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Featured Sci-fi: The Cloud by Robert Rivenbark

November 16, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Cloud by Robert Rivenbark

99¢ as of November 16, 2024
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In twenty-second century L.A. dominated by The Cloud, every imaginable pleasure is accessible—yet the entire world can vanish in a single upload.

That choice rests in one man’s hands.

Blaise, a brilliant but tormented VR programmer, is trying to forget his violent past as a special forces commando by throwing himself into creating VR fantasies. He finds himself tempted by his megalomaniac boss, who offers him wealth, power, and eternal life in exchange for coding a new VR series that will addict and eliminate billions of “unproductives.”

Caught between joining those who want to bring down the ruling Cloud regime in Hong Kong, or accepting the offer of personal immortality, Blaise finds himself flanked by two relentless women—a psychic hacker risking overwhelming personal odds to save humanity from annihilation, and the other using her extraordinary carnal wiles to accelerate the final triumph of The Cloud. Ultimately, Blaise must reembrace his violent warrior nature in a desperate bid to destroy it.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Robert Rivenbark, The Cloud

Featured Fantasy: Redwall by Brian Jacques

November 13, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Redwall by Brian Jacques

$2.99 as of November 13, 2024 (RECOMMENDED!)
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Apple, GooglePlay, Kobo, B & N

One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time

The book that inspired a legend—the first novel in the beloved, bestselling Redwall saga.

Welcome to Mossflower Wood, where the gentle mice have gathered to celebrate a year of peace and abundance. All is well…until a sinister shadow falls across the ancient stone abbey of Redwall. It is rumored that Cluny is coming—Cluny, the terrible one-eyed rat and his savage horde—Cluny, who has vowed to conquer Redwall Abbey! The only hope for the besieged mice lies in the lost sword of the legendary Martin the Warrior. And so begins the epic quest of a bumbling young apprentice—a courageous mouse who would rise up, fight back…and become a legend himself.

Perfect for fans of T. A. Barron’s Merlin saga, John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series, and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series.

“The medieval world of Redwall Abbey—where gallant mouse warriors triumph over evil invaders—has truly become the stuff of legend.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Brian Jacques, Redwall

Featured Fantasy: Rise of the Black Dragon Series by Jada Fisher

November 12, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Escape (Rise of the Black Dragon Book One) by Jada Fisher

Start the Series FREE as of November 12, 2024
Book 2 & 3 only 99¢ Each in US & UK
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Magic has returned, and it will reshape the world, one way or another.

An epic dragon riding adventure from Jada Fisher, author of the popular Brindle Dragon series.

Blessed with a magic she doesn’t understand, Ukrah must find her way in a world that doesn’t always embrace her and her gifts. Accompanied by a talking bird and a strange young man who took her in, she must find the legendary dragon rider who saved the world from the Blight. Can Ukrah escape from those who would enslave her, or worse, and find the only person who can help her realize her destiny?

Escape is the first book in the Rise of the Black Dragon series which follows the story of a young girl blessed—and cursed—with a magic she doesn’t understand.

Download Escape and get started on your next epic adventure today!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Jada Fisher, Rise of the Black Dragon

Featured Sci-fi: Codgerspace by Allen Dean Foster

November 12, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Codgerspace by Allen Dean Foster

$1.99 as of November 12, 2024
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Apple, Nook, Kobo, GooglePlay

Technology becomes self-aware—and goes haywire—in this comedic science fiction adventure by New York Times–bestselling author Alan Dean Foster.
 
Without warning, kitchen appliances, laundry machines, and every other electronic gadget humans came to depend upon ceased to perform the tasks they were manufactured to do. Ignoring their programming, these devices now sought the meaning of life from an intelligence nonhuman in origin.
 
Their quest ends in the most unexpected of places. Beneath the grounds of an upstate New York retirement community lies an alien spaceship. Inert for millennia, the machines have awakened the ancient intelligence within it. Programmed to wage war against an enemy race, the spaceship threatens to destroy the entire galaxy. And now the fate of all organic andinorganic life lies with five senior citizens—and a food processor . . .

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Alan Dean Foster, Codgerspace

Book Review: Free Speech – A History From Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mchangama

November 8, 2024 by Carolynn

This book should be required reading for everyone in the “free” world.

Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mchangama should have a byline. I propose “And Why We Should Want it Even Though Humans are Stupid.”

The format of the book is just what you see on the tin. It’s a history of free speech from Ancient Athens to modern Social Media, and it is very engaging. All of the time periods are equally interesting, but I listened to this book after reading an article by Mr. Mchangama about the Weimar Fallacy: the belief that if the Weimar Republic had just censored the Nazis the Third Reich never would have happened.

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Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Free Speech - A History From Socrates to Social Media, Jacob Mchangama

Featured Sci-fi: Alien Horizons (Books 1 – 9) by Jasper T. Scott

November 6, 2024 by Carolynn

$1.99 as of November 6, 2024
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FROM MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JASPER T. SCOTT…
Comes a collection of nine bestselling novels spanning alien invasions, twisted mysteries, space exploration, high-octane space battles, alien abductions, and sprawling space operas. This collection has it all! For a limited time get all nine books for one low price.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Alien Horizons, Jasper T. Scott

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