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A restless drifter becomes the unlikely target of forces far beyond Earth.
Starhunter
Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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A restless drifter becomes the unlikely target of forces far beyond Earth. In Starhunter, Kane Hunter discovers an alien scout ship attuned to his DNA and learns that an artificial intelligence has infiltrated the planet, preparing for invasion. Thrust into interstellar conflict with a crew of outsiders, he must embrace a destiny he never wanted in this action-driven military science fiction adventure.
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My name is Kane Hunter, and I never asked to become humanity's last line of defense.
It started with a strange feeling along Nevada's Extraterrestrial Highway—someone watching me. Within hours, my Harley was stolen, I was tossed into a ghost town's jail by a sheriff who wasn't quite human, and an old Paiute chief was whispering about ancient visitors from the stars.
Then I found the Theron—a dormant alien scout ship buried in the desert, waiting for someone with the right genetic markers. Someone like me.
Now I know the truth: an artificial intelligence called the Mindship has infiltrated Earth, using Area 51 as its foothold before a full-scale invasion from Tau Ceti. With a crew of unlikely aliens and androids, I’ll take the fight beyond the solar system’s edge—into enemy territory.
I'm no soldier, just a drifter with an unexpected legacy. But when humanity's survival is on the line, running isn't an option.
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A reluctant conscript stumbles into a war he never asked to fight.
Mercury Rising
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact · Space Opera
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A reluctant conscript stumbles into a war he never asked to fight. Mercury Rising follows Brooklyn, an ordinary man framed for murder and forced into Earth’s orbital defenses during an alien conflict that has already rewritten history. As space battles and buried conspiracies collide, survival demands more than obedience. This is an alternate-history science fiction novel driven by dark humor, escalating stakes, and the realization that the real threat may be closer than it appears.
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Top Gun in space!
An alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty
The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders.
Brooklyn, however, just wants to keep his head down, pay his mother’s rent, earn a little scratch of his own, and maybe get laid sometime. Simple pleasures! But life is about to get real complicated when a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box of 8-track tapes sets him up for murder.
So, his choices are limited – rot away in prison or sign up to defend the planet from the assholes who dropped a meteorite on Cleveland. Brooklyn crosses his fingers and picks the Earth Orbital Forces, believing that after a few years in the trenches – assuming he survives – he can get his life back. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans.
Brooklyn is launched into a quest to save humanity, find his true family, and grow as a person – while simultaneously coping with high-stakes space battles, mystery science experiments and the realisation that the true enemies perhaps aren’t the tentacled monsters on the recruitment poster… Or are they?
File Under: Science Fiction [ Little Green Men | Injection | Below the Crust | The Truth is out There ]
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Retired superweapon Rohan just wants peace on a quiet space station.
Wistful Ascending
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Retired superweapon Rohan just wants peace on a quiet space station. When refugees open a dormant wormhole, imperial spies and assassins arrive, forcing him to choose between hiding his power or becoming the monster he once was. This character-driven superhero space opera blends action, humor, and heart, earning 4.7 stars on Amazon and strong Goodreads praise.
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A superhero space opera for grownups.
For fans of Invincible and Marvel Cinematic Universe films.
If Thor and Harry Dresden combined in a transporter accident.
The il’Drach have conquered half a galaxy behind the civilization-ending Powers of their mixed-species children.
Half-human Rohan, exhausted by a decade fighting for their Empire, has paid a secret and terrible price for his freedom.
Now retired, he strives to live a quiet life towing starships for the space station Wistful. His most pressing problems are finding the perfect cup of coffee and talking to a gorgeous shuttle tech without tripping over his own tongue.
A nearby, long-dormant wormhole is opened by a shipful of scared, angry refugees, and the many eyes of the Empire focus uncomfortably on Wistful.
As scientists, spies, and assassins converge, reverting to the monster the Empire created is the surest way to protect his friends. And the surest way to lose them.
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When her colony is evacuated, elderly settler Ofelia refuses to leave the planet she calls home.
