A.C. Hadfield

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A.C. Hadfield is a long-time Star Trek and Star Wars fan who dreamed of writing space adventures as a young child. As an irresponsible adult with an English degree in his pocket and a laptop on his desk, he's now living that dream, writing exciting space operas and irreverent urban fantasies.

When not writing, he enjoys reading, playing D&D, cycling, and listening to rock and metal while coming up with new story ideas. He currently resides in the UK.

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Blackstar Command: The Complete Series: A Military Space Opera Box Set Nov 30, 2021

by A.C. Hadfield

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Get the Blackstar Command Box Set, featuring all three books in the bestselling series. 1000+ pages of aliens, war, and explosive military space opera action.

They tried to destroy our planets. Our way of life. They tried to send us into extinction. But we, the Coalition, fought them and won. That was a decade ago. We had assumed they were beaten for good.

We were wrong.

They’re known as the Host: a cabal of aliens seeking to dominate our sector of space. And they’re back—with help from a powerful new enemy.

Against their wrath, we must stand. We’re outnumbered and unprepared. If we lose, we lose everything.

But there is hope. An ancient race of long-dead but technologically advanced aliens called the Navigators have a ship called the Blackstar that could potentially turn the tide. That is if I, Kai Locke, a humble ship racer, can find it and learn how to harness its power in time.

If I fail, the Coalition will fall, and the Host will consign us to a distant memory. I refuse to let that happen. I will fight to my last breath for the Coalition’s survival.

Buy this special edition omnibus to experience this complete Military Space Opera series from Amazon Bestseller A.C. Hadfield, including Book 3 being published for the very first time! Perfect or fans of Star Wars, Firefly, Battlestar, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

This boxset contains three full-length novels:
Book 1: Prominence
Book 2: Magnitude
Book 3: Ascension

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Carson Mach: The Complete Series: A Military Space Opera Box Set Mar 30, 2021

by A.C. Hadfield, Colin F. Barnes

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Get the Carson Mach Box Set, featuring all three books in the bestselling series. 1000+ pages of explosive, military space opera action, filled with characters that leap off the page.

Carson Mach, a former war hero turned freelancer, is seeking to revive his fortunes. Heeding a call from a friend in the Commonwealth government, he's tasked with a series of missions that few would ever agree to, much less with eagerness. But Carson Mach is a special kind of risk-taker and is known for cleaning up the quadrant's dregs in his unique, chaotic way.

With few resources and overwhelming odds, Mach must reunite some of his old buddies: tech specialists, military veterans, assassins, and puzzling AIs, and form them into an elite fighting force. If he fails, the threats to the Commonwealth may spell the end for millions of lives. This is his last chance. Should he fail, he'll either be dead or back in the gutter with no more favors to call in and few friends ready to lend a hand.

From hunting down mythical ships and recovering powerful artifacts to preventing the Commonwealth's center of power from falling to the enemy, Carson Mach and his ragtag crew of the starship Intrepid must do the extraordinary if they're to succeed. That's if they don't tear each other apart first.

Buy this special edition omnibus to experience this complete Military Space Opera series from Amazon Bestseller A.C. Hadfield. It's perfect for fans of Jamie McFarlane, JN Chaney and Jay Allan.

This boxset contains three full-length novels:
Book 1: The Atlantis Ship
Book 2: The Lost Voyager
Book 3: The Terminal War

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Curse & Affect: A LitRPG / GameLit Adventure (Steve the Paladin Book 3) Apr 7, 2022

by A.C. Hadfield

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What’s a little intrusive, magical psychotherapy between friends?

After the events of his last quest, the Arkane Academy for the Gifted and Strange have concluded that Steve Firestone’s patron is the source of a great curse that has plagued his family for centuries.

But there’s a chance to fix it—if Steve opens his mind to be ravaged by an ancient dragon shifter who dabbles in psychotherapy and curse-wrangling. If Steve cannot rid himself of this curse, then his days with the Academy and his friends are over and he’ll be hunted to the far corners of the world.

A fallen paladin is not treated with much sympathy.

It should be a stroll in the park. Right? Not when a brutal vampire lord decides to pay Steve a visit and Devon, the cleric of their party, is mysteriously missing. With challenges coming at him from all angles, Steve will have to dig deep if he’s to support his friends and resist the very real threat of having his brains turned to jam.

Book 3 in the Steve the Paladin Series from A.C. Hadfield. A Progression Fantasy set in a magic academy loaded with LitRPG and GameLit elements, and puns that will leave a smile plastered on your face.

