Bolo Brigade
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| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0441009425 |
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal,...
| Author | Alastair Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0441012914 |
The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - and they've targeted humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little...
| Author | Iain M. Banks |
| ISBN | 1597800449 |
It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization....
On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king, despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies to...
| Author | Ben Counter |
| ISBN | 0743443535 |
Some say that Arguleon Veq came to the world of Torvendis when the Maelstrom was still young - a long time ago, for that jewelled wound in reality is old indeed. Others maintain that his deeds on the planet were within a breath of living memory, and that he fabricated the weight of history to turn...
A relentless enemy…
An old wolf's last hunt…
The future of two species hanging in the balance…
The Darshik war machine is flagging, but the war is far from over. Even as an exhausted Federation military tenses up for a counterattack after repelling the last Darshik...
The Black Fleet story continues...
The Phage War had been a devastating conflict for the Terran Confederacy. Even with the destruction of their terrifying, implacable foe, humanity is still reeling. Political alliances are crumbling and their mighty fleet is in tatters. There is nothing...
The Black Fleet Saga continues…
A human planet has been invaded. The enigmatic Darshik have landed troops on a frontier world and have begun subduing major cities even as their blockade repels all attempts by the fledgling United Terran Federation to mount a counteroffensive.
The...
Uriel Ventris of the Ultramarines has saved the world of Tarsis Ultra from the monstrous tyranids, but at the cost of his honour. He has broken faith with the holy tome of the Codex Astartes, the worst crime an Ultramarine can commit. The masters of the Chapter call for his death, but there may be one last...
Within the Eye of Terror the Iron Warriors homeworld has become a living hell for many brave warriors of the Imperium. But their lifetime of slavery may be about to end, thanks to the unlikeliest of saviours.
An Ultramarines short story.
This short story falls between Warriors of Ultramar...
From Joshua Dalzelle comes the follow up to the #1 Bestseller “Warship.”
Captain Jackson Wolfe survived the initial incursion of a vicious alien species into human space … barely.
He had assumed the juggernaut that had devastated three Terran systems was the herald for a full invasion,...
In the 25th century humans have conquered space. The advent of faster-than-light travel has opened up hundreds of habitable planets for colonization, and humans have exploited the virtually limitless space and resources for hundreds of years with impunity.
So complacent have they become...
The thirtieth Great Hunt is over, and all the Great Companies except one have returned to the Fang – Logan Grimnar and the Champions of Fenris are unaccounted for. As the Fang readies itself for attack by the forces of Chaos, Ulrik the Slayer takes a taskforce to the Eastern Fringe, Logan Grimnar’s...
After a Great Hunt, the Space Wolves return to the Fang to regale each other with tales of their glory. Only Logan Grimnar is absent. When a native tribesman speaks up in his stead and tells of how the Great Wolf has discovered the dead body of Leman Russ, there is uproar. Do they dare believe this vile rumour,...
OK. So, Craig Alanson sprung this book upon his ExForce followers (it's a club, not a cult) without any previous warning. And many people were surprised to learn that what was to be a collection of filler novellas set between the main story sequels has now turned into a full spin-off series. Series that...
The war is over, and the Mortal Realms have all but fallen to Chaos... Khorgos Khul rampages across the fiery Realm of Aqshy, hunting down mortal kind to slaughter or subjugate to Khorne. His Goretide have crushed all resistance... until the storm. From the heavens hurtle paladins clad in gold. Sent...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0345295226 |
He did not exist...or did he?
He had destroyed his punchcards and changed his face. There was no credit card, birth record, or passport for him in the International Data Bank. His names were many...any he chose. His occupation was taking megarisks in the service of a vast global detective agency....
This short story is a follow up or sequel to the Battle of Detroit in M. Kloos' Terms of Enlistment which I just read. From the point of view of another TA trooper (Corporal Jackson) we get to look at some events that follow the events in the novel, and what they presage.
Having survived the battle...
