The RCN series
With
the Lightnings
In a
few hours' time, diplomacy is going
to fail the wealthy planet of Kostroma. Daniel Leary, Adele Mundy, and
the scratch crew that they have gathered, are just possibly enough to
stand in the way of a powerful invasion fleet. They have nothing on
their side but one another.
Lt.
Leary, Commanding
Mundy
in particular is something of a
novelty in the field, not particularly attractive, she's not only older
than Leary, but she's also a formidable pistol shot, a genius with
electronics (albeit something of a klutz otherwise) and not
romantically involved with Leary (or anybody else). Finding themselves
aboard the Royal Cinnabar Navy ship Princess Cecile, the two plunge
into a multilayered sequence of adventures. They survive bureaucratic
pettifogging as well as the machinations of charming and unscrupulous
political exiles trying to get home, peril in space, attempted
assassinations and an encounter with a den of pirates they hope to make
into allies against Cinnabar's enemies.
The
Far Side of the Stars
In the wake of the peace accord between
the Republic of Cinnabar and the Alliance, former warriors Lt. Daniel
Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy make a living escorting wealthy
nobles on an expedition to a remote section of the universe and find
themselves taking on winged dragon.
The
Way To Glory
Violence
racks Cinnabar. The fleets of the tyrannical Alliance are on the move,
and at home class riots threaten to rip apart not only society but the
Republic of Cinnabar Navy. Lt. Daniel Leary has earned promotion, but
the needs of the Republic and the RCN require that he serve under an
officer whose paranoia has already led him to execute crewmen out of
hand. Signals Officer Adele Mundy has repeatedly proved her skills and
loyalty as Cinnabar's most accomplished intelligence agent, but now
elements within the Republic want to draw her into a conspiracy like
the one that led to her parent's massacre. Leary and Mundy battle their
way from riot-torn streets to spies in an outlying base and an anarchic
planet where violence is the only law, but if they succeed at every
stage, one test still remains: a space battle against an overwhelming
Alliance force. Even for Daniel Leary it will be a difficult fight to
win-and almost impossible to survive.
Some Golden Harbor
The
tyrannical Alliance continues its war against the Republic of
Cinnabar, and Daniel Leary, newly promoted to Commander, and his crew
have a new mission: Stop Dunbar’s World from falling to an invasion by
the planet Pellegrino. Nataniel Arruns, son of the dictator of
Pellegrino, has landed with a large contingent, intending to set
himself up as the ruling warlord, with the planet’s population becoming
workers—serfs—of the Pellegrinian overlords. And Dunbar’s world has no
more than their local. . .
When the Tide Rises
When
the Republic of Cinnabar doesn't have enough battleships to deal
with all the crises in its war with the Alliance, it sends the next
best thing: Commander Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy.
This time they're off to help the Bagarian cluster in its rebellion
against the Alliance, but they'll quickly find that the worst threats
to the rebels are the treacherous politicians leading them.
Leary and
Mundy use electronic espionage, sub-machine guns, and shipkilling
missiles. . .
The
Belisarius series
An
Oblique Approach
Only
three things stand between the Malwa
and the conquest of Earth: Byzantium, the empire of Rome in the East; a
crystal that urges mankind to fight; and Belisarius, general of the
Byzantine Empire, and arguably the greatest commmander the Earth has
ever known.
In
the Heart of Darkness
Belisarius,
the great general, is all that
stands between the alien Malwa and domination of sixth-century Earth.
The supermind that controls the Malwa, intends first to rule the world
and then to put its stamp upon all eternity. And Belisarius has another
enemy to contend with, closer to home.
Destiny's
Shield
EVIL
FROM
BEYOND TIME The Malwa Empire squats like a toad across 6th century
India, commanded by ruthless men with depraved appetites. The thing
from the distant future that commands them is far worse. AN ADVISOR
WITHOUT A BODY Those who oppose the purulent Hell the Malwa will make
of Earth have sent a crystal, Aide, to halt their advance. Aide holds
all human knowledge -- but he cannot act by himself. A CHAMPION FOR ALL
TIMES Count Belisarius, the greatest general of the age and perhaps of
all ages, must outwit the evil empire -- and then, when there is no
longer room to maneuver, to meet it sword-edge to sword-edge, because,
no matter what it costs EVIL CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO RULE MEN!
Fortune's
Stroke
Aide, a
human soul embodied in a jewel,
journeys back in time to join forces with Belisarius, the greatest
general of the sixth century, to stop Link, an evil supercomputer that
is using its vast powers to rewrite history to create the powerful,
technologically advanced Malwa Empire.
The
Tide of Victory
Armed
with lancers, breech-loading rifles,
steamships, and galleys, General Belisarius, accompanied by his ally
from the future, ventures into the Malwa Empire, a sixth-century
kingdom ruled by Link, a horrifyingly evil entity from the future.
