A young pilot testing an experimental spacecraft unwittingly finds himself in the position of one of Humanity's two designated survivors, a plot to preserve the existence of their race in the annals of time. Earth is doomed, the Sun is fated to die, but the last page has yet to be written in the chronicles of human exploits.... more>>

With only a strange woman, a dog, and a sapient computer, he is thrust into a new reality. In order to survive, they must learn to make use of their limited and shrinking advantages. To thrive they must gain power, be it political, military, or economic, and they need it fast.
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Dead Star Dockyards on Royal Road and Webnovel
Author: cakeonfrosting <<less

You might think that in the twenty-third century, after having reached the stars and expanded their reach across countless horizons, humanity would have grown past all of their squabbles and primitive greed. Technology has put what was once incomprehensible within the reach of any citizen. Food can be printed as easy as paper was in centuries past with housing nearly as simple, healthcare is as easy as a simple puff from an inhalant or a new body part from the biotanks, and yet corporations still lock it all behind paywalls. ... more>>

The life of a space-faring scavenger may not be much, but maybe it will one day finally push me to the gate towards a better life. <<less

The pixens are a people without a planet. Forced to live as refugees, they eke out a living as adult entertainers or menial labor. It is a life Yvian Kiver refuses to accept. She takes to the void, to seek out a new world, a new homestar. Yvian and her sister want to build a nation, a country where her people can live for themselves.... more>>

They are immediately captured by pirates. <<less

Eager to get off earth, the emotionally-distant Violet uses her savings to buy a ticket aboard a colony ship headed out of the Orion Spur. The last place she expected to wake up after entering her cryosleep pod was a hospital bed in a solar system populated by demon girls.... more>>

Her body now heavily augmented to stave off centuries of cryosleep deterioration, Violet is given an address in her phone and thrust out into a new world which is both alien and familiar in ways she never could have imagined. If there's one thing Violet has experience with, it's how to roll with life's punches - but she soon realizes this place won't let her get away with that for long. <<less

A lesbian science fiction retelling of Ragnarok and the events leading to it.... more>>

It has been a millennium since mankind abandoned its home. Corporations have carved up the heavens, and brought humanity to the stars with them to finalize those borders in blood. Their weapon of choice: Einherjar, ten meter tall humanoid mechs, powered by an exotic energy source as-of-yet barely understood.

Just under the illusion of peace sold to the public, mercenary pilots fulfill the wills of those who hold the reins of power. Pilots like Aria, a conscript turned freelance mercenary aided by her illegal and fully sentient AI companion, Nimue. After taking what seemed to be a routine job for a routine client, Aria and an erstwhile rival, Maks, find themselves facing down something older, more territorial, and far more deadly than any corporate force. And what’s more, their encounter has drawn the baleful eye of the deranged leader of the Penrose Foundation upon themselves. <<less

What would you do if you were reborn in the Borderlands universe, and as if that wasn't enough, on a planet that is under the dictatorship of a military corporation? Luckily, Maxwell has awakened the Titanfall System, becoming the Apex Predator of the universe!... more>>

Stand by for Titanfall!
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Disclaimer: All rights reserved to their respective owners. The Borderlands and Titanfall franchises don't belong to me. <<less

The War of 3039 marked a technological threshold for the Inner Sphere, where forgotten technologies were brought back into the mainstream.... more>>

Elise Durand-Géroux learned this to her cost, leaving her unit destroyed, her health diminished, and her promising career in tatters.

Now, nearly five years later, she has escaped to the planet Gillingham on fringes of settled space to start rebuilding herself somewhere peaceful. Unfortunately, despite trying to escape the ravages of war, a bit of Elise's past has caught up with her and she must fight to protect what she has worked so hard to achieve <<less

Marie McCloud is a woman stuck in a galaxy coming apart under an interstellar war. So used to being pushed around by forces beyond her control, she finds herself caught off-guard when she is put in the pilot seat of an unfamiliar Battlemech and fielded alongside new companions. Is this an opportunity to turn her life around, or is this the first step down the wrong path?... more>>

Battletech and Mechwarrior are not mine, they are the property of Catalyst Game Labs.

Rachel McCloud and the Bristol are creations of James Long.

