Alasdair C. Shaw's Blog
November 5, 2025
November Round-up of SciFi Books
Real windows on a spaceship? Yes or no?
And here are the books you want...
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The Republic of Exilium has grown in strength and confidence at the far end of the galaxy from the rest of mankind, sending out scout ships to survey the worlds around them as they try to learn more about the mysterious Construction Matrix AIs.
Finding one of the genocidal rogues of that mysterious “race” in the process of destroying an inhabited world, Captain Octavio Catalan takes his ship into a desperate battle. He is victorious—but he is too late. The world of the strange aliens he has encountered is doomed.
Flight Decurion Seivers is stranded on a frozen moon, far from the Legion. The Perception of Prejudice is barely functioning and Percy is offline. Seivers' future is measured in days.
Captain Lusimi searches for enemy survivors. By the order of the Protectors, the Sidexan Fleet is to avenge the Legion's violation of Protected System Five. He will follow his orders, but protecting his warriors and crew is his highest priority.
The hunt is on.
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On the backwater world of Cayelle, Tina Freeman runs a shop with her son Rex: fifteen years old, half-human, half-android with a massive chip on his shoulder about having been born without arms or legs.
The shop makes a modest profit, but when a creditor turns up wanting his money back, everything goes pear-shaped.
She needs money, and needs it fast. Another creditor is impossible to find. That leaves her one option: to return to the world she fled fifteen years ago and Kelso Space Station, where her spaceship has languished for over fifteen years, and finally sell the thing.
Tina worked as scientific officer in the Federacy Force’s top secret Project Charon, and was forced out when she rang alarm bells about particles that escaped out of a rift to another universe.
A derelict warship, ancient but still alive. A small team of humans fighting for all humanity.
Built for a time when the races were just finding their way to the stars, finding that they could dominate others. The galactic conquests created the arms race and the ancients, the Progenitors had to protect their own. They built a ship to drive the others away.
It worked. And it didn’t. The Progenitors abandoned the galaxy to the newcomers, leaving relics behind as monuments to their failure.
Humanity spread to the stars and ran headlong into the established races. A new war begins, and no one conducts war better than humanity except for the Blaze Collective.
The two go head-to-head while humanity frantically searches for something to give them an advantage. Ancient technology. The derelicts scattered across the galaxy. Gutted and useless.
Except for one, hidden in plain sight, close to Earth. Major Declan Payne takes his team aboard to find that the ship is no derelict, and it needs him as much as humanity needs it.
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The authority of the Syndicate Worlds' government is crumbling, and civil war and rebellion are breaking out, despite brutal attempts to suppress disorder. In the Midway Star System, leaders must decide whether to remain loyal to the old order or fight for something new. Betrayed by his government, CEO Artur Drakon launches a battle for control of Midway. He is assisted by an ally he's unsure he can trust, CEO Gwen Iceni. While she controls the mobile fleet, she has no choice but to rely on "General" Drakon's ground forces to keep the peace planet-side. If their coup is to succeed, Drakon and Iceni must put their differences aside to defend Midway against the alien threat of the enigma race—and to ferret out saboteurs determined to re-establish Syndic rule...
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Cold war between Earth and Mars. A massive invasion fleet suddenly appears off the corner of the solar system, headed towards Earth. The nearest patrol ship is sent to investigate, with little chance of survival.
The initial rebellion against the Thyterion Empire was rushed, chaotic, and resulted in many casualties in its aftermath. Revni and her misfit team realize that the only way to save their people and the alien Chromata that reside within them is to find a way to eliminate the immune enemy leaders on their own. But the recent battle has stirred up the typically peaceful Chromata. Now every Chromatan soldier, civilian, and tainted enemy-turned-ally wants revenge.
What starts out as a mission to make it quietly to the Thyterion motherships and relieve command of their leaders becomes a contingency operation to control the masses and save Chromatans from themselves while the team strains to keep their cover. Thyterion's captains and command members must be eliminated if Chromatans have any hope of disrupting the enemy enough to take ships and become a viable force among the stars.
When an arch-nemesis of Chromata reemerges more powerful than before, the Thyterion ships become a battlefield between the warring alien colonies, with their human vessels serving only as collateral damage. The revived ancient war quickly exposes a new threat, one more powerful than any of them.
Will Revni and her team survive the new invasion? Or will they discover only a new oppressor eager to crush Chromata into oblivion?
Murder, conspiracy, clash of rival star nations over vast wealth from mining asteroids. And sizzling romance on the frontier world of Olathe-5.
Alien claim-jumpers are robbing asteroid miners of their hard-won discoveries in the vast, four-belted Olathe System. These pirates are carting off high value ores while officials of the Terran Commonwealth take bribes to look the other way.
Meet young attorneys Tyler and J.B. Matthews long before they launched Star Lawyers Corporation. You’ll also encounter the spicy East Indian Lieutenant Varuna Singh, attorney with the Energy Consortium who teams up with the Matthews brothers to stop the Great Asteroid Theft.
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And here are the books you want...
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The Republic of Exilium has grown in strength and confidence at the far end of the galaxy from the rest of mankind, sending out scout ships to survey the worlds around them as they try to learn more about the mysterious Construction Matrix AIs.
Finding one of the genocidal rogues of that mysterious “race” in the process of destroying an inhabited world, Captain Octavio Catalan takes his ship into a desperate battle. He is victorious—but he is too late. The world of the strange aliens he has encountered is doomed.
Flight Decurion Seivers is stranded on a frozen moon, far from the Legion. The Perception of Prejudice is barely functioning and Percy is offline. Seivers' future is measured in days.
Captain Lusimi searches for enemy survivors. By the order of the Protectors, the Sidexan Fleet is to avenge the Legion's violation of Protected System Five. He will follow his orders, but protecting his warriors and crew is his highest priority.
The hunt is on.
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On the backwater world of Cayelle, Tina Freeman runs a shop with her son Rex: fifteen years old, half-human, half-android with a massive chip on his shoulder about having been born without arms or legs.
The shop makes a modest profit, but when a creditor turns up wanting his money back, everything goes pear-shaped.
She needs money, and needs it fast. Another creditor is impossible to find. That leaves her one option: to return to the world she fled fifteen years ago and Kelso Space Station, where her spaceship has languished for over fifteen years, and finally sell the thing.
Tina worked as scientific officer in the Federacy Force’s top secret Project Charon, and was forced out when she rang alarm bells about particles that escaped out of a rift to another universe.
A derelict warship, ancient but still alive. A small team of humans fighting for all humanity.
Built for a time when the races were just finding their way to the stars, finding that they could dominate others. The galactic conquests created the arms race and the ancients, the Progenitors had to protect their own. They built a ship to drive the others away.
It worked. And it didn’t. The Progenitors abandoned the galaxy to the newcomers, leaving relics behind as monuments to their failure.
Humanity spread to the stars and ran headlong into the established races. A new war begins, and no one conducts war better than humanity except for the Blaze Collective.
The two go head-to-head while humanity frantically searches for something to give them an advantage. Ancient technology. The derelicts scattered across the galaxy. Gutted and useless.
Except for one, hidden in plain sight, close to Earth. Major Declan Payne takes his team aboard to find that the ship is no derelict, and it needs him as much as humanity needs it.
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The authority of the Syndicate Worlds' government is crumbling, and civil war and rebellion are breaking out, despite brutal attempts to suppress disorder. In the Midway Star System, leaders must decide whether to remain loyal to the old order or fight for something new. Betrayed by his government, CEO Artur Drakon launches a battle for control of Midway. He is assisted by an ally he's unsure he can trust, CEO Gwen Iceni. While she controls the mobile fleet, she has no choice but to rely on "General" Drakon's ground forces to keep the peace planet-side. If their coup is to succeed, Drakon and Iceni must put their differences aside to defend Midway against the alien threat of the enigma race—and to ferret out saboteurs determined to re-establish Syndic rule...
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Cold war between Earth and Mars. A massive invasion fleet suddenly appears off the corner of the solar system, headed towards Earth. The nearest patrol ship is sent to investigate, with little chance of survival.
The initial rebellion against the Thyterion Empire was rushed, chaotic, and resulted in many casualties in its aftermath. Revni and her misfit team realize that the only way to save their people and the alien Chromata that reside within them is to find a way to eliminate the immune enemy leaders on their own. But the recent battle has stirred up the typically peaceful Chromata. Now every Chromatan soldier, civilian, and tainted enemy-turned-ally wants revenge.
What starts out as a mission to make it quietly to the Thyterion motherships and relieve command of their leaders becomes a contingency operation to control the masses and save Chromatans from themselves while the team strains to keep their cover. Thyterion's captains and command members must be eliminated if Chromatans have any hope of disrupting the enemy enough to take ships and become a viable force among the stars.
When an arch-nemesis of Chromata reemerges more powerful than before, the Thyterion ships become a battlefield between the warring alien colonies, with their human vessels serving only as collateral damage. The revived ancient war quickly exposes a new threat, one more powerful than any of them.
Will Revni and her team survive the new invasion? Or will they discover only a new oppressor eager to crush Chromata into oblivion?
Murder, conspiracy, clash of rival star nations over vast wealth from mining asteroids. And sizzling romance on the frontier world of Olathe-5.
Alien claim-jumpers are robbing asteroid miners of their hard-won discoveries in the vast, four-belted Olathe System. These pirates are carting off high value ores while officials of the Terran Commonwealth take bribes to look the other way.
Meet young attorneys Tyler and J.B. Matthews long before they launched Star Lawyers Corporation. You’ll also encounter the spicy East Indian Lieutenant Varuna Singh, attorney with the Energy Consortium who teams up with the Matthews brothers to stop the Great Asteroid Theft.
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October 6, 2025
October Round-up of Scifi Books
It's autumn and the days are getting shorter (sorry Americans for not calling it fall, and sorry antipodeans for being six months out). Time to start collecting even more books ready for those long dark nights.
And here are the books you want...
Captain Jack Grady feels his new mission is a waste of time. He and his ragtag crew of the spacecraft Adventurer are assigned to escort archeologists seeking mysterious relics in the passageways below an abandoned military base on a remote asteroid. But is the complex as deserted as it seems?
When dangerous forces awaken to fulfill a monstrous purpose, the subterranean corridors echo to the rasp of weapons fire as Grady struggles to survive.
Can he fight his way out of a deadly trap, one where even death itself would be a welcome release?
Olympia Blunt wakes up in a strange hospital, far away from everything familiar and haunted by memories of an Earth invaded by aliens. Taken captive and thrust into a galaxy lightyears from home, she soon gets tangled in the affairs of an alien civilization.
Facing her new reality Olympia finds out that the keys to her fate now holds the formidable Prince Adlai. Feared by many and heir to the alien empire, he has big plans for her. After Olympia coincidently saves the prince from an assassination attempt, he trains her to be his personal bodyguard, his Untouchable. But as Adlai grows more fascinated with her, her role becomes complicated.
Soon, Olympia finds herself walking a razor's edge between her own desires … and a plan to liberate the enslaved humans.
ake Adlar's goals in life were simple—possibly nonexistent. All he wanted was to fly a desk. Hence, he'd joined the Space Force, the service with the most extensive array of Earth-side clerical specialties.
All he needed to make him happy was an office, a computer, his favorite coffee mug, and a never-ending pile of requisitions.
Then a pretty woman came along. Perhaps a drink or ten. Next thing Jake knew, he's shipped off to the Legions, doomed to fight in the seemingly endless war raging throughout the galaxy.
Now, survival tops the chart. Except that isn’t so easy to do in the Legions, where everyone's a killer, officers are as merciless as the enemy, and dark schemes and secrets brood within the ranks.
Korvira—the Crown Princess of Vorcalix—enjoys a rare day out of the palace.
Farmers' markets. Local crafters. Meeting the people she will one day rule. It's the necessary connection to "regular" people that everyone in power should maintain.
But when a commotion distracts her security for one moment too long, Korvira vanishes.
When the ransom note arrives at the palace, there's only one team the King will trust with the safety of his daughter.
Shunned by friends and family for abandoning the pacifist beliefs of their religion, abandoned by the love of his life, he left his homeworld of Canaan to go to the Commonwealth Military Academy on Earth and train to fight in the looming war against the implacable alien threat of the Tahni Imperium.
When a training mission with a crew of cadets winds up caught in the middle of one of the worst battles of the war, Cal and his fellow students are officially declared dead.
That's when their war really begins.
Recruited for a top-secret special operations unit, Cal and his friends undergo experimental and dangerous physical augmentation that turns them into supersoldiers, designed to take the fight behind enemy lines and put the fear of God into an alien society who thinks their Emperor is God personified.
Now Caleb is asked to sacrifice his very humanity to protect his people.
