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Featured Sci-fi: Firestorm Complete Series (Books 1 – 9) Daniel Young

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Featured Sci-fi: Firestorm Complete Series (Books 1 - 9) Daniel Young

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★★★★★ “Old-fashioned space opera at its best”

FULL AND COMPLETE SERIES—OVER 1,000 PAGES!

Captain Aaron Decosta, a decorated starship commander, embarks on a clandestine mission across the uncharted expanses. But fate has a twist in store when his vessel is swallowed by a cosmic maelstrom, leaving him and his crew stranded on a world shrouded in mystery and danger.

Back on Earth’s galactic frontier, Colonel Michael Decosta receives the harrowing news of his son’s disappearance. Bound by blood and honor, he defies the chain of command, embarking on a perilous journey to the Bone Yard—a place where space anomalies distort reality and where no rescue has ever returned from.

As father and son navigate their separate but parallel odysseys through alien terrains and treacherous alliances, their tales of survival converge in a saga of family and warfare. With a reunion their only beacon of hope, they must forge alliances with strangers and face off against unfathomable foes.

The Firestorm series offers an unrelenting adventure of survival, loyalty, and the unbreakable bond between father and son.

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Featured Sci-fi: Surplus Marines—Phaethon Corp Series by Jaxon Reed

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Featured Sci-fi: Surplus Marines—Phaethon Corp Series by Jaxon Reed

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Bo Duckworth is a former master sergeant with the Republican Marines. Forced out of the service for destroying a recalcitrant X103 battle bot during a critical mission, he is out of a job, out of luck and out of ideas on how to make it as a civilian. Like other lost souls, he drifts toward the frontiers of known space looking to find a new life.

Tom Savage is expanding Phaethon Solar, offering the company’s technology to asteroid miners, new planet explorers and others probing the fringes of the galaxy. But on these extremes of humanity’s farthest reaches, his people receive the most inhumane treatment. Here there is no civilization, no law, and no order. Tom decides to procure his own private military to safeguard his company’s technology and personnel.

What Tom needs and what Duck can provide are . . . Surplus Marines!

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Featured Sci-fi: Incubation (The Incubation Trilogy Book 1) by Laura DiSilverio

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Featured Sci-fi: Incubation (The Incubation Trilogy Book 1) by Laura DiSilverio

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Bio-chemistry whiz Everly Jax wants one thing: to know who her parents are. Raised with other repo kids in InKubator 9, she has pinned her hopes on Reunion Day, the annual event where sixteen-year-olds can meet or reunite with their parents. When her Reunion Day goes horribly awry, she and her pregnant friend Halla escape the Kube, accompanied by their friend Wyck who has his own reasons for leaving.

In a world where rebuilding the population is critical to national survival, the Pragmatist government licenses all human reproduction, and decides who can–and must–have babies. The trio face feral dog packs, swamp threats, locust swarms, bounty hunters looking for “breeders,” and more dangers as they race to Amerada’s capital to find Halla’s soldier boyfriend before the Prags can repo her baby and force the girls into surrogacy service.

An unexpected encounter with Bulrush, an Underground Railroad for women fleeing to Outposts with their unlicensed babies, puts them in greater peril than ever. Everly must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to learn her biological identity–and deal with the unanticipated consequences of her decisions.

Featured Sci-fi: Psychomech (Psychomech Trilogy Book 1) by Brian Lumley

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Richard Garrison, a corporal in the British Military Police, loses his sight while trying to save the wife and child of millionaire industrialist Thomas Schroeder from a terrorist bomb. While Garrison is recovering from his injuries, Schroeder makes him an offer the young man cannot refuse – refuge at Schroefer’s luxurious mountain retreat and rehabilitation from the best doctors who can treat Garrison’s blindness, and, if not cure him, at least teach him a new way of life.

But Thomas Schroeder has a secret. His is dying and determined not to lose his life. The doctors tell him his body cannot be saved. But what about his mind? Garrison’s healthy young body would make an excellent replacement for Schroeder’s failing corpus, if the machines to perform the operation can be perfected in time.

Garrison has secrets of his own. Since the bombing that caused the loss of his sight, Garrison has become aware of new abilities slowly developing in his mind: mental powers he is beginning to master, strengths Schroeder cannot expect.

Richard Garrison and Thomas Schroeder, two strong-willed men locked in battle for the greatest prize – life itself.

Featured Sci-fi: A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought Series Book 1) by Vernor Vinge

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Featured Sci-fi: A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought Series Book 1) by Vernor Vinge

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A Hugo Award-winning Novel!

“Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.”-David Brin

Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind’s potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these “regions of thought,” but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.

Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle.

Featured Sci-fi: A Hero (Corporation Wars Book 1) Stephen Arseneault

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Featured Sci-fi: A Hero (Corporation Wars Book 1) Stephen Arseneault

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Humanity’s survival is under siege. After centuries of peace, our dominion among the stars is shattered by a devastating alien invasion. Our once-proud military, now more political than capable, is powerless to stop the carnage. As the death toll rises and entire worlds fall, defeat seems inevitable.

Rayford Tyvos Jackson dreamed of nothing more than a stable life for his family. But when the invaders destroy everything he loves, grief turns to vengeance. Determined to fight back, he joins the Marines—only to see the government collapse and power handed to a ruthless cabal of corporations. Will their rule turn the tide of war? Or has humanity just traded one enemy for another?

Fans of The Expanse and Old Man’s War will love this gritty, action-packed epic of survival, vengeance, and hope. The fight for humanity’s survival—and its soul—begins now.

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