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Featured Sci-fi: The Watchers by P.A. Vasey

October 18, 2026 by Carolynn

The Watchers by P.A. Vasey

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Elijah looks eleven. The truth is far more dangerous.

Found alone in the woods with no memory of how he got there, Elijah should be an ordinary lost child. But the doctors examining him discover something impossible.

Then his abilities begin to surface.

With forensic psychologist Charlotte Dutton at his side, Elijah searches for answers as fragments of a forgotten past return. But someone else is searching for him too, and the closer Elijah gets to discovering what he is, the more dangerous the pursuit becomes.

Because Elijah is not the only one.

Across the world, others like him are beginning to wake, each carrying a secret that could change everything humanity believes about itself.

For thousands of years, humanity has looked to the stars, and wondered if we are alone.

We have been looking in the wrong direction.

First contact isn’t coming. It’s already here.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: P.A. Vasey, The Watchers

Featured Sci-fi: Farthing (Small Change Book 1) by Jo Walton

October 17, 2026 by Carolynn

Farthing by Jo Walton

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An influential family’s weekend party is the stage for murder in this alternative history trilogy opener set in a post-WWII England where the Nazis won.

Eight years have passed since the upper-crust “Farthing Set” overthrew Winston Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler. Now those families have gathered for a weekend retreat. Among them is estranged scion Lucy Kahn, who can’t understand why she and her husband, David, were so enthusiastically invited. But all becomes clear when the eminent Sir James Thirkie is found murdered—with a yellow Star of David pinned to his chest.

Lucy realizes that her Jewish husband is about to be framed for the crime, an outcome that would be altogether too politically convenient, given the machinations underway in Parliament in the coming week. The Farthing Set are determined to pass laws further restricting the right to vote, and a new outcry against Jews and foreigners would suit them fine.

But whoever’s behind the murder and the frame-up didn’t count on the principal investigator from Scotland Yard being so prone to look beyond the obvious—or his being a man with his own private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts and underdogs . . .

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Farthing, Jo Walton, Small Change

Featured Sci-fi: Steel for Hire (Galactic Mercenaries Book 1) by Richard Fierce

October 17, 2026 by Carolynn

Steel for Hire by Richard Fierce

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Some jobs turn you into a zombie. Literally.

Captain Jayde Thrin of the cargo ship Determination has one goal: make enough money to retire in style. Her small mercenary crew travels the universe taking on odd jobs, but when a botched gig lands them in hot water, it’s up to Jayde to figure out their escape – and their survival.

The nearby mining planet M44 provides an opportunity to refuel and make a quick buck, but there’s more going on in the mines than anyone realizes. What Jayde expects to be an easy job turns out to be one of the hardest yet, especially with the outpost overrun with the undead.

Steel for Hire is the first episode of Galactic Mercenaries, a space opera series about zombies, space battles, alien invasion, and a misfit crew trying to survive in a dangerous universe.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Galactic Mercenaries, Richard Fierce, Steel for Hire

Featured Sci-fi: Ambush (Flight of the Intrepid Book 1) by Kevin McLaughlin

October 17, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Ambush (Flight of the Intrepid Book 1) by Kevin McLaughlin

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For fifty years, humanity has stood its ground against the Drechnai. Tyrants of the first order, these beings have wiped out over a dozen spacefaring races, and they’ve done everything in their power to make humanity the next.

But for those fifty years, humans have scraped out a desperate battle for survival, relying on determination, tenacity, and raw courage to overcome our foe’s impossible technological advantage. Fifty years of constant war has honed our species into a deadly blade.

Without warning, the enemy sued for peace. But Captain George Oliver doesn’t trust them at their word, believing that this is some new deceit. Despite his misgivings, Earth’s fleet goes to sign a peace accord with the Drechnai.

It’s a trap! The human fleet is attacked, leaving Oliver’s vessel the sole Star Carrier still intact and able to defend Earth against the strike Oliver knows is coming.

He’s not wrong. The Drechnai intend to finish humans off once and for all time, their master stroke dealing death blows to both the fleet and Earth itself.

But they failed to factor in the men and women of the Star Carrier Intrepid, who will pay whatever price is required for the human race to survive!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ambush, Flight of the Intrepid, Kevin McLaughlin

Featured Sci-fi: Lightwave: Nexus Station (Folding Space Series Book 0.5) by AM Scott

October 12, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Lightwave: Nexus Station (Folding Space Series Book 0.5) by AM Scott

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Trouble in all the wrong places…

Katryn of Cygnus knocks Tyron Phazeer off his feet—literally and figuratively. She’s got the net security skills Lightwave Fold Transport needs, she’s killer in a fight, and as a bonus, she’s beautiful.

Katryn’s been burned more than once—is Tyron and his job offer too good to be true? And does she really want to work and live in space? But her choices disappear when her past catches up to her.

Trying to escape the mercenary troop chasing Katryn through Nexus station, she slips in a hidden corridor used only by station maintenance personnel. Tyron knows those passages are controlled by a shady group known only as Nexus Below, and now, Katryn’s got trouble above and below.

Can Tyron help Katryn escape her enemies? Can Katryn learn to trust Tyron? Find out in Lightwave: Nexus Station, a Folding Space Series prequel.

Fly away with this classic space adventure today!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: AM Scott, Folding Space Series, Lightwave: Nexus Station

Featured Sci-fi: The Eon Series by Greg Bear

October 12, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Eon Series by Greg Bear

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This saga of parallel universes from a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author “may be the best constructed hard SF epic yet” (The Washington Post).

One of the world’s preeminent New York Times–bestselling authors of hard science fiction mesmerizes readers with a mind-expanding, three-volume masterwork about the creation of an alternate universe that breaks down all barriers of time and space, and its consequences for future and past generations.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Greg Bear, The Eon Series

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