But when Canaan itself is threatened by the Tahni, will he throw away his career and risk everything to save the people who turned their backs on him?
Hayden Kaine, a brash young cadet, thinks his family's influence has guaranteed his destiny as a future leader of the Earth Confederation. But falling on the wrong side of an Admiral is never a good idea, and he soon finds himself posted to an outdated starship at the farthest reaches of the Confederation.
What at first appears to be a routine mission turns south when an unforeseen disaster traps Kaine and the crew of the Scimitar at the edge of charted space, with no means to return home.
For generations, Earth’s militant rulers have waged a relentless, low-grade war against a group of genetically modified humans, branding them as demons and a threat to civilization. Now, the conflict is reaching its breaking point.
Gracely Fielder has spent her life on the fringes of this war, engaging in small skirmishes without ever intending to spark a full-scale conflict. But a chance encounter in deep space uncovers a shocking truth and thrusts her into a battle that will bring war to her home planet—a war her people cannot win.
Meanwhile, Gracely’s long-lost brother, Jered—raised in secrecy on Earth—has spent his life hiding his true identity from those who would destroy him. As war looms, his path leads him to an ancient force beyond time — one that defies the known laws of quantum physics, reality, and faith itself.
For the first time in his life, roboticist Casmir Dabrowski is headed to another star system as an advisor for the Kingdom space fleet. He's being given a chance to prove himself to King Jager by helping find the ancient artifact he inadvertently lost. It's best not to think about what might happen if he fails...
But with technologically advanced astroshamans after the artifact, not to mention the deadly mercenary captain Tenebris Rache, it's not long before the mission collides with disaster.
Soon, Casmir and his friends are caught between warring factions, and he must choose between what the king would want and what he knows is right.
Chronoscribe Tsai Yini monitors the tachyon communication system, which transmits data faster than the speed of light. When classified results from an astrobiologist’s research are leaked to her, she cannot believe what she reads. The report reveals that intelligent life forms exist on a tropical planet in the Gliese system.
Their civilization is still in its infancy but revolves around an artifact of unknown origin that seems to influence their body chemistry. But there’s more: the astrobiologist who uncovered this artifact has undergone a baffling evolution of his own, and he’s now en route to Earth!
Yini suspects he carries a danger far greater than anyone could imagine. To stop him, she must make unimaginable decisions that could determine not only her fate but the future of the universe.
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And here are the books you want...
Captain Jack Grady feels his new mission is a waste of time. He and his ragtag crew of the spacecraft Adventurer are assigned to escort archeologists seeking mysterious relics in the passageways below an abandoned military base on a remote asteroid. But is the complex as deserted as it seems?
When dangerous forces awaken to fulfill a monstrous purpose, the subterranean corridors echo to the rasp of weapons fire as Grady struggles to survive.
Can he fight his way out of a deadly trap, one where even death itself would be a welcome release?
Olympia Blunt wakes up in a strange hospital, far away from everything familiar and haunted by memories of an Earth invaded by aliens. Taken captive and thrust into a galaxy lightyears from home, she soon gets tangled in the affairs of an alien civilization.
Facing her new reality Olympia finds out that the keys to her fate now holds the formidable Prince Adlai. Feared by many and heir to the alien empire, he has big plans for her. After Olympia coincidently saves the prince from an assassination attempt, he trains her to be his personal bodyguard, his Untouchable. But as Adlai grows more fascinated with her, her role becomes complicated.
Soon, Olympia finds herself walking a razor's edge between her own desires … and a plan to liberate the enslaved humans.
ake Adlar's goals in life were simple—possibly nonexistent. All he wanted was to fly a desk. Hence, he'd joined the Space Force, the service with the most extensive array of Earth-side clerical specialties.
All he needed to make him happy was an office, a computer, his favorite coffee mug, and a never-ending pile of requisitions.
Then a pretty woman came along. Perhaps a drink or ten. Next thing Jake knew, he's shipped off to the Legions, doomed to fight in the seemingly endless war raging throughout the galaxy.
Now, survival tops the chart. Except that isn’t so easy to do in the Legions, where everyone's a killer, officers are as merciless as the enemy, and dark schemes and secrets brood within the ranks.
Korvira—the Crown Princess of Vorcalix—enjoys a rare day out of the palace.
Farmers' markets. Local crafters. Meeting the people she will one day rule. It's the necessary connection to "regular" people that everyone in power should maintain.
But when a commotion distracts her security for one moment too long, Korvira vanishes.
When the ransom note arrives at the palace, there's only one team the King will trust with the safety of his daughter.
Shunned by friends and family for abandoning the pacifist beliefs of their religion, abandoned by the love of his life, he left his homeworld of Canaan to go to the Commonwealth Military Academy on Earth and train to fight in the looming war against the implacable alien threat of the Tahni Imperium.
When a training mission with a crew of cadets winds up caught in the middle of one of the worst battles of the war, Cal and his fellow students are officially declared dead.
That's when their war really begins.
Recruited for a top-secret special operations unit, Cal and his friends undergo experimental and dangerous physical augmentation that turns them into supersoldiers, designed to take the fight behind enemy lines and put the fear of God into an alien society who thinks their Emperor is God personified.
Now Caleb is asked to sacrifice his very humanity to protect his people.
But when Canaan itself is threatened by the Tahni, will he throw away his career and risk everything to save the people who turned their backs on him?
Hayden Kaine, a brash young cadet, thinks his family's influence has guaranteed his destiny as a future leader of the Earth Confederation. But falling on the wrong side of an Admiral is never a good idea, and he soon finds himself posted to an outdated starship at the farthest reaches of the Confederation.
What at first appears to be a routine mission turns south when an unforeseen disaster traps Kaine and the crew of the Scimitar at the edge of charted space, with no means to return home.
For generations, Earth’s militant rulers have waged a relentless, low-grade war against a group of genetically modified humans, branding them as demons and a threat to civilization. Now, the conflict is reaching its breaking point.
Gracely Fielder has spent her life on the fringes of this war, engaging in small skirmishes without ever intending to spark a full-scale conflict. But a chance encounter in deep space uncovers a shocking truth and thrusts her into a battle that will bring war to her home planet—a war her people cannot win.
Meanwhile, Gracely’s long-lost brother, Jered—raised in secrecy on Earth—has spent his life hiding his true identity from those who would destroy him. As war looms, his path leads him to an ancient force beyond time — one that defies the known laws of quantum physics, reality, and faith itself.
For the first time in his life, roboticist Casmir Dabrowski is headed to another star system as an advisor for the Kingdom space fleet. He's being given a chance to prove himself to King Jager by helping find the ancient artifact he inadvertently lost. It's best not to think about what might happen if he fails...
But with technologically advanced astroshamans after the artifact, not to mention the deadly mercenary captain Tenebris Rache, it's not long before the mission collides with disaster.
Soon, Casmir and his friends are caught between warring factions, and he must choose between what the king would want and what he knows is right.
Chronoscribe Tsai Yini monitors the tachyon communication system, which transmits data faster than the speed of light. When classified results from an astrobiologist’s research are leaked to her, she cannot believe what she reads. The report reveals that intelligent life forms exist on a tropical planet in the Gliese system.
Their civilization is still in its infancy but revolves around an artifact of unknown origin that seems to influence their body chemistry. But there’s more: the astrobiologist who uncovered this artifact has undergone a baffling evolution of his own, and he’s now en route to Earth!
Yini suspects he carries a danger far greater than anyone could imagine. To stop him, she must make unimaginable decisions that could determine not only her fate but the future of the universe.
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August 6, 2025
August Round-up of Scifi Books
Oops. Sorry if you got the draft copy earlier - I hit send instead of save by accident! Any way, back to exploring this planet...
And here are the books you want...
Their war. Our extinction.
The catastrophe of P3X-888 becomes a question of fate for all mankind. The enemy rises and strikes the all-destructive final blow, even before it was understood on Earth what the war is about.
In the midst of a standoff that has been going on for millennia, Nikos and Jacek stumble into a conflict far greater than they could have ever imagined. Meanwhile, the leadership back home is still clueless and unaware that mankind's doom has long since begun.
From a young couple struggling to look after their baby to a new captain's reluctance to take command of her ship, and from a sun-addled stranger's appearance in town to the emergence of a sentient AI, the twelve tales presented here explore the central theme of an arrival by someone or something new.
There's even an alien puppy.
Asa Kleve craved a life of intergalactic adventure.
Instead, she’s tasked with babysitting a group of demanding scientists on the dead planet Cozore.
But all of that changes when a rival galactic power attacks and kidnaps the scientists, leaving her for dead.
Rescued from the rubble by an alien — one long thought to be extinct — Asa makes a pact with her unexpected new ally to save both their peoples before it's too late.
This dead planet may not be so dead after all, and Asa is about to find more adventure than she ever bargained for.
A strange, glowing object lands in the forest. Tim is the only one who sees it. Venturing out to investigate, he discovers animals infected with a mysterious black growth. When he returns to his cabin, he realizes the horrifying truth: whatever disease the object brought to Earth, Tim has caught it too.
Now begins a living nightmare. Tim grows sicker, succumbs to the illness and dies—only to awaken again the next morning.
But something is wrong. Tim is no longer fully human. He's transforming into something else. Something dangerous...
When aliens arrive on Earth, the tiny town of Little Creek isn't any more prepared than the rest of the planet.
Without warning or provocation, the otherworldly creatures begin to lay waste to everything.
In the chaos that follows, an unlikely group bands together: A beauty queen with something to prove... A shopkeeper with something to hide... A shellshocked teenager set on revenge... And a world-weary veteran desperate to save them all.
As time runs out, this ragtag crew must find a way to fight back against the alien forces massing around them.
What are they? What do they want? How can they be stopped? If they fail, it won't just be Little Creek that is lost.
It will be all of humanity.
The world changed overnight... and now there is nowhere to run.
The abductions were the first sign of the invasion. Thousands of small children vanished from their beds. Meteorites hit next, choking the air with mysterious dust that had a strange effect on the dead.
They rose from their graves and hungered for the taste of flesh.
The dead were only a smokescreen for the true monsters. Creatures, not of the Earth, began to hunt the living with one purpose... eradication.
Seventeen-year-old Zoe has to fight off the dead and hide from the aliens in hopeof finding out why they are here.
The answer could kill her.
In 2017, a mysterious interstellar object transited the Solar System bound for deep space. By the time it was noticed, it had already passed Earth. It was soon forgotten, dismissed as a comet or planetary fragment. Earth’s scientists turned to more pressing matters.
But it was no mere rock. An alien spaceship looking for habitable planets, it sent a machine probe to Earth, containing a sentient quantum computer.
After crash landing in South America, the probe was found by tech billionaire Christian Becker, who used its computational power to give himself groundbreaking technology and unlimited wealth.
Until something goes wrong.
Someone hacks into and shuts down Becker's secret lab. Becker is certain that War veteran Will Logan and his missing wife, Alex, are the saboteurs. Logan is kidnapped and brought to Becker’s highly secret research campus.
But nothing is what it seems...
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And here are the books you want...
Their war. Our extinction.
The catastrophe of P3X-888 becomes a question of fate for all mankind. The enemy rises and strikes the all-destructive final blow, even before it was understood on Earth what the war is about.
In the midst of a standoff that has been going on for millennia, Nikos and Jacek stumble into a conflict far greater than they could have ever imagined. Meanwhile, the leadership back home is still clueless and unaware that mankind's doom has long since begun.
From a young couple struggling to look after their baby to a new captain's reluctance to take command of her ship, and from a sun-addled stranger's appearance in town to the emergence of a sentient AI, the twelve tales presented here explore the central theme of an arrival by someone or something new.
There's even an alien puppy.
Asa Kleve craved a life of intergalactic adventure.
Instead, she’s tasked with babysitting a group of demanding scientists on the dead planet Cozore.
But all of that changes when a rival galactic power attacks and kidnaps the scientists, leaving her for dead.
Rescued from the rubble by an alien — one long thought to be extinct — Asa makes a pact with her unexpected new ally to save both their peoples before it's too late.
This dead planet may not be so dead after all, and Asa is about to find more adventure than she ever bargained for.
A strange, glowing object lands in the forest. Tim is the only one who sees it. Venturing out to investigate, he discovers animals infected with a mysterious black growth. When he returns to his cabin, he realizes the horrifying truth: whatever disease the object brought to Earth, Tim has caught it too.
Now begins a living nightmare. Tim grows sicker, succumbs to the illness and dies—only to awaken again the next morning.
But something is wrong. Tim is no longer fully human. He's transforming into something else. Something dangerous...
When aliens arrive on Earth, the tiny town of Little Creek isn't any more prepared than the rest of the planet.
Without warning or provocation, the otherworldly creatures begin to lay waste to everything.
