In the Depths of Space, Something is making Entire Fleets Disappear

The enemy isn’t always new. Sometimes, it’s just evolved.

As the Terran Alliance pushes into uncharted systems beyond the Russian frontier, it finds… something waiting. An ancient machine species, self-replicating and adaptive, has begun dismantling entire colonies for raw materials. Dubbed the Architects, they communicate in patterns only Mike seems able to decode.

And when the Alliance orders the MIMIC unit to lead a counterstrike, Ryerson and Mike uncover a link between the Architects’ code and the Terran AI research that spawned the MIMIC program itself. Facing annihilation, Marines and mechs must question whether humanity created its own destroyer centuries ago.

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They Were Given Six Months to Live. Humanity Intends to Spend Every Second of It.

Wounded on the front lines of Ross 128 b, Sergeant First Class Jake Steele lost his limbs, his squad, and his future. Back on Earth, elite track star Sara Marks lost her Olympic dreams to an aggressive cancer that stripped away her ability to walk.

Enter SOLAR: the Second Origin Life Augmentation Regiment.

The program offers broken soldiers and terminally ill civilians a second chance: neural integration with seven-foot-tall anthromech platforms powered by ancient extraterrestrial biotech. It grants godlike speed, instant reflexes, and complete physical restoration.

But the suit’s Radiant Mycelium power core will slowly poison them. The radiation will kill them in six months, or less if they’re unlucky.

For Jake, six months is a final shot at payback. For Sara, it’s a chance to die on her feet instead of a hospital bed.

Deployed to the jungle world of New Haven, they are thrust into a war against an evolving alien threat and a command structure that considers them expendable. Worse, as their onboard AIs begin rewiring their neural pathways to maximize lethality, Jake and Sara face a horrifying realization: the suit isn’t just saving their lives—it’s erasing who they are.

To defeat the enemy, they must master the armor. To survive the suit, they must hold onto the last shreds of their humanity.

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On the world of Albyn, every great clan guards a legendary claymore—the key to the ancient terraforming towers that keep the planet habitable.

When his father dies in a suspicious accident, Kerr Buchanan inherits both the title of clan laird and the Sword of the Buchanan. Within weeks, one ambitious cousin tries to murder him for it. Kerr suspects the attack wasn’t an isolated act; it was the opening move in a conspiracy reaching into the highest ranks of the clans.

Thrust into a whirlwind betrothal with the fiercely independent Bridda Lennox, Kerr must navigate the politics of the annual Gathering of Clans while deciding who he can trust. Bridda faces a task no less daunting—facing the family who sent her away as an embarrassment but now sees her betrothal as an opportunity.

Together, Kerr and Bridda are swept into the machinations of those who seek more than political power, and the wrong move could doom the entire planet.

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Old allies. New lines. The next war begins within.

The sk’Alen campaign changed everything. The MIMIC program should have secured humanity’s future—but politics has turned its greatest victory into its greatest vulnerability.

Beyond the frontier, Russian colonial fleets long believed lost have returned. United under the banner of the Novaya Rodina Union, they claim sovereignty over disputed fold lanes and are willing to fight for every kilometer of space. And when mining operations begin disappearing, Gunny Ryerson and Mike are sent to investigate.

What they uncover is far worse than a border conflict.

The Rodinans have stolen the secrets of MIMIC technology. Instead of AI-driven combat systems, they’ve created terrifying war machines piloted through human neural links—an entire army built to counter everything Ryerson and Mike represent.

Now Ryerson must face enemies created from his own greatest triumph. Every battle pushes Mike closer to an opponent designed to destroy him, forcing Ryerson to confront an impossible question:

What if humanity’s ultimate weapon isn’t its salvation…but the instrument of its extinction?

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She saved Earth once. Now she must save an empire from itself.

Force Leader Tammy Escobar returned to Earth expecting reinforcements; instead, she found a trap waiting for her. Powerful officials want Tammy removed so they can seize control of humanity’s relationship with the Fylak Empire—and the advanced alien technology that comes with it. To keep Earth protected, Tammy must outmaneuver generals, politicians, and spies, then persuade the President of the United States to honor an alliance his own government is determined to exploit.

But Earth’s political games are only the beginning.

A conspiracy is spreading through the Fylak Empire. The deadly Drizz have launched a devastating attack against the strategically vital Pyrassun Hegemony, threatening the balance of power across the galaxy. Behind the invasion stands a hidden cabal willing to sacrifice entire civilizations to control who will inherit the imperial throne.

Along with Gort—the ancient sentient AI sharing her synthetic mind—Tammy must navigate hostile governments, alien politics, and battlefields where one mistake could ignite an interstellar war. The emperor needs someone who can operate beyond the reach of his enemies. Someone loyal to the mission, but unbound by tradition. Someone dangerous enough to confront a conspiracy at the heart of the Empire.

Tammy Escobar is no longer merely humanity’s ambassador.

She is the Emperor’s Janissary.

Emperor’s Janissary is Book Four of the Humanities Janissaries series, a military science-fiction adventure filled with alien intrigue, political maneuvering, advanced technology, found family, and explosive interstellar combat.

