Military Space Thriller

It's 2029, and America’s space program, once a beacon of hope for the future, is now a guttering candle. Even as Roscosmos thrives and China’s manned space program reaches new heights, NASA prepares to send the last symbol of a once-mighty dream of exploration —the International Space Station —tumbling to its fiery death.

An elite team of SAS special operators battle across the multiverse after a plague of land-hungry sentient robots invade today’s Earth. But, when an aircraft carrier-based counterattack goes horribly wrong, it traps the team in an alien universe with a top-secret group who’ve already saved the world twice. After discovering a dark plot that threatens humanity’s very existence, the two groups jump into action, fighting both on the surface and in orbit in a last-ditch effort to stop the enemy before time runs out.

He’s no hero and just wants to run space cargo. Alien warlords want him dead - with a billion credit price on his head. Now, every soldier with a gun and a spaceship wants to cash in on easy money, or so they think . . . But, humans are not easy to kill, especially a battle hardened Marine warrior from Earth. He is uncertain about where his life is going, but knows one thing - he hates the arrogance of the wealthy elite who promised the head-bounty. And, he’ll use his brilliant strategy, clever tactics and advanced weaponry to make them pay with their precious, jewelry-studded lives if ...

Humanity thought they were the only intelligent life in the universe. They were wrong. An alien spacecraft has crashed on Earth. A group of scientists want to establish contact with the aliens. A hostile government wants to nuke the crash site. Special Forces Major Joe Hunt is caught in the middle. With time running out to establish a peaceful relationship with the aliens, Joe must battle his instincts and unexpected forces that threaten the very future of humanity. Regardless of what happens, Earth risks being dragged into a galactic civil war it's not ready for. Minus Epsilon is classic ...

As the Project enters its final phase, air force majors Carson and Ourecky are dispatched on an urgent mission to intercept and investigate a massive orbiting object suspected of harboring nuclear weapons. Emotionally exhausted, with his marriage teetering on the brink, Ourecky reluctantly accepts the assignment; in return for his sacrifice, he is promised an opportunity to go to MIT to pursue the PhD he has long desired.

In 2004, Navy pilots encountered something impossible off the coast of San Diego. The Tic Tac incident became the most documented UAP case in history, and the most ignored. Twenty years later, oceanographer Dr. Morgan Hale discovers why. Morgan sees patterns others miss. Seven miles beneath the Pacific, her acoustic sensors detect a repeating signal anchored to the Mariana Trench. Seventy-two hour cycles. Harmonic intervals. Coordinated across every ocean floor on Earth. When she isolates the pattern, the timeline becomes clear: contact is coming. And it's not random. It's scheduled. With ...

Humanity has been banished to a distant star. Left to fight over resources rationed to them by mysterious machine-overlords known as Wardens. Commander Rylan Holt labors against inter-colony arms trafficking when an informant gives him horrific news. The ruthless cartel boss, Lilith, has stockpiled outlawed weapons of mass destruction. Worse, she claims to have permission from the Wardens to unleash them upon the system.

Dennis Block enjoyed Halloween, and is looking forward to Christmas. For one thing, he won’t be alone this year, and that makes it special. The big question on everyone’s mind is what Jane is going to do this year. Dennis isn’t worried. Whatever she comes up with, he’s on board for it. Some call this the silly season, and as such, there’s more than one reason to step up right now. The only thing he can’t be sure about, he also can’t control. Being the Emergency Mage comes before everything else. So all he can hope for is some time being the Christmas Mage. The Hunter Imperium ...

ALIENS: EXILE — THE SEVERING Book Three of the Kessler Chronicles They came for the flowers. They stayed to bury the truth. Anna Kessler thought Vault 51 was the end of it—seal the breach, burn the evidence, move on. But when a government black-ops program reverse-engineers alien technology into a gate, Anna and her family are dragged back into a war that spans galaxies. The gate leads to a relay moon—a derelict facility where xenomorphs were engineered, cataloged, and deployed across dozens of worlds. Earth was never special. Just another seeding site. Another harvest-in-progress. ...

Pursued by a relentless assassin, Alan and Jinny race across the galaxy in search of a secret truth that has eluded humanity for centuries. The 47 colonies have been at peace for over 700 years. But nothing is as it seems. The Council government of all humanity controls the populace through lies, fear, and genetically-engineered agents who do its terrible bidding.

