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Featured Fantasy: His Majesty’s Service – Three Novels of Temeraire by Naomi Novik

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Featured Fantasy: His Majesty's Service - Three Novels of Temeraire by Naomi Novik

$2.99 as of October 12, 2024
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***LOVED EVERYONE OF THESE NOVELS***

Together in one volume, here are the first three novels in Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, combining the gripping history of the Napoleonic era, the thrill of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern books, and the excitement of Patrick O’Brian’s seafaring adventures. In His Majesty’s Service also includes an exclusive original Temeraire short story.

Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring most a unusual cargo–an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation’s history.

Thrust into England’s Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire undergo rigorous training while staving off French forces intent on breaching British soil. But the pair has more than France to contend with when China learns that an imperial dragon intended for Napoleon–Temeraire himself– has fallen into British hands. The emperor summons the new pilot and his dragon to the Far East, a long voyage fraught with peril and intrigue. From England’s shores to China’s palaces, from the Silk Road’s outer limits to the embattled borders of Prussia and Poland, Laurence and Temeraire must defend their partnership and their country from powerful adversaries around the globe. But can they succeed against the massed forces of Bonaparte’s implacable army?

Featured Science Fiction: Red Dust (Gods & Assassins Book 1) by Frank Kennedy

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Featured Science Fiction: Red Dust (Gods & Assassins Book 1) by Frank Kennedy

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Fallen gods with a taste for murder. A criminal syndicate. A secretive desert town.

Ex-god Royal has a bone to pick with the human race. In his previous form, charismatic Royal and his surly partner Moon all but saved the forty worlds of the Collectorate from destruction. Their reward? Desert exile on Azteca to live as humans. No public gratitude. History rewritten.

Seriously. Doesn’t anyone respect a god?

Royal and Moon intend to leave their meager existence behind someday and recapture the old glory (random galactic chaos), but building an interstellar criminal network requires millions of credits. Assassinating the enemies of the Collectorate’s paranoid President pays well, yet the jobs are few.

Circumstance brings them to the tiny town of Desperido, where life – and a world of secrets – plays out beneath the desert’s red dust. Royal, ever the shape-shifting visionary (narcissist, some might say) conjures an exciting new path forward. First, the former deities will have to deal with enemies in their midst as well as the Horax, one of the planet’s most powerful criminal syndicates.

Prepare for a wild ride with a healthy dose of snark in the opening stanza of a five-book serial, “Gods and Assassins.” Pistols draw, rifles blast, traitors abound, conspiracies arise, wormholes open, and whiskey flows.

Featured Fantasy: Evans Witches by Reut Barak

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An all-powerful mage, a fairy queen and a dragon were the last folk I thought I’d meet (and befriend) when I time-travelled. All the stranger, I couldn’t even remember what caused me to go back in time in the first place, that I was Kim Taylor—college student at Oxford, or that I had just met the love of my life…

And now, there’s Seth. He’s actually that same guy, but he’s different here. A knight. He was an olympic fencer back in college, on a scholarship, but he doesn’t remember that either, or me, or the world we came from. All he knows now is that he serves the King of Scotland, and my father betrayed that King!

Yes, I’m a traitor’s daughter – and my life is not something that Seth would think twice before sacrificing. He took me in the night, away from the safety my father’s palace, and out into the cold, dangerous woods.

But there is something about me that Seth doesn’t know. The secret I had to keep back in college: I’m not human.

Featured Sci-fi: Reese Daniels Smuggler Series by T.D. Wilson

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Smuggling precious cargo to a remote colony was supposed to be easy. I was dead wrong.

Smuggling is a dangerous business and Reese Daniels has the score of a lifetime within his grasp; however, getting shot down on one of Uranus’ moons wasn’t in his plan. Stranded and on the run in the middle of an alien invasion, Reese must work with a group of Marine cadets to escape a grisly fate.

Awarded Silver Honorable Mention in the recent first quarter Volume 40 of L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest.

Featured Sci-fi: Galaxy Bridge Books 1 – 3 by Daniel Gibbs

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Featured Sci-fi: Galaxy Bridge Books 1 - 3 by Daniel Gibbs

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Over 1000+ pages of Military Science Fiction action!

An all-new galaxy. A terrifying new enemy.

Exploration of Sextans B is underway via the first stable transgalactic 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.

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Featured Sci-fi: Stars Shroud (The Ascension Series Book One) by Ken Lozito

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Featured Sci-fi: Stars Shroud (The Ascension Series Book One) by Ken Lozito

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They’ve been watching us for hundreds of years.
Now they need our help.
Earth is not safe.

Zack is good at finding things, but when he discovers a global conspiracy, life as he knows it is over. Sometimes the truth doesn’t set you free. It traps you instead.

Kept secret for 60 years, the discovery of an alien signal forces an unlikely team to investigate a mysterious structure discovered in the furthest reaches of the solar system. Join the crew of the Athena, Earth’s most advanced spaceship on the ultimate journey beyond our wildest imagining.

Strap yourself in. The Star Shroud is the first book in this action-packed space opera series. Readers describe them as “a cross between David Weber and John Ringo.” If you like space opera adventure stories with clever heroes, impossible situations, and chilling discoveries, then you’re in for a fun nonstop thrill ride. Read it now!

Find out why thousands of readers have fallen for Ken Lozito’s thrilling series!
What readers are saying about the Ascension series:
“Hard to put down!” – Amazon Reviewer
“Buckle up and hang on tight. You’re in for a wild ride!” – Ed Ramos
“Fantastic! One of the best SciFi books I have read in a long time.” – Harold Wilson
“Refreshing approach to sci-fi-fi. Fast paced and believable.” – T I Muller
“Fantastic feel of classic sci-fi which grows into a modern space opera.” – Amazon