Space Epic

As the mysterious signal coming from the waystations counts down, only one thing is for certain: something is coming, and if the fractured factions of the galaxy can’t find a way to stand against it together, it may be the end for them all.

What if the galaxy’s deadliest weapon isn’t a blade or a beam, but the note your heart chooses to sing? Sixteen-year-old Jameus Aldren has never left the monastery-station of D’cairn. The night his father battles illness, rival ground forces from Orsina and Thaya land on the hidden moon of Oratorio—each convinced an ancient relic called the Uninstrument can win their war. Into the chaos strides the ex-monk–turned–warlord Malkeos, intent on forging the relic into a symphony of domination. With only a flame-etched token, his father’s notebook, and unlikely allies—renegade ...

Diplomacy is the bane of Bud's life these days.

As riots rage across the Human Federation space, what he'd been told on Sanctuary accelerates. Everyone wants his help.

The consequences of losing your temper for a moment grow with your power.

But is this a good thing or bad? Only time will tell, but suddenly everything seems to be happening at once.

Thorn is back! The guilty will be punished. The war they dismissed as nonsense is now raging. Jen needs Thorn. The military want Thorn. Thorn is older and wiser, and he doesn't care what anyone wants. He has a better hold on his growing power, or so he thinks. The war calls, but there is unfinished business to attend to on the way. Unanswered questions lead in strange directions, and a war for no reason, is only part of the mystery. But through everything, Thorn carries two themes. The guilty will be punished, and there will be peace! Yesterday was just the start.

An ancient power grows. An empire makes a desperate gamble. One man sells his soul to rescue the woman he loves. All paths intersect in the saga’s thrilling final chapter … Many months after a stunning turn of events reshaped the Collectorate, Michael Cooper has become a killing machine ready to do anything to find his beloved Samantha, who endures her own struggle 465 light-years away. Michael puts his hope in a staggering new technology with the potential to alter humanity forever. Across the galaxy, James and Valentin Bouchet have led their people to a new home world, but their ...

After forty years, S.P. Somtow has produced a fifth novel in the Chronicles of the High Inquest, one of the most lauded galactic empire epics of the 1980s. Critically acclaimed yet never previously in print as a complete set, the series has passionate adherents — and they have finally persuaded the author to enrich the universe with more novels. Homeworld of the Heart is the first of a trilogy within a trilogy. The songs of Sajit were known and loved through the million worlds of the Dispersal of Man. He was the favorite of Elloran, most powerful, most compassionate of the godlike ...

In a galaxy where the fabric of reality can be bent and shaped by a privileged few, and almost any skill desired is a mere injection away, one young man is thrust into the fight of his life. Tane, a hydroponics farmer with some mad cereal crop gene-splicing skills, decides to get chipped. The operation gives him full control over his autonomic nervous and endocrine systems, plus the ability to install custom memories. All seems well until a couple of days later aliens come knocking at his door. And they aren't the friendly type.

As Cluster opens, the alien envoy Pnotl of Sphere Knyfh seeks help from Sphere Sol in a shared galactic-level crisis: Galaxy Andromeda has discovered the secret of energy transfer and intends to use it to steal the basic energy of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Knyfh offers the secret of aura transfer on the understanding that Sphere Sol will spread the technology to help create a galactic coalition to find and defeat agents of Andromeda.

Michael Hollister killed his father 88 times to avenge the dark acts visited upon him. When he was sent to Hartfield Academy, he adopted an entirely new family, including a brother, Max. Almost 40 years after he arrived at the academy, Michael and Max still live their quiet life where they shape boys into men and men into soldiers. A trip to the war memorials in Washington D.C. turns out to be too much for Max and he begins to fade. Max has always depended on Michael for everything, but in the end, who is really depending on who?

