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Kyle Riggs sits uneasily upon Earth’s throne. He’s liberated his homeworld from a tyrant, only to replace him. In The Dead Sun, the ninth book of the Star Force Series, the Great War between life and the machines reaches its final chapter. Both sides have new technology and expanded industrial bases. Star Force and the machines attempt to exterminate one another in a final, glorious conflict. Along the way, Riggs finally learns who his real friends and enemies are. The Dead Sun is a military science fiction novel by best-selling author B. V. Larson.

Kyle Riggs is snatched by an alien spacecraft sometime after midnight. The ship is testing everyone it catches and murdering the weak. The good news is that Kyle keeps passing tests and staying alive. The bad news is the aliens who sent this ship are the nicest ones out there.

The Breakers find a new home among the stars: Utopia. An engineered planet that is vast beyond comprehension with plenty of room to grow. They set up trade routes and work as mercenaries for their supplies...but trouble lurks. Pirates strike their merchant lanes. Key personnel are captured and enslaved. Straker is called upon to do something, and thus a new conflict is set in motion.

The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. More than a century has passed since the glorious day of Earth’s annexation. Struggling to hold on to a handful of planets in the frontier provinces, humanity is at war with Rigel. After the destruction of both our fleet and theirs, a time of quiet rebuilding has begun.

The humans have no magic and are hunted for sport, but that is about to change. War is coming.... The Sun Dragon spawned nine lesser dragons which devoured their parent for the power the elder possessed. These young dragons fought for choice bits of the Sun Dragon, but each only managed to eat a portion, thus giving them specific powers. Over time, these foul dragons were hunted down and slain by heroes of old.

Commodore Straker's rebellion grows in strength - but his enemies are growing even faster. Faced with a dozen rebel planets in their territory, the Mutuality finally takes notice of the upstart known as the Liberator, and they gather a vast fleet to crush him. Preparing for a titanic interstellar battle, it's clear Straker has no chance. His tiny enclave of free planets can't survive the weight of 1000 worlds. His own officers realize this, and some of them begin to turn against him....

Ignis Glace is a war-torn world of fire and ice. Tidally-locked to its tiny red sun, one side of the planet bakes while the other side is forever frozen. Known as Sunside and Nightside, these two wastelands are bordered by a narrow inhabitable region known as Twilight. Humans and mechs battle for control of their world, even while a third player approaches the game: the Skaintz Imperium. Once the aliens strike, no world is ever the same.

In Dragon Magic, the fourth book of the Haven Series, the Kindred call upon Brand for help. Things are not right in their kingdom beneath Snowdon. Modi has led a treasure-hunting expedition deep into the Everdark, a place where spine-terrors, blind croaking things, and great wurms reside. But it's been weeks; Modi is overdue, and the Gudrin fears the worst. Brand journeys into the magnesium bowels - and beyond - and discovers things buried there that he wishes he had never disturbed.

Death awaits the curious! Out along the rim of the galaxy hangs a loose configuration of some 60 stars known as the Faustian Chain. This whorl of sparkling suns is rich in planets and occupies an irregular volume of space some 20 light years in diameter. From an external viewpoint, the Chain presents a colorful display of plasma-streams, luminous nebulae and sparkling pinpoints of light.

Earth’s first colony ship finally reaches the target world. The excitement of planetfall is indescribable, but quickly transforms into sick disappointment when they find the atmosphere is a roiling mass of hydrochloric acid, carbon dioxide, and other deadly poisons. They fly onward, seeking better planets. They find them, but none are ideal. The search goes on for a century, then longer still. As they move farther from Earth, aliens discover the intruding ship, and they begin to investigate humanity. They find our species unacceptable.

In Shadow Magic, the third book of the Haven Series, Herla of the Wild Hunt makes his move to gather all the Jewels of Power. Hunting down and killing those who wield them, the undead king is as relentless as death itself. He is not the only interested party, however, as several armies march to meet Brand and his allies in a desperate battle for control of the River Haven.

The Skaintz Imperium was eradicated from the backwater planet of Garm, but at great cost. The population of the world was decimated within weeks, and Garm will never be the same. At least humanity can breathe easily knowing that the mysterious aliens are all dead.... But are they? Using their natural form of communication, Skaintz radio signals did chirrup and click, however briefly. Transmissions in their ancient language now spread at the speed of light in a growing sphere.

