Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But humanity has unknowingly trespassed on holy ground—straying into the path of the aggressive, theocratic empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter soon catapults all of mankind into a struggle for its very existence. But humanity is also currently locked in a bitter civil war of its own: the Insurrection. With resources strained to the breaking point, the ultimate survival of Harvest’s citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees. In this unlikely group of heroes, one will stand above the rest—a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson....

    This book does not contain any of the Dragonriders of Pern books.It is 56 pages of reprints of Wikipedia and other public domain online articles.

    Everyone had told her it would be easy—in and out.Then, the hostile aliens invaded.Now, she slaves away training and retooling a mining ship for war as part of the Star Defenders.All Vega wants is to get home to her family. So, when a chance at officers training opens up, she jumps at the opportunity for more freedom. But there are only five slots, and Vega must use all her planetborn skill to fight for her place.As if that wasn't enough, the ship's condition continues to worsen. "Accidents" may not be accidents. The lines between friends and enemies blur, and Vega realizes there's a lot more at stake than her chance at freedom.Fans of Aurora Rising, Ender’s Game, and Brandon Sander’s Skyward will devour this story of adventure, mystery, and friendship.

    While the political landscape for this new world is yet to form, intrigues, conspiracy, daring raids, and sabotage are the main weapons of the Hounds, and his evaluation has just begun. To complete it successfully and become a full-fledged member of the clan, Stan will have to adapt to working side-by-side with the most unique people with shady backgrounds — even if he is not a team player by nature and has already failed at the very beginning by choosing the least suitable class for teamwork: Battle Monk. Stan is rebellious, free-spirited, and daring. He risks his life every day just to avoid getting bored of the daily grind. Normally, an expelled student has no hope of entering the virtual world of Artar, an expensive online VR project, but when a suspicious organization offers to pay all expenses to let Stan in for a special purpose, Mongoose gets his chance to become one of the select few. However, to successfully complete his trial, Stan will have to face his main enemy — himself, while finding peace and mastering all five styles of the Battle Monks of Artar. *** The Steel Hounds is the first book of the highly popular Russian LitRPG series The Chronicles of Artar by Vladimir Vasilenko. The brightest representative of a new wave of gamelit writers, Vladimir has created the story of Mongoose, a reckless teenager kicked out of college, who has to struggle with following strict discipline and finding inner harmony while traversing the difficult path of a Battle Monk.

    -Royal Navy Motto Seventy years ago, the interstellar supercarrier Ark Royal was the pride of the Royal Navy. But now, her weapons are outdated and her solid-state armour nothing more than a burden on her colossal hull. She floats in permanent orbit near Earth, a dumping ground for the officers and crew the Royal Navy wishes to keep out of the public eye. But when a deadly alien threat appears, the modern starships built by humanity are no match for the powerful alien weapons. Ark Royal and her mismatched crew must go on the offensive, buying time with their lives. And yet, with a drunkard for a Captain, an over-ambitious first officer and a crew composed of reservists and the dregs of the service, do they have even the faintest hope of surviving......and returning to an Earth which may no longer be there?

    The dimensional gates open to another world, a world of magic, where our dreams of fantasy are real. The evil Emperor of the Ellala sees the millions of transplanted humans as soul energy to forward his scheme for immortality. He orders his armies to capture the newcomers, to place them in concentration camps where they can be harvested. But the Germans, French, Polish and other peoples or Earth have other ideas. With the help of their American allies and the modern weapons of war they will fight back against the magic of the evil elves, while gathering their own allies in the fight for survival. For they are seen by the native peoples as the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy. And they have brought immortals with them to this world. men and women of great power on Earth, who become true demigods on the new world. So it is tank against mage, attack helicopter against dragon, and nuclear warheads against impregnable fortress, as the humans must use their technology while they still have it, and gain a foothold on a world beyond their understanding.The first book of a series about the establishment of a human Empire on a world of magic, led by their immortal king, Book 2 is also out, book 3 in the winter of 2013.

