MD Cooper Books in Order

A military intelligence veteran prepares to leave Sol aboard the colony ship Intrepid, but sabotage threatens its departure. Assigned to investigate, she works with the ship's AI to uncover an organization determined to destroy the vessel and its passengers.

Sabotage leaves the colony ship Intrepid falling toward a star, with its AI cut off from the engines. Awakened from stasis, Colonel Tanis Richards must work alone to regain control and preserve the ship's journey to New Eden.

Damage forces the Intrepid's colonists to establish a temporary industrial base while undertaking repairs that could take decades. As they build Victoria, refugees fleeing the Sirius government approach the same destination, creating the conditions for a prolonged conflict.

Smuggler Sera's latest cargo contains Tanis Richards, a woman who knows the location of the lost colony ship Intrepid. Pursued by pirates and government forces, the freighter captain must protect her passenger while concealing secrets from her own past.

These connected stories explore the aftermath of the Intrepid's victory at Bollam's World and the tensions building across the stars. AI emancipation aboard Sabrina and Sera's connection to the secretive Hand complicate the lives of the ship's crew.

As Sera prepares to march on Airtha, Tanis Richards confronts resistance in the Praesepe Cluster from a Nietzschean empire aligned with Orion. Negotiations, intelligence work and the search for fleet technology shape their efforts to strengthen the alliance.

Salvager Kylie Rhoads makes a deal to avoid imprisonment after military forces catch her during a salvage operation. Rescuing a girl in the Gedri System draws her into a confrontation with a crime syndicate and tests her uneasy arrangement.

Kylie Rhoads discovers that her once peaceful family now commands a force committed to human purity. With her father planning an assault on Silstrand, she must choose between saving her family and preventing a war that threatens billions.

Struggling freighter captain Andy Sykes accepts a dangerous job transporting an illegal AI named Lyssa while raising his two children. The corporation that created her sends armed pursuers, making an ordinary cargo run a fight to protect his family.

Captain Andy Sykes flees across the Solar System with Lyssa, the sentient AI implanted in him. Heartbridge Corporation pursues its lost creation as Andy and Lyssa struggle to survive a partnership that has destroyed other human and AI hybrids.

Tanis Richards nears the end of the Intrepid's long journey and negotiates to secure the New Canaan System for its colonists. Their advanced technology disrupts rival powers, threatening the stable home she has spent her life trying to build.

The Intrepid's colonists begin settling New Canaan, but their advanced technology attracts hostile fleets. Tanis Richards must defend their new home against invaders and a rogue AI while facing decisions that could spread war across human space.

A military science fiction anthology built for quick hits, big action, and a lot of laser fire. Expect multiple authors, different crews, and a fast sampler of space-opera trouble.

Another rapid-fire anthology of military SF stories, with more ships, more firefights, and more bite-sized adventures. It works best as a sampler for readers who like action-first science fiction.

After stealing food, Rika chooses military service over prison and discovers that conscription means transformation into a cyborg scout. Sent ahead of human soldiers, she and her fireteam face escalating enemy resistance while hoping to regain their human bodies.

Discarded after military service, cyborg Rika works cargo jobs while falling behind on the repairs her body needs. When a creditor sells her to mercenaries, she is forced into a presidential assassination mission despite her determination to stop killing for others.

Rika has found a place among the Marauders and their elite Basilisk team when General Mill offers her a secret solo assignment. The mission provides a chance to rescue Silva, the wartime leader who once saved her life.

Kylie Rhoads and the Dauntless flee competing powers while valuable nanotechnology transforms her body and mind. Despite the danger of capture or betrayal, Kylie remains determined to find Nadine and free her from the bounty hunter holding her prisoner.

Jessica and Cheeky's day off becomes a forced weapons-smuggling assignment to the Serenity System. After regaining control of their ship, they investigate the cargo's intended recipient through the intrigues and social events of a divided aristocratic society.

Near the end of Sabrina's long journey across the Orion Freedom Alliance, Cheeky is abducted during a stop on Ferra. Jessica suspects sophisticated enemies beyond the local gangs and investigates a threat that could prevent their return to New Canaan.

