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When two ancient and overpowered AIs clash, Jam and his platoon are forced to make hard decisions and battle against impossible odds. With his friends in mortal danger and the future of the Capian Alliance of Terran Systems hanging in the balance, he will attempt one last gambit to beat impossible odds.

The toughest, most damaged mechanized combat rig crew in the war has to be broken up. That's nonnegotiable, apparently. But can the most notorious operator of the bunch follow the orders of a new lieutenant with secret ties to the admiral? The newest, most deadly enemy of the Capian First Expeditionary Fleet, known as the Alaran Kill Team, has its own mission: to take out the scientist blocking them from invading. Jam and his new battle companions must navigate threats from above and below to stop the AKT.

After a thousand years of war, the Mishnese and Karupta have made peace by wedding the Mishnese princess royal to the Karupta crown prince. Their son whose birth was foretold 10 centuries ago is destined to rule the entire planet and end the wars forever. But the princess and the baby have died during childbirth or so it was said. In the meantime, a strange half-breed infant boy is left at an orphanage with a purse full of gold coins.

Once upon a time there was a boy named David, who slew a terrible foe.... David Birkenhead might have been only twelve years old, but his entire life was already laid out for him. First, his father was supposed to teach him how to run a starship's engine room. Then, when the time came, he'd take over the job himself. But when the ships of the Boyen Emperor arrive on David's home world, nothing could ever be the same again.

Two civilizations are on the verge of total extinction. One of the greatest classic rockers of all time is dead. And Victory stole the ball of power and gave it to some jerk. Balloon has a lot on his simple mind. To overcome the ultimate evils of the universe, he and his pals will fight bandits, slurp tacos from a tube, play lord protector, and come face-to-face with certain death.

Balloon may have a ball of power, but he’s lost his beloved dream girl to intergalactic bandits. And it’s going to take more than guesses and a souped-up single-wide trailer to get her back. Enlisting the help of a few alien scoundrels, Balloon and his pals travel through space and time to rescue Victory, eat tacos, and solve the ultimate mysteries of the cosmos!

Branded a terrorist, now I'm one of the galaxy's most wanted. Most hunted. And I'm paralyzed with fear. Not only of my execution. Not only of psychic premonitions telling me it ends in fire and water. Not only of nightmares with the red-eyed assassin twisting his blade into my abdomen. But because I harbor a secret.

Taiberos, his mind unhinged by his stint in infraspace, is driven by one thought—get revenge on Starchild—and he will hold nothing back as he unleashes his fury on Solace. But Nak lies defenseless, unaware of the return of Taiberos and unable to defend himself. For two percents (roughly two Earth years), he has lain still, as if in death, the coma having taken all but his breathing, and there are no signs that he will ever wake.

I'm a prisoner on my own ship. It's a Bloody Wing, one of the most valuable objects in the galaxy—a starship that leaps across spacetime without going through the surge gates. It means I can travel planet to planet completely off the record. And I stole it.