    He is selected to act as her bodyguard during a political crisis in her land. Which isn't part of our Earth. Although tasked with keeping her out of trouble for forty-eight hours, Booker is finding Her Royal Princess Auralee to be a little more adventurous than he had expected. Join Runner Sterling Booker Wells as he attempts to keep the Elven Princess out of harm's way.

    Immortality means adventure. Life begins at seventy.Running on the world's fastest quantum computer is a very special game: one where retirees leave their flesh-and-blood lives in search of endless adventure. Weapons, spells, gold, experience points… These are the marks by which life is now measured.Ethan Crane wants none of it. In fact, he never wanted to retire at all, let alone play a game for all eternity. But now he's on a mission to find his wife—a wife he just discovered is still alive and inside the game.Nothing will stop him from reaching her. Not even himself.

    This science fiction adventure blends magic and technology with the adventures of Ruth, a normal human, pushed into extraordinary situations. Ruth’s transformation takes her from Earth to worlds and situations of which she never dreamed.

    desire blooms between two unlikely species, human female Dr. Jade to him as a gift in the form of a true Kalazaron captive. In taking her from the evil Commander Yun, Dalik protects Jade even though he sees her as a burden, but is surprised when he starts to desire and lust after her like no other female he has ever met. Now, he must risk everything to keep her safe... The ‘Kalazaron Blue Planet Warriors’ series, is a collection of six books that possess everything you want in a sci-fi alien romance with its alpha male alien warriors, action, intrigue and dramatic complex situations that will draw you into the world of the Kalazaron in a far away galaxy. Reading through the ‘Kalazaron Blue Planet Warriors’ series, you will move into the stars where another world exist, the blue planet called Kaethon. On this planet, complicated emotions drive the attachment between alien male warriors and human females as desires and love unfold in events that make them risk everything for lust and love, and it will leave you wanting more. Kalazaron Dalik (Blue Planet Warriors #1) Scientist Dr. Jade Roberts landed a position aboard a deep space mission to prove female scientists were just as good as the men. But when the Kalazaron, an alien race of dominant male warriors captures her, suddenly her new position becomes human female slave. Her only hope to survive is the attractive warrior Consulate, Dalik Moscurn, her new master.The ruthless Commander Yun was merciless when he took Jade’s ship, and now she sits in a cage waiting for his return. But when another warrior shows up with kind eyes and claims her, she learns she is the new gift to the newly appointed Consulate, Dalik Moscurn, much to the frustration of the evil Commander Yun. Jade is to be the gift to the new Consulate... Dalik Moscurn was groomed to become Consulate. Now, after winning the Stanis Trials, he has won more than just the Consulate position, a human female slave. Unlike other warriors, he has no interest in female slaves or taking any female for that matter, as he does not want distraction from his work to revamp the city systems. But when he is gifted Jade, she fascinates and distracts him like no other female he has ever met.But there’s a challenge up ahead, and both Dalik and Jade stand to lose everything to the ruthless Commander Yun. As they learn from each other, they soon realise that their bond may actually be worth giving up everything for. Kalazaron Rendor (Blue Planet Warriors #2) Medical doctor Lavender Prost was aboard a ship to conduct research and practice her passion for medicine. But when an alien race of dominate male warriors known as the Kalazaron change her life forever, she finds herself on a foreign planet under a constant danger of rebel attack. Her only hope is her new enemy, the attractive General Rendor Moscurn.The master of the Kalazaron, Master Bresh, allows Lavender to demonstrate her medical skills, and sends her to the outpost of Belevenreed to be afield doctor. But when she meets the General he has no plans to use her for her skills and does not give her a chance. She must prove herself the only way she knows how, if only the General would listen. Lavender is to be a re-constructionists... Rendor Moscurn was groomed to be a re-constructionists, or those in charge of fixing the injured and wounded. Now, after being forced into the position of General, he must leave his passion behind and is being asked to give a human female slave the chance to be what he can’t. Unlike Master Bresh, he does not think this female has the strength to be a re-constructionists in the dangerous outpost of Belvenreed. But when she proves herself in the field he must learn to deal with her defiant ways that he finds irresistible.But there’s danger ahead, Rendor has learned of a possible rebel attack, a big one. Lavender and Rendor must