From distant planets to space-borne combat, from desperate attempts to win a race to the last hope of a beleaguered world, fifteen stories of Military SF and space opera, written to celebrate the 10th birthday of independent publisher NewCon Press.IntroductionThe Last Tank Commander – Allen StroudBetween Nine and Eleven – Adam RobertsTaking Flight – Una McCormackThe 10 Second War – Michael BrookesDecommissioned – Tade Thompson...

Try a tiki—a sweet, fruity blast from the past, updated for modern tastesTiki cocktails are a tasty mid-twentieth-century American classic, but their popularity suffered when syrupy drink mixes hit the scene. Now it's time to welcome them back: Food blogger Nicole Weston and mixologist Robert Sharp have brought back the fresh taste of tiki drinks, banishing the artificial syrupy sweetness of mixes for fresh fruit juices, high-quality spirits, and homemade syrups. T...

Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp's revolution on the planet Sanction IV. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless -- and whose dangers are endless. Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink.A breakneck-paced crime thriller, ALTERED CARBON took its readers deep into the universe Morgan had so compellingly realised witho...

In the future,earth's warriors haveconquered 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 E...

The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.'Banks is a phenomenon' William GibsonIt is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars but Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to th...

CONQUEST OF EARTH is BOOK 4 of the Stellar Conquest military science fiction series.Poised to reconquer humanity's home, Captain Absen and Conquest are confronted with a new enemy that upsets the balance of power and changes everything EarthFleet expected.Their struggle to free Earth becomes instead a desperate battle for sheer survival as they contemplate the unthinkable: total annihilation.PLAGUE WARS SERI...

**** (Five Stars) This is probably the best book I read in this series. - Paul M"You can see the battles unfold as if you are right there, and his descriptions of the technicalities of battleships, interstellar travel, and weaponry are clear, concise, and interesting. The characters are genuine, dialogue rings true, and I especially enjoy his 'peoples' from other planetary systems." - Marcia K"Worthy ending to an awesome series."

PLAGUE WARS BOOK 8.Guns blazing, Master Sergeant Jill Repeth and her team search the nuclear wasteland for her kidnapped fiancé, while Spooky Nguyen prepares Earth's first-ever Space Marines for duty aboard the experimental battleship Orion. But even commanded by the legendary Navy Captain Henrich Absen, Orion is hopelessly outclassed, and only by supreme sacrifice can Earth be saved.For now, that is -- because the Destroye...

PLAGUE WARS BOOK 10The gripping conclusion to the Plague Wars series. Over 500 pages filled with your favorite characters and the military science fiction action you've come to love.When the enormous world-killing alien Destroyer arrives in the Solar System, EarthFleet must use every resource and employ every tactic from sneak attacks to suicide ships to fend off its genocidal intentions.THE PLAGUE WARS SERI...

Renegade Mystic Naero Amashin Maeris returns upon her honor, on trial for her life, accused of murdering a High Mystic Master. She faces a tribunal of Mystics and Spacer elders who will decide her fate. Of the two remaining High Mystic Masters, one will prosecute the case against her, demanding her execution, at the hands of the Mystic Enforcer Khai, the champion whom Naero loves. The other High Master will conduct her defense, seeking to exonerate her against these serious charges.

The Ejjai Invasion strikes without warning at the height of the Fifth Spacer War. All of humanity–Spacer and lander–face the threat of extinction. Alien masterminds fling countless hordes of hi-tek invader fleets and armies against several hundred worlds on both sides of the border, and the doomsday clock is ticking.Once the invaders conquer so many human worlds, they will become unstoppable, and the grim numbers game grinds on. Humanity suspends their own war and bands together, f...

The Promised Land Has A Vermin Problem. . .Once before, the sentient races in the known part of the galaxy had united against alien invaders. Decades have since passed and new generations have grown complacent . . . dangerously so.Long ago, much of the population of an entire planet fled their world before its sun went nova in thousands of ships, each one larger than a city. Now, the armada has arrived at the world they intend to make their new home. They regard the fact th...