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Pity the Ghoul: A LitRPG / GameLit Adventure (Steve the Paladin Book 1) Feb 1, 2022

by A.C. Hadfield

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Bloodthirsty ghouls. A necromancer. A secret academy that uses Dungeon & Dragons as a training manual. What could possibly go wrong?

After recently discovering he’s a paladin and that the world of the supernatural is real, Steve Firestone, a divorced late-night radio host, has that first-day-at-school feeling. Only this is no Hogwarts.

Being 40, out of shape, and with a mouth that gets him into trouble, Steve must find a way to meet his tutor’s exhausting demands and learn to channel divine power to live up to his ancestry. That’s if he wishes to stay at the academy and with his party of new friends, including Nymantha, the fearsome wizard to whose flame Steve is a moth.

To complicate matters, when a citizen is found torn to pieces, their organs removed, and dozens of bodies stolen from a graveyard, it means only one thing: a necromancer is building an army of ghouls. But to what end? Why is it happening in Steve’s backyard? And why is there a goblin stalking him?

Steve and his party must embark on their first quest: find and stop the necromancer, because ain’t nobody got time for an army of hungry ghouls treating the population like an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Don't miss the next hit series from A.C. Hadfield. A Progression Fantasy set in a magic academy loaded with LitRPG and GameLit elements, and puns that will leave a smile plastered on your face.

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Aberzombie & Lich: A LitRPG / GameLit Adventure (Steve the Paladin Book 2) Mar 3, 2022

by A.C. Hadfield

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A zombie crime boss. Powerful black magic. Demon assassins. Otherwise known as Tuesday.

Meet Steve Firestone, late-night radio host and paladin. Since he joined the Arkane Academy for the Gifted and Strange, he’s learned our world is full of supernatural monsters ripped from the pages of Dungeons & Dragons—and most of them want to eat or kill us.

That’s where Steve and his new friends come in. That is, if Steve can learn to channel the divine power of his mysterious patron. Depending on whom he talks to, it’s either a Cthulhu-like space-squid or a fallen paladin residing somewhere in Hell. Neither seems like an ideal source.

But It’s not like he can conjure a god out of his backside, and beggars can’t be choosers. Especially now that a zombie crime boss is wreaking havoc across England, gathering together the parts of an ancient journal that promises the rebirth of a dark sorcerer known as the ‘Deathbringer.’

If Steve’s to stop this resurrection and the inevitable fallout, he’ll have to fix his issue with his patron and get to the bottom of a curse that has affected his family line before he too is consumed by it.

Book 2 in the Steve the Paladin Series from A.C. Hadfield. A Progression Fantasy set in a magic academy loaded with LitRPG and GameLit elements, and puns that will leave a smile plastered on your face.

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The Terminal War: A space opera Sep 27, 2017

by A.C. Hadfield, Colin F. Barnes

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A millennium into the future….
In a galaxy far from Earth….
We were not prepared for the Terminal War.

Billions of lives are at risk as enemy forces mass on the frontier of the Commonwealth. If the planet Terminus, the center of all the Commonwealth's technology, falls, we will lose everything, and there will be no way back.

The Axis Combine's fleet is overwhelming in number, and their firepower is superior. Unless one man and his crew can save Terminus, the galaxy will never be the same again. They must find a way to give the Commonwealth an edge, or we'll face complete annihilation. There is but one hope: Carson Mach and his motley crew of rogues on the starship Intrepid.

All Carson Mach books can be read in any order.

Other Carson Mach books:

The Atlantis Ship.

The lost Voyager.

Cracking space operas that are fast-paced and full of action and adventure. Please write more!" -- C. Mackenzie, Amazon Reviewer.

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The Lost Voyager: A space opera Sep 27, 2017

by A.C. Hadfield, Colin F. Barnes

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A mining ship goes missing....
Its precious cargo could change the galaxy....
Unless one man and his crew can find the lost Voyager.

Carson Mach, a freelance rogue captain, and his crew are faced with a seemingly routine mission to find and rescue the Voyager, a missing mining ship in a remote system. Only he and his employers know what the lost ship carries in its cargo hold and the devastating consequences if it falls into the wrong hands.
On arrival to the Noven system, the destination of the Voyager, Mach and his crew have three planets to explore - and no clues as to where the ship and its artifact might be. Their first stop reveals a terrifying new enemy has joined the search, raising the stakes considerably.

If the new threat finds the cargo, it will place the entire galaxy in a perilous position from which it won't recover. Mach and his crew must overcome impossible odds and defeat the new enemy if they're to reach the Voyager and save the lives of trillions.

All Carson Mach books can be read in any order.

Other Carson Mach books:

The Atlantis Ship.

The Terminal War.

