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Featured Science Fiction: Quantum Tangle (Targon Tales – Sethran Book 1) by Chris Reher

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Featured Science Fiction: Quantum Tangle (Targon Tales - Sethran Book 1) by Chris Reher

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Dropping out of sub-space into the wrong galactic sector, Sethran Kada wakes up with a headache and an extraordinary alien aboard his ship. She implores him to help stop the abductions of her people, a newly evolved species emerging from sub-space. Their dangerous potential has caught the attention of rebel factions as well as the ruling Commonwealth. When contact with her kind turns pilots into casualties, the Governors fear an imminent invasion engineered by their rebel enemies.

Pursued by Air Command, Seth heads deep into rebel-controlled territory to recover the stolen entities and keep this deadly weapon from falling into the wrong hands. Things get personal when his alien visitor begins to transform his mind and his life, turning the rescue mission into a fight for survival for all of them.

Quantum Tangle is part of Chris Reher’s Targon Tales series but does not intersect the other stories. Sethran Kada previously appeared in The Catalyst and also in Rebel Alliances.

Featured Sci-fi: Trapped (The 1,000 Revolution Book 3) by Pippa DaCosta

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Featured Sci-fi: Trapped (The 1,000 Revolution Book 3) by Pippa DaCosta

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“When are you going to stop running, Caleb?”

Taking the synth to the casino capital of the nine systems seemed like a great idea at the time, but as Caleb Shepperd’s many enemies close in, he only has one way out. He must betray #1001.

Caleb can’t make the same mistake twice. Can he?

#1001 has a price on her head. The Fenrir Nine and Chitec will stop at nothing to secure her secrets. The very same secrets that riddle her synthetic mind with faults.

Her systems are failing.

And the one man she’s come to trust may prove to be her enemy.

The sizzling, fast-paced, and action packed science-fiction continues in Trapped.

Featured Sci-fi: Escape (The 1,000 Revolution Book 2) by Pippa DaCosta

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Featured Sci-fi: Escape (The 1,000 Revolution Book 2) by Pippa DaCosta

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“There’s no quicker way to get yourself killed than trusting someone in the black.” ~ Caleb.

Caleb Shepperd knows Fran has her own motives for helping him escape prison, but he’s not about to let a little thing like past betrayal stand in the way of his next paycheck. Until he’s forced to meet with the sexy and psychotic pirate, Adelina Cande. They’ve met before. When he seduced her, cleared out her credit account, and left her for dead in-the-black.

Caleb figures Adelina holds a grudge when she plants a bomb on his ship and demands he steal a fleet freighter for her, that is, if he ever wants to fly again. Get him drunk enough and he’ll try anything once, but this time, he has to balance his own greed, with the needs of a vengeful pirate and the scheming of his dubious second-in-command, Fran. What could possibly go wrong?

In the heart of Chitec headquarters, #1001 enlists an eager young technician to aid in her escape. But it’s not freedom she wants. It’s revenge. The memories of a life that don’t belong to her demand she finishes what she started. She believes she killed Caleb, now she’s targeting Chitec CEO Chen Hung, and not even the hopeful technician can dissuade her.

Synthetics don’t make mistakes.

She thought she knew the truth.

She was wrong.

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The fast paced sexy sci-fi series continues in Girl From Above 2: Escape. Reviewers call the 1000 Revolution Series an exciting mix of Firefly, Ex_Machina, and Blade Runner.

Featured Sci-fi: Betrayal (The 1,000 Revolution Book Once) by P. DaCosta

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WARNING. Rated: R. Restricted. Contains space battles, killer AI, intergalactic ass-kicking. Read at your own risk.

She is programmed to kill.
He’ll do anything to survive.

Ex-con Captain Caleb Shepperd believes being good is overrated. All he wants is to smuggle illegal cargo through the nine systems and live a prosperous (likely short) life on the wrong side of the law.

But there’s a problem with that plan. The priceless synthetic stowaway on his ship is a distraction he doesn’t need.

Torn between selling her and tossing her out the airlock, Shepperd fails to realize the synth is a killer, and he’s the one locked in her sights.

In a world where only one thousand synthetics were built, synthetic number One Thousand and One should not exist. She is no ordinary synth. Memories locked inside her code could bring Shepperd—and the entire nine systems—to its knees.

Captain Shepperd and the oppressive corporations are about to learn that you can’t hide from the sins of your past, especially when that past has orders to kill.

WARNING: 18+ only. Contains adult content, including sex, drug use, violence, and swearing.

Genre: Kick-ass space opera.
Action & adventure.

The Complete Series Reading Order:

#1 Betrayal
#2 Escape
#3 Trapped
#4 Trust
New Season:
#5 Deliverance
#6 Resistance
#7 Vengeance (Finale. Coming soon)

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Featured Sci-Fi: Diving Into the Wreck (The Diving Series Book 1) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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Kristine Kathryn Rusch Hugo Award-Winning Author - Diving into the Wreck

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Asimov Science Fiction Readers’ Choice, and RT Reviewers’ Choice.

Hurtling through the blackness of space, Boss detects a mysterious blip from an unknown source that sets her heart pounding…

Boss dives derelict space vessels, for money, yes, but more for their historical value. So, when she uncovers the find of a lifetime, she enlists the best divers she knows to help her pursue it—off the grid and under the Empire’s radar.

Boss’s discovery leads her and her team to the Room of Lost Souls. Boss remembers the Room. It haunts her. Her mother died there. Now, a client wants her to go back to help uncover the Room’s mysteries. But the truths they discover might destroy everything Boss holds sacred.

Because the more they discover, the less they realize they know—and the more it will cost them all.

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Featured Science Fiction: The Belt the Complete Series Book 1 – 6 by Gerald M. Kilby

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Featured Science Fiction: The Belt the Complete Series Book 1 - 6 by Gerald M. Kilby

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**Grab all six books of the thrilling BELT series, in this great value 1200+ page sci-fi box set!

Out in the asteroid belt, you’re never far from a rock and a hard place.

Commander Scott McNabb and the crew of the science vessel, Hermes, are three years into a five-year-long survey of the asteroid belt when they discover a derelict spaceship in orbit around a binary asteroid. The ship contains an experimental quantum device, lost while en route to a research colony on Europa.

However, once word of the crew’s discovery gets out, they soon realize that ownership of this technology could fundamentally change the balance of power within the colonized worlds, and they now find themselves at the very nexus of a system-wide conflict.

Their fight for survival plays out across the solar system, from the mining outposts of the asteroid belt to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and from the great Martian city of Jezero to an irradiated wasteland on Earth.

This is an epic tale of humanity’s battle for power and control in a time when artificial intelligence has almost out-paced our own ability to control it.

This box set contains all six BELT SERIES novels:
– Entanglement
– Entropy
– Evolution
– Enigma
– Exodus
– Emergence

What Amazon readers are saying:
★★★★★ ‘Wow. Couldn’t put these books down. All so well written as one story led into the next.’
★★★★★ ‘Awesome Read. I enjoyed this series very much! Couldn’t put it down. Exciting twists and turns.’