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Featured Sci-fi: Omega Taskforce the Complete Series (Books 1 – 6) by G J Ogden

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Featured Sci-fi: Omega Taskforce the Complete Series (Books 1 - 6) by G J Ogden

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To defeat the alien horde, one captain must put his humanity on the line

The Sa’Nerra are merciless invaders, armed with a neural weapon that turns Fleet crew against their own. Warships go rogue. Trust evaporates. Humanity faces extinction, and surrender seems like the only option.

Captain Lucas Sterling is one of the few who’ve faced the Sa’Nerra and lived. Selected for the black-ops Omega program for his cold-hearted efficiency, he commands the advanced AI-powered warship Invictus and an elite crew, including a first officer with superhuman strength. Their mission: take the fight deep into enemy territory and eradicate the Sa’Nerran threat forever.

But Sterling must face a terrible truth. To beat an enemy without boundaries, he must abandon his own. He must fight without emotion, without rules, and without mercy.

As the line between ally and enemy blurs, Sterling must decide how much of his humanity he’s willing to sacrifice to save the species.

At what price is victory? The Omega Taskforce will soon find out.

Six books of relentless sci-fi action with more than 700 5-star ratings.

Perfect for fans of The Expanse, Old Man’s War, and Battlestar Galactica. This military space opera delivers ruthless alien warfare, devastating space combat, and impossible moral choices that will grip you from the first page and never let go.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Alternien Wars by G J Ogden

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Featured Sci-fi: The Alternien Wars by G J Ogden

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Humanity cast him out. Now he’s their only hope.

Master Commander Carter Rose was engineered to be the ultimate weapon—augmented strength, tactical genius, and command of the deadliest warship ever built.

After crushing the post-human Aternien Empire, his reward was exile… and a century of bitter solitude on a distant moon.

Then Major Carina Larsen finds him with news that shatters his world. The Aterniens have returned, more dangerous than ever.

The Union, soft after a hundred years of peace, has forgotten how to fight. Their weapons are relics. Their tactics, obsolete. Only Rose’s legendary battleship—the Galatine—can stand against the coming storm.

To save the Union, Rose must reunite his scattered Master Officers—augmented heroes betrayed by the very people they once swore to protect—and reclaim his ship.

But in a galaxy where post-humans are feared and hated, both the Union and the Aterniens now vie for Rose’s allegiance.

When the perfect weapon must choose a side, no one is safe.

Winner of the Kindle Storyteller Award 2023!
Forsaken Commander launches the Aternian Wars series, an explosive fusion of military sci-fi and space opera, where engineered warriors battle a reborn empire forged from ancient Egyptian myth.

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Featured Sci-fi: Darkspace Renegade by G J Ogden

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Featured Sci-fi: Darkspace Renegade by G J Ogden

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-From Kindle Storyteller Award Winner, G J Ogden-

Humanity depends on the Star Bridges. Hallam Knight must destroy them.

As a Bridge Runner, Hallam Knight risks his life to supply worlds with Randenite – the galaxy’s rarest and most vital starship fuel. Without it, the Star Bridges will collapse, isolating a dozen planets and condemning billions to starvation and war.

But when a bar fight with a notorious mercenary gang nearly gets him killed, Hallam falls into the hands of the Darkspace Renegades. This ruthless band of anarchists is determined to destroy the Star Bridges and plunge the galaxy into chaos.

Their enigmatic leader reveals a devastating truth, shattering everything Hallam thought he knew. To save humanity, he must do the unthinkable: join the rebels and tear down the very system he’s spent his life protecting.

Hallam Knight must become a Darkspace Renegade.

Fast-paced and morally charged, Darkspace Renegade delivers daring heists, relentless battles, and a reluctant hero caught in a galaxy-spanning conflict. Perfect for fans of gritty space opera and military sci-fi, this is the adventure you’ve been waiting for.

