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Titan War
When Lieutenant Alex 'Flex' Callahan encounters mysterious alien probes near Luna Station, no one believes his warnings—until it's too late. Human activity has awakened an alien presence deep in our Solar System. Now humanity faces extinction as this ancient and forgotten foe launches a devastating invasion. Their goal? To reclaim Earth as their ancestral home.
Flying his Firebird fighter from the carrier ECS Vanguard, Flex leads the desperate fight against overwhelming odds. With superior technology and savage combat skills, the enemy steamroll through humanity's defenses, conquering colonies from Europa to Mars. Earth's last hope lies with its fighter pilots and their nerves of steel.
Packed with intense space combat, advanced technology, and military action, Titan War delivers a punch-to-the-gut story of humanity's fight for survival. When defeat means extinction, there's only one victory at any cost.
Flying his Firebird fighter from the carrier ECS Vanguard, Flex leads the desperate fight against overwhelming odds. With superior technology and savage combat skills, the enemy steamroll through humanity's defenses, conquering colonies from Europa to Mars. Earth's last hope lies with its fighter pilots and their nerves of steel.
Packed with intense space combat, advanced technology, and military action, Titan War delivers a punch-to-the-gut story of humanity's fight for survival. When defeat means extinction, there's only one victory at any cost.
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651 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 31, 2025
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March 1, 2025
Decent plot, slow going, endless repetitions
Shades of bv Larson, but very slow moving. Not fond of air force idioms, and metaphors or whatever they are called. Pilot call signs are totally lame. The lizards are cool and I see a useful collaboration with humans.
Shades of bv Larson, but very slow moving. Not fond of air force idioms, and metaphors or whatever they are called. Pilot call signs are totally lame. The lizards are cool and I see a useful collaboration with humans.
January 15, 2026
stupid
Terrible book. Based entirely on defying military orders. I hate military sci-fi where the rule of order is questioned and violated. Could not make it past 20%. Larson makes me sad as he’s a great author but this is GARBAGE
Terrible book. Based entirely on defying military orders. I hate military sci-fi where the rule of order is questioned and violated. Could not make it past 20%. Larson makes me sad as he’s a great author but this is GARBAGE
May 1, 2025
==[Note: As of 12/03/2023, this will not be published on Amazon since I have been banned from posting reviews for some unknown reason. Once the ban is lifted, assuming it does get lifted, I’ll go back and post this to Amazon.]==
TLDR: Don’t bother reading this - it’s ridiculous and for very youn adults!
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Ok, whew, this was such a disappointing and long book! I have read a lot of B. V. Larson’s books and a few of David Vandyke’s. They are both pretty good writers of science fiction, but not in this book! The story-line is very interesting and could have been a great series if the writing wasn’t so downright stupid!
We’re introduced to a young Navy Lieutenant name Alexander Callahan. He’s a hot-shot pilot with a callsign of “Flex”. Now there’s nothing wrong with pilots having callsigns, but that’s only while they are in their plane or in the squadron ready room. They don’t run around calling other people by callsigns. I say this because Alex Callahan’s girlfriend is given the callsign of “Catnip” which is just stupid. She’s a Navy Nurse onboard the space carrier *Vanguard*. This arrangement is very convenient for Lt. Callahan and he makes use of it frequently. This is something he has that all his other pilot friends do not have or enjoy and that is the companionship of a female in very trying times. I’m sure this isn’t unheard of, but it could be considered very unprofessional to do what they do aboard ship when deployed for combat. I’m not knocking the fact that he has a closely girlfriend, but the fact that he seems to be the only one with this setup.
Now let’s get into how this space Navy operates. They are on a huge carrier that holds a lot of starfighters and most pilots with any length of time in the service are probably Lieutenants by now. In fact, Lt. Callahan and Lt. Wanda Sinclair (“Nova”) are sent out on patrol which is a routine assignment in this peace-time Navy. That is until they come across something that shouldn’t be in their space. These are small drones that appear to looking over the Moon base which is something they probably shouldn’t be doing since that’s probably not authorized. Flex and Nova are told to go investigate which they do. They find these drones to be incredibly fast and maneuverable. Must faster and more mobile than even their Firebird fighters.
Not knowing anything about these drones or probes, the two pilots are ordered to “bring one back” for examination. The only way to do that is to shoot one which is something Firebirds are very equipped to do. Except they can’t get a lock on these speedy drones. But, the drones do respond to their shooting missiles at them. They attack Nova’s fighter and she is pretty quickly destroyed. Flex has to clear the area or he’ll be the next Firebird taken down by these unknown drones.
