Space Opera Science Fiction Books

Fifteen years ago, Guard Four stood by and watched her friend, Atalant, be jettisoned into space for questioning their planet's religion.Atalant should have died. Instead, she disappeared.Consumed by guilt, Guard Four trawls space, hopping from spaceport...

The Cosmic Crusaders find themselves on a truly strange world--a misfit planet that seems mysteriously cursed. Instead of evolving naturally from birth to death, it's a world out of step with the universe, leaping ahead into the future at unexpected...

BEFORE EARTH CAME launches a new series collecting the early pioneering pulp magazine novelettes of John Russell Fearn, with the first-ever reprinting of "Before Earth Came" and "Subconscious."Both stories abound with unbridled imagination and a sense of...

Kim has found an ancient starship on the world of Nexis and, against all odds, has made it into space. But if she thought that was hard, all she has to do now is find some more crew, deal with the US Airforce and end a 50,000-year old war against an...

Aliens. They always attack when you least expect it. Although if we knew our history we would've expected these ones. But the truth about human history has been long forgotten, dismissed as mere myth and legend.Not that Kim McLean really cares about...

Sard, leader of the Creod military, seeks revenge on the human ancestral Ta-Buhn-Shar. Tom Loftus and Zach are separated upon arrival from the intergalactic passageway. Sard engages in a massive fleet assault on his home planet as Loftus learns the ways...

Fitton's Galactic Command Series. Voyage 24. Join Commander John Ross and the crew of ESS-14, after the Antarian War, to a planet bordering a nebula on the edge of the galaxy. Ross chases a derelict ESS Commander and his Antarian conspirator. Beyond the...

Aboard a space cruise liner with a young woman named Angelique, Harry Cobb is receives an emergency call from his old friend Mark Belkin that his wife Jenna has been murdered in a tracer explosion on Neptune's moon, Triton. Cobb embarks for Triton, but...

After being gone for years, Jenna comes back home to Carithenia to find all has changed. Her one true love in life is going to be married. Radicals are waging rebellions. Would traveling

Caught up in the battle between man and nature, the members of StrikeTeam find themselves facing pirates, corrupt military officers, and the mandatory mad scientist! During this task Sheryl Roberts finds her world view changed on levels she never...

Has it already been six years since the last confrontation between the Planetary Alliance and the Hegemony of United Worlds?Simmering unrest is reaching a critical point on the planets regained by the Hegemony after their renegade admirals were...

Some stones are best left unturned.It's been only weeks since the world was ravaged by the notorious 'Red Day,' and Skye Calvert now finds herself thrust into a position of leadership. With the former International Space Hotel CEO, Alan Lusky, ousted,...

Welcome back to The Dream Nebula. A place with no stars... no sun... no moon... no Earth. Only the shattered wreckage of the solar system floating in an endless technicolor sky.After convalescing for a month, Winston and Billy Joe are eager to begin...

ARGORON. VANOK. LITHONIA.They are the First Worlds.This collection includes three novellas of sword-and-planet, science fantasy, and sword-and-sorcery tales. From Argoron, the hidden red planet to Vanok, the watery world and to Lithonia, a landscape...

Es gibt schlechtere Orte zum Sterben als die Bar am Andromeda-Highway.Eine Kneipe ... viele Geschichten.Am Rande des Universums treffen sie sich alle: interstellare Agenten, Kampfmaschinisten, Luxus-Geishas, Schwarzloch-Traveller, Galakto-Rechercheure,...

Die Ereignisse auf dem grenzländischen Planeten Hèllior haben Gannvarus Fargo übel zugesetzt, und das nicht nur physisch, sondern auch mental. Während sein Körper weiterhin durch das Xetagen der Kuorim mutiert, lässt ihn auch die Erkenntnis nicht zur...

Justice: Rogue Robot - Book 3Three respected justices are dying......but they could be immortal.Would they become pawns for the evil Heragi Empire?Gabe wasn't an ordinary robot and it knew the process of uploading consciousness had a flaw. If not...

The Worlds are saved-but not for long.Lucian Abrantes and the Starsea Fleet have driven back the Alkasen. While the Worlds rebuild and recover from the brutal war, the Ancient One threatens to undo the uneasy peace.On the world of Mako, the Ancient...

Politics at the dinner table.Never a good idea. Working for a political agitator is an even worse idea; at least as far as half of the Rogue Enterprises team is concerned.The team has provided security for clients before. This job didn't seem that...

