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Featured Science Fiction: The Gaia Gambit (The Gaian Consortium Book 3) by Christine Pope

August 20, 2022 by Carolynn

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Humans and Stacians have been sworn enemies for centuries, so Gaian Captain Lira Jannholm has no reason to trust Stacian starship commander Rast sen Drenthan when he proposes a bargain that will end a dangerous confrontation over a resource-rich planet. When Lira finds herself disgraced and discharged from duty through no fault of her own, she joins forces with Rast to discover the truth behind her reversal of fortune.

Running from rapidly multiplying enemies in a ship stolen from one of the most powerful criminals in the sector, Rast and Lira discover they are pawns in a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of government and has put them in mortal danger. The secret they uncover could change the balance of power in the galaxy forever…not to mention destroy their own future together.

Featured Science Fiction: Breath of Life (The Gaian Consortium Book 2) by Christine Pope

August 20, 2022 by Carolynn

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Anika Jespers, a homesteader’s daughter on a Gaian colony, thinks she’s destined for a dull existence on her family’s farm. But when her father makes an impossible bargain with their neighbor, one of the alien Zhore, she faces a future different from anything she could have possibly imagined.

The familiar story of Beauty and the Beast takes on new life in this SF romance novella, with the Beauty a homesteader’s daughter and the Beast an alien on a faraway colony world.

This book also contains the bonus follow-up holiday short story, “A Simple Gift.”

Featured Science Fiction: Blood Will Tell (The Gaian Consortium Book 1) by Christine Pope

August 20, 2022 by Carolynn

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Welcome to Iradia, where the Gaian Consortium looks the other way if enough money changes hands, and the best way to ensure a long life is to secure passage off-world….

When Miala Fels’ father is murdered by a vicious crime lord, she decides the best way to get her revenge is to hack the accounts of the man responsible and bleed his hoard of ill-gotten loot dry. Her plans go awry when Mast is killed by a rival, and she ends up nursing one of his men, the notorious mercenary Eryk Thorn, back to health. Her only thought is to have Thorn help her get off-world in exchange for half of Mast’s treasure. The last thing she expects is to lose her heart to him…or to have the consequences of that love change her life forever.

Featured Sci-fi: Jump Gate Omega (Star Lawyers Book 1) by Tom Shepherd

August 19, 2022 by Carolynn

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Arrested on an alien world. Who you gonna call?

Star Lawyers: Two brothers, getting clients out of trouble beyond Terran Space.

Tyler Matthews and brother J.B. are young lawyers who fight alien legal systems to get people acquitted in places where sometimes it’s a crime to be human. Their law office is a former flying pleasure ship, complete with holographic female “providers” whom the Matthews brothers repurpose as crew, staff, and legal assistants. And there’s Suzie, the sexy Neo-British A.I. who doubles as the ship’s operating system and Tyler’s love interest.

With a deep bench of colorful characters and the futuristic combat of Space Opera, plus the murder mysteries and courtroom battles of a legal thriller, and the un-usual suspects—both alien and human—from cultures across the galaxy, the Star Lawyers series sizzles with action, romance, and humor.

Jump Gate Omega begins the series. Rollicking sci-fi fun, punctuated by courtroom battles on alien worlds. No wonder readers have dubbed the Star Lawyers series “Trek meets Law & Order.”

Already familiar with the series? Star Lawyers Book 8, The Slave World Trials, has just been released!

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Book Review: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

August 18, 2022 by Carolynn

I had planned only to review Free Speech from Socrates to Social Media this week. I hadn’t planned on writing a review of The Satanic Verses. It’s a book I haven’t read in a very long-time, but the lesson of the first book and the horrible assassination attempt on Mr. Rushdie’s life do go hand in hand.

I read The Satanic Verses when it first came out, when I was in high school. I was on a Magical Realism kick and had just finished reading House of the Spirits and One Hundred Years of Solitude (both of which I highly recommend.)

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Featured Science Fiction: Breach of Peace (Breach of Faith Book 1) by Daniel Gibbs & Gary T. Stevens

August 18, 2022 by Carolynn

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Everything is on the table when survival’s at stake.

Captain James Henry is caught between a rock and a hard place – again. Merchant ships operating in neutral space near the Terran Coalition and the League of Sol are disappearing without a trace. The latest report has something the others didn’t.

A survivor.

When news reaches the planet Lusitania during a cargo offload, Captain Henry and the Shadow Wolf’s crew are hired to extract the surviving operative before she’s silenced and the information she has is lost.

But too many opposing forces are at work within the faction-torn republic – and they all want a piece of the prize.

With directives from multiple government contacts, Captain Henry concedes to protect his ragtag crew. Years ago, he surrendered to dishonor and dismissal from the Coalition Defense Force in order to protect his fellow officers. This time he knows how to play the game.

To save his band of brothers and sisters, Jim must walk a fine line between the operative’s survival and the threats against his crew from the League of Sol.

Before the time to negotiate runs out.

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