Space Epic

When revealed, the truth is as sharp as any blade, able to change everything in an instant. Indentured servitude was not on Katrice’s bucket list, but there she is, a year later with the final payment in hand. With everything that happened a year ago still fresh in her mind she’s eager to put it all behind her. Her former owner gives her one last task, as thank you for her service. The job, escort the Stewardess Tia to a distant frontier planet. Transporting a government liaison like a Stewardess is normally an easy job, but Tia chose Kat for a reason. One that morphs their simple ...

NOMADS LEGACY - Aseera 2 - Friend and Foe When Aseera Dako and her friends get their hands on an old battleship, they know the time has come to get even with the hated Gulduri. They receive the chance to cut off the head of the snake. Before that, however, they must find out the intentions of the crew of an Imperial corvette that has unexpectedly landed on the harbour world of Sculpa Trax. On board are an employee of the Imperial Bureau of Antiquities and an experienced antiquities dealer. It’s not yet clear whether the Imperials pose a threat as they set off in search of millennia-old ...

It was bad enough when Henghis Hapthorn, Old Earth's foremost discriminator and die-hard empiricist, had to accept that the cosmos was shortly to rewrite its basic operating system, replacing rational cause-and-effect with detestable magic. Now he finds himself cast forward several centuries, stranded in a primitive world of contending wizards and hungry dragons, and without his magic-savvy alter ego.

Stella Ainsley leaves poverty behind when she quits her engineering job aboard the Stalwart to become a governess on a private ship. On the Rochester, there’s no water ration, more books than one person could devour in a lifetime, and an AI who seems more friend than robot. But no one warned Stella that the ship seems to be haunted, nor that it may be involved in a conspiracy that could topple the entire interstellar fleet.

There are some days when you should just stay in bed. Jon Hunter begins to realize this, as the consequences of saying yes, when he should have said no, begin to add up. The trouble with making tech advances, is someone will always come up with a counter eventually. And when this occurs on one of those days you should have stayed in bed, the cosmos tends to demonstrate just how many ways things can actually go wrong. But time is ticking away. The door to Jon's home, and all the answers he so desperately wants, is soon to open.

Triana Moore, maintenance bot technician on Station Kelly-Kornienko, prefers life in orbit where the air is purified, the commute is short, and nature doesn’t get all over you. But when a minor infraction gets her sent to remedial training dirtside, she doesn’t complain. Who wouldn’t enjoy a few days of sitting in the sunshine, eating gourmet burgers, and drinking too much Jager Hula?

A young adult sci-fi military thriller with a touch of fairytale romance! Nick falls semi-conscious and bleeding into the sea...then as a shark approaches from behind... something whisks him away... A love story that begins on Earth during a military conflict and continues across the galaxy to save a princess and her planet on the brink of invasion. When Naia, a galactic princess, visits Earth as a mermaid to save her dying brother Asher, the emperor of Midora, she saves Nick, a navy seal, from a shark attack and falls in love. Now her treasonous betrothed, Lassiter, in line for the throne,...

Rotha Blackwell, Deputy Marshal and acting personal bodyguard for General Athers, a charismatic and well-respected wartime prophet-historian, does his job well. However, in the midst of split factions, civil war, and a plague of cybernetic alien monsters known as the Scythe, which threaten to annihilate the human race from existence, can Rotha effectively safeguard the man? Upon Athers’ back, fate, a legion of hateful dissenters, and an innumerable horde of deadly Acrids have painted a target. Prophecy may protect the defender, but can one’s skill with a blaster, battlefield strategy, ...

The Senate is in chaos. The Republic is falling from within, a corrupted shell around a rotted core. Abhorrent espers control humans like pawns. The Republic Navy is in open rebellion. The Tyche rides solar wind, seeking allies. If they don’t find them, humanity will fall. An ancient transmission is discovered from beyond the charted edge of the hard black. It is not Ezeroc, who need no technology to communicate. Grace Gushiken and Nathan Chevell take the free trader Tyche on a desperate mission. Find the source of the signal, and with it, hope.

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Grace Gushiken is a grifter and a liar. Worse, she's an esper, an abhorrent creation of the Old Empire, on the run from the Republic's justice. Nathan Chevell captains the free trader Tyche. He's no pirate, but he's no white knight either. There’s no business in helping strays. Thrown together on a mission to the edge of space, they find the doomed planet Absalom Delta deserted, its people enslaved by the insect-like Ezeroc. The aliens have descended like locusts on humanity, consuming all in their path. No one is safe. Even the Republic Navy is powerless against them.

