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Featured Sci-fi: Conscript the Complete Series by John Walker

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Featured Sci-fi: Conscript the Complete Series by John Walker

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Sam Levine thought scraping by on Mars would get easier with time.
It hasn’t.

Once full of promise, he now survives as a freelance operator in the Empire’s shadow—taking jobs no one wants just to stay afloat. It’s not the life he imagined, but it’s predictable. And predictability keeps him alive.

Until a high-risk offer lands in his lap. One job. One payout. A chance to finally break free. Against his better judgment, Sam takes the risk.

He has no idea what he’s stepped into.

As the Empire fractures and an alien threat presses at its borders, his gamble becomes tangled in forces that could decide the fate of entire worlds.

Sam never wanted to matter on a galactic scale.
But the galaxy may not care what he wants.

Featured Fantasy: Destiny (Experimental Heart Book 1) by Shannon Pemrick

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Featured Fantasy: Destiny (Experimental Heart Book 1) by Shannon Pemrick

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For a relic of war, death is my inevitable release.

Most people can’t kill without regret, but I don’t have that luxury. I am a tank-created nu-human, and my sole purpose hinges on the whims of my tyrannical maniac creator. Town annihilations to political assassinations—I never disobey.

Until I want more.

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Featured Sci-fi: Baldwin’s Legacy the Complete Collection (Books 1 – 6) by Nathan Hystad

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Featured Sci-fi: Baldwin's Legacy the Complete Collection (Books 1 - 6) by Nathan Hystad

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A brand-new collection featuring all 6 Baldwin’s Legacy novels. Over 1800 pages of space battles, starship exploration, betrayals, and redemption. Get your copy today!

Thomas Baldwin has been appointed captain of the state-of-the-art flagship Constantine, named after his heroic grandfather. The Statu war was won, and the Concord has enjoyed fifty years of relative peace.

When Baldwin’s first mission turns deadly, he fears the worst. The Statu have returned.

Included inside:

Confrontation (Baldwin’s Legacy Book One)
Unification (Baldwin’s Legacy Book Two)
Culmination (Baldwin’s Legacy Book Three)
Hierarchy (Baldwin’s Legacy Book Four)
Lineage (Baldwin’s Legacy Book Five)
Legacy (Baldwin’s Legacy Book Six)

Featured Sci-fi: Emperor’s Fall (The Wrecking Squad Book 5) by Nick Snape

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Featured Sci-fi: Emperor's Fall (The Wrecking Squad Book 5) by Nick Snape

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Fracture an empire and expose the weakness at its heart …

Rebekah and the crew of the Sunstar are persuaded to transport Senti defensive hardware to the fleets’ battleships by a desperate Countess Segfi. But the Butcher strikes, damaging the airless moonbase on Saim. Despite Rebekah’s instincts screaming it’s a trap, the Wrecking Squad can’t abandon those in need and mount a rescue. But when it snaps shut, thousands die breathless in an instant, a moment the Butcher shares with the Emperor’s Court laced with a threat to the rest of the system’s vulnerable colonies. The price he demands for the Empire’s safety is the Sunstar and the crew’s secret of Faster Than Light Travel.
One ship, one crew, to save billions.
What price for survival?

Where The Expanse and Firefly meet, Emperor’s Fall is the fifth book in the Wrecking Squad series as humanity fights for its future.

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Featured Science Fiction: Midwinter at Bhisho (Seasons of War on Abira Book 1) by Earl Roske

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Featured Science Fiction: Midwinter at Bhisho (Seasons of War on Abira Book 1) by Earl Roske

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Providing aid becomes a fight for survival.

When Imara lands on Abira with the rest of her company, things don’t feel right. And it’s not just the constant, falling snow. Bhisho’s townsfolk are nervous. This makes the Hospitallers wary.

Then, thieves come in the night.

But the thieves aren’t just thieves, they’re citizens of Grabouw, the other town in the valley. The Hospitallers learn that the people of Grabouw are starving, too. Imara and her team are charged with escorting supplies, through the snow, to the other town.


The welcome here is even more chilling.

Imara is certain more is going on than just a shortage of food supplies. A passed note confirms her suspicions. Now, Imara not only has to get her team safely back to Bhisho, but she also needs to report the truth, even if it costs her teams’ lives.

Midwinter on Bhisho is the first story in the Seasons of War on Abira series. Follow Sgt Imara Fermo as she not only deals with her own demons but also struggles to understand the layers of deceptions that drive the civil war on Abira.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Wrecking Squad Book 1 by Nick Snape

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Featured Sci-fi: The Wrecking Squad Book 1 by Nick Snape

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One crew, one loyalty and a single shot at redemption.

Captain Rebekah Khan and her ragtag crew of the repair ship Sunstar finally have a chance to pay off their crushing debts when an automining vessel goes rogue. After preventing the high value cargo from disappearing into the outer system, they uncover sabotage only a crew with their military experience would recognise.

Instead of returning as heroes, they are blackmailed into taking on a new crew member and the hunt for a mysterious, uncertified spacecraft. Deep into the black, they desperately try to hide their murky past, while their loyalties are tested to their limits when they finally come across the marooned ship and its deadly cargo.

Featuring the action of Alien: Earth, the camaraderie of the Firefly tv series and the infighting of James S. A. Corey’s The Expanse books, The Wrecking Squad is the new science fiction novel from Nick Snape, author of the highly rated Weapons of Choice series.

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