"Carson Mach is more fun than Han Solo. I love his crew and their adventures." -- K. Kerris, Amazon Reviewer."

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Vanguard Rising: A Space Opera Adventure Oct 12, 2018

by A.C. Hadfield

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The Solar Federation has been stable for decades—until a few days ago when leader of the abbots (artificial, biological robot) has mysteriously disappeared. His fate threatens the unsteady peace between human and machine.

Detective Harlan Rubik has but a few chances left to save his career after a string of failed cases. When he’s tasked with finding the abbot leader, he uncovers a deadly conspiracy perpetrated by a shadowy group called Vanguard, whose tendrils reach to the highest echelons of government. It will take all of Harlan’s skills to uncover the truth behind this dark force. If he fails, it will be the end of his life as he knows it.

When scientist Irena Selles is attacked by a rogue abbot while working in one of Earth’s last remaining scientific outposts, she’s forced to flee for her life and hitch a ride back to Atlas Station with the help of a crew of salvagers. Harlan, seeing a pattern between their cases, joins forces with them. Together, they set out to find the truth behind Vanguard. With so few humans left and scattered across the Solar system, an abbot rebellion would be fatal to humanity’s continued existence.

Harlan, Irena, and their ragtag crew of allies will journey through space stations, colonies, and the darkest parts of the Solar system if they’re to stop Vanguard rising. But will their combined efforts be enough? And what do they truly want?

For fans of The Expanse.

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The Atlantis Ship: A space opera (Carson Mach Book 1) Sep 26, 2017

by A.C. Hadfield

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A legendary enemy attacks....
Galactic peace is threatened....
Unless one man can find and stop the Atlantis ship.

Carson Mach, a former war hero turned freelancer, seeks the biggest payday of his life when he's tasked to hunt down a ghost ship that has echoed through the centuries. The legendary Atlantis ship has become a reality, appearing at the Commonwealth frontier and obliterating an orbital station.

Facing a lack of resources, a ragtag crew, and aliens who want him dead, Mach must use all his leadership skills and experience if he's to beat the overwhelming odds. His mission will take him across the galaxy and to uncharted dark areas of space.

Failure to stop the Atlantis ship will mean not only the death of Mach and his crew but the end of the Commonwealth and all of humanity. Somehow Mach must find a way to solve an ancient mystery if he's to succeed where everyone else before him has failed.

All Carson Mach books can be read in any order.

Other Carson Mach books:

The Terminal War.

The Lost Voyager.

"Carson Mach is one of the best space opera adventures I've read." -- P. Marshall, Amazon Reviewer.

Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Paperback , MP3 CD

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Magnitude: A Space Opera Adventure (Blackstar Command Book 2) Aug 14, 2017

by A.C. Hadfield

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The war with the deadly Host continues, only now they have secret alien allies bolstering their efforts. Our former general has defected. Our fleet of battleships took a battering in the first battle. And I’m trapped in another part of the galaxy trying to find my parents and, ultimately, my way home.

The situation looks bleak, but I have ancient Navigator technology at my disposal, and I'm mad as hell. Then there's this weird alien information bomb inside my head that I can't access despite it suggesting great power.

With new enemies lining up to thwart my plans, I’ll need to muster all the courage and skill if I’m to beat the odds and get back to Coalition space before the Host overwhelm my people and take over the galaxy. If the Host win, the Coalition worlds will burn. Its population will be slaughtered, and there will be no hope for any of us.

But I have a ragtag crew of heroes willing to push-back against our foes regardless of the odds. The Coalition will prevail once more, even if I have to die for the cause.

For fans of Star Wars, Firefly, Battlestar, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

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Prominence: A Space Opera Adventure (Blackstar Command Book 1) Mar 7, 2017

by A.C. Hadfield

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They tried to destroy our planets. Our way of life. They tried to send us into extinction. But we, the Coalition, fought them and won. That was a decade ago. We had assumed they were beaten for good.

We were wrong.

They’re known as the Host: a cabal of aliens seeking to dominate our sector of space. And they’re back—with help from a powerful new enemy.

Against their wrath, we must stand. We’re outnumbered and unprepared. If we lose, we lose everything.

But there is hope. An ancient race of long-dead but technologically advanced aliens called the Navigators have a ship called the Blackstar that could potentially turn the tide. That is if I, Kai Locke, a humble ship racer, can find it and learn how to harness its power in time.

If I fail, the Coalition will fall, and the Host will consign us to a distant memory. I refuse to let that happen. I will fight to my last breath for the Coalition’s survival.

For fans of Star Wars, Firefly, Battlestar, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Paperback , MP3 CD

This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited.

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