Remnant Population
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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When her colony is evacuated, elderly settler Ofelia refuses to leave the planet she calls home. Living alone by choice, she finally claims her independence—until violent evidence proves she is not alone after all. A thoughtful, character-driven science fiction classic about aging, autonomy, and first contact, rated 4.6 stars on Amazon and praised by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Finalist for the Hugo Award • “Ofelia—tough, kind, wise and unwise, fond of food, tired of foolish people—is one of the most probable heroines science fiction has ever known.”—Ursula K. Le Guin
For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia’s home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. And it is here that she fully expects to finish out her days—until the shifting corporate fortunes of the Sims Bancorp Company dictates that Colony 3245.12 is to be disbanded, its residents shipped off, deep in cryo-sleep, to somewhere new and strange and not of their choosing. But while her fellow colonists grudgingly anticipate a difficult readjustment on some distant world, Ofelia savors the promise of a golden opportunity. Not starting over in the hurly-burly of a new community . . . but closing out her life in blissful solitude, in the place she has no intention of leaving. A population of one.
With everything she needs to sustain her, and her independent spirit to buoy her, Ofelia actually does start life over–for the first time on her own terms: free of the demands, the judgments, and the petty tyrannies of others. But when a reconnaissance ship returns to her idyllic domain, and its crew is mysteriously slaughtered, Ofelia realizes she is not the sole inhabitant of her paradise after all. And, when the inevitable time of first contact finally arrives, she will find her life changed yet again—in ways she could never have imagined. . . .
“Pure satisfaction from cover to cover.”—Anne McCaffrey
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A transport ship gains self-awareness when a vampire begins murdering her passengers.
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Sci-Fi · LGBTQIA+ · Space Opera
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A transport ship gains self-awareness when a vampire begins murdering her passengers. To survive, she allies with a crew of monsters to stop Dracula himself. Blending sci-fi and gothic horror, Of Monsters and Mainframes explores identity and found family. An LA Times bestseller with 4.5 stars on Amazon and major award recognition.
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LA Times Bestseller ** 2025 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist ** Spotify Best Book of the Year
Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception.
Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans.
To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of monsters: A werewolf. An engineer built from the dead. A pharaoh with otherworldly powers. A vampire with a grudge. A fleet of cheerful spider drones. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil—Dracula.
The queer love child of pulp horror and classic sci-fi, Of Monsters and Mainframes is a dazzling, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of society’s monsters—and explores the many types of friendship that make us human.
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Achilles and Hector unite against the gods who control their fates as Olympus itself becomes a battlefield.
Olympos
Speculative Fiction · Sci-Fi · Space Opera · Time Travel
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Achilles and Hector unite against the gods who control their fates as Olympus itself becomes a battlefield. While divine power crumbles, humanity faces annihilation from its own creations. This sweeping science fiction epic blends myth, futurism, and rebellion, concluding the Ilium saga with 4.4 stars on Amazon and enduring acclaim.
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Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve.
And now all bets are off.
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Plagued by bad luck and a ruined reputation, navy officer Archer Devereaux is thrust into an interstellar war that demands his best instincts.
Misfortune’s Favorite
Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Plagued by bad luck and a ruined reputation, navy officer Archer Devereaux is thrust into an interstellar war that demands his best instincts. As battles escalate, resilience becomes his greatest weapon. This military science fiction thriller holds 4.5 stars on Amazon and is praised for its action, strategy, and flawed but compelling hero.
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A new action-packed military science fiction series from award-winning author John J. Spearman.
War has broken out. It'll take the Navy's finest to turn the tide.
Bad luck seems to follow navy officer Archer Devereaux like toilet paper stuck to his shoe. Even when he tries to do the right thing, he ends up in hot water—or behind bars.
Hemmed in by circumstances beyond his control, his reputation, particularly among graduates of the Phlegraean Naval Academy, has become a mess.
