R Peter Ubtrent: 9 books

The best science fiction books by author R. Peter Ubtrent. Nathan, Celeste, Thousand-Deaths and Rhegium find themselves taken from certain death and transported to a Xanthian Deep-hauler, where they learn, much to their chagrin, that they are to be used for the fulfillment of an eons-old battle between...

the Emperor of the Imperium has been assassinated. The Lord Marshall Bhagavan, military leader of the Imperium, strives to keep the Greater Noble Houses from tearing apart the Imperium in their bid to claim the vacant throne. The Church of the Blessed Prophets, eager to regain their ascendency over...

The virus is sweeping through the human community. The Drek war machine continues to press forward, capturing and converting millions of humans. And the Ynos begin their military attacks in earnest, destroying Imperium forces at will. This is the Imperium that Ailanthus has inherited as the new emperor...

The escape was successful! Ailanthus, Tethys and their friends have escaped from the penal colony and the first place they find themselves is the black market planet of Kali Prime, home to some of the worst criminals and cheats not locked up. Wanting to ditch their stolen transport for something a...

The end is near. Hundreds of planets have been laid waste by the Drek and the virus. The Restoration begins in earnest its campaign to destroy The Church of the Blessed Prophets. Lord Comte Mishi's rebellion against what's left of the Imperium gains solid ground as the Lord Cardinal Nerodia...

The F'gat Ynos have decimated planet after planet, leaving behind nothing but the dead. Ailanthus, Tethys, Xylella and Rohini now must bring what remains of the Noble Houses and humanity together, to begin the final battle that will decide whether humanity will survive or fall under the callous...

The Imperium Navy is but a shattered remnant of its former glory. The Drek, Druzsni and Kroor have all been attacked and decimated by the F'gat Ynos. Only a handful of humans have survived and most of them live in simple squalor on Earth with the Lord Cardinal Alos Alos Napaj, away from the ever-prying...

Alexis Locke gave the first forty years of her life to an agency that never thought twice about putting her in harm's way. After fifteen years of voluntary retirement and solitude, Alexis is asked to investigate the deaths of five seemingly unrelated scientists, one of whom happens to be the...

When humanity first set out to explore the stars, they discovered that they were alone, for they never ran into any other intelligent life-forms. Because of this, human religion came to the conclusion that God had only made man and all else was the creation of Satan. Thus, when human warships finally...