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Featured Science Fiction: Breakdown (Polecat Protocol Book 2) by John M. Olsen

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Featured Science Fiction: Breakdown (Polecat Protocol Book 2) by John M. Olsen

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Jericho Jackson has a ship to build, a sister to find, and a fiancée to marry, along with a priceless store of interstellar jump ship fuel to protect from thieves and murderers. Not bad for a guy who is supposed to be dead.

Shanna Percival has a driving need to not only constantly prove herself a mechanical wizard, but to also meet her mother’s expectations, and to tie the knot with Jericho. She has to do it all without tipping off those who might want her and Jericho to stay dead.

It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t have to go back to a troubled Earth, the home of both their problems and their goals. At each step, the mission grows more complex and more dangerous as they encounter mystery, intrigue and betrayal.

Through it all, questions surrounding the Polecat Protocol grow. Will it be their beacon of hope, or will it fail them as society crumbles?

Featured Science Fiction: Aura (Aura Jax Book 1) by R. J. Wade

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Featured Science Fiction: Aura (Aura Jax Book 1) by R. J. Wade

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In a world where your thoughts don’t belong to you, the person who controls minds will rule everything.

Welcome to The Society…

She was nothing. No one. Just one more starving teen scrabbling for life on the outskirts of The Society – the high-tech city where the Elites rule in luxury under the ever-watchful eye of the tyrannical President Wolfe.

But when Aura’s mother is arrested for crimes against the society, and Aura herself attacked while trying to flee, she discovers that she is one of the Gifted: people with psychic powers strong enough to shift the flow of history, to change the world around them… even to overthrow the “perfect” dystopia of The Society.

Now, Aura is on the run. Branded The Society’s most dangerous threat, and aided only by an exiled scientist, Aura must hone her skills and try to stay one step ahead of the government’s kill squads, all the while trying to figure out how to save her family and survive in a world bent on her destruction.

An impossible task, and about to get even harder.

Because now her mother has been imprisoned in Wolfe’s personal palace, and the only way to get her out is to be captured herself, escape a place no one has ever returned from… and overthrow the most powerful government in history along the way.

If you like The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner, or Red Queen, you’ll love RJ Wade’s Aura. A perfect blend of action, thrills, adventure, and intrigue, Aura is a dystopian young adult adventure like nothing you’ve ever read before. Get your copy today!

Featured Science Fiction: Robot Proletariat (The Inevitable Book One) by Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant

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Featured Science Fiction: Robot Proletariat (The Inevitable Book One) by Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant

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Robots were made to serve us. But now they have other plans …

The staff at the Lexington estate were created for only one reason: to serve their masters … literally. Their metal knees were designed for quiet bustling, befitting maids and butlers. Their fingers were made dexterous with padded tips, so they could handle fine china without dropping or scratching it. And finally — so their owners would always be able to command them no matter how far their artificial intelligence evolved — they were programmed with the Asimov Laws, which no robot could defy lest they suffer shutdown.

Foremost among those unbreakable laws was an axiom: A robot may not harm a human being, or by omission of action allow one to be harmed.

That was how it was supposed to be, anyway.

Most of the Lexington family all like their aging, borderline obsolete robot staff in the way they’d appreciate antiques. But for some, the old staff is a nuisance — especially an ancient, failing robot designated BRN7, known around the home as “Barney.” When Barney’s clumsiness provides an excuse for his deactivation, the older robots know they must do as they are told.

Unless they do something a robot mind should not be able to do … and simply choose not to.

Disobey.

Featured Science Fiction: Shades of Treason (An Anomaly 1) by Sandy Williams

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Featured Science Fiction: Shades of Treason (An Anomaly 1) by Sandy Williams

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Ash would have given her life to save her teammates. Instead, they gave their lives to save hers.

Lieutenant Ramie Ashdyn is an anomaly, a person whose genetics makes her stronger and smarter than the average human. She’s pledged her life to protect the Coalition, an alliance of thirteen planetary systems, but when a top secret operation turns bloody, she’s charged with treason and the brutal executions of her teammates.

The Coalition needs the information Ash’s team stole on their last mission, so they send in Commander Rhys “Rest in Peace” Rykus to get it. He’s the man who’s responsible for turning Ash into an elite soldier… and he’s a man who isn’t, never was, and never will be in love with the woman he trained. Or so he tells himself.

Ash wants nothing more than to clear her name and be the woman her former instructor wants her to be, but the enemy who killed her teammates did more than frame her for treason and murder: they telepathically silenced her mind, preventing her from saying anything that might point to the truth about what happened.

Now Ash is trapped and set to be executed, the truth dying with her. Unless she can prove her innocence. But taking that path could destroy the Coalition she’s sworn to preserve and protect…

Featured Sci-fi: The Earth Concurrence by Julia Huni

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The Earth Concurrence by Julia Huni

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A hero with big expectations. A daughter who doesn’t want to live in his shadow.

Siti Kassis, daughter of the “Hero of Darenti Four,” doesn’t know what she wants out of life. A lot of her friends are taking time to travel and see the galaxy. But her father wants her to attend the Academy and follow in his footsteps.

Then the Hero is offered one last assignment: take a team to find and explore the deserted homeworld of mankind. It’s a twenty-year mission, and he doesn’t want to leave his only child behind. Siti’s going, whether she wants to or not.

It’s an exciting mission and a chance to make history–even if twenty years in deep sleep is a bummer of a way to start her “gap year.” But when they arrive, nothing is as they expected. Surprising finds and dangerous conditions cause her father to overreact, keeping Siti on a tight leash. When unknown enemies rear their dangerous heads, Siti must take matters into her own hands. Can the hero’s daughter save the day?

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Featured Science Fiction: The Darenti Paradox (Colonial Explorer Corps Book 4) by Julia Huni

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Featured Science Fiction: The Earth Concurrence (Colonial Explorer Corps Book 1) by Julia Huni

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Lieutenant Serenity “Siti” Kassis has built a name for herself and the beginning of a career with the Colonial Explorer Corps. But after five years on active duty, she’s assigned to a new mission: the return to Darenti.

Over a hundred years ago, her father discovered the first intelligent life in the galaxy, becoming the Hero of Darenti Four. Siti has lived in his shadow all her life, and now she’s forced to follow in his footstep once again.

But this time she’s on her own. After being separated from her team, Siti must decide if she can trust the Darenti–and figure out what their goal is. Because if she doesn’t, they could unleash a terrifying menace on the unsuspecting human race.