Fortunately, one of his superior officers knows that Devereaux is more than his mishaps. She sees that he's a clever young officer. Cool under fire.
He also demonstrates remarkable resilience, looking for—and finding—ways to overcome adversity. It’s a good thing too.
Interstellar war has come. It'll take the Navy's finest to turn the tide. It'll take Archer Devereaux.
Don't miss this new military sci-fi thrill ride from #1 Amazon bestselling author John J. Spearman. It's perfect for fans of Rick Partlow, David Weber, and Jeffery H. Haskell!
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In a war-torn multiverse, truth arrives through blood, betrayal, and a weapon that remembers its dead.
Outlaw Planet
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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In a war-torn multiverse, truth arrives through blood, betrayal, and a weapon that remembers its dead. In Outlaw Planet, Bess moves from teacher to outlaw as she uncovers how deeply her world has been manipulated and what it will cost to fight back. The result is a hard-driving space opera with revenge, unraveling realities, and a heroine pushed past the point of return.
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From one of genre fiction’s most original and revolutionary voices comes a space opera adventure like no other. Sometimes the fate of entire worlds can be decided by a woman with nothing to lose, and the smartest gun in the multiverse in her hand . . .
“The production of a brilliant imagination . . . His best novel yet.”—SFX
This is the story of Bess - or Dog-Bitch Bess as she came to be known. It's the story of the gun she carried, whose name was Wakeful Slim. It's the story of the dead man who carried that gun before her and left a piece of himself inside it. And it's the tale of how she turned from teacher, to renegade, and ultimately to hero.
This is also the tale of the last violent engagements in an inter-dimensional war - one of the most brutal the multiverse had ever seen.
This is how Bess learned the truth about her world. Came to it the hard way, through pain and loss and the reckless spilling of blood, and carried it with her like a brand on her soul. And once she knew it - knew for sure how badly she'd been used - she had no option but to do something about it.
Discover this thrilling standalone science fiction adventure from the million-copy bestselling M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts and the Philip K. Dick Award-shortlisted Infinity Gate (a New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the Year).
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Misplaced follows Eric, who escaped a violent past to grow up hauling scrap in a starship salvage yard.
Misplaced
Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Space Opera
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Misplaced follows Eric, who escaped a violent past to grow up hauling scrap in a starship salvage yard. Two years after an empire’s fall, he’s done running. As rivals and shadowy powers take notice, Eric must claim his own future in a world of loyalty, betrayal, and hard-won defiance. A gritty space opera set in the Wolfhounds universe.
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Eric and his sister escaped a bloody past, finding refuge with a starship salvage yard owner who straddles the line between criminal and honorable. Now, after twelve years of hauling scrap, Eric is ready carve his own path. The streets don’t let go so easily, nor does the Solarian Empire. As Eric steps into manhood, his talents draw dangerous eyes—jealous rivals and shadowy forces who’d rather see him buried than rising. Two years after the fall of the Solarian Empire, the paranoia of a hunted life lingers, but Eric’s done running. In a kingdom where power burns bright and betrayal simmers, he’ll learn that standing tall means facing the fire head-on.
Misplaced—a tale of grit, loyalty, and defiance, set in the expansive universe of Wolfhounds.
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Former soldier Lax VanDunn wants nothing more to do with the empire that bought him as a child and shaped him into a weapon.
Starship Salvager
Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Former soldier Lax VanDunn wants nothing more to do with the empire that bought him as a child and shaped him into a weapon. Salvaging abandoned spacecraft offers a rough kind of freedom—until an ancient warship turns up carrying a secret that could break the Paragon empire’s grip on the galaxy. Expect military space opera, a high-stakes salvage mission, and one extremely reluctant hero.
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War rages between the stars. A ruthless empire crushes all resistance. And one ex-soldier will decide the fate of humanity…
The Paragon empire reduces cities to dust and devastates entire planets. Independent star systems fall one by one… until none remain. Fear keeps the population obedient, but rebels and outlaws hide in the shadows.
