Ian Douglas
All Books By Ian Douglas
Abyss Deep
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: David Drummond
- Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 29, 2013
- Language: English
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3.97(338 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas’s virtuosic Star Corpsman series proves one thing: The Marines are still the toughest sons of guns in the galaxy.
As Bravo Company defuses a hostage crisis on an orbiting mining station, Navy Corpsman Elliot “Doc” Carlyle not only saves the lives of a wounded Marine and two extraterrestrial friendlies–he averts a terrorist strike intended to kill billions. His reward? Deployment on a recon mission into the darkest depths known to man.
Abyss Deep is a foreboding ocean planet torn by extremes: boiling storm world on one side, unbroken glacier on the other. Humans established a research colony there to study the planet’s giant sea serpents–but the colony has gone ominously silent. When Carlyle’s team arrives, they discover a vessel belonging to a warlike alien species hovering above the atmosphere. But below the ice lurks a mystery so chilling it will make even Elliot Carlyle’s blood run cold.
... Read moreAlien Agendas
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 25, 2023
- Language: English
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4.28(47 ratings)
Reptilian aliens, Nazis in space, time-traveling humans, kidnapped girlfriends, government psychics—it all comes down to this: New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas delivers the jaw-dropping finale to his action-packed military sci-fi Solar Warden adventure series.
The Saurians, a highly evolved reptilian species which escaped extinction 65 million years ago, have an agenda: to achieve behind-the-scenes dominance over Earth. Operating from hidden bases, they use psychosocial techniques to plant conspiracy theories and instill fear within the human population. Too weak in numbers to militarily conquer a world they believe to be their own, they seek to renew Nazi strongman ideologies and surrogates to gain absolute control.
Their first attempt is thwarted by the Talis, time-traveling humans from the far future. Yet, their assistance is limited as they face an all-out time war that could sweep modern humanity and their futuristic society into oblivion.
With the human species in danger, Commander Mark Hunter and his Joint Space Strike Team must work alongside Talis agents, the U.S. Space Force, and a young and talented government psychic to stop the Saurians from world dominance.
As if saving earth wasn’t challenging enough, Hunter’s girlfriend, Jerry, was kidnapped by the infamous Men in Black to control him. Now Hunter has just one chance to find and rescue his love and the rest of the captives before the Saurians bring the entire base crashing down around him and his people.
Commander Mark Hunter and his crew require a miracle, and perhaps even that might not be enough…
... Read moreAlien Hostiles
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 30, 2021
- Language: English
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4.09(34 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas delivers the action-packed second military sci-fi adventure in his Solar Warden series set in a wildly imaginative alternate present where conspiracy theories are terrifying realities and reptilian aliens team up with Nazis in space.
By exposing the sinister Saurians, Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Mark Hunter and his team have more than proven themselves. Yet the war between humanity and the intergalactic aliens has only begun–now they must save themselves and all of civilization.
The JSST–the Joint Space Strike Team Hunter has put together from all branches of the U.S. military–is again deployed on board the Earth starcraft carrier Hillenkoetter on a mission to probe a possible historical connection between the Saurians and the Nazi Third Reich. At a planet called Paradies orbiting the red giant star Aldebaran, they discover a long-rumored colony of expatriate Nazis… and the beginnings of a plan to enslave Earth under Nazi–and Saurian–rule.
With Earth at stake, governments deeply compromised, and evil at the door, Solar Warden must fight together to end it all…even if it means sacrificing everything.
... Read moreAlien Secrets
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 30, 2020
- Language: English
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3.79(252 ratings)
In the first novel in New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas’ Solar Warden series, government conspiracy theories, UFO history, and thrilling space combat come together in an unforgettable interstellar military science fiction adventure.
THE TRUTH HAS ALWAYS BEEN HERE
In the final days of World War II, the Allies ransacked Berlin. Third Reich scientists were highly sought- out prizes for Americans and Russians desperate to possess the Nazi knowledge of nuclear firepower. But they failed to capture one of the most vital members of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle: SS Obergruppenfuhrer Hans Kammler. One of the engineers of Auschwitz, Kammler was also a liaison with the Nazis’ silent partners whose technological wonders nearly helped the Axis win the war–the alien species the Germans called the Eidechse.