THEY DIDN'T JUST INVADE. THEY BEGAN TO HARVEST. Ten years ago, the Kharlans arrived. Human ingenuity and nuclear arsenals proved useless against their biological-technological hybrid armor. Major cities fell in days as the invaders turned the entire planet into a buffet—systematically harvesting human bodies for a purpose more terrifying than mere extinction. Lieutenant Carlson is a survivor, a pilot flying a patchwork armada of retrofitted F-16s—relics of a dead world held together by stolen technology and desperate hope. Stationed on the orbiting carrier Forrestal, he spends his mid-...

Colonel Vaughn Singleton and his multiverse-hopping team of soldiers, scientists, and smart-assed robots are out of time. The Necks—relentless, four-armed machines—have launched a devastating offensive across countless timelines. As humanity's last defenses falter, Vaughn's team races to reboot the timeline and stop the war before it begins. But when a mission deep behind enemy lines uncovers a buried truth about their robotic foes, everything changes.

A mysterious wave of light has swept across the globe, erasing all animal life from the planet in an instant. Now, two survivors are all that remain—one stranded on a ravaged Earth and the other newly rescued from the decaying International Space Station. Their struggle for survival and reunion soon spirals into something much larger, plunging them into a cosmic battle that transcends time, space, and even reality itself.

For Hayden Cross, a military investigator in the far future, whether his wife faked her death is the question that is probably going to get him killed. Having lost the only job that kept him sane, he has few resources and fewer leads. Oh, and a sadistic crime lord really wants to kill him. As he fights through an underworld of fanatical rebels, callous bounty hunters, and corrupt cops, each step takes him closer to the truth about his wife’s fate and the oppressive government he once loyally served. On the way, he may even stop a war...but only if he betrays everyone he loves.

Earth has fallen. Humanity is chained. The fight for freedom starts now. Kory Drake has nothing—no home, no family, no future. Just the ashes of a conquered Earth and the street sister he’s sworn to protect. But when a desperate act of defiance puts him face-to-face with Earth’s alien overlords, everything changes. Offered a warship powerful enough to challenge the invaders, Kory must rise from gutter rat to starship captain. Thunder isn’t just a vessel—it’s a symbol, a weapon, and the spark of a rebellion that could set humanity free. The enemy is ruthless. The odds are ...

Angela’s reset bought us a new chance, but with the event set to repeat itself, can she and Vaughn save their comrades? In Houston, Director Randal McCree races against the clock as he frantically struggles to save a scrabbled-together team. The survivors will have to join forces if Angela is to enact her plan to take the battle to the enemy.

*Spotify best of the month* *Gizmodo best new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror* * BOOKISH 20 Debut Novels to Read This Year * ""A Crichtonesque cascade of mistakes and misunderstandings in an all-too-plausible but entertaining thriller.""—Booklist American and Russian astronauts are trapped...

Stranded among strangers. Hunted by pirates. Humanity's freedom hangs in the balance. Kory Drake and the crew of Thunder are stranded in the unforgiving Arizona desert after crash-landing their guerrilla starship. Their alien military adviser, Zeta, is missing and presumed dead. Desperate for help, they stumble upon a small town under siege by ruthless alien bandits. In exchange for transportation back to their hidden base in the mountains, Kory and his crew agree to rid the town of its tormentors. But the trail of the bandits leads far beyond the Arizona sands—to a desolate crater on the...

The mysterious aliens attacked the Galactic Coalition Summit on Okuta, sending the Coalition into a tailspin. Hidden in the shadows during the attack, the Noct secretly won the race to find their ancient artifact with devastating star-killing power. And after being lost for a millennium, they plan to use it. Following the events of Shrouded in Darkness, Major Malcolm “Mac” Lambert returns to the Battlecruiser McDaniels, having apprehended the man who kidnapped the Okutan Princess.

The Hole-Man has the ugliest job in the universe: he feeds human sacrifices into a black hole. From his isolated space station, disgraced fighter pilot Baard Larsen completes his grim duty. Some say it appeases the gods. He just wants to finish his penance and return home. But will his daughter even give him a second chance? Then the next sacrifice changes everything.