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- Ender's Shadow
series5 books1999
part of Ender's Game Universe
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Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow retells the events of Ender's Game from the perspective of Bean, a physically stunted but ferociously intelligent street child recruited into the same Battle School program as Ender Wiggin. It launches the Shadow series, which follows Bean and other secondary Battle School characters into the political aftermath of the Formic Wars back on Earth, running parallel to and eventually past the timeline of Card's main Ender Quintet.
- The War in the Air
H. G. Wellsstandalone novel1908
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The War in the Air: And Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted is a military science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1908.
- H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
universe65 books1898
Start hereThe War of the Worlds · Start here
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No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space. And then the cylinders fell. H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds opens in the quiet of the Surrey commons, where a falling star proves to be the first Martian craft — and from the pit rise the towering tripods, the Heat-Ray, the choking Black Smoke and the creeping red weed, wielded by minds that regard mankind much as we regard the creatures we boil for supper. This is invasion rendered as natural disaster: cold, methodical, and vast beyond argument. Wells' 1898 novel is the seed; everything else grows from that Martian soil. The catalogue gathers direct sequels and continuations alongside a wide field of other hands. In War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches the invasion is retold across the whole planet through the eyes of Twain, Verne, Tolstoy, Lowell and Kipling; in the Manly Wade and Wade Wellman crossover, Sherlock Holmes, Watson and Professor Challenger take the field against the machines; and Scott Washburn's Great Martian War stretches the fighting into a decades-long alternate history of steam, artillery and grinding attrition. It is a loose shared world — no single decreed sequence, many voices answering one calamity. What sets this world apart is its refusal of heroics: the invaders fall not to generals but to the smallest things of Earth, humbling and indifferent. Begin, always, with Wells' original novel — it is short, and it is the ground every later book stands upon. From there follow your appetite: Global Dispatches for the panorama, the Holmes campaign for adventure, Washburn for the long war.
- Axis of Time
series7 books2004
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The Axis of Time trilogy is an alternative history series of novels written by Australian journalist and author John Birmingham, from Macmillan Publishing.
- Blackcollar
series3 books1983
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Timothy Zahn's Blackcollar trilogy, his debut work, follows survivors of Earth's underground resistance against the Ryqril, an alien empire that conquered the planet a generation earlier. The Blackcollars themselves are elite commando-agents trained before the invasion, presumed a spent, aging force until circumstances pull survivors back into action against their occupiers. The Backlash Mission and The Judas Solution continue the resistance's fight as the underground network is drawn deeper into interstellar politics beyond Earth.
- Childe Cycle
series19 books1957
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The Childe Cycle is an unfinished series of science fiction novels by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. The name Childe Cycle is an allusion to "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", a poem by Robert Browning, which provided inspiration for elements in the work. The series is sometimes referred to as the Dorsai series, after the Dorsai people who are central to it. The related short stories and novellas all center on the Dorsai, primarily members of the Graeme and Morgan families.
- Fifth Imperium
series3 books1991
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David Weber's Fifth Imperium series opens with the discovery that Earth's Moon is in fact a disguised alien starship, the Dahak, that has orbited undetected for tens of thousands of years - a relic of the fallen Fourth Imperium, a multi-star civilization destroyed while defending against the genocidal Achuultani. Mutineers' Moon follows humanity's first contact with Dahak and the mutineers still aboard it; The Armageddon Inheritance and Heirs of Empire escalate from that discovery into interstellar war and dynastic politics as humanity inherits the old empire's legacy and its enemies. The three novels were later collected as the omnibus Empire from the Ashes.
- Company Wars
series7 books1981
part of Alliance-Union Universe
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Company Wars gathers the novels C. J. Cherryh set during the breakaway conflict between Earth's colonial Company and the newly independent Union, within her wider Alliance-Union future history. Anchored by the Hugo Award-winning Downbelow Station, the books follow different ships, stations, and crews caught on either side, from merchanter traders to military spacers, rather than a single continuing cast. Read in any order, they build up a picture of the political and economic pressure that reshapes Cherryh's larger Alliance-Union universe.
