Space Battles – Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt

About the book Red Alert! Red Alert! This is not a dril… Anna Paradox’s “Between The Rocks”: The Courtly Vizier, a utility truck, renders aid to a colony ship but when they return to their asteroid home from supply runs to mines on Old Lumpy from Jupiter’s atmosphere, the colony ship they once helped attacks them….

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Range of Ghosts – Elizabeth Bear

About the book Temur, grandson ofthe Great Khan, is walking away from a battlefield where he was left fordead. All around lie the fallen armies of his cousin and his brother, whomade war to rule the Khaganate. Temur is now the legitimate heir by bloodto his grandfather’s throne, but he is not the strongest. Going into exile…

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Shadow Ops – Myke Cole

About the book Army Officer.Fugitive. Sorcerer.  Across the country and in every nation, peopleare waking up with magical talents. Untrained and panicked, they summon storms,raise the dead, and set everything they touch ablaze.  Army officer Oscar Britton sees the worst of it.A lieutenant attached to the military’s Supernatural Operations Corps, hismission is to bring order…

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Lamentation – Ken Scholes

About the book Anancient weapon has completely destroyed the city of Windwir.  From many miles away, Rudolfo, Lord of the Nine Forest Houses, sees thehorrifying column of smoke rising.  He knows that war is coming to theNamed Lands. Nearerto the Devastation, a young apprentice is the only survivor of the city – hesat waiting for his father…

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The Company – K.J. Parker

About the Book Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island. They take with them everything they could possibly need – food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives. But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one. The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep…

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Old Man’s War – John Scalzi

About the Book John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife’s grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them…

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Twelve – Jasper Kent

 About the Book The voordalak–creature of legend, the tales of which have terrified Russian children for generations. But for Captain Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov–a child of more enlightened times–it is a legend that has long been forgotten. Besides, in the autumn of 1812, he faces a more tangible enemy: the Grande Armee of Napoleon Bonaparte. City…

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Leviathan – Scott Westerfeld (TMWTR)

About the Book:  Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men. Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She’s…

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The Desert Spear – Peter V. Brett

I have a feeling that I might have things thrown at me for this review. I didn’t hate the book, but I also can’t sing its praises like many reviewers seem to be doing. All I ask is please give me a head start before you start lobbing debris in my direction. The Desert Spear…

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All the Windwracked Stars – Elizabeth Bear

About the Book She is starlight made immortal flesh, and her soul lives inside her sword of light. She is Muire, the last of the Valkyrie, and she walks among the morals of Valdyrgard alone, save for the Valraven– one of the many-formed steeds who carried some of the Valkarie to war–who claimed her for…

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