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  • 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...
  • Brushfire by Craig Alanson

    Brushfire by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Peacetime can be a rough adjustment for the battle-hardened Merry Band of Pirates.Especially when aliens don’t get the memo that the shooting is over...
  • 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...
  • Armageddon by Craig Alanson

    Armageddon by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    After the Renegade mission by the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman, the UN Expeditionary Force thought Earth was safe for hundreds of years, at least. After there was trouble on the Homefront, and the President had to authorize a nuclear strike on an American city. UNEF decided they did need the Merry Band of Pirates again. So, the Flying Dutchman is sent out on a simple recon mission...
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    ai  aliens  humor  military  space-opera  war  action-adventure  adult
  • 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...
  • A Hop, Skip and a Jump by Mackey Chandler

    A Hop, Skip and a Jump by Mackey Chandler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lee has a lot going for her, tons of money, true friends who will stand by her, an unexpected bonus of extended life from advanced medial treatments, and a start at unraveling some of the pesky secrets in the stars. But there is so much to do to take advantage of all these opportunities that she's overwhelmed. Keeping all they've gained may not be easy...
  • Return of the Dead Guy by Barry J. Hutchison

    Return of the Dead Guy by Barry J. Hutchison

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They may have recently averted a full-scale galactic war, but Cal Carver and Space Team just can't stay out of trouble. When a 'Weird Space Thing™' threatens to destroy planet Earth, Cal is determined to stop it. But when they get there, they find the place is still swarming with parasitic extra-terrestrial bugs, and that there isn't a whole lot left to save...
  • Valkyrie by Craig Alanson

    Valkyrie by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's homeworld. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans...
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    ai  aliens  humor  military  space-opera  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Zero Hour by Craig Alanson

    Zero Hour by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite Expeditionary Force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-Merry Band of Pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of lightyears from home...
  • Madame Guillotine by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Madame Guillotine by Jason Anspach, Nick Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Leave no man behind. On Detron, a simmering protest boils over and turns deadly when militants hiding among the demonstrators deliberately shoot down a group of legionnaires, executing one survivor and taking two for ransom. The only Republic asset the captured leejes can rely on is a lone marine sniper who defies orders in a desperate attempt to save them...
  • 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...
  • In Fury Born by David Weber

    In Fury Born by David Weber

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Imperial Intelligence couldn't find them, the Imperial Fleet couldn't catch them, and local defenses couldn't stop them. It seemed the planet-wrecking pirates were invincible. But they made a big mistake when they raided ex-commando leader Alicia DeVries' quiet home work, tortured and murdered her family, and then left her for dead...
  • Breakaway by Craig Alanson, R.C. Bray

    Breakaway by Craig Alanson, R.C. Bray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Expeditionary Force saga continues with Breakaway, the eagerly awaited sequel to number-one Audible-ranked and New York Times best-selling Brushfire, from an epic sci-fi writer at the top of his game. Join the millions of listeners who have enjoyed R.C. Bray’s hilarious portrayal of Joe, Skippy, The Merry Band of Pirates and so many other unforgettable characters...
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    space-opera  military  aliens  humor  war  ai  sci-fi  audiobook
  • Crusade by Glynn Stewart

    Crusade by Glynn Stewart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A newborn Alliance, forged to stop the destroyers of worldsA potential ally, with secrets hidden by a thousand liesA long-doomed star, whose ruins hold a vital answer...
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    ai  aliens  military  space-opera  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • It Ain't Over... by Robert M. Kerns

    It Ain't Over... by Robert M. Kerns

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Buy 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...
  • Renegades by Craig Alanson

    Renegades by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The battle-scarred star carrier Flying Dutchman is finally on her way back to Earth, after an exceptionally successful series of missions that have once again Saved The World. The ship needs a serious refit, and her exhausted crew just wants a break from constant clandestine warfare against a vicious and superior enemy. Wishes come true, right? Not for the Merry Band of Pirates...
    Categorized as:
    ai  aliens  humor  military  space-opera  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Governor by David Weber, Richard Fox

    Governor by David Weber, Richard Fox

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A NEW MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR AND CREATOR OF THE HONOR HARRINGTON SERIES DAVID WEBER AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR RICHARD FOXSix Billion Dead—And One Man Intent on Putting a Stop to the Killing For more than fifty years, the Terran Republic and the Terran League have been killing one another...
  • Stowaway by Z.D. Dean