The
Dance of Time
The
Malwa and their evil have been driven back to their Indian
heartland, but there they coil to strike again. Ruled by a monster from
the future which is part computer and part demon, they prepare a fresh
attack whose success will leave them rulers of the world—and the
monster that guides the Malwa will rule the whole future! Belisarius,
the greatest general of his age, has arrayed the forces of Mankind
against the Malwa evil. On his breast is the jewel sent to his support
from a future of hope. . .
The General
The Forge
w/S M Stirling
|
The Hammer
w/S M Stirling
|
The Anvil
w/S M Stirling
|
The Steel
w/S M Stirling
|
The Sword
w/S M Stirling
|
The Chosen
w/S M Stirling
|
The Reformer
w/S M Stirling
Gary Ruddell
|
The Tyrant
w/Eric Flint
Gary
Ruddell |
Conqueror
w/S M Stirling
David
Mattingly
Onimbus
|
Warlord
w/ S M Stirling
David
Mattingly
Onimbus
|
Conqueror
With the aid of a sentient battle computer from before
the collapse of interstellar civilization, Raj Whitehall has come close
to reuniting the entire planet of Bellevue. Because of his victories
and because of the way he won them, Raj is loved by the people—and his
army would follow him to Hell. Even those closest to him, his band of
sworn companions and his wickedly subtle but utterly loyal wife, hold
him in awe.
And that's the problem. For though Raj
battles only in
the name of his emperor and has proven his loyalty again and again,
still the half-mad jealousy and fear of Barholm Clerett is about to
give Raj no choice but to revolt or face death by torture. Raj
Whitehall, Hammer of the Barbarians, Sword of the Spirit of Man, has
always been ready to bear any burden, pay any price for final victory.
Now his fate is on him.
Warlord
<> Raj Whitehall was a young noble of the Civil Government,
the last remnant of galactic civilization on the planet Bellevue.
Possessed of an unparalleled strategic genius, Raj dreamed of leading
his people's armies to victory against the barbarians who threatened to
engulf them.
<>Yet it was not exterior enemies who
were
Raj's greatest
challenge, but the Civil Government itself. Its bureaucrats had become
corrupt extortionists. The ranks of its armies were filled with
barbarian mercenaries ready to turn on the paymasters they despised.
Those at the highest levels sank their knives into each other's backs
even as the barbarians closed in. And the Governor himself, the man to
whom Raj has sworn and given absolute loyalty, nourished a paranoid
envy and mistrust that grew with every victory Raj won....
Luckily for Bellevue, Raj
had a hidden asset beyond the
worship of his troops and his own genius for war. Raj was possessed
of—or possessed by—a "guardian angel" that guided him inexorably toward
the goal of planetary dominion. But could even a battle computer of the
Galactic Age be enough to counter the fury of Raj's enemies ... and the
treachery of his "friends"?
Novels
Foreign Legion
w/ Eric Flint, S M Stirling, Mark L Van Name, David Webber
Dru Blair
|
Grimmer than Hell
Stephen Hickman |
Old Nathan
Larry Elmore |
Redliners
Gary Ruddell |
Seas of Venus
Bob Eggleton |
The Sea Hag |
Other Times Than Peace
(July 2008)
|
Balefires
Richard Pellegrino
|
|
Foreign
Legions
The
guilds of star-traveling merchants
had strict rules to prevent their technology from falling into the
hands of the natives of planets they were exploiting: military
operations had to be carried out with weaponry no more complex than
swords and bows.
That was
no handicap to merchant princes with a galaxy to scour for military
slaves to do their fighting for them. Some came to Earth for soldiers
and returned to the stars with the best the planet had to offer. For
over two thousands years the aliens thought they’d succeeded
brilliantly—but then things changed!
Grimmer
than Hell
This
volume explores a future world where
the police have cameras watching everybody, everywhere, 24 hours a day,
and introduces Lacey, the man who watches the watchmen. Then the books
segues to a very different future where the Fleet preserves the peace
in the galaxy but at a extremely high cost.
Old
Nathan
Redliners
Burned
out by their horrific wartime
experiences but too dangerous to themselves and others to be returned
to civilian life, Major Arthur Farrell and Strike Force Company C41 are
assigned to guard a colony being sent to a hell planet, but their
mission goes horribly wrong.
Seas
of Venus
On
Venus,
where survivors of the human race struggle to live in domed undersea
Keeps, two determined soldiers--Ensign Brainard and Johnnie Gordon
brave the treacherous web of intrigue in the Keeps and the perilous
surface jungles to ensure the survival of all humankind.
The
Reformer
The
Sea Hag
Other Times Than
Peace
Balefires
(new
collection)
