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 young ensign, recently graduated from the Northern Hemisphere Space Academy, is awakened abruptly in the middle of the night by alarms, flashing lights, and dire messages to abandon ship. The petite blonde pulls on some clothes and races through the spaceship in a desperate search for an available life pod-- but it appears all have already departed. So begins the epic story of Jenetta Carver. Get a tight grip on your book and prepare for an exciting adventure like few others because Jene...

"This series has it all. From intriguing characters to lots of action and intrigue as well as believable characters. The suspense will not let you put it do."They brought death and destruction to Earth. Now it's time to return the favor.The massive Mozari spaceship struck without warning. In an instant major cities were leveled. Millions were wiped from the face of the Earth. The horrifying message to those remaining—your training ...

*** 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....

NOW AVAILABLE : All three books in the series in one volume.Athena Lee had everything going for her. She graduated the Space academy and became an Engineer. Her first posting was to a Support fleet building a secret outpost. When her ship is attacked and destroyed she's left alone and forgotten in an out of the way nebula. Athena has to engineer her own way home. Rescued many years later. She is arrested for letting an Idiot kill himself by not following his orders. Now she has a b...

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...

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 ...

Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn’t just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another.Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more . . . trading sleuthing for soldiering ...

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 ...

The premiere short story anthology based on the movie ALIENS, featuring the Colonial Marines in deep space, doing what they do best—hunting bugs! When the Colonial Marines set out after their deadliest prey, the Xenomorphs, it's what Corporal Hicks calls a bug hunt—kill or be killed. Here are eighteen all-new stories of such "close encounters," written by many of today's most extraordinary authors. Set during the events of all four Alien™ films, sending the Marines to alien worlds, to dere...