapegoats—and finds one, deserving or not, in Commander Ellek Owens. His sentence is cruel, unjust—and final. Unless Victory Squad has anything to say about it...
  • Tasmanian SFG, Book II: Devils to Me by C.R. Daems, Emily Woo Zeller

    Tasmanian SFG, Book II: Devils to Me by C.R. Daems, Emily Woo Zeller

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Devils to me," a siren call that would bring every Tasmanian running to answer no matter what they were doing. Repeated over and over by those answering the call, it would empty bars or a base or a city of Tasmanians, because no member of the elite unit would desert a brother in trouble, reinforcing their unofficial motto, Et Anima Una, Of One Mind...
  • Opening Moves by Cosimo Yap

    Opening Moves by Cosimo Yap

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The Earth is changing. The alien invasion brought social upheaval, advanced technology, and an armada of peacekeeping robots. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this. He has only one thing on his mind: the Game. A fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major part of the invading civilization...
  • 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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    military  soldiers  war  action-adventure  adult  aliens  book  fiction
  • 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...
  • Coalition's End by Karen Traviss

    Coalition's End by Karen Traviss

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Understand what a world had to do to survive. When the Locust Horde burst from the ground fifteen years ago to slaughter the human population of Sera, mankind began a desperate war against extinction...
  • 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...
  • Rika Commander by M.D. Cooper

    Rika Commander by M.D. Cooper

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rika returns to the Albany System, to defend it from Nietzschea once more...
  • Mamelukes by Jerry Pournelle, David Weber

    Mamelukes by Jerry Pournelle, David Weber

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE FINAL NOVEL BY LEGENDARY AUTHOR JERRY POURNELLE, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR DAVID WEBER AND AUTHOR'S SON PHILLIP POURNELLENO REST FOR THE WEARYRick Galloway's still not sure what inspired him to volunteer to fight Cubans in Angola, and he certainly never expected to end his African adventure shanghaied by a flying saucer when his CIA superiors cut him and his...
  • Standing Alone by Christopher G. Nuttall

    Standing Alone by Christopher G. Nuttall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Five years ago, the human race became independent as the Alphan Empire conceded it could no longer sustain its grip on Earth and withdrew, casting an unprepared humanity adrift on an interstellar sea of troubles. Since then, humanity has struggled mightily to secure its position in a galaxy full of hungry predators, many of whom see Earth as nothing more than a prize to be won...
  • 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...
  • Star Fox: Book One by Rob Buckman

    Star Fox: Book One by Rob Buckman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a future not far from our own, Christopher Knight, a sergeant in the Royal Marines is transported to an alien world where the technology is so far advanced from his own it seems like magic. Chris tries to find a way home, but the beautiful alien woman responsible for dragging him into this situation, and the dreaded Tal-Shial agents chasing her make it impossible...
  • Kill Team by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Kill Team by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Always 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...
  • 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...
  • Legacies by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Legacies by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With his duty to the Legion satisfied, Wraith sets out to find a lost member of his crew—the young girl, Prisma. But not only does the journey bring with it more death and destruction—and loss—than he ever imagined, it revives the shadows of a forgotten past… and the only way forward is to follow the footsteps of the legendary Tyrus Rechs...
  • War's Edge: Blood & Steel by Ryan W. Aslesen

    War's Edge: Blood & Steel by Ryan W. Aslesen

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    "Bolder and more action packed than anything Ryan Aslesen has written before, this groin kicker of a book is the furthest thing from a bland, spineless it's a brutal, intense successor to the initial scifi masterpiece." -Nathaniel Timberlake Galactic war...
  • Earth's Gambit by Cosimo Yap

    Earth's Gambit by Cosimo Yap

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Earth has changed. War is now fought in an alien virtual reality—the Game—where many of the players are anything but human. Now part of the Black Rose guild, Alan heads to the Academy to level up and get stronger. He hopes to make allies and learn skills to win the battles to come...
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    cyberpunk  litrpg  magic  military  war  action-adventure  adult  ai
  • The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 3 by David Drake

    The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 3 by David Drake

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

    Commandant by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the conclusion to Ryck Lysander’s saga as a United Federation Marine.Major General Lysander has spent 38 years of his life dedicated to the Corps and sworn to perform the duties assigned to him by the Federation. In the process, he has become the most decorated Marine in its history...
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    military  soldiers  war  adult  book  fiction  violent-conflict  sci-fi
  • The Silent Fleet by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    The Silent Fleet by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Recruit. Fight. Build.  As Dash and his team begin expanding the Forge, they must focus on Dark Metal as the one thing that can give them an advantage in the coming war.Using drones and a map from an ancient library, Dash and Leira must seek out the source of a transmission coming from far away...
  • Star Forged by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Star Forged by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Forge is coming back online, weapons hot and searching known space for signs of the Golden. When Dash and Leira repair a powerful scanner, it finds something unusual in a distant system—the remains of an ancient battlefield. Custodian tells of a fight lost long ago, leaving drifting debris around the faraway star. But the battlefield isn’t forgotten...
  • Stand Against The Storm by Peter Grant

