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Mercenary Navy, Book 1
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Joel Richards
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By:
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John J. Spearman
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The Union is gone. Interstellar travel is no longer safe. Enter ex-Union Navy Officer Cliff Rawlins.
More than four years after being wrongfully stripped of his rank and decorations in a court-martial stacked against him, ex-Union Navy Officer Cliff Rawlins suddenly finds himself a free man.
The galaxy to which he returns, however, is changing.
The Union of Free Planets is on the verge of dissolving. Many of the shadowy political players working behind the scenes to end the Union are the same people who sent Cliff away. Yet, in the coming political upheaval, Cliff glimpses an opportunity.
For centuries, people have relied upon the Union Navy to act as the policeman of the shipping lanes. With the end of the Union will come the end of the navy. Interstellar commerce is about to become fraught with danger.
Cliff has a way to use his expertise to provide secure transport across interstellar space. A mercenary navy to defend settled space and get rich doing it. After all, he deserves it for what he went through.
But there are enemies old and new who want him to fail. And this time, they want him dead . . .
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- Shadow Host, Book 1
- By: K. Gorman
- Narrated by: Erin Bateman
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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Reuben Shirano is the worst kind of criminal: smart, ruthless, and with no lines he won't cross. He runs a tight, sophisticated operation backed by the powerful Tsai-Shirano conglomerate, proving time and time again to be untouchable by the system’s governing bodies. In other words, he’s precisely the type of person Captain Soo-jin Dokgo tries to avoid. But sometimes, you only get one little chance to bring an asshole to justice. She and the crew of Huli Jing are determined to bring him down and kick him where it hurts.
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Soo-Jin is back in this gripping thriller!
- By Jas P on 03-28-25
By: K. Gorman
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The Defense of the Commonwealth
- Perseverance Andrews, Book 1
- By: John Spearman
- Narrated by: Alex Picard
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Hundreds of years in the future, humans have spread into the stars, with wealthy nation-states settling and colonizing habitable planets, though the deep-seated conflicts of modern humanity have regrettably persisted. Newly appointed Commander Persistence Andrews has to navigate the power struggles of greed, power, and ego, but this woman has grit like no other.
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interesting start
- By BritMick on 03-14-24
By: John Spearman
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Bearing Gifts
- The Stardock Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Sean Fenian
- Narrated by: Michael Karl Orenstein
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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When the over-driven hyperdrive on their mobile shipyard burned out, the Chhrt'ktk't abandoned it in an inhabited system along their path, hoping it would work as a decoy to buy them more time to escape the Khreetan fleet pursuing them. They didn't anticipate how far the pre-spacefaring species they turned over their broken-down maintenance facility to would subvert their plan.
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Childish
- By Nick Chalko on 10-19-24
By: Sean Fenian
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The Forgotten Ship
- By: J.N. Chaney, Terry Mixon
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Drake steals artifacts so they can benefit all of mankind. They belong in a museum, after all, not hoarded by a select few in their private vaults. It's a dangerous life, but someone has to do it. Until he learns of a map to the location of a lost mega-freighter once belonging to the ancient royal family. Drake, like so many before him, can't resist the siren's call. After all, it's the find of a lifetime.
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Great premise and had me guessing what was going to happen the entire time.
- By p'Trick on 06-28-25
By: J.N. Chaney, and others
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Starship Sakira
- Delphi in Space, Book 1
- By: Bob Blanton
- Narrated by: Jessica Gurd
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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What would you do if you found a spaceship? Would you call the government, would you pretend you never saw it, or would you keep it a secret? What would you do with it? Use it to gallivant around the galaxy, conquer Earth, get filthy rich, or try to improve life on Earth? Listen along and find out how Marc works to convert Earth into a spacefaring world capable of defending itself and of being united as it meets the other civilizations in the galaxy.
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Kid’s fantasy book
- By Adam H. on 10-26-20
By: Bob Blanton
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Hero's Legacy
- Heroes of Britannia, Book 1
- By: Fred Hughes
- Narrated by: Michael Joss
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Emperor Hazard is Dead! When the Teddy Bears ambush the ship carrying Emperor Hazard to a peace conference in the Zenkarr system, Britannia once again finds itself at war. The Teddy Bears have a plan, but Gathii Kong, now in command of the Imperial Force, doesn’t take the bait. He follows Hazard’s last order to fight smart and foils the Zenkarr Intelligence Minister’s plan to destroy Britannia’s fleet by not charging deeper into the system. But now Kong has the lion by the tail—he can’t follow the enemy fleet into the gravity well, nor can he let them out to terrorize the nearby systems.
By: Fred Hughes
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Bastard
- Last Life Series, Book 1
- By: Alexey Osadchuk, Andrew Douglas Schmitt - translator
- Narrated by: Ryan Burke
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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In a former life, Jack was gifted, meaning he possessed peculiar abilities. If rich folks found themselves in a jam, Jack could use his talents to get them out of it. Where others were sure to fail, Jack's aristocratic clientele could always count on him to finish jobs cleanly, efficiently, and leave no trace, for which his services commanded a hefty fee. But one day, Jack picked a fight with the wrong man and his old life came to an end. But, as it turned out, his story was far from over.
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MC is a bit of a murder hobo
- By Forrest on 04-30-23
By: Alexey Osadchuk, and others
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Find the Stars
- The Nano Empire, Book 1
- By: James Scott
- Narrated by: Garrett Michael Brown
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Alex went for a walk in the woods and ended up changing the world. Chased by a bear, or maybe a squirrel, he finds a spaceship that lets him control an AI and nanomachines. Join his adventure as he changes the world and the galaxy as he builds the Nano Empire.
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found a starship done smart
- By Ben on 12-09-24
By: James Scott
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Mark's Magic
- Fat Man's Gift, Book 1
- By: Jerry Boyd
- Narrated by: Chris Ciulla
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Mark was happy enough, working as a mechanic. He didn't know that he was more than that until his mother gave him some keepsakes from his grandfather. Those opened his eyes to a whole world that he hadn't realized he had a place in. Watch him learn to use his new skills.
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The author really should have found a different reader.
- By Scott on 06-10-25
By: Jerry Boyd
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Stellar Heritage: The Complete Series
- Stellar Heritage, Books 1-4
- By: Bob Mauldin
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 64 hrs and 46 mins
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When Simon and Katherine Hawke stumble upon an alien shuttle that has landed on Earth, it will not only change the course of their lives but also the entire world. Taking the shuttle into orbit, they discover a much larger ship left adrift with no one on board. Commandeering it, they confirm that we're not alone in the universe and must prepare the human race for what is about to come.
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I have to admit, the ending of book 1 was a huge letdown.
- By Scott on 06-19-25
By: Bob Mauldin
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Wraith
- The Convergence War, Book 1
- By: M.R. Forbes
- Narrated by: Daniel Wisniewski
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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When the research starship Galileo vanishes without a trace, the powers-that-be are quick to bury the incident, eager to prevent escalating tensions that could lead to war. As a former POW, Soren refuses to give the ship up for lost. His daughter is one of the missing. Taking matters into his own hands, Soren starts pulling strings and calling in favors, determined to launch a clandestine mission to bring Galileo home. When an old friend offers him a ship for the operation, he expects a rusty relic headed for the scrapyard.
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Good enough plot to look past some elements
- By Tim on 03-28-25
By: M.R. Forbes
The dreadfully slow pace of the narration and uninspired performance. The story had real potential.
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