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Featured Science Fiction: Al Clark by Jonathan G. Meyer

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Featured Science Fiction: Al Clark by Jonathan G. Meyer

FREE as of September 9, 2026
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Old Fashioned Science Fiction

A thousand specially selected people leave a troubled Earth for a new start on a virgin world many years away. Their starship is state-of-the-art and entirely automatic; its passengers safely sleeping through the long journey. All possible scenarios have been taken into account except one. There is no way to predict sabotage.

Al Clark wakes to begin a new life, alone on a crippled starship with no memory of what transpired to place him there.

It is the beginning of a quest that will take him places he could not have imagined, manage feats he would not have thought possible, and teach him the true meaning of friendship.

What the readers are saying:

★★★★★ SciFi as it was meant to be – Jennifer Seidler

★★★★★ I have a new (to me) author to add to my favorites – Lesley Wood

★★★★★ SciFi at its best, intrigue, robots, action, mystery, and very witty. Loved it! – Montzalee Wittman

★★★★★ Good old fashioned SciFi – Cenvillager

★★★★★  Reminds me a little of the Sci-Fi of days gone by – jcat-top 500 reviewer

How to read GooglePlay books (or any other epub) on your ereader!

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Sigh. Kindle makes it tricky to get ebooks from other places … but it’s only tricky once! And then a whole world of books opens up to you, including rare books from Project Gutenberg, secret BookFunnel and StoryOrigin deals, and more!

Specifically for GooglePlay Books, after you buy your book, go to your Google Play Books library and choose Export → Download EPUB. Then follow the instructions below to send the EPUB to your Kindle.

Important: Not every Google Play ebook can be transferred this way. Some publishers use DRM that prevents it. But my ebooks are available as downloadable EPUBs, so you’re good to go!

The easiest way: Send to Kindle

  1. Download the EPUB file to your computer, phone, or tablet.
  2. Go to Amazon’s Send to Kindle page and sign into your Amazon account.
  3. Drag and drop your EPUB onto the page (or select it from your device) and hit Send.
  4. Voilà! It should appear in your Kindle library and sync to your Kindle just like your other books.

Send to Kindle by email

  1. Find your Send to Kindle email address, go to Manage Your Content & Devices > Preferences > Personal Document Settings > scroll down to Send-to-Kindle E-Mail Settings
  2. Before sending, make sure the account you’ll use is on your Approved Personal Document E-mail List in your Personal Document Settings (scroll even further down the Personal Document Settings page, it’s right at the bottom.)
  3. Send your file as an attachment to your Send to Kindle email address. No subject line required.

Featured Fantasy: Blood of the Covenants Books 1 – 3 by Leah E. Welker

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Featured Fantasy: Blood of the Covenants Books 1 - 3 by Leah E. Welker

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C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia meets clean YA romantasy in this dual POV, slow-burn romance.

This bundle includes books 1-3 out of a 6-book series.

DRAGON’S BLOOD (Book 1)
Sarah Lind has fallen into a perilous world inhabited by a race of dragon shapeshifters. If she is to find her way home, she will have to work with their handsome Heir, Koriben, who believes she is the leader he needs to restore the broken Covenants that are the foundation of his people’s existence—before the Devourer consumes their worlds.

DRAGON’S HEIR (Book 2)
Earth’s secret guardian, the Tree of Ice, has given Sarah a way back home: if she finds and unlocks all six moongates hidden across the Six Realms, the Tree will reveal the seventh moongate to Earth. As Sarah races against all odds to find her way home, she risks something even greater than her life: her heart.

DRAGON’S TEAR (Book 3)
With only four days left for them to finish their quest before the Devourer’s invasion, Sarah and Koriben don’t have much time to find the answers to their deepest questions about their destinies and each other. Yet if they don’t…the darkness could tear them apart.

Featured Sci-fi: Novjaro by Earl T. Roske

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Featured Sci-fi: Novjaro by Earl T. Roske

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Tane only wanted space to breathe.

Tane joins the Navjaro colony to get out of the overcrowded Sol system. This is a chance to put his past behind him and have a new start. Unfortunately, one painful part of his past is on the colony ship, too.

Now Tane’s future is as damaged as the ship they’re on.

Tane is saddled with the blame. Already disliked by many of the colonists, Tane wonders if things can get worse. As it turns out, yes, they can. But not just for Tane, who soon finds him in the middle of everything and everywhere.

More than just the colony depends on what Tane does next. But it requires him to do something he’s never done before.

Can he do it? Or is the colony doomed to fail?

In the tradition of Andre Norton’s Catseye, Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer’s When World’s Collide , and Elizabeth Moon’s Remnant Population, Novjaro is an adventure into human possibilities and resilience.

Featured Fantasy: Body at the Crossroads (The Viking Witch Mysteries Book 1) by Cate Martin

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Featured Fantasy: Body at the Crossroads (The Viking Witch Mysteries Book 1) by Cate Martin

FREE as of September 6, 2026
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When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother’s small town in northern Minnesota.

The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it. Or rather, not the town but the grandmother.

All of the drawings she fills notebooks with witches and the trolls that do their bidding? Not as whimsical in her nightmares as she sketches them in the bright light of day.

If not for her beloved cat Mjolner, living in the Volkswagen just might tempt her.

But the cat wants four walls and a door, so north she goes. And finds trouble in the form of a dead body before she even finds her grandmother’s little town. How much can a town of stoic fishermen possibly be hiding?

As Ingrid is about to find out, quite a lot.