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Dramatic Solution/The Allergy Factor    by Robert Collins
Price: $0.99 USD. 6020 words. Language: English. Published on July 13, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

Here are two short science fiction stories featuring the crew of the Victory of the Terran Federal Republic, "Dramatic Solution" and "The Allergy Factor." Both feature the crew trying to deal with problems faced by colonists on distant worlds. Both stories have been previously published.
DUAL BOOT - Nomad    by Todd Anthony Bell
Price: $3.99 USD. 69940 words. Language: English. Published on July 8, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » Military.

When Master Chief John “Jericho” Bennett is asked by his former Navy SEAL commander to volunteer for a new Pentagon initiative to replace the Land Warrior System, he jumped at the opportunity; not realizing that a symbiotic relationship, a dual boot with computer software would lead to brutal violence between himself and those he trained.
The SCM of 2030, a Shifter Dystopian (Shifter Evolutions Book #2)    by Ami Blackwelder
Price: $4.99 USD. 83190 words. Language: English. Published by Ami Blackwelder  on July 4, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » Military.

Book 2 in Shifter Evolutions Set in Alaska in 2030, Major Raul is set on forming a separate branch of military dubbed the SCM (Shifter Counter-insurgency Military) to fight the shifter invasion. But when love comes into his life, his military ambitions take a backseat, until the shifters reveal their darkest secrets and betrayal sends Raul spiraling into madness.
The Prison    by Robert English
Price: $1.99 USD. 50740 words. Language: English. Published on June 28, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

In the future, capital punishment has been outlawed in favor of exile. A distant planetoid has a mere two inhabitants, a guard and a prisoner.
Mop Jockeys and Fighter Pilots    by J.A. Marlow
Price: $0.99 USD. 6940 words. Language: English. Published by Star Catcher Publishing  on June 25, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » Military.

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Captain Carme Batista doesn't have time for anything other than fighting the next battle. But Felix isn't an ordinary janitor. He remembers things no one else does, unobtrusively attentive, seeming to sense what she needs before even she knows it. He doesn't seem to understand she has no emotion left. The war with the Chion destroyed them a long time ago... Or did it?
The Face of God    by Ryan Schneider
Price: $2.99 USD. 30290 words. Language: English. Published on June 14, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » Military.

THE FACE OF GOD is the fifth installment in the epic science fiction serial adventure series THE GO-KIDS by Amazon Top 20 science fiction writer Ryan Schneider.
Forlorn Gambit    by Matt Kirkby
Price: $2.99 USD. 53960 words. Language: English. Published by Cosmic Legends  on June 13, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

Earth and its alien-sponsored colonies and their allies are locked in a losing war against a seemingly limitless horde of Von Neuman-style machines. Can Earth be saved or will it fall to the Devastators?
Dale Cozort's Alternate History Newsletter-February 2010    by Dale Cozort
Price: Free! 17990 words. Language: English. Published on June 13, 2011. Nonfiction » History » Military.

A thirty-page informal newsletter about the alternate history subgenre of science fiction and related science fiction topics. This issue has an excerpt from a Work In Process called Mars Looks Different, mini-essays on alternate World War II and Space Programs, along with commentary on a range of science fiction topics, including Dr. Who, Phil Farmer and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.
The Cloud Knights    by Gerard Whittaker
Price: $4.00 USD. 98710 words. Language: English. Published on June 7, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » Military.

Full version. Thousands of years after the seas rose and the skies fell, a young man fights to become a fighter pilot, but that is the one thing no peasant can be. This is a world of biplanes versus airships, politics and treason, and a hero determined to rise from the ranks to become a Cloud Knight, fighting for freedom in a world were even honour is for sale.
The Unity Worlds at War    by Scott William Carter
Price: $4.99 USD. 24810 words. Language: English. Published by Flying Raven Press  on June 6, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

Whether it's the soldiers on the front line or the bartenders who serve them, war leaves no one unscathed. These four tales set in Carter's war-ravaged Unity Worlds universe -- three originally published in the leading science fiction magazines of the day, plus one story original to this collection -- will leave you thinking about war's effects long after you finish the final words.