In the chaos that follows, an unlikely group bands together: A beauty queen with something to prove... A shopkeeper with something to hide... A shellshocked teenager set on revenge... And a world-weary veteran desperate to save them all.
As time runs out, this ragtag crew must find a way to fight back against the alien forces massing around them.
What are they? What do they want? How can they be stopped? If they fail, it won't just be Little Creek that is lost.
It will be all of humanity.
The world changed overnight... and now there is nowhere to run.
The abductions were the first sign of the invasion. Thousands of small children vanished from their beds. Meteorites hit next, choking the air with mysterious dust that had a strange effect on the dead.
They rose from their graves and hungered for the taste of flesh.
The dead were only a smokescreen for the true monsters. Creatures, not of the Earth, began to hunt the living with one purpose... eradication.
Seventeen-year-old Zoe has to fight off the dead and hide from the aliens in hopeof finding out why they are here.
The answer could kill her.
In 2017, a mysterious interstellar object transited the Solar System bound for deep space. By the time it was noticed, it had already passed Earth. It was soon forgotten, dismissed as a comet or planetary fragment. Earth’s scientists turned to more pressing matters.
But it was no mere rock. An alien spaceship looking for habitable planets, it sent a machine probe to Earth, containing a sentient quantum computer.
After crash landing in South America, the probe was found by tech billionaire Christian Becker, who used its computational power to give himself groundbreaking technology and unlimited wealth.
Until something goes wrong.
Someone hacks into and shuts down Becker's secret lab. Becker is certain that War veteran Will Logan and his missing wife, Alex, are the saboteurs. Logan is kidnapped and brought to Becker’s highly secret research campus.
But nothing is what it seems...
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July 6, 2025
July Round-up Of Scifi Books
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And here are the books you want...
Earth Solar System, the Future. Abigail Olivaw is drowning in self-doubt. Hiding a devastating secret from the populace, the President of the Confederation of Planetary Explorers is horrified when hostile aliens arrive to announce they're putting humanity on trial. Forced to act as her species’ defender in court, she struggles to hide her family's hidden multi-generational history that could lead to a sentence of genocide.
Epsilon Eridani Colony. Joyce Green’s passion for her job is dwarfed only by her love for her son. So when he dies from a mysterious virus that threatens the entire settlement, the Director of Colonization vows to stop at nothing to discover what triggered the deadly infection. And as she uncovers the truth bit by bit, her heartbreak fuels a berserk need for justice.
Trapped by guilt over a mistake she didn't choose, Abigail falls into a tailspin when the invaders reveal the facts of her race's origins. And when Joyce unmasks a traitor, the rest of her people would be lucky to only die from disease.
With their paths on a collision course, will the women's consequence-laden decisions destroy humankind's last hope?
The warship Trouble Dog was build and bred for calculating violence, yet following a brutal war, she finds herself disgusted by conflict and her role in a possible war crime. Seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. But, stripped of her weaponry and emptied of her officers, she struggles in the new role she's chosen for herself. When a ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of misfits and loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, an ex-captain of a medical frigate who once fought against Trouble Dog, are assigned to investigate and save whoever they can.
Conscription. It was announced through every electronic device around the globe, right before everyone considered ‘capable’ was abducted.
Meaning most people under the age of twenty-five.
James Cook and his team Mecha Tail were supposed to be fighting in the e-game championships for Mecha-Assault Two. Now they’re just grunts for the Union’s Planetary Defense force.
With Neural implants grafted onto their spines to give them direct control over their rusted and reclaimed mech armor, they have weeks to learn how to fight.
He will have to become more than James Cook, he will have to become Salchar. He will have to become a leader.
Under the rust and harried repairs that make up the Dreadnought Golden Refuge, hides the true heart of the ship Resilient. She knows a devastating secret.
The Union lays in tatters and the Planetary Defense force was gutted.
If that’s true—who are Salchar and his people training and fighting under?
In the aftermath of a battle a ship drifts helplessly in space. Is the strange new warship they were fighting still out there? Will it come back for them? Commander Johnson faces a desperate race to get her destroyer back into action and save her crew.
In the not-so-distant future, Ensign Carol Hansen of Earth's ISC Fleet finds herself caught in the midst of a brutal conflict no amount of training could have prepared her to survive. A friendly diplomatic mission to Inor—the only inhabited alien planet we have discovered so far—turns into a blood-soaked nightmare when enormous silver alien ships launch an unprovoked attack. The alien spacecraft are made of unknown materials, with unknown capabilities, and the attackers' motives are equally unknown.
The only certainty is their overwhelming hostility towards the Inori, and now, Earth's Fleet.
Fresh out of the Academy, Ensign Cole Jackson’s first posting to Freedom couldn’t have come at a worse time. All over the Alliance, planets and colonies are suddenly under attack by the vicious Coven Empire.
Freedom and her sister ship, Hood, are ambushed by alien warships, leaving Hood drifting dead in the void.
Cole is ordered to salvage parts from the powerless Hood, but when he arrives on the unpowered hulk, Freedom is called away, marooning him and a group of malcontent techs in deep space.
With the timer on survival ticking down, Cole must find the confidence to take control, whip his tiny crew into shape, bring Hood back to life––repairing communications, propulsion and even weapons.
He's got one chance to transform the derelict ship into a combat-ready vessel. One he can take into battle and alterthe course of the war.
During a time of interplanetary war, Baymond escaped heartbreak by joining the galactic air fleet. Now he faces death daily while living on a military space station far from his home planet. His latest assignment is to travel to a war-torn planet on a reconnaissance mission.
Meanwhile, Princess Fawniteen has accepted her fate. She will marry Prince Radcliff when she turns eighteen to form a political alliance between their countries. But when the king's dying wish is for Fawniteen and his son to marry immediately, she realizes she’s still in love with Baymond and wants control over her life.
Fawniteen finds the courage to break off her engagement and travel across the galaxy to be with Baymond. She joins him on what’s proposed to be a peaceful mission. Instead they find themselves cut off from the space station and war erupts.
When Baymond and Fawniteen become separated, he must face his hardest trial yet when he's captured by the enemy when searching for her.
Will Fawn and Baymond survive their separation by war? Can Baymond draw on his unique gifts and defeat a powerful sorcerer-deity to save the galaxy?
When Lieutenant Alex 'Flex' Callahan encounters mysterious alien probes near Luna Station, no one believes his warnings—until it's too late. Human activity has awakened an alien presence deep in our Solar System. Now humanity faces extinction as this ancient and forgotten foe launches a devastating invasion. Their goal? To reclaim Earth as their ancestral home.
Flying his Firebird fighter from the carrier ECS Vanguard, Flex leads the desperate fight against overwhelming odds. With superior technology and savage combat skills, the enemy steamroll through humanity's defenses, conquering colonies from Europa to Mars. Earth's last hope lies with its fighter pilots and their nerves of steel.
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Earth Solar System, the Future. Abigail Olivaw is drowning in self-doubt. Hiding a devastating secret from the populace, the President of the Confederation of Planetary Explorers is horrified when hostile aliens arrive to announce they're putting humanity on trial. Forced to act as her species’ defender in court, she struggles to hide her family's hidden multi-generational history that could lead to a sentence of genocide.
Epsilon Eridani Colony. Joyce Green’s passion for her job is dwarfed only by her love for her son. So when he dies from a mysterious virus that threatens the entire settlement, the Director of Colonization vows to stop at nothing to discover what triggered the deadly infection. And as she uncovers the truth bit by bit, her heartbreak fuels a berserk need for justice.
Trapped by guilt over a mistake she didn't choose, Abigail falls into a tailspin when the invaders reveal the facts of her race's origins. And when Joyce unmasks a traitor, the rest of her people would be lucky to only die from disease.
With their paths on a collision course, will the women's consequence-laden decisions destroy humankind's last hope?
The warship Trouble Dog was build and bred for calculating violence, yet following a brutal war, she finds herself disgusted by conflict and her role in a possible war crime. Seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. But, stripped of her weaponry and emptied of her officers, she struggles in the new role she's chosen for herself. When a ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of misfits and loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, an ex-captain of a medical frigate who once fought against Trouble Dog, are assigned to investigate and save whoever they can.
Conscription. It was announced through every electronic device around the globe, right before everyone considered ‘capable’ was abducted.
Meaning most people under the age of twenty-five.
James Cook and his team Mecha Tail were supposed to be fighting in the e-game championships for Mecha-Assault Two. Now they’re just grunts for the Union’s Planetary Defense force.
With Neural implants grafted onto their spines to give them direct control over their rusted and reclaimed mech armor, they have weeks to learn how to fight.
He will have to become more than James Cook, he will have to become Salchar. He will have to become a leader.
Under the rust and harried repairs that make up the Dreadnought Golden Refuge, hides the true heart of the ship Resilient. She knows a devastating secret.
The Union lays in tatters and the Planetary Defense force was gutted.
If that’s true—who are Salchar and his people training and fighting under?
In the aftermath of a battle a ship drifts helplessly in space. Is the strange new warship they were fighting still out there? Will it come back for them? Commander Johnson faces a desperate race to get her destroyer back into action and save her crew.
In the not-so-distant future, Ensign Carol Hansen of Earth's ISC Fleet finds herself caught in the midst of a brutal conflict no amount of training could have prepared her to survive. A friendly diplomatic mission to Inor—the only inhabited alien planet we have discovered so far—turns into a blood-soaked nightmare when enormous silver alien ships launch an unprovoked attack. The alien spacecraft are made of unknown materials, with unknown capabilities, and the attackers' motives are equally unknown.
The only certainty is their overwhelming hostility towards the Inori, and now, Earth's Fleet.
Fresh out of the Academy, Ensign Cole Jackson’s first posting to Freedom couldn’t have come at a worse time. All over the Alliance, planets and colonies are suddenly under attack by the vicious Coven Empire.
Freedom and her sister ship, Hood, are ambushed by alien warships, leaving Hood drifting dead in the void.
Cole is ordered to salvage parts from the powerless Hood, but when he arrives on the unpowered hulk, Freedom is called away, marooning him and a group of malcontent techs in deep space.
With the timer on survival ticking down, Cole must find the confidence to take control, whip his tiny crew into shape, bring Hood back to life––repairing communications, propulsion and even weapons.
He's got one chance to transform the derelict ship into a combat-ready vessel. One he can take into battle and alterthe course of the war.
During a time of interplanetary war, Baymond escaped heartbreak by joining the galactic air fleet. Now he faces death daily while living on a military space station far from his home planet. His latest assignment is to travel to a war-torn planet on a reconnaissance mission.
Meanwhile, Princess Fawniteen has accepted her fate. She will marry Prince Radcliff when she turns eighteen to form a political alliance between their countries. But when the king's dying wish is for Fawniteen and his son to marry immediately, she realizes she’s still in love with Baymond and wants control over her life.
Fawniteen finds the courage to break off her engagement and travel across the galaxy to be with Baymond. She joins him on what’s proposed to be a peaceful mission. Instead they find themselves cut off from the space station and war erupts.
When Baymond and Fawniteen become separated, he must face his hardest trial yet when he's captured by the enemy when searching for her.
Will Fawn and Baymond survive their separation by war? Can Baymond draw on his unique gifts and defeat a powerful sorcerer-deity to save the galaxy?
When Lieutenant Alex 'Flex' Callahan encounters mysterious alien probes near Luna Station, no one believes his warnings—until it's too late. Human activity has awakened an alien presence deep in our Solar System. Now humanity faces extinction as this ancient and forgotten foe launches a devastating invasion. Their goal? To reclaim Earth as their ancestral home.
Flying his Firebird fighter from the carrier ECS Vanguard, Flex leads the desperate fight against overwhelming odds. With superior technology and savage combat skills, the enemy steamroll through humanity's defenses, conquering colonies from Europa to Mars. Earth's last hope lies with its fighter pilots and their nerves of steel.
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June 6, 2025
June Roundup of Scifi Books
Hmmm. How to name an alien race? After something on Earth they resemble? By how the name they call themselves sounds in English? But as an author you're making it up. So you can at least make it pronounceable. Or should you?
And here are the books you want...
The skelkrins. Predators from deep space. Creatures of claws, fangs, and unending malice. They swarm across the galaxy, slaying all in their path. Planets burn in their wake. And now they're heading to Earth.
Raphael "Riff" Starfire commands the Alien Hunters, a group of scruffy mercenaries. Galactic pest controllers, they mostly handle small critters--aliens that clog up your engine pipes, gnaw on your hull, or burrow through your silos.
Riff and his crew have never faced anything like the skelkrins before. As these cosmic killers invade our solar system, will Riff be the one hunting aliens . . . or will aliens hunt him?