More than seven decades later, U. S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Mark Hunter has witnessed the impossible. On a mission in North Korea, an unidentified flying object destroyed a compound developing weapons of mass destruction. Now, he has been recruited to join a government agency that has been harboring a secret alliance with extraterrestrials since 1947. Selected to lead an elite force of soldiers, Hunter will travel across the stars to help humanity stake its claim among greater intelligent life in the universe.
But the aliens who have infiltrated Earth and guided war mongering nations since the twentieth century have their own agendas…
... Read moreAltered Starscape
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 25, 2016
- Language: English
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3.77(698 ratings)
Galaxies collide in a thrilling new series from bestselling author Ian Douglas, as the last humans in the universe face off against a new threat
2162. Thirty-eight years after first contact, Lord Commander Grayson St. Clair leads the Tellus Ad Astra on an unprecedented expedition to the Galactic Core, carrying more than a million scientists, diplomats, soldiers, and AIs. Despite his reservations about their alien hosts, St. Clair is deeply committed to his people–especially after they’re sucked into a black hole and spat out four billion years in the future.
Civilizations have risen and fallen. The Andromeda Galaxy is drifting into the Milky Way. And Earth is most certainly a distant memory. All that matters now is survival. But as the ship’s Marines search for allies amid ancient ruins and strange new planetary structures, St. Clair must wrap his mind around an enemy capable of harnessing a weapon of incomprehensible power: space itself.
... Read moreBattlespace
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: David Drummond
- Length: 13 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 19, 2013
- Language: English
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3.87(930 ratings)
When called to do battle many light years from home, the 1st Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit rose to the challenge — and now thousands of enslaved humans have been freed from the alien yoke. But Earth is twenty-one years older than the home planet they originally left, and the Marines need time to retrain and readjust — time they do not have, due to the bizzare disappearance of a detachment of their brothers- and sisters-in-arms. It is a mystery, but there is a starting point: an ancient wormhole threading through the Sirius system. Whatever waits on the other side must be confronted, with stealth, with force, and without fear — be it an ancient enemy or a devastating new threat.
The Marines are heading into the perilous unknown . . . and what transpires there could reshape the universe for millennia to come.
... Read moreBloodstar
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: David Drummond
- Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 28, 2012
- Language: English
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3.82(619 ratings)
With his Heritage, Legacy, and Inheritance trilogies, New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas established himself as one of the true masters of military sf–sharing center stage with such authors as Rick Shelley, John Ringo, David Sherman, and Dan Cragg in a wildly popular sub-genre of science fiction that includes such enduring classics as The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. Now, with Bloodstar, Douglas kicks off his new series, Star Corpsman, with a bang, focusing on the elite units of recon Marines and S/R Corpsmen who infiltrate alien worlds ahead of major planetary invasions to gather intelligence on both the local environment and on the psychology and biology of the enemy. In Bloodstar Ian Douglas carries readers once more across the vast galaxy, light-years from Earth, and into the fire and terror of future war.
... Read moreBright Light
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 27, 2018
- Language: English
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4.14(430 ratings)
New York Times bestselling military science fiction author Ian Douglas brings us the eighth–and penultimate–Star Carrier novel, Bright Light, combining the best action, adventure, and hard science into this universe-spanning series
There’s no more time . . .
There’s always more time . . .
Trevor Gray has been stripped of his command of the starship America, and is unsure what to do with his life. Having dedicated so much of himself to the service, he knew following the super-AI Konstantin’s advice could have severe consequences. He just never thought he would be out of the fight.
Because that’s what Earth is in: a fight against a sinister alien force that is so technologically advanced, there seems little hope. And that’s why he had disobeyed his orders in the first place: to figure out a way to stop them. But now he’s beached.
Which is just what Konstantin wanted.
For the super-AI has a plan: connect Gray with the Pan-Europeans, and set him on a course to the remote star Deneb. There, he is to make contact with a mysterious alien civilization using the new artificial intelligence Bright Light, and maybe–if they can make it in time–prevent humanity from being wiped from the universe.
