Marines in Space Series by Ian Douglas

3.89 · 177 ratings
  • Semper Mars (Marines in Space #1)
    #1

    Semper Mars (Marines in Space #1)

    Ian Douglas

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings · published 1998

    The Year is 2040.The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves.Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to split humanity into opposing factions and plunge the Earth into chaos and war... more

  • Luna Marine (Marines in Space #2)
    #2

    Luna Marine (Marines in Space #2)

    Ian Douglas

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1999

    The revelations on Mars -- a half-million year-old legacy of the vanished star-traveling Builders -- have fed the flames of catastrophic war. A beleaguered United States and its Russian and Japanese allies struggle to hold their own against the indomitable forces of the enemy United Nations. The bloody conflict that has swept over the home planet now rages across the blackness of space -- with the U.S. Marine Corps in the vanguard, leading the charge as always... more

  • Europa Strike (Marines in Space #3)
    #3

    Europa Strike (Marines in Space #3)

    Ian Douglas

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings · published 2000

    2040: Ruins of ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind.2042: In the gray dust of the Earth's Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions...and a grim warning.2067: As Earth's warring factions clash in space for scraps of alien technology, a strange artifact lies trapped beneath the ice-locked oceans of Europa: a machine that holds the key to the final human destiny... more

  • Star Corps (Marines in Space #4)
    #4

    Star Corps (Marines in Space #4)

    Ian Douglas

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings · published 2003

    In the future,earth's warriors haveconquered the heavens.But on a distant world,Humanity is in chains ...Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying -- and fatal -- discovery: the Ahanu, ancestors of the former masters, live on, far from the reach of Earth -- born weapons and technology .. more

  • Battlespace (Marines in Space #5)
    #5

    Battlespace (Marines in Space #5)

    Ian Douglas

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2006

    When called to do battle many light years from home, the 1st Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit rose to the challenge -- and now thousands of enslaved humans have been freed from the alien yoke. But Earth is twenty-one years older than the home planet they originally left, and the Marines need time to retrain and readjust -- time they do not have, due to the bizzare disappearance of a detachment of their brothers- and sisters-in-arms... more

  • Star Marines (Marines in Space #6)
    #6

    Star Marines (Marines in Space #6)

    Ian Douglas

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2007

    With the planet's fighting men and women deployed across the galaxy—battling in the noble cause of enslaved humanity—the insidious Xul have reached across space to devastate the unsuspecting Earth with asteroid fire. Without warning, a once majestic world is reduced to near-rubble—and the very future of humankind is in dire jeopardy.Interplanetary leaders are on the brink of abandoning Earth and its colonies to an overwhelming enemy... more

  • Star Strike (Marines in Space #7)
    #7

    Star Strike (Marines in Space #7)

    Ian Douglas

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 2008

    Planet by planet, galaxy by galaxy, the inhabited universe has fallen to the alien Xul.Now only one obstacle stands between them and total domination: the warriors of a resilient race the world-devourers nearly annihilated centuries ago . . .A power vast, ancient, and terrifying, the mighty Xul have lost track of the insignificant humans hundreds of years after devastating their home world—which has enabled the United Star Marines to operate unnoticed and unhindered... more

  • Galactic Corps (Marines in Space #8)
    #8

    Galactic Corps (Marines in Space #8)

    Ian Douglas

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2008

    War is foreverThe people on Earth no longer remember how the human race was nearly obliterated centuries earlier during the terror visited upon them by the merciless Xul. But the Star Marines, thirty thousand light years from home, know all too well the horror that still lives.In the year 2886, in the midst of the intergalactic war that has been raging nonstop for nearly a decade, the unthinkable has occurred... more

  • Semper Human (Marines in Space #9)
    #9

    Semper Human (Marines in Space #9)

    Ian Douglas

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2009

    The final conflictChaos has erupted throughout the known galaxy, threatening countless colonies and orbital habitats—as the Associative struggles vainly to keep the peace. Extreme measures are called for in these times of dire crisis, and the Star Marines are awakened from their voluntary 850-year cybe-hibe sleep. But General Trevor Garroway and his warriors are about to discover that the old rules of engagement have drastically changed . . more

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