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Featured Sci-fi: Neptune Crossing (The Chaos Chronicles Book 1) by Jeffrey A. Carver

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Featured Sci-fi: Neptune Crossing (The Chaos Chronicles Book 1) by Jeffrey A. Carver

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When John Bandicut falls into a cavern on Triton, his life changes irrevocably—and for an alien quarx, a million years of solitude abruptly comes to an end.

Bandicut is hardly ready for the storm of chaos that’s about to blow through his life. He has just made humanity’s first contact with alien life—an intelligence that takes up residence in his mind and will be revealed to no one else. The quarx, part of an ancient galactic civilization that manipulates chaos theory to predict catastrophic events, seeks to prevent an event that could destroy the Earth. But it must have help. If Bandicut chooses to trust the quarx, he must break all the rules—indeed, sacrifice his life as he knows it—to prevent humanity’s greatest cataclysm.

Leaving friends and lover behind, hurtling across the solar system in a stolen spaceship, Bandicut can only pray that his actions will save the Earth. Even if he doesn’t live to see it again.

Neptune Crossing is the opening volume of the acclaimed hard science fiction series, The Chaos Chronicles, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End.

Available in ebook, print, and audiobook from Starstream Publications. Audiobook narration by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki. DRM-free ebook edition.

Featured Fantasy: Relics of Andromeda (Song of Ancients Book 1) by Jonathan Michael Erickson

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AN EPIC TALE SPANNING CIVILIZATIONS AND CENTURIES.

Anka believed the stories since childhood: the alien relics bring ruin and madness.

Ancient pieces of technology that have minds of their own, the relics interface with human psychology, granting the power to bend space and time—often inducing psychosis.

When the colonists of Andromeda first discovered the relics, long before Anka was born, humanity was plunged into chaos.

Now Anka carries a relic in her pack, tasked with securing the object before it does any harm. She sets out with her companions across the desert by foot, marching towards the distant city—even as the relic begins to whisper in her mind…

Featured Sci-fi: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

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Featured Sci-fi: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

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Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves… Each wave different, and each wave stronger.

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America’s most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth’s settlement of the fourth world from the sun.

Bradbury’s Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars … and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.

Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.

Featured Fantasy: Society for Paranormals Complete Series by Vered Ehsani

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Featured Fantasy: Society for Paranormals Complete Series by Vered Ehsani

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It’s Jane Austen meets Lara Croft in a 12-book cozy paranormal mystery romp through Victorian Africa.

Armed with exquisite etiquette, a fully loaded walking stick, and a dead husband, Miss Beatrice Knight arrives in the small colonial town of Nairobi, Kenya, desperate for a pot of tea. But she’ll need more than that if she’s to unravel a series of increasingly deadly mysteries without being eaten in the process.

She must endure all manner of inconveniences while surviving the machinations of friends, enemies and dashing gentlemen, not to mention the efforts of her safari guide to feed her to any lion willing to drag her away. Talking chimps, African gods, shape-shifting demons, zombie elephants, firefly vampires, steampunk automatons, and a possessed horse… What is a ghost-chasing widow to do?

This delightful, binge-worthy collection brings together all twelve books in the Society for Paranormals cozy mystery series in which a paranormal detective refuses to let danger, death, and unsolicited suitors inconvenience her in colonial Kenya. Welcome to murder, mayhem, mythology, and the search for a perfect spot of tea.

If you love Agatha Christie, Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate, Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody, or Pride & Prejudice; or if you enjoy historical mysteries, adore Gaslamp intrigue, or would love to experience adventure in colonial Kenya, then download Society for Paranormals: The Complete Series to start your supernatural safari today.

Included in the boxset are the following cases:

  • Miss Knight and the Night in Lagos
  • Miss Knight and the Pyramid’s Puzzle
  • Miss Knight and the Ghosts of Tsavo
  • Miss Knight and the Automaton’s Wife
  • Miss Knight and the Mantis’ Revenge
  • Miss Knight and the Fourth Mandate
  • Miss Knight and the Nandi’s Curse
  • Miss Knight and the Spider’s Web
  • Miss Knight and the Stones of Nairobi
  • Miss Knight and the Wedding Killer
  • Miss Knight and the Throne of Death
  • Miss Knight and the Poacher’s Catch

Featured Sci-fi: The Survivors (Books 1 – 12) by Nathan Hystad

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Featured Sci-fi: The Survivors (Books 1 - 12) by Nathan Hystad

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Your FALL BLOCKBUSTER has arrived…

The ships came at dawn… The Survivors began 6 years ago, and now you can get the first 12 Novels in the epic, best-selling series together at last. With over 20,000 ratings, you won’t want to miss out.

More than 3000 pages of science fiction action.

Dean Parker’s an accountant, content to spend his days watching baseball, and living for the weekend. Until the ships appear.

The Survivors spans decades of Dean’s life, as he fights the odds time after time, finding friendship, love, and family in the most unexpected ways.

Oh, there are a lot of aliens and robots too.

Join Dean and the rest of the survivors as they secure their place in this great big universe.

Included within:
The Event
New Threat
New World
The Ancients
The Theos
Old Enemy
New Alliance
The Gatekeepers
New Horizon
The Academy
Old World
New Discovery

Featured Fantasy: Nightmarked the Complete Series by Kat Ross

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Featured Fantasy: Nightmarked the Complete Series by Kat Ross

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Winner of the Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal for Magic & Wizardry ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A tarot reader with a dangerous past. Two mortal enemies. And a conspiracy that could burn it all down.

In the perfect world of the Via Sancta, magical power flows through intricate tattoos on your skin. They promote harmony and suppress base urges like greed, lust, and anger.

But sometimes the marks invert—driving you mad.

Alexei Bryce hunts these deviants for the Church, secretly hoping to find the dark mage who turned his brother. The trail leads to Kasia Novak, a cartomancer who is more than she seems. The cards say they are fated to fall in love—if they can survive long enough.

Because now that same dark mage has infiltrated the city’s wards and is hunting Kasia.

Alexei and the nightmage called Malach fought on opposite sides of the bloody civil war years before. But despite the Church’s claim of victory, the conflict is far from over. And Alexei will discover that his faith’s triumph over the darkest recesses of the human soul is more fragile than he ever imagined.