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  • Revolution by Joshua Dalzelle

    Revolution by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    For thousands of years the ConFed has been the most powerful force in the quadrant. It is the umbrella under which hundreds of planets and trillions of beings live in relative peace ... despite the corruption and waste, it's a system that most accept as preferable to the chaos that would ensue in its absence...
  • Retribution by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Retribution by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    VICTORY 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...
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    aliens  soldiers  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  audiobook  book
  • Boneshaker by Joshua Dalzelle

    Boneshaker by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Marine 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...
  • 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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    aliens  soldiers  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  audiobook  book
  • When Words Fail by J.N. Chaney, Jonathan P. Brazee

    When Words Fail by J.N. Chaney, Jonathan P. Brazee

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Galaxy is growing...and it's more dangerous than ever before.An all-out war within humanity has been narrowly avoided, and peace is finally at hand.Yeah, right.Human ships are being taken, their crews disappearing...
  • Livesuit by James S.A. Corey

    Livesuit by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the endless slaughter is the Livesuit forces. Soldiers meld their bodies to the bleeding edge technology, becoming something more than human for the duration of a war that might never end.The first novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey's epic Captive's War series...
  • 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...
  • Redemption by Joshua Dalzelle

    Redemption by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    There is a fine line between right and wrong, good and evil. For years Jason Burke has straddled that line as best he can, always convinced that despite the violence carried out by him and his team they were firmly on the right side of that line. But as he reflects on his time with Omega Force, he begins to have his doubts...
  • Thrawn by Timothy Zahn

    Thrawn by Timothy Zahn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also one of the most captivating characters in the Star Wars universe, from his introduction in bestselling author Timothy Zahn’s classic Heir to the Empire through his continuing adventures in Dark Force Rising, The Last Command, and beyond...
  • Secret of the Phoenix by Joshua Dalzelle

    Secret of the Phoenix by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Captain Jason Burke has begun to suspect that the random attacks on his ship and crew over the last couple of years may not be so random after all. Evidence is mounting that there is something on the Phoenix ... something that powerful factions will stop at nothing to get their hands on...
  • Galaxy's Edge: Takeover: Season Two: Book One by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Galaxy's Edge: Takeover: Season Two: Book One by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every disaster brings an opportunity. Goth Sullus and his empire have fallen. With the Legion and the rest of the galaxy watching from the still-smoldering galactic core, Carter, a former legionnaire turned private contractor, and Jack Bowie, a Navy spy with nowhere left to turn, sign up to work for an enterprising private contractor looking to make a statement on the planet Kublar...
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    aliens  soldiers  war  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  male-mc
  • Warrior King by Evan Currie

    Warrior King by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Battle-weary after a desperate fight to save Earth from the Drasin alien onslaught, Confederation Captain Eric Weston is tasked with a perilous new mission. He and the crew of the Odysseus must hunt down those who unleashed the hellish attack on his homeworld and that of Earth’s Priminae allies...
  • Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn

    Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Grand 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...
  • 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...
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    aliens  soldiers  war  adult  ai  audiobook  book  exploration
  • 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...
  • Tasmanian SFG: Welcome to Hell by C.R. Daems

    Tasmanian SFG: Welcome to Hell by C.R. Daems

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jolie was three when she found she was ugly and deformed. She was five when she found she was a sub-human and an outcast. She was seven when five boys and two girls dragged her out of the orphanage and beat her unconscious, leaving her lying bleeding and broken in the street. She was content to lie there and die, tired of being hated and abused...
  • Border Wars by Evan Currie

    Border Wars by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The mission continues as Sorilla, the Green Berets of the Fifth, and the Lucian Sentinels take their investigation to the colony world claimed by Islamic separatists during the very earliest of Earth's Diaspora period...
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    aliens  soldiers  war  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  military
  • 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 ratings
    A 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...
  • 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...
  • De Oppresso Liber by Evan Currie

    De Oppresso Liber by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The war may be over, but the fighting continues as SOLCOM learns of an excursion by the Ross'El against an unaffiliated pre-space civilization in the no man's land between Earth and the Alien Alliance. With always more questions than answers, SOLCOM dispatches a ship to quietly survey the situation and determine what, if any, course of action is best...
  • Open Arms by Evan Currie

    Open Arms by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With the war officially over, and years of fighting weighing on her, Sorilla has officially put in her papers and called in every chit she's owed. It's time to hang up her power armor, lay down her rifle, and try to build something for herself rather than for other people. The War, however, is only over when the powers that be say it is...
  • Orders of Battle by Marko Kloos

    Orders of Battle by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The battle against the Lankies has been won. Earth seems safe. Peacetime military? Not on your life.It’s been four years since Earth threw its full military prowess against the Lanky incursion. Humanity has been yanked back from the abyss of extinction. The solar system is at peace. For now...
  • War INC: Ace Evans Series book 1 by Toby Neighbors

    War INC: Ace Evans Series book 1 by Toby Neighbors

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

    Savage Homecoming by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Ever since he joined Omega Force, Captain Jason Burke has lived with the underlying fear that one day Earth would be discovered. His desire to keep Earth’s existence and location a secret has driven him to extremes, and kept him far away from his homeworld for a long time.But now Jason’s greatest fear is realized, and a fleet of alien ships has attacked his planet...
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    aliens  soldiers  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  epic
  • 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...
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    aliens  soldiers  war  adult  ai  audiobook  book  exploration
  • Chains of Duty by Anthony James

