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Pro tip: Never volunteer for anything. That's the first thing they told me in flight school. It's 2037. I'm Mike Williams, but you can call me 'Magnet', and I'm a fighter pilot on the TFR Sydney. Our flight leader, Iron, has a mission: Volunteer only. It's the usual gig. High risk, lots of unknowns, an opportunity to make history or die trying. Hopefully the former, but sometimes it's a little of column A, a little of column B, you know? The mission's...
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Ever since the Founding, Colonial settlers whispered of ghost ships; silent, empty vessels drifting between the stars, steel tombs for their crew. Ships that set out from Earth and, for whatever reason, never made it to the stars.The causes were innumerable. A leaking reactor. A pathogen. An unstable passenger who took a knife and obeyed the voices in her head.Or worse.Recruited into the mysterious Synapse Foundation, Nicholas Caddy-still bearing...
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Southport has fallen, and the claws of the Myriad crawl ever closer to the vulnerable city of New Panama. They reproduce endlessly, consuming their local environment and turning it into new soldiers.The Immortals expend tonne after tonne of ammunition fighting a perfectly evolved bioweapon that cares nothing for casualties. The days wear at them. Their systems begin to fail. And always, always, the Myriad advance.Nicholas Caddy must fight to save...
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Lieutenant Marcus Servus, officer and prisoner of the Penal Legion, serves on the desert world of Polema, the final bastion of the outer colonies. He and his soldiers, scum of the colonies, stand against insectoid boogeymen from another galaxy.Marcus has a gift. A curse. An edge against the Myriad: he hears music. Songs in his head guide him, granting him knowledge and foresight, a weapon against the alien hordes.The music is his ally, but who plucks...
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Broken and crippled from an interstellar war, Nicholas Caddy is augmented and specially trained to pilot the Immortal Armour, an engine of war arriving just in time to face down a threat much more devastating than anything the Colonized Worlds could ever conceive of.A prequel to the novel Symphony of War and featuring many of the same characters, this novel-length collection features four stories of Caddy's war, with a bonus short story at the end....
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Victory or death. The oldest warrior's creed in the galaxy. What about those in the middle?In the dying days of a war against the savage Earthborn, Nicholas Caddy is blasted within an inch of death; his welcome parade is a hospital ward, his sins greater than the killing, the scars on his flesh secondary to the ones in his mind. His homeworld celebrates around him as his life falls apart piece by piece.They say the greatest battles are fought within...
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Almost ten thousand ships come into Southport, the largest spaceport in the Colonies, every single day. Nestled in amongst those legitimate shipments are hijacked ships, people smugglers, contraband, drugs, and worse.The Immortals are sent to look for the worst. Hostile, alien creatures which consume everything in their path. If they make landfall on Polema, the devastation they may cause is unfathomable.Nicholas Caddy is assigned a straightforward...
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Kwame Bahati donated his body to science. Pieces of him were removed for this and that; his kidneys were used to test a new medicine, his torso for training surgeons, and various other organs were designated as transplants for those who refused synthetic body parts for religious reasons.But his brain was sent to somewhere else entirely.A short story set in the Universe of War, twenty four years before the events of Symphony of War: The Polema Campaign....
9) Escape
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Are the conspiracy theorists both right and wrong? Could it be that Roswell and Area 51 are just red herrings? That governments are hiding not past contacts but the prospect of a dangerous future contact?
This is the story of two remarkable young women and their journey of discovery. Set against that background, without knowing why their work is supported by world governments, they will lead humans to the stars.
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Drawn to a desert world by the legacy of a traitor, the crew of the TFR Beijing discover something abandoned, something forgotten... something mysterious.Buddha once said, "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast...... for a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."The scars of betrayal runs deep... and Captain Melissa Liao will find out just how far the slighted will go for revenge.Book...