There's no such thing as a nice clean war. If fighting a war which might never end wasn't enough, now the Imperium has a new enemy. But now promoted to be a genuine squadron leader, Bud finds himself leading more than his squadron. Just how complicated can war get? Is the enemy of your enemy really your enemy? Or can their enemy become your friend while you're still at war with each other? Even in the middle of a brand new war, Bud finds people who think they know better about what he should be doing.

It is the 147th century. In the radically advanced post-human worlds of the Amaranthine Firmament, there is a contender to the Immortal throne: Aaron the Long-Life, the Pretender, a man who is not quite a man. In the barbarous hominid kingdoms of the Prism Investiture, where life is short, cheap, and dangerous, an invention is born that will become the Firmament's most closely kept secret.

Kelver had been chosen by a heretic to be the chosen one who would bring down a galactic empire that had lasted twenty thousand years and controlled a million worlds. He was sent to Uran s’Varek, the vast artificial sphere build around the black hole at the heart of the galaxy, to be trained in the ways of the High Inquest, the godlike elite who ruled the known universe. Instead, he fell in love with the beautiful, cruel White Inquestrix Siriss, and the violet-eyed boy Arryk — was entranced by the singing city of Shentrazjit — wept at the sepulcher of worlds — made love in a desert ...

Following Jim’s audacious plan, Kurt and a team of Marines traveled to the future to destroy Voltex. However, in doing so, they inadvertently started a chain reaction that ended with the extermination of all life in the universe. Now our heroes must get together one last time to save the universe, before it is too late.

NOMADS LEGACY 3 - Aseera Play for Time The Scavengers under Zebulon Greenwood are permanently on the road, carrying out salvage and transport missions. Aseera and her companions want to leave Sculpa Trax for good with the help of this small troop; to make their way to the remaining Zimaroo forces. What at first sounds like a simple mission for Captain Greenwood, turns more and more into a hell trip with catastrophic consequences for the crew of the Rimmon. Greenwood’s ship is one of the fastest in the galaxy, but all its potential is worthless this time. And Leon Petrov is playing a ...

Old. Defeated. Heartbroken. A young girl, his new and only friend, is taken. The reclusive ex-Edo Mushur Cail Otan fled to a back-water planet after a series of heart-breaking events. Withdrawn from life, he refuses to form relationships with the locals until a tenacious young girl befriends him. She is kidnapped, along with the rest of her village, and suddenly Cail is thrown back into galactic affairs, where The Dominion wages war upon the weakened Commonwealth and the Skave and Zhur Thoggu follow their own nefarious plans. Having sworn to forgo his Astral powers, Cail struggles to rescue...

Reeve has continued his war against the gods, building his empire and gathering his forces against the storm to come. They have built new ships, developed new technologies, and brought in new recruits. His friends and budding family are now in a better position than ever to create a galaxy safe for their own—even if that means conquering it in its entirety. Even with the developments on the material and science fronts, Reeve has been found lacking in his war against the gods and their machinations for the total annihilation of the universe.

A complicated war is about to get a lot more complicated. And Bud's brought it on himself. There's no end in sight to either the Rawtenuga or Trixone wars. And the search for the dinosaur home world is proving just how big the galaxy is, especially where it's not properly mapped. The enemy keep popping up in too many places, and as fast as the sensor network expands, they seem to have expanded faster.

Unity. Deceit. War. Katrice Wylde has been many things in her life, but an ambassador who uses her body as a bargaining chip never made her bucket list. But, here she is anyway, as head Stewardess and sister-in-law Tia come asking for a favor. Kat is the only one with the strength, skill, want, and of course access to an AI that Tia can ask for this dangerous task ahead. Being a Stewardess grants Kat access to the prestigious Earth Empire’s Unity Day celebration where conquered treasures will be put on display. One of which being Tia’s lost Key. Kat now has to follow down a path she ...

The stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Ancillary Justice. For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as Breq. Then a search of Atheok Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist - someone who might be an ancillary from a ship that's been hiding beyond the empire's reach for three thousand years.

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, ...