Endless fighting. Hopeless odds. Then things get worse.

The Forever Fight: Jon Ryan finally has the family he never thought he’d have on a planet called Azsuram. He’s also being hunted by his own people, threatened by ancient aliens, and dragged into wars he never wanted. Book 3 of the Forever Series is where the cost of fighting starts catching up to the hero who can’t stop fighting.

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BOOK DETAILS


  • Series: Book 3 of the Forever Series 
  • Author: Craig Robertson 
  • Genre: Military science fiction · Space opera 
  • Publisher: Imagine-It Publishing (El Dorado Hills, CA) 
  • First published: 2016 
  • Cover art: Starla Huchton — designedbystarla.com 
  • Editors: Michael R. Blanche, Neil Farr 
  • Formatting: Drew Avera 
  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9973073-3-7 
  • Hard Cover ISBN: 979-8770827743
  • E-book ISBN: 978-0-9973073-4-4 
  • Audiobook: Produced by Podium Audio
  • ASIN: ‎ ‎ B01M71J6VU
  • Screen Reader: ‎Supported
  • Print length: 342 pages
  • Enhanced typesetting: ‎Enabled
  • X-Ray: ‎Not Enabled
  • Word Wise: Enabled
  • Page Flip: Enabled

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Two hundred years after his consciousness was uploaded to an android body and shot into deep space to find humanity a new home, General Jon Ryan finally has what he never asked for: a wife, children, a colony, and a future worth defending.

The trouble is, everybody wants to take it from him.

President Stuart Marshall — the mad android upload of the man who once sent Jon to the stars — is plotting Jon’s destruction from the worldship fleet, obsessed with eliminating the one person who ever stood up to him. The Listhelons are sharpening their fanatical religious war against humanity. And ancient powers Jon can barely comprehend are stirring at the edge of his knowledge, with agendas of their own.

Worse, Jon has begun to understand the price of being immortal in a universe that isn’t. Every battle he wins outlives the people he wins it for. Every victory leaves him a little more alone. And when the fighting really starts, Jon will discover that the only thing harder than dying for the people you love is surviving them.

Endless fighting. Hopeless odds. Then things get worse.

The Forever Fight is Book 3 of the Forever Series, a six-book military space opera about an immortal android soldier, the people he refuses to stop protecting, and the cost of a war that may never end.

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Tropes And Tags In The Forever Fight


Immortal Hero, Mortal Stakes — Jon can’t die, but everyone he loves can. The longer he fights, the more he loses. 

The Mad President — Stuart Marshall is the kind of antagonist who exists because power and madness now share an android body. 

Colony Worldbuilding — Azsuram is a real place with real people. The series invests in the home Jon is fighting to defend. 

The Snarky AI Sidekick — Manly the vortex manipulator delivers some of the funniest dialogue in the saga. 

Found Family Across Species — Jon’s family includes humans, Kaljaxians, hybrid kids, and at least one wisecracking ship’s AI. 

yHoly War Aliens — The Listhelons aren’t just enemies; they’re true believers. 

The Old Soldier Who Can’t Retire — Jon keeps trying to go home. Home keeps refusing to let him.

FAQs


Do I need to read TheDo I need to read Books 1 and 2 first? Forever Life first?

Yes. The Forever Fight picks up directly from The Forever Enemy and assumes you know Jon, his colony on Azsuram, and the political situation in the worldship fleet. Start with The Forever Life (Book 1), then The Forever Enemy (Book 2), then dive in here.

Is this part of a series?

Yes. The Forever Fight is Book 3 of the six-book Forever Series, all set in Craig Robertson’s Ryanverse. The complete series: The Forever Life, The Forever Enemy, The Forever Fight, The Forever Quest, The Forever Alliance, The Forever Peace.

Is there an audiobook?

Yes, the audiobook edition is produced by Podium Audio as a boxset of Books 3 & 4.

What genre is this?

Military science fiction with strong humor and character-driven storytelling. If you enjoy authors like John Scalzi or the lighter end of David Weber, this series will feel like home.

The Forever Series

The Forever Series follows Major Jon Ryan: decorated astronaut, combat veteran, and the first human to transfer his consciousness into an immortal android body. His mission was supposed to take a few decades. Instead, it stretches across centuries.

