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Featured Sci-fi: On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

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Featured Sci-fi: On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

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INTRODUCING
HONOR HARRINGTON

Having made him look a fool, she’s been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her.

Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship’s humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.

The aborigines of the system’s only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.

Parliament isn’t sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called “Republic” of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn’t work to police the entire star system.

But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They’ve made her mad.

Featured Sci-fi: Humanity’s Last Stand Books 1- 9 by Daniel Young

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Featured Sci-fi: Humanity's Last Stand Books 1- 9 by Daniel Young

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Commander Nathan McCrory expected a routine seven-month deployment.

He woke up three hundred years too late.

The solar system is unrecognizable. Mars has been renamed. The planets have moved. And humanity—once masters of the stars—now numbers fewer than five thousand souls, hiding in underground cells while relentless machines hunt them to extinction.

Everyone McCrory knew is dead. His civilization is gone. The enemy is overwhelming, tireless, and utterly without mercy.

But McCrory refuses to accept humanity’s defeat.

Armed with three-hundred-year-old military training and a stolen machine ship, he begins teaching desperate survivors a radical concept: they can fight back.

Humanity’s Last Stand collects all nine books of the Operation Brainstorm saga—over 400,000 words of desperate combat, impossible odds, and humanity’s refusal to surrender.

When extinction is certain and hope is gone, one man’s vision changes everything.

The war for humanity’s survival starts now.

Featured Sci-fi: The Fresco by Sheri S. Tepper

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Featured Sci-fi: The Fresco by Sheri S. Tepper

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An Albuquerque bookseller is caught up in an intergalactic drama when aliens choose her as messenger of their wisdom in this feminist sci-fi novel.

The bizarre events that have been occurring across the United States—unexplained “oddities” tracked by Air Defense, mysterious disappearances, shocking deaths—seem to have no bearing on Benita Alvarez-Shipton’s life. That is, until the soft-spoken thirty-six-year-old bookstore manager is approached by a pair of aliens asking her to transmit their message of peace to the powers in Washington.

An abused Albuquerque wife with low self-esteem, Benita has been chosen to act as the sole liaison between the human race and the Pistach, who have offered their human hosts a spectacular opportunity for knowledge and enrichment.

But ultimately Benita will be called upon to do much more than deliver messages—and may, in fact, be responsible for saving the Earth. Because the Pistach are not the only space-faring species currently making their presence known on her unsuspecting planet. And the others are not so benevolent.

Featured Sci-Fi : Pirates of the Milky Way Books 1 – 10 by Jaxon Reed

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Featured Sci-Fi : Pirates of the Milky Way Books 1 - 10 by Jaxon Reed

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When the League moves on a golden planet deep inside Republican territory, war breaks out. Competing forms of galactic government fight to the death. AIs strategize, teleporting star fleets and space-based weapons systems across vast distances in an epic interstellar conflict.

Outgunned and desperate for more ships, the Republic turns to privateers, recruiting law-skirting companies from the fabled planet of Lute and offering huge rewards for their service.

One man, Captain Christopher Raleigh, flies the Ultima Mule with a crew of brilliant misfits. Together, they set out to teach the League a lesson or two, and collect multiple bounties along the way . . .

Fans of The Expanse and Firefly, your next series is here! 

Featured Sci-fi: Independent Flight by T.M. Baumgartner

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Featured Sci-fi: Independent Flight by T.M. Baumgartner

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Rose piloted spaceships… until she crossed the wrong owner. Now she’s stuck in the Oligarchy with her cat, working in a salvage yard while trying to fix her ship — though without a cardinal crystal, the hyperspace drives are useless.

When she finds an outlaw AI who claims to have a synthetic crystal, Rose promises to smuggle the AI back to the Independent Federation for a reward.

It’s the perfect solution! If the synthetic crystal works. If her second-hand (possibly stolen) ship doesn’t fall apart. And if they can escape all the people chasing them.

Space opera has never been more fun! Download Independent Flight and start your adventure today!

Featured Sci-fi: A Dead Ship in the Deep Black (Dominion Chronicles The Lyra Cycle Episode 1) by Rene Astle

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Rule number 1: Whatever you do, don’t open the box.

Well, that’s rule number two actually. Rule number one is don’t take salvage jobs from people who’ve tried to sell you to an Antillian bug salesman.

Neara “Tink” Bell is used to a life of odd jobs and even odder crewmates, working as the engineer and all-around fixer on the cargo ship Lyra. But when the ship picks up two new crew members and a salvage job on a third-rate space station, things go sideways in a cosmic way.

Alek Wa is on the run. And he’s pretty sure he can hide amongst the motley crew of Lyra. But that’s not the only reason he’s on-board. He has a mission. If only his minders had told him what it was.

Captain Rebeka Mino just wants to retire with a whiskey and a steamy novel. She’d even let the ship’s cat sit on her lap, provided he keeps his claws to himself. Too bad the ship keeps getting shot at.

And when they arrive at the coordinates for the salvage job, they’re confronted by a dead ship in the deep black.

Can Tink keep the Lyra running despite unexplained accidents? Can Alek outrun the people hunting him? Can Rebeka prevent their pursuers from blowing them up? Most importantly, can they keep their curiosity in check and not look in the box?

Find out now in this rollercoaster ride of a sci-fi adventure!