    Stand Against The Storm by Peter Grant

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When duty and honor collide... An emergency recall to his ship short-circuits Senior Lieutenant Steve Maxwell’s plan to get rid of a long-standing personal burden. Instead, he finds himself dumped into a war zone on a peacekeeping mission hundreds of light years away. He doesn’t have enough people, equipment or information...
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    military  soldiers  war  adult  book  fiction  space  space-fleet
  • Starship's Mage: Episode 5 by Glynn Stewart

    Starship's Mage: Episode 5 by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ship’s Mage Damien Montgomery and the crew of the Blue Jay have run to the edge of the Protectorate, beyond the reach of civilized law.But even at the outlaw station of Darkport, their enemies have sought them out – and now the very leader of the galaxy’s largest crime syndicate pursues them with a stolen warship...
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    magic  military  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • 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...
  • Bound By Law by Glynn Stewart, Terry Mixon

    Bound By Law by Glynn Stewart, Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An uneasy peace broken by an old enemy An old ally owed debts and obligations A new mission to bring light into darkness In the aftermath of the destruction of the Cadre’s main base, there was a period of quiet in the Solar System. Now, however, pirate attacks are on the rise again...
  • The Dark Between by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    The Dark Between by J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Messenger must prepare for war. With the Archetype damaged, Dash and his crew will need more than a quick fix to prepare for what’s coming. A secret facility known only as the Forge lies in cold sleep, built by the Unseen for the greatest war in history. Dash has no idea what awaits him there, but he hopes to find some kind of advantage in the war that is to come...
  • 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...
  • The Last Squadron by Dan Jayson

    The Last Squadron by Dan Jayson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Just fifteen years from now, the world is polarised along ethnic and religious lines. Regional low-intenstiry wars have now been raging for thirty-five years. In the midst of the conflict, ninety-seven members of the Allied forces 9th Mountain Squadron enroute from the Northern Front for a long awaited period of rest and relaxation, are shot down over the Nordic wilderness...
  • Savage Wars by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Savage Wars by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The greatest conflict the galaxy has ever known… They were the Savages. Raiders from our distant past. Elites who left Earth to create tailor-made utopias aboard the massive lighthuggers that crawled through the darkness between the stars...
  • Croma Venture by Joel Shepherd

    Croma Venture by Joel Shepherd

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Upon the ancient drysine moon/city of Defiance, the UFS Phoenix is being rebuilt, but her crew cannot do so in peace. Parren factions jostle for control of not only Defiance, but of the drysine data-core that Phoenix won at such an awful price. But the parren do not lay sole claim to that ancient knowledge, and within the bowels of the machine-city, something long-dead is awakening...
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    litrpg  military  soldiers  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  aliens
  • Oath of Vengeance by Glynn Stewart, Terry Mixon

    Oath of Vengeance by Glynn Stewart, Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A mercenary with a secret past A pirate leader with a secret mission A clash that will shake planets Mercenary Captain Brad Madrid has spent years building the resources to go after the man who murdered his family. His new career has benefits—but also duties and responsibilities he cannot lightly brush aside...
  • Straight Silver by Dan Abnett

    Straight Silver by Dan Abnett

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Commissar Gaunt and his men undertake a seemingly suicidal mission in the blood-soaked trenches of the 41st Millennium.On the battlefields of Aexe Cardinal, the struggling forces of the Imperial Guard are locked in a deadly stalemate with the dark armies of Chaos...
  • Sarton Station by Dean Henegar

    Sarton Station by Dean Henegar

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Through Commodore Slater’s efforts, humanity’s war with the council is over. He gave Earth the tools it needed for victory, but at a great cost to himself. The Franklin was destroyed, and his core is slowly dying.Discovered by those who seek to use him for profit, Slater is taken to Sarton Station. His captors intend to use him for their own amusements, but they have made a deadly mistake...
  • Flight of the Reaper by J.N. Chaney, Scott Moon

    Flight of the Reaper by J.N. Chaney, Scott Moon

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Vice Admiral Nebs and his Archangels are coming for the Last Reaper, and they’re out for blood.Halek Cain and his crew jump into one slip tunnel after another to escape a psychopath with an armada of deadly warships. Every system is a trap; every encounter a potential battle.When Cain and his friends receive a distress call from the Bold Freedom, innocent lives will hang on their every decision...
  • Heart of Vengeance by Glynn Stewart, Terry Mixon

    Heart of Vengeance by Glynn Stewart, Terry Mixon

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A pirate attack with only one survivorA conspiracy woven across the planetsA vengeance that will not be deniedWhen pirates seize the inter-planetary freighter owned by Brad Mantruso’s family, he is dumped into space. Saved from death by a passing Fleet ship, he is left with nothing but his skills, a gun, and a burning desire for vengeance...
  • Star Force: Lost Destiny by Aer-ki Jyr

