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Featured Sci-fi: Grid Wars The Complete Series by Daniel Young

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Featured Sci-fi: Grid Wars The Complete Series by Daniel Young

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WAR IS COMING TO THE GRIDS. It started the moment Hobbes made the worst decision of his life.

He’d come to steal a jewel. Clean job, clean exit. Then he tripped over a dying man on a cargo platform — filthy, barefoot, shooting like nothing human — and made the mistake of dragging him aboard.

Hobbes should have left him there.

The man knows things he shouldn’t. He whispers the name of a planet that doesn’t exist, in fragments that are starting to make a terrifying kind of sense. And now every powerful faction in the sector is sending warships after the Infiltrator. They want the stranger back badly enough to burn the Grids to get him.

Hobbes is a thief. Not a soldier, not a hero. He doesn’t do causes.

But the stranger saved his life. Some debts you don’t walk away from. This one might cost him everything.

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Featured Sci-fi: Lily Starling Series by Christian Hurst

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Featured Sci-fi: Lily Starling Series by Christian Hurst

START THE SERIES FOR 99¢—Book 2 only 99¢, Book 3 only $2.99
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Triple Gold Winner — 2026 Spring BookFest Awards
First Place: Science Fiction Space Opera, YA Science Fiction, LGBTQ+ Science Fiction

New Edition — Book One in the Award-Winning YA Sci-Fi Series

Lily Starling is alone in a city she barely recognizes, with no memory of her past—only a metal tag bearing her name and an instinct for survival. When a Union starship crew claims she belongs with them, she’s pulled centuries beyond her own time and into a desperate mission against the psionic Krythar.

Aboard the starship Salamander, Lily is drawn into a found family of misfit officers, warriors, and exiles. Together, they uncover mysteries hidden among the stars: an ancient memory seed carrying the voices of the dead—and a weapon capable of unraveling time itself.
But when Lily faces her greatest fear, she must choose—confront the truth of her past, or risk losing everything she’s come to care about.

A lyrical, fast-paced space opera about identity, connection, and courage at the edge of the unknown.

Perfect for fans of Becky Chambers, with the cinematic scope of Mass Effect and the found-family heart of Firefly and Red Rising.

Featured Sci-fi: Future’s Fall (After the Apocalypse Complete Boxset) by Kevin Partner

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Featured Sci-fi: Future's Fall (After the Apocalypse Complete Boxset) by Kevin Partner

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The complete series in one thrilling collection.

Thirty-five years after the world ended, a lonely man picks his way across the ashes of America on a final mission.

Reuben Bane spent decades believing he was a force for good, preserving humanity’s gene pool by hunting and eliminating deviants.

Now, he seeks redemption for his evil deeds, and revenge on the cultish Foundation. He must travel across a broken country to find a woman from the past who holds the key to the future.

Set among the ashes of a destroyed world, the series brings to life a possible future world teetering on the brink between endless darkness and an uncertain future.

Featured Sci-fi: Banish the Stars (The Formless Book 1) by Nathan Hystad

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Featured Sci-fi: Banish the Stars (The Formless Book 1) by Nathan Hystad

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We have arrived. Descent is in progress.

Ryan Pierce traded military life for a peaceful existence in Napa Valley. Everything was fine until the starships appeared.
As aliens overtake the land and obscure the sun, Ryan quickly grasps that no one’s coming to rescue them. He can’t save the world on his own. Ryan must build a team to confront humanity’s greatest threat.

Who are the invaders, and what did they come for? As people are snatched from the Earth one space elevator at a time, those answers become apparent.

But is Ryan ready to hear them?

From the best-selling author of Ethos, The Event, Lost Contact, First Life, and many more, comes a brand-new epic series, The Formless.

Featured Sci-fi: Starship Bandits Books 1 – 7 by Jonathan Yanez and Ross Buzzell

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When a mild-mannered professor is sentenced to be an Orbital Garbage Reclamation Expert, he doesn’t expect to become a spacefaring outlaw. After his ragtag crew stumbles onto an ancient alien ship, they’re yanked out of Earth’s orbit and dropped into a brutal galaxy where survival favors the bold, the clever… and the slightly unhinged.

Hunted by alien warlords, criminal syndicates, and empires that would rather see them dead than free. The crew of the Junkyard must rely on fast words, faster guns, and each other to stay alive. Every mission pulls them deeper into a galaxy-spanning conflict, where lost civilizations, dangerous alliances, and impossible odds turn scavengers into legends.

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Featured Sci-fi: Amaranthe II (Amaranthe Collections Book 2) by G.S. Jennsen

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Featured Sci-fi: Amaranthe II (Amaranthe Collections Book 2) by G.S. Jennsen

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AMARANTHE II: REBELLION is jam-packed with over 1,200 pages of Sci-Fi Adventure
**Includes the Aurora Renegades trilogy (Sidespace, Dissonance, Abysm), the 2nd trilogy in the Amaranthe universe, + a short story + bonus content**

It is a time of accelerating technological change & shifting allegiances as the old rules fall away & the old balance of power is upended. A new world rises–one of unshackled AIs, indestructible starships, ethereal quantum spaces and potent new weapons–and the race is on to determine who will control its future.
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SIDESPACE (Aurora Renegades Book One)
Humanity is saved. But its troubles are just beginning.
To achieve their extraordinary triumph over the Metigen armada, humanity put aside its myriad of conflicts & united against a common foe intent on annihilating civilization. In victory, unparalleled peace & prosperity are theirs for the taking–if they can keep hold of them.

When the secrets behind the Metigens’ defeat escape the shadows, the people who won the war find their lives in danger. Facing anti-synthetic terrorists who want them dead, power-hungry politicians who want them chained, & a rapidly dwindling number of people they can trust, the Prevos–individuals & AIs sharing a single body–must take their fate into their own hands.

51 Portals. 51 Universes.
Intent on learning the purpose behind the Metigens’ elaborate multiverse network, Alex Solovy, Caleb Marano & Valkyrie embark on a gripping journey through the network’s portals, each one leading to a universe not their own. In a mosaic of spaces inhabited by fantastical aliens & worlds both beautiful & deadly, they will be forced to question everything they thought they knew, including the nature of life itself.

** AMARANTHE II: REBELLION WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE “AURORA RENEGADES: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION **