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Featured Sci-fi: Lily Starling Series by Christian Hurst

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Featured Sci-fi: Lily Starling Series by Christian Hurst

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Triple Gold Winner — 2026 Spring BookFest Awards
First Place: Science Fiction Space Opera, YA Science Fiction, LGBTQ+ Science Fiction

New Edition — Book One in the Award-Winning YA Sci-Fi Series

Lily Starling is alone in a city she barely recognizes, with no memory of her past—only a metal tag bearing her name and an instinct for survival. When a Union starship crew claims she belongs with them, she’s pulled centuries beyond her own time and into a desperate mission against the psionic Krythar.

Aboard the starship Salamander, Lily is drawn into a found family of misfit officers, warriors, and exiles. Together, they uncover mysteries hidden among the stars: an ancient memory seed carrying the voices of the dead—and a weapon capable of unraveling time itself.
But when Lily faces her greatest fear, she must choose—confront the truth of her past, or risk losing everything she’s come to care about.

A lyrical, fast-paced space opera about identity, connection, and courage at the edge of the unknown.

Perfect for fans of Becky Chambers, with the cinematic scope of Mass Effect and the found-family heart of Firefly and Red Rising.

Featured Fantasy: Shadowmarch Volume 1 by Tad Williams

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Featured Fantasy: Shadowmarch Volume 1 by Tad Williams

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR: The first epic fantasy in an “intricate, intriguing” saga set in a conflicted land of humans, elves, and dwarves (Booklist).

The weight of the world rests on the shoulders of twin royal heirs as their enemies, both human and not, threaten the only home they’ve ever known.

For generations the misty Shadowline has marked the boundary between the lands of men and the lost northern lands of their inhuman enemies, the ageless Qar. But now that boundary line is moving outward, threatening to engulf the northernmost land in which humans still live—the kingdom of Southmarch.

For centuries, the Eddon family has ruled Southmarch Castle, guarding the border against the Qar’s return, but now this powerful royal line has been dealt a devastating blow. King Olin is held captive in a distant land, and it falls to his inexperienced heirs to lead their people in a time of growing danger and dread.

It is on the two youngest Eddons that the heaviest burdens fall. As the Qar’s power reaches out across their land, will Southmarch Castle—the only home they’ve ever known—become in fact what it has long been called . . . Shadowmarch?

Featured Sci-fi: Future’s Fall (After the Apocalypse Complete Boxset) by Kevin Partner

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Featured Sci-fi: Future's Fall (After the Apocalypse Complete Boxset) by Kevin Partner

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The complete series in one thrilling collection.

Thirty-five years after the world ended, a lonely man picks his way across the ashes of America on a final mission.

Reuben Bane spent decades believing he was a force for good, preserving humanity’s gene pool by hunting and eliminating deviants.

Now, he seeks redemption for his evil deeds, and revenge on the cultish Foundation. He must travel across a broken country to find a woman from the past who holds the key to the future.

Set among the ashes of a destroyed world, the series brings to life a possible future world teetering on the brink between endless darkness and an uncertain future.

Featured Sci-fi: Banish the Stars (The Formless Book 1) by Nathan Hystad

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Featured Sci-fi: Banish the Stars (The Formless Book 1) by Nathan Hystad

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We have arrived. Descent is in progress.

Ryan Pierce traded military life for a peaceful existence in Napa Valley. Everything was fine until the starships appeared.
As aliens overtake the land and obscure the sun, Ryan quickly grasps that no one’s coming to rescue them. He can’t save the world on his own. Ryan must build a team to confront humanity’s greatest threat.

Who are the invaders, and what did they come for? As people are snatched from the Earth one space elevator at a time, those answers become apparent.

But is Ryan ready to hear them?

From the best-selling author of Ethos, The Event, Lost Contact, First Life, and many more, comes a brand-new epic series, The Formless.

Featured Sci-fi: Starship Bandits Books 1 – 7 by Jonathan Yanez and Ross Buzzell

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When a mild-mannered professor is sentenced to be an Orbital Garbage Reclamation Expert, he doesn’t expect to become a spacefaring outlaw. After his ragtag crew stumbles onto an ancient alien ship, they’re yanked out of Earth’s orbit and dropped into a brutal galaxy where survival favors the bold, the clever… and the slightly unhinged.

Hunted by alien warlords, criminal syndicates, and empires that would rather see them dead than free. The crew of the Junkyard must rely on fast words, faster guns, and each other to stay alive. Every mission pulls them deeper into a galaxy-spanning conflict, where lost civilizations, dangerous alliances, and impossible odds turn scavengers into legends.

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Featured Fantasy: Heaven’s Dark Soldiers by Steve Gillmore

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Featured Fantasy: Heaven's Dark Soldiers by Steve Gillmore

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Angels and giants and beasties. Oh my…

In life, Dean Robinson was a soldier. Upon his untimely death at the hand of a fallen angel with serious daddy issues and a snappy wardrobe, he became something else.

From the backstreets of Boston to the nether regions of Heaven and beyond, join the wise cracking, beer swilling misadventures as Dean and his newfound gang of supernatural sidekicks stand between humanity and the things that go bump in the night. And, of course, the Devil’s in the details.

Semi-divine super soldiers, disgruntled fallen angels, supersized bad guys on high protein diets, a Heavenly grudge match played out on an Earthly stage – Just another day at the office, apparently.