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Featured Sci-fi: The Kurgan War by Richard Turner

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Featured Sci-fi: The Kurgan War by Richard Turner

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When war comes after a century of peace, it is sudden and brutal. Taken by surprise Earth’s far-flung colonies are in danger.

The only son of an admiral, Second Lieutenant Michael Sheridan finds himself thrust into a desperate conflict that he and the untried soldiers under his command are not ready for. Focusing on the people struggling to survive the onslaught, First Strike is a novel that propels the reader to the furthest limits of space. Fighting a ruthless and determined enemy, Sheridan soon learns the brutal lessons of war and that his enemy may not be what it appears to be.

Featured Fantasy: Vampire Detective Midnight Collection One by JC Andrijeski

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Featured Fantasy: Vampire Detective Midnight Collection One by JC Andrijeski

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Nick Midnight, homicide detective, just got transferred to New York City.

The government owns him. Then again, humans own all vampires these days. Cops are “Midnights.” Scientists “Galileos.” Soldiers “Centurions.”

Things will be different in New York. No complications. No kids needing his help. None of that human-vampire-psychic crap that turned him evil for nearly a century. He’d keep his head down, do his job for the NYPD, and hunt down murderers.

But Nick’s first big case involves an illegal species that could get him killed. And another kid who needs his help. Because of course.

Then Wynter James shows up. A gorgeous, sexy, seer-human hybrid, Wynter treats Nick like she already knows him, like they’ve known one another for years. Nick wants her, bad, but he’d be a fool to go there, and not only because she’s a potential suspect in his case. Just dating her would break the law and could get them both killed.

She’s Nick’s worst nightmare. She’s everything he swore he’d never do again.

Meanwhile, the case keeps going sideways⏤more dead hybrid kids, graffiti that tells the future, a conspiracy involving the richest humans in New York. If Nick can’t find some way through he’ll end up back on the run, in that dark place he thought he’d finally left behind.

Featured Sci-fi: The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files Book 1) by Charles Stross

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Featured Sci-fi: The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files Book 1) by Charles Stross

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The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross’s witty Laundry Files series

Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob’s under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe—but then he went and got Noticed.

Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .

Featured Fantasy: Sorcery & Warlocks: Six Dark Fantasy Novels by Multiple Authors

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Featured Fantasy: Sorcery & Warlocks: Six Dark Fantasy Novels by Multiple Authors

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Six complete dark fantasy novels:

Fire & Ice – Patty Jansen
Darkness Rising – James E. Wisher
Requiem For The Wolf – Tara Saunders
The Prince’s Man – Deborah Jay
The Ring And The Flag – William L. Hahn
Muse – Kylie Quillinan

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★★★★★ Excellent
Exciting and imaginative fantasy that was impossible for me to stop reading. It’s four in the morning and I’ve got to get up at 6:30! – Amazon Reviewer

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Featured Sci-fi: Four Minutes by Brian Andrews & Jeff Wilson

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Featured Sci-fi: Four Minutes by Brian Andrews & Jeff Wilson

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Four Minutes is the latest brilliant techno-thriller from the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling duo behind the Sons of Valor series.

It is said that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, but what if you remove the one thing no one can control: uncertainty about the future?

Special Operations Chief Tyler Brooks might not know quantum mechanics, or have an eidetic memory, but he is the very best in the world at one thing: leading covert ops. When an unpredictable enemy causes the catastrophic loss of his entire SEAL team, Brooks is recruited by Pat Moody to lead a new elite squad, Task Force Omega. Moody’s promise—access to mind-bending tech that grants a glimpse of the future.

Together with Navy Intelligence Specialist Zee Williams, Brooks leads a new kind of counterterrorism task force, one that collects intel from the future to stop attacks in the present. But there’s a catch. Each mission can only last FOUR MINUTES. Stakes quickly escalate when Omega discovers an unprecedented future attack against America threatening the lives of millions—including Tyler’s daughter.

Despite their prescient advantage, Brooks and Williams find themselves thwarted at every turn as they try to stop the plot. To make matters worse, they have somehow gone from hunter to hunted, targeted by an unknown enemy hidden in the shadows. With the country on the brink of nuclear war, Tyler’s daughter in mortal danger, and a commanding officer they’re not sure they can trust, Omega Team faces a terrible dilemma: Even if you know the future, is FOUR MINUTES enough time to change it?

Featured Fantasy: Frostborn Omnibus One by Jonathan Moeller

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Featured Fantasy: MOON BASE DELTA (The Complete Trilogy) by Gerald M. Kilby

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A thousand years ago, the last grandson of Arthur Pendragon led the survivors of Britain through a magical gate to a new world, a world of magic and high elves, of orcs and kobolds and stranger, darker creatures. Now the descendants of the exiles rule a mighty kingdom, peaceful and prosperous under the rule of the High King.

But dangers stir that the realm is not ready to face.

RIDMARK ARBAN is a new-made knight and Swordbearer of the realm. When the archmage of the high elves asks for aid against the dread Warden of Urd Morlemoch, Ridmark volunteers for the quest, eager to prove himself and win glory and renown.

But terrible evil awaits in Urd Morlemoch, and those who enter the Warden’s clutches rarely escape them…