Space Opera Fans discussion

This thread is for nominations for READER category for October 2025.

READER books need to be
* currently in print in either hardback or paperback (or both). Requiring a special order from a store or website counts, but not if the book is only available used.
* currently available in multiple ebook formats, from multiple vendors
* Space Opera, which means a spaceship has to be involved in the story somewhere.
* If it is part of a series, it needs to be suitable to being read without having read other books in the series.
* Please no blatantly erotic books, as some of our members are not full adults yet.

RULES:
* you may nominate one book on this thread.
* you may second as many nominations as you like on this thread.
* it is okay to nominate the same book on more than one nomination thread, as long as it meets the criteria
* books we already have on our bookshelf will be disqualified if they were added less than two years ago
* If a book you nominate or second is selected, you are expected to post at least one comment about it on the thread about the book.
* On the 22nd I will draw a book randomly, with each second being one raffle ticket for the book. That is, a book with three seconds (so four of us want it) will get three chances in the pool.

It is likely helpful if you know something about a book that has been nominated if you mention it in this thread, whether it is for or against the book.

I'd like to nominate Echoes of Extinction by Sean Robins; its described as "An action-packed military space opera featuring explosive space battles and heroes worth rooting for.

One man must lead the charge in the name of humanity.

When a mysterious bio-weapon devastates Earth, Major Ethan Irons has only one goal: protecting his wife and son. But survival turns into vengeance when the culprits—a vicious reptilian race—drag what's left of humanity into an interstellar war they never saw coming.

Outgunned and outnumbered, Ethan is thrust into the center of a galaxy-spanning conflict, armed with little more than his grit, a sardonic AI sidekick, and a handful of uneasy alien allies. If he’s going to save humanity, he’ll need to outwit warlords, navigate twisted alien politics, and lead a crew of misfits into battle against impossible odds.

Will Ethan spark humanity’s comeback—or witness its final extinction?

Echoes of Extinction will transport you to a richly detailed universe filled with complex alien cultures, advanced technologies, characters so real you'll feel their triumphs and losses as your own, and plot twists you'll never see coming."