Without apparent reasons the Astral galaxy has been invaded by enormous and powerful unknown, cruel and devastating breed’s fleets, unexpectedly emerging from deep space. A concocted galactic coalition intends to resist, but the proud fleets from those who were up to that point, ancient and respected empires, are mercilessly swept away, battle after battle, while their systems and planets are conquered Inexorably From the Espacia Planet, in the Solarian System located nearby the galactic edge, a young but very advanced breed will secretly send a small expedition to the distant Lumina ...

In the year 2045, Earth teeters on the brink of destruction, facing a deadly invasion from the Void Reapers, a terrifying alien force. Amidst the chaos, an unexpected ally emerges—an advanced alien race known as the Luminians. Enter Dr. Zara Chen, a brilliant astrophysicist who volunteers to represent humanity and bridge the gap between Earth and its mysterious new allies. As Earth’s survival hangs in the balance, Zara must work alongside Arxon, the Luminians’ lead strategist, to unlock the ultimate planetary defense system. But as the clock ticks, their partnership evolves into a ...

"I'm not in the rescue business," states Jonathon Hunter, to the amusement of his crew. But rescues are the least of his concerns. Darkness is coming, and there are still people out there who don't like him. The Sirius system has always fascinated Jon, and he is drawn to solve its mysteries. But what is the price of being curious? Can one simple step cause what you dread the most? Is it possible to do one too many rescues? To take one step too far into the unknown?

REVELATIONS After the failed attack on the world Barathan, Zurak and his followers take refuge on a remote base in the middle of an ocean. Dominic Porter and his comrades soon find out that the apparently so benevolent Akkato are hiding a terrible secret... NOMADS. This is what the humans are called by the many races of the Milky Way. As survivors and refugees, they try to assert themselves among the cultures of the galaxy, which is called ASGAROON by its inhabitants. Some of them have managed to make a name for themselves in the feudal society of ASGAROON. Others eke out an existence as ...

Paladins are supposed to exist in stories and games, right? That’s what galactic space smuggler Guy Sutherland thought, too. Now he’s a Paladin. It started when he held an ancient sword, brimming with strange magic. Things got weird after that, like stat screens listing his nifty skills and attributes. The planet of Faeheim is undergoing the same change. A wave of energy is changing the world, assigning classes and levels to the fae, turning animals into monsters, and spurring the empire to commit multiple atrocities.

Voria, Aran, and Nara survived their trip into the Umbral Depths. They retrieved the Talon and are now searching for the First Spellship, the key to victory in their war against the Krox. Their search leads them to Virkonna, the home of the Last Dragonflight, a world where dragons still rule. The world where Aran was born. Aran's past finally catches up with him, and he is forced to answer for killing Khalahk. The Wyrms demand he undergo a March of Honor, a brutal trek that few survive. Nara must not only accept Aran's fate but use it as a distraction to locate the First Spellship.

With the Primus Elites' training almost complete, Wil and his men relocate to H2 to make their final preparations. Everything seems to be staged for a swift TSS victory over the Bakzen as Wil assumes the position of TSS Supreme Commander with Saera and his most trusted friends by his side. But Tek won't let the Bakzen go down easily. He will find Wil's greatest weakness and do anything to make him crumble. The generations-old war began as a feud of races and ideals, but, with this fight, it's personal.

After the encounter with the merciless Ezeroc on Absalom Delta, Grace Gushiken and Nathan Chevell make a run for home. They have a new mission: to warn humanity. Aliens are real. And they are already among us. The crew of the free trader Tyche are hunted by men in black, fearsome fighters who share the Ezeroc’s powers. When the Tyche lands on Earth the ship’s placed on lockdown. Her crew are scattered and on the run. Without their ship or friends, Grace and Nate have no escape.

A magnificent combination of space opera and epic fantasy quest in the beloved science fantasy tradition of Andre Norton and C. J. Cherryh, author Jo Clayton’s masterful Diadem Saga begins with an unforgettable tale of destiny, self-discovery, survival, and an extraordinary young woman’s coming of age in a world that is not her own.