Taken from their planet and their century,they are?the Lost Soldiers.The hijacked Twentieth Century troops known as Murphy's Lawless have made planetfall on the planet R'Bak and accomplished their first main objective. Led by Lieutenant Harold Tapper and some of the Lost Soldiers, a clan of proudly independent nomads successfully attacked a unit of the J'Stull Satrapy and made off with a number of much-needed combat vehicles. But the J'Stull won't-can't-let that defeat go unanswered. They are the servitors of the overlords of Kulsis: outsystem autocrats whose forces shall soon return to take whatever resources-and vengeance-they wish. And the J'Stull can't afford to be the objects of their wrath. Captain Bo Moorfield-a dishonored US mechanized cavalry officer before waking up in this strange future-now has to shepherd the convoy of armored cars, APCs, and other all-terrain vehicles-back to the Lost Soldier's base high in the forbidding desert terrain. Unfortunately, the stolen vehicles aren't at the peak of performance, and Lieutenant Tapper is barely able to keep ahead of the J'Stull force racing after him.But Moorfield has two things the J'Stull don't: training as a professional cavalry officer and a force of half-trained troopers mounted on whinnies. If he's able to get his own forces into the right position, maybe-just maybe-he will be able to snatch victory from the jaws of almost-certain defeat. If not, the J'Stull will roll up Moorefield's small unit and push straight on through to the Lost Soldiers' makeshift base, killing them all.And if that happens, the future for the rest of Murphy's Lawless isn't merely bleak: it's nonexistent.

Obligations (Murphy's Lawless (Original Novellas))

Literature & Fiction

Ikenberry, Kevin

Literary

Beyond Terra Press

Taken from their planet and their century, they are…the Lost Soldiers.Some of the hijacked Twentieth Century troops known as the Lost Soldiers have made planetfall on the planet R’Bak and accomplished their first main objective: capturing much-needed combat vehicles. Now reinforced by the nomadic locals, this rump company—known as Murphy’s Lawless—are moving to prevent the local J’Stull aristocrats from calling their off-world overlords to take care of the “unidentified invaders.” The J’Stull plan: use spies and call in favors to find the vehicles and camp from which the “Terran” invaders plan to mount their offensive. The only countermove that Murphy’s Lawless can make in time is to identify—and eliminate—the spies.Fortunately, orbital SIGINT has intercepted a radio transmission from a J’Stull agent near the village of Clarthu, and it’s up to Warrant Officer Horace Chalmers—a disgraced Criminal Investigation Division officer—and his partner Sergeant Jackson to find and eliminate the spy. With extreme prejudice. But Chalmers is trying to achieve yet another goal on this operation: redemption. To start being a better human than the one who got shot down in a helicopter off Mogadishu on his way to Fort Leavenworth: a dirty cop whose misdeeds guaranteed that his partner Jackson would be on that chopper, too—and so lose everything and everyone he ever loved. But Chalmers has never been very good at turning over a new leaf, and he knows nothing of the indigenous tribes. To make matters worse, there’s no room for failure; Murphy’s Lawless are already on the move. Their attack force will soon roll past Clarthu and be reported—and targeted—by the spy there. If Chalmers and Jackson can’t identify and eliminate that menace, the convoy will not only be prevented from completing its mission, but might be wiped out entirely. And with it, every other time-stranded soldier in Murphy’s Lawless.

Man-Eater (Murphy's Lawless (Original Novellas))

Barber, Griffin

Taken from their planet and their century, they are…the Lost Soldiers. 
Some of the hijacked Twentieth Century troops known as the Lost Soldiers have made planetfall on R’Bak and are working to establish their base there. If they are to be successful, though, Murphy knows they will need the continued support and cooperation of the SpinDogs and, more importantly, their trust. One way to build a bridge to them is to provide the SpinDogs with something they don’t have—rotary wing aviation. 
Captain Mara “Bruce” Lee was a Huey helicopter pilot back on Earth, and was often called in to help foreign students learn to fly the venerable Huey. But when Ozendi, her first SpinDog student, reminds her strikingly of her ex-husband, her skills and professionalism will be tested as they war against her most primal aspect—her heart. 
Murphy is counting on Bruce to train the pilot and develop a helicopter pilot school for the SpinDogs, and she can’t afford to fall in love with her student. As he grows closer and closer to her, though, she can’t see any way for it not to happen. After all, is it so wrong to want a little love when you’re so far from everything you’ve ever known? 
But Ozendi is her student and forbidden to her, and she can’t afford to destroy the Lost Soldiers’ relations with the SpinDogs. If she breaks their trust, it will be all over for both her and every other time-stranded soldier in Murphy’s Lawless.