... Read moreCenter of Gravity
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 17, 2011
- Language: English
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3.97(3673 ratings)
Center of Gravity is the second book in the explosive Star Carrier series by Ian Douglas–and a breathtaking new high in military sf, the strongest of the science fiction subgenres. Battlestar Galactica fans will adore this saga of ultimate war in deep space, as humankind risks its very future, battling a vast alien evil empire in order to achieve transcendence and become a major power in the universe. Douglas’s Center of Gravity belongs on every action-lover’s sf bookshelf–right between Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War and Heinlein’s Starship Troopers.
... Read moreDark Matter
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 11 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 27, 2014
- Language: English
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3.96(1093 ratings)
An enemy might just have to become an ally . . . in order to save humankind
The United States of North America is now engaged in a civil war with the Earth Confederation, which wants to yield to the demands of the alien Sh’daar, limit human technology, and become a part of the Sh’daar Galactic Collective. USNA President Koenig believes that surrendering to the Sh’daar will ultimately doom humankind.
But when highly advanced, seemingly godlike aliens appear through an artificial wormhole in the Omega Centauri Cluster 16,000 light years from Earth, President Koenig is faced with a tremendous choice: continue fighting the Sh’daar . . . or ally with them against the newcomers in a final war that will settle the fate of more than one universe.
... Read moreDark Mind
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 25, 2017
- Language: English
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4.12(431 ratings)
New York Times Bestselling Author Ian Douglas continues his Star Carrier saga as humanity unites against an ancient artificial consciousness powerful enough to exterminate every species it encounters
2425. The civil war between the United States of North America and the Pan-European Confederation is over. But before a new era of peace on Earth can begin, humankind must martial its interstellar forces as one fleet to engage in a war against an alien entity in Omega Centauri. Without provocation, it destroyed a Confederation science facility inhabited by 12,000 people, and it must be neutralized before it sets its sights on Earth.
Admiral Trevor “Sandy” Gray of the USNA star carrier America has his own mission. The enigmatic AI known as Konstantin has convinced him that humanity’s only chance for survival is technology found in a distant star system. Now, Gray must disobey orders as well as locate and create a weapon capable of defeating a living sphere the size of a small planet…
... Read moreDarkness Falling
- By: Ian Douglas
- Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: June 26, 2018
- Language: English
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3.98(429 ratings)
From New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas comes Darkness Falling, the next chapter in his grand space odyssey, Andromedan Dark.
Lord Commander Grayson St. Clair has guided the Tellus Ad Astra to a part of the universe no human-and possibly no race known to Man-has ever seen. Far from the worlds they know, the colony ship is on its own, facing . . . something that seems to have no weakness. Something whose sole purpose seems to be devouring civilizations.
With both time and space as enemies, St. Clair must figure out a way to explore this new corner of space, maintain military order on a mission that was supposed to be civilian, and-somehow-bring the Tellus Ad Astra back to the Milky Way.
Combining the drama and action you’ve come to expect from military science fiction master Ian Douglas, this follow up to Altered Starscape is bound to capture your imagination.
Deep Space
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 30, 2013
- Language: English
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3.97(1558 ratings)
The fourth book in the popular Star Carrier science fiction series, Deep Space by Ian Douglas is an action-packed tale of humankind’s struggle to bring down an evil empire that spans the universe.
Twenty years after the fragile truce with the Sh’daar, Koenig is now President of the USNA, and Gray is skipper of the CVS America… soon to be promoted to commander of the entire battle group, Koenig’s old position, and one which he might not be ready for. The truce with the alien Sh’daar is unraveling as many predicted, and Humankind still knows little about them, or what they are.
... Read moreDeep Time
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 11 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 26, 2015
- Language: English
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4.08(717 ratings)
The clock is ticking in the struggle for galactic independence
Once rebels themselves facing off against the Earth Confederation, the United States of North America is now the dominant force in negotiations with the interstellar Sh’daar Collective. But just as the Marines root out the last violent dissenters, an alien ship of unknown origin suddenly flees Earth’s orbit. Is it mere coincidence . . . or a terrifying omen?