Sometimes defending those you love means risking everything and attempting the most dangerous task in the universe: making a planetary assault against a heavily entrenched enemy. It's grim and always ugly. But as long as men refuse to bow their heads to conquerors, they will take the fight to the enemy or die trying. Three masters of military science fiction have come together here to tell harrowing tales of high-tech mayhem.

Owdowialy wykladowca akademicki Kyle Riggs mieszka z dwójka dzieci na kalifornijskiej farmie. Pewnej nocy jego spokojne zycie przerywa przybycie okretu obcych, który porywa i morduje jego dzieci, a nastepnie zabiera na poklad samego Kyle’a. Okazuje sie, ze bohater przechodzi serie testów, po których statek, najwyrazniej obdarzony inteligencja, czyni go swoim dowódca. Jest tez zla wiadomosc - obcy, którzy wyslali jednostke, walcza z kims o wiele grozniejszym, kims, kto wkrótce znajdzie sie w poblizu Ziemi.

The Red Jewel is rediscovered and wielded in this, Book number five of the series. Blood Magic reigns supreme, but who will master the Red Jewel first? The elder races gather, unhappy with the upstart humans and their possession of powerful Jewels. Brand leads an army of the River Folk and the Wee Folk to the Black Mountains to answer the request of the Kindred for aid. Enemy hosts march to face him. Fantastic forces are unleashed upon the world in a new war that will not be soon forgotten.

James McGill zostaje wezwany na misję sabotażową, której podołać może wyłącznie człowiek obdarzony jego wyjątkowymi zdolnościami. McGill radzi sobie dobrze. Aż za dobrze. W wyniku jego działań, rozwścieczeni Rigelianie wypowiadają Ziemianom wojnę. Na pomoc obu stronom przybywają dwie floty ze Światów Centralnych. Tymczasem w samym środku Drogi Mlecznej trwa wojna domowa o władzę w Imperium. Potężne okręty ścierają się w bitwach, niszcząc tysiące zamieszkanych planet. Konflikt pomiędzy galaktycznymi supermocarstwami rozszerza się na kosmiczne prowincje. Ludzkość zostaje wciągnięta w sam środek burzliwej walki.

Known as the Primal Jewels, the Black, the Quicksilver, and the Sunstone have long been lost. This is the story of their return to the lands of Cymru. Many old evils stir. Four score marriages between the Fae and the River Folk result in interesting offspring that have not been seen for centuries. King Arawn of the Dead schemes to raise an army to invade the River Haven. The Kindred face a mysterious plague, Myrrdin is nowhere to be found and Oberon is up to something.

Sily Gwiezdne i Kyle Riggs staja przed nowymi wyzwaniami, mierza sie z kolejnymi flotami, odkrywaja sekrety wojny, która tocza od lat. Ludzie zdobywaja system Eden, ale czy uda sie go utrzymac? Sily Gwiezdne sa oslabione po dlugiej walce, wielu Zolnierzy chce wrócic do domu. Wiedzac, Ze maszyny pojawia sie znowu, z kolejna armada, Riggs szuka rozwiazania, które mogloby na stale przywrócic pokój na Ziemi.

Da es in ihrem Territorium nun ein Dutzend Rebellenplaneten gibt, nimmt die Gemeinschaft Dirk Strecher, den als Liberator bezeichneten Emporkömmling, endlich zur Kenntnis und versammelt eine enorme Flotte, um ihn zu vernichten. Strecher bereitet sich auf eine gigantische interstellare Schlacht vor, in der er keine Chance zu haben scheint. Seine kleine Enklave freier Planeten kann es nicht mit der Macht von tausend Welten aufnehmen. Seine Offiziere und Unterstützer erkennen das, und manche sind entmutigt.

Kyle Riggs od dawna nie odwiedzał Ziemi. Nie ma pojęcia, co tam się dzieje. Nadchodzące raporty są coraz rzadsze i coraz dziwniejsze. Riggs, odizolowany w systemie Eden ze swoimi marines, zaczyna zdawać sobie sprawę, że przeciwko niemu formuje się sojusz. Dwie ogromne floty wkrótce ruszą, by zniszczyć siły pułkownika. Ostatni obrońcy z Sił Gwiezdnych muszą stawić czoła wrogom. Trzeba zawrzeć przymierze z obcymi biotami. Ale które gatunki są naprawdę godne zaufania?