Military

When Una Chin-Riley and Christopher Pike meet at Starfleet Academy after one of his lectures, they immediately become friends. A stellar student, Una is the “poster girl” of her class, and Pike is determined to become a Starfleet captain with his own ship, rhetorically assembling his dream crew. As their friendship evolves, Pike also suspects Una is involved with the Euxhana, a Chionian cultural minority, who are seeking asylum in Federation space, leading to more questions than answers.

The colony on Haven-7 has gone rogue. The colonists have split into two factions: the Techborn and the Dusters. The Techborn have always ruled the planet. They control the remnants of the crashed starship that brought humanity to this new world. The Dusters… they eat Techborn dust. Now, the Techborn strength is waning. Their weapons are getting old, and radiation leaks from the aging reactors have created mutations. Some of these, like their brutish troops known as Tuskers, have proven useful—but others are abominations.

The extra-galactic bridge between Earth and Terra Nova reopens after decades. Governor Hale calls for aid against an impossible alien threat known as the Inheritors, an advanced alien species with a mysterious connection to old allies. Hale needs the most powerful soldiers in the galaxy: Armor.

For years, pilots who merely looked like soldiers were adequate. They filled the mechs. They filled roles. They supported Spann and his genetic offshoot of pure-blooded warriors known as the Superba. Spann's dream of absolute power ends with a single, crushing blow as a new enemy strikes at the Realm, leaving no survivors—followed by a mad dash to find fighters who can stand up in the old ways, using the mechs gifted to humanity by their oldest allies. Even in the midst of war, there is hope.

Fiery and determined, Madison Justice navigates the depths of space, searching for her father and a place to call home. Expelled from the Naval Academy for her unyielding sense of justice, she now forges her own path as a freelance mercenary. But the void is vast and unforgiving. To find her father, the elusive captain of the Gypsy Rose, Madison must prove her mettle in a realm where morality is a luxury few can afford. Harassed by rivals and entangled in the schemes of a ruthless commander, she fights to keep her conscience intact.

Buckle up for an explosive ride into the heart of battle with 'Contested Landing' – the ultimate anthology of military science fiction that'll leave you on the edge of your seat! Get ready to dive headfirst into the fray as fearless defenders clash with relentless invaders in heart-pounding actions across the cosmos. From pulse-pounding firefights to jaw-dropping heroics, these adrenaline-fueled tales will thrust you into the heart of interstellar conflict like never before.

A junior intelligence officer in the Martian Combined Fleet, Radrick Siegn supplements his meager pay by smuggling contraband from Saturn to Mars. Someday, he’ll buy his own ship and escape the Fleet forever. But his captain has other plans for him. A tanker pilot has been murdered on Saturn Station. It’s up to Siegn to salvage the honor of the Fleet by finding the killer … before they kill again. The investigation plunges Siegn into the seedy underworld of Saturn Station, where he learns this was no ordinary killing.

Alex went for a walk in the woods and ended up changing the world. Chased by a bear, or maybe a squirrel, he finds a spaceship that lets him control an AI and nanomachines. Join his adventure as he changes the world and the galaxy as he builds the Nano Empire.

As a century of war and bloodshed closes upon the earth, another opens with no end to the slaughter in sight. The Empire of Europa and the Russian Tsardom are engaged in perpetual warfare. Each vies for absolute control over the earth's most coveted resource: the Ichor ore that lies deep in the valleys of the high north, the caves of the Orient, and running through the veins of a select few called Ichor Hearts, employed by the European Empire as the holy weapons of never-ending conquest.

Hazard King, AKA Prince Henry, was a prince with a problem. Oh sure, he’d defeated the Mordorians in the Sol System and had landed his Marines on earth. His landing parties had even found samples of the original virus used to develop Black Dragon, which—hopefully—could be used to develop an antidote, so the main objective of his mission had been fulfilled.

