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Featured Science Fiction: The Bohr Maker (The Nanotech Sucession Book 1) by Linda Nagata

January 30, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: The Bohr Maker (The Nanotech Sucession Book 1) by Linda Nagata

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Editor’s Note: I loved this novel. It has believable characters, adventure, action, strange new worlds, and a message that resonates.

“…phenomenal….This one is a winner—grab it when you see it…” —Analog Science Fiction & Fact

An award-winning novel of nanotechnology, adventure, and high-tech revolution.
Nikko is the first “post human” genetically engineered to survive in the airless void of space. But the research permit that allows his existence is about to expire. His body has begun an insidious, pre-programmed failure that will end in his death—unless he can cancel his own expiration date. His hopes ride on an illegal and extremely powerful nanotech device known as the Bohr Maker—but his attempt to steal it soon goes awry. The device escapes to infect a young woman named Phousita who lives on Earth, in an impoverished slum, where nanotechnology runs amok, regulated only by the black market. Nikko and Phousita are from different worlds, but their convergence sets off a domino effect of unforeseeable events that threaten to change the definition of “human” for all time.

A brilliantly original, fast-paced biotech thriller, The Bohr Maker won the Locus Award for Best First Novel.

The Nanotech Succession is a collection of stand-alone novels exploring the rise of nanotechnology and the strange and fascinating future that follows.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Linda Nagata, The Bohr Maker, The Nanotech Succession

Featured Fantasy: First Time’s A Charm (Grimalkin Academy Book 1) by Laura Greenwood

January 30, 2023 by Carolynn

First Time's A Charm (Grimalkin Academy Book 1)

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Things might be easier if I could stop conjuring kittens every time I attempt a spell.

I used to be good at magic. That’s how I got into Grimalkin Academy in the first place. Then I was dared by my friends to try a spell way above my abilities. Now, the end of year exams are coming up, and I need to find a way to stop my magic going haywire all the time or I’m going to fail.

At least matters of my heart are easy enough…for now.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Grimalkin Academy, Laura Greenwood

Featured Fantasy: Ravenite (Vengeance and Vampires Book 1) by Alicia Rades

January 30, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Ravenite (Vengeance and Vampires Book 1) by Alicia Rades

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Bronze Medal Winner in the Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards!

Never mess with a witch who bites back.

I’m Rachel Collins, low witch and raven shifter in hiding. I spend my days tending the cash register at a local magic shop and my nights patrolling the streets for vampires with a death wish. Until the night I spot the mark of the Soulless on some lowly vampire’s wrist.

The Soulless answer to Valkas, the original vampire and the most ruthless of them all. They’re the same bloodsuckers who murdered my parents and kidnapped my sister. I want answers—and maybe a little revenge.

Along comes Venn, a handsome, protective wolf shifter who takes my breath away. We’re both after the same guy, and as much as it kills me to ask for help, I kind of need it.

Heaven help me. The dark, dangerous road we’re traveling together will either free my sister or get me killed.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Alicia Rades, Ravenite, Vengeance and Vampires

Featured Sci-fi: Gods of War (The Last Marines Book 1) by William S. Frisbee Jr.

January 30, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Gods of War (The Last Marines Book 1) by William S. Frisbee Jr.

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The mission was supposed to be his last.

After more than twenty years in special operations, USMC Gunnery Sergeant Wolf Mathison wasn’t looking forward to retirement when—implanted with an experimental artificial intelligence—he deployed on his last mission with a platoon of Marine Raiders being sent to the Jovian moon Europa.

The USS Jefferson was destroyed en route, though, and only Mathison and three other Marines survived. Trapped in stasis, they were hurled into the outer reaches of the solar system, where they wouldn’t be found for hundreds of years.

Meanwhile, on Earth, the United States is destroyed and a fascist regime rises to power, expanding into the galaxy to plant its boot heel on the necks of humanity. But SOG, the Social Organizational Governance, is not unopposed, and researchers at a top-secret research outpost are working on a solution that will let SOG reign supreme. Unfortunately for the Marines, they’re awakened from stasis at the same time the researchers awaken a threat that endangers the entire human race.

The odds are against them, but that’s nothing new for the Marine Raiders.

Semper Fidelis and Semper Invictus!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Gods of War, The Last Marines, William S. Frisbee Jr.

Featured Fantasy: Hunting Werewolves and Other Bad Dates (Reapers of the Grimm Brotherhood Book 1) by Kel Carpenter & Meg Anne

January 30, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Hunting Werewolves and Other Bad Dates (Reapers of the Grimm Brotherhood Book 1) by Kel Carpenter & Meg Anne

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Dying is supposed to be the end of the line. Not for me, though. I’m just not that lucky.

When my twin brother dies, I return home knowing life will never be the same. I just didn’t expect to die in a supernatural car crash on my way there. Plot twist: I’m not actually dead-dead, and I have no idea why.

As if things aren’t confusing enough, my late brother’s bad-tempered and sinfully attractive best friend finds me in the woods in all my recently deceased glory.

He claims that half of my hometown are actually monsters; that people like he and my brother exist to keep them in line, and–cherry on top of this crap sundae–my brother didn’t die in an accident.

He was murdered.

Now it’s up to me and his brooding best friend to find answers before whoever, or whatever, killed my brother cuts the last branch off my family tree and sends me into the afterlife–permanently.

Wish someone would have prepared me for hunting werewolves and fending off sex vampires, but apparently that’s too much to ask.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Hunting Werewolves and Other Bad Dates, Kel Carpenter, Meg Anne, Reapers of the Grimm Brotherhood

Featured Fantasy: Finding Destiny (Unexpected Magic Book 4) by Christine Pope

January 29, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Finding Destiny (Unexpected Magic Book 4) by Christine Pope

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Family ties can heal the past. Or drag you straight to hell…

Isaac Zamora, my significant other and a talented user of magic, insists I’m a powerful witch. But when my bio-grandmother sends demons to kidnap me to her monstrosity of a Victorian house in Boulder, I can’t exactly fight back. Against Virginia Powers, who’s been wielding the dark arts since before I was born, there’s no point.

I need a plan. Someone who uses that much magical Botox has a blind spot somewhere, and I intend to find it. But she finds mine first — a half-sister named Destiny. I’ve always longed for a sister, someone with a connection to the mother who died so young.

But not if it means giving up my freedom.

Like the objects my lodestone ability brings to me, that connection seems to draw the truth out of gentle, seemingly innocent Destiny — Virginia’s secret plan to summon the prince of Hell. Our grandfather. This revelation answers so many questions, and gives me a valuable tool to foil good ol’ grandma.

But once Isaac learns the truth about my demon blood, the love we’ve slowly, carefully nurtured over time could go up in flames….

Note: Finding Destiny is the fourth and final book in USA Today bestselling author Christine Pope’s “Unexpected Magic” series.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Christine Pope, Finding Destiny, Unexpected Magic

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