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

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

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He’s the instructor she can’t forget. She’s the cadet he couldn’t break.

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 Science Fiction: Lawless (Lawless Saga, #1) by Tarah Benner

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Featured Science Fiction: Lawless (Lawless Saga, #1) by Tarah Benner

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From the author of The Fringe comes an addictive new dystopian saga.

When Lark was sentenced to twenty-five years behind bars, she thought San Judas was her lucky break. The primitive 16,000-acre community in rural New Mexico isn’t like any other prison. There are no cells, there is no warden, and Mother Mercy is the law.

She didn’t realize she’d be fighting for survival on a daily basis — battling hunger, violent inmates, and Mother Mercy’s iron fist. Lark’s only friend is Bernie — an off-the-rails environmental activist doing time for arson — and a mysterious stranger who’s been sending her illicit messages from the men’s colony.

Lark never thought escaping San Judas was possible until a message in a bottle changes everything: The guards outside the walls are disappearing, and the world as they know it is coming to an end.

Featured Science Fiction: Small Beginnings (Hamgeean Misfit Book 1) M T McGuire

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Featured Science Fiction: Small Beginings (Hamgeean Misfit Book 1) M T McGuire

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What do you do when trouble comes knocking and everyone else is out?

When your very existence is treason, employment opportunities are thin on the ground. But when one of the biggest crime lords in the city makes The Pan of Hamgee a job offer he can’t refuse, it’s hard to tell what the dumbest move is: accepting the offer or saying no to Big Merv. Neither will do much for The Pan’s life expectancy.

Small Beginnings is written in British English and is the first in a series, although it can be read as a stand alone story.

This is a humorous science fiction fantasy story set in a parallel reality.

Featured Science Fiction: Battlegroup Z Books 1 – 3 by Daniel Gibbs

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Featured Science Fiction: Battlegroup Z by Daniel Gibbs

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Over 1000+ pages of Military Science Fiction action!

“Pulse pounding action coupled with a look at the cost of war – Weapons Free grabbed me from the first page.” – USA Today Bestselling Author Rhett C. Bruno

Thirty-five years of peace. One vicious attack destroys it all.

Reservist Lieutenant Justin Spencer loves every minute of flying fighters through space during his annual two-week tour with the Coalition Defense Force. The job back home isn’t nearly as thrilling as blowing up asteroids with the squadron under his command, but it keeps him close to his wife and daughter. After all, joining the CDF was only for the free education. Justin never expected a battle, much less a war.

With one shot across his cockpit, peacetime fades into memory.

An unexpected enemy emerges with overwhelming force designed to obliterate the Terran Coalition. The League of Sol has a different name, but it’s the same communist regime that chased away much of Earth’s population hundreds of years ago.

Illusions of returning home are shattered in a single instant. Simulated battles become all too real, and it’s full-on engagement or permanent elimination. Death and destruction erupt across the Terran Coalition and leave Justin in a protracted war with only one truth remaining.

The battlefield will leave no one unscathed.

Includes the first 3 novels in the bestselling Battlegroup Z series:

  • Weapons Free
  • Hostile Spike
  • Sol Strike


Five star reviews for Weapons Free, book 1 in the series:

“Daniel Gibbs writes a brand of military sci-fi that once again calls up the horrors of war along with the bravery and dedication of those who fight those wars to protect us.”

“This was one heck of a book. It is hard-hitting, action-packed reading from beginning to end, with an outstanding story to go with it.”

“This book kept me reading. I rarely acquire the second book in a series. However, I am really looking forward to the next book.”

“Loved the equality of religions and fleet action. Reminded me of Battlestar Galactica.”

“Space opera at its best. Another action-packed sci-fi adventure that will grab you by the gut and not let you go.”

Featured Science Fiction: The Last Hunter by J.N. Chaney and Terry Mixon

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Featured Science Fiction: The Last Hunter by J.N. Chaney and Terry Mixon

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Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Two centuries after the Confederation staved off an invasion by the robotic Locusts, Captain Jack Romanoff faces mandatory retirement from an ever-shrinking Navy. Actions speak louder than words. The Confederation doesn’t think the Locusts are coming back.

But what if the politicians are wrong?

Snared in a scheme he doesn’t fully understand or trust, Jack gets his promotion, but it comes with a catch. With a crew of rejects, he must restore the most powerful warship humanity has ever built, after centuries of neglect and decay, before time runs out.

If he fails, humanity might not need to worry about history repeating itself ever again.

Featured Science Fiction: Earthrise (Her Instruments Book 1) by M.C.A. Hogarth

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Featured Science Fiction: Earthrise (Her Instruments Book 1) by M.C.A. Hogarth

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“The thrills are nonstop, the alien cultures and races are well developed and fascinating, and there’s just the right amount of humor to keep the whole thing fizzing.” — Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Reese Eddings has enough to do keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to feed herself and her crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to run for the hills. Unfortunately, she did promise to repay the loan. But she didn’t think it would involve tangling with pirates over a space elf prince…

Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking adventure set in the expansive Pelted universe, and kicks off an epic space opera series where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. Fans who enjoyed Firefly or Andromeda will like this series.