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Military Sci-fi

Military tales with a sci-fi twist. (AKA stories with a strong focus on military activities, such as war, battles, combat, fighting; or military life. Then add an element of sci-fi--from aliens to space travel.)

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  • The Lost Fleet series, written by a military veteran, begins with "Dauntless". Campbell emphasizes space battle tactics, strategy and life on a military vessel.
    PaperbackNew York : Ace, 2007. — PBRACK SCIENCE FICTION
  • A classic. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
    BookNew York : TOR, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2017. — SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI
  • Humanity pushed its way to the stars--and encountered a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Survivors took extraordinary measures to create a religion with mind control and hidden high technology designed to keep their new…
    BookNew York : Tor, 2007. — SCIENCE FICTION WEBER
  • Weapons of Choice

    a Novel : Axis of Time Trilogy. Book 1

    Birmingham, John, 1964-
    First in a three-part alternate history epic. America's World War II fleet is decimated by a multi-national task force accidentally sent back in time. Birmingham includes not just battle sequences but depictions of the cultural shock that…
    PaperbackBallantine Books 2005. — PBRACK SCIENCE FICTION
  • Contains the first two novels in the General series. Raj Whitehall was a young noble of the Civil Government, the last remnant of galactic civilization on the planet Bellevue, when he came across an ancient but still functioning Fleet…
    BookRiverdale, NY : Baen, [2013] — SCIENCE FICTION STIRLING
  • 'The war has turned us into light. Transforming us into light is the fastest way to travel from one front to another, and there are many fronts, now. I always wanted to be a hero. I always wanted to be on the side of light. It's funny how…
    BookLondon ; New York : SAGA Press, [2019] — SCIENCE FICTION HURLEY
  • With Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans--for a price. . .
    PaperbackRiverdale, NY : Baen Books ; New York : Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 2001. — PBRACK SCIENCE FICTION
  • What if aliens invaded in the middle of World War II? (First in a series of Alternate History.)
    PaperbackNew York : Ballantine Books, 1995, c1994. — PBRACK SCIENCE FICTION
  • Fast-paced and suspenseful. An empire, ruled by an emperor who lets selected humans cheat death faces tensions between most humans and the resurrected elite. Then the Rix, a cult of cyborgs, captures the emperor's sister. . .
    BookNew York : Tor ; Godalming : Melia [distributor], [2008] — SCIENCE FICTION WESTERFELD
  • Having seen too much war to be safely returned to civilian life, Strike Force Company C41 is assigned to guard a colony on a hostile planet, but the mission goes terribly wrong, . .
    PaperbackRiverdale, NY : Baen ; New York : Distributed by Simon & Schuster, c1996. — PBRACK MYSTERY
  • Esme Suisa believes herself satisfied without the prospect of command despite her family's military history. Then she finds herself the senior surviving officer in the middle of a space battle. . .
    BookRiverdale, NY : Baen Books, c1997. — SCIENCE FICTION MOON