    Chains of Duty by Anthony James

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Captain John Duggan, it seems like war never ends. Each success brings another mission and more death. Following events at the Helius Blackstar, Duggan is given the Space Corps’ newest warship – a heavy cruiser armed to the teeth with the latest weapons and technology...
  • Galactic Breach by J.N. Chaney, Christopher Hopper

    Galactic Breach by J.N. Chaney, Christopher Hopper

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A city on the brink of war. Marines held hostage by merciless warlords. After Lieutenant Magnus awakes from the orbital strike that nearly killed him, he discovers that a small contingent of his Marine platoon has also survived. Hope glimmers as he devises a plan to rescue them. But when Magnus learns that his men are being held hostage by a deadly tribe, he fears the worst...
  • Halo: Silent Storm: A Master Chief Story by Troy Denning

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

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

    Valkyrie Burning by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The war that began on Hayden's World years ago has blossomed into a brawl across the stars, and yet that single and otherwise largely unimportant colony continues to be a central point in the conflagration. Human forces have pushed outward, now taking enemy worlds in response to the attacks on their own, but they don't have the numbers or the power to hold what they take...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  soldiers  war  adult  audiobook  book  colonization  fiction
  • Chasing the Dragon by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Chasing the Dragon by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They all want the Dragon dead. The Dragon was trained from his youth to operate as a lethal killing machine. He has tangled with crime lords, dangerous insurgents, even Nether Ops… and none of these forces has been able to bring the elusive warrior to heel. Enter the notorious bounty hunter Tyrus Rechs. Rechs takes on the job as a favor to an old Savage Wars buddy...
  • Qalea Drop by Joel Shepherd

    Qalea Drop by Joel Shepherd

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The UFS Phoenix embarks on a dangerous quest for the AI Ceephay Queen who rules at the heart of the Reeh Empire. For cover, Phoenix will use the enormous war being launched by the new rulers of the croma, Croma'Dokran, into reeh space...
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    aliens  soldiers  war  action-adventure  adult  ai  audiobook  book
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    aliens  soldiers  war  adult  audiobook  book  colonization  fiction
  • Points of Impact by Marko Kloos

    Points of Impact by Marko Kloos

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Humankind may have won the battle, but a new threat looms larger than ever before.... Earth's armed forces have stopped the Lanky advance and chased their ships out of the solar system, but for CDC officer Andrew Grayson, the war feels anything but won...
  • 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...
  • Soldiers of Fortune by Joshua Dalzelle

    Soldiers of Fortune by Joshua Dalzelle

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    After the daring rescue of a political dissident, Omega Force is contracted to investigate a rash of violent attacks on civilian shipping lanes within a group of star systems known as the Concordian Cluster...
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    aliens  soldiers  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  epic
  • 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...
  • Requiem for Medusa by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Requiem for Medusa by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's not just payback... it's personal. The scum hiding deep inside the Reach out along galaxy's edge thought they could kill her and not pay the price. For years these hardened killers have run roughshod over the lawless worlds where Republic justice is never as fast as the blaster in your hand and where double-crosses and death are a part of every deal...
  • 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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    soldiers  war  adult  book  fiction  galactic-empire  military  space
  • Rage of Winter by Richard Fox, Scott Moon

    Rage of Winter by Richard Fox, Scott Moon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One Shot. One Kill. One sniper to strike fear in the heart of alien invaders. Hoffman’s Strike Marines pursue enemy agents across a wintry world, desperate to stop an insidious threat festering in the heart of the Terran Union. Their hunt is disrupted when the fanatical Kesaht invade and the team is split across the snow and ice of a harsh planet...
  • 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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    soldiers  war  adult  book  fiction  galactic-empire  military  space
  • Star Legions: The Ten Thousand Complete Series Box Set  (Books 1 - 7) by Michael G. Thomas

    Star Legions: The Ten Thousand Complete Series Box Set (Books 1 - 7) by Michael G. Thomas

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *** RELEASE DISCOUNT 50% OFF *** They are an unstoppable force of mercenaries from every known Terran planet in the Galaxy. They have little in common, other than their love of wealth and adventure, and a bitter hatred for each other. Known simply as the Black Legion, they will blaze a trail of death and destruction that will be remembered for generations...
  • Trident Fury by Richard Turner

    Trident Fury by Richard Turner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Captain Michael Sheridan and Master Sergeant Alan Cole are back. This time the stakes couldn't be higher. When word of a brutal Kurgan prison planet reaches Earth, the men and women of the Sixth Fleet are sent into action. From a smuggler's hideout, to a prehistoric planet to a deadly fight with the dreaded Kurgan Imperial Guard, the struggle to survive continues...
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    soldiers  war  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  military  space
  • Major by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Major by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Marine major is one of the orphan ranks, too senior to command a line company, but too junior to command a battalion. Newly promoted to major, Ryck reports for duty as the assistant naval attaché to the Confederation of Free States, the same government whose troops he’d recently fought in the Telchines...
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    soldiers  war  adult  book  fiction  military  space  space-fleet
  • Captain by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Captain by Jonathan P. Brazee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As a captain, Ryck Lysander is given one of the most sought-after billets in the Marines: an infantry company commander. His new battalion commanding officer, however, is not impressed with Ryck's past accomplishments, and Ryck finds himself struggling to fulfill the CO's expectations. Used to his "hero" status within the Corps, his new position of having to prove himself grates on him...
    Categorized as:
    soldiers  war  adult  book  fiction  military  space  violent-conflict
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