Books like Empire's end by Allan Cole

A tactical genius child, Ender Wiggin, is trained through deadly games to defend Earth against an alien menace in this acclaimed science‑fiction classic.

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune follows Paul Atreides as he rises from betrayed heir to the enigmatic Muad'Dib, guarding the precious spice melange that fuels galactic politics and extends life.

Isaac Asimov’s classic science‑fiction saga follows psychohistorian Hari Seldon as he establishes a Foundation to preserve knowledge and prevent thirty‑thousand years of darkness after the fall of the Galactic Empire.

In the 29th century, humanity’s vast Hegemony spans dozens of worlds connected by farcaster portals, while the enigmatic Shrike guards the Time Tombs on the lone planet Hyperion. A diverse pilgrimage of chosen individuals must each recount why they were summoned to witness the tombs’ reverse time cycle.

A soldier's harrowing journey across the stars, spanning space and time in Joe Haldeman's hard sci-fi epic war story.

Starship Troopers follows Juan Rico, a Terran Federation Mobile Infantry trooper, as he trains, fights, and reflects on the moral and civic duties of military service during an interstellar war with the Arachnids of Klendathu.

Sharrow, former leader of a personality‑attuned combat team on Golter, is hunted by the religious cult Huhsz. In a desperate bid for survival, she searches for the last powerful Lazy Gun before the cult catches up.

In a near‑future America, escalating political polarization erupts into a violent conflict between highly advanced militaries and common militia fighters, threatening the nation’s stability and forcing citizens to choose sides.

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In Orson Scott Card’s science‑fiction epic *Wyrms*, the alien sphere of a thousand‑year old myth is ruled by Heptarchs; when the seventh is crowned he may bring salvation or ruin. A young woman, destined to challenge the usurper, faces duty and destiny.

In the Star Wars saga, the enigmatic hunt for the Sith’s most dangerous warrior forces an unlikely alliance with the dark side, spotlighting female assassins and apprentices amid galactic conflict.

An eight‑novel science‑fiction saga set three millennia ahead, following the street‑wise orphan Sten as he rises to become the right‑hand man of the universe’s self‑declared Eternal Emperor. A brand‑new forward and Emperor‑cookbook recipes round out this edition.

The Ghost Brigades are elite soldiers created from the DNA of dead heroes, tasked with protecting humanity in a universe where rival races have formed an uneasy alliance.

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A centuries‑old undead emperor rules an interstellar empire, granting eternal life to an elite called the Risen. When a cyber‑augmented faction, the Rix, kidnaps the eternal Child Empress, the smuggler‑turned‑captain Laurent Zai must rescue her, while his love for Senator Nara Oxham could decide the empire’s fate.

Christopher Kelly's bold account of Attila the Hun as empire builder and political threat to Rome. Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarianism. But, as the Romans of the fifth century knew, Attila did more than just terrorize villages on the edge of an empire. Drawing on original texts, this riveting narrative follows Attila and the Huns from the steppes of Kazakhstan to the opulent city of Constantinople and the Great Hungarian Plain, uncovering an unlikely marriage proposal, a long-standing relationship with a treacherously ambitious Roman general, and a thwarted Roman assassination plot. Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome reframes the warrior king as a political strategist, capturing the story of how a small, but dedicated, opponent dealt a seemingly invincible empire defeats from which it would never recover.

In Hellworld, Captain Scott Hunter faces a perilous choice between servitude and survival as he joins the Hell Squads, confronting unknown dangers on a frontier planet. The novel mixes action with the grim realities of space exploration.

Relentless killers: Berserkers are genocidal weapons from an ancient interstellar war, deadly and deadly efficient at their single purpose of destroying all life.

Girton Club-foot, an orphaned apprentice to a famed assassin, must turn his lethal expertise toward a daring mission: uncover the traitor behind a plot to kill the throne heir and save a life.