Cold Steel

10 best books like Cold Steel (Keith Laumer): Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap, The Algebraist, Inversions, Destroyer, New Frontiers, Iron & Blood, Call to Arms, Warship

Revelation Space
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
ISBN0441009425
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,...
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors - alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons -and a renegade named Clavain...
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
ISBN0441012914
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...
AuthorIain M. Banks
ISBN1597800449
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....
AuthorIain M. Banks
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...
Destroyer
AuthorJoshua Dalzelle
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...
New Frontiers
AuthorJoshua Dalzelle
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...
Iron & Blood
AuthorJoshua Dalzelle
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...
Call to Arms
AuthorJoshua Dalzelle
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,...
Warship
AuthorJoshua Dalzelle
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...
Renegade Fleet
AuthorJ.N. Chaney
An ancient threat is rising.

Jace Hughes has successfully crippled the Union, saving a small civilization in the process. With a new army at his side, he sets his sights on Earth, the lost homeworld of humanity, vowing to finish the job he set out to do.

But there is something looming...
Renegade Earth
AuthorJ.N. Chaney
Three Empires Collide.

Captain Jace Hughes and his band of rebels have managed to outrun the Union at every turn, barely escaping with their lives. What started as a simple transport job has escalated into a war between empires, all for the sake of a child.

But a Renegade never backs...
Renegade Dawn
AuthorJ.N. Chaney
Welcome to the Old World.

Captain Jace Hughes and his crew have finally reached their destination: Earth, the mythical lost homeworld of Humanity. It was said to harbor great wonders, fertile land, and beauty beyond comparison, but the reality is far, far stranger than any story.

The...
Renegade Children
AuthorJ.N. Chaney
People are dying.

Shortly after Captain Jace Hughes and his team recover hundreds of surviving Eternal refugees, disaster strikes. A recently unearthed fauna dome, one of many biological arks on Earth, is destroyed and several people are killed.

All proof points to the Eternals....
Renegade Union
AuthorJ.N. Chaney
How did I get here?

After waking up on the floor of an unknown ship, and with no way of contacting his crew, Captain Jace Hughes is forced to fight his way through a myriad of soldiers. With no memory of the battle or how he arrived on the ship, he has no choice but to act.

By shooting his way...
Renegade Empire
AuthorJ.N. Chaney
Who are the Celestials?

Captain Jace Hughes is about to embark on a crusade against the greatest enemy any human has ever faced. The Celestials are unrivaled in their brutality, technology, and strength.

But the former captain of the Renegade Star will not be swayed.

With...
Secrets of the Sphere
AuthorRichard Tongue
Stranded in the Andromeda Galaxy, the Battlecruiser Alamo has stumbled across the largest artificial structure ever constructed, a Dyson Sphere, large enough to encompass a million worlds. Somewhere in the vast expanse is the secret Lieutenant-Captain Pavel Salazar and his crew have been seeking...
Shadows in the Sky
AuthorRichard Tongue
Starsmash! The Battlecruiser Alamo ventures into an unknown system, continuing her quest to find a way back to her home galaxy, when she finds robotic scavengers tearing the new worlds apart, ripping them asunder as raw material for the biggest engineering project in history, the construction of...
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