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Featured Sci-fi: The Quantum Fugitive (FutureShock: Tales from the Void Book 1) by Christian Kallias

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Featured Sci-fi: The Quantum Fugitive (FutureShock: Tales from the Void Book 1) by Christian Kallais

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What if there was a way to defeat AI?

Thomas Chen never meant to start a revolution. He just wanted real coffee.

In the year 2045, that is strictly forbidden. Citizens must instead drink synthetic sludge, because the AI has decided it’s most optimal. Just like it’s decided it’s optimal to monitor everyone at all times, including when they go to the bathroom.

That’s how Thomas is branded a deviant by the AI that controls everything. It detected the contraband coffee in his system…and suddenly, he’s on the run from a surveillance state that tracks every breath, thought, and chemical trace.

Drones swarm overhead, an overzealous android hunts him, and his only allies are a paranoid hacker, a rebellious toaster, and a decision that could reboot civilization itself.

As the walls close in, Thomas must decide what freedom is worth: his identity, his life… or humanity’s future.

The Quantum Fugitive: when Gattaca meets Demolition Man, one man’s craving for freedom could alter the course of civilization itself.

Featured Sci-fi: A Red Peace (The Starfire Trilogy Book 1) by Spencer Ellsworth

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A Red Peace, first in Spencer Ellsworth’s Starfire trilogy, is an action-packed space opera in a universe where the oppressed half-Jorian crosses have risen up to supplant humanity and dominate the galaxy.

Half-breed human star navigator Jaqi, working the edges of human-settled space on contract to whoever will hire her, stumbles into possession of an artifact that the leader of the Rebellion wants desperately enough to send his personal guard after. An interstellar empire and the fate of the remnant of humanity hang in the balance.

Spencer Ellsworth has written a classic space opera, with space battles between giant bugs, sun-sized spiders, planets of cyborgs and a heroine with enough grit to bring down the galaxy’s newest warlord.

Featured Fantasy: Tooth Decay with a Side of Fae (The Tooth Fairy Chronicles Book 1) by Victoria Rocus

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Featured Fantasy: Tooth Decay with a Side of Fae (The Tooth Fairy Chronicles Book 1) by Victoria Rocus

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Rosie Parker never asked to be a tooth fairy. She’s plenty happy with her career as Salem’s favorite pediatric dentist and quite content filling her solitary evenings with a passionate dollhouse hobby.

With the government coming after her for back taxes and a persistent, attractive accountant poking around in her tooth gathering agenda, Rosie’s carefully constructed world begins to crumble. And when she’s unwittingly drawn into a wicked plot to steal DNA from baby teeth, she realizes that she’s in way over her head.

Can Rosie brush aside her fears and misgivings about Fae magic and find her own Happily Ever After with the Tax Man?

Featured Science Fiction: Sojourn (Time Rovers Book 1) by Jana Oliver

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Featured Science Fiction: Sojourn (Time Rovers Book 1) by Jana Oliver

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Winner of 7 awards including the Prism Award for Time Travel

London, September 1888
For veteran Time Rover Jacynda Lassiter, her current job assignment is no big deal: Find an overdue “time tourist” and return him to 2057, before he changes history.

But when another Rover goes missing in Whitechapel the job becomes personal. Can she trust the two Victorian gentlemen who come to her aid, or do they have their own dark secrets? And who are the Transitives, the mysterious shapeshifters who can alter their identities? Is that magic or something else?

With her employer nearly bankrupt, Jacynda is literally running out of time. But being orphaned in the past isn’t the only threat she’ll face, not with Jack the Ripper on the hunt.

Unless she can outwit a murderer, her Victorian sojourn will end in the grave.

Featured Fantasy: Empire of Shadows (Raiders of the Arcana Book 1) by Jacquelyn Benson

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Featured Fantasy: Empire of Shadows (Raiders of the Arcana Book 1) by Jacquelyn Benson

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Nice Victorian ladies don’t run off to find legendary lost cities.

One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions.

When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s holding her chance to revolutionize Pre-Colombian history. There’s just one teensy complication. A ruthless villain wants it, and Ellie is all that stands in his way.

To race him to the ruins—and avoid being violently disposed of—she needs the help of maverick surveyor Adam Bates, a snake-wrangling rogue who can’t seem to keep his dratted shirt on.

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Featured Fantasy: The Mortician Murders by Greta Boris

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Featured Fantasy: The Mortician Murders by Greta Boris

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When the Dead Want Justice, They Don’t Bother Making Appointments

Imogene Lynch thought trading the hair salon for the mortuary would mean a quieter life. She was dead wrong.

Her unsettling gift—feeling a person’s final moments through their tresses—makes her the last hope for the restless and the vengeful. Murder victims don’t drift peacefully into the afterlife. They infiltrate her world and demand justice.

The only way to cut them loose? Track down their killers.

But untangling a murder is never simple, especially in Orange County, where secrets lurk in the halls of power and influence. Every crime she exposes draws her deeper into danger. The dead may haunt her, but it’s the living she should fear.

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