Orphan's Journey

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

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

Extinction

B.V. Larson · 340 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

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

All You Need Is Kill

Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ying Ban Yang · 256 pages

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

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

War Dogs

Greg Bear · 304 pages

"They came in peace, bearing gifts. The Gurus were a highly advanced species who brought amazingly useful and sophisticated technology to the human race. There was, of course, a catch. They warned of a far more malevolent life form, beings who have hounded the Gurus across the cosmos. The media have taken to calling them the Antagonists -- or Antags -- and they have already established a beachhead

Shadow of the Scorpion

Neal Asher · 272 pages

Halo: 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

The Armageddon Inheritance

David Weber · 344 pages

This is the second book of the DAHAK series. This sequel has Earth facing the Achultanni, Colin and a picked crew of earth soldiery are now out to find out why the old empire has not responded to the alert message from the outer sensor bouys. While they are searching for answers the earth is left in the hand of Horus and a very select group of generals. These men are responsible for overseeing the

The Exiled Fleet

J.S. Dewes · 432 pages

Call to Arms

Joshua Dalzelle · 334 pages

All You Need Is Kill

Ryosuke Takeuchi · 550 pages

Earth Defiant

Richard Fox · 482 pages

When the Devil Dances

John Ringo · 494 pages

The Darkness

W.J. Lundy · 246 pages

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.

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.

Earth Afire

Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston · 399 pages

Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.

Ark Royal

Christopher G. Nuttall · 380 pages

Supercarrier

Scott Bartlett · 454 pages

Constitution

Nick Webb · 335 pages