Science Fiction Marine

Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin. As the days progress, Sasha carries out other acts for which she receives more coins from Kozhennikov. As summer ends, her domineering mentor directs her to move to a remote village and use her gold to enter the Institute of Special Technologies.

They say the darkest hour is just before dawn. Sergeant Pace Nix is all alone, in the dark. He’s not dead, but he might as well be. Unarmed, exhausted, on the verge of debilitating dehydration; when he sees a light, he isn’t sure if it is real or imagined. He’s drawn to the light, as all humans are. And what he finds there will change everything. NERO, the rogue AI system on Rastamus III is too big, too vast to stop. Yet, that is the task set before Sergeant Pace Nix and the survivors of The Philadelphia, after crashing on the forbidden planet. Is it truly a lost world, ...

A spaceship has crashed on a deserted alien world. Only one unit is capable of responding: Imperial Rescue Technicians. On the surface, the rain is constant, nothing electrical works and unknown terrors lurk in the darkness. For the crew of the Vanuri, their survival depends on a few brave Rescue Techs who can get down to the surface and save them from the planet’s horrors before it’s too late.

In the University Revolution, the State is losing the battle against forces of freedom. In a last ditch effort, a ship from Old Earth rushes to Redwood on a mission to capture a vampire primate in hopes of creating a virtually indestructible army and a means of winning the war. Marcus and Dee Dee Savitch are already vampires. With a small contingent from the Corps of Cadets, they'll wage guerilla warfare in Redwood City against a determined enemy, and fight to the death to protect the planet's secrets. But is it too late to stop a conspiracy put in motion by the last power-crazed Commander ...

BY MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JASPER T. SCOTT CHAOS IS COMING… Cade Korbin finally has more credits than he knows how to spend. He also has the alien entity known as “Alpha” and the power of the swarm on his side. Deciding to leverage his good fortune, Cade starts his own guild dedicated to hunting the galaxy’s crime lords and the corrupt authorities that shelter them. Meanwhile, tensions are simmering along the border between the Alliance and the Coalition. A ceasefire was declared, but both sides are bitterly licking their wounds. Cade’s plans are interrupted when he learns of a ...

In the heavens above Luetin Hive, Erik Morkai's Space Wolves clash with dark eldar raiders, jump-pack clad Blood Claws taking the battle to the aliens' own infernal airships. But the war will be decided by Morkai himself as he challenges the aliens' sinister leader to single combat.

The start of the war for the Federation had been chaos, with people frantically trying anything to ward off the destruction that was sure to come. The habitat Odyssey began a journey that defied imagination. Day by day the ripples of that journey spread outward until one day the entire Federation had been affected.

“Look at it this way, Sarge . . . Three ex-Marines are worth about ten regular agents.” The war is over. For ex-Marine Sergeant Gina Wilcox, that means using her powers outside the military for a change. Wilcox is an electronic telepath, and when Naval Investigations is dissolved she’s recruited into AOJ, the Republic’s top civilian law enforcement agency. AOJ has a reputation for being corrupt to the core. And to make matters worse, crime spikes out of control right before election season. Wilcox does her part, rounding up terrorists and assassins. But the criminal underworld ...

Prime Minister Mathison must consolidate power and bind the Governance to his will if he is to save the human race. And for that to happen, Stathis will have to become the spearhead of his efforts, because the vanhat will not give up, and they are not the only threat. Becket must also be dealt with, or he may destroy the Governance from within. But is Stathis ready to be the spearhead? He’d better be, for there is no one else Mathison can turn to, and the need is greater than they know.

An action adventure like Indiana Jones, a science adventure like Jurassic Park and a human feel-good story like Slumdog Millionaire. Masters of the Broken Watches is a must-read. Sebastian Miles and his team of marine biologists stare at their watches. Time outside their lab has jumped forward by twenty-two hours. Minutes before this illogical space-time event, they were analyzing a mysterious glowing nodule extracted from an unknown marine specimen. News of this marine life reaches powerful governments, inadvertently triggering a race to hunt, capture and control it. But these governments ...

