Military Science Fiction

Grace O'Malley's ragtag forces stand valiantly against the fearsome Roughriders—determined to write their planet's history in the scorched wreckage of the battlefield. A novel of the Battletech series.

Starship Troopers meet The Matrix on The Forbidden Planet! In a sufficiently advanced technology, can you tell the difference between a center of higher learning and a torture chamber? With a sufficient amount of explosives does it matter?

Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife leads a reconnaissance mission of the vast uncharted regions of space. No one, least of all Kris, expects to find a hostile alien starship. Now, she must determine the extent of the alien threat-and whether to start an interstellar war...

This collection of 4 short stories under one cover: Maid Goes on Strike, Ruthie Longknife's First Christmas, Among the Kicking Birds and Bad Day.

Retired Colonel Ray Longknife and Marine Captain Terrence "Trouble" Tordon come to Savannah via different routes, but what they find is the same. A bully strongman's got the population cowered by thugs, tanks at the ready, and he expects to win the coming elections without any trouble. But Mrs. Trouble—aka Ruth Tordon—has also arrived on her own mission and she isn't about to be stopped by anyone. When the tanks roll into town, the three of them are standing in their way...and nothing is going to flatten them.

Kris Longknife is back home from her galactic adventures, and humanity finds itself at war with an alien race more monstrous than anyone could have possibly imagined. General Terrance "Trouble" Tordon, Kris's great-grandfather, is given the task of calming the panicked politicians, some of whom would like to eliminate the ever bothersome Commander Longknife. But as "Trouble" struggles to defend his Kris, he fears he's facing a fight he's bound to lose...

Für Kris Longknife wird ein Traum wahr: Sie erhält ihr erstes Kommando über eine Raumstation. Dazu wird sie allerdings in das entlegene Sternensystem Chance versetzt, eine Beförderung, die zugleich einem Exil gleicht. Doch Kris ist nicht untätig, und bald kommt sie einer Organisation auf die Spur. Die verbirgt auf einem einsamen Planeten höchst fortschrittliche Alien-Technologie, die in ihren Händen eine extreme Gefahr darstellt -

Captain Rita Nuu Longknife is ready to take the heavy cruiser Exeter to space and see what's out there. She may have a nursery next to the captain's cabin, and a two month old baby on her hip, but she's taking a warship out there and nobody better get in her way.

Wanted for crimes against humanity on 162 planets, Kris Longknife has been shipped off to East Siberia. Problem is, Jack was shipped of to West Siberia. But worse than that, a Longknife may be going rogue and nobody can go after a Longknife but a Longknife especially, Kris Longknife. But it will take a lot of help from her friends.

Kris Longknife ist in die Navy eingetreten, um aus dem Schatten ihrer mächtigen Familie zu treten. Ihre ersten Missionen sind nicht besonders aufregend. Obwohl sie alles tut, um einen guten Ensign abzugeben, hält eine Eigenschaft sie davon ab: ihre Neigung, vorzupreschen und Fakten zu schaffen, ganz gleich, wie gefährlich das sein mag. Eines Tages findet sie heraus, dass die ranghöchsten Offiziere ihres Schiffs in eine Verschwörung verstrickt sind. Ihr bleibt nur eine Möglichkeit: Sie muss die Besatzung auf ihre Seite ziehen und eine Meuterei anzetteln ...

The victory parades are over and half the fleet is back in mothballs. The Navies better start getting them back in Commission! Rita Longknife, commander of the heavy cruiser Exeter, has proof. Proof that there is something else out there. Proof we are not alone in the galaxy.

It's dangerous to get too close to one of those damn Longknifes. Exactly why Senior Chief Agent Foile found himself volunteering to get close to the whole family, he'd never know, but soon he was spending his annual leave digging into what the powerful Longknife family wanted hidden and up to his neck in trouble of every kind- and humanity's survival may depend on what he finds.