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Featured Sci-fi: Renegade Imperium Complete Trilogy by Jon Frater and A.K. Duboff

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An ex-soldier with unfinished business. Rebels with bold aspirations. One grand adventure.

Complete Trilogy: 1,200+ pages of interstellar intrigue, space pirates, and starship action!

Karmen Sley thought her military days were behind her after a tragic accident took the life of her best friend and her vision. But when a mysterious pirate known as Mother Carnage attacks her new home planet, Karmen is conscripted from her quiet retirement to solve the case.

Racing across star systems to track down the perpetrators, Karmen discovers a shocking personal connection to Mother Carnage that turns the investigation upside down. Worse, the pirate isn’t acting alone.

Concerning clues point to a growing separatist movement that could plunge the region into chaos. Fearing for the safety of her world and loved ones, Karmen and two ambitious young military officers race to gather the evidence needed to head off the conspiracy.

Torn between her loyalties to family and career, can Karmen confront her painful past to save her future?

Set in the Cadicle space opera universe created by bestselling author A.K. DuBoff, the Renegade Imperium trilogy is perfect for fans of fast-paced space operas with dynamic characters, planet-hopping action, and galactic intrigue.

Grab your copy to join the fight for the Taran Empire’s future today!

The Renegade Imperium collection contains the complete trilogy:

  • Book 1: Grand Theft Planet
  • Book 2: Carnage and Courage
  • Book 3: Homeworld for a Queen

Featured Sci-fi: Star Breakers by James David Victor

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Featured Sci-fi: Star Breakers by James David Victo

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As a Breaker, she was destined to live a hard life serving the whims of galactic corporations. As an Earth Alliance Marine, she has a chance to change the balance of power in the galaxy.

Holly Cropper grew up as a Breaker, mining the outer reaches of space. Now, she’s an up-and-coming lieutenant in the Earth Alliance Marines. Her mission: keep the peace and help humanity survive in the endless darkness of space. When a distress call comes in from a large mining vessel, her orderly world gets turned upside down. What starts with a simple pirate takeover turns into a hostile alien invasion. This Breaker Marine and her small team might be the only thing standing between humanity and annihilation at the hands of ancient aliens.

Breaker Marine is the first book in the Star Breaker series. If you like fast-paced space adventures with interesting characters who battle aliens, evil corporations, and space pirates, Holly Cropper and her team of Marines are ready to share their epic adventure with you.

Download Breaker Marine and get started on your next space adventure today!

Featured Sci-fi: Confessions of a Trash Droid (Fatal Error Book 1) by Michael Cheney

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Featured Sci-fi: Confessions of a Trash Droid (Fatal Error Book 1) by Michael Cheney

99¢ as of October 21, 2025
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T.E.D.D. is a trash droid with glitches, sarcasm to spare, and zero interest in dealing with our crap.

Unfortunately, quitting isn’t easy when blackouts, psychotic episodes, and a corporate death squad are on your tail. To survive, T.E.D.D. must embrace his anomaly—and maybe even team up with the humans he can’t stand. Equal parts dry wit and reluctant heroics, a darkly comic sci-fi about the little guy’s fight against the machine and what it means to be human.

Perfect for fans of Martha Wells, Asimov, John Scalzi, Andy Weir, and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Feature Sci-fi: The Fallen Empire Omnibus (Books 1 – 3 and prequel) by Lindsay Buroker

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Feature Sci-fi: The Fallen Empire Omnibus (Books 1 - 3 and prequel) by Lindsay Buroker

99¢ as of October 19, 2025
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A fighter pilot on a mission to reunite with her daughter.
A cyborg soldier on a quest to regain his humanity.

Mortal enemies during the war, they must now work together to salvage a seventy-year-old freighter and navigate the gauntlet of pirates, scavengers, mercenaries, and other pitfalls that stand in their way after the fall of the largest empire mankind has ever known.

This set includes:

Book 1: Star Nomad
Book 2: Honor’s Flight
Book 3: Starseers
The previously unpublished prequel novella Last Command
The short story Starfall Station

Star Nomad was a nominee for the Goodreads Readers’ Choice Awards and also made Amazon’s Top 20 list of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016. Start the adventure now!

Featured Sci-fi & Fantasy: The Dragonback Series Book 1 – 3 by Timothy Zahn

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Featured Sci-fi: The Dragonback Series Book 1 - 3 by Timothy Zahn

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The first three adventures in the Dragonback science fiction fantasy series from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Thrawn series.

Dragon and Thief: Young thief and con artist Jack Morgan is hiding out on an uninhabited planet after he’s falsely accused of a crime. But his solitude is interrupted when Draycos, a warrior whose reptilian race is being targeted for extinction, makes an emergency landing. The two will be able to survive, but only if they literally bond together . . .

Dragon and Soldier: When all is well, Draycos looks like nothing more than a tattoo on Jack Morgan’s back. But when Jack’s threatened, the K’da warrior appears in his true, dragonlike form. Together they go undercover to investigate a mercenary outfit connected to the extermination of Draycos’s people, and it turns out Jack isn’t the only new recruit with a secret . . .

Dragon and Slave: Following a lead, Jack becomes a slave on a Brummga alien estate where he must find out all he can while under the cruel watch of a vicious slave master who has no problem killing the help. Fortunately, Draycos always has his back.

Featured Sci-fi: Off Midway Station (Guardians of the Dark Book 1) by Marc Alan Edelheit

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Featured Sci-fi: Off Midway Station (Guardians of the Dark Book 1) by Marc Alan Edelheit

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“I realized that I wasn’t going to get any sleep (Just one more page… Just one more page…) I’m not just reading words on a page, I’m there… A hell of a ride.” NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Humanity is on the brink of annihilation. Only one man can turn the tide.

For centuries, we explored the stars and settled new worlds. But a mysterious alien threat emerged, launching devastating attacks and seizing entire star systems. Every fifty years they come, silent and relentless, before disappearing again into the dark. And as they close in on humanity’s home worlds, one more defeat could mean total extinction.

Captain Jim Garrett joined the navy to fight back. But when a delicate mission ends in madness and mutiny, Garrett takes the blame and his career is left in ruins.

Now, the only thing he commands is a construction site. The CNS Surprise is an experimental warship, half built in the dockyards of Midway Station. Garrett knows the ship inside out, but the navy brass would never let him take the helm, let alone lead her in battle.

But when the aliens strike early, with unexpected ferocity, it’s clear that every ship in the fleet will be needed. And the Surprise could be the only hope of slowing the enemy onslaught.

Garrett is thrust into command for the first time, launching straight into combat. He must unite a maverick crew and master new technologies, as he leads a desperate counterstrike that will decide mankind’s future.

Off Midway Station is a military SF adventure of high-stakes space warfare, nail-biting action, and characters you would gladly follow into battle. A monumental journey of courage, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of survival, it’s perfect for fans of Jack Campbell, David Weber, and Marko Kloos.

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