Space Conflict

On the untamed planet of Terra Nova, humanity's last hope for a fresh start is under siege. The Hive, a terrifying alien race, launches a devastating attack, shattering the fragile peace and abducting Mira, the beloved wife of Orion Steele. In the aftermath, Orion is left with a burning determination to rescue her and protect their new home. Barely escaping a Hive ambush, Orion finds refuge aboard the Valkyrie, a versatile frigate captained by the fearless Elias "Hawk" Maddox.

Lieutenant Jim Bennington of the US Space Navy had been advised not to get involved with an Amish woman, but Amy Kirke from the planet Argos was not a typical Amish woman. Not only was she beautiful, she was contentious, combative, intelligent and spirited. When Jim was sent on a mission to Argos he met Amy and was strongly attracted to her.The adventurous Amy led Jim into one dangerous escapade after another. When one of the escapades landed them in the middle of a plot to control the universe, Jim began to wonder if it would have been wise to heed the advice."Space Conflict" is a tale of ...

A hidden mystery in Jupiter’s second-largest moon holds a power beyond imagining. Beneath the icy surface of Callisto lies an underground sea. Decades ago, a research base was built to study the strange lifeforms inhabiting this silent world before tragedy struck, killing everyone. News of this incident is quickly hushed up, with all access to the Jovian moon restricted. Kirill Sereda was orphaned when his mother never returned from that very outpost. Now an adult, he gathers together a team of misfits for a clandestine mission: head to Callisto and find out what really happened. What ...

Author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time, master storyteller Stephen R. Donaldson returns with this exciting and long-awaited new series that takes us into a stunningly imagined future to tell a timeless story of adventure and the implacable conflict of good and evil within each of us.

Space opera's sharpest mind returns to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone from award-winning author Ann Leckie. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star has always been a source of both conflict and hope for the people of Ooioiaa. However, the imperial Radch see it...

The Threadbreaker Conflict A Reluctant Agent, a Hidden War, and the Fight for a Free Galaxy They engineered silence. He became the noise. Jaruk Locan didn’t sign up to save anyone. As an intelligence agent drifting through the cracks of a fractured solar system, his job was simple: observe, report, disappear. But when a covert mission unearths a synthetic conspiracy to overwrite autonomy itself, Jaruk is forced to choose between obedience—and something dangerously close to defiance. Across a galaxy policed by engineered minds, rogue artificial intelligence, and a new elite of gene-...

One ship. One disgraced captain. One empire that really, really wants them all dead. What could possibly go wrong? Five books. Over 2,000 pages of high-octane space opera, bad decisions under fire, emotional gut punches, and enough sarcasm to violate several interstellar treaties. Captain Xander Hawk once did the right thing. He saved a doomed transport—and paid for it with his career, his freedom, and any chance of ever seeing his wife and daughter again. His reward? Life imprisonment in the galaxy’s most miserable hellhole, where hope goes to die and the food probably qualifies as a ...

The explosive first entry in a beloved space opera series where one woman’s thrilling journey aboard an alien trade ship reveals a hidden past and deadly secrets lurking in the depths of space, perfect for fans of James S.A. Corey and Adrian Tchaikovsky. Out in the darkness of space, something...

Earth already had its apocalypse. Humanity barely survived it. Unfortunately for Major Ethan Irons, that was just the warm-up act. When the scattered remnants of humanity stumble into a much larger problem—namely a galaxy locked in a brutal, centuries-old war—Ethan finds himself promoted from “guy trying to keep a few thousand survivors alive” to “unwilling participant in an interstellar disaster.” Now he’s stuck negotiating with suspicious alien powers, dodging fleets that can vaporize planets for breakfast, and relying heavily on a sarcastic AI who believes Ethan’s ...

Why do some people suddenly feel the need to disappear from everyone around them? Why does social interaction sometimes feel emotionally exhausting, overwhelming, or even painful — even when you care deeply about others? Understanding the Need to Withdraw from Everyone explores the hidden psychological, emotional, and mental reasons people pull away from relationships, conversations, responsibilities, and the outside world. This book explains how emotional burnout, overstimulation, disappointment, stress, anxiety, loneliness, identity confusion, and unresolved inner conflict can quietly ...

