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Featured Science Fiction: The Belt the Complete Series Book 1 – 6 by Gerald M. Kilby

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Featured Science Fiction: The Belt the Complete Series Book 1 - 6 by Gerald M. Kilby

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**Grab all six books of the thrilling BELT series, in this great value 1200+ page sci-fi box set!

Out in the asteroid belt, you’re never far from a rock and a hard place.

Commander Scott McNabb and the crew of the science vessel, Hermes, are three years into a five-year-long survey of the asteroid belt when they discover a derelict spaceship in orbit around a binary asteroid. The ship contains an experimental quantum device, lost while en route to a research colony on Europa.

However, once word of the crew’s discovery gets out, they soon realize that ownership of this technology could fundamentally change the balance of power within the colonized worlds, and they now find themselves at the very nexus of a system-wide conflict.

Their fight for survival plays out across the solar system, from the mining outposts of the asteroid belt to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and from the great Martian city of Jezero to an irradiated wasteland on Earth.

This is an epic tale of humanity’s battle for power and control in a time when artificial intelligence has almost out-paced our own ability to control it.

This box set contains all six BELT SERIES novels:
– Entanglement
– Entropy
– Evolution
– Enigma
– Exodus
– Emergence

What Amazon readers are saying:
★★★★★ ‘Wow. Couldn’t put these books down. All so well written as one story led into the next.’
★★★★★ ‘Awesome Read. I enjoyed this series very much! Couldn’t put it down. Exciting twists and turns.’

Featured Science Fiction: Colony One (The Elderon Chronicles Book One) by Tarah Benner

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Colony One (The Elderon Chronicles Book 1) Kindle Edition by Tarah Benner (Author)

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Colony One is prepared for anything — except the saboteur who’s already on board.

For Jonah Wyatt, the Space Force is his last shot at a military career. After years leading an elite task force, he was discharged from the army and stuck working one menial job after another. Now this disgraced combat specialist is headed to space. He’s tasked with training his own unit aboard Elderon: colony one. Nobody bothered to tell him it would be a squad of white-hat hackers and intel eggheads who are definitely not Space Force material.

One recruit is Maggie Barnes — an undercover reporter who was brought on board as a member of the press corps. Her job is to create fluffy corporate propaganda that paints the colony as a futuristic utopia, but Maggie can’t follow the rules once she gets wind of a story.

When Maggie gets a tip from an unknown source, she realizes Elderon is not at all what it seems. As she gets closer to unraveling the conspiracy, Sergeant Wyatt begins to suspect that there’s a spy on board. The saboteur has been with them all along, and he’s been building an army of his own.

What Readers Are Saying:

“Brilliant, exciting and engaging.”

“The world-building is a fascinating effort of plausible, near-future science.”

“This book takes you on a wild ride with reporters, white hat hackers, space military and spies.”

“I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book. Can’t wait for the next one…Tarah Benner is my new favorite author.”

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Featured Science Fiction: Battle Ring Earth The Complete Series by Jon Frater

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Featured Science Fiction: Battle Ring Earth The Complete Series by Jon Frater

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The Complete Battle Ring Earth Series Bundle is here. 1000+ pages of military sci-fi action about the defense of Earth against aliens, fighter pilots, and the last hope for mankind.

Technical Specialist Simon Brooks was no soldier. More suited for the academy than combat, his assignment to a rear echelon support squadron seemed a good fit. Everything changed when the Sleer attacked Earth’s newly salvaged spacecraft, UEF Ascension. In a flash, Brooks goes from fleeing a burning transport plane to piloting a broken mech and learning the habits of a fighter pilot from Lt Sara Rosenski, the terror of Nightmare Squadron.

But his rising star takes a hit when he learns to talk to the Sleer AI, Genukh…and suddenly the UEF doesn’t know whose side he’s on.

Now Brooks and Rosenski are stuck aboard Earth’s Sleer weapon—the Battle Ring–and they may be all that stands between Earth and its induction into the Sleer Empire…

Experience this complete Military Science Fiction Series perfect for fans of Rick Partlow, Jamie McFarlane, and Joshua Dalzelle.

