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Featured Science Fiction: Fractured Orbits (Encoded Orbits Book 1) by Jeannette Bedard

December 2, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Fractured Orbits (Encoded Orbits Book 1) by Jeannette Bedard

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She is a mutation. She is an abomination. She is a power that could change the universe – or end it. And she is only seven years old.

It’s been 250 years since we discovered the vast web of wormholes, created by an alien race, linking a series of planets. Worlds where, with a little genetic tinkering, humans could thrive. No one thought about side effects until it was too late. Now laws prevent further tampering—but not everyone follows the law. The Protectorate used their military might to enforce these laws.

For Veena, a military cipher decoder, these wars are more than her job – they’re the centre of her existence. She knows a secret: the alien race that created the wormholes may not be gone, and pose a threat.

And even worse, she knows that her own daughter is one of “the enemy”. Born with telekinetic powers, seven-year-old Molly is a mutant who must hide her true nature, or face extermination.

But when an accident reveals her child’s powers, Veena’s worst nightmare comes true. The military snatches Molly—to turn her into a weapon, and use her power to change the face of the galaxy… or destroy it.

Now, Veena is on the run, trying to save her child. Nowhere to hide, no one to trust. She can’t give up. The universe is on the brink of destruction, and it is up to her to stop it all from escalating and falling into the madness of a Fractured Orbit.

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Featured Fantasy: Vampire Formula Series by P.A. Ross

December 2, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Vampire Formula Series by P.A. Ross

FREE First in Series as of December 2, 2023 (all following books only $2.99!)
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What if you could be superhuman for a night?
Take bloody revenge on those who have wronged you, with no one knowing.

That’s the tantalizing offer Jon Harper gets from Thorn, a sultry, mysterious vampire.

An injection of the vampire formula temporarily empowers him with abilities of the dark immortals. In a fury of claws and fangs, he vanquishes his enemies and discovers a forbidden love. But as he delves deeper into the world of vampires, he makes new powerful enemies and realizes the power of the night may change him forever.

With time running out, Jon must learn Thorn’s true intentions before he faces an ultimatum: Forgiveness or Vengeance, Day or Night, Human or Vampire?

With its suspenseful action, intriguing mystery, and passionate romance, fans of vampire fiction will be entranced.
A blend and twist of the vampire lore. “Let the right one in”, “Department 19,” and “Twilight”.

Download now before the price changes!

Bonus Material included:

There is also a free prequel story to download
“I Want Vengeance: Vampire Formula Book 0”
Plus the story continues in
“The Truth of Vengeance: Vampire Formula Book 2”
“The Enemies of Vengeance: Vampire Formula Book 3”
And concludes in:
“The War of Vengeance: Vampire Formula Book 4”

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: P.A. Ross, Vampire Formula

Book Review: Winternight Trilogy

December 2, 2023 by Carolynn

The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden

First Book $1.99 as of December 2, 2023

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The setup:

Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits that protect their homes from evil.

Then Vasya’s widowed father brings home a new wife from Moscow. Fiercely devout, Vasya’s stepmother forbids her family from honoring their household spirits, but Vasya fears what this may bring. And indeed, misfortune begins to stalk the village.

But Vasya’s stepmother only grows harsher, determined to remake the village to her liking and to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for marriage or a convent. As the village’s defenses weaken and evil from the forest creeps nearer, Vasilisa must call upon dangerous gifts she has long concealed—to protect her family from a threat sprung to life from her nurse’s most frightening tales.

My review:

This series, this series! I picked up the first book, The Bear and the Nightingale a few years back on sale but just didn’t get around to reading it. I’m not sure how it got to the top of my Kindle TBR pile, but I’m so glad it did!

If you like Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Spinning Silver, or her Temeraire series, I think you’ll love Winternight. Katherine Arden’s trilogy weaves Russian Folklore, Medieval History, and religious tradition into an epic saga of faith, chaos and death, and coexistence between Christianity and more ancient traditions.

I am not a fan of books that set up Christianity as an irredeemable evil–and this one didn’t. There is one man of faith who is an antagonist, but there are also men of faith who are heroes (in other words, like real life), and there are beings of the ancient traditions who are antagonists and heroes, too.

The background of the story is the days leading up to Russia’s battle with the Tatars that in many ways solidified Russia’s disparate provinces into a united country.

I highly recommend it. Although the ebooks are pricey (you can’t resell ebooks to recover some of your costs–in essence you are only leasing them for as much as you pay for them) the books themselves are widely available at libraries, and through Amazon second hand.

The first book, The Bear and the Nightingale is available at Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia (oddly, affordably priced in eBook in Australia!), Germany & Kobo, iBooks, Nook, GooglePlay

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy Tagged With: Katherine Arden, Winternight Trilogy

Featured Fantasy: Waves Breaking Over Ys (Tales of Dark Faerie Book 1) by Matt Larkin

November 27, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Waves Breaking Over Ys: A Little Mermaid Retelling by Matt Larkin

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The mermaid Lí Ban has long studied humans, fascinated by their culture and strange ways. But when she begins to have dreams in which she lived a human life, she decides she must have once lived in the surface world, in a past life. Determined to regain what she has lost, she makes a dangerous bargain, trading her tongue for legs.

But the bargain has a catch: she must win the heart of the man once she once saved from drowning. If he should ever wed another, she will lose her soul. Plagued by increasingly insistent dreams, Lí Ban realizes not only does she need to win a heart—she may have unfinished business from her past life.

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Featured Science Fiction: Archangel Down by C. Gockel

November 27, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Archangel Down by C. Gockel

FREE as of November 27, 2023
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In the year 2432, humans think they are alone in the universe. They’re wrong.

Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet Luddeccea … but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about.

Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past twenty four hours, or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he’s never met.

A military officer from the colonies and a civilian from Old Earth, they couldn’t have less in common. But they have to work together to save the lives of millions—and their own.
Every step of the way they are haunted by the final words of a secret transmission:

The archangel is down.

What the Reviewers are saying:

“ARCHANGEL DOWN is a compelling sci-fi complete with satisfyingly high-tech gadgetry and high stakes political and social intrigue … subtle humor pervades the book, often in the form of Noa and James’s banter, and the vivid action sequences provide suspense and adventure. “ -IndieReader

“This is a terrific science fiction selection that explores our human emotion.  Anger, fear, self-doubt, love,  and humor are on display as the colonists of a new world are forced to realize they are not alone in the universe.” –Great Digital Books, “7 Great Books for Star Trek Fans”

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Filed Under: Archangel Project, Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Archangel Down, Archangel Project, C. Gockel

Featured Sci-fi : Noa’s Ark. Archangel Project Book 2 by C. Gockel

November 27, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi : Noa's Ark. Archangel Project Book 2 by C. Gockel

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First contact didn’t go as planned…

Time Gate 8, one of humanity’s portals between the stars, has been overrun by a mysterious alien intelligence, and the planet Luddeccea is now cut off.

Haunted by those she left behind, Commander Noa Sato is on a desperate mission to save her homeworld. Navigating the ancient Ark, she seeks a hidden gate that will transport her ship to Earth and the Galactic Fleet. But the Luddeccean system harbors dangers, and so does her crew.

The only crew member she completely trusts is James Sinclair, but he doesn’t trust himself.

James isn’t the man he once was. He has a hunger that is never sated, kills without regrets, and is fitted with extraordinary augments he doesn’t remember getting. Can James control his augments, or will they control him?

In a future where almost all humans are augmented, James’s answer and Noa’s mission will determine the fate of the human race … and the enemy is already within the gates.

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