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Stealing Spaceships: For Fun and Profit


Logan Jacobs - 2019
    A ladies’ man, a rogue, a rebel, a gambler, a drinker, and a fighter. His ship is reputed to be the fastest vessel in the galaxy, and it traversed the Strait of Jiltar in record time. He is a living legend. And I am going to rob him blind. Because that’s what I do: I steal spaceships for fun and profit.

Diamond Age, or, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson Summary & Study Guide


BookRags - 2011
    89 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more – everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Diamond Age, or, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.

Saturn Run: by John Sandford & Ctein | Summary & Analysis


Book*Sense - 2015
    Depicting international intrigue and a view of the near future that is simultaneously hopeful and chilling, it is well worth reading. The near-future setting allows for easy extrapolation of current technological and commercial practice, as well as political alignments, making the context of the novel more easily accessible. John Sandford and Ctein’s novel details the accidental discovery of extra-solar space travelers in orbit around Saturn and the responses of major world governments – those of the United States and China – thereto. The two powers deploy their full spacefaring resources to meet and learn from the travelers, each hoping to secure advantage over the rest of the world thereby. The United States ultimately triumphs, although not without cost, and not without ramifications for future generations in the Sol system and beyond. The novel offers its readers an enjoyable romp through the near future of Earth. While it may at times seem to drag against minutiae or against open philosophizing, it also contains much action and intrigue, offering a vision of what may be to come. This companion includes the following: • Book Review • Story Setting Analysis • Story elements you may have missed as we decipher the novel • Summary of the text, with some analytical comments interspersed • Thought Provoking /or Discussion Questions for both Readers & Book Clubs • Discussion & Analysis of Themes, Symbols… • And Much More! This Analysis fills the gap, making you understand more while enhancing your reading experience.

... and they are us


Patrick McClafferty - 2014
    Voracious and relentlessly, the Creednax consume everything in their path, including people, planets and themselves if necessary. Only the Rose of the Dawn has the smallest chance of stopping them — if the abducted captain and shanghaied crew can figure out how to run the alien ship in time. Unfortunately, time is the one thing they don’t have.

The Mystic Saga


Scott McElhaney - 2012
    Here you’ll find Indentured, Legacy, and Violation in a single affordable edition. Indentured introduces you to the crew of the USS Pioneer – the world’s first superluminal spacecraft. It eventually leaves you with a question as to what happened to the majority of the crew of that ship when it became stranded in the Beta Hydri system.Legacy brings you the tale of those descendants of the original Pioneer colony in the Beta Hydri System, introducing for the first time, the Mystics. When Legacy is invaded by a fleet of spacecraft, the primitive colony, nine-hundred years in the making, reacts in the only way it knows how. When it comes to the Mystics, this reaction could be quite deadly.Violation finishes up the overall “introduction” to the true Mystic Saga, bringing you the tale of about a dozen USSC assassins sent to a 1940’s Earth. Their sole purpose is to slip in, kill their list of targets, and slip out as quietly as possible. Unfortunately, a disgruntled soldier and a vengeful Mystic raise a significant amount of ruckus along the way.

Eve Of War


R.L. Giddings - 2020
    His old enemy, the Yakutians, having risen from defeat, are now in the ascendancy. And with their warships making cruel in-roads into Confederation space, the Admiralty is in desperate need of Faulkner’s experience.It’s a call he can’t refuse.Eve of War is the first book in the Silver Fleet series with books 2 and 3 to be published in the Spring of 2020. If you love Old Man’s War and Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet books you’ll love this epic military sci-fi series.

Mercenary Warden


Miles Rozak - 2020
    Betrayal will make him a legend. Eleven years after the invasion, the galaxy lives in an uneasy peace and Chandler Vail has been changed by war. A killing machine with no battlefield, now he works for a PMC in Special Operations. But when he’s sent to extract a runaway, and the kid dies at the hands of mysterious hitmen, he tracks the killers to a utopian mega-ship built for the galaxy’s wealthy. What he discovers onboard is nothing short of terrifying. Passengers and crew alike show up dead in gruesome, unexplained ways. Outside access to its hatches are sealed, and all contact with the flight deck’s been lost. The ship is flying to a heading unknown… And every person onboard wants him dead. Descending into a fight for survival, soon he discovers an enemy onboard with shocking ties to his past… And a stranglehold on the galaxy. Mercenary Warden is the first scifi thriller in the Shadow Empire series. If you like the gritty combat of The Last Reaper, the camaraderie of Galaxy's Edge, or the fun of The Mandalorian, you won’t be able to stop reading this new action-packed scifi adventure.

The Ascension Myth Boxed Set: Awakened, Activated, Called, Sanctioned


Ell Leigh Clarke - 2018
    How Molly has survived military life this long, we'll never know. When her implanted computer interface is hacked by a nascent AI, Molly has to escape. Between the militaries' high tech security shields and advanced personnel protocols, it makes getting out in one piece for Molly nigh on impossible.What’s more, her new “companion” has a spunky attitude which only complicates matters further. And her biggest problem? The swiftest and most efficient way to get out is also the most embarrassing.  This Boxed Set Includes the first four books in The Ascension Myth Awakened Activated Called Sanctioned

The Galactic Sentinel: Ultimate Edition - 1500+ Pages - 4 Books - And More


Killian Carter - 2020
    

Acheron Rising: A Federation Chronicles Novella


Ken Lozito - 2020
    Commander Elias Browning's military career was over, or so he thought.When a secret research colony is discovered by a ruthless enemy, Elias must take command of a small battlegroup.Outclassed and outgunned, Elias must find a way to stop a superior enemy fleet from enslaving his people, but how can he succeed where every other star union in the galaxy has failed?Acheron Rising is a military science fiction novella that introduces the Federation Chronicles universe by Ken Lozito.

Battle Lines


Chris Hechtl - 2015
    But he returned changed, he had lost one of his AI to rampancy after fighting an Xeno AI Wraith, and his greatest AI, his confidant Commander Sprite had chosen to leave him. He didn't return to civilization alone however. He brought with him over a hundred precious sleepers, officers and enlisted personnel ready to help rebuild the Federation once more, along with petabytes of precious blueprints and data, designed by some of the greatest minds of the Federation. But before they can begin to forge a new fleet they have to stop the rampaging Horathian Empire in it's tracks. Rear Admiral Amadeus White has been assigned to push the enemy back and keep them back while Admiral Irons and Subert work on building new ships. Admiral Subert has his own problems to deal with in Pyrax. He needs time, time to adjust, time to clean up the mess. Time to build more ships. But the enemy within and without won't wait. Napoleon said it best, "You can ask me for anything but not time!" The Battle Lines have been drawn!