As a captain, Ryck Lysander has been given one of the most sought-after assignments in the Marines: an infantry company commander. His new battalion commanding officer, however, is not impressed with Ryck’s past accomplishments, and Ryck finds himself struggling to fulfill his CO’s expectations.

The Galactic Empire disappeared a lifetime ago. Jake Stewart doesn't care, he needs to earn a living. He fled his station in the outer Belt, enrolled in the merchant academy, and snagged a scholarship. The future looks bright. But a crooked boss, some paperwork shenanigans, and a freeloading best friend put him in a bind. When he's accused of a murder he didn't commit he goes on the run from the Planetary Militia. There's only his wits and a suspiciously helpful pretty girl between him and jail. Can he trust her to prove his innocence? Or does she have another agenda?

Durante mil años han caído las cenizas y nada florece. Durante mil años los skaa han sido esclavizados y viven sumidos en un miedo inevitable. Durante mil años el Lord Legislador reina con un poder absoluto gracias al terror, a sus poderes y a su inmortalidad. Le ayudan "obligadores" e "inquisidores", junto a la poderosa magia de la alomancia. Pero los nobles a menudo han tenido trato sexual con jóvenes skaa y, aunque la ley lo prohíbe, algunos de sus bastardos han sobrevivido y heredado los poderes alománticos: son los "nacidos de la bruma" (mistborn).

A parent should never have to bury a child. Lydia and Wade Jones live a simple life with their daughter, Adeline, in the rural countryside of southeastern Virginia. But when Adeline passes in a devastating accident, Lydia’s life falls apart and her perception of reality is altered forever.

Along the Janus String, which connects ever more distant planets from Old Earth, exploration has stalled out on Redwood, a world filled with giant trees and animals. The State has prohibited colonization, and human activity is limited to a one square kilometer city. Marcus Savitch, a Servant of the State, suffers from hematophagia, a condition requiring him to feed on blood. He finds himself in the midst of a revolution against the State throughout the string. Following the revolution, Marcus and his friends travel to New Texas. There, the remnants of the State send terrorists and assassins...

Emperor Wolf Mathison has given Feng permission to build a SCBI-equipped legion. Composed of ODT, Guard, and Fleet loyalists, they will follow the Emperor and Stathis in the fight against the vanhat… but is it too little, too late? The vanhat are about to deploy their elite cohorts—millions of fierce warriors that have been sleeping in tombs, waiting for the call to battle. And they aren’t worried about SCBI-equipped troops, because they have sentient implants of their own.

Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force and supporting arms, and carrying only a day's water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future 75 light-years from home.

Dev Cameron helped the rebel Confederation defeat the Hegemony forces at Herakles, but his experience merging with an alien Naga consciousness has changed him irrevocably, and the rebellion rages on. After the passive DalRiss unexpectedly attack the Hegemony, Dev and Katya Alessandro are sent to meet with the aliens to determine if they have a common enemy.

When an old enemy, long thought to be vanquished, reemerges in the war, humanity is plunged into chaos. The once-dim threat of the Charteans now intensifies with the arrival of a rogue human faction that has aligned itself with the emperor. Human-on-human combat—an unthinkable nightmare—threatens to erupt as Jason Renault takes command of a force that never intended to fight their own kind. As the gravity of their situation sinks in, the alliance faces a daunting dilemma: how do they confront this unprecedented threat without shattering the spirits of their warriors? Then, as if to ...

Two-fisted action and adventure across the Multiverse. The Many Worlds: Alternate Earths where history played out differently, magic or superhuman abilities exist, the future is here and humans must battle hostile aliens, or entities of myth and legend are alive and active in the affairs of humankind. Four tales of heroic action, epic fantasy, military science fiction and alternate history. A Land of Gods and Monsters: Will was a divorced, unemployed loser who lived only to play his favorite roleplaying game, until one day he died and woke up in the body of his player character. Trapped in ...