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River of Bones

Taylor Anderson · 479 pages

Alternate HistoryParallel UniverseMilitary Sci-FiOcean and Ships
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Designated Targets

John Birmingham · 448 pages

It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.The only question: Who's going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass de

Alternate HistoryMilitary Sci-FiOcean and ShipsSoldiers and Warfare
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Against the Tide of Years

S.M. Stirling · 454 pages

Against the Tide of Years continues the adventures of the Nantucket residents who have been transported through time to the Bronze Age. In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has striven to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade

Alternate HistoryMilitary Sci-FiSprawling EpicSoldiers and Warfare
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Dark Age

Pierce Brown · 906 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. “Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year) He broke the chains. Then h

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareSprawling EpicScience Fiction
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Tilting the Balance

Harry Turtledove

Alternate HistoryMilitary Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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To Sail a Darkling Sea

John Ringo · 374 pages

Book 2 of the Dark Tide Rising series. This is the continuing story of rebuilding the US military (mainly Navy/Marines/Coast Guard) after the release of a bio-weapon turns people into "zombies". They are not zombies, though. They are dangerous, infected people with damaged minds who have turned animal. The main characters are Faith "Shewolf" Smith, a 13 year old girl who is provisionally grante

Ocean and ShipsMilitary Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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Manxome Foe

John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor · 341 pages

The crew of the Alliance space ship Vorpal Blade goes back into action when news arrives that a gate colony has fallen to an unidentified alien invasion, heading out to find out what happened to the colony, rescue survivors, and uncover the attackers' identity.

Military Sci-FiParallel UniverseSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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West of Eden

Harry Harrison · 496 pages

In West of Eden, bestselling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendants of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival.Here is the story of Kerrick, a young hunter who grows to manhood among the dinosaurs, escaping at last to rejoin his own kind. His knowledge of their strange customs makes him the humans' leader . . . and th

Alternate HistorySprawling EpicScience FictionSoldiers and Warfare
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Fortune's Stroke

Eric Flint, David Drake · 457 pages

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareSprawling EpicScience Fiction
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Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld · 444 pages

**Choose Your Weapon: Beastie or Clanker** Alek is a prince without a throne. On the run from his own people, he has only a fighting machine and a small band of men. Deryn is a girl disguised as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause--and protect her secret--at all costs. Alek and Deryn are thrown together aboard the mighty airship *Levithan*. Though fighting side

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareOcean and ShipsScience Fiction
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Wolves of the Calla

Stephen King · 714 pages

Parallel UniverseSoldiers and WarfareSprawling EpicScience Fiction
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1634 The Baltic War

Eric Flint, David Weber · 728 pages

The time-traveling Americans from the West Virginia town of Grantville find themselves caught in the middle of the Baltic War, with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, launching a counterattack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark.

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareOcean and ShipsSprawling Epic
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Red Storm Rising

Tom Clancy · 696 pages

Terrorists attack the USSR, they respond by attacking western Europe to replace the oil assets destroyed by the terrorists. Who will win?

Alternate HistorySoldiers and WarfareOcean and ShipsSprawling Epic
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Deathstalker War

Simon R. Green · 522 pages

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareSprawling EpicScience Fiction
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Marvel 1602

Neil Gaiman · 248 pages

Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics. The limited series was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove; Scott McKowen illustrated the distinctive scratchboard covers. The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes have been transplanted to the Elizabethan era; faced with

Alternate HistoryParallel UniverseMultiple POVOcean and Ships
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Shadows Upon Time

Christopher Ruocchio · 928 pages

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareScience FictionSprawling Epic
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The Shiva Option

David Weber, Steve White · 698 pages

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareSprawling EpicScience Fiction
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Throne of Jade

Naomi Novik · 399 pages

When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo--an unhatched dragon's egg--Capt. Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain's Aerial Corps, man and dragon soon proved their mettle in daring combat against Bonaparte's invading forces. Now China has discovered that its rare gift, intended for

Alternate HistoryOcean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareMultiple POV
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Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Laini Taylor · 624 pages

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.

Parallel UniverseSprawling EpicSoldiers and WarfareMultiple POV
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The Exiled Fleet

J.S. Dewes · 432 pages

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareScience FictionMultiple POV
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Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen

H. Beam Piper · 192 pages

A State Trooper steps around a tree and finds himself in a another world. Fortunate for him he was a student of military history because the new world he finds himself in, needs him. State Trooper Calvin becomes Lord Kalvin due to his knowledge of early gunpowder and weapons. Classic Science Fiction, multi-dimensional travel into an alternate universe where there is a corrupt gunpowder theocracy j

Alternate HistoryParallel UniverseSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
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Conventions of War

Walter Jon Williams · 677 pages

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareSprawling EpicScience Fiction
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Mechanicum

Graham McNeill · 416 pages

Military Sci-FiSoldiers and WarfareSprawling EpicScience Fiction
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The Company of the Dead

David Kowalski · 744 pages

Alternate HistoryOcean and ShipsSprawling EpicSoldiers and Warfare

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