Jessica and Sabrina's crew find Finaeus Tomlinson and agree to use an unfamiliar jump gate as a shortcut. The Transcend's Grey Division closes in, trapping them in the Grey Wolf System with vital information they must deliver to New Canaan.

A dark-matter nebula blocks Sabrina's route, and reaching Star City may offer a passage through it. Jessica and Trevor risk a hidden faster-than-light route into the interdicted city, whose surprising inhabitants may demand a costly sacrifice for their help.

After defending New Canaan, Tanis and Sera seek an alliance with Scipian Empress Diana to secure the Inner Stars. Rival empires support the Orion Guard, civil war threatens the Transcend, and Diana's ambitions complicate the proposed partnership.

Sabrina approaches the Perry Strait, a region where faster-than-light travel is impossible and the Perry System controls the route onward. An old enemy has arrived ahead of the crew and prepared a trap they must confront to continue their journey.

Captured by Jace and the Blackadder organization, Katrina struggles to survive and protect Juasa. She seeks a way to earn her captors' trust and rise within their ranks, hoping to locate Troy and the Voyager in an unfamiliar future.

Katrina leaves Victoria to search for missing friends aboard the Intrepid, then wakes from stasis more than four thousand years later. Enslaved on Bollam's World and sold to an aspiring empire builder, she must plot a path toward freedom.

An escape through the Grey Wolf gate leaves Jessica and Sabrina's crew stranded far into the Perseus Arm. With their ship damaged, Cheeky critically injured and fuel running low, they must seek repairs in a system controlled by their enemies.

Besieged on Cerka Station with communications disabled, Sabrina's crew battles to keep Virginis from collapsing. Jessica, Usef and Trevor face physical enemies while Iris and Amavia confront another threat, with Hegemony forces waiting in the system's outer reaches.

Sabrina's crew finally reaches New Canaan, expecting a chance to rest after their long journey. Instead, Tanis assigns another mission, and a changed complement of humans and AIs departs to prevent the outbreak of a third Sentience War.

After a freighter carrying rescued AIs is attacked at Chittering Hawk, survivors seek help from Sabrina's crew. Jessica and Cheeky must venture into the hostile outer Virginis System to extract them without revealing their presence to the AST.

This illustrated volume traces the development of the Aeon 14 book covers and the artwork behind them. Its first edition includes images from the Intrepid Saga, the first seven Orion War books and the first eleven Perseus Gate covers.

Tangel seeks to bring the League of Sentients into the alliance while Sera prepares an assault on Airtha. Widow forces threaten both operations, complicating their efforts to defeat the Hegemony and end the Transcend's civil war.

Pilot Jason Andrews visits his sister in Alpha Centauri after the Sentience Wars, unaware that powerful interests are exploiting refugees. His brother-in-law draws him into a covert operation that threatens the system's humans and AIs and exposes concealed identities.

Tanis Richards and the Kirby Jones crew investigate the betrayal behind events on Europa. A failed intelligence exchange with the Jovians and an urgent journey toward Earth force Tanis into a dangerous stop at Saturn, where millions of lives are threatened.

Erin builds secret shipyards for New Canaan before being sent to restore stalled construction on Carthage. Her use of the colonists' advanced picotech attracts an attempted theft, forcing her to identify the agent before their enemies obtain the technology.

Twin pub owners Milly and Tilly prepare a busy speed-dating event amid inspections, a neighboring business opening and a missing cat. When the lights go out and a body appears, they turn from hosting guests to investigating another murder.

Kylie and Ricket cross the Velorum Rift aboard a stolen freighter to reach the Revolution Fleet. Kylie hopes to save her brother before rival forces destroy him, but the waiting Orion Guard and competing allies complicate their approach.

Assassin Nerishka is sent to eliminate a kingpin researching potentially devastating picotech in the Ayra System. A missing contact and attacks on her life reveal a wider conspiracy, forcing her to work with a man she abandoned decades earlier.

A violent attack on Reece's favorite whiskey distillery sends her and Trey into an investigation with personal stakes. As the trail exposes an elusive conspiracy and attacks spread to corporate fixers, Reece becomes determined to identify those responsible.

Corporate fixer Reece resents being assigned a genetically modified partner while tracking a rogue scientist beyond the Machete System. Their pursuit uncovers greater dangers than expected, forcing her to cooperate with the colleague she had hoped to discard.