Ace fighter pilot Anastasia Seivers is offered a secret assignment: to join a squadron taking the fight to Concorde's true enemies. But this squadron isn't part of the regular Concorde military, it is attached to the Legion Libertus, the independent force responsible for saving thousands of lives after the nuclear attack. After initial hope that her new commanders will be different, Seivers starts to suspect that they too are prejudiced against her.
Determined to remove the chip from Seivers' shoulder, Prefect Olivia Johnson, commander of the Legion, takes her on as pilot for a special mission.
Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the Greatships.
With their vast cargo holds and a crew that could fill a city, the Greatships are the lifeblood of human occupied space, transporting an unimaginable volume - and value - of goods from City, the greatest human orbital, all the way to Tradepoint at the other, to trade for xenoglas with an unknowable alien species.
It has always been Marca Nbaro's dream to achieve the near-impossible: escape her upbringing and venture into space.
All it took, to make her way onto the crew of the Greatship Athens was thousands of hours in simulators, dedication, and pawning or selling every scrap of her old life in order to forge a new one. But though she's made her way onboard with faked papers, leaving her old life - and scandals - behind isn't so easy.
She may have just combined all the dangers of her former life, with all the perils of the new...
Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.
Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien enemy. Many escaped, but millions more died. So mankind created enhanced humans such as Idris - who could communicate mind-to-mind with our aggressors. Then these ‘Architects’ simply disappeared and Idris and his kind became obsolete.
Now, Idris and his crew have something strange, abandoned in space. It’s clearly the work of the Architects – but are they really returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy as they search for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, and many would kill to obtain it.
Alisia is normal, as far as humans go. She’s a young historian recovering from heartbreak, intent only onsettling down and living peacefully. But the gods have different intentions. Alisia and her sister wake up on analien ship. The merciless Admiral Brutus of the Vudar empire has mistaken the pair for members of the rivalSem’Pari race and plans on using them as spies, controlling them with neural implants. However, Alisiaquickly realizes Brutus’s team unknowingly implanted the wrong AI chip in her head.
Alisia names this AI companion Eric, and it’s almost too easy for her to connect with—to love—thisexhilarating new voice with whom she shares her body. But even when it becomes apparent that almost no oneaboard the Vudar ship is who they claim to be, Alisia chooses to trust Eric. Only he—it—can help her harnessher new superpower-like abilities, which are her best hope to escape back to Earth... and survive.
War never promised an easy tomorrow.
Lt. Colonel Arthur Hanson suffers from imposter syndrome. While grateful for promotion to second-in-command of the CSV Margaret Thatcher, he’s still a nerdy engineer at heart. The CDF’s presence in the Orion Spur is to project strength and maintain peace among the former League-held settlements. Confronting minor skirmishes is a cakewalk compared to open war.
But freedom demands a price.
Without warning, coordinated terrorist strikes across the Spur leave the fleet limping on life support. The Margaret Thatcher herself narrowly escapes destruction — at an unspeakable cost.
With the fleet decimated and backup stalled behind political power plays, Colonel Hanson is forced into shoes he feels ill-qualified to fill. But as ranking officer, survivors look to him to lead the charge against terrorists who wantonly rape and murder with no regard for the innocent.
Now Arthur must steel his spine and rise to the challenge of his namesake ship.
Because the Iron Lady does not turn from the fight.
Geary believed in the Alliance. Even when he uncovered overwhelming evidence that the highest echelons of the government and fleet command were involved in secret programs and prison camps, he believed it was worth saving. And that his duty was to see that justice was served even though some factions feared that revealing the truth would cause the Alliance to crumble.
But after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt when he brings evidence of the misdeeds to the capital star system, Geary realizes that some have decided the easiest way to make the Alliance’s problems disappear is to get rid of him. He finds himself ordered to undertake a perilous new assignment outside the reaches of human-occupied space while the Senate clashes over the evidence.
Geary’s warships must escort a diplomatic and scientific mission across the dangerous, disintegrating remnants of the Syndicate Worlds empire. But even if he can make it to Midway Star System, the gateway to alien-controlled space, Geary will face former Syndic officials who have rebelled and regard the Alliance with deep suspicion. And that will be the easy part...
Corvus Centauri rises from the ashes of betrayal and loss to carve his destiny among the stars. Once a child of noble blood, now a battle-hardened warrior raised among corsairs, Corvus must navigate a galaxy rife with treachery, ambition, and the haunting echoes of his past.
As he pieces together the mysteries behind his family’s fall, Corvus discovers long-buried secrets that could tip the balance of power in Frontier Space.
But to reclaim his birthright, Corvus must wield more than a blaster or a plasma sword — he must become a wise and cunning leader like his father, one that knows not only how to fight, but who to fight, and when not to.
In another galaxy far from Earth, an evil Empire controls 3/4ths of the star systems and yearns for more. Those regions not under their control have either traded obedience for their sovereignty, are too wild to tame, or too dangerous for Imperial troops to tread upon.
The main thorn in the Emperor's side is the Frontier, which occupies a third of the lawless and barbaric Outer Rim. Countless starship commanders and fleets have been sent to pacify and annex it into the Empire. All have failed.
The meager colonies established in the region are beset by constant wars and disasters. So the Emperor decides to change strategy. If an Imperial commander cannot give him what he desires, then perhaps an enemy can.
Aatroxiss, one of the few surviving members of the Keeno Order that the Empire has hunted to near annihilation, is captured and brought before the Emperor himself. But before Aatroxiss can wield the Kalla and kill him in his own throne room, the Emperor makes him an offer he cannot refuse.
The Frontier, given to Aatroxiss under the guise of him serving the Empire. He can do whatever he wishes with the region, so long as he brings order to it. Conflicted by wanting to kill the Emperor and avenge the deaths of the other Keenos, he wisely hesitates as he sees the opportunity in this. For over 200 years the Rebellion has failed to free a single world from the Empire. But if he agrees to become the Emperor's Grand Admiral in charge of the Frontier, he could free hundreds of worlds, if not thousands, from Imperial tyranny in fact, if not in name.
The Emperor knows it too, and in his gloating way has cornered Aatroxiss. Will he choose vengeance or rescuing others?
A Keeno can make only one choice, and as predicted, he strikes a deal with the Emperor for the sake of the billions of people in the Frontier. Thus Grand Admiral Aatroxiss is born, and upon his shoulders all of the Frontier's problems are about to be heaped while the Emperor continues his tyranny of the rest of the civilized galaxy...
In 1944, a secret Nazi experiment split the universe in two. In our universe, we won. Hitler died. Freedom prevailed. But in a parallel universe, the Nazis discovered the atom bomb first... and conquered the world. The light of freedom perished, and the Nazi shadow spread across Earth, the solar system, and the stars.
In 2207, a portal opens between our two universes. One universe of freedom. One of tyranny. And through this portal flies the Weltraumwaffe, the space fleet of the Third Reich.
James King was enjoying his retirement. He once commanded the Freedom Fleet, an armada of starships tasked with defending Earth. In his fifty years of service, Admiral King fought many battles. But he never faced anything like this.
He is old. Tired. Battle-worn. But he must don the uniform again. He must lead the Freedom Fleet once more. Or the shadows of our past will swallow us all.
WWII rages again. This time in space. The Freedom Fleet will face off against the Weltraumwaffe. Freedom or tyranny—only one can win.
The Praxis, the empire of now extinct Shaa, has again fallen into civil war, with desperate and outnumbered humans battling several alien species for survival. Leading the human forces are star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula, who must find a way to overcome their own thorny personal history to defeat the aliens and assure humanity’s survival.
But even if the human fleet is victorious, the divisions fracturing the empire may be too wide to repair, as battles between politicians, the military, and fanatics who want to kill every alien threaten to further tear the empire apart. While Martinez and Sula believe they have the talent and tactics to defeat an overwhelming enemy, what will prevent their fellow humans from destroying themselves?
And here are the books you want...
The skelkrins. Predators from deep space. Creatures of claws, fangs, and unending malice. They swarm across the galaxy, slaying all in their path. Planets burn in their wake. And now they're heading to Earth.
Raphael "Riff" Starfire commands the Alien Hunters, a group of scruffy mercenaries. Galactic pest controllers, they mostly handle small critters--aliens that clog up your engine pipes, gnaw on your hull, or burrow through your silos.
Riff and his crew have never faced anything like the skelkrins before. As these cosmic killers invade our solar system, will Riff be the one hunting aliens . . . or will aliens hunt him?
Ace fighter pilot Anastasia Seivers is offered a secret assignment: to join a squadron taking the fight to Concorde's true enemies. But this squadron isn't part of the regular Concorde military, it is attached to the Legion Libertus, the independent force responsible for saving thousands of lives after the nuclear attack. After initial hope that her new commanders will be different, Seivers starts to suspect that they too are prejudiced against her.
Determined to remove the chip from Seivers' shoulder, Prefect Olivia Johnson, commander of the Legion, takes her on as pilot for a special mission.
Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the Greatships.
With their vast cargo holds and a crew that could fill a city, the Greatships are the lifeblood of human occupied space, transporting an unimaginable volume - and value - of goods from City, the greatest human orbital, all the way to Tradepoint at the other, to trade for xenoglas with an unknowable alien species.
It has always been Marca Nbaro's dream to achieve the near-impossible: escape her upbringing and venture into space.
All it took, to make her way onto the crew of the Greatship Athens was thousands of hours in simulators, dedication, and pawning or selling every scrap of her old life in order to forge a new one. But though she's made her way onboard with faked papers, leaving her old life - and scandals - behind isn't so easy.
She may have just combined all the dangers of her former life, with all the perils of the new...
Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.
Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien enemy. Many escaped, but millions more died. So mankind created enhanced humans such as Idris - who could communicate mind-to-mind with our aggressors. Then these ‘Architects’ simply disappeared and Idris and his kind became obsolete.
Now, Idris and his crew have something strange, abandoned in space. It’s clearly the work of the Architects – but are they really returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy as they search for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, and many would kill to obtain it.
Alisia is normal, as far as humans go. She’s a young historian recovering from heartbreak, intent only onsettling down and living peacefully. But the gods have different intentions. Alisia and her sister wake up on analien ship. The merciless Admiral Brutus of the Vudar empire has mistaken the pair for members of the rivalSem’Pari race and plans on using them as spies, controlling them with neural implants. However, Alisiaquickly realizes Brutus’s team unknowingly implanted the wrong AI chip in her head.
Alisia names this AI companion Eric, and it’s almost too easy for her to connect with—to love—thisexhilarating new voice with whom she shares her body. But even when it becomes apparent that almost no oneaboard the Vudar ship is who they claim to be, Alisia chooses to trust Eric. Only he—it—can help her harnessher new superpower-like abilities, which are her best hope to escape back to Earth... and survive.
War never promised an easy tomorrow.
Lt. Colonel Arthur Hanson suffers from imposter syndrome. While grateful for promotion to second-in-command of the CSV Margaret Thatcher, he’s still a nerdy engineer at heart. The CDF’s presence in the Orion Spur is to project strength and maintain peace among the former League-held settlements. Confronting minor skirmishes is a cakewalk compared to open war.
But freedom demands a price.
Without warning, coordinated terrorist strikes across the Spur leave the fleet limping on life support. The Margaret Thatcher herself narrowly escapes destruction — at an unspeakable cost.
With the fleet decimated and backup stalled behind political power plays, Colonel Hanson is forced into shoes he feels ill-qualified to fill. But as ranking officer, survivors look to him to lead the charge against terrorists who wantonly rape and murder with no regard for the innocent.
Now Arthur must steel his spine and rise to the challenge of his namesake ship.
Because the Iron Lady does not turn from the fight.
Geary believed in the Alliance. Even when he uncovered overwhelming evidence that the highest echelons of the government and fleet command were involved in secret programs and prison camps, he believed it was worth saving. And that his duty was to see that justice was served even though some factions feared that revealing the truth would cause the Alliance to crumble.
But after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt when he brings evidence of the misdeeds to the capital star system, Geary realizes that some have decided the easiest way to make the Alliance’s problems disappear is to get rid of him. He finds himself ordered to undertake a perilous new assignment outside the reaches of human-occupied space while the Senate clashes over the evidence.
Geary’s warships must escort a diplomatic and scientific mission across the dangerous, disintegrating remnants of the Syndicate Worlds empire. But even if he can make it to Midway Star System, the gateway to alien-controlled space, Geary will face former Syndic officials who have rebelled and regard the Alliance with deep suspicion. And that will be the easy part...
Corvus Centauri rises from the ashes of betrayal and loss to carve his destiny among the stars. Once a child of noble blood, now a battle-hardened warrior raised among corsairs, Corvus must navigate a galaxy rife with treachery, ambition, and the haunting echoes of his past.