President Alexander Koenig watches with great interest as USNA forces chase the runaways down. But upon first contact, it’s not apparent where–or when–the crew is headed. For this bizarre species has somehow mastered the power to manipulate time itself. Now Koenig must decide whether he’s dealing with angels of astonishing technological prowess . . . or the agents of humanity’s destruction.
... Read moreSemper Human
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: William Dufris
- Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 02, 2011
- Language: English
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3.87(752 ratings)
After 850 years of voluntary cybe-hibe, General Garroway and his marines have been called back into action, to once again battle their ancient, deadly foe, the Xul. But after hundreds of centuries, there have been significant changes in technology, society, and human culture, so much so that the rules of engagement Marines have lived and died by for thousands of years are now obsolete.
Garroway doesn’t have time for politics and silly games though. The Xul have been quietly seeking out the ultimate human weakness that will forever render them useless against the Xul forces-emotion. They are slowly but surely rewriting history to demoralize the Marines and humans throughout the galaxy. And if they succeed, no one will even want to fight them.
In the final explosive chapter of the Inheritance Trilogy, it’s a race against the clock as Garroway must stop the Xul once and for all to keep them from destroying all trace of human existence.
... Read moreSingularity
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 12 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 14, 2012
- Language: English
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3.96(2619 ratings)
Humankind’s vast intergalactic power struggle and future war to bring down an insidious evil alien empire reaches an explosive, page-turning climax in Ian Douglas’s Singularity, the third book in his New York Times bestselling Star Carrier series. Blisteringly exciting military science fiction in the vein of the hit TV series “Battlestar Galactica,” Singularity pits determined space soldiers against a powerful race of creatures bent upon the total annihilation of a human race on the brink of technological transcendence. A notable descendant of such classic military sf novels as Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War and Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, Singularity will not disappoint author Douglas’s every-growing legion of fans as it conquers Jack Campbell, Rick Shelley, John Ringo, David Sherman and Dan Cragg loyalists as well.
... Read moreStar Corps
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: David Drummond
- Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 19, 2013
- Language: English
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3.87(1580 ratings)
In the future,
earth’s warriors have
conquered the heavens.
But on a distant world,
Humanity is in chains …
Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An — a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying — and fatal — discovery: the Ahanu, ancestors of the former masters, live on, far from the reach of Earth — born weapons and technology … and tens of thousands of captive human souls still bow to their iron will. Now Earth’s Interstellar Marine Expeditionary Unit must undertake a rescue operation as improbable as it is essential to humankind’s future, embarking on a ten-year voyage to a hostile world to face an entrenched enemy driven by dreams of past glory and intent once more on domination. For those who, for countless generations, have known nothing but toil and subjugation must be granted, at all costs, the precious gift entitled to all of their star-traveling kind: freedom!
... Read moreStar Marines
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: David Drummond
- Length: 13 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 26, 2013
- Language: English
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3.94(998 ratings)
With the planet’s fighting men and women deployed across the galaxy–battling in the noble cause of enslaved humanity–the insidious Xul have reached across space to devastate the unsuspecting Earth with asteroid fire. Without warning, a once majestic world is reduced to near-rubble–and the very future of humankind is in dire jeopardy.
Interplanetary leaders are on the brink of abandoning Earth and its colonies to an overwhelming enemy. But Brigadier General Garroway of the Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit is unwilling to concede defeat–not as long as there’s a single marine willing to give his or her life in defense of their embattled homeworld. The ultimate battle is about to be waged–with breathtaking new attack technology, an ancient code of courage, and the help of an ally race that once inhabited the Earth–in a war that will alter the universe forever . . .
... Read moreStargods
- By: Ian Douglas
- Narrator: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.22(294 ratings)
The last installment in the Star Carrier series, where first contact, space opera, and military adventure combine, from New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas!
Will this be the end?
Or a new beginning…
Having battled aliens to prove humanity’s worth as a star-faring species, Admiral Trevor Gray has a new mission: follow the directives of the super-AI Konstantin and lead the star carrier America on a mission through time and space to determine if humanity can truly transcend into Singularity… and avoid the pitfalls that have plagued so many of the aliens Earth has encountered since it gained faster-than-light travel.