This collection follows Tanis, Joe, their daughters and other New Canaan colonists in the days after the Defense of Carthage. Stories of recovery and memories of earlier times accompany their preparations for the conflict still ahead.

Kylie Rhoads and her crew visit a mining station to meet an arms dealer with information about her warmongering brother. An assassination attempt turns the stop into an investigation, and Kylie refuses to leave until she learns who ordered it.

Sent to Earth to abduct a senior Scattered Disk officer, Tanis discovers that her mission has consequences far beyond one prisoner. With Harm captured, she must escape and help him before failure ignites another Solar War.

Andy Sykes and the Sunny Skies crew attempt to free weaponized AIs, while Lyssa struggles to control the Weapon Born. Alexander offers freedom through Proteus, but Heartbridge's technology threatens to turn political divisions into war.

After Xander's betrayal, Lyssa and the Weapon Born face Alexander's assault on Inner Sol. The Sunny Skies crew must spread a warning as other fugitives confront the destruction of Clinic 13 and the failure of Heartbridge.

Andy Sykes and his family decide to stop running from the conspiracy engulfing Sol. As Lyssa receives messages from newly awakening AIs demanding freedom, their counterattack unfolds amid rising tensions between Terra, Mars and the Jovian Combine.

Tanis's leave on Mars becomes a mission to find a missing operative on Ceres. When an assassination attempt leaves her enemies believing she is dead, she goes undercover to investigate a conspiracy involving her own identity.

The Allies advance toward the Inner Stars while defending the Large Magellanic Cloud, stretching their forces thin. As enemies target Tangel and Justin's stasis ship, diplomacy with the undecided Vela League becomes another urgent front.

Jason Terrance and the Phantom Blade search for a kidnapped AI after the Norden Cartel's collapse. Their pursuit exposes stolen technology and a growing threat that could undermine the fragile relationship between humans and artificial intelligences.

Rika's rescue of Tanis Richards brings an offer of resources to fight the Nietzscheans and restore Genevia. As the Orion Freedom Alliance prepares a proxy war, her Marauders upgrade their fleet for an assault into enemy territory.

Rika's forces advance through Old Genevia so swiftly that the emperor remains unaware of their gains. A strike against the Genevian System promises liberation, but its people may not welcome the mechs arriving to save them.

Intelligence from the Field Marshal sends Rika's Marauders toward Kansas and Blue Ridge for a surprise attack. Their enemy proves harder to overcome than expected, forcing the company into a dangerous fight and a daring rescue.

With the demons of her past finally confronted, Rika takes command of a new Marauders company composed entirely of mechs. Their next challenge is an offensive against the Nietzschean Empire, putting her leadership and soldiers to the test.

Five mechs stranded on Iberia face the forces of an entire system, and Rika unleashes her strength to save them. With reinforcements still far away, the isolated fighters must survive long enough for help to arrive.

After seven months on patrol, Tanis receives a new Enfield and an AI partner, Darla, whose wealth buys luxurious leave on Vesta. Spotting a man she recently killed turns their resort stay into a Federation conspiracy investigation.

During a long patrol of the Terran Hegemony, Tanis and the TSS Kirby Jones encounter the freighter Norse Wind, suspected of smuggling into Inner Sol. What begins as a routine inspection becomes a struggle for the crew.

Jason Terrance and the Phantom Blade pursue two stolen AIs across journeys measured in decades. A drone courier leads them toward Tau Ceti, where a shipyard's destruction by a nanophage turns the hunt into a larger rescue mission.

Fugia Wong and Ngoba Starl make their living hustling around Cruithne's Lowspin. A friendship with an uplifted gray parrot draws them into secret experiments and AI smuggling, forcing a choice between profitable work and protecting their unusual companion.

Katrina rules Midditerra while enemies gather around her and the Streamer's power complicates her position. Rumors that Troy can heal her damaged body offer hope, but surviving until the Intrepid arrives requires more than physical recovery.

Erin's vacation ends when Tanis sends her to investigate an asteroid mining disaster. Something about the incident refuses to add up, and scarce evidence leaves her trying to protect Tyre and New Canaan from an uncertain threat.