I am also hosting this series on YouTube, where you get to hear me read it to you alongside some sound effects and music I found on the Internet. So if audio is more your thing, you can find the full playlist at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KokyPoimpGU&list=PLBPKALVoB6iB_cUJhqAzqjdNzva-6R9iu

Or you can go download the audio as a podcast, though you'll be missing out on the music and artwork: https://lucendacier.podbean.com/ <<less

When a pilot with no name breaks through a rift to a dying world, he and his experimental fighter-plane become the only things in the way of a horrific army of monsters that is marching to burn down the mystical world tree and kill its keeper as the final symbol of their grim victory.... more>>

What happens when an emotionless killer is transported to another place, when a man who was trained to hunt in the skies above barren ash-lands now becomes the last protector of the perfect garden below instead?

What happens when a soldier with as much blood on his hands as engine grease must find a way to live together with a peaceful incarnation of nature itself — a dryad — in order to save the last sparks of life on her fading world from a series of invasions that never seem to end?
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The one-thousand year crisis has begun.

The world tree, towering up toward the heavenly skies, is the greatest beacon of resilience and peace that there is. Saturated with deeply set, ancient magical energies, it is the most powerful source of ambient, restorative magic that the dying world has ever known. Guarded solely now by its last pacifistic caretaker, a forest dryad, it seems inevitable that it will soon be destroyed with nobody around who is strong enough to protect it from the steadily approaching danger.

Rising from the shadows, horrific monsters from forgotten eras tear through the world in the steadily growing waves of their invasion, breaking free from their ancient prisons deep below its surface as they rampage and destroy the cities of men, elves, and all the other races of the many continents. Filled with nothing but an intent to kill, the system-manifested hordes march toward the last garden in order to bring about the end of the last era.

As one nation after the other falls, everything seems lost, until fate intervenes and a rift between worlds opens, bringing in the only hope the many nations, the sacred tree, as well as its peace-loving caretaker, have against the endless tide of blood and fangs — a transmigrated war pilot, flying an experimental combat aircraft, the Jagdflugzeug-09 'Kestrel'.

Is this one man enough to stop the monster invasions, which grow stronger and stronger with every subsequent wave? Can the pilot with no name carry the fate of the world upon his wings, or can he only watch from above as the fires of the apocalypse reach up to the sky to consume him as well before the fall of final darkness?

Find out in this latest novel by trending litRPG and fantasy author D.M. Rhodes!
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What to expect: LitRPG, Progression, A fighter pilot MC in an isekai fantasy world, A system-modified warplane, A dryad companion, Relationship growth, War, Defense, Monster invasions, Base/home building, Settlement building, A little slice of life, Air travel, Dog-fighting with dragons, Guns vs. monsters <<less

Suddenly waking up in a state of confusion on a spaceship, they had to live a life full of interstellar exploration, space wars, and other cyberpunk things they had never experienced before on Earth.... more>>

However, with their high-tech spaceship and super weapon system that could even defeat a fleet of ships, their journey would be difficult to hinder. But things changed during their journey because..." <<less

"If you are young and don't dream of space, then toil on your soil forever", the legendary Hopkins II once said. And whether you are a rebellious cat or an orphaned human, you dream of jumping between worlds to see the wonders of the galaxy: the space elevators, sunsets on resort worlds, or exotic foods. These dreams usually don't involve run-down ships, strange passengers, being shanghaied, or freshly mutated or meeting old civilisations. The reality is all this and more.
 
A slice-of-life story of two young jump pilots, one cat and the other a human, alternating told in volumes. The first volumes are mostly world-building the action starts in mid-volume 4 (around chapter 37)... more>> so a slow build up. The science is as hard as FTL travel can be, restricting the action. However, the focus is on the soft side (character interaction).

Currently weekly releases.

The title will show the title of the current volume, this one was based on DallE. <<less

Project Hound is a military project funded and ran by the Artemis corporation to create the first series of fully autonomous fighting mechs. But the... more>> mercenaries assigned alongside them think something isn't right. <<less

What will you give to have a family. What will you give to keep them save. What will you endure to have them back. What... more>> will you endure to see them happy. How many will you kill to see new live that represent your love. How many will you kill for them. Alex Hopa will give the galaxy for her family. She will endure hell to have her lover back and she will kill trillions to see them smiles. The universal broke her so can you really blame her for breaking it back. <<less

Set in a distant star system, far into the future, Pilot 017 struggles to make it back from each deployment, only to wrestle with her... more>> own mind in a body she doesn’t feel is her own. And what is a pilot without their mind?
An interface, through which dispatch controls a three-story metal war machine. <<less