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

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

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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!

Featured Sci-fi: Codgerspace by Allen Dean Foster

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Featured Sci-fi: Codgerspace by Allen Dean Foster

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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 . . .

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

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

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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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Featured Fantasy: A Holiday Haunting at the Biltmore (The Mystery House Series Book 8) by Eva Pohler

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Ellen should have known that a gathering in America’s last castle would entail a few uninvited guests.

During a Christmas eve wedding at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Ellen and her friends are visited by multiple ghosts. The spirits have come to tell their stories, to right the wrongs that history has done to their memories. Each of them died in Asheville with their voices stifled. One spirit is particularly adamant and threatening, despite her small size, and her mood fluctuates like the mountain winds surrounding the great estate. She claims to be the ghost of Zelda Fitzgerald, and she wants her story told, even if she has to kill to make it happen.

Voted “Best Mystery Book of the Year” for 2022 at Utopia Con!

If you can’t get enough of Karen White, Heather Graham, Bobbie Holmes, or Jana Deleon, then this “perfect mix of fun and scary” paranormal mystery is for you!

The books in this series can be read in any order.

Grab your copy of this ghostly adventure today!

Featured Fantasy: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Time Travel Sci-fi LitRPG Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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Featured Fantasy: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Time Travel Sci-fi LitRPG Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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Gabe relives history in an RPG, a mage in ancient pueblo and California apocalypse, training to lead a viable space colony.

Young Gabe Oliveri leaves Earth to colonize last-chance planet Rayas. The colony is privately funded by Mexican descendants of California’s El Grande – the Big One.

Rayas bootstraps its terraforming talent from teenagers. Their plastic minds will spend the interstellar years of stasis in a virtual reality academy.

But Gabe’s a physical guy. Cast among genius, what can he aspire to?

The history role-playing game captures his heart. Air is breathable under a clear blue sky, as he relives the Ancient Pueblo culture of New Mexico.

In this game, archaic beliefs fuel magic. Dreamer Gabe proves a natural mathemagician.

But what is the game’s agenda?

Next campaign, Gabe leads a team to experience El Grande itself, the California catastrophe that birthed his people. Can he reach safety in Mexico, or will the game AI drive him crazy.


Readers may recognize Gabe and his quirky education from Booth’s Thrive Luna Regroup space scifi, and California’s demise from her Feral America dystopian series. This time travel LitRPG adventure features weak to strong progression, with gritty bootstrapped space colony and overpowered artificial intelligence.