Books like Conqueror by S. M. Stirling

Ender Wiggin, a young military prodigy, faces a second alien war and must set aside his fears to broker peace with humanity’s new extraterrestrial allies.

Darwin, a low‑rank Red on Mars, discovers a hidden ruling class and infiltrates the Gold’s Institute in a quest to dismantle a tyrannical society and secure freedom for his people.

Set centuries after a nuclear apocalypse, the monks of St. Matthew’s preserve the remnants of 20th‑century science, safeguarding knowledge for future generations amid a feudal society.

Three sentient species on the planet Lusitania face annihilation when the Starways Congress sends a fleet to destroy them. An evolving computer intelligence named Jane must use advanced ship‑motion to save the planet, but her power is running low. Ender Wiggin’s children must act to preserve life.

In the grim, alchemical city of New Crobuzon, scientist Isaac Underwood faces a half-bird, half-human Garuda and a ravenous caterpillar that threatens the entire metropolis.

The first book in Gene Wolfe’s *The Book of the New Sun* follows Severian, a young torturer’s apprentice who, after showing mercy, is exiled from the city of Nessus on the world Urth and embarks on a fateful journey.

A reissue of David Weber’s Dahak trilogy, bringing together the space‑warfare novels Mutineers' Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance and Heirs of Empire into a single volume for fans of American science‑fiction military epics.

When an electrical storm over Nantucket disables all power, survivors must choose between uniting for survival or arming for conquest as society fractures.

A single volume that unites the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, presenting the complete narrative arc from The Phantom Menace through Revenge of the Sith.

A continuation of the story of the Forerunners and their connection to humanity.

Human survivors of a lost spacecraft are stranded on a hostile planet, building a society that evolves from steampunk to space politics and battles other alien species across distant star systems.

When the Kolnari raid the isolated trading hub SSS-900C, Shellperson Simeon devises a cunning deception to protect his station—and keep his true nature hidden—while the Central Worlds' Navy battles to restore order.

A Nantucket storm drags its residents back to the Bronze Age, forcing them to survive among hostile peoples while a future conqueror threatens their return to 20th‑century life.

A general conquers nations hoping to spread his way of life, only to find that a small, resilient country alters his perspective.

Sir Dominic Flandry, a knighted officer of the long‑standing Terran Empire, battles conspiracies aimed at overthrowing the corrupt government and the planet‑wide threats posed by the Merseians.

Gwyneth, the daughter of an English lord, is abducted by the Viking Selig she once saved, thrusting her into a perilous romance that tests love and fate on the high seas.

A thoughtfully edited anthology of thirteen seminal military science fiction stories from the 20th century, featuring works by Arthur C. Clarke, Anne McCaffrey, Philip K. Dick, George R. R. Martin, Joe Haldeman, Orson Scott Card, Poul Anderson, Gregory Benford, C. J. Cherryh, David Drake, Cordwainer Smith, Harry Turtledove, and Walter J. Williams.

A series of short stories set in a future where a Roman legion, sold into slavery, serves alien merchants, gaining near‑immortality and prowess in interstellar conflict.

As Allied soldiers fought the Nazis, Franklin Roosevelt and, later, Harry Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten the world again. Eleven years in the writing, drawing on newly opened American, Soviet and British documents as well as private diaries, letters and secret audio recordings, Michael Beschloss's gripping narrative lets us eavesdrop on private conversations and telephone calls among a cast of historical giants. The book casts new light upon Roosevelt's concealment of what America knew about Hitler's war against the Jews and his foot-dragging on saving refugees. FDR's actions so shocked his closest friend in the Cabinet, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., that Morgenthau risked their friendship by accusing the President of "acquiescence" in the "murder of the Jews." After the Normandy invasion, "obsessed" by what he had learned about the Nazis and the Holocaust, Morgenthau drew up a secret blueprint for the Allies to crush Germany by destroying German mines and factories after the European victory. As The conquerors shows, FDR endorsed most of Morgenthau's plan, and privately pressured a reluctant Churchill to concur. Horrified, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Secretary of War Henry Stimson leaked the plan to the press at the zenith of the 1944 campaign. Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbels denounced the Roosevelt-Churchill "Jewish murder plan" and claimed it would kill forty-three million Germans. Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey charged that by stiffening German resistance, publicity about Morgenthau's plan had cost many U.S. soldiers' lives. The conquerors explores suspicions that Soviet secret agents manipulated Roosevelt and his officials to do Stalin's bidding on Germany. It reveals new information on FDR's hidden illnesses and how they affected his leadership--and his private talk about quitting his job during his fourth term and letting Harry Truman become President. It shows us FDR's final dinner, in April 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia, at which the President and Morgenthau were still arguing over postwar Germany. Finally it shows how the unprepared new President Truman managed to pick up the pieces and push Stalin and Churchill to accede to a bargain that would let the Anglo-Americans block Soviet threats against Western Europe and ensure that the world would not have to fear another Adolf Hitler.

A decade after a global blackout called The Change, two leaders in Oregon's Willamette Valley forge thriving communities, only to face the Protectorate's looming war over their precious farmland.