    Stowaway by Z.D. Dean

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lt Zade, on his last days of his last deployment to Afghanistan, still couldn’t find the excitement he so desperately needed. A chance encounter, on his last mission, sends him hurtling through space on the Unity exploration ship XES01. Surrounded by aliens, Zade must quickly learn to interact with the non-soldiers on the crew...
  • 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...
  • Sting of the Mustard Mines by Barry J. Hutchison

    Sting of the Mustard Mines by Barry J. Hutchison

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Space Team Universe has been changed forever!Having journeyed through time in order to restore peace to the galaxy, Cal Carver and Space Team are a little dismayed to find out they may have inadvertently made things even worse.Whoops...
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    humor  aliens  space-opera  ai  military  sci-fi  fiction  audiobook
  • Black Ops by Craig Alanson

    Black Ops by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The elite crew of the pirate ship UNS Flying Dutchman had a simple mission: determining whether the Thuranin are sending another starship to Earth. Along the way, they became sidetracked by securing a future for the UNEF troops on the planet Paradise. When asked whether Earth was now safe, their ancient alien AI responded 'Not so much'... now they have to deal with the consequences...
  • Haraken by S.H. Jucha

    Haraken by S.H. Jucha

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nine years of tranquility came to an abrupt end when a Méridien starship entered the Hellébore system, sounding a dire warning for Alex Racine, the Haraken president. Unwanted visitors had arrived again. But this time, they’re not alien; they’re human...
  • Earth Defiant by Richard Fox

    Earth Defiant by Richard Fox

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the battle for humanity's future, no one can be trusted. Betrayed by allies. Beset by new foes. Earth faces its darkest hour since the Xaros invasion. The Toth come to the Solar System with a fleet of warships, and they want for the only tool that can rekindle the human race...
  • Freefall by Craig Alanson

    Freefall by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Alien Legion has a new mission, and this time, they are working for the enemy. Also against the enemy. Like every operation that Emily Perkins plans, it’s complicated...
  • Deathtrap by Craig Alanson

    Deathtrap by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The human soldiers stranded on the planet Paradise have been recruited into an Alien Legion, to do the dirty jobs that the high-tech species won't do. Their first mission is to kick the enemy off a backwater planet no one cares about. It's a simple assignment, except everyone has a hidden agenda, and the planet could become a deathtrap...
  • The Hot Gate by John Ringo

    The Hot Gate by John Ringo

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    New York Times Best-Selling Author.The Big Showdown with an Alien Empire, to Keep the Earth Free—and Maybe Free the Galaxy as Well. The fight to free the Earth from alien domination began in Live Free or Die, and continued in Citadel. Now Tyler Vernon, and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station Troy, face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny...
  • 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...
  • Hard Contact by Karen Traviss

    Hard Contact by Karen Traviss

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    As the Clone Wars rage, victory or defeat lies in the hands of elite squads that take on the toughest assignments in the galaxy–stone-cold soldiers who go where no one else would, to do what no one else could. . . . On a mission to sabotage a chemical weapon research facility on a Separatist-held planet, four clone troopers operate under the very noses of their enemies...
  • Paradise by Craig Alanson

    Paradise by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying assure hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been trapped on the planet they nicknamed 'Paradise'. The Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission, and the UN wants the ship to find out the status of the humans on Paradise...
  • Valkyrie Rising by Evan Currie

    Valkyrie Rising by Evan Currie

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Two years after the initial invasion of Hayden's World, the newly reinforced Hayden Militia is in a state of stalemate with the remaining enemy forces but neither side is content to leave things at that.The alien alliance has dispatched their varsity to clean up the resistance on Hayden while the USF has officially activated Task Force V, the latest and most advanced combat ships built by humans...
  • 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...
  • For Honor We Stand by H. Paul Honsinger

    For Honor We Stand by H. Paul Honsinger

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In 2315, the Earth Union is losing a thirty-year-long war with the Krag Hegemony.Having encountered the Krag before, Space Commander Max Robicheaux now faces daunting challenges aboard the USS Cumberland: the dangers from the enemy without… and clashes with crew and superiors within...
  • Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric S. Nylund

    Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric S. Nylund

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Continuing the saga of the award-winning Xbox(TM) game!The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend...
  • Cain's Last Stand by Sandy Mitchell

    Cain's Last Stand by Sandy Mitchell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Audiobook 6 of the Ciaphas Cain SeriesThe Imperium's most unlikely hero is back, reluctantly returning to the front line and hoping his luck will hold out!LISTEN TO IT BECAUSEThis entry from the Cain Archives takes the Hero of the Imperium into his greatest – and possibly last – battle...
  • Mavericks by Craig Alanson

