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A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps....

Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom. Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and...

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner are opposites. Each is obsessed with their own speciality and their rivalry spans a millennia. Yet together, they may hold the secret to saving the necron race....

They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life. A decade ago Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed...

Welcome to Sacramentus. Austerity and toil will teach the true measure of the Hive's failing. No one is blameless. The planetary governor has fallen, deposed in scandal and treachery.

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

Censured at the Council of Nikaea for his flagrant use of sorcery, Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons Legion retreat to their homeworld....

When young Tad Thatcher told his grandfather he wanted to command a starship like he did, his grandfather took him seriously. He taught his grandson everything he knew.

After the horrors of Istvaan V, Horus declares outright war against the Imperium. In the shadows of the Emperor's Palace, powerful figures convene....

Bjorn the Fell-handed is the oldest living Space Marine in the Imperium. A hero of the Space Wolves from the darkest days of myth, he was interred within the iron tomb of a Dreadnought eight thousand years ago, called upon only when the need is strongest.

The Cadian Gate is broken, and the Imperium is riven in two. The might of the Traitor Legions, kept shackled for millennia behind walls of iron and sorcery, has been unleashed on a darkening galaxy....

Unaware of the wider Heresy and following the Warmaster's increasingly cryptic orders, Roboute Guilliman returns to Ultramar to muster his Legion for war....

A Great War is coming, and it will engulf the Imperium of Man....

When a plan to uplift Earth draws the attention of warring alien civilizations, humanity’s greatest leap forward becomes a fight for survival. A handful of fighter pilots stand between extinction and a new dawn for mankind.

As the flames of treachery spread throughout the Imperium, Horus plots to subvert or destroy all those who would stand against him....

What happens in the wake of Failure Mode? The Aftermath of a stunning victory—especially an unexpected, complete, and final victory—should be high-fives all around, listening to politicians give boring congratulatory speeches, and a well-deserved rest for the Merry Band of Pirates. Yes, the...

After seven years of bitter war, the end has come at last for the conflict known infamously as the Horus Heresy....

The New York Times bestselling origin story of the Master Chief—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo! The 26th century. Humanity has expanded beyond Earth’s system to hundreds of planets that colonists now call home. But the United Earth Government...

The mission to destroy the enemy Gateway was literally a smashing success. Except the Pirates were too late, and now not one but two of the enemy are loose in the galaxy. And they are equipped with starships more powerful than Valkyrie. A direct fight would be hopeless, so the Pirates must rely...

Having witnessed the terrible massacre of Imperial forces on Isstvan III, Death Guard Captain Garro seizes a ship and sets a course for Terra to warn the Emperor of Horus' treachery....

The return of humanity's oldest enemy... An alien prophecy that predicts our species' downfall... And a captain who's the only thing standing in the way of his starship getting mothballed. Wait, what?

Titus Briggs's second chance has become a first-rate, alien-crushing, rebel-stomping success. The MOCOM units are turning the tide of the war, and the Moonlight Rebellion is on the ropes. But if these treasonous humans, who worship alien invaders as gods, are to be finally defeated, it means...

Inquisitor Eisenhorn must track down and defeat the forces who would destroy him or face the wrath of the Ordo Malleus....

High in Earth's orbit, the Fist of Orion has been busy. With new Shrike attack craft, Van decides it's time to go on the offensive. Despite bringing peace to many of the stars, the war has turned—and come home, bringing with it a new kind fight that Van knows all to well. Politics. With that...

Colonel Carl Butler charges back into the world of military crisis, corporate malfeasance, and intergalactic mystery in the action-packed fifth Planetside novel from science fiction master Michael Mammay. Carl Butler has returned to his home planet from the moon Taug and is looking forward to...

Bjorn the Fell-handed is the oldest living Space Marine in the Imperium. A hero of the Space Wolves from the darkest days of myth, he was interred within the iron tomb of a Dreadnought eight thousand years ago, called upon only when the need is strongest. When a ghost ship drifts out of the warp and returns to Fenris, the old wolf wakes, for an ancient foe has risen again.

