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Mankind is reborn! —Yet one battle away from extinction.The merciless galaxy-spanning Taar’kuun state stands ready to wipe the fledgling human worlds from existence. Five years of war have wrought desperation. Fleets poise for the final battle, and peace is only a dream.Dr. Adrian Darus, the architect of the rebirth, dares to believe. With the help of an old captain, an obsolete warship, and its eclectic crew, he will venture into the heart of dipl...

Relentlessly chased by Taar’kuun fleets, what’s left of the human Alliance seeks respite on the remote planet Neo. The inhospitable high-gravity world, with its toxic atmosphere and hostile fauna, pushes the humans to their limit.Some dream of freeing their worlds from Taar’kuun occupation, others yearn to find Earth. The dire situation can’t quell internal divisions. The first murder in Nean history is kept under wraps, and the investigation team works secretly to uncover a plot t...

Lieutenant Commander Shawn 'Calvin' Hobbs and his special forces platoon just returned from a three-month mission to the stars. The technology they brought back will help with the Earth's defense, but it won't be enough to hold off the alien menace headed their way. Although they made it back alive, they returned without any new allies or help in building the fleet necessary to ensure the Earth's survival.They've got to go back."When the Gods Aren't Gods" is the second book...

Lieutenant Commander Shawn "Calvin" Hobbs has saved Seattle, traveled to the stars and forged new alliances with alien races. With the latest war concluded, he turned his attention to deciphering the strange rod an ancient alien civilization gave him as a test. Was a little "down time" to work on the project too much to hope for?Yes.Something or someone is destroying the starships of the alien Aesir race. The elven Aesir are in need of help, and all of the signs point to Ca...

Rumors of Salvation is the 74,000 word conclusion to the System States Rebellion series of military science fiction that started with Rumors of Glory.With the System States Union now crushed and Trojan's new Empire on the rise, former foes become friends in a desperate attempt to prevent not only the collapse of human civilization but also the complete extermination of Humanity at the hands of a diabolical new power player. Is salvation really possible or was it all just rumors? Ro...

The war with China was over and Lieutenant Shawn 'Calvin' Hobbs just wanted his life to get back to normal. The hero of the war, he had a small ream of paperwork to fill out, a deployment with his Navy F-18 squadron to prepare for and a new girlfriend to spend some quality time with. Life was good.Until the aliens showed up.They had a ship and needed to get to their home planet, but didn't have a crew. They had seen Calvin's unit in action, though, and knew it was the right...

The interstellar civil war between the breakaway System States Union and the Federation of Planetary States continues to escalate with the help of sophisticated planning computers on both sides. This is military SF that includes space battles, ground battles, political maneuvering, strategic deception, personal triumphs and personal tragedies. Watch as the necessities of war force protagonists on both sides to compromise their honor. This series concludes in Rumors of Salvation, which is n...

The war is over, and there are no winners. Just a broken galaxy.Now humans and aliens must share this war-torn galaxy. None of this matters to Drake, though, he's just an artist. He's tagging along on the busted up ship Trystero, along with its ragtag crew. Together, they traverse the Demilitarized Zone between Terran and Gra'al borders, taking on any job they can find. Big or small. Human or alien.The galaxy changes when the crew encounters a derelict alie...

The Drakuls have found the Solar System!A merciless race, there is nothing left once the Drakuls have conquered a civilization except the bones of its dead. When the first Drakul exploratory ship emerged from the stargate, Earth's days became numbered.Although LCDR Shawn 'Calvin' Hobbs and the crew of the TSS Vella Gulf came back with a battleship from their last mission, it won't be enough to defend the Solar System from the Drakul menace. The Mrowry and the Terran artific...

A bloody battle left the planet Thuul as a watery grave for human and alien alike.For Valencia and the crew of the Trystero it was just another planet and their job was simple: retrieve some jettisoned cargo nearby and return it to their client. The simple jobs were always the ones that caused the most problems, though.The crew of the ship that had lost the cargo? Missing. Never mind a flickering, unidentified alien vessel appeared in orbit around the water...

Be careful what you ask an android to do…Bellona Cardenas Scordina de Deluca, daughter of the primary Cardenas family, went missing ten years ago. Reynard Cardenas, Bellona’s father and head of the family, receives anonymous, unsubstantiated news that she has been found. He sends the most disposable person in the family to investigate—Sang, the family android.Sang’s investigation trips off chain reactions which shift the generations-old luke-warm w...

Jerry Harper is back home, recovering from his injuries. It won't be for long. He's a strategic asset now, and the government is eager to send him back into action. They want to protect him better on his next war patrol, so he's assigned to a new station: the Agrarian Commonwealth's new battleship. He and the fleet soon jump out and begin their mission.While in space, horrifying news arrives. The Reliants have invented a doomsday weapon, a virus that targets the Agrarian genetic co...