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Featured Sci-fi: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

December 3, 2025 by Carolynn

$2.99 as of December 3, 2025
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“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times

Cat’s Cradle
 is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.

“[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”—Harper’s Magazine

“Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Atlantic Monthly

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut

Featured Sci-Fantasy: Claus Legend of the Fat Man (Claus Series Book 1) by Tony Bertauski

December 3, 2025 by Carolynn

99¢ as of December 3, 2025
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The 1st novel in the Claus Universe. The stories you never heard…

In the early 1800s, Nicholas Santa discovered an ancient race of elven.

Short, fat and hairy, they have lived peacefully on the North Pole since the Ice Age but Nicholas is quickly swept into the colony’s first and only fracture. The elven known as the Cold One has divided his people. His name is Jack. And Jack’s tired of hiding. Why should they live in a shrinking ice cap when humans occupy the rest of the world?

It’s just not fair.

There’s no stopping Jack from world domination until Nicholas Santa, the only human to enter the elven colony, joins helium-bladder reindeer, artificially-intelligent snowmen, and a merry band of big-footed elven to bring peace back to the North Pole.

And becomes a legend.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Claus, Legend of the Fat Man, Tony Bertauski

Featured Sci-fantasy: Christmas Presence (A Claus Universe Prequel) by Tony Pertauski

December 3, 2025 by Carolynn

FREE on Amazon
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WORLDS ARE WAITING TO BE OPENED.

Van Holloway wanted one thing: survive a Christmas party without looking like a total disaster. Instead, he got dragged into a virtual game that came with glasses that weren’t glasses and rules that weren’t rules.

Oops.

Turns out there’s a world inside the glasses. A place of clockwork toys, abandoned workshops, and secrets nobody ever meant to unwrap. Van and Charli (yes, the crush, yes, awkward) stumble out of the game with more than they bargained for. And something… stumbles out after them.

Now reality’s misfiring like cheap Christmas lights. Something really wants back what they accidentally took from the game.

From droids in Santa suits to gingerbread rebels with attitude, Van and Charli are stuck in a war between belief and machinery, myth and madness. To make it home alive, they’ll have to trust each other, cling to what’s real, and take on the one enemy stronger than magic itself: doubt.

Christmas Presence: The Prequel launches the Claus Universe with sci-fi sparkle, fantasy mayhem, and enough heart to melt the North Pole. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things, The Santa Clause, and Ready Player One.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Christmas Presence, Tony Bertauski

Featured Sci-fi: Rogue Assembly (Rogue Element Book 1 — A Spinward Fringe Novel) by Randolph Lalonde

November 30, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Rogue Assembly (A Spinward Fringe Novel) by Randolph Lalonde

FREE as of November 24, 2025
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Rogue, a combat android made as a human decoy is allowed to break away from the battlefield. After wandering across a post-apocalyptic wasteland for some time, she returns to civilization in search of a technician who can help her with a systemic problem.

When a gangster mistakes her for a famous Captain, Rogue is drawn into a world of violent cyborgs and rare technology that will change the course of her future forever.

In Rogue Assembly, you can expect to see an android with a complicated past, a vibrant corporate cityscape, nasty criminal cyborgs, a vindictive gangster, a talking kitten and many other strange, sometimes violent or wonderful things.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Randolph Lalonde, Rogue Assembly, Rogue Element, Spinward Fringe

Featured Sci-fi: Atlantis Book 1 by Bob Mayer

November 28, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Atlantis Book 1 by Bob Mayer

FREE as of November 28, 2025
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“Spell-binding! Will keep you on the edge of your seat. Call it techno-thriller, call it science fiction, call it just terrific story-telling.” Terry Brooks, #1 NY Times Bestselling author of the Shannara series and Star Wars Phantom Menace

A war beyond time. An enemy beyond space. A thriller beyond your wildest dreams. Three areas on the Earth’s surface defy explanation: the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil’s Sea of Japan, and a small region of Cambodia. Inside these realms, planes have disappeared, ships have vanished, and, in Cambodia, an entire civilization has been lost leaving behind Angkor Wat.

In 1945, Training Flight 19 disappears in the Bermuda Triangle. In 1963, the USS Thresher, a nuclear submarine, is lost under unusual circumstances, part of a secret government investigation into mysterious gates. Near the end of the Vietnam War, Green Beret Eric Dane led a team of operatives deep into Cambodia and encountered a strange fog near the legendary city of Angkor Kol Ker. His entire team disappears, attacked by strange creatures out of the fog. Only Dane survives to return.

Now a plane goes down. In the same area Dane lost his team. He’s called back. To find out who is the darkness behind these gates to our planet. What does this Shadow force want? It is a threat that will take on the world’s greatest military forces and defeat them. A power that will overwhelm our science and technology. A merciless enemy that will lead Dane—and the whole planet—into the final desperate battle for survival.

A #1 Kindle Science Fiction Bestseller in both the U.S. and U.K.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Atlantis, Bob Mayer

Featured Sci-fi: Broken Glass (The Glass Complex Book 1) by John Hindmarsh

November 24, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Broken Glass (The Glass Complex Book 1) by John Hindmarsh

99¢ as of November 24, 2025
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Betrayed by his own, hunted by his enemy, he’ll rewrite the fate of his planet.

A small planet, its wealth hidden – or so they thought; peaceful, but ready to defend and fight for what is theirs. They call it Homeworld.

Disaster comes in the form of treachery.

One of their own betrays his people and the planet is attacked for its natural resources. The ruling family leads the fight back, but most are killed or captured.

Steg de Coeur, directed by The Glass Complex, an ancient and self-aware computer network, flees the planet. He gradually learns of his ability to communicate with computers, friendly, hostile, or alien. It’s a powerful gift.

He is pursued by false warrants and traitorous Imperial forces.

They want his death. He wants his revenge.

The Glass Complex is a series of action-packed adventures in space. If you like interspecies intrigue, space opera, military sci-fi, and a touch of fantasy, then you’ll love this intergalactic space opera.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Broken Glass, John Hindmarsh, The Glass Complex

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