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Featured Sci-fi: Girl of Flesh & Metal by Alicia Ellis

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Marissa Meyer’s Cinder meets Netflix’s Black Mirror in a high-tech future where a teen gets the cybernetic arm she never wanted.

Lena hates her parents’ tech company. The world worships each cutting-edge CyberCorp release, but Lena has her doubts. Machines that think for themselves? She doesn’t trust them… So when a car accident lands her with the company’s first cybernetic arm, she’s pissed.

Is control of her own life too much to ask? Now, the arm’s artificial intelligence makes her sleepwalk. Then children of CyberCorp employees start dying in their beds, and thanks to her unwanted nighttime strolls, Lena has no alibi.

Is she the killer, or does someone else hate her parents’ inventions more than she does?

★Girl of Flesh and Metal made the American Library Association’s 2021 LITA Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists.★

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Featured Science Fiction: Kari – The Hunt by Justin Sloan

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Featured Science Fiction: Kari - The Hunt by Justin Sloan

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Massive guns, giant alien monsters, and big egos. What could possibly go wrong?

Tommy is just another guy working for a hedge fund, when the richest person in history invites him and his boss on an alien safari. Sounds great, rubbing elbows with elite playboys and oodles of hotties in outer space, right? But everything goes completely fubar in a hurry. Turns out, a group of alien ninjas already lives on the planet — yeah, you read that right — alien ninjas! And they love to hunt. Now Tommy must choose between crying to his mommy and maybe getting an alien sword in his gut, or manning up to save those he’s come to care about.

If you like Tropic Thunder, Alien, Predator, or even Alien vs Predator (which we won’t hold against you), you’ll love this action-packed sci-fi adventure!

Featured Science Fiction: Ultraxenopia by M. A. Phipps

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Featured Science Fiction: Ultraxenopia by M. A. Phipps

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Betrayed by Family. Tortured by the Enemy. Destined to Destroy the World.

Wynter Reeves lives by three rules: Don’t stand out. Blend in. Remain invisible. In a world where individuality is dangerous, being forgettable keeps her alive.

Until she begins showing signs of a rare disease, drawing the unwanted attention of the State’s sinister research facility, the DSD. Apprehended against her will for testing, Wynter becomes the subject of the mysterious Dr. Richter, who is determined to make sense of her condition.

However, Dr. Richter’s intentions are less than noble, and after months of horrifying experimentation, Wynter jumps at the chance to escape her captors. But freedom isn’t what she expected, and as her symptoms worsen, she must make a choice. One that will determine not only her future…

But the fate of the world.

ULTRAXENOPIA is the first book in the Project W. A. R. trilogy, which readers have compared to The Giver, Divergent, and The Hunger Games!

“I would give this 10 stars if I could! It’s got action, suspense, and a smidge of a romance. It’s got twists and turns that you will not see coming.” ★★★★★

“For fans of dystopia, you’ll find the elements that are beloved in every dystopian book. There are elements included in Ultraxenopia that can be found in books like 1984, Divergent, Unwind, and many others and Phipps pulls each of them off in a brilliant way.” ★★★★★

“A truly classic dystopian in that it had the dark totalitarian regime, the bleak atmosphere, and terrifying villains.” ★★★★★

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Featured Science Fiction: Of A Strange World Made by Anthony W. Eichenlaub

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Of A Strange World Made by Anthony W. Eichenlaub

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On the cutting edge of humanity, rules are made for one thing.
No, it is not “to be broken.”

Biologist Ash Morgan loves breaking rules, but this is ridiculous. Edge is humanity’s bastion on the frontier of space and science. She plays fast and loose with the Edge’s ultra-strict governing AI, but even she’s willing to admit that maybe there are some laws not meant to be broken.

When a fellow colonist asks for help delivering a child, Ash agrees against her better judgment.

But something’s not right.

The birth will exceed the precise population cap set by the colony AI. Somehow those numbers need to balance.

And the child is born strange. Too strange. What experiments could produce a child like this? Who would do this?

When the mother descends into depression and madness, Ash must decide which rules can be broken, which rules must be obeyed, and which rules will inevitably lead to the colony’s ultimate destruction.

On the cutting edge of humanity, rules are made for one thing: to be followed perfectly with zero deviation.

Always.

Or else.

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Featured Sci-fi: Taxyon Space Triad by Aurora Springer

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What alien creatures lurk under the icy surface of Europa?

Dr. Nikki Bell’s plan to discover intelligent life in the oceans of Jupiter’s moon hits a rocky start when her spaceship crashes on the icy surface of Europa. Seconds before she blacks out, she spies a man’s face in the water beneath the ice. When she wakes on the submarine Station, nobody believes her story. Convinced the mysterious stranger saved her life, Nikki searches for him while she explores the ocean and its alien inhabitants.

Kiron Arqin Ramis chose exile as a Watcher on a remote outpost to redeem his family’s honor. He never expected to find an attractive Earther woman close to death. He violates the prime policy by rescuing her. Despite suffering the penalty, he strives to warn her about his hostile leaders.

Nikki’s unexpected meeting with Kiron triggers a chain of disasters in Europa’s perilous oceans. Can the daredevil scientist and scarred Watcher forge a new alliance despite their people’s antagonism?

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Featured Science Fiction: Ambassador Omnibus by Patty Jansen

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Featured Science Fiction: Ambassador Omnibus by Patty Jansen

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The bundled edition of the first three books in the popular Ambassador series.

1: Seeing Red – Cory Wilson is about to start his new job as representative to gamra, the alien organisation that controls the network for wormhole travel, when a political murder may well end his career before it started. In Coldi society, you can get killed for looking a superior in the eye. Never mind accusing him of murder.

1A: The Sahara Conspiracy – Cory is asked to deal with the alien mafia on Earth, and stumbles across a plot that endangers Earth’s fragile peace. You did not hear me say “nuke from orbit”.

2: Raising Hell – the wormhole network goes down, and Cory’s friend and leader of the largest populated world Asto is caught off-world. Dangerous politics are afoot on Asto, and Cory decides to help his friend. Yeah. Famous last words.

This series will appeal to readers who like alien societies that are familiar and disturbingly different at the same time, dangerous political intrigue, edge-of-seat action and characters that are never entirely good or entirely bad.

Once you start reading, you won’t be able to stop. There are eight books in the series, with more on the way.

Why not try this one now?

Need more convincing? This is what others say:

A Matt Damon political thriller meets Total Recall action with Avatar otherworldliness. —Ditmar Award winning author Zena Shapter

It is the sign of a great story teller when an intricate political landscape can be seamlessly woven into your brain without you ever noticing. I was well and truly hooked. The hierarchies and customs of various alien races are understandably complex but not too much to lose the reader. The story is fast-paced and twisting as Cory tries to unravel who could perpetrate the attack on the President and why they would do so, while enduring stonewalling and spying from all sides of politics, including his own. — Reviewer at SQ Magazine (sqmag.com/)

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