    Star Force: Lost Destiny by Aer-ki Jyr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Humans are the hunted...Two siblings are abandoned on an alien world as children when their father is killed, then taken in by one of his business associates and sheltered on their remote farm. Kept isolated from everyone else on the cruel, primitive world, their adoptive Calavari parents ensure that Esna and Teren obey their father's dying wish..
  • Esther's Story: Recon Marine by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Esther's Story: Recon Marine by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Esther Lysander, the driven, professional Marine ever conscious of the heavy weight of her father’s legacy, is selected to become an officer. She has high goals for her career—very high goals—and she believes the best method to achieve success is to be a complete hard-ass, keeping emotions at bay...
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    military  soldiers  war  adult  book  fiction  galactic-empire  space
  • Mindfracked by M.R. Forbes

    Mindfracked by M.R. Forbes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the twenty-fourth century, rising sea levels triggered by World War have forced humankind into a handful of densely populated cities surrounded by massive seawalls. Digitized consciousnesses known as Shades prowl the streets in bodies that aren’t their own, carrying out clandestine operations ordered by the artificial intelligence created to shepherd humankind through the aftermath...
  • Spartan Valor by Toby Neighbors

    Spartan Valor by Toby Neighbors

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Only the strong survive on the hostile planet of Apex Venandi. Space Marine Orion Porter is stranded with his Master Sergeant “Money” Eubanks and the injured Staff Sergeant Barnes. Surrounded by hostile natives, and running out of resources, their only hope is the return of the Fleet. Their call for help was beamed into space, but no reply has come...
  • Operation Phoenix by Susan Hayes

    Operation Phoenix by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She was the love of his life. Walking away was supposed to keep her safe… Dax’s greatest regret is leaving the woman he loved. His only other regret – not being able to tell her how her brother died. Now, he lives by one rule: mission first. When Trinity re-appears as a suspect in his investigation, he must make a hard choice...
  • Operation Cobalt by Susan Hayes

    Operation Cobalt by Susan Hayes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Protecting the doctor was part of his mission…falling in love with her wasn’t. Dante’s assignment should have been simple. Sneak onto a corporate controlled planet and find a missing medical team. Simple goes out the airlock when a beautiful woman charges headlong into his life. She’s one of the missing doctors, and the sexiest woman he’s ever seen. Keeping her alive won’t be easy...
  • Rebellion by Doc Spears, Jason Anspach

    Rebellion by Doc Spears, Jason Anspach

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s only one distraction from the stress of combat for a legionnaire—the next mission.For Sergeant Kel Turner and Kill Team Three, the wait is never long. Whether it’s on a core world snatching a delusional genius who knows too much, or on the edge forging allies among a complex alien culture, Dark Ops are the foot soldiers of the House of Reason’s galactic game for dominance...
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    military  soldiers  war  adult  book  fiction  galactic-empire  space
  • Sniper by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Sniper by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a successful initial tour as a Marine rifleman, Lance Corporal Gracie Medicine Crow volunteers to become a scout-sniper, one of the deadliest—and most dangerous—military specialties in the United Federation Marine Corps. Gracie comes from the Apsáalooke Nation, a people with a long history of military tradition...
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    military  soldiers  war  adult  book  fiction  violent-conflict  sci-fi
  • Halo: Point of Light by Kelly Gay

    Halo: Point of Light by Kelly Gay

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! August 2558. Rion Forge was once defined by her relentless quest for hope amidst the refuse and wreckage of a post-Covenant War galaxy—years spent searching for family as much as fortune...
  • The Irish Brigade: A Fallen Empire Novel by J.F. Holmes

    The Irish Brigade: A Fallen Empire Novel by J.F. Holmes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What’s a soldier to do when the war is over? When he’s only known conflict his whole life? Since time immemorial the solution has been to find another war, this time for pay. Whoever has the credits and wins the high bid gets the experienced fighter. Sometimes, though, the money isn't enough to cover the price...
  • Osdal by Michael Chatfield, Joel Richards

    Osdal by Michael Chatfield, Joel Richards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Masoul wasn’t just an uprising, it was the starting of a war. Harmony didn’t start on Masoul; they were using it as a testing ground. Moretti has a lead on where Harmony might have come from. First they need to defeat Harmony’s forces in Osdal. Nerva’s not going to throw his people at Harmony, this is not just a colonist uprising, this is a well-armed and backed military...
  • Mech Warrior: Born of Steel by James David Victor

    Mech Warrior: Born of Steel by James David Victor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world as we know it has come to an end, and humanity’s only hope may be a man who cannot survive without the aid of a robotic suit. Fortunately, that suit is one of the most powerful weapons ever created.A military sci-fi adventure from Amazon All-Star author James David VictorDane Williams barely survived the Exin attack and is faced with a life of pain and torment...
  • Havoc of War by C.J. Carella

    Havoc of War by C.J. Carella

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE FINAL BATTLE IS AT HAND A renegade American fleet has launched a genocidal counterattack against the Galactic Imperium. Empowered by entities from warp space, the Black Ships are about to unleash unspeakable evils on the entire galaxy. Only the US Navy has any hope to stop them, but first it must contend with alien armadas still intent on wiping out humanity...
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