A man of honor and armor fights for justice for his soldiers. The last Dominion Knight and master of true battle armor will challenge a star empire to avenge the betrayal of his command.Ordered to fight an impossible war as the Thrakian enemy...

"This is space opera at its finest."-Ilona Andrew, #1 New York Times bestselling author on Only Bad OptionsNew York Times best-selling author Jennifer Estep continues her Galactic Bonds series with a new, action-packed adventure that blends...

Lasadi doesn't know how anyone manages to survive out here in the black, given that the collection of space stations, asteroid colonies, dwarf planets, and mining claims in Durga's Belt is less a society and more a community of uneasy, suspicious...

Her strength is her greatest weakness.Protecting others has always been Aurora Hawke's defining characteristic -- until a fierce battle with her mortal enemy creates devastating results, proving she's more weapon than human. Haunted by apocalyptic...

Do mercenaries and mages mix?Carina Lin has fought torturers, vengeful clans, and the forces of darkness to free her mage family, but her fight is not over yet.She returns to the planet where she discovered clues to mage history and lore, hoping to find...

Carina Lin is a slum brat turned space mercenary. With a twist. She's also a mage, and she's about to risk everything.Her merc band, the Black Dogs, is assigned a suicide mission. A young boy has been kidnapped by one of the galactic sector's most...

Weird space holds a dire fateCarina Lin has defeated dark mages, hostile aliens, and evil smugglers to bring her family halfway across the galaxy in her search for Earth.But more obstacles stand in her way.A strange star system awaits them en route,...

Editor Donna Scott has selected the very best short fiction by British authors published during 2016. Twenty-four stories chosen from over 130 submitted, from established names and rising stars alike.

Rule number 27: Don't trust the weird Sisters.Or maybe it's don't steal from gangsters. Either way...words to live by.The Lyra is safe. And so is Alek Wa's secret. His mission is over, and he can leave the ship. But he's not sure he wants to...

In the future, Earth has expanded into the formidable Dodecahedral Empire. Meet Teodor, Earth's future king, and the next emperor, until he vanishes without a trace.Teodor was snatched by cyborgs wearing the black and gold uniform of Earth's Space...

In the aftermath of a brutal space attack, Guy Erma, the king's young bodyguard, survives when all hope is lost. But his close friend and the heir to the throne, Teodor of Earth, is missing, presumed dead. As Guy embarks on daring missions to rescue...

THE FEW. THE PROUD.THE STUPID. THE INEPT.It was the perfect solution, put highly connectedCaptain Willard Phule in charge of the worstdregs of the Space Force. Sure, Phule’s Companymay be a band of rejects and misfi ts, but they didmanage to save...

"A winning story... part science fiction, part spoof, part heart-warmer."-Publishers WeeklyCaptain Willard Phule has whipped his troops into shape, turning Phule's Company from the laughingstock of the Legion into...a crack team of casino security guards...

The legendary John Brunner wrote the original Threshold of Eternity in 1957. Sixty years later Damien Broderick revisits the world Brunner created in that classic, forward-looking story and modernizes it to retell the exciting tale of time travelers,...

The warlords are gone, save one. Admiral Marius Drake, betrayed and almost killed by the Grand Senate, has seized power for himself in a military coup. Now, as Emperor Marius, Drake can work to restore the once-great Federation to its former glory. But...

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Told from the viewpoint of Dane Thorson, an apprentice-Cargo Master, a "lanky, very young man in an ill-fitting Trader's tunic," Plague Ship takes the crew of the Solar Queen to Sargol, where the enigmatic feline natives seem very reluctant to trade away...

A diplomat who successfully negotiated with intelligent aliens finds his loyalty to the human race tested in this novel by a Nebula Award–winning author.  Richard Muller was an honorable diplomat who braved unimaginable dangers to make contact...

Wars are not fought between good and bad people; they are fought by soldiers. The Axi have invaded Col. Without a fleet, they have managed to land an entire legion on the Valen world and begin sweeping over its deserts in an unstoppable blitzkrieg...

Reaching another solar system, the three Cosmic Crusaders discover a fantastic world of mental parasites drawing form and substance from our own Earth, fifty light years away. The planet is ruled by a being identical to the Golden Amazon herself--but an...

Jim and his friends leave Earth to help a dying race on another world. This new world has much to offer and great happiness for these good friends.