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Featured Sci-fi: Galactic Terror by Michael Robertson

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Featured Sci-fi: Galactic Terror by Michael Robertson

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They say you can’t run from your past, and now she’s reached the other side of the galaxy, Sparks wonders if they’re right …

Living on a distant planet with a transient population for the past year, ducking in and out of spaceport dive bars, mixing with pirates, bounty hunters, and criminals, she’s become just another being in the crowd.

But she wasn’t born to eke out a living at the very fringes of society. Not with her powers.

So when a stranger makes her a tempting offer …

An adventure she’s been desperate to have …

She wonders if now’s the right time for her to step from the shadows?

To return to the planet-hopping, high-risk thrill-ride that used to be her life.

To take back control.

And if the next few months end up looking like the past twelve, then it’s not like she has anything to lose.

Galactic Terror is the first book in a series of space opera thrillers, where every page crackles with high-stakes action and interstellar intrigue.

Featured Fantasy: A Matter of Magic Duology by Patricia C. Wrede

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Featured Fantasy: A Matter of Magic Duology by Patricia C. Wrede

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An orphan in Regency London discovers a world of magic, intrigue, and romance in this YA historical fantasy duology—now available in one volume!

When a stranger offers Kim a small fortune to break into a traveling magician’s wagon, she doesn’t hesitate. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London, Kim isn’t above a bit of breaking-and-entering. But when the magician catches her in the act, Kim thinks she’s done for.

Instead, Mairelon the Magician asks Kim to become his apprentice. And that’s when the real trouble begins. Kim soon finds herself entangled with murderers, thieves, and cloak-and-dagger politics, all while trying to learn how to become both a proper lady and a magician in her own right.

A Matter of Magic includes the books Mairelon the Magician and The Magician’s Ward.

Featured Fantasy: Vegas Arcana by James Anderson Foster

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Featured Fantasy: Vegas Arcana by James Anderson Foster

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Behind the neon glow lies a darker truth—welcome to VEGAS ARCANA.

“Vegas Arcana: Deck Runner’s Gambit” is the first book in the Vegas Arcana series, a cornerstone of the expansive ARCANAVERSE. While Vegas Arcana stands on its own, it also opens the door to an interconnected urban fantasy world. Readers can choose to stay in Vegas or explore other Arcanaverse series, each offering unique adventures that ultimately weave together in epic crossover events. Whichever path you choose, the Arcanaverse promises an unforgettable journey into the hidden corners of our world.

In the city where the dazzling lights cast the darkest shadows, an ordinary life is about to be upended.

Las Vegas is known for its glamour, but beneath the surface, Malcolm Byrne discovers a hidden world of magic and danger. Thrust into a centuries-old battle to maintain the balance of power, Mal must navigate treacherous waters filled with arcane threats.

As Mal delves deeper into this mystical underworld, he forms fragile alliances with those who straddle the line between the magical and the mundane. Tested in ways he never imagined, he confronts not only external enemies but also the shadows lurking within himself.

Will Mal survive the dangers of this hidden world and discover who he truly is? Find out in “Vegas Arcana: Deck Runner’s Gambit,” a fast-paced Urban Fantasy perfect for fans of Jim Butcher and Benedict Jacka. Dive into a world of hidden magic, thrilling action, and complex in-fighting that will keep you turning pages late into the night.

Featured Sci-fi: Freedom’s Choice by Anne McCaffrey

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Featured Sci-fi: Freedom's Choice by Anne McCaffrey

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Abducted by the alien Catteni, Kristin Bjornsen was one of many humans brought to the planet Botany as part of an experiment to see if it could support life. Enslaved and forced to colonize a world not their own, the settlers have accepted Botany as their home—a home worth fighting for…
 
Kristin’s people have learned that the aliens responsible for their imprisonment are merely mercenaries, subjugated by the parasitic Eosi Race, and that Botany is being farmed remotely by some unknown species—a species that may be sympathetic to the colonists’ struggle for freedom.
 
The “Farmers” refuse to join the humans in their rebellion against the Catteni, but they agree to use their technological skills to shield Botany and hide it from its enemies—buying Kristin and the settlers time to build up their forces and liberate their world…

Featured Sci-fi: Culture Shock (The Gunn Files Book 1) by M.G. Herron

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Featured Sci-fi: Culture Shock (The Gunn Files Book 1) by M.G. Herron

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Aliens are among us. Austin, Texas just got a whole lot weirder.

When down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Anderson Gunn snags his next job, he’s just happy to get the gig.

The target he’s chasing may be wanted for murder, but his debts won’t pay themselves.

He should’ve been more selective. When Gunn finds his mark, the wanted man turns out to be no man at all. Gunn faces off against a tentacled creature out of Ridley Scott’s worst nightmare—a mind-reading offworlder wearing his skip’s skin like a onesie.

And that’s just the first day.

Gunn’s world turns upside down as he gets swept up in the hunt for an escaped alien convict.

Amidst the chaos, an otherworldly puppeteer pulls hidden strings, implicating a shadowy organization with designs on Earth that are as cryptic as they are deadly.

The Gunn Files is a gripping and fast-paced sci-fi mystery with a dash of humor and the gritty allure of noir detective fiction.

Featured Fantasy: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

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Featured Fantasy: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

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New York Times Bestseller! Indiana. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother’s bedside. She’s been stricken with something the old-timers call “Milk Sickness.”

“My baby boy…” she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother’s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.

When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, “henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose…” Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.