Alien Space Thriller

Karen Drayson has settled into her latest role. Sort of. But the day she’s been dreading is here. With more ships returned, she has a reasonable fleet now. But the Surtee fleet blew through more than that, resulting in her recall. Her biggest fear is someone else raising a similar fleet, one she can’t stand against. But that’s not what she dreads. The enemy she can and will face. It’s her superiors that cause her dread. What will be the consequences of the Partial Eclipse? The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage Chronicle Yesterday's Spacemage Today's ...

Humanity is on the brink of annihilation. Only one man can turn the tide. For centuries, we explored the stars and settled new worlds. But a mysterious alien threat emerged, launching devastating attacks and seizing entire star systems. Every fifty years they come, silent and relentless, before disappearing again into the dark. And as they close in on humanity’s home worlds, one more defeat could mean total extinction.

There is life outside of war. As the political landscape continues to change, the war goes on for Bud and the dragons. But life has milestones, and unexpected events, and even a war must give way for them. How much of what is known actually happened that way? How much of what you plan is actually your plan? And how do you know that advancing that plan isn’t going to make things worse? The dragons are powerful once again. But what is the difference between what once was, and what could be? Could it be the Dragon Heart? The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Hunter ...

The Owls are arrogant, utterly convinced of their superiority, and hardly worth being called a threat. Jane is fighting a war she doesn’t understand. But the Owls are a threat to everyone else, and Jane is yet to find out the real stakes involved in this war. With Jane in the middle of known space, Baron Fred is trying to hold things together at one end in Gaia, while Walsh is holding down the diplomatic fort at the other end. For Fred, finding out the real cost of maintaining your ideals comes home to him in the most personal way possible. Walsh on the other hand, is tired of being the ...

"The only one enjoying himself in there is the grim reaper." The Crossroad system is a battleground. The Keerah only want to conquer. The Ralnor want control. The Trixone want new eating grounds. All of them want what they think Jon Hunter has. Jon is fighting a war on seven fronts, while trying to stay out of politics and diplomacy at home. As the death toll mounts, Jon is confronted with options, all of which carry an unacceptable body count. And in the midst of it all, old choices suddenly have consequences. In the middle of everything, lies the Reaper's Crossroad. The Hunter Legacy ...

Finding the Dragon Homeworld wasn’t the momentous event they thought it would be. What isn’t yet known is the cost to the Imperium. And others. The tigers are not happy. Some dragons are not happy. And Bud isn’t happy. Is one planet really worth so much trouble? Was enabling the Dragon Host really a good idea after all? Do the highers have their own agenda here? Do the Keerah? Some of the past is now known, but why is this one planet so important to the galaxy? It seems like only Bud is asking the questions, and even he doesn’t know if they should be answered or not. But everything ...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “...Terrific thriller” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “An amazing enjoyable read, you won’t be disappointed” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Like the good old disaster movies of Irwin Allen... funny... action packed... highly recommend it” A LONELY PLACE TO DIE… Point Nemo - the most remote location on the planet… Deep below the waves it’s known as the satellite graveyard… …And something terrifying is stirring… A group of scientists have been gathered to investigate a mysterious find. A threat that may not be from this world. A threat that could destroy life as we know it… Now...

“The Imperium thinks the Ruam home world is dead. Boy, are they wrong.” The clock is ticking. The Imps, the most powerful military force in the Rex Cloud, are returning with literally everything they have, including a massive space fleet filled with battle-tested marines and every weapon of devastation in the known galaxy. Everything. After the destruction of the Ghost Star, all Galen has left is a single fighter craft, a captured troop carrier, and the undeniable courage of his people. He knows that’s not enough, but there’s no way he’ll ever bend a knee to the malevolent ...

The Duchy of Hunter's Run has moved to the Gaia galaxy. But without its Duke. Twenty five billion people have appeared in the Gaia system unexpectedly, and only one person knows how or why. Yet preparations for fifteen billion exist, but only one person remembers the work being done. The one who knows, and the one who remembers, are the same, but Jane is not human. So good is she at hiding being an Artificial Intelligence, no-one knows except her fellow AI's. To her falls the responsibility for guiding Humanity as they come to terms with not knowing where they are. The how and why seem ...

In the mid-23rd century, Darwin, Australia, stands as the last human city on Earth. The world has succumbed to an alien plague, with most of the population transformed into mindless, savage creatures. The planet’s refugees flock to Darwin, where a space elevator—created by the architects of this apocalypse, the Builders—emits a plague-suppressing aura.

