Forgotten

They call the ones who stayed the Forgotten. When the swarm came down out of the dark and unmade the world in a single burning season, the lucky boarded colony ships and ran for the stars; the rest were sealed into vaults and walled settlements beneath their own dead cities, left to hold a line nobody remembers drawing. This is military science fiction with the boots still on — a saga of a humanity split in two by an alien invasion, one half clawing survival from a ruined Earth, the other adrift among the stars, both too stubborn to be finished off. M. R. Forbes builds it out of ten interlocking series that together run to dozens of volumes: a single continuity told in relays. On the ground, a lawman named Sheriff Duke keeps order in a world that has none, across The Forgotten, Forgotten Earth, Forgotten Fallout, and his own Sheriff Duke books. Out in the black, the colony ships and their descendants carry the fight through Forgotten Colony, Forgotten Starship, Forgotten Space, and Forgotten Galaxy, before the threads pull together in Forgotten Vengeance and Forgotten Heroes. Power armor, scavenged tech, engineered soldiers, and an enemy that simply keeps coming — the furniture is familiar; the pace is not. What sets it apart is momentum. The chapters are short, the stakes climb hard, and the books are built to be read in a rush — closer to a season of television than a doorstop epic. Newcomers get two clean doors: start with The Forgotten for the grim, ground-level war on the home planet, or board Forgotten Starship for a fresh cast and the view from deep space. The author's own recommended run goes The Forgotten, Forgotten Earth, Forgotten Colony, Forgotten Fallout, Forgotten Vengeance, then onward — but either door lets you find your footing before the wider war closes in.