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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorHalo: Contact Harvest
Joseph Staten · 400 pages
Based on the universe and characters from the multimillion selling Xbox video games Halo and Halo 2, Halo: Contact Harvest continues the story of humanity's next great battle in their ongoing wars against the seemingly infinite alien factions who consider the human race heathens. This is how it began... It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human
Homeworld
Evan Currie · 500 pages
War comes home to the Sol system when the Drasin track a human ship back to Earth, with devastating consequences. Facing massive force of invading alien ships wielding terrible power, the crew of the NAC spacecraft, their allies, and the people of Earth must mount a desperate effort to stop them. Doomed from the start, but with nowhere to retreat, Captain Eric Weston commits his ship to the defens
Chains of Command
Marko Kloos · 384 pages
Halo: The Fall of Reach
Eric S. Nylund · 352 pages
"The official prequel to the award-winning Xbox game"--Cover Legends are not simply born...they are willed into existence. Humanity has expanded beyond the Sol System. There are hundreds of planets we now call "home." The United Nations Space Command now struggles to control this vast empire. After exhausting all strategies to keep seething insurrections from exploding into interplanetary ci
Formic Wars: Burning Earth
Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
Out of the Dark
David Weber · 461 pages
Extraterrestrials invade Earth. Supernatural forces fight back.
Extinction
B.V. Larson · 340 pages
The Exiled Fleet
J.S. Dewes · 432 pages
Orphan's Journey
Robert Buettner · 416 pages
All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ying Ban Yang · 256 pages
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein · 222 pages
Starship 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 flashbacks by Juan Rico, and is one of only a few Heinlein novels set out in this fashion. The novel opens with Rico aboard the corvette Rodger Young, about to embark on a raid against the planet of the
The Fall of Five
Pittacus Lore · 355 pages
The Darkness
W.J. Lundy · 246 pages
All You Need Is Kill
Ryosuke Takeuchi · 550 pages
Ark Royal
Christopher G. Nuttall · 380 pages
Shadow of the Scorpion
Neal Asher · 272 pages
Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card · 384 pages
This is Bean's installment of Orson Scott Card's Ender's saga. It is a great character building book for those who have read Ender's Game and want to know more about Bean and his background. Here is the description from the back of the book: > Welcome to Battleschool. > > Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with
In Death Ground
David Weber, Steve White · 640 pages
Review -- "In difficult ground, press on; -- In encircled ground, devise stratagems; -- In death ground, fight". -- Sun Tzu in The Art of War (circa 400 B.C.)
Constitution
Nick Webb · 335 pages
Old Man's War
John Scalzi · 319 pages
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species. Citizens volunteer for the Colonial Defense Forces after retirement, in exchange for which they have their consciousness transferred into a young body, cloned from their DNA but enhanced. If, against the odds, they survive two years o
Halo: The Flood
William C. Dietz · 341 pages
Fleeing the destruction of the planet Reach, the Master Chief and a few human survivors crash-land on Halo, where they race to unravel its secrets in order to gain control of a great source of power before the alien occupiers do.
Earth Defiant
Richard Fox · 482 pages
Crysis: Legion
Peter Watts · 318 pages
A soldier on his own in alien-controlled New York City, on the run from his own superiors as well as the enemy when the rest of his unit is massacred, is convinced that he might be able to change everything if he only knew the true situation.
The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey · 496 pages
"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."? -- The New York Times Book Review "A modern sci-fi masterpiece ... should do for aliens what Twilight.