They're back. They're smarter. And the landings are DEADLIER!CONTESTED LANDING VOLUME TWO!The cosmos erupts as new threats demand bolder tactics! Orbital drops into hellzones! Planetary assaults against impossible odds! Every move is a knife-edge decision! Every attack, a desperate gamble!Experience the future of warfare: lightning strikes, brutal sieges, and the raw courage of soldiers pushed beyond breaking point! Lasers scream! Worlds tremble! Su...

Not this time!We've got 10 of the best swashbuckling boarding action tales this side of the Milky Way!This anthology is a collection of military science fiction stories about the everyday hero rising to the occasion during combat operations. Some of these stories highlight the assault team and sometimes the defenders. But regardless of which side of the boarding party they are on, uncommon courage is a common virtue of the day.With special introduct...

A hundred tons of steel and more firepower than the devil himself… they should be invincible, but armored combat is brutal and mistakes are fatal.Within, mech jockeys and tread heads take on the world one powerful blast at a time, risking it all for duty, fame, and glory.But deep down, they fear a savage contradiction:Armor can be your salvation.It can also be your worst nightmare.Which will hold true? Climb into the commander's hatch and find out. B...

*** 2017 Dragon Award Finalist for Best Military Scifi ***Heir to one of the leading "Four Horsemen" mercenary companies, Jim Cartwright is having a bad year. Having failed his high school VOWS tests, he's just learned his mother bankrupted the family company before disappearing, robbing him of his Cavalier birthright.But the Horsemen of eras past were smart—they left a legacy of equipment Jim can use to complete the next contract and resurrect the company....

The bestselling adaptation of the iconic video game Halo: Combat Evolved featuring the Master Chief—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series!Having barely escaped the final battle for Reach against the vast alien alliance known as the Covenant, the crew of the Pillar of Autumn, including Spartan John-117—the Master Chief—and his AI companion Cortana, is forced to make a desperate escape into sli...

PLAGUE WARS BOOK 8.Guns blazing, Master Sergeant Jill Repeth and her team search the nuclear wasteland for her kidnapped fiancé, while Spooky Nguyen prepares Earth's first-ever Space Marines for duty aboard the experimental battleship Orion. But even commanded by the legendary Navy Captain Henrich Absen, Orion is hopelessly outclassed, and only by supreme sacrifice can Earth be saved.For now, that is -- because the Destroye...

CONQUEST OF EARTH is BOOK 4 of the Stellar Conquest military science fiction series.Poised to reconquer humanity's home, Captain Absen and Conquest are confronted with a new enemy that upsets the balance of power and changes everything EarthFleet expected.Their struggle to free Earth becomes instead a desperate battle for sheer survival as they contemplate the unthinkable: total annihilation.PLAGUE WARS SERI...

STARSHIP CONQUEST is BOOK 1 in the Stellar Conquest series and was previously published as FIRST CONQUEST.From Hugo Award finalist and bestselling author David VanDyke.When the crew of EarthFleet's most powerful dreadnought Conquest is sent on a mission forty light years from Earth, none of them expect to return. But to find a home and keep humanity safe from hostile aliens, they must fight to seize a new world, initiating ...

A thrilling prequel adventure based on the acclaimed TV series*Star Trek: Picard*!Two years after the USS Voyager’s return from the Delta Quadrant, Seven of Nine finds herself rejected for a position in Starfleet and instead finds a new home with the interstellar rogue law enforcement corps known as the Fenris Rangers. The Rangers seem like an ideal fit for Seven—but to embrace this new destiny, she must leave behind all she’s ever known, ...

Throughout the course of history, humanity has reached for the stars. Interstellar travel was a dream of mankind. The invention of the Doohan drive or fusion engine in the 21st century made achieving that dream a reality. We now had the ability to leave our solar system and travel ...anywhere. Suddenly, everyone wanted to go out there, out, into space. Colony ship construction began almost immediately. Those individuals or groups that had enough funds or resources built themselves ...

Armor up for a metal-pounding explosion of action, adventure and amazing speculation by topnotch writers—including Nebula-award winner Jack McDevitt, Sean Williams, Dan Abnett, Simon Green, and Jack Campbell—on a future warrior that might very well be just around the corner. Science fiction readers and gamers have long been fascinated by the idea of going to battle in suits of powered combat armor or at the interior controls of giant mechs.It's an armor-plated clip of hard-hitting ...

PLAGUE WARS BOOK 9Under the threat of impending alien invasion, when the Professor and the rogue Septagon Shadow cyborg program surface in Russia, the world has a problem. When they seize the government in a coup, the world faces disaster, and Jill Repeth and Spooky Nguyen must do everything in their power to shut them down while fending off rivals bent on assassination and subversion.Earth's nations will need to cooperate ...