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MATCH 09
SNAFU
SNAFU

Jonathan Maberry, Weston Ochse

2014

NON-FICTION

War 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...

Tags: Non-Fiction, Science FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 09
Janissaries
Janissaries

Chris Kennedy

2014

NON-FICTION

The 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...

Tags: Non-Fiction, Science FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 09
The Search for Gram
The Search for Gram

Chris Kennedy

2015

NON-FICTION

Lieutenant Commander Shawn "Calvin" Hobbs has saved Seattle, traveled to the stars and forged new alliances with alien races. With the latest war concluded, he turned his attention to deciphering the ...

Tags: Non-Fiction, Science FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 09
Terra Stands Alone (CS Version)
Terra Stands Alone (CS Version)

Chris Kennedy

2014

NON-FICTION

The Drakuls have found the Solar System. A merciless race, there is nothing left once the Drakuls have conquered a civilization except the bones of its dead. When the first Drakul exploratory ship eme...

Tags: Non-Fiction, Science FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 09
Grave Is the Day
Grave Is the Day

Michael Drakich

2011

NON-FICTION

In 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...

Tags: Non-Fiction, Science FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 09
Lex Talionis
Lex Talionis

Peter Nealen

2017

NON-FICTION

War And Politics Have Consequences... Praetorian Solutions has a rep. Not a particularly pleasant one in some circles, either. Over the last few years, they've run roughshod over the plans of terroris...

Tags: Non-Fiction, Science FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 09
Chita Quest
Chita Quest

Brinn Colenda

2014

NON-FICTION

Were American POWs left behind at the end of the Vietnam War-either by accident or design? Colonel Tom Callahan is driven to find out-his own father is still listed as Missing In Action. What Callahan...

Tags: Non-Fiction, Science FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 05
Old Man's War

John Scalzi

2005

FICTION

Earthlings 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.

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
Armor

John Steakley

1984

FICTION

A 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.

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
Hammer's Slammers

David Drake

1979

FICTION

The 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.

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
The Mote in God's Eye

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

1974

FICTION

First 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.

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
A Hymn Before Battle

John Ringo

2000

FICTION

Earth 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.

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
We All Died at Breakaway Station

Richard C. Meredith

1969

FICTION

A 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.

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
Steel Warriors
Steel Warriors

Charles Eugene Anderson

2024

FICTION

In 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 ...

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
Commanding the Red Lotus
Commanding the Red Lotus

R. J. Sullivan

2016

FICTION

Money 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...

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
The High Ground
The High Ground

Melinda M Snodgrass

2024

FICTION

Princess 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, ...

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
Davidia's Seed
Davidia's Seed

Michael W. Smart

2015

FICTION

The 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...

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
Hunter in the Storm
Hunter in the Storm

Caleb Anthrop

2023

FICTION

In 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...

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
The Rogue Intruder
The Rogue Intruder

F. W. Jamison

2016

FICTION

BOOK 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...

Tags: Science Fiction
MATCH 05
The Blood Stones
The Blood Stones

Tori Tecken

2023

FICTION

A 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.

Tags: Science Fiction