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Steel World

B.V. Larson · 345 pages

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Honor's Knight

Rachel Bach · 375 pages

"After a mysterious attack left [Devi Morris] short several memories and one partner, she's determined to keep her head down, do her job, and get on with her life. But even though Devi's not actually looking for it, trouble keeps finding her. She sees things no one else can, the black stain on her hands is growing, and she's entangled with the cook she thought she hated"--Page 4 of cover.

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Falkenberg's Legion

Jerry Pournelle · 432 pages

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Hammer's Slammers

David Drake

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Black Hole Sun

David Macinnis Gill

On the planet Mars, sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.

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The Warrior's Apprentice

Lois McMaster Bujold · 317 pages

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Shadow of Empire

Jay Allan · 377 pages

"Arkarin Blackhawk is smuggler and a mercenary, earning a comfortable but precarious living as a freelance adventurer. He and his followers, the crew of the ship Wolf's Claw, live on the fringe of human society in the Far Stars. Blackhawk is a veteran fighter, as deadly with a blade as he is with a gun. But he is also a man haunted by a dark past, a cynical hero struggling to hold back the guilt a

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The Prince

Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling · 1,151 pages

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Broken Angels

Richard K. Morgan · 400 pages

Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers,

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One Jump Ahead

Mark L. Van Name · 304 pages

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Dorsai!

Gordon R. Dickson · 288 pages

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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

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Star Soldiers

Andre Norton · 457 pages

The galactic civilization that considered Earthmen fit only to be their mercenaries in their constant conflicts - and Earthmen were not allowed to go into space in any other role - which wound up with the Earthmen rebelling against the galactic oppressors. After long centuries the last vestiges of the Galactic Union is falling apart and Earthmen are out to make their own stamp upon the galaxy I

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Starship: Mercenary

Mike Resnick · 323 pages

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The Mandalorian Armor

K.W. Jeter · 387 pages

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First to Fight

David Sherman, Dan Cragg · 384 pages

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Rogue Squadron

Michael A. Stackpole · 400 pages

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ATLAS

Isaac Hooke · 468 pages

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Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells

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Assault Troopers

Vaughn Heppner · 325 pages

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First and Only

Dan Abnett · 320 pages

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Poor Man's Fight

Elliott Kay · 434 pages

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Phoenix Island

John Dixon · 309 pages

When a tough sixteen-year-old boxing champ sentenced to an isolated boot camp discovers it is actually a mercenary training facility turning "throwaway children" into scientifically enhanced killers, he risks everything to save his friends and stop a madman bent on global destruction.

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