Future Military

Survival. Hope. Betrayal. As Earth dies, humanity's last chance lies on a pristine parallel world. But salvation comes with a price. Captain Marc Sanders balances the psychological toll of saving 4.5 billion on a dying earth with his personal demons. His daughter's life hangs on his every decision. When evidence mounts that their mission may be built on lies, members of his team turn on each other. As loyalties crumble and tensions rise, Marc evaluates the morality of the price he must pay. From a political assassination to forced occupation to stealing a future on Idyllium, impossible ...

Drones are transforming warfare through the use of artificial intelligence, drone swarms, and surveillance - leading to competition between the US, China, Israel, and Iran. Who will be the next drone superpower?

At the edge of Milky Way Galaxy, along the great unexplored rim, in the area known as ‘Empty Space’, an exploratory ship from the Rhell, members of the Terran Union, discover an unknown, damaged alien vessel. Rescuing the lone survivor, they unknowingly bring aboard an infection that swiftly overcomes them. Lone survivors, abandoned and thought dead on a desolate world, send out a desperate cry for help. Responding to their SOS is the TU Cruiser, Boudica. The crew must stop the infection before it can doom the union! FIRST IN THE TERRAN UNION SERIES.

Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson, and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the science fiction and fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.

In the coming decades, artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionize the way humans wage war. The military organizations that best innovate and adapt to this AI revolution will likely gain significant advantages over their rivals. To this end, great powers such as the United States, China, and Russia are already investing in novel sensing, reasoning, and learning technologies that will alter how militaries plan and fight. The resulting transformation could fundamentally change the character of war.

After the end of the Enterprise™'s five-year mission, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy struggle to establish new lives apart from one another and the starship. The newly promoted Admiral Kirk is placed in charge of a specially created Starfleet division and attempts to defuse a critical hostage situation; Mr. Spock, who, in the midst of a teaching assignment on Vulcan, finds the one thing he least expected; and Dr. McCoy, whose unerring instinct for trouble lands him smack in the middle of an incident that could trigger an interstellar bloodbath.

A quantum revelation that could reshape the world. A shadow government ready to kill to keep it secret. Scientist James Lockwood has made a groundbreaking discovery in the realm of quantum physics. A discovery that could revolutionize travel and trade, and disrupt entire industries to the tune of tens of trillions of dollars. A discovery simple enough to replicate and understand, but in the wrong hands, could destroy the world. Before James can even finish his academic paper on the subject, let alone publish it, he and his sister Isabel have their lives upended. He soon learns the military ...

Adam awakened after decades of suspended animation with a genetically enhanced body and an implanted A.I. named Nan. He was now endowed with boundless potential but unrealized potential is of little benefit. With Nan's help he overcame many challenges but his greatest and most dangerous challenge was fighting and defeating a gang of slavers. He realized that one victory was not the end of the issue and his goal became permanently ending this evil organization that threatened the very survival of the fragile remnants of humanity. In order to accomplish this he would have to fully realize his...

After the devastating events of World War Three that halved the world’s population and gave rise to hellish manmade monstrosities known as the Tenemids, the United Governments Association (UGA) formed to maintain order. Their propaganda teaches today’s youth that these creatures were created for one goal: mindless war due to their belief in their genetic superiority. The Tenemids’ rebellion is the longest and bloodiest in all of human history — and will reshape the world in ways no one saw coming. Cornelio Von Tarkis, a decorated former veteran commander who worked to fight the ...

She's a policewoman with a past. In a future ruled by AI, one bad decision could get her killed... or worse. Former UN Marine Alice Yu is a beat-down cop running from guilt in a ruined city. Brutally ambushed and left for dead, she's powerless to prevent a ruthless crime boss from abducting her NYPD partner. Though it will cost her job in a world with 99% unemployment, she vows to bring him back from the lawless and forbidden Fourth Ward Territory. Fighting through injuries and resurfacing trauma, Yu tracks her mentor's trail. But when her war born PTSD flares in the face of a cartel death ...

A fast-paced, action-packed adventure that tugs at the bonds of friendship, loyalty and trust, Bounded Allegiance is a thrill ride that places you firmly in the battle. Follow the men and women of Earth's military as they face victory and defeat in action against a desperate alien adversary.In the future, wars are conducted on a planetary scale. Join Earth's global military in the last battle of the Kathean War. Years of conflict have culminated in this final offensive on the kathean homeworld of Tretaas. Discover the role Zero Group, a shadow organization, has to play in the hostilities as...

