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Featured Sci-fi: Alien Genesis (Eden’s Angels Book 1) by Gary Beene

June 26, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Alien Genesis (Eden's Angels Book 1) by Gary Beene

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In 1954, Ensign James Cortell wakes up from a coma with memories of an alien scientist who had visited Earth some fifty thousand years ago. Years later, he realizes this knowledge should not be taken to his grave.

Earth’s extraterrestrial visitors altered Homo sapien DNA to produce modern humans. Soon the industrialist overlords among the alien race realize that genetically altered humans offer a source of cheap labor. A galactic slave trade is born. When an unplanned mutation begins causing gigantism among some of the sapiens, Dr. Kadeya and her grandson, Ramuell, travel to Earth and plan to rectify the situation.

As the scientific and industrialist factions of Earth’s rulers clash, Kadeya and Ramuell are caught in the middle. But behind the scenes, an even greater power is at play, and very soon their future – and the future of both races now inhabiting the planet – will change forever.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Alien Genesis, Eden's Angels, Gary Beene

Featured Sci-fi: Project Mind River Book 1 by Dave Spacer

June 26, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Project Mind River Book 1 by Dave Spacer

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In the near future, the world has changed in wonderful and dangerous ways.

Tara invented a sentient AI, but it was lost in a fire.

Many accidental deaths are happening throughout the country. The only problem is that many of them are government agents or criminals.

Tara and two FBI agents need to find out what’s happening before it’s too late.

The future is in jeopardy. Read the Sci-Fi story of what tech leaders fear. Buy your copy today!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Dave Spacer, Project Mind River

Featured Sci-fi: Arkhanglesk by Elizabeth H. Bonesteel

June 26, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Arkhanglesk by Elizabeth H. Bonesteel

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Head peace officer Anya Savelova believed her people, living on a hostile planet in the ice-bound city of Novayarkha, were the last of humanity.

Until the day she learned they weren’t.

When a starship from an Earth thought long dead appears in orbit over her world, Anya imagines an explosion of possible futures, offering her people the freedom to transcend the limiting environment of the planet they’d thought was their last refuge. In the starship’s crew, Anya finds creativity, diversity, innovation–all things the colony has had to inhibit to survive.

Seeing her world through the eyes of the starship crew makes Anya look closer at her city’s inconsistencies, oddities she’s always been told to ignore. But the harder she pushes at the pieces that don’t fit, the more her government perceives the strangers as a threat. There are secrets in Novayarkha, hiding in plain sight, that the strangers can’t possibly understand–and Anya’s drive to uncover them risks shredding the fragile web holding together everything she’s ever known and loved.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Arkhangelsk, Elizabeth H. Bonesteel

Featured Sci-fi: Extinction Reversed (Project Transhuman Book One) by J.S. Morin

June 26, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Extinction Reversed (Project Transhuman Book One) by J.S. Morin

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These days, even the humans are built by robots.

Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world—Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling—a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap.

Geneticists have restored Earth’s biome and begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human cloning is banned. Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is brilliant, curious, and heartbreakingly naïve about her species’ history.

But Eve’s creator wants her back and has a gruesome fate planned for her. There is only one robot qualified to protect her. For the first time in a thousand years, Charlie7 has a human race to protect.

A.I. didn’t destroy humanity. It didn’t save us, either.

The robots we built in our final days preserved human minds. They survived the end of life on Earth and embarked on the greatest single project in all recorded history.

They rebuilt. The result of 1,000 years of genetic engineering, terraforming, and painstaking toxic cleanup has resulted in the ultimate achievement of the Post-Invasion Age: a healthy human.

Her name is Eve14. Don’t ask about the 13 Eves before her.

Or do, because that’s the reason why she’s in danger, and why one brave robot puts his millennium-long life on the line to save her.

Extinction Reversed is the first book in the Project Transhuman series. For fans of old-school science fiction where robots are people and any problem can be solved (or created) with enough scientists. If you’ve ever wondered what the world would be like if scientists who’d read I, Robot created a race of robots, or if you ever wondered what might be more dangerous to clone than dinosaurs, this is the series for you.

Grab your copy while there’s still an Earth left to read it on.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Extinction Reversed, JS Morin, Project Transhuman

Featured Fantasy: The Musician and the Monster (The Castamar Duology Book 1) by Megan Van Dyke

June 25, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: The Musician and the Monster (The Castamar Duology Book 1) by Megan Van Dyke

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Beauty and the Beast meets The Phantom of the Opera in this Bridgerton-esque fantasy of manners with strong gothic vibes and magic.

“Music says things words never can. I love you. I miss you. I’m sorry I killed you.”


Every night, Ceridwen Kinsley plays music on her rooftop for the spirit of her dead mother. Until one night, she’s attacked by something not quite human, bringing her to the attention of Lord Protector Drystan Winterbourne.

Charged with protecting the backwater city of Teneboure by the king, Drystan is failing at his task, and he can’t afford another slip up. But when fate and the very monster he means to conquer bring Ceridwen to his notice, he seizes the opportunity and presents her with an offer: play music for him at his manor in exchange for the money her impoverished family desperately needs. Music eases the strain of his magic, and who better to hire than the woman whose tunes he secretly listens to at night?

At first, Ceridwen is put off by Drystan’s unkempt appearance and harsh demeanor, not to mention the odd ailment that plagues him. But as he embraces her passion for music and she draws the recluse out of his lonely tower, the two develop an unlikely attachment. Class lines begin to blur as fearful indifference shifts to unexpected desire.

However, the monster prowling the night isn’t their only enemy, and as terrible secrets come to light, even true love may not be enough to save them.

This retelling of Beauty and the Beast incorporates themes and motifs from Phantom of the Opera, and is set in a Bridgerton-esque world but with magic and strong gothic vibes. It should appeal to fans of romantic and atmospheric retellings and fairy tales by authors such as Hannah Whitten, Tessonja Odette, and Stephanie Garber.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Megan Van Dyke, The Castamar Duology, The Musician and the Monster

Featured Sci-fi: Hot Moon (Apollo Rising: Book One) by Alan Smale

June 25, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Hot Moon (Apollo Rising: Book One) by Alan Smale

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One of the most critically acclaimed hard science fiction novels from a two-time Sidewise Award winning author.

“A nail-biting thriller.”−Publishers Weekly

“I loved it. Great ‘hard’ science fiction with convincing space battles. “−Larry Niven

“Will delight and enthrall.”−Library Journal

“A provocative science fiction novel.”−Foreword ReviewsAn alternate 1979. The Moon is the new front line. And one woman is caught in the crossfire.

Hot Moon isn’t just another adventure book. It’s a gripping alternate-history thriller packed with Cold War tension, hard science fiction, and pulse-pounding action—in a setting so real, you’ll smell the lunar dust.

In this intriguing unique setting, the U.S. and Soviet Union have Moon bases, orbiting stations, and spy satellites. Space isn’t a frontier anymore—it’s a battlefield.

Enter Apollo 32. Enter Vivian Carter. Enter disaster.

On a routine mission, astronaut Vivian Carter finds herself in the middle of a Soviet attack on a U.S. space station. Forced to spacewalk through a vacuum just to survive, she returns to the Moon only to discover something worse: the war isn’t over. It’s just getting started.

Stranded. Outnumbered. Unarmed.

She and her crew must improvise, adapt, and fight back—before the Moon becomes a Soviet stronghold.

From two-time Sidewise Award winner and former NASA director Alan Smale, Hot Moon delivers credibility with blockbuster-level storytelling.

This is for fans of The Martian, For All Mankind, and Red Storm Rising—for readers who crave unique intense addictive novels and a riveting captivating thought provoking storyline.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Alan Smale, Apollo Rising, Hot Moon

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