learn to work together to save lives, or risk losing the base to the rebels that are so near. As they work side by side, they find out that they make a good team, and not just in the battlefield... Kalazaron Korin (Blue Planet Warriors #3) Her beauty threatens his career, he is the only one that can save her life... After escaping a forced marriage on her home planet of Merton Loy, Silver Brooks longs to see Earth and be with her own human kind. However, she ends up on a strange cold blue planet inhabited by a dominant alien warrior race, the Kalazaron.She expected to become a slave captive. Yet, she didn’t expect to find passion.The Kalazaron warrior Korin Hafa is on a mission to rise to the ranks of General and will let nothing stand in his way. That is until he is assigned responsibility over the human female slave, Silver Brooks, whose presence threatens his career path.When Korin’s betrothed mate Lukah Bresh makes it her mission to remove Silver Brooks from Korin’s care and hand her over to the evil Commander Yun. Korin must choose between his career as a General and protecting the human.How will he choose between his life long work and a human he has only known for days? What will be the fate of Silver Brooks if she is transferred to Commander Yun? Will the growing passionate bond between human female and Kalazaron warrior be enough to make them both give up everything? Kalazaron Jaylin (Blue Planet Warriors #4) She was a strong soldier, but not strong enough to resist her match, an alien warrior... She was sent from Earth on a battle ship bound for war against her own kind, humans. Instead, Serena Swands found herself in a different war when the battleship was commandeered by Kalazaron Commander Jaylin Brakin.She was prepared for war. Yet, she didn’t expect it to break her heart.Commander Jaylin Brakin is on a mission to act as space pirate plundering the universe for weapons for his rebel base. But when he brings back more than just weapons to his home planet in the form of Serena Swands, he soon finds out she IS the weapon he finds irresistible.When Prana Qaboen befriends Serena and manipulates her into bedding him, Jaylin’s jealousy leads Prana to finally expose his true character. His actions threaten Serena’s life and the lives of every Kalazaron rebel and it is up to Jaylin to save them all!Will Commander Jaylin Brakin be able to save Serena and the entire rebel base from Prana’s actions? What will be the fate of Serena when she finds out that she is pregnant with a secret baby, and two Kalazarons could be the father? Will her skills as a soldier save the two warriors from death, and each other? Kalazaron Thaedon (Blue Planet Warriors #5) Can an alpha warrior Master and a curvy Italian human defy the ancient traditions of the Kalazaron to be together? Ella Capriccio has been working under the roof as a captive slave of the two mean Kalazaron sisters of the Loki family. When she is sent to market for the sisters’ spoiled needs, she meets a mysterious alpha warrior Thaedon. The muscular, blue warrior looks like a sexy rogue, but Ella has no intention of taking his advances seriously, when she knows that a warrior like him, should be with a Kalazaron female of high birth.Thaedon is a strong warrior, but also extremely intelligent, which helps him win the trials that make him the youngest Master ever of the planet Kaethon. He knows the position comes with certain expectations of him, but when he meets human slave Ella, he can’t get her curvy figure out of his mind. He’s determined to make Ella his even though he knows that tradition is against a Master taking a human as a mate. It is just not done!His amorous plans are interrupted when his advances toward their slave offend the Loki sisters and Ella is sent away out of his reach. Can he get Ella back to the Capital City? And will she be able to trust that his advances are real? Kalazaron Ankon (Blue Planet Warriors #6) This Alpha Alien Warrior will battle - fight - any who stop him from getting his way, even her! Ankon, alien hybrid warrior has met his match... a human female. She is petite under his towering strong physique, but her curves and hours of conversation, turn him on, unlike any female he has known.Ambassador Avery Jones was sent on a mission to find answers about the Kalazaron warrior race. Her plan was clear, only get information and bring it back to earth. It was simple but she didn’t know that there was another plan in action to capture a Kalazaron ship and bring it to earth happening right under her nose. Now she has the most attractive alien Captain held captive and he is seducing her with ease.Now she finds herself becoming the enemy to her own people as she tries to help Ankor escape. He is prepared to seduce her in order to get her help, but he wasn’t expecting to actually fall for her and go against his vow of never taking a human as a mate. Can they defeat the forces of earth to get their freedom? Or will they get caught and be held prisoner forever before they can relieve their lust for each other?

