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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some Desperate Glory
Kyr, raised on Gaea Station, the last outpost of humanity after aliens destroyed Earth, has trained all her life for vengeance, and is furious to be assigned to the nursery instead of the fight.
Forever Peace
In 2043, Julian Class, a physics professor, spends ten days a month linked mind to mind with his platoon, operating remote combat machines in an endless war in Central America.
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.