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Starship Troopers
1959
MILITARY SCI-FIStarship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It is narrated as a series of flash...
Old Man's War
2005
FICTIONEarthlings enlist in an interstellar army at age 75, their consciousnesses transferred into young combat bodies. Sharp, humorous, and philosophically engaged with the nature of war and identity.
Armor
1984
FICTIONA soldier in a powered combat suit fights an endless war against insect aliens on a hostile planet. A meditation on trauma, survival, and the psychology of soldiers who endure the unendurable.
Hammer's Slammers
1979
FICTIONThe founding work of military science fiction's mercenary subgenre, following Colonel Alois Hammer's tank regiment fighting across interstellar battlefields. Influenced by Drake's own Vietnam service.
The Mote in God's Eye
1974
FICTIONFirst contact novel set in a far-future interstellar empire. When humanity encounters the Moties, a species with an explosive reproductive rate, it faces a strategic crisis unlike any before.
A Hymn Before Battle
2000
FICTIONEarth is pulled into an interstellar war and must raise an army fast. Ringo's debut novel launched the Posleen War series — hard military SF with a focus on tactics, logistics, and leadership.
We All Died at Breakaway Station
1969
FICTIONA crippled fleet battles overwhelming alien forces at a remote station to buy time for civilian evacuation. A classic of military SF — gritty, claustrophobic, and deeply felt.
SNAFU
2014
NON-FICTIONWar is Hell... Soldiers fight to survive. They fight each other, and they fight the demons inside. Sometimes, they fight real monsters. SNAFU collects stories of ancient myths, time travellers, horror...
Steel Warriors
2024
FICTIONIn a war-torn future where the fate of Texas hangs in the balance, the Mech Troopers series follows the gritty exploits of Bandit and his fellow soldiers as they fight to preserve the last bastion of ...
Beyond the Shroud of the Universe
2015
NON-FICTIONA mysterious race from an alternate universe has allied itself with the Jotunn, and the alliance is set on destroying the Aesir and bringing about Ragnarok. With an ability to jump between universes a...
Janissaries
2014
NON-FICTIONThe war with China was over and Lieutenant Shawn 'Calvin' Hobbs just wanted his life to go back to normal. The hero of the war, he had a small ream of paperwork to fill out, a deployment with his Navy...
Commanding the Red Lotus
2016
FICTIONMoney Can't Buy Respect Sayuri Arai, privileged daughter of a corporate mogul, abandons a promising career to find her own path. She invests in a broken-down asteroid mining ship and steps in as the c...
The Search for Gram
2015
NON-FICTIONLieutenant Commander Shawn "Calvin" Hobbs has saved Seattle, traveled to the stars and forged new alliances with alien races. With the latest war concluded, he turned his attention to deciphering the ...
Terra Stands Alone (CS Version)
2014
NON-FICTIONThe Drakuls have found the Solar System. A merciless race, there is nothing left once the Drakuls have conquered a civilization except the bones of its dead. When the first Drakul exploratory ship eme...
The High Ground
2024
FICTIONPrincess Mercedes, daughter of the Emperor-beautiful, privileged, sharp as a sword-has no say in her life. When her father determines she must graduate from the Solar League's elite military academy, ...
Davidia's Seed
2015
FICTIONThe explosive in place. The fuse set. One individual holds the key to defusing it, or detonating it. Following a calamitous space battle, a small damaged pod drifts amid the debris, a single individua...
Hunter in the Storm
2023
FICTIONIn a time of absolute war, one young man’s journey begins with an unbearable loss. Recruited into a unit tied to the founding of America, he will get a chance not only for revenge, but become an integ...
Grave Is the Day
2011
NON-FICTIONIn October of 1957, more than Sputnik fell to Earth... Set against the back drop of the Space Race and the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union have a new issue to deal with, aliens f...
The Rogue Intruder
2016
FICTIONBOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD 2017 WINNER for SCI-FI CATEGORY By the mid-twenty-first century, a worldwide civil war erupted, which killed over five billion people. Unigov, a brutal one-world government, came...
The Blood Stones
2023
FICTIONA traitor is executed, his name ripped from history. The kingdom stands on the brink of a succession war. Forces stalk the darkness, moving pawns into place in a deadly game.