Twelve light-years from Earth.Eighteen months until extinction. When Commander Kira Vance leads humanity’s first interstellar expedition to Tau Ceti, she expects to find ruins. Instead, she discovers the Keraneth, an ancient civilization that has spent eight centuries preparing for the Vethrak’s return. Their towering monument holds a warning, and the memories of those who died to preserve it. But the enemy is already watching. When a Vethrak task force arrives to investigate a blinded surveillance network, a fragile alliance is forced into its first trial. Human sensors. Keraneth ...

We were outnumbered, outfought. Mankind was about to fall to the alien Flock. Our only chance was a desperate gamble, transforming Tier One SpecOps agents into deadly super soldiers. In the end, we won the war, but we lost the peace. The Flock surrendered and spent the next two hundred years making reparations, indentured to humanity, doing everything humans did not want to do. And the evolved super soldiers were consigned to an endless sleep. Ready if ever needed, but in time they became myths. Abandoned and forgotten.

"He wasn't just surviving the dark matter storm. He was becoming it." What happens when a cosmic anomaly turns a desperate outpost commander into a god? Commander Maxmillian was just another soldier guarding the fringes of the Asteroid Belt—the gritty, cutthroat vein of the solar system that feeds the inhabited planets. But when a freak extraterrestrial storm infused with raw, volatile dark matter tears through his station, Max isn't killed. He is transformed. He becomes something relentless, unstoppable, and terrifyingly powerful. A walking cosmic anomaly. A Zombie King. His first order ...

Cyberlaw is everywhere: the intersection of law and technology. Law in the United States has been evolving over hundreds of years and is now intertwined with technology, computers, the internet, and information systems. Cyberlaw affects everything people and organizations do, in their traditional and digital spaces. Existing law gets applied to the new circumstances technology brings, and new laws are created to fill gaps and address issues such as cybercrime, cybersecurity, and privacy. Cybercrime is rampant and allows theft from thousands of miles away. Privacy is a critical concern as ...

STOP GOING QUIET. The conversation gets tense, and suddenly your words disappear. Your chest tightens. Your thoughts scatter. You can still hear the other person talking, but finding a sentence feels impossible. Maybe you look away. Maybe you go flat. Maybe you say “I don’t know” or “not now” because it is the only answer your body can reach. From the outside, it may look like you do not care. Inside, you are flooded, braced, and trying to keep the moment from getting worse. This is the shutdown loop: pressure rises, your system goes quiet, and the relationship is left trying to ...

Continuing the thrilling, action-packed SpaceFed Starships saga. This book has been updated and has more color inserts that enhance the reader’s reading. 12-2024. In book one, the StarShip Andromeda battled with an alien species called the Crillons. They came from a planet orbiting the star Kepler, more than 600 light-years from Earth. At the time, the humans were unaware that seven of the Crillon's Fleet Twelve battlecruisers were absent from the battle at Zeta Reticuli. They eventually learn that the Fleet Twelve remnants still exist but don't know where it is located. With this ...

In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife-edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space...

Humanity survived the invasion. That was never the endgame. Twelve years after the Vethrak shattered Earth’s defenses and vanished without explanation, humanity is rebuilding in the shadows of its own near-extinction. The official story says the enemy is gone. The truth is far worse. When a faint signal emerges from beyond the Kuiper Belt, three warships are dispatched to investigate. What they find is not a remnant of the past, but evidence of a future already in motion. Survivors who were never meant to exist. An enemy that never stopped watching. And a countdown humanity was never ...

Will 2027 mark the outbreak of the most devastating conflict of the twenty-first century, or will it redefine the structure of global order short of war? In Taiwan 2027, Bernd Riemann delivers a rigorous, multidimensional systems analysis of the rapidly evolving security architecture in the Western Pacific. Moving far beyond superficial headlines and deterministic invasion predictions, this authoritative study isolates 2027 not as a prophetic countdown to war, but as a critical convergence point. It marks the intersection where the People's Liberation Army’s centenary modernization goals ...

When Friends Can’t Work Together explores why personal bonds often falter in professional settings. It offers no prescriptions, only reflections. The goal is not to resolve every tension, but to help name the quiet fractures that arise when friendship and structure meet. This book was written with the hope that readers might recognize themselves, not in judgment, but in shared humanity.