So, he gets back to the carrier and everyone starts thinking that he ran from the fight leaving his wingman there to die. That’s not how it happened, but that’s what everyone is thinking. Soon, they reviewed the on-board camera footage and find out that Flex wasn’t lying about the encounter and sure enough they have some kind of unknown enemy now in humanities space. Now what’s ridiculous about this whole thing is that this young Lieutenant isn’t debriefed about his mission by his squadron commander or just by the CAG (Commander Aerospace Group) but he finds himself in front of Captain Grant and some Intel spook named Lieutenant Summers or callsign “Ice”. She’s not a pilot so why does she have a callsign? Additionally, Lt. Summers seems to be a member of the Psionic Corps, ie., mind-readers. Not something I’d want around my ship.
He’s also asked why he fired on one of the probes, Of course he replies that the was ordered to do so, but the Captain tries to deny that was the order. They told him to bring one back, but didn’t tell him to shoot it to disable it. So how was he supposed to bring an unmanned drone back with his starfighter? No one has the answer to that. Additionally, the CAG Commander Carter doesn’t do anything to try and defend his pilot.
Alright, so this story continues but Lt. Callahan eventually gets proven right about what he did so he’s now famous for having “first contact” with something alien. Well, there certainly will be aliens showing up and soon. Lt. Callahan seems to be tagged as the “expert” on aliens so he becomes involved in everything that has to do with the alien encounters. So much so that he’s soon promoted to Commander (by-passing Lieutenant Commander, which would never happen), and sent on some really strange missions. He begins working directly for Admiral Hawthorne. Flex is even sent on a recon mission through an alien portal that has never been tested. There is sees an alien that also sees him and starts chasing him back through the portal. Fortunately, while the alien was almost able to grab Flex, they both fall through the portal and the alien is captured.
Now Flex has to make friends with this alien which happens to look like a lizard so they call his species “Lizards”. Now Flex becomes the authority on alien Lizards and is told to communicate with it for intel purposes. Of course this lizard happens to be smarter than any human (which in this book isn’t hard to do). He learns English pretty quickly. So Alex Callahan suddenly becomes the only character in the story even though there are tons of other pilots, Commanders and other ships Captains, but none seem able to do anything. It’s all up to Callahan. Even the Admiral begins asking for Callahan’s input on just about everything. And that is ridiculous in the extreme. No Admiral in his right mind would listen to a fighter pilot unless he was the CAG reporting on flight operations. Everything else is the job of some other staff officer and not some former Lt. pilot!
It really doesn’t sound like either of these authors have had much to do with the military. And if they did, they must have forgotten how things work. Or, maybe they had some military advisor who was day dreaming about a career no one would ever have. There is also the standard trope about the poor pilot’s father was also a Congressman, a very powerful Senator! Flex resented this because he wanted to earn his rank and position on his own. Well, he already did or he wouldn’t even be a Lieutenant. That kind of chip on your shoulder never works out very well, but the authors had to stick it in this story.
The book seems to be long, but that might be to me having to stop and critique every one of the stupid non-military things they try to do in this book. I guess I would suggest that this story is better suited for a 11 to 12 year old boy or young adult who has no idea what the military is about. It’s certainly not for adults who want an interesting and intelligently written military science fiction story.
I don’t recommend anyone reading the rest of this series so you’ll have to find the next book on Amazon on your own!
TLDR: Don’t bother reading this - it’s ridiculous and for very youn adults!
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Ok, whew, this was such a disappointing and long book! I have read a lot of B. V. Larson’s books and a few of David Vandyke’s. They are both pretty good writers of science fiction, but not in this book! The story-line is very interesting and could have been a great series if the writing wasn’t so downright stupid!
We’re introduced to a young Navy Lieutenant name Alexander Callahan. He’s a hot-shot pilot with a callsign of “Flex”. Now there’s nothing wrong with pilots having callsigns, but that’s only while they are in their plane or in the squadron ready room. They don’t run around calling other people by callsigns. I say this because Alex Callahan’s girlfriend is given the callsign of “Catnip” which is just stupid. She’s a Navy Nurse onboard the space carrier *Vanguard*. This arrangement is very convenient for Lt. Callahan and he makes use of it frequently. This is something he has that all his other pilot friends do not have or enjoy and that is the companionship of a female in very trying times. I’m sure this isn’t unheard of, but it could be considered very unprofessional to do what they do aboard ship when deployed for combat. I’m not knocking the fact that he has a closely girlfriend, but the fact that he seems to be the only one with this setup.
