Star Force: LITrpg
With the problem of the Vargemma being too powerful to dominate, or trust, Cal-com devises an ingenious testing mechanism to weed out those volunteers who are unworthy. A mechanism known as LITrpg.
With the problem of the Vargemma being too powerful to dominate, or trust, Cal-com devises an ingenious testing mechanism to weed out those volunteers who are unworthy. A mechanism known as LITrpg.
It pays to take a second look.In the Deep Dark, it's a long walk home.The Marva Collins runs into unexpected problems a long way from port. Faced with some hard decisions, and uncertain about the choices, Ishmael has to roll the dice with inadequate information.Is he sailing too close to the edge of forever?
My legion was sentenced to death. But we shall rise from oblivion to take our revenge!
The Star Ravagers were once counted amongst the defenders of humanity, fighting against aliens, heretics, and horrors beyond reason. But then we were betrayed, falsely slandered by traitors and cowards.
An accident gave me a chance at freedom and vengeance. Joined by a beautiful engineer, an enigmatic AI, and human-alien hybrid, we seek to overturn the stars and save the survivors of my legion.
When we learn they’ve been sold to a brutal, blood sports game, my fury knows no bounds. We’ll infiltrate the Diaspora Circus, find my brothers and sisters, and kill everyone who dared to treat their lives like a game.
Soon, the entire galaxy will know of the Star Ravagers via the ruin we leave in our wake.
The truth is, we already live in a dystopian world. The only debate left is how it ends — climate collapse, AI takeover, or nuclear fire.
Wars and genocide rage across continents. Instead of uniting to face these threats, the president of the most powerful nation spends his time insulting allies and posting videos of himself literally shitting on the very people who elected him.
This is a reality too absurd for fiction.
I’m going to fix it. Not because I want to—because it’s the right thing to do.
You can help. Just finish reading this blurb.
The truth is humans evolved to avoid wasting energy on making choices. In fact, about 90% of a person’s choices are made at the emotional level without any cognitive effort or thinking involved.
That’s why logic rarely changes anyone’s mind, but that’s the problem, isn’t it? Emotions rule reason.
I have done the hard work for you; Virtues’ Sacrifice isn’t a story you read — it’s one you experience and it will fill you with hope for our future by changing your perception of reality itself.
You won’t just follow the characters; you’ll live inside their thoughts. Feel their confusion, their awe, their pain — exactly as they do.
The confusion at the start isn’t a flaw; it’s calibration. It’s how I sync your emotions with theirs.
This is the start of your journey to to understanding and connecting with people on a deeper level, to filling yourself and those around you with hope for the future — not through blind faith, but through understanding.
Stay with it. I promise every question finds its answer.
Here is what other readers are saying (RoyalRoad):
“Dreamlike Immersion” ★★★★★
This book is one of the most comprehensive I’ve read. The descriptions are just so damned good. It captures that feeling—you know?—the immersion that makes you feel like you're right there with the characters.
“Poetic” ★★★★★
Beautifully written with a distinct lyrical flair. Vivid sensory descriptions bring environments to life—especially in the Abyss and Alune sequences. Dialogue feels natural, sometimes even humorous, with great pacing between introspection, tension, and banter.
“Un-put-downable!” ★★★★★
A standout blend of hard sci-fi and fantasy. Futuristic shuttles and AI systems exist alongside sigils, spell-craft, and arcane armor. It all works together to create a rich, modern space-fantasy tone with its own unique flavor.
The slow unveiling of Kira’s past, Faust’s fate, and the power beneath the moon builds momentum with each chapter. A beautifully layered tale of cosmic mystery, ancient power, and emotional resonance. Poetic prose, immersive settings, unforgettable characters—this is a universe worth exploring.
"Amazing" ★★★★★
I must say that this was different than anything I have ever read but it was very enjoyable experience.
How is that possible?
I am what they use to call an idiot savant, or an autistic savant if want to be more polite. This means social interactions are very difficult for me to understand. I am incapable of understanding them in the same way as most people.
Special Circumstances had always been the Contact section's moral espionage weapon, the very cutting edge of the Culture's interfering diplomatic policy, the élite of the élite in a society which abhorred élitism. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of SC's foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action.
The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.
The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence could see the horrors in his past.
In this brilliant, multilayered book, Iain Banks explores once again the universe of the Culture, which he has previously visited in Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons leaves no doubt that Banks is now the outstanding writer of science fiction in Britain.
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life.
A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case—until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder...
National best-selling author and winner of three Hugo Awards, C.J. Cherryh returns to the universe of her acclaimed Foreigner trilogy-with an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft stranded on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race.
The beginning of a second trilogy, Precursor follows a single human delegate living among aliens, who are just gaining access to space....
Praise for Precursor...
"An addition to Cherryh's superior alien-contact series...Another intriguing human/alien struggle."-Kirkus Reviews"A powerful look at the effects of alienation on individuals and societies."-Locus
...and C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner Universe:
"Superlatively drawn aliens and characterization...a return to the anthropological science fiction in which [Cherryh] has made such a name is a double pleasure."-Chicago Sun-Times
"An incisive study-in-contrast of what it means to be human."-Library Journal
The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series.
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A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.
The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them.
James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network.
But the new alliances are as flawed as the old, and the struggle for power has only just begun. As the chaos grows, an alien mystery deepens. Pirate fleets, mutiny and betrayal may be the least of the Rocinante's problems. And in the uncanny spaces past the ring gates, the choices of a few damaged and desperate people may determine the fate of more than just humanity.
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, in the sequel to Ann Leckie's NYT bestselling, award-winning Ancillary Justice. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey. Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor. With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would agree to to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood. Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy has become one of the new classics of science fiction. Beautifully written and forward thinking, it does what good science fiction does best, taking readers to bold new worlds with plenty explosions along the way.