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The Space Warfare Group books are a new kind of space thriller with hardcore military action, dark political conspiracies, and compelling world building. When the princess of an unfamiliar alien planet fails to arrive in time for a diplomatic summit with humanity’s top government officials and her spaceship is found floating dead in space, the Space Warfare Group is called into action.

The Space Warfare Group books are a new kind of space thriller with likeable characters, hardcore military action, dark political conspiracies, and compelling world building. Mac and the Space Warfare Group are back! Following the tragic events of Into the Darkness, Major Malcom “Mac” Lambert gets a second chance to hunt down the conspirators behind the ambush that started it all. Driven by vengeance and partnering with an old friend, Mac’s investigation leads to the planet Okuta, during the most important Galactic Coalition Summit in a generation.

Der Erstkontakt ist schiefgelaufen ... Es war der Albtraum eines jeden Raumschiffkapitäns, und für Travis Miller war es seine eigene persönliche Hölle. Er folgte den Regeln, aber als die Tahni ihn und seine Crew angriffen, musste er einfach das Feuer erwidern und das erste außerirdische Schiff zerstören, dem die Menschen je begegnet sind. Travis wird in der Presse beschimpft, seine Karriere liegt in Scherben, und er wird auf eine lange Patrouille der äußeren Koloniewelten verbannt. Man vergisst ihn, außer als schlechtes Beispiel …

Join the adventure through dystopian worlds, to outer planets and into a speculative future. Welcome to the Future Days Anthology. Seventeen authors imagine a future with thrilling tales, starships, unlikely heroes, and exotic aliens, all of which combine to make Future Days a must-listen sci-fi fantasy short story collection.

The War of the Worlds: In the late 19th century, humanity lived complacently, unaware that cold, superior intelligences were watching them from Mars. Soon, massive metallic cylinders crash into England, unleashing a relentless invasion. Armed with giant tripods, devastating Heat-Rays, and suffocating Black Smoke, the invaders quickly crush human resistance. Amidst the chaos, one man embarks on a harrowing journey through a ruined London to reunite with his wife. Just when human extinction seems imminent, the Martians succumb to the most unexpected ally: Earth's bacteria.

It's 1916, in the heart of World War I. The eve of the Battle of the Somme. During a perilous night mission in No Man's Land, Lieutenant Rafael Forrester witnesses a peculiar light followed by a vast explosion. Wounded and delirious, Forrester finds himself shipped home to England, to the country house hospital of Sherston, where he learns he may face a court-martial for the deaths of the men under his command. Yet in the strange environs of Sherston, where any act of rebellion seems impossible, Forrester soon comes to fear for more than his freedom.

Fünf Jahre, nachdem eine Lungenpest zwei Drittel der Weltbevölkerung auslöschte, lebt Armeeveteran Marcus Battle wie ein Einsiedler auf seiner Ranch im Herzen von Texas. Seine Waffen, Essensvorräte und Gräber sind alles, was ihm bleibt — die Gräber seiner Frau und seines Sohns. Ohne zu...

One hundred-fifty years after the last war, humanity has united in exploring space with colonies on Mars and the moon Luna. But the Europa Mission has just failed and 152 people died in space. Nobody knows why. When military bioscientist Capt. Warren’s hidden research installation gets attacked, he joins forces with armored assault Sgt. Von Radach. They become entangled in a deadly fight to stop the theft of classified military secrets by a villain, whose devious plans to use enemy cyborgs posing as humans have every chance of succeeding.