Space Warfare Fiction

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 Space Warfare Group books are a new kind of space thriller with hardcore military action, dark political conspiracies, and compelling world building. When the princess of an unfamiliar alien planet fails to arrive in time for a diplomatic summit with humanity’s top government officials and her spaceship is found floating dead in space, the Space Warfare Group is called into action.

As the last starfighter, only Henry Gallant can stop the alien invasion. In an era of genetic engineering, Henry Gallant is the only Natural left in the United Planets' fleet. With the space fleet on the verge of annihilation from the alien invasion, analyzing the captured computer in Gallant's possession is critical to stopping them. He can expect no help as he navigates through threatening aliens on his way to Mars, and his shipmates doubt he is up to the challenge. But as the last starfighter in Squadron 111, the lives of his shipmates, as well as a good many others, depend on Henry ...

The Space Warfare Group books are a new kind of space thriller with hardcore military action, dark political conspiracies, and compelling world building. Under the cover of darkness, a human senator meets with an alien resistance leader eager for military support against their tyrannical overlord. But with politics, no secret is ever safe. When the meetings are attacked, the small security force has little time before being overrun.

Over 1,500 Pages of Action-Packed Military Sci-Fi! To save humanity, Earth sold its sons and daughters to an alien war machine. After a global collapse leaves humanity starving, Earth's leaders make a deal with a powerful alien empire: food, technology, and a chance to keep the species alive. The price? Humanity's soldiers now belong to them. Mark Calder used to be a paramedic in New Orleans. His old job involved saving lives, drinking terrible coffee, and occasionally explaining to people why a Google search did not qualify them to perform surgery on themselves. His new job involves being ...

The Space Warfare Group books are a new kind of space thriller with likeable characters, hardcore military action, dark political conspiracies, and compelling world building. Mac and the Space Warfare Group are back! Following the tragic events of Into the Darkness, Major Malcom “Mac” Lambert gets a second chance to hunt down the conspirators behind the ambush that started it all. Driven by vengeance and partnering with an old friend, Mac’s investigation leads to the planet Okuta, during the most important Galactic Coalition Summit in a generation.

The third entry in the critically acclaimed Culture series, from British Science Fiction author, Iain M. Banks. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military...

The Cygnus-Orion Galactic Arm Spur is engulfed in warfare. A four way brawl with its roots a hundred million years prior, with the Lanaktallan Unified Council on one side, a strange invader from a dying universe on another, the Precursor Autonomous War Machines, strengthened by alliances, coming back into the fight, and, of course, the Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems. The war has spread to dozens, hundreds of different systems with no signs of stopping. Each side is grimly digging in for the long haul. The vile Atrekna, invaders from another dimension, view the entire universe as ...

What do a combat android, a space marine, a starfighter pilot, a paramedic trapped inside a combat mech, and a rogue starship captain have in common? Absolutely nothing. Except they’re all about to have a really, really bad week. Welcome to the worlds of Sean Robins, where the odds are impossible, the explosions are excessive, the heroes are dangerously sarcastic, and the universe has apparently decided that therapy is less entertaining than another alien invasion. Inside this massive collection are five complete novels, each launching a bestselling military science fiction series—and ...

War. It's as inevitable as breathing. Sometimes there are breaths between conflicts, short reprieves, and then those reprieves are shattered as war breaks out. As sons and daughters are sent out to die. As the true evils in the universe are revealed. Matthew Campbell, a young fisherman from a backwater world, finds himself thrown into the combine of war. He's tossed straight to the frontlines without any traditional military training, all he has to fall back on are the lessons from the life he is leaving. Join him as he fights to save a planet he has never been to. Read The Battle for ...

Phoenix has fallen, but the stakes are higher than ever. Commodore Shaw's nemesis is still alive, and a new, deadlier enemy is threatening the Resolute. To get his crew home, Shaw must risk everything, taking the Resolute deep behind enemy lines. There, his crew must face lethal opposition and...

Earth's cloak is failing. For five hundred years, a planetary cloaking system hid humanity from the Dominion — the alien empire that tried to erase them from existence. Now the artifact powering the cloak is degrading, and Earth's signal is bleeding into space. Captain Will Statham wakes from cryo into a galaxy he doesn't recognize. The Ark Fleet survived — barely. Twelve million people, two hundred ships, and five centuries of hiding have produced a military force that has never fired a weapon in combat. Commander Scarlett Virek, the fleet's operations chief, built the engagement ...

Joe is a guardian angel. Not a metaphor, not a hallucination—the real thing. Sent from Heaven with invisible wings and a notecard of mandatory rules, Joe’s new assignment is Staff Sergeant Abigail Russel, a combat squad leader who lost her husband and two children to a terrorist massacre. She enlisted in the Humanity Army for one purpose: to get revenge. She doesn’t believe Joe is an angel. She doesn’t want him and refuses to stop swearing. The problem is she’s stuck in a brutal siege on planet Marashah, where Abigail is considered expendable by her commanders. Joe’s task is to ...

New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, the second audiobook in the Second Formic War. Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars—the alien...

The truth will cost him everything. Silence will cost the galaxy more. Senator Kael Arden has spent eleven years working within the system. Then classified documents land on his desk—evidence that the Empire’s government authorized the orbital bombardment of a civilian population and buried the proof under its highest classification tier. He reads the evidence into the Senate record. Within hours, he’s a fugitive. Rescued by a smuggler with a fast ship and questionable motives, Kael is drawn into the Outer Rim’s fragmented resistance, a loose coalition of defecting officers, ...

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army...

The empire sent its best investigator. He was ready. Commander Cael Ashwick built a fleet from a dead destroyer and a frontier nobody watched. Now the Castellan intelligence directorate is watching, and they've sent an analyst who asks questions the way a surgeon makes incisions. While managing the investigation from the bridge of a pre-collapse heavy cruiser, Cael must expand his fleet through political alliances, discover ancient industrial infrastructure hidden in an asteroid belt, and outmaneuver rival frontier houses through commerce instead of combat. Every victory makes his ...

Humanity won the war. Now they have to survive the peace. The Dominion is shattered. The Grand Architect is dead. And for the first time in five hundred years, the stars belong to someone else. Captain Will Statham should feel victorious. Instead, the Exodus Fleet is fracturing from the inside. Forty thousand liberated aliens are converging on the fleet, desperate for protection from the collapsing Dominion remnants hunting them through the dark. Civilian unrest is spreading across the cargo holds. The Irregulars are exhausted to the breaking point. And after years of fighting like a ...

The rogue AI survived the battle. The Directorate wants to wake another one. Twenty-three days after the battle at Bastion Gate, Captain Elias Ward and Shadow Unit are trapped in the silence between victory and punishment. The Federation calls the attack a piracy incident. The Directorate buries the truth. Admiral Chen faces a sealed tribunal for defending the station. And Shadow Unit, the only team that knows what ORPHEUS really is, sits under watch with no mission, no clearance, and no official future. Then Chief Ren finds the signal. Five escaped ORPHEUS nodes are no longer retreating. ...

TANKS ON A SPACESHIP A High-Concept Science Fiction Adventure What happens when the most brutal machines of ground warfare are unleashed in the cold vacuum of space? When a heavily armed starship finds itself under siege, conventional tactics are no longer enough. In a desperate bid for survival, armored tanks are deployed inside a spacecraft — turning narrow corridors, cargo bays, and hangar decks into battlegrounds. Every decision matters. Every system failure could mean catastrophe. TANKS ON A SPACESHIP is a bold, high-concept science fiction thriller that combines engineering ...