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The Price of Glory

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ATLAS

Isaac Hooke · 468 pages

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Steel World

B.V. Larson · 345 pages

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Better to Beg Forgiveness

Michael Z. Williamson · 432 pages

When word comes that President Bishwanath, the local honest leader of Celadon, is dead, every corrupt politician and ruthless megacorp in the universe sets out to seize control of the planet, unaware that Bishwanath is not dead.

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Hell's Faire

John Ringo · 410 pages

With the defences of the Southern Appalachians sundered, the only thing standing between the ravening Posleen hordes and the soft interior of the Cumberland Plateau are the veterans of the 555th Mobile Infantry. Dropped into Rabun Pass, the only question is which will run out first: power, bullets or bodies.

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Into the Storm

Larry Correia · 285 pages

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Falkenberg's Legion

Jerry Pournelle · 432 pages

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Way of the Clans

FanPro · 268 pages

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Genesis

Jack McKinney

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All You Need Is Kill

Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ying Ban Yang · 256 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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The Prince

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

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Hammer's Slammers

David Drake

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The Warrior's Apprentice

Lois McMaster Bujold · 317 pages

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Dorsai!

Gordon R. Dickson · 288 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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Full Metal Panic! Volume 2

Shouji Gatou · 204 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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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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Terms of Enlistment

Marko Kloos · 334 pages

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces. But as he starts a career of supposed priv

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Mobile Suit Gundam: THE ORIGIN, Volume 1: Activation

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino

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Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization

Alex Irvine · 339 pages

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are provin

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Mechanicum

Graham McNeill · 416 pages

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