Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military > Space Fleet
Monthly median sales (top 30)
$8,454
The median book price
$5.49
Bestseller's daily sales
145
50th book's daily sales
15
Average number of pages per book
368
Monopoly/Olygopoly detected
Yes
Performance tracking
Competitiveness
Volume sales
Book price
Volatility
New releases
Self published
Matching KDP categories
fiction > science fiction > military
82.5%
fiction > science fiction > hard science fiction
77.15%
fiction > science fiction > space opera
76.38%
juvenile > fiction > science fiction
70.71%
Keyword requirement
military, war, fleet, starship, science fiction, dystopian
Best selling keywords
Median title & subtitle length is 5 words:
- Blackheart (Terran Scout Fleet Book 6)
- Hunter's Rise (Star Scrapper Book 2)
- No Retreat (The Last Hunter Book 13)
- Gone Nova (Backyard Starship Book 19)
- Latent Prowess: Order of Scion Book 1
- Indie success
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30%
- Volatility
- New releases
- KDP Select
90%
45%
100%
Extract of the best seller list's front page
Front-page bestsellers:
Book title | Author | Publisher | Absolute rank | Monthly sales volume | Price | Amazon stars | Amazon reviews | |
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1 | Blackheart (Terran Scout Fleet Book 6) | Joshua Dalzelle | Self published | 767 | $16,101 | $5.99 | 185 | |
2 | Star Scrapper | J.N. Chaney | Variant Publications | 1,097 | $11,457 | $4.99 | 686 | |
3 | Hunter's Rise (Star Scrapper Book 2) | J.N. Chaney | Self published | 1,132 | $13,417 | $5.99 | 187 | |
4 | No Retreat (The Last Hunter Book 13) | J.N. Chaney | Variant Publications | 1,319 | $14,483 | $6.99 | 659 | |
5 | Gone Nova (Backyard Starship Book 19) | J.N. Chaney | Variant Publications | 1,525 | $13,308 | $6.99 | 2,298 | |
6 | Backyard Starship | J.N. Chaney | Variant Publications | 1,891 | $8,383 | $4.99 | 11,214 | |
7 | World War Mars | Rick Partlow | Self published | 1,918 | $8,243 | $4.99 | 288 | |
8 | Echogenesis | Gary Gibson | Brain in a Jar Books | 2,055 | $6,256 | $3.99 | 2,536 | |
9 | Latent Prowess: Order of Scion Book 1 | Toby Neighbors | Self published | 2,065 | $7,824 | $4.99 | 656 | |
10 | Fleet Mage Academy: Star Sorceress: Book One | D. L. Harrison | (March 19, 2024) | 2,214 | $5,921 | $3.99 | 191 | |
11 | The Worst Detectives in the Federation (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes Book 5) | Skyler Ramirez | Persephone Entertainment Inc. | 2,624 | $6,427 | $4.99 | 626 | |
12 | Homeworld Lost | J.N. Chaney | Variant Publications | 2,829 | $2,997 | $2.49 | 3,308 | |
13 | Foundations of Glass (Peacemaker Wars Book 3) | J.N. Chaney | Variant Publications | 2,901 | $7,044 | $5.99 | 860 | |
14 | Vanguard Wing (Taken to the Stars Book 5) | J.N. Chaney | Variant Publications | 2,952 | $7,044 | $5.99 | 562 | |
15 | Taken to the Stars | J.N. Chaney | Variant Publications | 3,353 | $5,029 | $4.99 | 2,857 |
Blackheart (Terran Scout Fleet Book 6)
Joshua Dalzelle
ViperIt’s a name that is infamous within the galactic quadrant. A name that inspires awe.… and fear.For nearly a century the famed assassin has struck terror within the hearts of those she has been hired to terminate. In that time the Viper, a human cyborg named Carolyn Whitney, has been a lone wolf. She prefers being on her own, neither requiring nor desiring the company of others. She has very few people she can consider a friend, and now one of those is coming for her.The Viper’s latest hit has put her in Earth’s crosshairs and Captain Jacob Brown has been tasked with bringing her in. Or, barring that, putting her down. Captain Brown, a genetic augment, has tangled with the Viper before… and lost. Will he prevail in the rematch? Read more
Star Scrapper
J.N. Chaney
The war against the AI was won but a new threat is rising. Hank Spears is content with his life as a scrapper until he unearths an artificial intelligence who warns him of a grave threat to all life in the universe. Since AI has long been outlawed and anyone caught harboring one is imprisoned or executed, the two must go on the run, fleeing into the far reaches of space.They must avoid capture, all for the sake of those who would imprison them.Looking for help from old friends to fight new enemies, Hank must find a way to save himself so that he can save the universe.Can this simple scrapper become the hero the universe needs before it’s too late?Find out in Star Scrapper, the thrilling new science fiction series from USA Today Bestselling Author J.N. Chaney and Matthew A. Goodwin. Read more
Hunter's Rise (Star Scrapper Book 2)
J.N. Chaney
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No Retreat (The Last Hunter Book 13)
J.N. Chaney
When things are going to plan, check to see what you’re missing.Admiral Jack Romanoff and his crew are trapped inside the Confederation proper and facing an unknown number of alien attack ships. They’d thought the Tardan military was defeated, but they’d been wrong. Now they were trapped in a fight they couldn’t lose.When everything seems exactly as you’d hoped, figure out what you’ve missed.Not only do they need to stop the Locusts, but they still have to defeat the Poseidon Group and overturn the coup they’d staged. They only have two battleships and a spy ship to make that happen. Their only advantage is that no one knows they’re there. They’ll have one chance to get things right, or humanity is screwed.When everything goes to hell and your back is against the wall, fight. Read more