Promises (Murphy's Lawless (Original Novellas))

Ezell, Kacey

Taken from their planet and their century, they are…the Lost Soldiers. 
Some of the hijacked Twentieth Century troops known as the Lost Soldiers have made planetfall on R’Bak and are working to establish their base there, but their commander, Major Murphy, has a problem. He knows there are weapons and equipment caches that haven’t been activated yet by their immediate enemies—the Satraps—although they are moving as quickly as they can to get to the caches so they can turn those weapons upon their new off-world foes. 
Victor Allen Thomas—“Vat” to his friends—was escaping an arms deal gone bad when the helicopter carrying him crashed and he was hijacked by the mysterious Ktor. While he had military experience, he had left the military years before under suspicious circumstances. With a general discharge in his past, he shouldn’t even have been in Somalia to begin with. 
As an arms dealer, Vat has plenty of experience learning new languages and cultures, and he is used to cutting risky deals and making unusual alliances. Murphy is counting on Vat to find the equipment caches—his ‘pearls of great price’—before the Satraps can use the weapons against the Lost Soldiers. 
But Vat has never been good at forming relationships. He’s going to have to overcome that failing, because there are only two possible outcomes for his mission. Either he finds the pearls of great price that will allow the Terrans to securely establish themselves on R’Bak, or—if he doesn’t—the future of Murphy’s Lawless isn’t merely bleak; it’s likely to be nonexistent.

Pearl (Murphy's Lawless (Original Novellas))

Gannon, Charles E.

Wandrey, Mark

Waveoff (Murphy's Lawless (Original Novellas))

Kennedy, Chris

Ever-turbulent humanity has reached out to the stars and found itself challengedby several “exosapient” species whose motivations are as unusual as their physicalforms. Troubleshooters like Caine Riordan must contend with both humans andaliens during this epic plunge into the high-stakes exploration, statecraft, andwarfare that churn and change our post-contact world. 
But no world is defifined just by the characters who occupy center-stage. Lost Signalsdigs deep into the lives—and struggles—of those beyond the spotlight by bringingtogether twenty new voices and new stories in a format that blurs the line betweenfact and fiction in the Consolidated Terran Republic.

Lost Signals: A Terran Republic Anthology

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other “Lost Soldiers” have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic. Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system after completing a distant mission, they leave the twentieth century castaways with a daunting objective: establish a base of operations on the main world, using local allies they have yet to recruit and enemy equipment they have yet to seize. If that weren’t hard enough, 55 Tauri A, the system’s primary star, is rapidly approaching, and the technologically superior powers from that neighboring system always visit during the close approach . . . to raid, pillage, and cull the locals. Worse, the Lost Soldiers left behind with Murphy were the losers and ne’er-do-wells deemed “sub-optimal” for inclusion on the rescue mission. Defiant and determined to live down that judgment, they have given themselves a different, more suitable label: Murphy’s LawlessNote: this book incorporates six previous novellas and adds 40k of new worldbuilding from Charles E. Gannon that Caine Universe readers won't want to miss!

Murphy's Lawless: A Terran Republic Novel

Massa, Mike

Taken from their planet and their century, they are…the Lost Soldiers. 
It’s been six months since the daring raid that destroyed the makeshift transmitter which would have summoned the satraps’ vastly superior off-world allies. The Lost Soldiers followed up that victory by scratching out a permanent base on R’Bak and spearheading the further attacks of their indigenous allies throughout the region. But the continued support, cooperation, and—above all—trust of the space-dwelling SpinDogs will be required if the Lost Soldiers are to maintain and expand their area of operations. 
The key to good relations with the SpinDogs is the baby Major Mara “Bruce” Lee is carrying. A child of both cultures, the infant would be a bridge linking the two societies. But that link is still uncertain. For an Earth-born woman like Mara, pregnancy on the spins is likely to end in a spontaneous late-stage abortion…unless she receives one of the planet’s near-miraculous drugs. 
Unfortunately, that drug is no longer available. The satraps are grabbing it—along with R’Bak’s other medicinals—in anticipation of the arrival of the Kulsian “Harvesters” who covet the exotic compounds. 
When Sergeant Elroy Frazier, Bruce’s crew chief and closest friend, hears that raiders may have some of the needed drug, he goes off on his own to track it down. For him, it’s a matter of life and death for a friend. But failure could also mean the end of the fragile alliance with the SpinDogs. And, in turn, the end of all the time-stranded soldiers known as Murphy’s Lawless.

