After the disastrous attack on the Manticoran home system by forces unknown, the Royal Manticoran Navy stands on the brink of collapse. A shadowy enemy with the resources to hurl warships across hundreds of light years seeks to conquer the Star Kingdom for reasons unknown, while forces from within Manticore’s own government seek to discredit and weaken the Navy for reasons very much known: their own political gain. It’s up to officers like Travis Long and Lisa Donnelly to defend the Star Kingdom and the Royal Manticoran Navy from these threats, but the challenge is greater than any they have faced before.

Manticore has learned that the universe is not a safe place, but the Star Kingdom’s enemies are about to learn it's dangerous to mess with the Manticore!

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Zander Krycek made a choice that saved his world of Ithaca, but banished him to a planet far, far away. Now the totalitarian Orlov Combine intends to swallow Ithaca whole. The only hope lies in the return of Zander Krycek. Enter privateer Captain Catherine Blackwood and her ship, the Andromeda. Blackwood will have to navigate assassination attempts, warring factions, and civil unrest. But Catherine has made a promise, and the freedom of a world hangs in the balance!

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The bigger the ship, the better the bang. From the dawn of history onward, commanding the most powerful ship around has been a dream of admirals, sultans, emperors, kings, generalissimos, and sea captains everywhere. Thus it was, and ever shall be, even into the distant future. From the oceans of Earth, to beneath the ice of Europa, to the distant reaches of galactic empires, it is the great warships and their crews that sometimes keep civilization safe for the rest of us—but sometimes become an extinction-level event in and of themselves.

Big, bold, and edge-of-your-seat space opera and military science fiction from David Drake, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Michael Z. Williamson, and many more!

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Life is hard on the world of Surebleak. There, ’bleakers and refugees from other worlds rub elbows and scramble for work. But in the chaos, Algaina’s bakery is a place of solace. And when a young girl with an unusual affliction passes through her door, Algaina will show the off-worlders that those on Surebleak look out for one another.

Read “Block Party,” a story set in Sharon Lee & Steve Miller’s Liaden Universe®, here.

If we’re going to make it to other planets, we’re going to need a ship that can get us there. And that ship is going to have to have fuel to power its engine. So, what will we use to fuel our ships when it's time to venture forth out into the outer Solar System? There are several options, but one stands above the others: nuclear power. In this month’s nonfiction essay, Andy Presby guides us through how nuclear fission may be our ticket to other worlds.

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