Gone Nova (Backyard Starship Book 19)
J.N. Chaney
Van is proving that with power comes danger.From the shores of a secret planet to the halls of power in Washington, Van navigates a complex web of lies, law, and politics, all so that Earth can be saved from the clutches of ruthless criminals.But these people aren’t from Earth. In fact, they’re not even human, and they see Earth as a ripe fruit, ready to be picked.That doesn’t work for Van and his crew, so he begins fighting back with the dirtiest tactics of all: diplomacy. Since the aliens are among us, and they want money and power, Perry and Miryam will unleash their skills to craft a plan that uses Van, Icky, and Funboy to stop the exploitation of Earth cold, for the enemies are led by a new player in the galactic order.The Tsarina. She’s cruel, she’s heavily armed, and she’s coming for Earth—with a ship that can match anything the Guild has. With enemies at the door, Van finds out that Masters can fail, and secrets are hard to keep, and the Earth is worth saving.At any cost. Read more
Backyard Starship
J.N. Chaney
When Van Tudor returns to his childhood home, he inherits more than the family farm.His grandfather used to tell him fantastic stories of spacemen and monsters, princesses and galactic knights. Little did Van realize, the old man's tales were more than fiction. They were real.Hidden beneath the old barn, Van’s legacy is waiting: a starship, not of this world.With his combat AI, an android bird named Perry, Van takes his first steps into the wider galaxy. He soon finds that space is far busier and more dangerous than he could have ever conceived.Destiny is calling. His grandfather's legacy awaits.Embark on the adventure of a lifetime with USA Today Bestselling Author J.N. Chaney and Terry Maggert in this brand new science fiction series. If you're a fan of found spaceships and galactic quests for glory, this might just be the story you've been waiting for.~2022 Dragon Award Nominee for Best Military Science Fiction~ Read more
World War Mars
Rick Partlow
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Echogenesis
Gary Gibson
" ...a strong story with great pace and an ever-evolving plot" - BSFA REVIEWAn alien world teeming with deadly life. And fifteen strangers with no memory of how they came to be there.From the moment Sam Newman and fourteen others awaken inside metal coffins next to the burning wreckage of a spacecraft, they face a constant struggle to stay alive on a seemingly uninhabited planet light-years from home.Worse, the last any of them remember, they were back home on Earth - at a time when interstellar travel was little more than a distant pipe dream.Survival means finding out who - or what - brought them to this place. Yet what few answers they find amidst the steaming jungles and the ruins of that distant world defy all logic or sanity, and it soon becomes clear something has gone terribly wrong......something that could mean humanity's survival - or its extinction.The thrilling new novel from the author of Stealing Light and Extinction Game."...one of our best exponents of hardcore SF adventure" - DAILY MAIL Read more
Latent Prowess: Order of Scion Book 1
Toby Neighbors
They say one wrong decision can ruin your life… But one right decision, made at the right time, can make the difference between a life well lived, and a truly spectacular life.Mitch Murphy’s life is at a dead end. He hasn’t been decisive in a decade, and after being overlooked and taken advantage of for so long, he’s practically invisible. But all that is about to change.Latent Technologies has discovered the secret formula for unlocking the untapped abilities inside each of us. It’s a process that can transform an average guy like Mitch Murphy into almost superhuman proportions if he survives the procedure. The only catch is that to get Latency Enhancement you have to enlist in the Colonial Marines and agree to leave Earth behind forever.Humans aren’t the only intelligent species in the galaxy, but they are very much alone in what they are learning is a very hostile universe. New Terra is the only colonized world outside the Sol system, and holding onto it is getting harder every single day. But mankind might just be on the cusp of something they have yet to imagine exists. They are being watched by the mysterious Order of Scion and soon the entire universe might just be at their doorstep.Latent Prowess is the first book in an epic Science Fiction series by master storyteller Toby Neighbors. After publishing ninety-nine novels, he finally felt ready to tackle the grandest story of his career. What starts as a military Sci-Fi story will become a sweeping epic of humanity’s entrance into an old, old struggle that holds the entire universe in its grip. It is a tale filled with wonder, amazing power, and the conflict that is as old as time itself. Latent Prowess is sure to become your next obsession. You’ll want to read this one again and again. Read more
