Books like First and Only
Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt leads the Tanith First and Only, the last regiment of a world destroyed on the day it was founded, through an endless galactic war.
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Halo: The Fall of Reach
John-117, taken from his family as a child for the secret SPARTAN-II programme, grows up into the supersoldier who will fight humanity's war against the alien Covenant.
Terms of Enlistment
Andrew Grayson escapes the welfare tenements of a crowded future North America the only way he can, by enlisting, and is sent to fight rioters at home and something far worse in space.
Horus Rising
Two hundred years into the Great Crusade to reconquer the galaxy, the Emperor withdraws and names the primarch Horus his Warmaster, and Captain Garviel Loken of the Luna Wolves watches what follows.
Armor
Felix, a scout in powered armour fighting an endless war against insectoid aliens on the planet Banshee, survives drop after drop by switching off everything but the Engine inside him.
Xenos
Gregor Eisenhorn, an Inquisitor of the Imperium, hunts a heretic across the stars and uncovers a conspiracy around an ancient forbidden book.
Hammer's Slammers
Linked stories of Colonel Alois Hammer's mercenary armoured regiment, fighting other people's wars on colony planets.
Skyward
Spensa, a girl on the planet Detritus whose father was branded a coward, wants nothing more than to be a pilot fighting the alien Krell, and finds a broken ship with an AI in a cave.
Columbus Day
When aliens invade Earth on Columbus Day, Joe Bishop, a young army specialist, is sent to fight on alien worlds and ends up teamed with Skippy, an ancient, arrogant AI in something like a beer can.
The Light Brigade
Dietz joins the corporate army after the Blink wipes São Paulo off the map, and soldiers are broken down into light to be beamed to the front, and Dietz starts arriving at the wrong times.
Planetside
Colonel Carl Butler, called out of retirement, is sent to a war-torn planet to find out what happened to a powerful officer's missing son.
Dauntless
Captain John 'Black Jack' Geary, frozen in a survival pod for a hundred years and revered as a legend, is woken to take command of a trapped fleet deep in enemy space.
Starship Troopers
Young soldiers in powered armour fight an interstellar war against alien bugs, in the novel that defined military science fiction.