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Featured Sci-fi: The Shepherd (Shepherd Security Services) by Robert M. Kerns

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Stolen livestock. A determined heir. A fateful choice.

Alex spends his days learning to manage the family sheep ranch. He wants nothing more than to take over when his parents retire, because his family has owned and worked it since the Westward Expansion.

But all is not well in Southwestern Wyoming.

Five neighboring ranches have been raided, all their livestock stolen without a trace… each on a new moon. Alex feels his family’s ranch is next and decides to spend the night with the flock when the next new moon comes around.

That decision changes his life forever.

How will Alex survive in an alien society?

Find out in The Shepherd!

Featured Science Fiction: Under Falling Skies (The Travels of Scout Shannon Book 1) by Kate MacLeod

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Featured Science Fiction: Under Falling Skies (The Travels of Scout Shannon Book 1) by Kate MacLeod

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Scout Shannon’s whole family died the day the Space Farers dropped an asteroid on their domed city. Now she lives alone, out in the wild with only her dogs for company. She prefers it that way.

But Scout finds herself at a crossroads. One road leads back to a quiet life snug under the protective dome of a city. The other road leads to a life in the rebellion, a life of adventure and excitement but also danger. Dare she try to find the rebels hiding in the hills?

Then a chance encounter with a stranger from the other side of the galaxy threatens to derail what remains of Scout’s life. The entire galaxy awaits her, if she survives the next four days.

Featured Sci-fi: Space Worms (An Extra Space Squad 51 Adventure) by M. Pax

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Featured Sci-fi: Space Worms (An Extra Space Squad 51 Adventur) by M. Pax

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An Extra Space Squad 51 Adventure!

The galaxy just got ridiculous. Space Squad 51 is on the job.

Nikili Echols works the docks, living a quiet, predictable life until the freighter Red Dorry is late. When the ship opens, the crew is gone. Orbital Rescue Services Squad 51 arrives, assuring Nikili everything will be all right. But when they go in, screams and roars erupt from inside, and a smear of blood is left at the hatch.

Nikili knows the team and crew need help before more ORS teams can arrive. Stepping into the unknown, she faces a threat she never imagined involving black lights, boy band beats, and monstrous livestock.

Meeting Space Squad 51 ignites a spark in Nikili: the hope that one day, she can be like them.

Space Worms is a thrilling, humorous space opera adventure about courage, discovery, and embracing the idea of becoming something else.

Featured Sci-fi: Beasts in the Garden (Archangel Project. Convergence I) by C. Gockel

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Featured Sci-fi: Beasts in the Garden (Archangel Project. Convergence I) by C. Gockel

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When John Miller signs up for the rescue mission to the Proxima Centauri outpost, he expects to find his former lover, Hana, the brilliant physicist behind the invention of near light engines, dead. 

Instead he and his team find Hana missing and a large part of the outpost destroyed.

John’s team suspects suicide.  John knows Hana would never give up so easily.

John and Hana are very different people. Their relationship was a fluke born of proximity and convenience. But when he discovers her Hail Mary attempt to return to Earth with a dangerous, experimental faster-than-light vessel, he has to follow her.

But it isn’t where Hana has gone that is the real surprise. It’s when … 

Vessels damaged, fighting for survival, Hana and John struggle to rebuild the basics of civilization from scratch. They’re in a world where unboiled water or an untreated cut can result in death, and four-legged predators lurk in the trees.

But the greatest threats to Hana and John are almost human …

Featured Sci-fi: Lost Town Books 1-3 by Nathan Hystad

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Featured Sci-fi: Lost Town Books 1-3 by Nathan Hystad

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Get READY for the ultimate adventure…

A small town with a big problem… Carmichael, Indiana is a dying town, but its citizens enjoy the comforts of Earth. When they’re shifted to another dimension overnight, only the strong will survive.

BOOKS 1-3 of this epic series are bundled together for the first time. 1200 pages of science fiction blended with an intriguing mystery.

Undercover operatives, aliens, and some bloodthirsty cowboys take on Lost Town. The displaced locals must band together, but greed and chaos never stop tempting the weak.

Why did the Shift happen in the first place? Will they ever make it back to Earth?

Join Caesar, Amelia, Summer, and John, as they tell their story, and maybe kill a few mutant aliens on their search for home.

From the best-selling author of Ethos, First Life, The Other Place, The Event, and many more.

Featured Sci-fi : Earthrise – Super Box Set (Book 1-6) by Daniel Arenson

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Featured Sci-fi : Earthrise - Super Box Set (Book 1-6) by Daniel Arenson

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They came from deep space. They came to destroy us. We will fight back!

The Earthrise super box set! 6 entire novels = 2,000+ pages of epic science fiction.

With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, Earthrise has captivated readers around the world. This bundle includes the first SIX novels of this bestselling series. If you loved Ender’s Game and Starship Troopers, you’ll love Earthrise. From a USA Today bestselling author.

Earthrise is a story of humanity struggling to rise from ruin. A devastating alien invasion hit us hard. Billions died. Our world burned. Space, we learned, swarms with predators. And only the strongest can survive in these shadows.

Heroes gather. Earth’s ragtag army flies out to fight. Together, we must beat back the aliens. We must claim our territory among the stars. Earth must rise . . . or we will all fall.