Fleet Mage Academy: Star Sorceress: Book One
D. L. Harrison
Ashley Foster didn’t have a very typical childhood. Designed and born in a lab, experimented on, all under mind control, until the Harbinger terrorist organization decided to scrap the project. She survived, despite their efforts, and won her freedom.Two years later she joins the Mage Fleet Academy, with the ambition and goal to bring the Harbingers down. But she’d have to work hard to earn her commission.Thing is, she’s not just a mage, and that fact is above top secret. Other complications abound.Author’s note: This space opera is told in the third person limited from Ashley’s point of view. Read more
An entire naval task force, gone without a trace...When a battleship and its escorts mysteriously disappear near a contested area of space, they leave no clues behind, and their own Navy is preparing for war and can’t spare the resources to find them.Which wouldn’t really matter to ex-Navy Captain Brad Mendoza. He finally has all he ever wanted: a ship, a crew, and the most beautiful woman in the galaxy as his girlfriend. Seriously, can life get any better?But that’s when Carla Mendoza, his ex-wife, appears, begging Brad for help to find the missing task force and its flag captain, the man she left Brad for. Still, it’s an easy no, except that Carla has a clue, a mysterious note, that Brad can’t ignore.Now Brad and Jessica are in way over their heads as they find themselves playing detective while also dodging their own Navy and an enemy force, both of whom would love to see them dead. And it’s only with a ton of dumb luck that they’ll get out of this one.The fifth book in the reader-favorite Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes series, The Worst Detectives in the Federation picks up where The Worst Rescuers in the Republic left off. A humorous, action-filled adventure full of mystery and intrigue, you’ll love seeing our two scrappy and often hopeless dead heroes race to save a galaxy on the brink of war. Part military science fiction, part space opera, and part detective thriller. Order today! Read more
Homeworld Lost
J.N. Chaney
During a test flight for the world’s first warp engine, Major Noah Gantz is set to go down in the history books. Despite years of training, the mission goes sideways, and instead of a quick trip to the moon and back, Noah's ship is transported across the universe to stars unknown.Stranded in space and on the brink of death, Noah is rescued by a sentient starship and its captain. To save his life, the ship’s own biomatter must replace his failing cells. Now , Noah is different. Stronger, faster… and there’s a voice in his head.The voice of the ship itself, and its name is Kayan.With no way to return home, Noah must adapt and rebuild his life in this unfamiliar corner of the universe. And as he does, he discovers a looming threat in the far reaches of space, growing in power, and set on capturing Noah and his ship.Worse still, this new enemy knows about Earth. . . and it has big plans. Read more
Foundations of Glass (Peacemaker Wars Book 3)
J.N. Chaney
The road between the stars was paved in platinum ore. But as Mark Tudor is about to learn, the cost of justice is paid in blood.And no one is truly safe.Gyl Mareth’s Rot corrupts the Guild, and Mark means to cut it out at the source. To do that, he’ll have to lobby powerful supporters—spindly, blue aliens, toads infatuated with buearcracy, and maybe even an influential bartender or two.But help is there for an honorable man to find, as long as he’s got the strength of conviction, and the right kind of friends.Disturbing the established order will mean kicking over a fair number of rocks, although Mark, Valint, and the others might be surprised by what scurries forth underneath—and what uniform it’s wearing when it steps into the light.Mark Tudor will make the title Peacemaker mean something once again, but to do that, he’ll have to face the worst the galaxy has to offer.Death waits in the quiet moments.And sometimes, it is a soldier’s loved ones that pay the greatest price. Read more
Vanguard Wing (Taken to the Stars Book 5)
J.N. Chaney
Charlie Travers didn’t ask to be the leader of a rebellion…but no one else wanted the job.Now that he’s gathered an army and armed them with the deadliest starfighter ever made, the legendary Vanguards, he just needs one more thing: someone who knows how to fly the things.Unfortunately, no one has been behind the stick of a Vanguard in hundreds of years, since the end of the war that threw the galaxy into chaos. Their only hope lays in the legends of a crashed ship, a fighter crew frozen in stasis for centuries.A crew of pilots from the ruthless Kamerian Alliance, the fearsome ravagers who once sought to rule the galaxy. Even if they’re willing to help, can they be trusted?Charlie’s going to have to find out. Because it’s not just the Anguilar Empire that’s after him. The bounty hunter Seraph Nix is still out there, seeking revenge for the death of her crew.And Seraph Nix always gets her man. Read more
Taken to the Stars
J.N. Chaney
