Showing results for "Army" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

For Franny, the end of everything is just the beginning of her adventure. The world as we know it is no more. Cities are mobile. Electricity is rare. Reading is a relic of the past. After an explosive encounter with a mysterious stranger, Franny, a 14-year-old orphan girl, embarks on an epic quest to find the mysterious pilots who steer the cities, hoping that if she finds them, she will get answers about her family's past - and the world's future.

Timothy Walter Bolton—better known as Timmy—has spent most of his life as a necromancer. When he isn't terrorising his enemies, he's plotting inside his castle, which is built on top of lightless chasms filled with nameless horrors and beings of a generally malevolent and megalomaniacal nature. But after one of his latest creations, a zombie hydra-dragon-bear, tries to eat him, he decides that maybe it's time to find a new, less dangerous, career.

Clara was never meant to be a mother, a goddess, or the glue that holds her weird but somewhat functional found family together—but here she is, doing all three with the grace of a tipsy flamingo in a minefield. With the Sea Kingdom demanding her son, Luc, return to the Sea and begin training as their heir, war brews on all sides of Clara's crumbling sanctuary. Dave, injured but alive, finally awakens, claiming he wants peace. But when secrets unravel and old magic awakens, Clara discovers that Dave's loyalty might not lie where she thought. Again.

“Wickedly satirical . . . nothing short of brilliant.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett explores the inanity of war, sexual politics, and why the best man for the job is often a woman in this acerbically funny and poignant Discworld...

An Arch Magus dies, only to find himself in the body of a young man in a medieval Kingdom. He finds out that he is the second son of a Duke, exiled to a desolate town by his own family. Shackled by the notorious reputation of his new shell, he tries his best to develop his domain, implementing new policies and innovations and leading his subjects to prosperity. In this world where magic is undeveloped, he shall once again pave a new path.

The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Tearling trilogy. In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky teenager into a powerful monarch. As she has come into her own as the Queen of the Tearling, the headstrong, visionary leader has also transformed her realm...

Squire Yorick and his Magical Sword Justice have been summoned to Kultai where a magical conjunction has gone off the rails. A Monster Army is threatening to wipe out the planet, and only a Magical Sword Knight can save them. Yorick must level up and learn new skills to confront this threat using the might of his magical sword. But is that all there is? Hidden on Kultai are the remnants of an ancient war and an ancient foe is rising back up to reclaim their lost power.

Adam Roberts' new novel is a terrifying vision of a near future war - a civil war that tears the UK apart as new technologies allow the worlds first truly democratic army to take on the British army and wrest control from the powers that be. Taking advances in modern communication and the new...

Finally, Rudy, Gil, and the rest of mankind's survivors will take the offensive, bringing an end to this terrible war, for better or for worse.

HITLER IS GONE. PLAN Z IS DEFEATED. BUT THE DEAD STILL WALK. Jun is a deadhunter-and a damn good one. For her, patrolling Northern Italy with Sergeant Josiah and his elite squad, eradicating zombies and searching for survivors is nothing new. When the squad encounters a group of refugees being...

The Council of Tribes has been formed with a positive mission: to stop the endless wars and battles between the tribes of Kragdon-ah. Roads are established between settlements. Trade has begun in earnest. But there are forces that stand against this progress and will do whatever is needed to impede it. Alex Hawk, his daughters Amy and Sanda, and of course, the 300-pound dog Monda-ak all return for another potentially deadly adventure that will stretch from one end of the continent to the other.

For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new - no new inventions, no new understandings of the world.What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud - a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold’s founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth.

Leave it to a Magical Mom to clean up the streets of the city of Los Angeles. Lucy Heron, Agent 485, is on the job, and trying to keep things together at home. It's not an easy job... Especially when pipes are bursting, your kids are trying to solve crimes, and a dangerous new monster is polluting the city. Gives a whole new meaning to the LA smog. More people, magical and mundane, are getting sick from breathing in the poisoned air. Do Lucy and her team have a way to fight back the invisible foe?

The City of Wonders has been saved by nearly miraculous forces, and the Silent Army is risen, ready to defend the Fellein Empire and Empress Nachia at any cost. The power that was hidden in the Mounds is on the move, seeking a final confrontation with the very entities that kept it locked away since the Cataclysm. Andover Lashk has finally come to accept his destiny and prepares to journey back to Fellein.

The Hidden City has been exposed, and Devourer is assembling an army from the four corners of the empire to march upon and destroy it. He has with him monsters that he has drawn to their world from across the Polyverse—Golems, Archanoptera, Noon Wraiths. According to the prophecy, the victor of the coming battle will have three armies under their command. Devourer has his, and now Jaden is given the task of assembling that of the rebellion. To do so, he must find and bring back the Elven army, which disappeared from their world thousands of years ago.

B.V. Larson, a master of military science fiction, presents Army of One, a harrowing tale of high-tech mayhem. The Macros of the Star Force series have invaded from the skies, forcing a nanotized assassin into a deadly decision. One man attempts to stay neutral...and realizes how hard it can be to avoid an interstellar war.

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that created the mysterious Stonehenge. One summer’s day, a dying stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. The three sons of Ratharryn’s chief each...

In this riveting sequel to the national bestseller The Queen of the Tearling, the evil kingdom of Mortmesne invades the Tearling, with dire consequences for Kelsea and her realm. With each passing day, Kelsea Glynn is growing into her new responsibilities as Queen of the Tearling. By stopping...

The riveting and deeply immersive first installment in a new military sci-fi series—pitting amortal humans against a mystifying alien intelligence in a galaxy-spanning conflict—from New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas. Centuries in the future, the Galactic Authority reigns over...

When a Japanese submarine is discovered abandoned deep in the Brazilian wilderness, a smart, adventurous, and tough zoologist must derail a catastrophic plot in Hell’s Gate. 1944. As war rages in Europe and the Pacific, Army Intel makes a shocking discovery: a 300-foot Japanese sub marooned...