Books like Old Man's War
On his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins the Colonial Defense Forces, which give him a young, enhanced body in exchange for leaving Earth for ever and fighting humanity's wars across the stars.
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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.
Heir to the Empire
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.
Starship Troopers
Young soldiers in powered armour fight an interstellar war against alien bugs, in the novel that defined military science fiction.
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.
Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red
A socially anxious security robot hacks its own governor module and must decide whether to protect its human clients or binge-watch TV shows.
Double Star
Lorenzo Smythe, an out-of-work actor, is hired to impersonate a kidnapped political leader for a single ceremony on Mars, and finds the role growing far bigger than he bargained for.
The Vor Game
Miles Vorkosigan, fresh from the Barrayaran military academy, is posted to an Arctic weather station, and soon finds himself back in command of his old mercenary fleet.
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.
Project Hail Mary
An astronaut wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of his mission, and must solve an interstellar puzzle with the help of an unlikely alien friend.
The Forever War
A soldier fights an interstellar war where time dilation means each tour of duty returns him to an Earth centuries older and utterly alien.
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.
Artemis
A smuggler living in humanity's first lunar city gets caught up in a conspiracy that threatens the entire moon colony.