Books like 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.
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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.
On Basilisk Station
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.
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.
Consider Phlebas
A shapeshifting mercenary fighting for the Idirans in their holy war against the Culture hunts a fugitive AI Mind across a galaxy tearing itself apart.
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.
The Mote in God's Eye
In 3017, a thousand years after humanity spread to the stars, a probe arrives from the Mote, a star nobody has ever visited, and the Second Empire of Man sends the battlecruiser MacArthur to meet whoever sent it.
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.
Ninefox Gambit
Captain Kel Cheris, a soldier of the hexarchate, whose weapons work only while its people keep a shared calendar, is disgraced for unorthodox tactics and given one chance: retake the Fortress of Scattered Needles with the help of Shuos Jedao, an undead general who once massacred his own army.
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.
The Dreaming Void
In the far future, a man begins dreaming of a perfect world inside the Void at the centre of the galaxy, and when millions decide to follow him there, the galaxy's powers fear that the pilgrimage will trigger the Void's expansion and destroy them all.
Startide Rising
Genetically uplifted dolphins and their human crew flee through space in a damaged ship, carrying a secret that every civilisation in the galaxy wants.
Downbelow Station
As the Company Wars end, Pell Station, orbiting a world inhabited by gentle natives, is swamped with refugees and caught between the Earth Company's fleet and the rising Union.