    The next thing I remembered was alarms and bells and flashing lights and a voice yelling that death was imminent. And now, I was staring down at a beautiful female clone, gray and featureless, about to wake her up from transport hibernation. On a space ship. In space. Thank goodness I still had my bonsai scissors. Otherwise I’d never have been able to cut open her containment bag and that imminent death thing would have killed her. The voice said that there was more of them and that I’d better hurry if I wanted to rescue all of them before they were no longer “viable”. My name is Jimmy Raskin. You can call me Captain Jimmy Raskin of The Eevona Space Command.

    When former soldier Everett Cole signed on to help colony planets prepare for joining the Federation, his employers were disconcertingly vague about their identity and his duties. Yet, the pay was good and it got him off Earth and on the way to a fresh start. More reservations arose when - 11 light-years from Earth - he met his partner, Edgar Millen, an enigmatic man with a penchant for violent solutions and a fetish for the mythology and language of the American Wild West. It wasn’t until they reached the colony world of Astrild that the mission became somewhat clearer. They were players in multi-faceted efforts to steer colony worlds in preparation for joining the Federation. Unfortunately, not all obstacles were amenable to diplomatic, political, or economic solutions. Cole and Millen were agents, troubleshooters, hired guns - or whatever you wanted to call them - tasked with removing impediments to civilized law and order - the methodology left open-ended. Millen and Cole’s first mission to test their partnership? The backwater town of Justice was under the control of a strongman and his henchmen. All they had to do was convince the cowed citizens to rise against their tormenter. Formal authority and backup? None. Millen was blasé at the assignment. Everett’s first thought was, “What the—!”

    Quinn, falsely accused former military, betrayed by her husband. A conspiracy that intertwines their lives.Where did the government go wrong? When they separated Quinn from her kids. She vowed to do whatever it would take to find them and rescue them.They should have let her. Instead, they made her fight. Quinn and Tony will make the Federation wish it had taken the easy option.Quinn’s escape starts today--tomorrow will have to take care of itself.

    Then one day the Empire discovers another human civilization millions of light-years away, but it lags behind technologically. This distant civilization is also in a war for its very existence. The Empire sees a chance for its salvation by joining with this potential ally. A portal consisting of a pair of hypergates on each side is needed, however. Meanwhile, the Empire's Brigadier General Dean has been exposed to deadly radiation in battle with the aliens, and he is preparing to meet his death. Unexpectedly, he is offered to take part in a top-secret experimental project -- to have his mind transferred into the brain of an incurably sick young man lying in a coma in that distant human civilization. Dean’s task in this new body is to find a cure for his disease, then make a military career, strive to a high position in their society and ultimately to ensure that a second hyper-portal gate is built so that it will connect the two civilizations.

    Before the Eradication.One man had a chance to stop it all, and failed...Captain Dryker is a washed up vet mining on the fringes of the Kuiper belt. He loads rocks into the Folly’s railgun, and fires them back to his corporate overlords on Earth. Boring, just the way he likes it. Until one day it isn’t.An alien signal bursts from Pluto, which as it turns out is neither a planet, nor a planetoid body. It is an ancient defense satellite activated because it detected the return of the Vuka Spectra. The Void Wraith.Dryker is the closest ship on the scene, but not the only one vying for the prize. Hostile aliens have emerged from our sun using something called a Helios Gate. The savage Tigris have come not just for the satellite, but to conquer Earth.Dryker’s only hope is finding something, anything, within the installation to counter the alien’s superior technology and save mankind.The prequel to the Void Wraith Saga. Learn how it all began...