This collection contains all six books of Ian Douglas's epic Warstrider series, plus the sequel novella The Ten Billion Gods of Heaven.
WARSTRIDER In the 26th century, humanity is at war with the Xenophobes, and the planet Loki is the next battleground. Dev Cameron joined the military to fly a starship, but is rated unsuitable and grudgingly accepts an assignment with the ground forces piloting a massive walking tank— a warstrider. But Cameron may yet get a chance at glory when he makes a discovery about their alien foes that could change the course of the war.
WARSTRIDER: REBELLION In the wake of a breakthrough in the struggle against the Xenos on its frontier worlds, the Hegemony turns its attention to the planet Eridu, where newly-encountered Xenos as well as brewing unrest among the colonists threaten the Hegemony's rule. The ensuing struggle will test loyalties and have a far-reaching impact on the future of human and alien alike.
WARSTRIDER: JACKERS As the frontier worlds in rebellion against the Hegemony seek to form a unified confederation, the Imperial government sends a space fleet to New America, intent on crushing the revolution once and for all. Now the survival of the Confederation depends on finding a way to win against insurmountable odds.
WARSTRIDER: SYMBIONTS Dev Cameron helped the rebel Confederation defeat the Hegemony forces at Herakles, but his experience merging with an alien Naga consciousness has changed him irrevocably, and the rebellion rages on. After the passive DalRiss unexpectedly attack the Hegemony, Dev and Katya Alessandro are sent to meet with the aliens to determine if they have a common enemy. Their mission is critical to the success of the Confederation, but the difficulty of understanding truly alien intelligences makes a meaningful alliance unlikely, and doubts about Dev’s capabilities loom even as he may be the only one able to make contact.
WARSTRIDER: NETLINK Over twenty years have passed since the events of Warstrider: Symbionts. Contact with the DalRiss and Naga and their technology has radically altered human society, as has the constant struggle between the Hegemony and the rebel Confederation for control over the dozens of human-inhabited planets. But the Hegemony has a new technology that could suppress any resistance to Earth’s rule, and meanwhile, Dev Cameron and the DalRiss have discovered a new threat emerging from deep space that could cause the extinction of all life it encounters.
WARSTRIDER: BATTLEMIND The Web, a vast machine intelligence of unbelievable power, is steadily consuming the galaxy, indifferent to any species that stands in its way. Fighting the Web brings together an alliance between disparate societies and alien civilizations to stand against it in battle. And overcoming the Web means discovering where it came from and what goals drive its single-minded advance, and learning what the future holds for intelligent life in the universe. The Warstrider series draws to a close with this final epic struggle for the fate of the galaxy.
WARSTRIDER: THE TEN BILLION GODS OF HEAVEN(new novella)
Decades after their declaration of independence, the colony planets that formed the Confederation remain outnumbered by Earth's Japan-dominated Empire. But a new discovery could shake the balance of power. A solar system-spanning fragment of the galaxy-wide artificial intelligence called the Web has been located within reach of human civilization, but no one knows whether it's peaceful, hostile, or entirely indifferent to events on a human scale.
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This collection contains all six books of Ian Douglas's epic Warstrider series, plus the sequel novella The Ten Billion Gods of Heaven.
WARSTRIDER
In the 26th century, humanity is at war with the Xenophobes, and the planet Loki is the next battleground. Dev Cameron joined the military to fly a starship, but is rated unsuitable and grudgingly accepts an assignment with the ground forces piloting a massive walking tank— a warstrider. But Cameron may yet get a chance at glory when he makes a discovery about their alien foes that could change the course of the war.
WARSTRIDER: REBELLION
In the wake of a breakthrough in the struggle against the Xenos on its frontier worlds, the Hegemony turns its attention to the planet Eridu, where newly-encountered Xenos as well as brewing unrest among the colonists threaten the Hegemony's rule. The ensuing struggle will test loyalties and have a far-reaching impact on the future of human and alien alike.
WARSTRIDER: JACKERS
As the frontier worlds in rebellion against the Hegemony seek to form a unified confederation, the Imperial government sends a space fleet to New America, intent on crushing the revolution once and for all. Now the survival of the Confederation depends on finding a way to win against insurmountable odds.
WARSTRIDER: SYMBIONTS
Dev Cameron helped the rebel Confederation defeat the Hegemony forces at Herakles, but his experience merging with an alien Naga consciousness has changed him irrevocably, and the rebellion rages on. After the passive DalRiss unexpectedly attack the Hegemony, Dev and Katya Alessandro are sent to meet with the aliens to determine if they have a common enemy. Their mission is critical to the success of the Confederation, but the difficulty of understanding truly alien intelligences makes a meaningful alliance unlikely, and doubts about Dev’s capabilities loom even as he may be the only one able to make contact.
WARSTRIDER: NETLINK
Over twenty years have passed since the events of Warstrider: Symbionts. Contact with the DalRiss and Naga and their technology has radically altered human society, as has the constant struggle between the Hegemony and the rebel Confederation for control over the dozens of human-inhabited planets. But the Hegemony has a new technology that could suppress any resistance to Earth’s rule, and meanwhile, Dev Cameron and the DalRiss have discovered a new threat emerging from deep space that could cause the extinction of all life it encounters.
WARSTRIDER: BATTLEMIND
The Web, a vast machine intelligence of unbelievable power, is steadily consuming the galaxy, indifferent to any species that stands in its way. Fighting the Web brings together an alliance between disparate societies and alien civilizations to stand against it in battle. And overcoming the Web means discovering where it came from and what goals drive its single-minded advance, and learning what the future holds for intelligent life in the universe. The Warstrider series draws to a close with this final epic struggle for the fate of the galaxy.
WARSTRIDER: THE TEN BILLION GODS OF HEAVEN (new novella)
Decades after their declaration of independence, the colony planets that formed the Confederation remain outnumbered by Earth's Japan-dominated Empire. But a new discovery could shake the balance of power. A solar system-spanning fragment of the galaxy-wide artificial intelligence called the Web has been located within reach of human civilization, but no one knows whether it's peaceful, hostile, or entirely indifferent to events on a human scale.