Now let’s get into how this space Navy operates. They are on a huge carrier that holds a lot of starfighters and most pilots with any length of time in the service are probably Lieutenants by now. In fact, Lt. Callahan and Lt. Wanda Sinclair (“Nova”) are sent out on patrol which is a routine assignment in this peace-time Navy. That is until they come across something that shouldn’t be in their space. These are small drones that appear to looking over the Moon base which is something they probably shouldn’t be doing since that’s probably not authorized. Flex and Nova are told to go investigate which they do. They find these drones to be incredibly fast and maneuverable. Must faster and more mobile than even their Firebird fighters.
Not knowing anything about these drones or probes, the two pilots are ordered to “bring one back” for examination. The only way to do that is to shoot one which is something Firebirds are very equipped to do. Except they can’t get a lock on these speedy drones. But, the drones do respond to their shooting missiles at them. They attack Nova’s fighter and she is pretty quickly destroyed. Flex has to clear the area or he’ll be the next Firebird taken down by these unknown drones.
So, he gets back to the carrier and everyone starts thinking that he ran from the fight leaving his wingman there to die. That’s not how it happened, but that’s what everyone is thinking. Soon, they reviewed the on-board camera footage and find out that Flex wasn’t lying about the encounter and sure enough they have some kind of unknown enemy now in humanities space. Now what’s ridiculous about this whole thing is that this young Lieutenant isn’t debriefed about his mission by his squadron commander or just by the CAG (Commander Aerospace Group) but he finds himself in front of Captain Grant and some Intel spook named Lieutenant Summers or callsign “Ice”. She’s not a pilot so why does she have a callsign? Additionally, Lt. Summers seems to be a member of the Psionic Corps, ie., mind-readers. Not something I’d want around my ship.
He’s also asked why he fired on one of the probes, Of course he replies that the was ordered to do so, but the Captain tries to deny that was the order. They told him to bring one back, but didn’t tell him to shoot it to disable it. So how was he supposed to bring an unmanned drone back with his starfighter? No one has the answer to that. Additionally, the CAG Commander Carter doesn’t do anything to try and defend his pilot.
Alright, so this story continues but Lt. Callahan eventually gets proven right about what he did so he’s now famous for having “first contact” with something alien. Well, there certainly will be aliens showing up and soon. Lt. Callahan seems to be tagged as the “expert” on aliens so he becomes involved in everything that has to do with the alien encounters. So much so that he’s soon promoted to Commander (by-passing Lieutenant Commander, which would never happen), and sent on some really strange missions. He begins working directly for Admiral Hawthorne. Flex is even sent on a recon mission through an alien portal that has never been tested. There is sees an alien that also sees him and starts chasing him back through the portal. Fortunately, while the alien was almost able to grab Flex, they both fall through the portal and the alien is captured.
Now Flex has to make friends with this alien which happens to look like a lizard so they call his species “Lizards”. Now Flex becomes the authority on alien Lizards and is told to communicate with it for intel purposes. Of course this lizard happens to be smarter than any human (which in this book isn’t hard to do). He learns English pretty quickly. So Alex Callahan suddenly becomes the only character in the story even though there are tons of other pilots, Commanders and other ships Captains, but none seem able to do anything. It’s all up to Callahan. Even the Admiral begins asking for Callahan’s input on just about everything. And that is ridiculous in the extreme. No Admiral in his right mind would listen to a fighter pilot unless he was the CAG reporting on flight operations. Everything else is the job of some other staff officer and not some former Lt. pilot!
It really doesn’t sound like either of these authors have had much to do with the military. And if they did, they must have forgotten how things work. Or, maybe they had some military advisor who was day dreaming about a career no one would ever have. There is also the standard trope about the poor pilot’s father was also a Congressman, a very powerful Senator! Flex resented this because he wanted to earn his rank and position on his own. Well, he already did or he wouldn’t even be a Lieutenant. That kind of chip on your shoulder never works out very well, but the authors had to stick it in this story.
The book seems to be long, but that might be to me having to stop and critique every one of the stupid non-military things they try to do in this book. I guess I would suggest that this story is better suited for a 11 to 12 year old boy or young adult who has no idea what the military is about. It’s certainly not for adults who want an interesting and intelligently written military science fiction story.
I don’t recommend anyone reading the rest of this series so you’ll have to find the next book on Amazon on your own!
April 1, 2025
Doesn't read like a B V Larson book
I've read many books by Mr. Larson but this one is oddly different. Banter is usually great but in this book it is cringe. Characters are boring. The love interest is a typical nothing nurse, the main character gets asked what to do and the admiral just agrees to whatever without discussion. The main character goes on ridiculous solo missions because plot that's why.
I've read many books by Mr. Larson but this one is oddly different. Banter is usually great but in this book it is cringe. Characters are boring. The love interest is a typical nothing nurse, the main character gets asked what to do and the admiral just agrees to whatever without discussion. The main character goes on ridiculous solo missions because plot that's why.