As he pieces together the mysteries behind his family’s fall, Corvus discovers long-buried secrets that could tip the balance of power in Frontier Space.
But to reclaim his birthright, Corvus must wield more than a blaster or a plasma sword — he must become a wise and cunning leader like his father, one that knows not only how to fight, but who to fight, and when not to.
In another galaxy far from Earth, an evil Empire controls 3/4ths of the star systems and yearns for more. Those regions not under their control have either traded obedience for their sovereignty, are too wild to tame, or too dangerous for Imperial troops to tread upon.
The main thorn in the Emperor's side is the Frontier, which occupies a third of the lawless and barbaric Outer Rim. Countless starship commanders and fleets have been sent to pacify and annex it into the Empire. All have failed.
The meager colonies established in the region are beset by constant wars and disasters. So the Emperor decides to change strategy. If an Imperial commander cannot give him what he desires, then perhaps an enemy can.
Aatroxiss, one of the few surviving members of the Keeno Order that the Empire has hunted to near annihilation, is captured and brought before the Emperor himself. But before Aatroxiss can wield the Kalla and kill him in his own throne room, the Emperor makes him an offer he cannot refuse.
The Frontier, given to Aatroxiss under the guise of him serving the Empire. He can do whatever he wishes with the region, so long as he brings order to it. Conflicted by wanting to kill the Emperor and avenge the deaths of the other Keenos, he wisely hesitates as he sees the opportunity in this. For over 200 years the Rebellion has failed to free a single world from the Empire. But if he agrees to become the Emperor's Grand Admiral in charge of the Frontier, he could free hundreds of worlds, if not thousands, from Imperial tyranny in fact, if not in name.
The Emperor knows it too, and in his gloating way has cornered Aatroxiss. Will he choose vengeance or rescuing others?
A Keeno can make only one choice, and as predicted, he strikes a deal with the Emperor for the sake of the billions of people in the Frontier. Thus Grand Admiral Aatroxiss is born, and upon his shoulders all of the Frontier's problems are about to be heaped while the Emperor continues his tyranny of the rest of the civilized galaxy...
In 1944, a secret Nazi experiment split the universe in two. In our universe, we won. Hitler died. Freedom prevailed. But in a parallel universe, the Nazis discovered the atom bomb first... and conquered the world. The light of freedom perished, and the Nazi shadow spread across Earth, the solar system, and the stars.
In 2207, a portal opens between our two universes. One universe of freedom. One of tyranny. And through this portal flies the Weltraumwaffe, the space fleet of the Third Reich.
James King was enjoying his retirement. He once commanded the Freedom Fleet, an armada of starships tasked with defending Earth. In his fifty years of service, Admiral King fought many battles. But he never faced anything like this.
He is old. Tired. Battle-worn. But he must don the uniform again. He must lead the Freedom Fleet once more. Or the shadows of our past will swallow us all.
WWII rages again. This time in space. The Freedom Fleet will face off against the Weltraumwaffe. Freedom or tyranny—only one can win.
The Praxis, the empire of now extinct Shaa, has again fallen into civil war, with desperate and outnumbered humans battling several alien species for survival. Leading the human forces are star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula, who must find a way to overcome their own thorny personal history to defeat the aliens and assure humanity’s survival.
But even if the human fleet is victorious, the divisions fracturing the empire may be too wide to repair, as battles between politicians, the military, and fanatics who want to kill every alien threaten to further tear the empire apart. While Martinez and Sula believe they have the talent and tactics to defeat an overwhelming enemy, what will prevent their fellow humans from destroying themselves?
May 6, 2025
May Roundup of Scifi Books
I've decided to change my newsletter date to the 6th/7th of each month. I hope that doesn't cause too much confusion!
And here are the books you want...
Jack Reilly's luck ran out just before the war did. Resigning his commission in the Alliance shortly after the end of the war with the Serkins, he went out into the galaxy looking for a job. Signing onto the Glacier Runner 17, an old and rundown cargo ship, Reilly finds himself working for a clueless captain, mixed up in an intergalactic conspiracy, on the run from assassins, and involved with two women in relationships that he could only call "complicated".
Trapped aboard the Empire’s ultimate weapon, Sentinel, Rex becomes the crucial factor in the cosmic war against the Devourers.
But there's a mysterious web of deceit beyond the battlefield. Driven by an intense hatred of mankind, an ancient being emerges as the parasite's true puppet master.
Between the Empire, the Devourers, emboldened pirates, and a plethora of colonial revolutionaries, are there simply too many enemies to overcome?
The mysterious Krancis, architect of the Empire's desperate gambit to survive, sends Sentinel on a collision course with the single greatest foe ever to threaten mankind. The battle to come is beyond colossal: it's a celestial clash of titans that could cost Rex everything he has left.
When Thomas heard the cries for help, he didn’t hesitate to do the right thing. It was his chance for redemption.
Until everything went wrong.
The cave should have been deserted. The perfect place to hide. Instead, it’s crawling with soldiers and engineers working to unearth the impossible: Excalibur.
Deep beneath the mountain, she’s waited centuries to be found. Not a sword in the stone, but a starship. And according to the onboard AI, Thomas is the only one who can command her.
Now he's on the run across a galaxy more astonishing and treacherous than he ever imagined, where magic and technology intertwine and ancient powers lurk in the shadows. Relentlessly hunted and hopelessly lost, he needs to learn fast if he wants to survive. Only his greatest challenge isn't training to pilot a starship. It's accepting that he, of all people, is responsible for reigniting the hope of a fallen kingdom.
AN ASTEROID HAS CRASHED INTO THE MOON, AND ITS FRAGMENTS ARE THREATENING TO DESTROY LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.
The only hope for mankind is Project Orpheus, an unprecedented initiative on the part of the alliedgovernments to enable human life to continue on Kepler-442b, a planet over a thousand light years fromEarth.
Two spaceships are under construction, which will leave for that remote solar system with a specialized crew toterraform the planet and make it habitable. Steven Rhodes, the director of Project Orpheus, will travel in the first ofthem. His daughter Emily, a specialist technician in Artificial Intelligence, will follow on the second ship, five years later.
However, the journey will be full of dangers which the ship's crew will have to confront.
Siobhan Dunmoore was not having a good war. She's had more ships shot out from under her by the invading Shrehari Empire than any other officer in the Fleet. Some called her overly aggressive. Others simply called her reckless. What the enemy called her was something else altogether. That she gave the Shrehari a good drubbing along the way didn't matter in the least, because not all her enemies wore an Imperial uniform. A reputation for bad luck was pretty much the only reputation she had left. Sailing yet another ruined starship home after a near defeat, she wanted nothing more than a long, long rest, because this time, she had escaped by the thinnest of bluffs. Unfortunately, the Admiralty had other ideas.
The frigate Stingray was known as the unluckiest ship in the Fleet and her Captain had just been removed in disgrace for cowardice. Some in the Admiralty would dearly love to retire the old warhorse. After all, she was the last of her type left in service, and perhaps it was time to break up the jinx permanently, along with the crew. But in the midst of an interstellar war, every ship that could fight was needed.
In short order, Dunmoore went from staring down the Empire's finest on the bridge of a wrecked battleship to taking on a demoralized, semi-mutinous crew, scheming admirals, and a deadly mystery. Stingray's bad luck wasn't just superstition gone rampant. Between a crew that won't talk, political enemies who want her gone, and her personal demons, she's got her hands full. Taking the frigate into battle under those conditions would seem foolish to anyone else, but Dunmoore was never one to shrink from a good fight. Failure was not an option, and defeat not an acceptable alternative, for there was no honor in death, only in victory. She would redeem herself and her ship or be damned for all eternity.
All Casmir Dabrowski wants is to return to his normal life as a robotics professor on the solid ground and agreeable gravity of his home world. No sane person would want to cavort around in space, being chased by mercenaries, soldiers, and knights—not to mention the unidentified organization that’s been sending robot assassins after him.
But his best friend’s mother is missing, an entire team of archaeologists is dead, and the greatest find in the Twelve Systems is hidden in a wreck entombed on a frozen moon.
As the Kingdom Fleet, Tenebris Rache’s nefarious mercenaries, and sinister strangers from another system descend on the ancient wreck, all wanting the secret in its hold, Casmir and his friends are caught in the middle of a battle for the future of humanity.
They may be the only ones with the unique skills to decode the wreck’s secrets, but will they survive long enough to do so?
What would you do if you materialised inside an alien starship?
It's 2049, and NASA-sponsored physicist Edward Virr is on the cusp of man's greatest breakthrough – the ability to fold space, and to travel faster than light.
He personally tests NASA's futuristic prototype fold ship with a hand-picked crew. But when their first mission takes an unexpected twist, Edward suspects that they may not have been the only ones developing the new technology.
Discovering there's a lot more at stake than first contact, they soon realise that Earth's survival depends on their ability to solve a crime of galactic proportions. Join Edward Virr and his crew as they undertake their first space adventure, laughing and swearing their way into the depths of the Milky Way.
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Jack Reilly's luck ran out just before the war did. Resigning his commission in the Alliance shortly after the end of the war with the Serkins, he went out into the galaxy looking for a job. Signing onto the Glacier Runner 17, an old and rundown cargo ship, Reilly finds himself working for a clueless captain, mixed up in an intergalactic conspiracy, on the run from assassins, and involved with two women in relationships that he could only call "complicated".
Trapped aboard the Empire’s ultimate weapon, Sentinel, Rex becomes the crucial factor in the cosmic war against the Devourers.
But there's a mysterious web of deceit beyond the battlefield. Driven by an intense hatred of mankind, an ancient being emerges as the parasite's true puppet master.
Between the Empire, the Devourers, emboldened pirates, and a plethora of colonial revolutionaries, are there simply too many enemies to overcome?
The mysterious Krancis, architect of the Empire's desperate gambit to survive, sends Sentinel on a collision course with the single greatest foe ever to threaten mankind. The battle to come is beyond colossal: it's a celestial clash of titans that could cost Rex everything he has left.
When Thomas heard the cries for help, he didn’t hesitate to do the right thing. It was his chance for redemption.
Until everything went wrong.
The cave should have been deserted. The perfect place to hide. Instead, it’s crawling with soldiers and engineers working to unearth the impossible: Excalibur.
Deep beneath the mountain, she’s waited centuries to be found. Not a sword in the stone, but a starship. And according to the onboard AI, Thomas is the only one who can command her.
Now he's on the run across a galaxy more astonishing and treacherous than he ever imagined, where magic and technology intertwine and ancient powers lurk in the shadows. Relentlessly hunted and hopelessly lost, he needs to learn fast if he wants to survive. Only his greatest challenge isn't training to pilot a starship. It's accepting that he, of all people, is responsible for reigniting the hope of a fallen kingdom.
AN ASTEROID HAS CRASHED INTO THE MOON, AND ITS FRAGMENTS ARE THREATENING TO DESTROY LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.
The only hope for mankind is Project Orpheus, an unprecedented initiative on the part of the alliedgovernments to enable human life to continue on Kepler-442b, a planet over a thousand light years fromEarth.
Two spaceships are under construction, which will leave for that remote solar system with a specialized crew toterraform the planet and make it habitable. Steven Rhodes, the director of Project Orpheus, will travel in the first ofthem. His daughter Emily, a specialist technician in Artificial Intelligence, will follow on the second ship, five years later.
However, the journey will be full of dangers which the ship's crew will have to confront.
Siobhan Dunmoore was not having a good war. She's had more ships shot out from under her by the invading Shrehari Empire than any other officer in the Fleet. Some called her overly aggressive. Others simply called her reckless. What the enemy called her was something else altogether. That she gave the Shrehari a good drubbing along the way didn't matter in the least, because not all her enemies wore an Imperial uniform. A reputation for bad luck was pretty much the only reputation she had left. Sailing yet another ruined starship home after a near defeat, she wanted nothing more than a long, long rest, because this time, she had escaped by the thinnest of bluffs. Unfortunately, the Admiralty had other ideas.
The frigate Stingray was known as the unluckiest ship in the Fleet and her Captain had just been removed in disgrace for cowardice. Some in the Admiralty would dearly love to retire the old warhorse. After all, she was the last of her type left in service, and perhaps it was time to break up the jinx permanently, along with the crew. But in the midst of an interstellar war, every ship that could fight was needed.
In short order, Dunmoore went from staring down the Empire's finest on the bridge of a wrecked battleship to taking on a demoralized, semi-mutinous crew, scheming admirals, and a deadly mystery. Stingray's bad luck wasn't just superstition gone rampant. Between a crew that won't talk, political enemies who want her gone, and her personal demons, she's got her hands full. Taking the frigate into battle under those conditions would seem foolish to anyone else, but Dunmoore was never one to shrink from a good fight. Failure was not an option, and defeat not an acceptable alternative, for there was no honor in death, only in victory. She would redeem herself and her ship or be damned for all eternity.
