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Cain's Last Stand

Sandy Mitchell · 409 pages

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Rules of Engagement

Elizabeth Moon · 512 pages

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Empire

Michael R. Hicks · 310 pages

EMPIRE is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Nightmarish female warriors with blue skin, fangs, and razor sharp talons, the Kreelans have technology that is millennia beyond that of the Confederation, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their

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Changer of Worlds

David Weber, Eric Flint · 396 pages

This collection of short stories has Honor Harrington as a Midshipmen. Introduces the character of Victor Cachet, Helen Ziliwiki, and her Dad. There is also the Coup against Rob Pierre in Haven.

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Midshipman's Hope

David Feintuch · 415 pages

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Shadow Puppets

Orson Scott Card · 352 pages

As the nations of the earth attempt to control the children trained at Battle School, Peter Wiggin continues to consolidate his power with the help of Bean and Petra.

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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

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The Heart of Valor

Tanya Huff · 357 pages

Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr jumps at the chance to go to Crucible, the Marine Corps training planet. It is supposed to be an easy assignment -- after all, Crucible was set up to simulate battle situations so recruits could be trained safely. But Torin's barely on-planet when someone starts blasting the training scenarios to smithereens. . .

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Young Miles

Lois McMaster Bujold · 592 pages

Washed out of the Barrayaran Military Academy for health reasons, Miles Vorkosigan uses his unorthodox leadership talents to acquire a fleet of ships and take command of a force of spaceborne mercenaries with the help of his secret alter ego, Admiral Naismith.

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Insignia

S.J. Kincaid · 446 pages

Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.

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Natural Consequences

Elliott Kay · 496 pages

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Forging Zero

Sara King · 574 pages

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Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School (Ender's Saga)

Christopher Yost, Orson Scott Card, Pasqual Ferry, Frank D'Armata

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Ender's Shadow: Command School

Mike Carey, Sebastian Fiumara, Giulia Brusco

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Ender's Game Ultimate Collection

Christopher Yost, Pasqual Ferry

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The Shadow of Saganami

David Weber · 857 pages

The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami Island, the Royal Manticoran Navy's academy, are going straight from the classroom to the blazing reality of all-out war. Except for the midshipmen assigned to the heavy cruiser HMS *Hexapuma*, that is. *They're* being assigned to the Talbott Cluster, a

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Dragon and Soldier

Timothy Zahn · 301 pages

This series title continues the story of Jack Morgan. He fights with Draycos, trying to fend off attempts to kill the draconic race. To do this, he enlists in a mercenary army that recruits teenagers.

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Ninth City Burning

J. Patrick Black · 496 pages

"Centuries of war with aliens threaten the future of human civilization on earth in this gripping, epic science fiction debut ... We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It seemed

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Semper Mars

Ian Douglas · 384 pages

The Year is 2040.The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves.Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to split humanity into opposing factions and plunge the Earth into chaos and war. The USMC -- a branch of

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Starfighter Chapter 1

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Warlord

David Drake, S.M. Stirling · 567 pages

I dislike this book for several reasons: Even though anything man can imagine probably exists given eternity and infinity, I found the idea of dogs replacing horses rather ridiculous - as well as a religion based on computers. The ending of this story was too abrupt and left me completely unsatisfied, in short, this book sucked. I do NOT recommend it to others. gmb 12/17/19

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Skyward

Brandon Sanderson · 529 pages

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity's future. Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the he

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The Clone Republic

Steven L. Kent · 400 pages

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Vanguard

Jack Campbell · 327 pages

"Jack Campbell returns to the world of the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet novels with a new action-packed military science fiction series that explores the founding of the Alliance. and the men and women who fought to create it. Earth is no longer the center of the universe. After the invention of the faster-than-light jump drive, humanity is rapidly establishing new colonies. But the vast

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