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Featured Sci-fi: Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn

August 18, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn

FREE as of August 18, 2026
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The first novel in the Dragonback series is “a romp of a space thriller” (Booklist) from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn.
 
Jack Morgan is dealing with more trouble than any young man deserves. Raised to be a professional thief and con artist by his late uncle Virgil, he’s survived on his uncle’s spaceship with the help of an AI program. But when he’s accused of a crime he actually didn’t commit, Jack is forced to flee to a remote, uninhabited planet where he can stay off the radar for a while.
 
His solitude is soon interrupted when a ship crashes on Jack’s hideout after a terrible space battle. There’s only one survivor: a warrior called Draycos, whose reptilian race is being targeted for extinction.
 
The good news is that if Jack helps Draycos, the odd creature might be able to help clear Jack’s name. The not-so-good news is that to survive, Draycos must bond—physically and mentally—with a sentient being to use as his “host.”
 
And it looks like Jack is the only sentient being around . . .

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Dragon and Thief, The Dragonback Series, Timothy Zahn

Featured Sci-fi: Space Hunter the Complete Series by Rick Partlow & Pacey Holden

August 17, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Space Hunter the Complete Series by Rick Partlow & Pacey Holden

99¢ as of August 17, 2026
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Get the Space Hunter War Complete Series Box Set, featuring all six books in the series. 2000+ pages of explosive military sci fi action from a pair of bestsellers.

Jack Bennet returns from the war to find the life he left behind has moved on without him. The only option he has to make ends meet lies in a military surplus junkyard starship. What’s a former Combat Search and Rescue soldier to do?

Fix up the ship, hire the cheapest pilot—a notorious drunk—and take the first contract that comes up: collect a bounty on one of the most ruthless killers in the Pirate Worlds, a place crawling with thieves, cutthroats and con artists whose primary language is violence. Jack must abandon his nice guy persona, or exploit it, if he is to survive.

What could possibly go wrong?

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Pacey Holden, Rick Partlow, Space Hunter

Featured Sci-fi: Star Dragon by James David Victor

August 16, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Star Dragon by James David Victor

FREE Books 1 – 4 as of August 16, 2026
(Books 5 – 9 only 99¢ Each in US)
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A Science Fiction adventure with aliens, an all-powerful galactic empire, and space dragons from #1 Bestselling author James David Victor.

Immortality can be nice. Of course, having your consciousness downloaded into a robot and being forced to serve the galactic emperor as an Imperial Marine isn’t exactly life in paradise.

Keel Hennity was one of the greatest gladiators in the universe, the victor of countless glorious battles. He was assigned to guard the most dangerous creatures on his home planet. Then he died, and his life truly began.

When Keel’s consciousness was downloaded into the robotic body of an Imperial Marine, he was tasked with protecting the emperor and controlling the incredibly dangerous creature that ended his first life. Can Keel unlock the secrets of Star Dragons and protect the galaxy from a dragon-human war that could end life as we know it?

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: James David Victor, Star Dragon

Featured Sci-fi: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Colony Sci-fi Academy Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

August 13, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Colony Sci-fi Academy Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

99¢ as of August 13, 2026
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History class drops Gabe into the past, barefoot and hunted.
His teacher is an AI.
Graduation is a new planet.


Gabe earns his keep hauling water through the choking heat of Guadalajara, until he wins a berth on a colony ship. And leaves a dying Earth behind.

His body rides in stasis for the twenty-five-light-year voyage. His mind lives inside the Dream – a virtual academy where lessons aren’t taught but survived. Each campaign leaves scars.

Gabe isn’t the smartest on the leaderboard. He’s rarer: the one who keeps his head, keeps his friends alive, and argues with the game itself. But the Dream hides a truth that lands like a gut punch, and it has plans for Gabe he never agreed to.

For readers who loved the mind games and lethal training of Ender’s Game.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ginger Booth, Rayas Colony Legacy, Rayas Colony Sci-fi Academy Adventures

Featured Sci-fi: Mercy’s Gate (The Heartseed Chronicles Book 1) by Nick Snape

August 10, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Mercy's Gate (The Heartseed Chronicles Book 1) by Nick Snape

NEW RELEASE—99¢ as of August 10, 2026
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This is Futurum, Death’s Hollow, and where Jacks is going, there is no mercy.

Jacks, a corporate-owned mercenary, leads a skilled extraction squad. His goal is to buy out his lifetime contract by collecting whatever industrial secrets, agents, or turncoat executives AstEx Corp wants removed from under the noses of their main competitors.

That is until the mission of a lifetime falls into his team’s lap, promising more money than they could possibly imagine.

The target? An organic object known as the heartseed, prized by an alien race, that grows on a hostile planet.

The remit? Four corporate squads all competing for the same target, and to the winners, exclusive access to alien technology.

The catch? Six months, one hundred and fourteen teams of lost souls, ninety-three dropships, and the highest echelon of military technology, yet no one has ever come back from Futurum alive.

Time is running out, and where they’re going, everything wants to kill, eat, or lay its eggs inside them. Possibly all three.

But Jacks’ greatest enemy just might be his own mind as the creeping malevolence of the planet worms its way in. As his reality fractures, he begins to question what the aliens really want, and whether this world will ever let it go.

For fans of Battle Royale and Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, where the planet is more dangerous than the competitors.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Mercy's Gate, Nick Snape, The Heartseed Chronicles

Featured Science Fiction: Milijun by Clayton Graham

August 10, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Milijun by Clayton Graham

Expected to be 99¢ August 12, 2026
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A First Contact… with Earth’s fate hanging in the balance.

Laura and Jason Sinclair’s peaceful vacation becomes a nightmare when ethereal beings descend upon Earth under the cover of darkness. Stranded in a world suddenly turned upside down, they are drawn into a shadowy conflict between covert government factions and a mysterious alien presence. As reality itself begins to fracture, the lines between friend and foe blur.

Caught in a web of secrets and hidden agendas, Jason may hold the key to the alien visitors’ true purpose—but what role does he play in their mission?

As the world teeters on the brink of an interstellar revelation, humanity faces a future that could change everything—whether they’re ready or not.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Clayton Graham, Milijun

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