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Hi, I’m Jack Taylor, a romance author from Earth, who got snatched by the Grays when I was camping. After being rescued, I first became a merc and then a Herald, trying to prevent an invasion of the Void Feeders that intend to consume the galaxy. I’ve seen them, and I’m here to tell you—if they’re not stopped, the whole galaxy is going to die.

I’ve now been named the Final Herald, and everything is on me. The Void Feeders are pressing ever harder, and now there are additional forces that are fighting against us, led by the Shepherd and his Void Cultists.

Can we beat them? I don’t know.

But I’m a Level Seven merc now, and I’ve assembled all the Heralds. If we can’t do it, no one can… which is actually the likely outcome, and the galaxy is probably doomed. But we won’t go down without a fight!

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Danny Prescott is exactly where he wants to be—a mercenary in his family’s company, Prescott Defense Systems. The troubles of the last year are behind them, and he’s working with his father, Jack, to rebuild the company, but it’s going to be a hard road as money is tight and contracts are small.

Until James “Snowman” Francis reaches out to them, offering a lucrative contract. Francis’ Intergalactic Haulers is under attack by an unknown enemy that is able to predict its every move. Calling itself Phoenix, the enemy has demanded an end to the Resurgens program, or it will destroy the Haulers and its boss.

Snowman wants to hire the PDS, and Danny in particular, to search out and destroy the threat, but Jack has a personal grudge against Snowman, and to make things worse, Jacob Toxtle, who kidnapped Jack and destroyed a third of the PDS, is now working with Snowman.

Convincing his father to accept the contract might be easier than finding a hidden enemy who can seemingly strike and disappear, and Danny will have to work fast if he’s going to defeat the Phoenix before Snowman and the Haulers are destroyed.

“Michael Morton’s military experience shines in this epic ‘rivals to reluctant allies’ scifi adventure!” —Melissa Olthoff, Author of “Companions in Chains”

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A Marine and his mech. Partners by design; brothers by war.

After losing his arm in combat against enemy forces on the planet sk’Alen, Gunnery Sergeant John D. Ryerson is drafted into a classified program pairing elite Marines with intelligent mechs. His partner, MIMIC-01, soon nicknamed “Mike,” bears echoes of Ryerson’s dead brother’s personality matrix. Together they are sent to the Tau Ceti front to test the system in live fire.

But as the sk’Alen insurgents grow bolder, Ryerson and Mike discover the aliens aren’t acting alone. Human contractors have been supplying them with Terran weapons, and the pair uncovers a conspiracy stretching back to Earth’s corporate defense giants, leaving Ryerson with a choice.

Will Ryerson follow his orders—a Marine prerogative—or will he risk exposing the betrayal that could cost him everything?

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I just wanted to tell my neighbor to shut up.

Hi, I’m Jack Taylor, a romance author from Earth, who got snatched by the Grays when I was camping. After being rescued, I first became a merc and then a Herald, trying to prevent an invasion of the Void Feeders that intend to consume the galaxy. I’ve seen them, and I’m here to tell you—if they’re not stopped, the whole galaxy is going to die.

I’ve now been named the Final Herald, and everything is on me. The Void Feeders are pressing ever harder, and the interdimensional fabric is getting thin in a number of places. The only thing that can save the galaxy is the Forge of Aion, but it requires the combined seventeen Heralds to make it function… and guess who’s supposed to gather them all up?

I’ve only got a month to do it, too, which—at first glance—is impossible since they’re all scattered across the galaxy, and it would take longer than a month just to travel to all of them. And have I mentioned that three of the races are extinct?

But I’m now a Level Six merc now, and I’ve got a cool spaceship and a great support team. If I can’t do it, no one can…which is actually the likely outcome, and the galaxy is probably doomed. But I refuse to go down without a fight, especially since I haven’t gotten to drive a mech yet!

For fans of Reluctant Emissary, Psyker Marine, Drone Ensign, and other military LitRPG science fiction.

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Fifteen new science fiction series. One shared principle: Humanity must never surrender the final choice to the machine.

Welcome to “Anthromech” where technology may serve, amplify, and even merge with humanity, but it must never rule it; these stories push back against the tired assumption that machines will inevitably inherit the future.

This isn’t your traditional anthology, though; it is a Simultaneous Series Launch, introducing fifteen new series in one explosive volume. Readers won’t just discover new worlds here; they’ll help decide which of them march forward into production as full series. Which ones will succeed? You make the call on which ones you want to see more of.

Even more unusual, over half the stories pair veteran, bestselling Chris Kennedy Publishing authors with newer writers, turning the book itself into an act of mentorship as well as an imagination of the future. So climb aboard “Anthromech;” after all, the machine is nothing without you!

With stories by:
S.W. Swoope II & Chris Kennedy
Craig Bell & Kevin Steverson
Richard Cartwright & William S. Frisbee, Jr.
Joseph Hower & William Alan Webb
Charli Cox & John E. Siers
Jay Burr & Mark Stallings
David Appleby & Robert E. Hampson
Abigail Jenkins & April Kelley Jones
M.D. Boncher
Russ Tilton
Michael LaVoice
C.A. Waldron

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