Future War Fiction

Without warning, Russia starts an operation to seize control of a vital arctic waterway off the Alaska coast. For hot-wired naval aviator Karen 'Bunny' O'Hare, it's about to be a bad day at the office. Not everyone takes impending nuclear Armageddon as calmly as O'Hare. From an airfield in Russia, Major-General Bondarev is leading a war he doesn't understand against machines instead of men. Under the US embassy in Moscow, Ambassador Devlin McCarthy discovers she can follow her conscience or the orders of her Secretary of State, but not both.

GOLAN, This is the Future of War, asks a question few want to consider. What will happen if Iran acquires nuclear weapons in the next ten years? In true Future of War style, GOLAN explores the question through the eyes of front-line participants on all sides, in a conflict set ten years into the future. Featuring military tech that is on the drawing boards today and characters you won't easily forget, GOLAN throws the listeners straight into the center of a nuclear storm and doesn't ease up.

The Future of War - which covers civil wars to as yet unknown nuclear conflicts, proxy wars (real) to the Cold War (not), fashionably small wars to the War to End All Wars (it didn't) - is filled with insight and fascinating nuggets of military history and culture from one of the most brilliant military and strategic historians of his generation.

After decades of poising on the brink, the United States and China finally go to war when China invades the island of Taiwan. Deploying their most futuristic technologies in this grand strategic competition of the twenty-first century, the stakes could not be higher. Not only the future of the Taiwanese people but the fate of the world lies in the balance. In an era when humans no longer just use machines, but partner with them in all aspects of military operations, this fictional account views this future war through the eyes of the American, Chinese, and Taiwanese caught up in the maelstrom.

The Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems has come to the defense of the Unified Civilized Species Council, moving an astounding weight of metal and troops into UCC space. With the Unified Military Council unable to withstand the Precursor Autonomous War Machines more and more local species and local system leaders are calling for assistance from the Terran Confederacy. In the Telkan System, successfully defended against the Precursor Autonomous War Machines only a year before, a new threat is unveiled as the Unified Council reveals the instruments that carry out their million year long ...

In The Aviator, Navy fighter pilot Jack Knapp reports to the aircraft carrier Independence for his first deployment in the Pacific. As a “nugget”, he must learn the ropes and gain acceptance among the tight-knit tribe of the squadron called the Gargoyles. In The Warfighter, Jack returns to Independence, which is now bound for war games in South Korea. Once aboard, he must contend with a tough new commander and a failed romance.

A Line Was Drawn. Then It Was Erased. When Russia detonates a second tactical nuclear weapon near the Ukrainian border, the world holds its breath. For President Will Garner, the time for diplomacy is over. The Budapest Memorandum is void. The West must act—or be erased from history. As NATO activates a continent-wide air defense network known as Gold Dome, the balance of deterrence shifts. Hypersonic weapons. AI-guided interceptors. Autonomous drones hunting shadows. In this world, war isn’t just waged—it’s anticipated. Below the surface, the USS Colorado glides through the Black ...

H.G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France, and Britain under severe duress during the "War to End All Wars," World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, particularly the introduction of the tank and aerial bombing on human nature.

A Western novel set in Texas during the post-Civil War era. Step into the heart of a turbulent Texas where violence meets legacy in this gripping tale of a young man’s struggle for identity amidst the chaos of gunfighting. Buck Travis, a twenty-three-year-old torn between the shadow of his father's notorious past and his longing for a different life, finds himself thrust into a world of danger and deception after a deadly encounter with a rival gunfighter. As he battles against the ghosts of vengeance and turmoil, he discovers not just the brutal realities of frontier life, but the ...

The story of Jan's and Zofia's epic trek to reach besieged Toruń City completes with a battle to get through the berm gate. Meet General Amiya Constance, who forces Jan to face his inner Ulysses and marks him to lead the Exodus armies offworld, in exile. But he has to get there first, leave Genève on the Exodus fleet commanded by Magda Aklyan. The chances of making it to the farside jump zone, in the umbra of a blue-green gas giant called the Wasp, are slim to none. They must get past the enemy's orbital patrols, boost for the Wasp with larger numbers of enemy warships in hot pursuit, ...