Sundown (Murphy's Lawless: Watch the Skies)

Taken from their planet and their century, they are…the Lost Soldiers. 
The Sear, a time of intense radiation and heat, is coming to R’Bak. Among local tribes and townspeople alike, the rush is on to secure the provisions necessary to endure the seven years when the binary suns of the 55 Tauri system make their closest approach. In the midst of this uncertainty, Colonel Murphy has decided the time has come to secure the information, weapons, and human capital necessary for his upcoming orbital operations, and he once again has to send the Lawless into harm’s way. 
For Major Bo Moorefield, his part of the campaign is simple: lead a cavalry unit of varied armored vehicles and half-trained indigenous forces to capture Imsurmik, a fortified town of almost twenty thousand. Within its ten-meter-high walls, Murphy believes there are a number high value targets—citizens with knowledge of the soon-to-arrive Harvesters—who can help the Lawless prepare to give the out-system oppressors a reception they will never forget. And maybe, never recover from. 
In deep cover inside Imsurmik’s walls, newly promoted Lieutenant Aliza Turan is embedded with a group of locals to gather the intelligence Bo desperately needs to seize the town. But trouble lurks around every corner, and uncovering the information she needs means risking attracting the attention—and ire—of a fearsome warlord who’ll do anything to keep the Lost Soldiers from getting the intel they need. 
Can the Bo and the Lawless take the town, grab the high value targets, and rescue Aliza before it’s too late? They’d better, for failure will mean the deaths of Aliza and, eventually, all the other time-stranded refugees known as Murphy’s Lawless.

Desperado (Murphy's Lawless: Watch the Skies)

The Price of Survival!\nIn the six months since the raid that destroyed the makeshift transmitter, the Lost Soldiers have scratched out a permanent base on the world of R’Bak. But life in an often surprising and very alien binary system has not become any easier. Major Mara “Bruce” Lee’s pregnancy becomes a powerful reminder of that: without special indigenous plants, she might lose both her unborn child and her life. And, in the process of securing enough of that rare compound, her friend and crew chief Elroy Frazier will have to risk life, limb, and mind.\nMeanwhile, under the guidance of Major Bo Moorefield, the Lost Soldiers are now spearheading the offensive of their indigenous allies throughout the wastelands known as the Hamain, even as the Sear approaches with its seven years of intense radiation and heat. Before it arrives, Colonel Rodger Young Murphy has laid plans for securing the information, weapons, and human capital necessary for the critical spaceside operations that will occur after the Kulsians’ pioneer teams—the surveyors—arrive.\nThe key to the success of the dirtside operations is to seize and hold Imsurmik, a major J’Stull-allied power center, thereby paving the way for Lieutenant Tyree Cutter and his specially trained team to search for the high value targets—citizens with knowledge of the soon-to-arrive Harvesters—that possess the information that will make it possible for Murphy’s Lawless to surprise and overcome the approaching Kulsian invaders.\nCharged with identifying those high-value targets, newly-promoted Lieutenant Aliza Turan has been embedded with a group of locals inside Imsurmik’s walls, where the risk of discovery is constant, and trouble lurks around every corner. Her mission—to find the necessary intel without attracting the attention of a fearsome warlord—may be the most dangerous of all.\nBut all the risks, and all the dangers, facing El, Bo, Aliza, and Tyree are not just the price of success; they are the price of survival. Because if each piece doesn’t fall into place, and at just the right time, there will be no way to survive the onslaught of the Kulsians—who will surely hunt down and exterminate every last one of the time-stranded refugees known as Murphy’s Lawless.\n--*-- --*-- --*--\n“(B)lends ruthless political pragmatism, advanced aliens with subtle and dangerous agendas, and human courage, determination, and sacrifice into an action-filled story that keeps readers up late. Very late, in my case. You should already have Chuck Gannon on your shelves. If you don’t have him there, rectify your oversight immediately!” —David Weber\n“Chuck Gannon writes the kind of science fiction we all grew up on: rousing, mind-expanding, pulse-pounding sagas of spaceships and aliens. He’s a terrific writer, and we’re lucky to have him.” —Robert J. Sawyer\n“If you’re looking for real, honest, fast-paced, well thought out, true sense-of-wonder science fiction, Charles Gannon . . . has it all--in spades. Gannon writes precisely constructed fictions with absolute authority. Oh, and as you might have guessed: I’m a fan!” —Jack Dann\n“Gannon’s whiz-bang . . . interstellar adventure delivers dozens of key characters, multiple theaters of operations, and various alien cultures . . . in this fascinating far-future universe.” —Publishers Weekly Starred Review\n“This is military science fiction the way it’s supposed to be written. . . . a highly satisfying tale. . . (T)he next chapter promises to be interesting at worst and explosive at best.” —SFcrowsnest

Watch the Skies: A Terran Republic Novel

Webb, William Alan

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