But there are those out there who don’t want an answer, who wish to maintain their own power with the status quo. Beyond the dangers of star travel, Gray must contend with politicians looking to end the influence of artificial intelligence on human decisions, a secret fleet out to destroy him, hostile aliens, and the vast, uncharted space full of clues but short on answers.
A species must evolve to survive into the future. But that species must have a vision of the future. Gray hopes to find that vision for humanity…800,000 years in the past.
... Read moreWarstrider
- By: Ian Douglas
- Length: 13 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: April 28, 2015
- Language: English
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3.85(476 ratings)
Dev Cameron helped the rebel Confederation defeat the Hegemony forces at Herakles, but his experience merging with an alien Naga consciousness has changed him irrevocably, and the rebellion rages on. After the passive DalRiss unexpectedly attack the Hegemony, Dev and Katya Alessandro are sent to meet with the aliens to determine if they have a common enemy. Their mission is critical to the success of the Confederation, but the difficulty of understanding truly alien intelligences makes a meaningful alliance unlikely, and doubts about Dev’s capabilities loom even as he may be the only one able to make contact.
... Read moreWarstrider
- By: Ian Douglas
- Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 10, 2015
- Language: English
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3.85(476 ratings)
In the twenty-sixth century, humanity is at war with the Xenophobes, and the planet Loki is the next battleground. Dev Cameron joined the military to fly a starship but is rated unsuitable and grudgingly accepts an assignment with the ground forces piloting a massive walking tank (a warstrider). But Cameron may yet get a chance at glory when he makes a discovery about their alien foes that could change the course of the war.
... Read moreWarstrider
- By: Ian Douglas
- Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: June 30, 2015
- Language: English
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3.85(476 ratings)
The Web, a vast machine intelligence of unbelievable power, is steadily consuming the galaxy, indifferent to any species that stands in its way. Fighting the Web brings together an alliance between disparate societies and alien civilizations that must stand against it in battle. And overcoming the Web means learning where it came from, what goals drive its single-minded advance, and, ultimately, what the future holds for intelligent life in the universe.
... Read moreWarstrider
- By: Ian Douglas
- Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 24, 2015
- Language: English
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3.85(476 ratings)
Once he was the gaijin champion of a cruel and oppressive Empire. Now Dev Cameron is a military commander for the rebellious newborn Confederation and at tentative peace with the galaxy’s all-powerful rulers.
But treachery has shattered the uneasy truce, as the Imperial lords prepare to rain destruction down upon the outpost of New America, delivering the final death blow to the still young revolution. And now only one incomprehensible act can save Dev Cameron and his cause: a miraculous link with an alien self that could change the course of the future . . . by transforming a man into a god.
Warstrider
- By: Ian Douglas
- Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 03, 2015
- Language: English
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3.85(476 ratings)
The universal order is unraveling. The enslaved cry out for freedom. The apocalypse is now.
Devis Cameron, hero of the Xenophobe War and the Empire’s reluctant champion, has been posted to the 4th Terran Rangers-a gaijin Warstrider unit on New America-to eliminate a newly discovered underground colony of Xenos and to deal harshly with civil unrest spawned by Imperial repression. The situation is rapidly degenerating into total anarchy. And the nuclear option may be the only alternative.
But Dev is uncomfortable with the role that has been assigned to him. And now he must choose between betraying his masters or his principles-to crush a righteous revolution or to help forge an alliance between the Empire’s enemies and an inscrutable race of alien monsters.
Warstrider
- By: Ian Douglas
- Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: May 26, 2015
- Language: English
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3.85(476 ratings)
Over twenty years have passed since the events of Warstrider: Symbionts. Contact with the DalRiss and Naga and their technology has radically altered human society, as has the constant struggle between the Hegemony and the rebel Confederation for control over the dozens of human-inhabited planets. But the Hegemony has a new technology that could suppress any resistance to Earth’s rule, and meanwhile, Dev Cameron and the DalRiss have discovered a new threat emerging from deep space that could cause the extinction of all life it encounters.
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