Mark Allen thought he'd seen the worst the Ascendancy had to offer. He was wrong. A routine mission turns into a nightmare when Rylos Squadron discovers an abandoned facility deep within Ascendancy space—one that should not exist. Inside, rows of bodies float in vats, the remnants of a long...

A Horus Heresy Character Series Audiobook. The First Captain of the Blood Angels Legion is tested as never before, commanding a contingent of fresh inductii in a desperate battle. As primarch Sanguinius leads the Imperial Reprisal Fleet to the Garmon Cluster to slow the traitor Horus' relentless advance upon Terra, Raldoron is forced to rely on unblooded inductii, rapidly recruiting as many men as possible from the cluster's war zones. These new warriors could very well be the future of the Blood Angels, if they can follow the Archien's shining example and master the Red Thirst.

A new Earth, assembled and perfected. That was the promise. It's not the reality. For Austin Caine, the question is everywhere he looks: what did the machines do with two hundred years and a world of their own? Someone made sure there's no easy answer. He's going to find one anyway.

Victory was supposed to mean peace. After defeating the Archon and returning from certain death, Jack Schafer should finally be able to rest beside the woman he loves. Instead, he discovers a cruel bargain already in motion. An ancient machine intelligence is consuming Dr. Manheim from the...

April 30, 2033—the day World War III erupted in the open. Across Europe and Asia, the fragile illusion of restraint shattered as missiles, drones, and armor surged forward in coordinated fury. In Eastern Europe, EDEP armored formations thundered across Poland like a steel storm. Their objective was clear: the Vistula River. If it fell, so would the heart of NATO’s eastern defenses. Tank battles, manned and robotic, raged across shattered towns and muddy fields as outnumbered defenders fought to slow an enemy built for mass, speed, and annihilation.

After Morgana's brutal display of power, the galaxy trembles in fear. Thomas' answer will shake the stars. Hope is a spark. Revolution is the fire. With enemies closing in and time running out, Thomas must rally a fractured resistance into something greater—a movement powerful enough to challenge an empire. The path ahead will demand everything he has and more, testing not just his courage but the bonds forged with those who fight beside him.

Captain John “Black Jack” Geary tries a desperate gamble to lead the Alliance Fleet home through enemy-occupied space in this novel in the thrilling Lost Fleet series. Geary is convinced that the Syndics are planning to ambush the fleet and finish it off once and for all. Realizing the...

Two rival tech companies compete for the chance to bring AI to Mars in this workplace drama full of corporate espionage, high-stakes science, and, yes, robot dogs. Ever since two DevLok employees left the company to start Watchover, the companies have been bitter enemies. So when a government...

The arrival of the Iglax introduced Humanity to the wider Galaxy of Astroba, as the hip-high, blue-furred aliens hired humans as miners, workers, and in one case, Earth's first-ever starfighter. Through brains, brawn, and guts, Darius Rutledge became more than just a mercenary pilot: He became a legend. When war broke out with the Iglax, Darius outwitted them and forced the treacherous aliens into ceding a stretch of untapped star systems known as Fringe Space.

In a near-future Tokyo, a Japanese investigator and US peacekeeper reluctantly join forces to solve a series of bizarre murders. It's 2033 and Tokyo, partially occupied by China, is in a state of fear, distrust, and drone-enforced surveillance. When Detective Miyako Koreda is paired with...

Returning after a well-deserved leave, Archer Devereaux is given a tame assignment while the shipyard is finishing up repairs on his ship. Tame for anyone else, perhaps, but Archer seems to have a special kind of magnet that attracts trouble—this time from inside the Phlegraean Alliance. His diplomatic mission goes wrong quickly, and things get worse from there.

They killed her once for asking questions. She came back with answers. Josephine Givens has 4.8 million reasons to burn toward Pinnacle Station. Death warrants signed during breakfast. Termination authorizations approved between meetings. Children measured in credit deficits and erased from...

