Starfire Series by Steve White et al. #1-7
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Overview: Born in 1948. Steve White is an American science fiction author best known as the co-author of the Starfire-series alongside David Weber.
He is married with 3 daughters and currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also works for a legal publishing company. He previously served as a United States Navy officer and served during the Vietnam War and in the Mediterranean region.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Insurrection GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH….In the end, the only political systems that seem to work are those based on freedom. The Inner World leaders of the Terran Federation seem to have forgotten this simple truth. After fighting the Khanate — with the Fringe Worlds to supply the raw material and the fighting men — the Inner Worlds found it hard to give up the powers they had seized during the war. So they decided not to — rather than allow the rapidly expanding Fringe Worlds representation in the Federation, they are inviting the Khanate in, to keep the colonial upstarts in their place. The Fringers have only one answer to that:
Crusade THE PRODIGAL’S RETURNNeither side having proved capable of pressing their conflict to a successful conclusion, the Human-Orion war to end all interstellar wars has collapsed into an uneasy peace. But it is a peace filled with fear, hatred and mistrust on both sides. Then from out of a warp point notorious for devouring space ships, appears a ship from the dim mists of half-forgotten history. It responds to hails from the patrolling Orion sentry using ancient human codes from a long lost colony. And it opens fire on Orions, igniting the fires of interstellar war anew, in a quest to free Holy Mother Terra….
In Death Ground As easy as One-Tzu-Three: "In difficult ground, press on; In encircled ground, devise stratagems; In death ground, fight." – Sun Tzu in "The Art of War" (circa 400 B.C.)Five thousand years later, in the time of the Fourth Interstellar War, the advice still makes sense.The Bugs have a superior drive technology, overwhelming numbers, and a strategy that’s mind-numbingly alien. For the humans and their enemies-turned-allies, the catlike Orions, choosing their strategy was as easy as One-Tzu-Three: FIGHT!
The Shiva Option The mind-numbingly alien Arachnids were an enemy whose like no civilized race had ever confronted. Like some carnivorous cancer, the ‘Bugs’ had overrun planet after planet… and they regarded any competing sentient species as only one more protein source. They couldn’t be reasoned with, or even talked to, because no one had the least idea of how to communicate with a telepathic species with no recognizable language…and whose response to any communication attempt was a missile salvo. No one knew how large their civilization – if it could be called a ‘civilization’- actually was, or how it was organized, but the huge fleets they threw against their opponents suggested that it was enormous. The Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Gorm, united in desperate self-defense, have been driven to the wall. Billions of their civilians have been slaughtered. Their most powerful offensive operation has ended in shattering defeat and the deaths of their most experienced and revered military commanders. The edge in technology with which they began the war is eroding out from under them and whatever they do, the Bugs just keep coming. But the warriors of the Grand Alliance know what stands behind them and they will surrender no more civilians to the oncoming juggernaut. They will die first…and they will also reactivate General Directive 18, however horrible it may be. Because when the only possible outcomes are victory or racial extermination, only one option is acceptable.
Extremis (ARC) Once before, the sentient races in the known part of the galaxy – humans, Orions, Ophiuchi and Gorm – had united to defeat alien invaders. Decades later, the member planets of the alliance had grown complacent – until a huge fleet of ships, each ship larger than a city, arrived, fleeing the loss of their home planet when their star went nova.
They have traveled for centuries, slower than light, and now that they have arrived at the world they intend to make their new home. They regard the fact that the planet is already colonized by humans as a mere inconvenience, the more so since their mode of communication is so different from anything humans use that they do not consider humans and their allies to be truly intelligent. And the arriving aliens know – or, at least, they believe – that when they die they will be reincarnated, so they do not hesitate to attack humans and their allies with suicidal fury. And, if necessary, they will exterminate all humans and their allies, if that’s what it takes to occupy the planet.
That was their attitude on arrival, but the conquerors have learned from human technology. They now know all about reactionless drives, so much more efficient than rocket engines. And they have learned about the jump points which make faster-than-light travel possible. With that knowledge, they plan to conquer the entire inhabited region of the galaxy – unless the old alliance of humans and other being can stop them . . . .
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