    Mavericks by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet 'Paradise' get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. When the mission goes horribly wrong and the survival of everyone on Paradise is at risk, the Merry Band of Pirates may have to come to the rescue. Unless they get killed first..
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    ai  aliens  humor  military  space-opera  war  action-adventure  adult
  • 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...
  • Special Forces 01 by Honor Raconteur

    Special Forces 01 by Honor Raconteur

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This 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...
  • Flight of Freedom by Jeffrey Burger

    Flight of Freedom by Jeffrey Burger

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmond Burke...The adventure continues - with one major difference: Jack Steele's Freedom is no longer the wounded duck she once was. They leave UFW Blackmount Station repaired and retooled, with a complete crew, fully armed and resupplied, ready to hunt...
  • Trapped Outside by Alan Black

    Trapped Outside by Alan Black

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The sequel to #1 best selling science fiction novel Metal Boxes. Blackmon Perry Stone hasn't gotten over his fear of being outside and he still hasn't settled into life in the Empire's Navy. After months of legal wrangling over his last assignment, he has been given a new assignment. He was looking forward to getting an new posting on a spaceship or a station...
  • At the Edge by Alan Black

    At the Edge by Alan Black

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ensign Stone’s goals were to make his way in the empire’s navy, make his family proud of him, and make love to his fiancée. No matter which way he turned, someone was conspiring against him. Disgraced and humiliated, he is court-martialed, discharged, and abandoned...
  • Manxome Foe by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor

    Manxome Foe by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In the midst of recovering from their successful if casualty prone first mission, the crew of the Alliance Space Ship "Vorpal Blade" are suddenly scrambled back into action. All other priorities take second place as word arrives on earth of a gate colony which has fallen to an unidentified alien assault...
  • Vanguard by Christopher G. Nuttall

    Vanguard by Christopher G. Nuttall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The third trilogy in the hit ‘Ark Royal’ series begins now! HMS Vanguard is the most powerful battleship ever to be commissioned by the Royal Navy, but she is not a happy ship. Her commanding officer is eccentric, rarely seen on the bridge; her former XO has deserted his post and her first middy is resentful because he hasn't been promoted as he deserves ..
  • The City and The Ship by Anne McCaffrey, S.M. Stirling

    The City and The Ship by Anne McCaffrey, S.M. Stirling

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two novels in one large volume, both set in the same universe as The Ship Who Sang: The City Who Fought: Simeon was bored with running the mining and processing station that made up his "body." Then the invaders came. If anyone was to survive, somehow he must transform his wargaming hobby into the real thing and become The City Who Fought...
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    aliens  space-opera  war  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  space
  • Renegade by Joel Shepherd

    Renegade by Joel Shepherd

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    One thousand years after Earth was destroyed in an unprovoked attack, humanity has emerged victorious from a series of terrible wars to assure its place in the galaxy...
  • Trouble on Paradise by Craig Alanson

    Trouble on Paradise by Craig Alanson

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Book '3.5' in the ExForce series: While the crew of the UN Expeditionary Force's pirate starship Flying Dutchman are enjoying a luxury vacation cruise (not!), UNEF troops are still stranded on an alien-controlled planet. Major Emily Perkins and her team are busy picking up the pieces, and it's not easy, because there is trouble on Paradise..
  • Halo: First Strike by Eric S. Nylund

    Halo: First Strike by Eric S. Nylund

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The Human-Covenant war rages on as the alien juggernaut sweeps inexorably toward its final goal: destruction of all human life! Halo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemy’s clutches...
  • Brothers in Valor by H. Paul Honsinger

    Brothers in Valor by H. Paul Honsinger

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    It is the year 2315, the 33rd year of the Krag Wars. The tide has been running against humankind and its allies. One small destroyer, the USS Cumberland, under the command of its young Cajun skipper, Max Robichaux, fights along with the rest of the Union and Allied navies to preserve the very existence of the human race...
  • Heirs of Empire by David Weber

    Heirs of Empire by David Weber

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Restoring the empire that had been destroyed 45,000 years earlier, Emperor Colin finds problems in the genocidal Achuultani and in his children Sean and Harriet, who have been marooned on a hostile planet...
  • Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe by Frank O'Connor, Tobias S. Buckell

    Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe by Frank O'Connor, Tobias S. Buckell

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there. When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire, millions of lives were lost—but, millions of heroes rose to the challenge...
  • Claws That Catch by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor

    Claws That Catch by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It's Not Over Til The Skinny Lady Sings . . .             Working off of a piece of intelligence from the alien Hexosehr, the Vorpal Blade is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the “black box” that drives humanity's only space ship...
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