Petroleum engineers drilling in the African desert uncover a pocket of mysterious, life-preserving gas, and the hellish creatures hibernating within—a colony of ten-foot prehistoric scorpions. After 400 million years, Scorpius Rex has risen to reclaim its throne as Earth’s apex predator. A humanitarian mission gone awry traps Dave Brank’s security team inside the drilling complex’s electrified perimeter, locked in a life or death battle against hordes of flesh-eating scorpions.

Wrik Trigardt ekes out a living in the Kandalor system with his small ship, Sinner. He is caught between his failed past and a grim present in service to the local crimelord, Dusko. An expedition to the Rift Asteroids promises better days, but when the well of time is disturbed no one can say what will surface.

In a daring heist, five elite US soldiers undertake a monumental task as they steal a newly discovered isotope of element 115 from a secret Russian lab. This element, capable of warping time and space, opens a portal to the hollow Earth, thrusting the soldiers into a prehistoric world filled with savage dinosaurs. As they navigate this perilous landscape, the team must rescue a kidnapped comrade, battle ancient predators, and face a decision that will change the course of humanity forever.

Кто-то мечтает получить новую жизнь и начать ее по-другому, однако в реальности не все этого хотят. Судьба решила все за Александра Полякова. Новая жизнь, новая семья, а еще большая ответственность. Ведь попал он в сорок первый год. Правда, в январь, но от этого лучше не становится. Ленинградская область, окрестности озера Чудское и послезнание. Так что стоит выбор — оставить на погибель новую семью или, хрипя от натуги, вытащить их из этой беды? Это очень трудно, особенно когда новому телу нет и двенадцати лет.

Одна тысяча девятьсот сорок третий год. Гвардии рядовому Павлу Петровичу Романову снятся странные сны, будто бы он в старинных одеждах, парике и при шпаге разъезжает по Европе, встречается с королями и принцами, ждет не дождется, когда "горячо любимая" мамаша уйдет на тот свет, освободив причитающийся ему по закону престол Российской империи. А потом просыпается в блиндаже под Шлиссельбургом от страшной головной боли и удушья. В памяти остаются только цветной офицерский шарф и тяжелая табакерка... И смерть.

Сложно отрицать притягательность власти. В обозримой вселенной вот уже двести лет правит молодая империя. Ее власть практически безгранична. Всесильный самодержец рачительно собирает под знаком императорского дома самых верных и преданных подданных. И горе тому, кто встанет у них на пути. Наследственный знак принесших личную присягу его императорскому величеству несет в себе не только богатство и славу — тобой легко могут пожертвовать, как пешкой на шахматной доске, невзирая на талант и заслуги.

Старший лейтенант пограничных войск Туманов из лета 1985 года попадает в суровую зиму 1907 года в захолустный сибирский городок. Обдумав своё положение, он понял, что правду о себе никому рассказывать нельзя, никто не поверит, и, скорее всего, остаток жизни пройдёт в палате сумасшедшего дома. Единственный выход — сослаться на потерю памяти, а дальше... Ведь все умения, навыки и привычки — при нём, а это такой козырь! Обладая природной смекалкой и используя свои знания, Туманов легализуется в условиях царской России и поступает на военную службу, где делает головокружительную карьеру.

Он свою войну прошел. От и до. Начал в сорок первом, закончил в сорок пятом в Берлине. Но судьба дает ему второй шанс. Зачем? За ответ придется заплатить кровью. И своей, и чужой.

When Navy Seal, Jacob Carter is assigned to an experimental mission, he’ll protect the crew at all costs. But nothing could have prepared him for the effect of the ship’s cloaking device, or his disintegration into the spiritual side of our world. Stripped of the finite, and plunged into a terrifying existence, can he survive the enemies determined to kill him?

Darcie was taking her young child Tristan to rejoin her husband Lujan in the Enach system when nonhuman slavers attacked and captured their transport. Darcie escaped with Tristan in a lifepod and touched down on Ganwold, a primitive planet controlled by their long-time enemy. Unfortunately, due to a malfunction in the lightskip drive, they’d also accidentally jumped several years forward in time and can’t expect to be rescued, so Tristan grows to manhood hiding among the alien ganan.