All Casmir Dabrowski wants is to return to his normal life as a robotics professor on the solid ground and agreeable gravity of his home world. No sane person would want to cavort around in space, being chased by mercenaries, soldiers, and knights—not to mention the unidentified organization that’s been sending robot assassins after him.
But his best friend’s mother is missing, an entire team of archaeologists is dead, and the greatest find in the Twelve Systems is hidden in a wreck entombed on a frozen moon.
As the Kingdom Fleet, Tenebris Rache’s nefarious mercenaries, and sinister strangers from another system descend on the ancient wreck, all wanting the secret in its hold, Casmir and his friends are caught in the middle of a battle for the future of humanity.
They may be the only ones with the unique skills to decode the wreck’s secrets, but will they survive long enough to do so?
What would you do if you materialised inside an alien starship?
It's 2049, and NASA-sponsored physicist Edward Virr is on the cusp of man's greatest breakthrough – the ability to fold space, and to travel faster than light.
He personally tests NASA's futuristic prototype fold ship with a hand-picked crew. But when their first mission takes an unexpected twist, Edward suspects that they may not have been the only ones developing the new technology.
Discovering there's a lot more at stake than first contact, they soon realise that Earth's survival depends on their ability to solve a crime of galactic proportions. Join Edward Virr and his crew as they undertake their first space adventure, laughing and swearing their way into the depths of the Milky Way.
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April 20, 2025
April Round-up of Scifi Books
This month I thought I'd focus on short story collections and anthologies. The short story is a classic of scifi, focussing on one specific idea or innovation and pushing it to see where it goes.
And here are the books you want...
From the multi-award-winning author of the First Contact Series, Milijun, Saving Paludis, and Silently in the Night comes a spellbinding collection of short stories that promises hours of captivating entertainment.
Experience tales ranging from a stranded alien comedian to the darkest corners of the human mind; from breathtaking galactic adventures to hidden extraterrestrial schemes on Earth. Each story is crafted to keep you guessing and enthralled at every turn.
Would you risk gambling with your life to discover what comes after death? Would you delete your memories if it erased your anxiety? Paradise 25 is a collection of nine gripping sci fi tales that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
From a young couple struggling to look after their baby to a new captain's reluctance to take command of her ship, and from a sun-addled stranger's appearance in town to the emergence of a sentient AI, the twelve tales presented here explore the central theme of an arrival by someone or something new.There's even an alien puppy.
The hunt is on.
The Uncertainty Principle is a collection of science-fiction short stories and a novelette set in the present and near future. It includes a hard-boiled detective story, a dystopian thriller, an eco-fiction mystery, a tabloid-style satire about human cloning, some action-adventure military SF, and a noirish cyberpunk tale.
Gathered together for the first time are seven strange stories of the future from the wondrous imagination of Philip E. High.
From Marta Randall, comes thirteen previously uncollected stories spanning the author’s career.
This collection highlights the imaginative brilliance of Ray Bradbury, one of the most influential voices in science fiction. Spanning over 15 stories, the anthology offers a window into Bradbury’s unique ability to blend futuristic ideas with profound human emotions.
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Interstellar journeys. Epic battles. Artificial Intelligence's longing for meaning. Life as we know it, ending...
Sci-Fi Bridge is thrilled to present its second collection from bestselling authors and newly emerging writers. These stories span the near and far future. They transport you to worlds unknown. They examine today's fears amid tomorrow's technologies. From the far corners of the galaxy to the inner reaches of the human heart, the exciting stories in At the Helm will thrill, inspire, and make you wonder--do humans have what it takes to build a better future? Or are we doomed by our own failings?
And here are the books you want...
From the multi-award-winning author of the First Contact Series, Milijun, Saving Paludis, and Silently in the Night comes a spellbinding collection of short stories that promises hours of captivating entertainment.
Experience tales ranging from a stranded alien comedian to the darkest corners of the human mind; from breathtaking galactic adventures to hidden extraterrestrial schemes on Earth. Each story is crafted to keep you guessing and enthralled at every turn.
Would you risk gambling with your life to discover what comes after death? Would you delete your memories if it erased your anxiety? Paradise 25 is a collection of nine gripping sci fi tales that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
From a young couple struggling to look after their baby to a new captain's reluctance to take command of her ship, and from a sun-addled stranger's appearance in town to the emergence of a sentient AI, the twelve tales presented here explore the central theme of an arrival by someone or something new.There's even an alien puppy.
The hunt is on.
The Uncertainty Principle is a collection of science-fiction short stories and a novelette set in the present and near future. It includes a hard-boiled detective story, a dystopian thriller, an eco-fiction mystery, a tabloid-style satire about human cloning, some action-adventure military SF, and a noirish cyberpunk tale.
Gathered together for the first time are seven strange stories of the future from the wondrous imagination of Philip E. High.
From Marta Randall, comes thirteen previously uncollected stories spanning the author’s career.
This collection highlights the imaginative brilliance of Ray Bradbury, one of the most influential voices in science fiction. Spanning over 15 stories, the anthology offers a window into Bradbury’s unique ability to blend futuristic ideas with profound human emotions.
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Interstellar journeys. Epic battles. Artificial Intelligence's longing for meaning. Life as we know it, ending...
Sci-Fi Bridge is thrilled to present its second collection from bestselling authors and newly emerging writers. These stories span the near and far future. They transport you to worlds unknown. They examine today's fears amid tomorrow's technologies. From the far corners of the galaxy to the inner reaches of the human heart, the exciting stories in At the Helm will thrill, inspire, and make you wonder--do humans have what it takes to build a better future? Or are we doomed by our own failings?
March 25, 2025
March Roundup of Scifi Books
What do you think about the representation of female leads in scifi? My main two, Anastasia Seivers and Olivia Johnson, are hopefully realistic role models. Strong, but not superhuman. Not simply male characters that happen to be female.
And here are the books you want...
People disappearing. Alien nanotech research. Can one telepathic soldier connect the pieces in time to prevent a stellar civil war?When Captain Kira Elsar comes face-to-face with a military assault mech inside a civilian research lab, it’s clear that MTech is up to no good. And MTech's newest facility is on Kira's homeworld.
As the Tararian Guard's sole telepath, Kira goes undercover to solve the mystery. However, she would rather be making snarky quips in a firefight than face the anxiety of returning home after a decade, especially since it means working with her ex she never quite got over.
When clues in her investigation point to a brewing stellar civil war, Kira is desperate to gather proof. Except, the mysterious forces behind the conflict already have their own plans for Kira that will change her life forever.
Toemeka’s dangerous assignment? To install a computer worm that will erase all records of a deadly chemical bioweapon before it can wreak havoc.
Teaming up with Jake, her contact and lover, they must outmaneuver military-grade robots and navigate a maze of perils to infiltrate the enemy's stronghold.
But when Toemeka faces betrayal, the stakes skyrocket. Will she trust the right allies? Will wiping out the computer records be enough to stop the weapon's development?
Flight Decurion Seivers is stranded on a frozen moon, far from the Legion. The Perception of Prejudice is barely functioning and Percy is offline. Seivers' future is measured in days.
Captain Lusimi searches for enemy survivors. By the order of the Protectors, the Sidexan Fleet is to avenge the Legion's violation of Protected System Five. He will follow his orders, but protecting his warriors and crew is his highest priority.
The hunt is on.
In a world plagued by a devastating genetic disease that decimates the male population, the powerful turn a blind eye to the impending peril while the women fight to preserve humanity's legacy.
In a realm gripped by a devastating genetic disease that has caused a drastic decline in male populations, the powerful cling stubbornly to their authority, oblivious to the impending peril. Meanwhile, the resilient women strive to ensure the continuity of humanity.
Princess Malak, trapped in an arranged marriage with a cruel and tyrannical man who mirrors the values of her controlling family and oppressive society, makes a daring escape from her homeland. Fleeing the specter of imprisonment or even death, she embarks on a treacherous journey to a foreign land where women wield influence and power.
Her quest for freedom becomes the catalyst for a larger struggle against the shackles of tradition, as she unveils a world on the brink of collapse and fights to reshape its future.
What will happen when Princess Malak defies her fate and ventures into a realm where women hold power and voices are heard?
The Fourth Carinad Empire stretches across hundreds of settled worlds and stellar cities, and thousands of light years. The Empire’s people and data are linked by a space-folding gates array controlled by the Emperor and his cohorts. When the array evolves into a sentient entity, it recognizes the Emperor as its foe.
Danny Andela, once known as The Imperial Hammer, withdrew from the Imperial Rangers decades ago, her reputation in tatters. She lives on her family’s star barge, waiting to die of a rare disease: old age. She would be the array’s perfect weapon against the Emperor, except she no longer gives a damn about anything.
Then Danny learns that the military disaster which essentially ended her life might possibly have been arranged by the Emperor himself...
When two strangers collide in the midst of a raging war, love ignites.
Freshly graduated from medical school, Katya Brie finds herself thrust into an unfamiliar realm, teeming with action. As Outpost Frelik falls under attack, she tends to the gravely wounded yet captivating Lt. Commander Sheve Hadi. Amidst treason, conspiracy, and a sinister plot that endangers her, the Ainoren, and all inhabitants of Letháo, Katya embarks on daring endeavors to shield her loved ones.
Sheve, resolute and injured, receives strict orders to safeguard the Ainoren and pursue an elusive crystal rumored to hold the key to defeating their formidable nemesis, The Zefron.
Nevertheless, when the Zefron unleash a devastating assault, obliterating Sheve's stronghold in their relentless pursuit of annihilation, and Sheve himself goes missing, presumed deceased, Katya refuses to abandon her quest for the man she has fallen for.
Glory barely survived its last battle twenty years earlier. Captain Drake resigned rather than face court martial. But the enemy is back. Humanity needs everything that can fly.
Maybe it’s not the ship at all, but the crew. They hold the key.
Drake rallies old and young alike to comply with orders so secret, even he wasn’t allowed to see them until after the ship left the junkyard. Would it leave? That was another question. The core hadn’t been fired in twenty years.
The smell of decay filled the massive ship’s corridors. The stench of death lingered, the death of Drake’s crew, a nightmare from long ago.
The Paragon have weapons that humanity couldn’t contemplate. But here they were, suing for peace. The people of Earth jumped at the carrot. The end of war! Could it be too good to be true?
Drake had his orders from an admiral who knew too much. Glory must launch.
And with it, the fate of humanity rested on the shoulders of a broken crew, carrying a weapon like no other, hoping for one clear shot.
And here are the books you want...
People disappearing. Alien nanotech research. Can one telepathic soldier connect the pieces in time to prevent a stellar civil war?When Captain Kira Elsar comes face-to-face with a military assault mech inside a civilian research lab, it’s clear that MTech is up to no good. And MTech's newest facility is on Kira's homeworld.
As the Tararian Guard's sole telepath, Kira goes undercover to solve the mystery. However, she would rather be making snarky quips in a firefight than face the anxiety of returning home after a decade, especially since it means working with her ex she never quite got over.
When clues in her investigation point to a brewing stellar civil war, Kira is desperate to gather proof. Except, the mysterious forces behind the conflict already have their own plans for Kira that will change her life forever.
Toemeka’s dangerous assignment? To install a computer worm that will erase all records of a deadly chemical bioweapon before it can wreak havoc.
Teaming up with Jake, her contact and lover, they must outmaneuver military-grade robots and navigate a maze of perils to infiltrate the enemy's stronghold.
But when Toemeka faces betrayal, the stakes skyrocket. Will she trust the right allies? Will wiping out the computer records be enough to stop the weapon's development?
Flight Decurion Seivers is stranded on a frozen moon, far from the Legion. The Perception of Prejudice is barely functioning and Percy is offline. Seivers' future is measured in days.
Captain Lusimi searches for enemy survivors. By the order of the Protectors, the Sidexan Fleet is to avenge the Legion's violation of Protected System Five. He will follow his orders, but protecting his warriors and crew is his highest priority.
The hunt is on.
In a world plagued by a devastating genetic disease that decimates the male population, the powerful turn a blind eye to the impending peril while the women fight to preserve humanity's legacy.
In a realm gripped by a devastating genetic disease that has caused a drastic decline in male populations, the powerful cling stubbornly to their authority, oblivious to the impending peril. Meanwhile, the resilient women strive to ensure the continuity of humanity.
Princess Malak, trapped in an arranged marriage with a cruel and tyrannical man who mirrors the values of her controlling family and oppressive society, makes a daring escape from her homeland. Fleeing the specter of imprisonment or even death, she embarks on a treacherous journey to a foreign land where women wield influence and power.