Abducted by aliens. Frozen for decades.Charlie Travers figures his life can’t get much worse. He lives over a pizza restaurant, he’s lost his girlfriend, and has no prospects for a career.Then he’s abducted by an alien robot and taken across the galaxy. When he wakes up, he finds himself stranded thousands of light-years away and about to be killed by space pirates.Charlie’s only hope of getting through this is learning to work with his fellow abductees: a green-skinned warrior woman, a feathered con man who is just as likely to steal their starship as he is to save them, and a cyborg insectoid pilot who could rip a man apart with ease… if he wasn’t a strict pacifist.To make matters worse, they were abducted for a reason--one that aims to change the course of the Galaxy forever. Read more
Forward Command (Galaxy Bridge Book 1)
Daniel Gibbs
An all-new galaxy. A terrifying new enemy.Exploration of Sextans B is underway via the first stable trans-galactic wormhole in recorded history. Colonel Mateo Larra takes command of Joint Base Sagittarius Arch, the visionary new space station housing diplomats, merchants, and military personnel eager to make their mark. But with every opportunity comes opposition.Pirates harass travelers throughout the newly charted system. Smugglers, hauling valuable contraband, slip under the CDF’s nose. Even the League of Sol continues spy games as if the war never ended. Colonel Larra barely steps aboard the Arch before facing the most daunting challenges of his storied career. Challenges that have only begun.Ships vanish without a trace. The mysteries deepen when one reappears like a ghost, pristine as the day she left the shipyard—without her crew. But when the League ambassador is kidnapped, his bodyguards murdered in cold blood, Colonel Larra encounters an unimaginable horror on their doorstep. And this time, it’s a fight the Coalition can’t win. Read more
Peacemaker Wars
J.N. Chaney
Would you choose to live an ordinary life. . . or embrace a destiny among the stars?In a single act of courage, a young American soldier named Mark Tudor saves an interstellar soldier from certain death at the hands of a vicious killer. Afterwards, she promises to show him the Galaxy, but only if he leaves his old life behind.Mark must fly far away from the only home he's ever known, towards a life not so different from that of a humble soldier. Out among the asteroids, he learns of swords and honor, starships and empires.He learns what it means to be a Peacemaker.Along the way, he’s joined by Perry, his combat AI companion who helps him survive—and earn a living—among the stars.And to his surprise, his first mission is far from simple, and it may prove to be his last.Mark's new enemy is smart and deadly, but they are highly specialized in one specific thing: killing Peacemakers.And they're very good at what they do.Dive into a brand new adventure set in the bestselling Backyard Starship Universe and see where it all began. If you're a fan of Backyard Starship, Renegade Star, or classic science fiction, this is the series for you. Read more
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1)
Dennis Taylor
Bobiverse fans: a signed limited edition of all three books in a boxed set, signed by the author, is now available on Amazon. Look for The Bobiverse [Signed Limited Edition] on AmazonBob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad. Read more
Stand Alone: Wolfhounds - Book One
John Van Stry
Chase had it all planned out, do a little time in one of the emperor's jails, say a four year stretch for getting rid of some trash that no one would miss, and when he got out, the path to the leadership would be wide open. It wasn't enough to be one of the gang's rising stars, or better lieutenants, he needed jail time, serious jail time — not that juvie crap or just going to county, to garner the respect he needed and deserved.Unfortunately his bastard of a father, the same one that left his mother to die in poverty and him to run wild on the streets took an interest. Seeing him sitting on the bench when his case went to court was a shock. But not as big a shock as being sentenced to ten years in the Imperial Navy.That's just the first of Chase's nasty surprises as he finds himself among the Emperor's Own - The Wolfhounds. How, and why, his bastard father sent him there is a secret that only the base AI knows the answer to. When that same AI decides to use Chase to fulfill its own orders, Chase soon finds himself in a situation where if he doesn't die honorably in combat due to the enemy, his own side will arrange those circumstances for him.Unfortunately for everyone involved, Chase is proving to be just as tough of a bastard as the man who sent him there. Read more
Federation Marine 5: Major
Jonathan P. Brazee
A Marine major is one of the orphan ranks, too senior to command a line company, but too junior to command a battalion.Newly promoted to major, Ryck reports for duty as the assistant naval attaché to the Confederation of Free States, the same government whose troops he’d recently fought in the Telchines. Ryck wasn’t happy about the assignment, but he buckled down for a long and boring tour of duty.But action seems to follow Ryck, and this is no exception.From the diplomatic post on New Mumbai to leading one of the newly formed Raider special ops companies, Ryck continues his eventful career as a United Federation Marine. Read more