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Please vote World War Mars in the Dragon awards

The Dragon Awards voting has started and I would be very grateful if you could register (it’s free) and nominate World War Mars for best Science Fiction novel!

https://application.dragoncon.net/dc_fan_awards_nominations.php

Taken to the Stars Book 6 is out today!

Taken to the Stars Book 6: Home of the Brave is out today on Amazon for Kindle and in paperback! Grab your copy today!

Charlie Travers has been away from home for a long time, fighting to free the galaxy from the tyranny of the Anguilar Empire.

But now the Anguilar know where that home is…and it’s only a matter of time before they set their sights on Earth, intent on conquest and enslavement.

Charlie doesn’t have enough troops or supplies to stop them. And there’s only one place he can get them.

The one place the Anguilar are intent on conquering. Charlie has to go back to Earth…and hope, after all this time, that it’s still…

The Home of the Brave.

World War Mars Book 2 is out today!

World War Mars is out today!

Alien tech discovered on Mars. The race to claim it could spark a new kind of War.

When a derelict alien starship appears in the solar system and crash-lands on Mars, it ignites a desperate race to be the first to reach the Red Planet to claim the mysterious technological treasures of the Visitor.

Space Force General Tom Bradstreet, ace Air Force fighter pilot and the only active-duty officer with actual space combat experience, is given control of the Morrigan, the first manned mission to Mars—and the first space warship.

He and his elite team know their mission. In fact, it should be simple. The U.S. is the only nation with a spaceship capable of making it to Mars.

Or so they think…

Maverick Russian General Mikhail Antonov has been handed the insane, desperate gamble of building an Orion-style spaceship powered by nuclear warheads. Launching it from the heart of Russia could be the spark that lights a path to nuclear war but it’s the only way the Russians and Chinese can hope to reach Mars before the Americans.

The scene is set for a devastating world war, and the first shots may be fired on another world…

Don’t miss the next action-packed, gritty military sci-fi series from Rick Partlow, the bestselling author of the Drop Trooper Series and Taken to the Stars.

Out today on Amazon for Kindle, on Audible.com as an audiobook and as a physical paperback!

Taken to the Stars 5: Vanguard Wing is out today

Charlie Travers didn’t ask to be the leader of a rebellion…but no one else wanted the job.

Now that he’s gathered an army and armed them with the deadliest starfighter ever made, the legendary Vanguards, he just needs one more thing: someone who knows how to fly the things.

Unfortunately, no one has been behind the stick of a Vanguard in hundreds of years, since the end of the war that threw the galaxy into chaos. Their only hope lays in the legends of a crashed ship, a fighter crew frozen in stasis for centuries.

A crew of pilots from the ruthless Kamerian Alliance, the fearsome ravagers who once sought to rule the galaxy. Even if they’re willing to help, can they be trusted?

Charlie’s going to have to find out. Because it’s not just the Anguilar Empire that’s after him. The bounty hunter Seraph Nix is still out there, seeking revenge for the death of her crew.

And Seraph Nix always gets her man.

Earth at War book 1-3 box set is now available for only 99 cents!

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Taken to the Stars Book 4: LEGACY OF EMPIRE is out today!

If you’re going to fight a space war, you have to have spaceships.

Charlie has a headquarters, a purpose, and an army…everything you need to build a resistance.

Except warships.

The Anguilar have plenty, but they also know the resistance will be coming after them, and they’ve set a hardened killer to hunt down Charlie.

The deadly bounty hunter Seraph Nix is on the hunt as the crew of the Revenant travels across the galaxy searching for a legendary lost cache of Kamerian starfighters from the last war.

Braving the deadly wilds of a long forgotten world, the only question is, will the mutant aliens get to them first…or will Seraph Nix?

Pirate Wars Book 3: Isolation is out today!

The final book of my collaboration with talented mil-SF writer Ralph Kern is out today!

Researchers build biocomputer out of lab-grown brain cells

Well, this is interesting. And something I and other SF writers have speculated on before.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03975-7

‘Biocomputer’ combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware

A system that integrates brain cells into a hybrid machine can recognize voices.

Researchers have built a hybrid biocomputer — combining a laboratory-grown human brain tissue with conventional electronic circuits — that can complete tasks such as voice recognition.

The technology, described on 11 December in Nature Electronics1, could one day be integrated into artificial-intelligence (AI) systems, or form the basis of improved models of the brain in neuroscience research.

Drop Trooper 14 is out today!

Drop Trooper 14: Collateral Effects is out today!

So close to home…
And yet farther away than ever.

Cam, Vicky and the others follow the jump gate line into the Reconstructor systems, hoping to find the Northwest Passage back to Earth…back home.

Instead, they find death and destruction. And an ancient mystery.

Something has wiped out one world after another, not a fleet of aliens, not a natural disaster, but a single enemy. A remnant of an old war, a doomsday weapon in the form of an insidious contagion that could infect one of their own.

And if it does, it won’t just be the end of Cam and the crew of the Orion…it’ll mean the end of the human race.

Book 14 in the Amazon Bestselling Drop Trooper series by Rick Partlow is here. It’s Military Sci-Fi the way it’s supposed to be!