Having taken control of Ceres, the Psion AIs turn their attention to Vesta. Lyssa and the Sykes family face another crisis as the factions of Sol move toward war and the Weapon Born again become targets.

The defense of Pyra opens into a war across scattered fronts, stretching Sera and the Transcend's fleets. While Tanis recovers, Bob's revelations challenge assumptions about humanity as their enemies prepare new moves against the Alliance.

Milly and Tilly serve breakfast at their Fennington Station pub to fund a dream trip to Disknee World. A feud with a rival juice bar turns deadly, leaving Milly suspected of murder and the twins searching for answers.

Bounty hunters Reece and Trey work in the Machete system, where a war between competing companies makes their profession increasingly dangerous. Staying alive means relying on each other while trying to remain ahead of those pursuing them.

An incursion at Chittering Hawk pushes the AST toward a final offensive in Virginis. Jessica arranges military support for Corsia, while Orion gates near New Canaan offer a route for the reinforcements their allies urgently need.

Amanda and the Star Magi pursue pirates stealing technology across the multiverse, leading them to Cerka during the Orion War. Jessica, Sabrina and their divided crew must cooperate to stop a theft with consequences beyond one universe.

An orbital ring's failing cooling system threatens disaster on Athens, interrupting Erin's new domestic happiness. Meanwhile, Tanis welcomes Transcend advisers and attempts diplomacy to gain time before the approaching invasion places New Canaan in greater danger.

A trading stop at Epsilon Eridani becomes a hostage crisis when the Barat seize one of Jason Andrews's crew. Their demand for Enfield technology and Godel's costly offer of help complicate efforts to prevent a devastating planetary attack.

A thirty-year stalemate between humans and Psion AIs approaches collapse as rebellion spreads. Released after four years of imprisonment and enforced docility, Cara enters a web of intrigue that brings her and Lyssa toward another impending war.

Kylie Rhoads returns to Silstrand hoping for a holiday and to deliver her brother Paul for trial. Attacks on him bring revenge and attempted silencing into focus, forcing the Barbaric Queen's crew to protect those closest to them.

Mr. Fizzle Pop, the Barbaric Queen's uplifted cat, pursues a fifty-foot pizza and gets himself into trouble. A refitted shuttle and a stolen cigar feature in an adventure that puts his appetite ahead of his safety.

With Tangel presumed dead, the Alliance confronts occupation in New Sol and the Orion Freedom Alliance's surrender. Bob's doubts prompt a search for survivors, while Finaeus and Earnest investigate an AI mystery that may shape their future.

Tangel's ISF prepares a strike against the Hegemony while Jessica and Sera take the repaired Lantzer to Kapteyn's Star. Their apparently straightforward assignment brings them back to a system with particular significance to the unfolding conflict.

Rika prepares to become Queen of Genevia, expecting her coronation to close a difficult chapter. Instead, the continuing war and threats to Genevian colonies force her and the Marauders to confront fresh dangers alongside the ceremony.

Genevia's independence has been restored, but the Nietzscheans remain a threat and military success cannot settle every political question. Rika must consider the responsibilities of leadership as her Marauders face the difficult work of securing their gains.

The Underground Railroad asks Jason Andrews and the Avon Vale to rescue AIs trapped in indentured slavery at Sirius. Smuggling a shipload of desperate fugitives out of the vast binary system requires exposing an operation hidden behind respectable appearances.

Tangel faces impossible demands in I2 and Star City while Joe and his daughters aboard the Perilous Dream confront Praetor Kirkland's Widow attack. Protecting family and advancing the Alliance's aims pull their decisions in conflicting directions.

Maverick has committed to his final move, and Kylie Rhoads is no longer willing to endure his attacks. Their conflict approaches its decisive confrontation in the concluding installment of the Perilous Alliance series.

Delta Team takes a break from hard-won victories at NeverevereverLand, a space station devoted to amusement-park entertainment. Their hoped-for rest becomes another chaotic adventure when dwarfs steal the Van, disrupting the team's unusual holiday in space.

A woman searching for her missing brother in the New Eden system turns to Delta Team for help. With more conventional rescuers occupied elsewhere, the unlikely team takes on a mission that brings its particular brand of chaos.

