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Archangel kicks off the Archangel series with a rocket-assisted leap into powered armor warfare, black-ops politics, and transhuman morality. Partlow blends the pace of a modern shooter with themes pulled from Heinlein and Scalzi, military service, cybernetic identity, and the price of obedience.

Let’s be honest, if your science fiction squad isn’t screaming through a planet’s atmosphere in a barely-glued-together flying brick held aloft by wishful thinking and duct-taped thrusters, are you even at war? Dropships are the mullets of military hardware—business in the front (troop deployment), party in the back (explosions, mayhem, probably someone yelling “GO! GO! GO!”). Whether you’re bug-hunting, covenant-smashing, or just trying not to be turned into a crater, the dropship is your one-way ticket to every sci-fi hellhole worth fighting in.

DARPA’s POWER (Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay) program has shattered expectations — beaming over 800 watts of laser energy across 5.3 miles at White Sands Missile Range. That’s enough juice to run a toaster or small AC unit — and, yes, even pop popcorn on demand.

Jeffery H. Haskell’s Against All Odds launched his Grimm’s War series, staking a claim in modern military sci‑fi with echoes of Honor Harrington and David Weber.

Michael Simon’s First Command opens the gripping Terran Defender series, delivering a hard-hitting military sci-fi tale. The novel tackles themes of duty, courage under pressure, and the complexities of first-time leadership, complete with heart-pounding space battles, political machinations, and interstellar intrigue.