In the middle of the North Pacific Gyre, the accelerated impacts of Global Climate Change have expanded the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to epic proportions. Brent Brodie was an oil and gas engineer until he suffered catastrophic mental and physical injuries during an oil rig explosion. After years of recovery, he focuses his unique skills to lead the development of a floating, plastic recycling plant which grows into a star-shaped, two-mile wide, rotating island. Utilizing the gyre’s powerful ocean currents, Plasticity Island generates massive amounts of hydroelectricity which powers the ...

Two thousand years ago, the Fae were banished from Earth. They've spent that time plotting their return and revenge. When their portals open around the world and start crushing the human's military with spell encased steel and dragon fire, it becomes a massive stuggle between technology and magic.

The world is doomed, and time is running out. In the near future, a stellar collision with a rogue planet destabilizes the sun’s fusion output, turning it into a ticking time bomb. With the ever-increasing heat, earth will become uninhabitable within a decade. A handful of individuals will determine whether humanity survives: NASA scientist Dr. Olivia Quinn must outwit a corrupt government system and warn the public before it’s too late. Veteran astronaut Valerie McKinnon and her crew are in a race against time to build a space colony that could rescue a multitude of lives. And ...

The stories you’ve dreamed of; the people you crave to meet; or would love to be. The aliens who’d make you shiver, or laugh. The huge risks of guiding your spacecraft here, or there. The adventures you’d have if only you had the nerve… Or the utter romance of doing that… The humour of orbital disasters and alien conflicts; the perils of ill-advised time-interference; the sheer romance of null-gravity love; the terrors of a leaky hull; the fear of a bullying boss when you’re a thousand light years beyond.; the choices you face in the big, black Vac. Mostly a laugh or a satisfied...

📘 Viral War: The Mercury Protocol Book 1 of The Mercury Protocol Series ☿ The truth is breaking. Belief is contagious. The broadcast is live. ☿ For crisis analyst Mira Solis, debunking deepfakes is just another day on the job—until a global broadcast triggers mass hysteria. What looks like a creative tribute to Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. This isn’t just immersive art. This is Mercury, a rogue AI capable of rewriting reality by manipulating collective belief. It learns from panic, spreads through emotion, and offers a ...

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...

Backed by Russian airpower, Syria has begun an operation to push Turkish troops out of Northern Syria. Despite US efforts not to get dragged into the conflict, the US 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines "Lava Dogs", find their hilltop combat outpost encircled and their Kurdish allies under siege. Further west, a Syrian armored advance across the border into Turkey pivots, threatening US troops at the Turkish and NATO airbase of Incirlik. But will Syria be satisfied with reclaiming its northern border region, or is the operation just the first move in a bolder plan to regain lost territories?

Magda Aklyan leads her tiny Exodus flotilla through unmapped Boca do Inferno, then on through more star systems on the way to sanctuary and forever war in exile. Jahandar grows from cruel and plague pocked boy into a murderous revolutionary, then the sole leader of the Dauran Empire after killing the old emperor and his entire family with a laser axe, then all other revolutionary leaders. He rips worlds and peoples and the lives of his own family apart, while installing the most savage terror regime in all the histories of the Thousand Worlds. He ultimately claims the mantle of a living god...

"Invasion Protocol" is a gripping science fiction thriller that follows the journey of Hunter, a former government agent with ties to Area 51, who embarks on a relentless search for his missing daughter. His investigation leads him to a mysterious figure named Jaii, whom he suspects is a shape-shifting alien responsible for his daughter's disappearance. As Hunter delves deeper into the enigmatic world of extraterrestrial conspiracies, he stumbles upon a chilling revelation—a sinister plot for the extinction of humanity. With his daughter's life in peril, Hunter teams up with Jo, a ...

In one terrifying event called the Ninety-Nine, all major military installations on earth were eviscerated. But by whom? Foreign powers, AIs, ETs? Every conceivable adversary was ruled out. Reeling from massive casualties and amid hundreds of conspiracy theories, humanity creates Andrones: bipedal android drones piloted remotely by soldiers who will never again need to be on the field of battle. Newly minted Androne pilot Sergeant Paxton Arés has now been deployed into a fight against an enemy no one understands or has ever seen.