April 24, 2025
Not as good as their other books
Characters were flat in general, female characters were not convincing at all. The characters would have weird and irrelevant ego battles at ridiculous times. The story reminded me of Babylon 5, including mars, telepaths, both had headquarters in Geneva, and in the end the superior race sort of surrendered when they could have kept fighting. I've read several books by both authors and enjoyed them, so I'm surprised this was so bad.
Characters were flat in general, female characters were not convincing at all. The characters would have weird and irrelevant ego battles at ridiculous times. The story reminded me of Babylon 5, including mars, telepaths, both had headquarters in Geneva, and in the end the superior race sort of surrendered when they could have kept fighting. I've read several books by both authors and enjoyed them, so I'm surprised this was so bad.
June 6, 2025
Good Read
Flex Callahan is a great pilot in atmosphere and vacuum. It’s all he wanted to be. Daddy, well he’s a feared senior senator would wants flex to follow him into politics. Oil and water. Something strange appears out by Saturn. A carrier and some escort spaceships go out to investigate. It doest go well and no one believes his story. They should have!
Flex Callahan is a great pilot in atmosphere and vacuum. It’s all he wanted to be. Daddy, well he’s a feared senior senator would wants flex to follow him into politics. Oil and water. Something strange appears out by Saturn. A carrier and some escort spaceships go out to investigate. It doest go well and no one believes his story. They should have!
July 31, 2025
New approach on an old genre
Larson and Van Dyke have taken the alien meets Earthers plot to a new and exciting level. There is excellent character development of both the main protagonist and antagonist. There is also plenty of space battles and even a little romance. The authors have covered a lot of territory. I highly. Recomend comment this book!
Larson and Van Dyke have taken the alien meets Earthers plot to a new and exciting level. There is excellent character development of both the main protagonist and antagonist. There is also plenty of space battles and even a little romance. The authors have covered a lot of territory. I highly. Recomend comment this book!
February 20, 2025
B. V. Larson is a master storyteller
Every novel bv has written is a journey to be treasured. David VanDyke adds to the treasure with his own talents. As with all their books singularly or together you must read them all.
Every novel bv has written is a journey to be treasured. David VanDyke adds to the treasure with his own talents. As with all their books singularly or together you must read them all.
February 26, 2025
Pax Solid 1
I just finished reading the first book of this series and loved every minute of it. It has lots of action with plenty of twists and turns. This is one of the best books that I have had the pleasure of reading in awhile.
I just finished reading the first book of this series and loved every minute of it. It has lots of action with plenty of twists and turns. This is one of the best books that I have had the pleasure of reading in awhile.
January 2, 2026
Nice start to the series, lots of twists.
The twists with the lizards and the surprise ending tie together nicely. The personal twists while good, lack a bit of depth, which might be explained in the next book.
The twists with the lizards and the surprise ending tie together nicely. The personal twists while good, lack a bit of depth, which might be explained in the next book.
March 11, 2025
Captivating
Enjoyed the Read. Story progresses well, I recommend to all, looking forward to more. battle scenes were well written . enjoy!
Enjoyed the Read. Story progresses well, I recommend to all, looking forward to more. battle scenes were well written . enjoy!
March 16, 2025
Great Read
Strong story line, strong characters and exciting on every page. This is what a space opera shall be in every way. Enjoy the journey.
Strong story line, strong characters and exciting on every page. This is what a space opera shall be in every way. Enjoy the journey.
March 16, 2025
GOOD READ WITH TWISTS AND TURNS
Enjoyed the read
It was well written and ins and out and still things left to be solved in next book
Enjoyed the read
It was well written and ins and out and still things left to be solved in next book
May 4, 2025
Great book
I could not put this down. Well written and fast passed but with good character development as well. Highly recommend this to anyone who likes space war fiction.
I could not put this down. Well written and fast passed but with good character development as well. Highly recommend this to anyone who likes space war fiction.
May 30, 2025
Edge of your seat
Awesome read, only slows down in one or two parts but otherwise couldn't put it down. They made a great main character
Awesome read, only slows down in one or two parts but otherwise couldn't put it down. They made a great main character
September 9, 2025
Dynamite
Great book ,great action good characters here but I would like to know; is just how hot is summers.
Thank u😎
Great book ,great action good characters here but I would like to know; is just how hot is summers.
Thank u😎
September 10, 2025
Good book
The book is very fast-paced and the storyline and plot carry all the way through the series has been very good so far
The book is very fast-paced and the storyline and plot carry all the way through the series has been very good so far
October 27, 2025
Excellent space opera and lots and lots of space battles, enjoyed every minute(I listened to an audio book).
November 21, 2025
DNF, just ok but not enough to want to finish
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