Earth sends him to fold space in search of a new home — somewhere a dying species can start over. What he finds is far more than a planet. Alliances. Enemies. A family. And the hard truth that immortality costs a man everything when he was never built to outlive the people he loves.

Across six books, The Forever Series follows one soldier’s endless fight to protect the people and the future he was sent to save. It’s military science fiction with heart, humor, and a long view only an immortal narrator could offer.

The Forever Life

The Forever Life

Who is Jon Ryan? He’s a fighter pilot/astronaut with the future of humankind in his hands. Earth is doomed. Flying solo, Jon must search the galaxy to find us a new home world. To do this he must have his mind transferred into an experimental android host. Can Jon save our species? More importantly is the galaxy ready for Jon? No way. Poor aliens!

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The Forever Enemy

The Forever Enemy

As an alien armada threatens Earth, Jon must defend a fleet of worldships carrying humanity’s last survivors toward a new home. The conflict turns personal when an old enemy resurfaces, determined to destroy everything Jon holds dear.

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THE FOREVER FIGHT

THE FOREVER FIGHT

Endless fighting. Hopeless odds. Then things got worse. Jon Ryan has beaten the odds so far. He saved humanity from a sinister alien threat and he stopped the insane android president of the United States three separate times. But the president won’t stay dead and a super race threaten to end Jon’s hopes for a peaceful future. Jon’s mind-boggling alien technology has been enough to keep everyone alive. But, just when there’s reason for hope, a new, more deadly race sets it’s sights on him. This threat may just be unstoppable. They made Jon fight. He plans to make them very sorry they did. Can Jon save humanity, his family, and himself when defeat looks absolutely certain?

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The Forever Quest

The Forever Quest

Jon Ryan has everything — an intergalactic cube, immortality, and a war hero’s legend — and none of it matters. Nursing whiskey in a dive bar on a smelly farmship, he’s content to let the galaxy move on without him. Then the President of the New United States shows up in blue jeans to deliver an uncomfortable truth: somewhere out there is another Jon Ryan, one who lost not a handful of people but nine billion — an entire world. That Jon Ryan needs to be found. Whether he’s a ghost, a threat, or the only mirror Jon can stand to look into, the quest can’t wait any longer.

Part space opera, part deeply human reckoning with grief, loss, and purpose, The Forever Quest sends Jon Ryan hurtling across the galaxy — chasing a mystery that may be the most dangerous thing he’s ever hunted: himself.

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The Forever Alliance

The Forever Alliance

Jon Ryan earned his rest. Two centuries of fighting, losing, and saving humanity gave him the right to settle down, change diapers, and mow the lawn on a worldship in peace. But the Berrillians didn’t get the memo. They’re coming back — harder, faster, and in greater numbers — and this time Jon can’t afford to be caught off guard.

While a scientific breakthrough gives humanity a fighting chance against the alien war machine, Jon’s beloved colony of Azsuram is tearing itself apart. His niece Dolirca and her fanatical followers are pushing toward something dangerous, and JJ can only hold the line for so long. Meanwhile, ancient cosmic entities — the Last Nightmare — are waking from their long sleep, hungry for destruction on a universal scale.

The Forever Alliance is a pulse-pounding, emotionally rich installment in Craig Robertson’s landmark sci-fi series. Witty, warm, and utterly relentless, it proves that Jon Ryan’s greatest battles aren’t always the ones fought in space.

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The Forever Peace

The Forever Peace

Jon Ryan is the last original android in TCY, a three-hundred-year veteran in a military that’s quietly moved on without him. His kids are grown, his wife is away doting on grandchildren, and the galaxy has dared to be calm. He spends his days annoying officers who resent him and waiting for the universe to remember it hates humanity.

It doesn’t take long. Anganctus is gone, but his son Erratarus — the Berrillian Nero — is already in motion. Scouts have been embedded on unsuspecting alien worlds. The war machine has never stopped building. And when the reports start coming in from a forgotten corner of the galaxy, Jon Ryan realizes the ceasefire was never anything but a countdown.

The Forever Peace is the stunning conclusion to Craig Robertson’s Forever Series — funny, fierce, and filled with the irrepressible spirit of Jon Ryan. Peace was never guaranteed. It has to be earned, again and again, by those willing to pay the price.

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