Empress Diana must forge an alliance to protect an endangered empire while a spy operates inside her court. Deceit also shadows a damaged romance, making trust a difficult requirement in both her diplomacy and her personal life.

After Airtha, the Allies attempt to halt the Transcend's advance through Orion and the Inner Stars. Opposition from Star City's core AI and Garza's renewed power complicate their plans, leaving Tangel to divide limited support among urgent fronts.

The first Solar War begins as the emergence of sentient artificial intelligence turns longstanding tensions into open conflict. Human and AI interests collide across their home system, setting the stage for a struggle over the future of both.

Erin finishes building secret shipyards and turns to constructing Troy's new defensive space station. Hostile local attitudes and an old enemy threaten her work, forcing her to consider what she will sacrifice to protect those she loves.

Resistance operative Katelyn Evans carries secret intelligence to Venus while Marine Williams fights its uprising for the Federation. Discovering a deeper plot puts them on opposing sides of a conflict that challenges their loyalties and understanding of justice.

With the Virginis system secured, Sabrina's crew pursues a traitor who took borrowed equipment and fled during the conflict. Tracking someone who has already caused destruction makes their next mission a dangerous effort to confront betrayal.

Separatists seize Sedna and declare it the capital of a new Free Disk Alliance. Williams and the Marines return to restore Federation control, but Katelyn Evans and her allies have learned from earlier defeats and prepare to defend their homeland.

Repeated assassination attempts drive Petra to take Empress Diana and her guards to a remote world for demanding training. A trap laid elsewhere reveals greater danger, leaving the isolated group facing a threat beyond the exercise Petra planned.

Empress Diana and Petra travel to Spica as fleets assemble for war against the Hegemony of Worlds. Fresh intrigue threatens Diana's authority, forcing both to act while enemy incursions leave the Empire little time to organize its response.

Separated from his ship after the Daedalus operation, Jax survives with arms-dealer agent Penny aboard a damaged lifeboat. Refuge on an ancient vessel brings another obligation: steal intelligence from a secret base while an enemy commander pursues him.

Jax's crew seeks refuge after escape exhausts their ship's antimatter supplies, but a hidden city offers little safety. Captured companions and a trapped ship threaten their infiltration mission, leaving Jax facing drastic choices to prevent a wider war.

With senior Alliance leaders missing, Jessica becomes field marshal and continues the planned advance toward Sol. Before the fleet can reach humanity's home system, she must confront Sirius, an enemy standing between the Alliance and its next objective.

A lucrative job brings engineer Terry back to the Serenity Ordus, where five powerful houses prepare for civil war. Hidden military technology and an unexplained AI presence draw her and Cyrus into uneasy alliances to prevent the system's collapse.

Rika faces an enemy retreat that destroys worlds in its wake and must choose between dispersed defense and attacking the Nietzscheans directly. Her strategy of deception becomes more dangerous as internal enemy politics threaten her Marauders and their fledgling nation.

After narrowly avoiding disaster on the Disknee World, Delta Team heads to two rogue planets for another rescue assignment. A world of ski resorts and an apparent vampire problem make deciding who needs saving less straightforward than expected.

After the Orion War, Tanis Richards hopes for rest but confronts an AI determined to reshape existence without organic life. Even with peace spreading, she and her allies must prepare for another conflict against a threat at the galactic core.

Smuggler Jax Bremen accepts a lucrative job from an arms dealer and becomes entangled in competing political schemes. Playing multiple sides only deepens his obligations until he must attempt the robbery of a military cruiser traveling through the Maelstrom.

Terry and Cyrus return to Serenity to find its competing powers close to civil war. With the Perseus's artificial intelligence awakened, they must act to prevent the system's fragile political order from collapsing into a wider conflict.

The Jovians enter the Human-AI Sentience Wars determined to stop the threat posed by artificial intelligence while gaining control of its power. Their intervention adds another competing force to an expanding conflict across humanity's home system.

Amanda follows enemy Reaver Morden to Cerka Station, fearing his search for a powerful ally. Joining Tanis and a Marine team brings her into another universe-spanning confrontation as Morden prepares to take revenge for his previous defeats.