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.

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

“Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear’s novel sets the bar high.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from Hugo Award-winning author...

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 ...

For over a thousand years, a colony ship, The Romulus, has carried the last remnants of humanity toward a distant new world. But after centuries of mutiny, war, and religious extremism, the ship is tearing itself apart long before it reaches its destination. Titus Flint has spent his life surviving the lawless slums of the Cargo Bay, far from the wars raging across the ship’s fractured sectors. But when he saves Eve, the hunted daughter of the ship’s slain commander, he becomes the target of Elias, the ruthless, tyrannical leader of a militarized sector known as The Bastion. With the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Dragons don’t exist. Except on the Astral Plane where humans aren’t welcome. When humanity built spaceships and headed to the stars, they found the dragons waiting. Some places they’ll let humans go. Others they won’t. And sometimes humanity refuses to be denied. That’s where the Mystics come in. They commune with the Astral Plane. They deal with the dragons. They suffer the dragon’s fury. And sometimes they bend the dragons to their will. Very few have the gift of seeing the Astral Plane. Their innate talents are nurtured in the Mystic Academy while Earth Fleet has its own ...

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-...

Nowhere is ever truly safe. The year is 2284 and wars are endemic across Coalition Space. Matthew Campbell was a fisherman before the Coalition arrived. All he had to worry about was bringing in the day’s catch. Now he is in the middle of a war that has already killed tens of thousands. Matthew makes all the wrong people angry and he finds himself in a "prime" spot on the frontlines. ...Without any traditional military training. It seems that everything he learned in his tiny fishing village and from his time on a fishing boat will have to be enough to keep him alive. The question is, ...

Captain Xander Hawk and the crew of the Starblade have survived prison breaks, pirate ambushes, Imperial dreadnoughts, secret superweapons, and enough terrible decisions to make a military tribunal weep into its paperwork. They should be dead. Several times over, actually. Instead, they’re still flying, still fighting, and still somehow annoying the Empire by continuing to exist. But the war is far from over. When Earth itself comes under threat, Hawk and his crew are dragged into their most dangerous mission yet: stop an Imperial invasion before humanity becomes another conquered world ...

They were born with wings they had no reason to use. Now, they must learn to fly in the heart of a winter they created. Joric is a ninety-six-year-old "youth" drifting through a gilded cage of effortless luxury on Terra. Elara is an artist whose masterpieces are dismissed as mere data. Together, they answer the Terran Federation’s call to arms, seeking the "weight" of a life that actually matters. Their journey takes them across the impassable gulf of time and space to Eureka 2, a world being devoured by the Xyloth, a six-limbed species that treats human life like livestock to be culled. ...

The fleet survived five centuries in hiding. Now it has to prove it can fight. Fourteen days ago, the Ark Fleet fired its first shots in five hundred years. The Dominion patrol is gone. But the intelligence the fleet recovered changes everything — forty-one thousand humans are living under alien occupation on a frontier mining world called Northfall. Labor units. Compliance codes. A population that named its own prison and kept counting its dead. Captain Will Statham has the fleet, the firepower, and an eleven-week window before the Dominion sends something the Ark Fleet can't survive. ...