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Peace in our time.The Toralii guns are silent. Humanity's home of Velsharn is secure. There are no more battles. No more wars. The machinations of a dying man have traded a single life for a species; Captain Melissa Liao's world is four iron walls and pain, but her suffering buys life for mankind. Her legacy is one of struggle, selflessness, and sacrifice.Held in the grasp of the Toralii Alliance, she takes little comfort in this. Is this the swansong...
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Humanity has rebuilt on the world of Velsharn, forging the colony of Eden from the ashes of Earth. On Velsharn's verdant soil children are born, alliances are made and for a time, peace reigns. In high orbit, the debris of an entire Toralii fleet stands as mute testament to humanity's sovereignty; their right to this planet is unquestioned.Above the TFR Beijing, now the centrepiece in a flourishing city, the inky void of space is eerily silent. As...
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The words of a construct, an artificial mind, ring truer than ever. Humanity has angered a powerful foe and cannot weather the growing storm. The Toralii are coming.But instead of warships, the Toralii Alliance send an ambassador to the Sol system. The message it brings is a startling, marked departure from all other contact with the species... and one that heralds a shift in the balance of power in the Milky Way, the most significant in hundreds...
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Humans thought that they could stand amongst the older races. They believed, in their hubris, that the perils of interstellar travel could be mastered within a single generation. That they would be spared the wrath of the Toralii.Now humanity lies in ashes. The cradle of our civilization, Earth, is nothing more than a charred husk, a dead world in an empty solar system in an unremarkable corner of the galaxy.The war is over.We lost.Captain Melissa...
15) Lacuna
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"Never again attempt to develop this kind of technology."It is with these words that an unknown alien attacker destroys the Earth cities of Tehran, Sydney and Beijing. Fifty million people die... and nothing is ever the same again.Some call them Demons, some call them Aliens, but to Chinese Naval Captain Melissa Liao they are the enemy. She is given command of one of three great warships built to fight the "demons", the TFR Beijing.Her task is simple....
16) Demon and Emily
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My name is Demon. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy because my human, Emily, tells me so.One day, terrible lightning and thunder comes to Polema, and even more terrible things follow in its wake. Normally when storms come, the humans are not scared and comfort me.This time they are terrified.So now its me who has to be brave. I will protect my human, and I will be a good boy. No matter how scary the thunder or the monsters are.A short story set in the...
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It's 2037. I'm Mike Williams, but you can call me 'Magnet'. Everyone else does. It's short for 'Chick Magnet', which is good old-fashioned military humour at its finest. At age fifteen, my face picked a fight with the propeller of my family's boat, on a shoal near Broome, off Western Australia. It was an accident, but, needless to say, the propeller won.Twelve years later, I was a not-so-ruggedly-handsome fighter pilot assigned to the TFR Sydney....
18) Khan
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On a world ravaged by war, Khan the white tiger is king. The constant battles provide endless food for him to scavenge and the quiet, abandoned cities are a perfect home.But a white tiger is a rare creature indeed, valuable, and even when surrounded by war and death, humans still find a way to take what they want.A short story set in the Universe of War, twelve years before the events of Symphony of War: The Polema Campaign.
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My name is Mike Magnet" Williams. I've come a long way. These days I have my own ship, the Rubens. We stole it from the Toralii Alliance. For the last year the Rubens has been tasked with 'counter-logistical privateering' against the Toralii Alliance, attacking their military supply network. We hit them hard, we get out, we do it all over again. Modern day buccaneers given total autonomy. We're alone, without another Human within a thousand light...
20) Magnet: Marauder
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My name is Mike Magnet" Williams. I'm a lot of things: fighter pilot. Ugly bastard. Lord of all I survey. I fly the F-88 Wasp, although recently I've been doing a stint as a gunner in the Broadsword gunship Piggyback. I was back on Earth on an important mission after a long time in space. Real important. But now Fleet Command have another special mission for me. Apparently I'm a glutton for punishment. See, there's a Toralii freighter, somewhere deep...
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