Her quest for freedom becomes the catalyst for a larger struggle against the shackles of tradition, as she unveils a world on the brink of collapse and fights to reshape its future.
What will happen when Princess Malak defies her fate and ventures into a realm where women hold power and voices are heard?
The Fourth Carinad Empire stretches across hundreds of settled worlds and stellar cities, and thousands of light years. The Empire’s people and data are linked by a space-folding gates array controlled by the Emperor and his cohorts. When the array evolves into a sentient entity, it recognizes the Emperor as its foe.
Danny Andela, once known as The Imperial Hammer, withdrew from the Imperial Rangers decades ago, her reputation in tatters. She lives on her family’s star barge, waiting to die of a rare disease: old age. She would be the array’s perfect weapon against the Emperor, except she no longer gives a damn about anything.
Then Danny learns that the military disaster which essentially ended her life might possibly have been arranged by the Emperor himself...
When two strangers collide in the midst of a raging war, love ignites.
Freshly graduated from medical school, Katya Brie finds herself thrust into an unfamiliar realm, teeming with action. As Outpost Frelik falls under attack, she tends to the gravely wounded yet captivating Lt. Commander Sheve Hadi. Amidst treason, conspiracy, and a sinister plot that endangers her, the Ainoren, and all inhabitants of Letháo, Katya embarks on daring endeavors to shield her loved ones.
Sheve, resolute and injured, receives strict orders to safeguard the Ainoren and pursue an elusive crystal rumored to hold the key to defeating their formidable nemesis, The Zefron.
Nevertheless, when the Zefron unleash a devastating assault, obliterating Sheve's stronghold in their relentless pursuit of annihilation, and Sheve himself goes missing, presumed deceased, Katya refuses to abandon her quest for the man she has fallen for.
Glory barely survived its last battle twenty years earlier. Captain Drake resigned rather than face court martial. But the enemy is back. Humanity needs everything that can fly.
Maybe it’s not the ship at all, but the crew. They hold the key.
Drake rallies old and young alike to comply with orders so secret, even he wasn’t allowed to see them until after the ship left the junkyard. Would it leave? That was another question. The core hadn’t been fired in twenty years.
The smell of decay filled the massive ship’s corridors. The stench of death lingered, the death of Drake’s crew, a nightmare from long ago.
The Paragon have weapons that humanity couldn’t contemplate. But here they were, suing for peace. The people of Earth jumped at the carrot. The end of war! Could it be too good to be true?
Drake had his orders from an admiral who knew too much. Glory must launch.
And with it, the fate of humanity rested on the shoulders of a broken crew, carrying a weapon like no other, hoping for one clear shot.
February 27, 2025
February Roundup of Scifi Books
Kinetic weapons or energy weapons? Whats your favourite? Which do you think will be the future of space warfare?
And here are the books you want...
Tani'na and the few half-breed descendants of First and Second Waves of colonists are infected with Chromata, a sentient lifeform native to New Earth. But it isn't the enemy.
First Wave, sent a century prior, made peace with the inhabitants. Some of Second Wave joined them when they arrived decades later. Most remain loyal to the Thyterion empire which is destined to arrive as the third and final wave. Emperor Riscerman wants the planet cleansed for their arrival. Tani'na wants revenge for the death of her mother and sister among thousands of others who perished in the Silacia settlement bombing.
Commander Worton must pay for following such heinous orders. Tani'na and her Father's First Wave army storm the city and the state-building to retake control. Tani'na knows what must be done, and she's the only one who can do it.
The year is 2790 AD: with space elevators and giant orbital fleets hovering over Earth, open war looks inevitable, and people are anxious to get away.
The lines are drawn, with the Confederacy in the East, and the First World Alliance in the West. In hopes of finding a refuge from the looming war, the Alliance is sending Captain Alexander de Leon to explore an Earth-type planet, code-named Wonderland, but at the last minute before launch, a Confederate fleet leaves orbit on a trajectory that threatens both the mission and Alliance sovereignty. The resulting power struggle will determine not only the fate of Alexander's mission, but the fate of the entire human race.
Harry Robinson lives an idyllic lifestyle. A brilliant computer engineer, he made his fortune pushing the limits of android design. When a neighbouring planet is hit by a global nuclear strike, he feels compelled to help. A chance encounter with a group of offworld soldiers launches him on the trail of the perpetrators.
Prefect Olivia Johnson leads a Legion of disillusioned soldiers from both sides of the civil war. She blames herself for failing to prevent the attack. Now her mission is to hunt for its architect. But first, she must reclaim their adopted home from a different enemy. An enemy who won’t even talk.
The Indescribable Joy of Destruction is Johnson’s best friend and closest ally. Despite the lives they have saved, artificial intelligences are still the victims of fear and prejudice. The shadowy warship fights to defend the first place it felt accepted, and for equal rights for its kind.
A simple robbery goes wrong. Devon and Persephone are cut off from the main group, and abandoned. Their only hope is fleeing from their pursuers, and taking refuge on a lifeless world.
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 alien ship, its crew slaughtered. With his dying breath, a crewman points them to a box. In it? An abandoned alien baby. When their government refuses to get involved, Drake and the crew need to return the baby they've been calling Bruce home, a bloodthirsty warlord on their tail.
His quest? Find Bruce and claim the Gra'al throne, declaring a new war on humanity.
Drake never wanted to be a hero... now he's all that stands in the way of a fragile peace between humans and aliens in this metaphysical space opera adventure.
Conscription. It was announced through every electronic device around the globe, right before everyone considered ‘capable’ was abducted.
Meaning most people under the age of twenty-five.
James Cook and his team Mecha Tail were supposed to be fighting in the e-game championships for Mecha-Assault Two. Now they’re just grunts for the Union’s Planetary Defense force.
With Neural implants grafted onto their spines to give them direct control over their rusted and reclaimed mech armor, they have weeks to learn how to fight.
He will have to become more than James Cook, he will have to become Salchar. He will have to become a leader.
Under the rust and harried repairs that make up the Dreadnought Golden Refuge, hides the true heart of the ship Resilient. She knows a devastating secret.
The Union lays in tatters and the Planetary Defense force was gutted.
If that’s true—who are Salchar and his people training and fighting under?
Built for a time when the races were just finding their way to the stars, finding that they could dominate others. The galactic conquests created the arms race and the ancients, the Progenitors had to protect their own. They built a ship to drive the others away.
It worked. And it didn’t. The Progenitors abandoned the galaxy to the newcomers, leaving relics behind as monuments to their failure.
Humanity spread to the stars and ran headlong into the established races. A new war begins, and no one conducts war better than humanity except for the Blaze Collective.
The two go head-to-head while humanity frantically searches for something to give them an advantage. Ancient technology. The derelicts scattered across the galaxy. Gutted and useless.
Except for one, hidden in plain sight, close to Earth. Major Declan Payne takes his team aboard to find that the ship is no derelict, and it needs him as much as humanity needs it.
One girl discovers what it means to be human in a world ruled by ancient technology in this riveting high tech sci-fi adventure by breakout author Koen Martens
Young Tlana, unaware of the totalitarian convictions of those she admires and emulates, is a promising student of human consciousness and devout scholar of the holy texts governing society.
But when she is chosen to be this year’s sacrificial lamb and die for the common good, cracks appear in her convictions and she flees.
She discovers society is not as benign as she once thought. Worse, her only hope is to hide among those she most despises.
Ashamed and confused, she reluctantly embraces their cause as her own.
With a ruthless leader on her tail and war between continents brewing, can she hold on to her new-found identity? Or will she succumb to the dark and ancient secret that lurks beneath the surface?
Everything is on the table when survival's at stake.
Captain James Henry is caught between a rock and a hard place – again. Merchant ships operating in neutral space near the Terran Coalition and the League of Sol are disappearing without a trace. The latest report has something the others didn't.
A survivor.
When news reaches the planet Lusitania during a cargo offload, Captain Henry and the Shadow Wolf’s crew are hired to extract the surviving operative before she’s silenced and the information she has is lost.
But too many opposing forces are at work within the faction-torn republic – and they all want a piece of the prize.
With directives from multiple government contacts, Captain Henry concedes to protect his ragtag crew. Years ago, he surrendered to dishonor and dismissal from the Coalition Defense Force in order to protect his fellow officers. This time he knows how to play the game.
To save his band of brothers and sisters, Jim must walk a fine line between the operative’s survival and the threats against his crew from the League of Sol.
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And here are the books you want...
Tani'na and the few half-breed descendants of First and Second Waves of colonists are infected with Chromata, a sentient lifeform native to New Earth. But it isn't the enemy.
First Wave, sent a century prior, made peace with the inhabitants. Some of Second Wave joined them when they arrived decades later. Most remain loyal to the Thyterion empire which is destined to arrive as the third and final wave. Emperor Riscerman wants the planet cleansed for their arrival. Tani'na wants revenge for the death of her mother and sister among thousands of others who perished in the Silacia settlement bombing.
Commander Worton must pay for following such heinous orders. Tani'na and her Father's First Wave army storm the city and the state-building to retake control. Tani'na knows what must be done, and she's the only one who can do it.
The year is 2790 AD: with space elevators and giant orbital fleets hovering over Earth, open war looks inevitable, and people are anxious to get away.
The lines are drawn, with the Confederacy in the East, and the First World Alliance in the West. In hopes of finding a refuge from the looming war, the Alliance is sending Captain Alexander de Leon to explore an Earth-type planet, code-named Wonderland, but at the last minute before launch, a Confederate fleet leaves orbit on a trajectory that threatens both the mission and Alliance sovereignty. The resulting power struggle will determine not only the fate of Alexander's mission, but the fate of the entire human race.
Harry Robinson lives an idyllic lifestyle. A brilliant computer engineer, he made his fortune pushing the limits of android design. When a neighbouring planet is hit by a global nuclear strike, he feels compelled to help. A chance encounter with a group of offworld soldiers launches him on the trail of the perpetrators.
Prefect Olivia Johnson leads a Legion of disillusioned soldiers from both sides of the civil war. She blames herself for failing to prevent the attack. Now her mission is to hunt for its architect. But first, she must reclaim their adopted home from a different enemy. An enemy who won’t even talk.
The Indescribable Joy of Destruction is Johnson’s best friend and closest ally. Despite the lives they have saved, artificial intelligences are still the victims of fear and prejudice. The shadowy warship fights to defend the first place it felt accepted, and for equal rights for its kind.
A simple robbery goes wrong. Devon and Persephone are cut off from the main group, and abandoned. Their only hope is fleeing from their pursuers, and taking refuge on a lifeless world.
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 alien ship, its crew slaughtered. With his dying breath, a crewman points them to a box. In it? An abandoned alien baby. When their government refuses to get involved, Drake and the crew need to return the baby they've been calling Bruce home, a bloodthirsty warlord on their tail.
His quest? Find Bruce and claim the Gra'al throne, declaring a new war on humanity.
Drake never wanted to be a hero... now he's all that stands in the way of a fragile peace between humans and aliens in this metaphysical space opera adventure.
Conscription. It was announced through every electronic device around the globe, right before everyone considered ‘capable’ was abducted.
Meaning most people under the age of twenty-five.
James Cook and his team Mecha Tail were supposed to be fighting in the e-game championships for Mecha-Assault Two. Now they’re just grunts for the Union’s Planetary Defense force.
With Neural implants grafted onto their spines to give them direct control over their rusted and reclaimed mech armor, they have weeks to learn how to fight.
He will have to become more than James Cook, he will have to become Salchar. He will have to become a leader.
Under the rust and harried repairs that make up the Dreadnought Golden Refuge, hides the true heart of the ship Resilient. She knows a devastating secret.
The Union lays in tatters and the Planetary Defense force was gutted.
If that’s true—who are Salchar and his people training and fighting under?
Built for a time when the races were just finding their way to the stars, finding that they could dominate others. The galactic conquests created the arms race and the ancients, the Progenitors had to protect their own. They built a ship to drive the others away.
It worked. And it didn’t. The Progenitors abandoned the galaxy to the newcomers, leaving relics behind as monuments to their failure.
Humanity spread to the stars and ran headlong into the established races. A new war begins, and no one conducts war better than humanity except for the Blaze Collective.
The two go head-to-head while humanity frantically searches for something to give them an advantage. Ancient technology. The derelicts scattered across the galaxy. Gutted and useless.
Except for one, hidden in plain sight, close to Earth. Major Declan Payne takes his team aboard to find that the ship is no derelict, and it needs him as much as humanity needs it.
One girl discovers what it means to be human in a world ruled by ancient technology in this riveting high tech sci-fi adventure by breakout author Koen Martens
Young Tlana, unaware of the totalitarian convictions of those she admires and emulates, is a promising student of human consciousness and devout scholar of the holy texts governing society.