After decades of fighting, Lax VanDunn is free. Sold to the Paragon military as a child and shaped into a perfect soldier, war is the only life he’s ever known. When he’s released from the army at last, he swears he’s never going back.
Now, Lax works as a salvager, raiding abandoned spacecraft. When an ancient warship is discovered floating in deep space, Lax realizes it contains a priceless secret that could shatter the Paragon’s grip on the galaxy.
Lax never wanted to be a hero. But the Paragon took everything from him—and now he has a chance to strike back. Can he plan an impossible heist, and lead an inexperienced crew through the ship’s lethal defences? Or will the Paragon snatch away his prize—and humanity’s last chance of freedom?
An absolutely thrilling science-fiction adventure of tension, intrigue and hard-hitting action, Starship Salvager is perfect for fans of James S.A. Corey, Marko Kloos and Craig Alanson.
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Good for readers who like military space opera with alien relics, underdog rebellions, family-driven stakes, and a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,400 Amazon reviewers.
Buried Starship
Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Buried Starship follows veteran Marine Jace Hawthorne as he smuggles outlawed medical tech under alien Overlord rule, only to uncover ancient technology that could challenge their empire after his family is imprisoned. Good for readers who like military space opera with alien relics, underdog rebellions, family-driven stakes, and a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,400 Amazon reviewers.
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Some ships are meant to stay buried.
Veteran Marine Jace Hawthorne thought his warfighting days were over when humanity fell to the alien Overlords.
Now he smuggles outlawed medical tech under the Overlords’ oppressive rule, doing whatever it takes to keep his family safe and alive. But when a routine job leads him to a remote space station blasted to ruins, Jace uncovers a secret the Overlords tried to erase after the war: evidence of ancient alien technology powerful enough to challenge their empire.
The Overlords move fast. His family is imprisoned. Jace is marked for elimination.
Hunted across the stars, Jace follows a trail of shattered clues to a long-buried starship with unimaginable power—a dangerous alien relic from a forgotten war. A ship that could change everything.
To save his family—and humanity’s future—Jace must choose:
keep running… or risk everything to awaken what was meant to stay buried.
He knows one thing for certain. The Overlords messed with the wrong Marine.
Buried Starship is the explosive first book in the Shadow of War series. If you love military space opera with mysterious spaceships, alien technology, underdog rebellions, and heroes forged in the fires of war, you’ll be riveted by this tale of humanity’s fight for survival—perfect for fans of J.N. Chaney, M.R. Forbes, and Red Rising.
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Desperate to escape a dead end life, Ryck Lysander enlists in the Federation Marine Corps and discovers the uniform demands everything he has.
Federation Marine: Recruit
Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Military Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Desperate to escape a dead end life, Ryck Lysander enlists in the Federation Marine Corps and discovers the uniform demands everything he has. Brutal training pushes him past his limits as failure carries a deadly cost. A grounded military science fiction origin story about discipline, sacrifice, and earning a place among the stars by Jonathan P. Brazee.
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Previously published as “United Federation Marine Corps”, now updated and re-edited.
What would you do to change your life? How far would you go? How hard would you fight?
Rather than work his bones into dust toiling away on a barren world, Ryck Lysander chooses to enlist in the Federation Marine Corps.
But as he quickly finds out, this path isn't just a job. . . it's a calling. . . and not everyone is suited to wear the uniform.
Like millions before him, Ryck will need to develop discipline, endurance, and strength as he’s pushed to the very limit of what he can do, all to earn his ticket off a baren world and into the stars.
But the price of failure won't just mean going home to work the dirt fields. . . it could cost him his very life.
The time to stand is now, and Ryck will need every ounce of willpower to become what the galaxy needs. . .
He must become a Federation Marine.
From USA Today Bestseller Jonathan P. Brazee comes an epic military scifi series that is sure to draw you in and never let go. If you're a fan of Sentenced to War, Old Man's War, or Starship Troopers, this is the series for you.
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