THE BLOOD STONES
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.
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.
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 ...
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 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...
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...
Hunter in the Mountains
2025
FICTIONThe fight rages on as the Minutemen search for a way to turn the tide of the war. With a new threat looming in the skies, Johnny is given a mission that could alter the course of the conflict – or sea...
Servant of the Crown
2017
FICTIONAn old warrior, too stubborn to die. A royal heir, hidden since birth. Can they save a realm on the brink of war? Tragedy tears his world apart, forcing him back into a warrior's life, until an act of...
The Things They Carried
1990
FICTIONLandmark work of fiction-as-memoir about American soldiers in Vietnam. One of the most acclaimed war novels of the 20th century.
The British Are Coming (Young Readers Edition)
2022
FICTIONHow did the United States become the country it is today? What led to its creation? Adapted from Pulitzer Prize–winner Rick Atkinson’s deeply researched and stunningly vivid The British Are Coming, th...
Fallujah'S Grit
2025
FICTION**Attention: ** Imagine the most brutal urban combat since Hue, a crucible where courage was forged in fire and grit was the only currency. "Fallujah's Grit: A Grunt's-Eye View of The Second Battle" p...
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...
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...