Books in the Set:
Book 1: Megastructure
Book 2: Colony
Book 3: Grand Reversal

Featured Science Fiction: The Last Praetorian (The Redemption Trilogy Book 1) by Mike Smith

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Featured Science Fiction: The Last Praetorian (The Redemption Trilogy Book 1) by Mike Smith

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Commander Jonathan Radec is a man desperately trying to escape from the mistakes of his past.

Now the owner of Vanguard Shipping, his primary concerns are trying to keep his ships flying and his crew alive. However, the shadowy Syndicate organisation has set their sights on the Commander and his business, having sent a beautiful assassin to kill him. To make matters worse, she’s become the target of his infatuation, much to the dismay of his ex-girlfriend. Recently elevated to President of the Confederation, she’s still very much in love with him and capable of making his life a living hell.

Surrounded by a galaxy beginning to tear itself apart, with enemies on all sides, he’s now also unwillingly tasked with trying to save the Confederation – for which he has little regard. Jon has little going in his favour, except a crew consisting of the elite of the old Imperial Navy, all of whom would fight to the death for him, and a past that possibly makes him one of the most dangerous men alive.

The Last Praetorian is a Science Fiction adventure/romance, which tries to answer the question: “Can you ever find redemption for the mistakes of your past?”

Featured Science Fiction: Mars by Ben Bova

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Featured Science Fiction: Mars by Ben Bova

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Considered one of Ben Bova’s most famous Grand Tour novels: “A gripping, realistic tale of man’s first expedition to the red planet. Don’t miss it” (Terry Brooks, New York Times–bestselling author of The Shannara Chronicles).
 
Jamie Waterman is a young Navaho geologist who is picked for the ground team of the first manned expedition to Mars. He will be joining an international team of astronauts and scientists. But once the crew land on the red planet, they soon discover they must battle not only the alien land on which they have invaded but earthbound bureaucrats as well. When they come face to face with a chasm ten times as deep and large as the Grand Canyon, all twenty-five astronauts must face the most shocking discovery of all . . .
 
“The science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world.” —Ray Bradbury, author of Farenheit 451
 
“A splendid book . . . Of his many books, Mars must be the most important.” —Arthur C. Clarke, author of Islands in the Sky

Featured Science Fiction: Eternity’s End (A Novel of the Star Rigger Universe) by Jeffrey A. Carver

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Featured Science Fiction: Eternity's End (A Novel of the Star Rigger Universe) by Jeffrey A. Carver

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Starship lost in eternity…

Ghost ship Impris, lost during the War of a Thousand Suns, is the stuff of legend. Her very name conjures the perils of interstellar travel. But no mere legend, she is real—glimpsed on occasion in the hyperdimensional Flux, and then gone. Her passengers and crew live on in a strange limbo, their fate hopelessly caught up in quantum defects in space-time, interstellar piracy, and galactic coverup.

To the pirates of Golen Space, she is a perfect lure, drawing passing ships to their doom. Many innocent star riggers have been captured in such raids and forced to pilot for the murderous pirates. One such rigger, Renwald Legroeder, makes a daring escape and flees to the presumed safety of the Centrist Worlds. But instead of finding asylum, he is framed for treason.

Something is terribly wrong in the Guild of Riggers and the government that should be protecting him. To clear his name–and perhaps to avert a disastrous war between worlds—he must escape a second time, and partner with the amphibious Narseil to return to the Deep Flux and search for the lost Impris. Legroeder’s journey takes him back into the heart of raider territory, where he encounters a bewildering array of motives, conspiracies, and even deep-cyber romance. Forging friendships and finding love in the unlikeliest of places, Legroeder must nevertheless put his life on the line to protect the innocent, and preserve a shaky interstellar peace.

A finalist for the Nebula Award, Eternity’s End stands as a highlight of the Star Rigger saga, and one of Jeffrey A. Carver’s most memorable novels. Can be read as a stand-alone book, or as part of the future history.