Jeremiah Rose and the Black Thorns, flush with their success against the Jade Falcons on Borghese, head to Harlech to draw a new assignment. Their only requirement: Their new job must let them face off against the Clans. They find more than they bargained for. Their assignment: Garrison duty on Wolcott—a Kurita planet deep in the heart of the Clan Smoke Jaguar occupation zone. Wolcott is besieged, but protected from further Clan aggression by the Clan code of honor.

Bushido is the warrior code that governs all these concepts. As a MechWarrior of the Draconis Combine, Minobu Tetsuhara is bound by it, a code that demands loyal service to the devious Warlord Grieg Samsonov. When Minobu came upon a strange blue and gold Archer, the field littered with its vanquished opponents, and its weapons empty, bushido dictated that he not destroy an honorable but helpless warrior. For that, he became Dispossessed, stripped of his BattleMech—and his honor.

When fragile loyalties collide with ruthless ambition, Shaw and his crew face impossible choices that could reshape the galaxy forever. Commodore Shaw forges an uneasy alliance with the Pendragon Separatists, a gamble born of desperation and necessity. But their first joint mission takes a...

They took our world. We’re taking it back. As humanity expanded across the stars, the Gorge Empire took notice. When their fleets descended upon Earth and her inner colonies, the conquest was swift—complete within hours. The fractured outer colonies were left to wither on the vine. That was their mistake. Over three generations, the outer colonies forged themselves into a war machine. Militarized. United. Driven by one purpose: revenge. Corporal Liam Wardell of the Colonial Alliance Marines was raised from birth to fight in that machine. His mission: take the war to the enemy.

Rider James is a Breacher. A specialist in blowing holes in starships and making impossible exits. But currently, the only door he’s looking at is the one locking his cell at Blackrock Prison. He keeps his head down and his mouth shut, driven by a single promise: to survive long enough to see his daughter again. Then Naval Intelligence walks in with an offer he can’t refuse: a full pardon in exchange for one last job. The mission? Drop into a criminal stronghold on the edge of contested space, extract a kidnapped scientist, and disappear.

Life among the stars isn’t always glamorous. The Modulus Echo is a Kestrel class starship, a rare hybrid that can fly in space and in almost any planetary atmosphere. Her crew consists of four very different people who have forged a friendship through trials and triumphs. But there’s a lot to learn about living life off the galactic grid, and if they aren’t careful, the Echo’s crew will have to learn it the hard way. With newly installed weapons and shields, the Echo is ready for her next run.

Defection. Once it starts, the flood gates open as Imperial troops sent to the Frontier to die for the Emperor suddenly see a chance to survive by hopping across the border into the Green Empire. The mass civilian exodus was bad enough, but when the Emperor's own fleet starts doing so in alarming numbers only a bit of trickery on the part of the Emperor is going to lead to victory before he loses too many ships to the growing sanctuary of sanity that is the Green Empire.

Montgomery Hale is an ensign now. For real, almost. He's on the primary helm rotation. The captain trusts him. He flew the corridor mission and he didn't get caught. After a year of waiting for someone to figure out his academy record was forged on a rented terminal when he was sixteen, he's finally relaxing into the job. That's when things get bad.

A Marine and his mech. Partners by design; brothers by war. After losing his arm in combat against enemy forces on the planet sk’Alen, Gunnery Sergeant John D. Ryerson is drafted into a classified program pairing elite Marines with intelligent mechs. His partner, MIMIC-01, soon nicknamed “Mike,” bears echoes of Ryerson’s dead brother’s personality matrix. Together they are sent to the Tau Ceti front to test the system in live fire. But as the sk’Alen insurgents grow bolder, Ryerson and Mike discover the aliens aren’t acting alone.

He died a hero on Triton I. He woke up a mercenary on Crestwald. Surviving the explosion that should have killed him, Captain 3030 is now a man comprised of secrets, synthetic skin, and stolen alloynium. Indebted to the resistance, he forces himself into one last job: a daring extraction to rescue the wife and daughter of a squadmate. But his former squad, the 41X, is hot on his trail. Led by a ruthless new Captain desperate to bury his own insecurities, the Dominion forces are closing in.