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He didn't ask to survive the war. And he wasn't sure what it meant to survive what came after.Ben Hale was a decorated soldier-until a mission gone wrong left him broken, infected, and marked by the blood of a creature he doesn't understand. Discharged...

The clock is ticking; it is now the most dangerous time since manned space flight began. The world's leading space contractor, dedicated to safeguarding space travel, has poured vast resources into an ambitious mitigation effort. Yet, from within the company, a sinister cult has...

The empire of Monde is the envy of its neighbors. Nasrin, a war refugee in hiding, has lived illegally in the kingdom for years with her son, Lucian. Her raven-black hair and prismatic eyes mark her as a foreigner, ensuring she will never escape...

Bullet Points captures the complexity, tragedy, and hope of warfare and violence in human and nonhuman society, with reprints and original stories every three months. The July 2025 issue (Volume 10) presents stories about war with aliens. Lyri Ahnam, "Captain Palaio's Twilight Flight" The...

The empire of Monde is the envy of its neighbors. Nasrin, a war refugee in hiding, has lived illegally in the kingdom for years with her son, Lucian. Her raven-black hair and prismatic eyes mark her as a foreigner, ensuring she will never escape...

In the world of Orbis, six nations vie for control over powerful magical stones that fall from the sky. Sixty orbits have passed since the Last War, a devastating conflict that led to the formation of the Republic, where all races have a voice....

Dr. Justin Ascencio swore he'd never return to space. But when a mysterious stranger saves his life, he stumbles into a world filled with secrets and hidden agendas. Fawn Azini is a free spirit trapped inside an unhappy home. Fed up with misogyny and...

The stars held more than humanity's future......they revealed an alien menace that could end it all.First contact wasn't peaceful. The Zodarks, brutal and unrelenting, tore into the Republic's defenses. Armed with cunning and unquenchable bloodthirst, the four-armed warriors dominated over every adversary.Caught off guard...

Trapped in an underground world.Braedon Lewis is unwittingly pulled through a mysterious portal and transported two hundred years into the future. He finds himself in an exotic, underground world inhabited by other humans from earth. Yet, despite their advanced technology, the people are unable...

THE PULSEThirteen years ago, the world first heard the devil's heartbeat. A strange static, a haunting thump - it spread like wildfire, freezing people in place, locking them in a trance of terror. It stopped, but the damage was done. Now, the pulse is...

The mission was supposed to be simple. Drop in, rescue some kids, get the hell out. For witch doctor Hayley Cage, the newest member of the elite mercenary unit known as Quark's Riders, it's also her chance to finally join the war against the...

The Traanskei Coalition's greatest weapon is the Q bomb, and after years of failure, the Democracy has come up with a defense against it. The problem is that they killed most of the team that created it. The sole survivor, Edgar Nmumba, was kidnapped...

[This is the first illustrated edition, with a lot of original art works & photos. Edition #3, 2013]. Does the universe end? Does time? Is there no end to life, even on earth? If there are no ends to these things, there are no...

Author: Nick SnapeISBN-13: 9798386329747Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/08/2023Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

Author: Leah LoreISBN-10: 1966638019ISBN-13: 9781966638018Publisher: Through the Rift PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/22/2025Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.26d

Author: Joshua DalzelleISBN-13: 9798291674574Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2025Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d

The Republic thought they knew their enemy......they were devastatingly wrong.And a new adversary was about to prove it.Commander Ripley Willis Lee knew the stakes couldn't be higher. As captain of the Republic's newest warship-RNS Poseidon, he'd been given command of a task force to...

Following the unexplained failure of the first human exo-planet colony, Dhank Trust calls upon the Peacekeepers to lead humanity's second endeavor to colonize among the stars. With its location on a different planet, al-Sufi C, the Bakht Colony appears to be the starting point...

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvAuthor: Mike McPhailISBN-10: 1956463879ISBN-13: 9781956463873Publisher: Espec BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2025Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

Fleet Admiral Jeremy Strong is determined to preserve the planet Gaia as the new home of the lost fleets. Unfortunately, a new and frightening danger from the destroyed Dyson Sphere threatens to undo everything he has fought for. Kazak, the AI on the Originator...

Missions to alien planets have resulted in interactions with strange beings in the past, but never on this level. When Marine Corporal Goshawk becomes part of the search team tasked with locating some missing SEALs, he expected action and plenty of it. After all,...

Hoplite Ridge plunges readers into a universe where humanity's fate is determined by the whims of gods and the valor of warriors. In "Hoplite Ridge," the fabric of existence begins to unravel as ancient forces stir and long-forgotten gods awaken. Osiris, the god of...

Impeccably groomed intruders breach security and interrupt a secret meeting at the Pentagon. They render the President unconscious, but treat the generals with respect. Attempts at resistance prove futile. Octavius, the leader of the intruders, begins a long, detailed presentation, complete with amazing holograms....

As advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics accelerate, new devices of mass destruction loom on the horizon. Like the atomic bomb, these "lethal autonomous weapons systems" raise moral dilemmas for their creators. But they also inspire fears unknown to their Manhattan Project forebearers, because...

Dragon Sapir is back, and the Jax Military will never be the same.The Jax Contract Committee has released Rivka to take assignments, and her first involves her in a plot by several Systems within the Helix collection of systems to destroy the Jax. As...

The combined forces of the SAS, UFN, and JPU with help from the Riss have defeated the galaxy-traveling aliens. In the process, a friendly alliance has evolved between the SAS, UFN, and the Riss nations, and the SAS has agreed Freeland belongs to the...

As the least favored child, it was no surprise when Rivka's father selects her, at age six, to comply with the country's conscript law. Sent away to the military to be raised and trained, she struggles to keep from falling into an abyss of...

A fantastic Warhammer 40,000 novel from Black Library featuring the Astra Militarum. Physically and psychologically conditioned from childhood under the most horrific conditions imaginable, the Tempestus Scions are the Imperium's deadliest human soldiers - fearsome killers expected to follow their orders ruthlessly and without...

Author: Ian DouglasISBN-10: 0063205785ISBN-13: 9780063205789Publisher: Harper VoyagerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2026Pages: 384Format: Mass Market Paperbound

Author: Skyler RamirezISBN-10: 1964457149ISBN-13: 9781964457147Publisher: Persephone Entertainment Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2025Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.31d

Retake on The Odyssey as science fiction. In workFor ten years the Polisian Space Navy, the fighting arm of the newly incorporated galaxy-wide Polisian Federation of Civilizations (consisting of two hundred and sixteen sentient species) fought a terrible war of attrition against an overwhelming...

After decades of war, the Union was starting to rebuild. But our allies betrayed us without warning, striking every ship in the system in a cowardly surprise attack. One destroyer remains-trapped far behind enemy lines, with no support and no way home.Captain Jaxon Steele...

Bill, a crippled war veteran, believes his future is either amputation of his right leg or a wheelchair--that is, until Dr. John Theopoulos contacts him. The doctor offers a new medical breakthrough to repair his spinal nerves, tendons, and muscles, but the doctor wants...

A thrilling short story collection set within the expanded universe of the New York Times bestselling video game series Halo! Delve once more into stories of legendary heroism and star-spanning conflicts--from the time of the ancient Forerunners to the perils of a twenty-sixth century...

The stars held more than humanity's future......they revealed an alien menace that could end it all.First contact wasn't peaceful. The Zodarks, brutal and unrelenting, tore into the Republic's defenses. Armed with cunning and unquenchable bloodthirst, the four-armed warriors dominated over every adversary.Caught off guard...

New York Times bestseller! Pierce Brown's relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card."Red Rising ascends above a crowded dys-topian field."--USA TodayAdapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of...

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils...

Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom.As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath...

As the Martians overrun the American heartland Texas holds out, but thye may have more than just Martians to deal with The Martian invaders have overrun the American heartland. Between the Mississippi and the Rockies, only Texas holds out, written off by the high...

An all-new Original Series adventure about a Federation mining colony on the verge of destruction and the unlikely solution that could save them from extinction. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise are sent to evacuate the Omega sector frontier...

Author: Una McCormackISBN-10: 1668051370ISBN-13: 9781668051375Publisher: Star TrekLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2025Pages: 320Format: Paperback

Experience the Human Cost of War!It has been said that "Generals always prepare to fight the last war," this whilst others learn from history, innovate, and adapt, giving them-for a time-the upper hand. But is that enough to win the war?With Stories By: Charles...

Alien astronauts marooned on Earth: Unraveling Our Vampire Myths as We Conquer the Stars - A Rollercoaster Ride of History, Space Exploration and Blood-Soaked Battles.Welcome to the 23rd century, where humanity has finally reached the stars. But what we find out there, is far...

Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating next chapter in the Red Rising Saga: Morning Star.Adapted from the novel...

After daring escapes and narrow victories, Thomas finds himself not only as the commander of Excalibur, but a symbol of hope to a fledgling resistance movement determined to challenge Morgana's tyrannical rule.There's a high price to freedom.Hidden among the stars, Thomas and his crew...

They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life.A decade...

They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life.A decade...

THE SWORD OR THE PLOWSHARE...The destruction of the interplanetary communications net has isolated planets across the Republic of the Sphere. On Mirach, a widening schism in the military between those who would remain loyal to The Republic and those who would break away threatens...

The cyborg commandos of the Galactic Marines are the greatest warriors in the galaxy, but sometimes one will go bad. Too unstable to be let back into the general population and too powerful for a normal prison to hold them, there is only one...

Days after their entire world ended, Army Specialist Jason Chantry and friends find themselves in over their heads. Secret government organizations, conspiracies, and not to mention the monster infestation, the gang find their world becoming ever more complicated by the minute.With a new cast...