When Duty Calls

When Duty Calls

William C. Dietz

Alternative History / Military Science Fiction / Science Fiction

As the war with the Ramanthian continues, Captain Antonio Santana and his force of biobods and cyborgs find themselves surrounded by enemy forces, faced with annihilation at every turn. On the home front, diplomat Christine Vanderveen finds herself torn between her love for Santana and her new loyalty towards the charismatic, recently elected president of the Clone Republic. As Christine fights her own divided heart, light years away, Santana is in a battle for his life. And this battle may be his last.
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Drifter

Drifter

William C. Dietz

Alternative History / Military Science Fiction / Science Fiction

EVEN SMUGGLING HAS RULES.THE FIRST IS: DON'T GET CAUGHT.Meet Pik Lando, a con artist and a ladies man, a total professional who'll chase across the galaxies for his clients—and he'll usually find plenty of action and danger too. In DRIFTER, Lando is hired by a beautiful woman to a job on a world called Angel, and in the process she cannot resist his charms. That would be nice, except for the deadly group of revolutionaries hell-bent on war.Don't miss Lando's other adventures: DRIFTER'S WAR and DRIFTER'S RUN
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Into the Guns

Into the Guns

William C. Dietz

Alternative History / Military Science Fiction / Science Fiction

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Legion of the Damned Novels and The Mutant Files comes the first novel in a post-apocalyptic military science fiction series about America rising from the ashes of a global catastrophe...On May Day, 2018, sixty meteors entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded around the globe with a force greater than a nuclear blast. Earthquakes and tsunamis followed. Then China attacked Europe, Asia, and the United States in the belief the disaster was an act of war. Washington D.C. was a casualty of the meteor onslaught that decimated the nation's leadership and left the surviving elements of the armed forces to try and restore order as American society fell apart. As refugees across America band together and engage in open warfare with the military over scarce resources, a select group of individuals representing the surviving corporate structure make a power play to rebuild the country in a free market image as The New...
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Steelheart

Steelheart

William C. Dietz

Alternative History / Military Science Fiction / Science Fiction

An android named Harley Doon finds himself caught in a battle between human and alien. It's not his fight, but somebody has to save the world.Years ago, when humans and androids crash landed onto the planet Zuul, whatever remained of their society quickly succumbed to the ravages of earthquakes and a never-ending winter from volcanic dust clouds. As humans and machines scavenged to stay alive, they also faced the Zid, an alien race that abhors all technology with religious fervor. Add to that the Mothri—giant, bug-like aliens with brilliant minds and their own nanotechnology—and it is no longer simply the planet's geological upheaval that proves volatile.War between the races looms. Will Doon, tired and reluctant, rise to lead the fight? Can humans harness technology to save the planet, itself, before the Zid arrive? And, what secrets does Doon carry inside of him that might help them all?
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Mars Prime

Mars Prime

William C. Dietz

Alternative History / Military Science Fiction / Science Fiction

Aboard the Outward Bound, there are thousands of colonists headed towards Mars. But, one person on the ship is different. Inside that crew member's head, there are a half-dozen voices, a half-dozen personalities normally bickering and disagreeing. Today, though, just as the ship is about to leave Earth's orbit, they all agree on one thing—they have to kill to keep their secret safe.That's dangerous for Rex Corvan, because secrets are the thing he was born to seek out. Rex is Earth's greatest reporter. He's equipped with a probing intelligence and a video camera for a right eye. Rex and his wife Kim are traveling on the Outward Bound to document its trip outward to the frontier of Mars.The story of colonization quickly takes a backseat to this unknown, zero-gravity serial killer. As Rex and Kim find clues to the murderer's identity in the ship's A.I., they become targets themselves. Will the ship reach Mars before the many killers in one body reach them?
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Legion of the Damned

Legion of the Damned

William C. Dietz

Alternative History / Military Science Fiction / Science Fiction

The first novel in William C. Dietz's acclaimed Legion of the Damned series... There is one final choice for the hopeless the terminally ill, the condemned criminals, the victims who cannot be saved: becoming cyborg soldiers in the Legion. Their human bodies are destroyed and they are reborn as living weapons. But when aliens attack the Empire, the Legion must choose sides."
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Armageddon's Pall

Armageddon's Pall

S. F. Edwards

Science Fiction / Military Science Fiction

They thought they'd faced their greatest fear.They were wrong.Having proven themselves capable against the Gorvian Strike Corevette that laid waste to their senior exploration transports, the Monstero Nach find themselves on the front line of a new war against an enemy wrought from their nightmares.Nothing in their training could possibly prepare them for this new, monstrous enemy.  Nothing could prepare the galaxy to fight an enemy that give no quarter, not accepted any.  From the first encounter this powerful enemy would hold the galaxy in the grip of destruction.Armageddon's Pall is the fourth book in the Spiral War Military Sci-Fi seres, and will take the young officers of the Monstero Nach beyond the edge of civilized space and sanity.  Against an enemy that is terror incarnate, the prospect of victory will seem impossible, and the price beyond paying.
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Ejecta

Ejecta

William C. Dietz

Alternative History / Military Science Fiction / Science Fiction

Professor Paul McCracken's final message to parasitologist Dr. Sara Devlin is brutal, but clear: he'd rather die than let the alien parasite within him live. For Devlin, the shock of McCracken's suicide is quickly replaced by the horror it reveals—the existence of a microscopic extraterrestrial organism with the ability to infect and control its human hosts. McCracken wasn't the first person to be infected. There are others. Many others, extending back to the dawn of mankind.At first, Devlin believes the authorities are slow to recognize the alien threat and respond to it. But the truth is far worse—rather than stop the parasite, there are those seeking to replicate it, control it...and even weaponize it. Working with McCracken's research and a fractured network of allies, Devlin must outmaneuver secret government organizations, foreign military agencies, and the growing legion of infected hosts to thwart an extraterrestrial invasion thousands of years in the...
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