- War Against the Chtorr
series7 books1983
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The War Against the Chtorr is a series of science fiction novels by American writer David Gerrold. The Chtorr series was originally planned as a trilogy, but as the story became more intricate, Gerrold realized that three books would not be enough for him to tell the entire story. For a time, he was uncertain how many books there would be in the end but plans on seven. As of 2022, four books have been completed. As of 2017, a fifth and sixth were in the works, 24 years after the publication of the fourth book.
- Out of the Dark (David Weber)
series3 books2010
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Out of the Dark begins when an overwhelming alien armada arrives to subjugate Earth, only for the invasion to run into unexpected resistance from an unlikely source within humanity itself. David Weber's trilogy, joined for its later volumes by Chris Kennedy, follows the human resistance and its strange allies as the war against the invaders escalates.
- Nicholas Seafort
series7 books1994
completed
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The Seafort Saga is a series of science fiction novels written by American author David Feintuch. The novels are set from the late 22nd century to the mid-23rd century and relate the adventures of Nicholas Seafort, an officer in the (fictional) UNNS| United Nations Naval Service. The series is a collection of personal accounts, usually from the perspective of Nicholas Seafort, describing Seafort's adventures, beginning as a lowly midshipman, to the elected leader of earth, and finally to the captain of the UNNS flagship Olympiad. Although most books in the series are told from a single perspective, usually Seafort's, Voices of Hope is a collection of accounts from several sources: Seafort's son, PT, the son of a friend of Seafort's, and a transient boy named Pook. Additionally, Children of Hope is narrated by Randy Carr, the son of a close friend of Seafort.
- Jenny Casey
series4 books2004
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Elizabeth Bear's Jenny Casey trilogy opens with Hammered (2004), her debut novel, which won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. It continues across Scardown and Worldwired, completing the story of its title character across three volumes published through 2006.
- The Vampire Earth
series12 books2003
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Vampire Earth is a series of science fiction/dark fantasy novels by American writer E. E. Knight.
- The Invisible Man
series6 books1897
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The Invisible Man is H. G. Wells's 1897 science fiction novel about Griffin, a scientist who works out how to make living tissue invisible and tests the process on himself, only to discover he has no way to reverse it. Unseen and increasingly cut off from other people, he turns to theft and violence while trying to survive and find a cure, making the book as much about his moral collapse as about the invisibility premise itself. It's a single self-contained novel; the two listed titles here are duplicate editions rather than separate books.
- War Dogs
series3 books2014
completed
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Greg Bear's trilogy opens with humanity fighting an entrenched, technologically superior alien presence across the Solar System, following a soldier drafted into a war whose true stakes he only gradually understands. War Dogs (later reissued as War Dogs: Ares Rising) was followed by Killing Titan and Take Back the Sky as the scope of the alien threat, and the deceptions surrounding it, widens.
- The Triffids
series3 books1951
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John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1951) opens with a meteor-shower-like event that leaves most of Britain's population blind, throwing civilization into collapse just as triffids, an aggressive and mobile species of poisonous plant, become free to hunt the helpless survivors. Simon Clark's authorized sequel The Night of the Triffids (2001) picks up a generation later, narrated by the original protagonist's son as he confronts a new triffid-dominated world, and John Whitbourn's The Age of the Triffids extends the shared setting further still. Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.
- Shane Schofield
series5 books1998
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Shane 'Scarecrow' Schofield is a US Marine captain who leads his unit through single-location, high-body-count action thrillers set in an Antarctic ice station, a disputed Pacific island, and a maximum-security prison built into a mountain, among others. Matthew Reilly's series opens with Ice Station (1998) and keeps escalating its set-pieces across Area 7, Scarecrow, Hell Island, and Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves. It's fast, gleefully over-the-top military action rather than realistic technothriller territory.
- The Eternity Brigade
Stephen Goldinstandalone novel1980
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WorldCat: Hundreds of human bodies have been placed in coffins in a military warehouse. But they are not dead, merely frozen in a cryogenic process meant to preserve an army of men to be restored to life if ever they are needed. The Earth they arise to inhabit is a world completely different from any they have known or imagined. Their only task is to fight and kill in the wars that plague the planet. They are not treated as men, but as fighting machines to be endlessly duplicated and used up. By having had their genetic patterns programmed into a computer, they are doomed to live over and over again, as part of an army that will not die and cannot escape. Yet one man is determined to break the pattern and free himself, truly believing that there must be a way out ... of eternity.