But when she is chosen to be this year’s sacrificial lamb and die for the common good, cracks appear in her convictions and she flees.
She discovers society is not as benign as she once thought. Worse, her only hope is to hide among those she most despises.
Ashamed and confused, she reluctantly embraces their cause as her own.
With a ruthless leader on her tail and war between continents brewing, can she hold on to her new-found identity? Or will she succumb to the dark and ancient secret that lurks beneath the surface?
Everything is on the table when survival's at stake.
Captain James Henry is caught between a rock and a hard place – again. Merchant ships operating in neutral space near the Terran Coalition and the League of Sol are disappearing without a trace. The latest report has something the others didn't.
A survivor.
When news reaches the planet Lusitania during a cargo offload, Captain Henry and the Shadow Wolf’s crew are hired to extract the surviving operative before she’s silenced and the information she has is lost.
But too many opposing forces are at work within the faction-torn republic – and they all want a piece of the prize.
With directives from multiple government contacts, Captain Henry concedes to protect his ragtag crew. Years ago, he surrendered to dishonor and dismissal from the Coalition Defense Force in order to protect his fellow officers. This time he knows how to play the game.
To save his band of brothers and sisters, Jim must walk a fine line between the operative’s survival and the threats against his crew from the League of Sol.
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January 27, 2025
January Roundup of Scifi Books
Wow. It's been pretty stormy here recently. Lots of repairs have needed doing on the house and boundaries. At least we've not been flooded, just the usual river running down the road.
And here are the books you want...
Long ago, before the days of recorded history, during the Hyperbolean Age of a much younger Earth, AGROTHARN the Interstellar Semi-Barbarian roamed the ancient volcanic lands in search of fame and fortune. These are his somewhat heroic tales, sure to enthrall the most adventurous of readers!
When AGROTHARN learns that his long-lost witch-mother is still alive, he sets off on a perilous journey with his loyal Triceratops to find her. Along the way, they meet a conniving trickster, a vengeful T-Rex, and a bunch of bloodthirsty aliens from a distant planet. Nonstop adventures take AGROTHARN deep into space and back through time as he unravels new truths about the reality he's always taken for granted. What he discovers will forever change his life, setting him on a new path to rewrite the past and forge a glorious future for one and all!
Kera and Diyan are among the last of their kind, aboard a starship bound for deep space. They’re not survivors. They’re not soldiers. They’re resurrected—from extinction. A last resort, sent by their near-omnipotent reviver, Tapache, to discover the origins of a weapon capable of obliterating machine sentience.
Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones investigating. An ambush by an enemy fleet leaves Kera missing and Diyan stuck in an escape pod. All hope seems lost. That is, until the weapon’s source appears—although it’s nothing like anyone thought. It appears impenetrable… until Diyan becomes hopelessly stuck in its gravity well.
The source’s galaxy-spanning repercussions, not least for machine intelligences, are far greater than anyone realises—except perhaps for Kera, who entered first.
Security Lieutenant Dave is looking forward to some simple cases and patching things up with his wife. His handling of a terrorist attack has gained him acclaim and some new friends in high places, but he is still closely involved with Arancha Station's mob boss.
When the space station manager is killed in a new and worrying way, Dave realises that he's got possibly the biggest case of his career. Unfortunately, as soon as his new boss arrives with reinforcements, he is relegated to monitoring data and assigned a rookie partner to babysit.
Dave needs to find something that will crack the case open before the killer can strike again.
Law enforcement is in Detective Marcus Carver’s blood. And with the help of Chicago’s citywide surveillance, he excels at tracking and catching killers. But when a politician’s son is slain in the city’s blacked-out cyberpunk gang territory, Carver has everyone’s attention and no leads on the murderer.
His boss breathing down his neck doesn’t help Carver’s authority issues, but with the victim’s family growing desperate, Carver runs down every hint of a trail. And when his most promising lead evaporates, Carver finds himself out of clues and short on time.
Can Carver catch the killer before someone buries the truth for good?
Cal fears he will witness the death of everyone he’s ever known.
When a hostile fleet of warships arrives to conquer his native planet, Caladon Heit knows his peaceful existence with the woman he loves is abruptly over. A secret message leads the young academic to embark on a terrifying journey through the stars, seeking to prevent the devastating invasion of his homeworld.
Traveling with the crew of an experimental spacecraft, Cal searches with all his wits and knowledge for a path across the perilous depths of deep space. With ferocious marauders and deranged mutants prowling behind every moon and asteroid, Cal fights the urge to believe that his friends and his fiance are already doomed.
Will the spacefarer and his fragile starship find a way to stop the catastrophe of planetary war, or will Cal and his homeworld be annihilated?
Seb and Sparks were given a choice: Join the Shadow Order or rot in a prison cell.
As Seb touches down for his first mission on a dark, damp, and cold planet, he wonders if he’s made the right call.
In the vast expanse of space, Captain Erik Frost is no stranger to the challenges of the cosmos.
Saddled with insurmountable debts and a dilapidated ship inherited from his late father, Erik is presented with an offer that seems too good to be true. A mysterious job offer with scant details but a hefty payout lures him into a journey that promises to change his fortunes.
As Vagabond sets course for the asteroid belt to fulfill this enigmatic contract, Erik and his crew find themselves entangled in a web of unforeseen obstacles and malfunctions. A rogue AI adds a layer of complexity to their mission, testing the crew's resilience in the face of artificial intelligence gone awry.
Amidst the challenges, a startling discovery emerges—one that holds the potential to tip the scales of power in the entire system. The fate of Erik, his intrepid crew, and the precarious equilibrium of the cosmos hang in the balance as they navigate the perilous journey through the asteroid belt. Will the allure of a hefty payday prove to be the salvation they seek, or will the secrets concealed within the void of space prove too formidable to conquer?
A rogue Overmind is on the loose.
A million souls hang in the balance.
The Solaran Defense Forces make the difficult decision to evacuate the colony of Robichar in order to avoid a direct confrontation. But when Captain Elya Nevers gets shot down during the evacuation, his squadron and the admiral in charge have to think fast to rescue their pilot before the Kryl overrun the system.
Fighting to survive in hostile territory, Captain Nevers discovers what the rampaging Overmind is really after—and it changes everything.
An extinct species known as the Telos fled the galaxy eons ago. What caused them to vanish in such a hurry? And more importantly, what ancient relics of alien power did they leave behind?
Ensign Carol Hansen is delighted her dreams are coming true. Freshly commissioned after graduating at the top of her class, the bright young officer anticipates a long career in the fleet. But after a routine stop at a friendly planet turns into a vicious alien attack, she’s devastated when she’s one of only a small group of survivors.
David Powell yearns to start over. Forced to leave fleet university in his final year by a family tragedy, the driven man is finally back with a chance to pursue his ambition. But fleet life isn’t the same without his former classmate, who he secretly loved from their very first class.
Assigned a new ship hunting the hostile species, Hansen can’t get her friend who suddenly quit out of her head. And Powell soon finds himself on a dangerous mission seeking intelligence about their deadly new foe.
Can two junior officers reconnect across the stars and help lead humanity to victory?
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And here are the books you want...
Long ago, before the days of recorded history, during the Hyperbolean Age of a much younger Earth, AGROTHARN the Interstellar Semi-Barbarian roamed the ancient volcanic lands in search of fame and fortune. These are his somewhat heroic tales, sure to enthrall the most adventurous of readers!
When AGROTHARN learns that his long-lost witch-mother is still alive, he sets off on a perilous journey with his loyal Triceratops to find her. Along the way, they meet a conniving trickster, a vengeful T-Rex, and a bunch of bloodthirsty aliens from a distant planet. Nonstop adventures take AGROTHARN deep into space and back through time as he unravels new truths about the reality he's always taken for granted. What he discovers will forever change his life, setting him on a new path to rewrite the past and forge a glorious future for one and all!
Kera and Diyan are among the last of their kind, aboard a starship bound for deep space. They’re not survivors. They’re not soldiers. They’re resurrected—from extinction. A last resort, sent by their near-omnipotent reviver, Tapache, to discover the origins of a weapon capable of obliterating machine sentience.
Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones investigating. An ambush by an enemy fleet leaves Kera missing and Diyan stuck in an escape pod. All hope seems lost. That is, until the weapon’s source appears—although it’s nothing like anyone thought. It appears impenetrable… until Diyan becomes hopelessly stuck in its gravity well.
The source’s galaxy-spanning repercussions, not least for machine intelligences, are far greater than anyone realises—except perhaps for Kera, who entered first.
Security Lieutenant Dave is looking forward to some simple cases and patching things up with his wife. His handling of a terrorist attack has gained him acclaim and some new friends in high places, but he is still closely involved with Arancha Station's mob boss.
When the space station manager is killed in a new and worrying way, Dave realises that he's got possibly the biggest case of his career. Unfortunately, as soon as his new boss arrives with reinforcements, he is relegated to monitoring data and assigned a rookie partner to babysit.
Dave needs to find something that will crack the case open before the killer can strike again.
Law enforcement is in Detective Marcus Carver’s blood. And with the help of Chicago’s citywide surveillance, he excels at tracking and catching killers. But when a politician’s son is slain in the city’s blacked-out cyberpunk gang territory, Carver has everyone’s attention and no leads on the murderer.
His boss breathing down his neck doesn’t help Carver’s authority issues, but with the victim’s family growing desperate, Carver runs down every hint of a trail. And when his most promising lead evaporates, Carver finds himself out of clues and short on time.
Can Carver catch the killer before someone buries the truth for good?
Cal fears he will witness the death of everyone he’s ever known.
When a hostile fleet of warships arrives to conquer his native planet, Caladon Heit knows his peaceful existence with the woman he loves is abruptly over. A secret message leads the young academic to embark on a terrifying journey through the stars, seeking to prevent the devastating invasion of his homeworld.
Traveling with the crew of an experimental spacecraft, Cal searches with all his wits and knowledge for a path across the perilous depths of deep space. With ferocious marauders and deranged mutants prowling behind every moon and asteroid, Cal fights the urge to believe that his friends and his fiance are already doomed.
Will the spacefarer and his fragile starship find a way to stop the catastrophe of planetary war, or will Cal and his homeworld be annihilated?
Seb and Sparks were given a choice: Join the Shadow Order or rot in a prison cell.
As Seb touches down for his first mission on a dark, damp, and cold planet, he wonders if he’s made the right call.
In the vast expanse of space, Captain Erik Frost is no stranger to the challenges of the cosmos.
Saddled with insurmountable debts and a dilapidated ship inherited from his late father, Erik is presented with an offer that seems too good to be true. A mysterious job offer with scant details but a hefty payout lures him into a journey that promises to change his fortunes.
As Vagabond sets course for the asteroid belt to fulfill this enigmatic contract, Erik and his crew find themselves entangled in a web of unforeseen obstacles and malfunctions. A rogue AI adds a layer of complexity to their mission, testing the crew's resilience in the face of artificial intelligence gone awry.
Amidst the challenges, a startling discovery emerges—one that holds the potential to tip the scales of power in the entire system. The fate of Erik, his intrepid crew, and the precarious equilibrium of the cosmos hang in the balance as they navigate the perilous journey through the asteroid belt. Will the allure of a hefty payday prove to be the salvation they seek, or will the secrets concealed within the void of space prove too formidable to conquer?
A rogue Overmind is on the loose.
A million souls hang in the balance.
The Solaran Defense Forces make the difficult decision to evacuate the colony of Robichar in order to avoid a direct confrontation. But when Captain Elya Nevers gets shot down during the evacuation, his squadron and the admiral in charge have to think fast to rescue their pilot before the Kryl overrun the system.
Fighting to survive in hostile territory, Captain Nevers discovers what the rampaging Overmind is really after—and it changes everything.
An extinct species known as the Telos fled the galaxy eons ago. What caused them to vanish in such a hurry? And more importantly, what ancient relics of alien power did they leave behind?
Ensign Carol Hansen is delighted her dreams are coming true. Freshly commissioned after graduating at the top of her class, the bright young officer anticipates a long career in the fleet. But after a routine stop at a friendly planet turns into a vicious alien attack, she’s devastated when she’s one of only a small group of survivors.
David Powell yearns to start over. Forced to leave fleet university in his final year by a family tragedy, the driven man is finally back with a chance to pursue his ambition. But fleet life isn’t the same without his former classmate, who he secretly loved from their very first class.
Assigned a new ship hunting the hostile species, Hansen can’t get her friend who suddenly quit out of her head. And Powell soon finds himself on a dangerous mission seeking intelligence about their deadly new foe.
Can two junior officers reconnect across the stars and help lead humanity to victory?
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