Captain Picard has never encountered an opponent more powerful than Q, a being from another continuum who is dangerous, obnoxious, mysterious, and seemingly all-powerful. But now, Trelane has tapped in to an awesome power source that makes him more powerful than the entire continuum. Q warns that Trelane has become unspeakably dangerous - this time the stakes are all of creation. Read by John de Lancie.

One hundred years ago, 4 crewmembers of the U.S.S. Enterprise™ crossed the dimensional barrier and found a mirror image of their own universe, populated by nightmare duplicates of their shipmates. Barely able to escape with their lives, they returned, thankful that the accident which had brought them there could not be duplicated...or so they thought. But now the scientists of that empire have found a doorway into our universe. Their plan is to destroy from within, to replace a Federation Starship with one of their own.

A broken hacker. A brave FBI agent. A deadly brain implant. FBI Cybercrime Special Agent Stella Evans finds the last surviving computer consultant who holds the key to destroying a terrorist organization’s global network, but Cayson Yang may not live long enough to dismantle the computer system. The Chaos… Computer network specialist Cayson Yang’s struggling network infrastructure company has received a rash of new clients lately, the total income of which finally puts Binary Systems, Inc., in the black for the first time ever. He is now able to give pay raises to himself and his ...

"100 out of 100. Tim L. Rey turns techno thrillers into up-to-the-minute page-turners. Reading 'Nano Nation' is like watching a great movie!" - Brandon Q. Morris, bestselling author He was done with war. But war wasn't done with him. The rebellion is crumbling. The Confessors tighten their stranglehold. As Jannah's resistance begins to collapse, only one man can turn the tide: Malek. But he's not fighting for their cause. He's on his own mission: infiltrate enemy ranks and extract Dominik—a high-ranking Confessor... and his brother. To save Dominik's life, he must kill him first. Hunted ...

Today's militaries are increasingly reliant on highly networked autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced weapons that were previously the domain of sci-fi writers. In such a world, what can we do to decrease the chances of war? In Future Peace, Robert H. Latiff questions our overreliance on technology and examines the pressure-cooker scenario created by the growing animosity between the US and its adversaries, our thinly stretched global military, the capacity for technology to catalyze violence, and the American public's lack of familiarity with these topics.

The need for security expressed by various actors has resulted in both the private military companies and private security companies. I consider those actors being very important in the overall design of the security, taking into account their capabilities, and the ability to act in contexts ranging from high-level to the individual level. The totality of private security actors, from a private military company that produces next-generation weapons to be used by a national army, to a private detective, influences the global security, regional security, national, local and individual security.

Imprisoned by the Cartel, Dale Hardy must battle to escape his captors and find a way home before everything and everyone he holds dear is lost forever. For the Cartel, it turns out subduing the small town of Encendido was only the beginning. Ruthless crime boss Fernando Ortega has his sights set on reclaiming great swaths of the American Southwest, an empire he intends to rule with an iron fist. But there's a secret hiding in the desert, a secret that could spell the difference between tyranny and freedom.

Calin Aku, a cybernetic-armed outlaw and smuggler, becomes humanity’s last hope against a Lunar catastrophe. When he takes on a captivating new client, his journey propels him and his crew beyond their criminal identities. A surprising alliance with a covert government agent unveils an ancient secret, an advanced civilization that had concealed itself throughout history. But now, they need Calin's help. In a high-stakes race against time, armed with only his blaster, an old spaceship, and his wits, Calin must prevent the Moon's total destruction and save its inhabitants. , the inaugural ...

Ursa Steel is a collection of three stories in a distant future where humanity's military complex and space exploration has flourished. In "Harvest Death," witness the horrors of war as infantry clash with a savage alien race during an invasion of their planet. In "Cauldron Quarry," join the exploits of a Mech crew known as the Mud Wolves as they fight on various planets and encounter something unexpected during their latest contract. In "Warrior First," follow a solo pilot's daring escape after he's forced to eject from his Mech and be hunted by those who outnumber and outgun him. Whatever...