Featured Sci-fi: Alterian Wars Series Sale by G J Ogden

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Featured Sci-fi: Alterian Wars Series Sale by G J Ogden

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– KINDLE STORYTELLER AWARD WINNER 2023 –

Humanity’s only hope is the commander they spurned.

Once, Master Commander Carter Rose was the Union’s secret weapon. An augmented, bio-engineered officer in command of the most powerful warship ever devised by human minds, Rose brought them victory against the post-human Aternien Empire.

Then they cast him aside.

A century later, living alone on a distant forest moon, feared and forsaken by the people he fought to save, Rose has grown bitter and resentful, while his superhuman body refuses to age.

When Major Carina Larsen seeks his help to save Earth from becoming the last frontier of humanity, Rose is reluctant to return to duty. Until Larsen reveals the real peril: the Aterniens are on the rise again, hell-bent on revenge.

And after a century of peace, the Union has forgotten how to fight.

But even if Rose can recover his marooned warship and assemble a crew, his allegiance is now a valuable commodity — and a secret weapon is only ever as dangerous as those who wield it…

Forsaken Commander is the winner of the Kindle Storyteller Award 2023 and book one of the Aternien Wars series, an epic blend of space opera and militaristic sci-fi. Follow an elite crew of augmented officers as they fight a post-human enemy styled on the myths of ancient Egypt.

Featured Sci-fi: The Planetsider Complete Series by G J Ogden

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Featured Sci-fi: The Planetsider Complete Series by G J Ogden

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Ethan is a ranger, sworn to protect his walled settlement from the dangers of his war-ravaged planet. Then one night he discovers a crashed spacecraft and two soldiers from a moon base he didn’t even know existed.

Captain Salus and Commander Kurren have risked everything to find a Planetsider to help save their people. Ethan needs them to answer questions that have haunted him all his life – what happened to his world and why?

Seduced by the prospect of learning the truth, Ethan agrees to help Captain Salus and Commander Kurren. Disobeying the orders of his council, he travels to the UEC outpost on the moon. There Ethan gets his answers, but the truth only leads to more questions and more doubts.

To make matters worse, Kurren and Salus are not the only ones looking for a Planetsider. An enemy faction, trapped on an orbital space station, will stop at nothing to capture Ethan, and prevent him from helping the UEC. With time running out to save the moon base, Ethan agrees to embark on a dangerous mission to recover vital technology set adrift in a radiation field that only a Planetsider can survive.

But his ship is intercepted by the rival faction and Ethan is taken to the space station. There he meets the faction’s leader, who turns his life upside down and inside out. Everything he thought he knew was a lie.

Plucked from a life of ignorance and obscurity, Ethan is thrust into the center of a war that has raged for over a century – a war that created the world he grew up in. Yet fate has a cruel sense of irony, because now the survival of two entire civilizations rests in the hands of a solitary Planetsider.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Contingency War The Complete Series by GJ Ogden

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Featured Sci-fi: The Contingency War The Complete Series by GJ Ogden

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Their mission wasn’t supposed to find anything – least of all the truth.

Captain Taylor Ray commands a deep-space recon crew on a mission scouring the far reaches of the galaxy for signs of the Hedalt; Earth’s long-defeated alien enemy.

No-one really expects him to find anything because no-one ever has. After decades of hunting the remnants of the Hedalt across light years, all that remains are ghosts – long-dead outposts of a long-dead civilization.

But Captain Ray enjoys the company of his tight-knit, specialist crew, and the ten years’ worth of pay for just four years in the wilderness also helps.

When his ship detects a faint Hedalt signal and he orders his crew to investigate, Captain Ray couldn’t possibly know what he is about to discover.

Everything he thinks he knows is a lie. The Hedalt war didn’t end. It hasn’t even begun.

The Contingency War takes the alien invasion sci-fi genre and turns it on its head. Buckle up for action, mystery, adventure, and a twist that you won’t see coming…