
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.
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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.

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.

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.

Commander Honor Harrington, given a refitted light cruiser and a humiliating posting to the backwater Basilisk system, starts doing the job properly and stumbles on a plot by the Republic of Haven.

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.

Linked stories of Colonel Alois Hammer's mercenary armoured regiment, fighting other people's wars on colony planets.

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.

A gifted child is recruited to a military academy in space, where he must train to fight an alien invasion that may already be lost.

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.

Bean, a tiny, starving orphan who has survived the streets of Rotterdam on intelligence alone, is noticed by the International Fleet and sent to Battle School, where he studies the boy everyone else is watching, Ender Wiggin.

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.

Five years after the fall of the Empire, as Leia and Han await twins and Luke Skywalker trains alone as a Jedi, Grand Admiral Thrawn, a brilliant strategist from the Unknown Regions, takes command of what is left of the Imperial fleet.