Military

By John C. Wright
Series Count to a Trillion Series

Tired of living out life in dystopian Texas after the collapse of the world economy, a young hired gun decides to try his hand at space travel, only to be catapulted far into the future, a time when humanity and Artificial Intelligence have both evolved to frightening new levels.

By Jonathan Maberry
Series Joe Ledger Novels

“Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences face their deadliest threat yet when they go up against two competing groups of geneticists bent on world domination (From the Publisher).”

By Orson Scott Card
Series Ender Wiggin
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth’s complete destruction.

Became the movie: Ender's Game.

By Orson Scott Card
Series Shadow Saga
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Follows the life of Ender Wiggin’s comrade Bean, from his escape from the mean streets of Rotterdam, to his student days at the Battle School, and to his role as Ender’s right hand ally, strategist, and friend in the epic struggle to save Earth from alien invaders (From the Publisher).”

By John Scalzi
Series Old Man’s War Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the conflict involves much more than he understands (From the Publisher).”

By Brian K.Vaughan
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to raise their child in a dangerous world.