Quentin Arnbury is a Creator. He’s also the author of the popular Contest of Sovereignty series of fantasy novels. Like most true creators, his characters are real and exist in a parallel world designed and constructed by Arnbury himself. But when something dark appears in his fantasy land, a darkness not of his creation, Quentin is powerless to stop it. That is, until he remembers Samantha Moon... the daring vampire detective who saved him and other creators from the villainous Elizabeth and her horde of dark masters. Now Quentin Arnbury needs only to write Samantha Moon and her friends ...

Hugh McDaniel lives in Queens, New York. He's a genius, and he has been struggling to pick one area to focus his life’s work on. His brother and best friend, Travis, is a marine officer. They get along very well, despite their differences. When aliens suddenly invade and destroy their entire culture, they are forced to struggle together in the ruins. At first they just tried to survive; to collect food, medicine, weapons, and to find other survivors. But now, they've set their sights higher: on resistance and reclaiming their planet from invaders.

James Bigglesworth is not a young man anymore. He’s risen as high as he can go, and achieved more than all his ambitions, and even dreams, had him striving for. But his early life as an ace pilot caused damage to his body, and he’s known for a long time he’ll die younger than most. Being the Marshall in charge of carriers and fighters, in a military where the carriers are also dreadnaughts, has allowed him to scale back his role in things, and keep his failing health a secret. His protégé Lacey’s rejection of the top CAG position has been a constant thorn in his side, and being ...

The Dragons are going to war! Dragon kind has been hiding from the tigers for longer than anyone can remember. The tigers fear the dragons, but no longer know why they do. Everyone knows you never wake a sleeping dragon. But the Keerah have. The Imperium found them, brought them back together, and showed them hiding was not the answer. But now they know some of their kin have been enslaved. Knight General Willow has a mission. Find their kin, and liberate them from the tigers. But tiger space is vast, and the galaxy has forgotten that dragons once roamed at will between the stars. Beware ...

The best laid plans always have to deal with the unexpected. Colonel Brazee has a plan. Go to the Imperium, steal a warship, and set up a new homeland on one of the new unclaimed spine worlds. How hard can that be? He knows no plan survives contact with the enemy, but exactly who is the enemy? The Imperium is not a friend, and what he’s going to do won’t endear him to them, but he has no intention of getting caught up in their war. But intentions and plans are what you have before things go pear shaped. Brazee knows this, and is confident his team can handle anything the galaxy throws ...

In this fast-paced science fiction interplanetary mystery thriller, FBI Special Agent Sharpe is one of the best in his field at tracking down outlaws. In pursuit of a female bank robber on the run, what should have been a simple arrest turns Sharpe’s world upside down when he realizes she has lured him through a space portal – and he’s not on Earth anymore.

Even an AI needs a day off once in a while. The Trixone and Rawtenuga wars continue to keep getting bigger, and as the Imperator’s primary AI, Jane is always in the thick of things. But comments of late have started her thinking about how even an AI can get stressed. Today is Halloween. And Jane’s having a day off. What could possibly go wrong? [This is a short story set on the last day of the events of Lieutenant Commander Spacemage.] The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Hunter Legacy Hero at Large Hunted Hero Hunting Send in the Hero Make or Break the Hero Hail...

It’s been a long three years for Jon Hunter. He’s been dead, to the future, saved the galaxy, been elevated to Imperator against his will, and lost his girlfriend. Four major wars in three years. Five, if you include the pirates that tried hard to kill him originally, and he does include them. A year ago he was tired, lost, and not wanting to command any more. He fought on anyway. Now the Trixone war is over, and the pressure is finally off him. But what happened to Aline still eats at him. He needs to know the truth. What better way to find your truth than to go Walkabout? He built an ...

Ax is an Andalite, an alien, stranded on a strange planet he's sworn to defend, even though it's not his own. Since the Animorphs rescued him, he's fought at their side, and in that time they've come to consider Ax a friend. But deep inside, Ax knows he isn't their friend. He can't ever be. Andalites must always hold themselves apart, even from their allies. As the Animorphs' past actions start resulting in deaths of innocent people, however, Ax's loyalty is called into question. Now he must decide whether to reveal the reason for his estrangement - the shameful secret of his people.

Testing the limits of a mage can be a very bad idea. Bud’s been mainly sitting the Keerah War out so far. He once sent billions home across two galaxies for a day with a single errant angry thought. So he’s kept his focus on supervising the trainers of new mages. However, the war keeps drawing him in. A bit of magic here, a bit more magic there. And then they found enslaved mages, but it was a dragon thing, and not his responsibility. But genocide is another matter, and he can’t let that stand. But others can, and have, and they’re blocking him from doing what he feels is right. The...