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Featured Science Fiction: The Backworlds Book 1 by M. Pax

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The Backworlds: A Space Opera Adventure Series Kindle Edition by M. Pax (Author)

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In the far future, humanity settles the stars, bioengineering its descendants to survive in a harsh universe. This is the first book in the science fiction series, The Backworlds. A space opera adventure.

After the war with the Foreworlders, Backworlders scatter across the remaining planets. Competition is fierce, and pickings are scant. Scant enough that Craze’s father decides to improve his fortunes by destroying his son. He tells his only boy their moon isn’t big enough for them both and gives Craze a ticket for the next transport leaving the space dock.

Cut off from everyone he knows with little money and no knowledge of the worlds beyond, Craze must find a way to forge a new life and make his father regret this day. First, he must survive.

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Featured Science Fiction: Torrent of Darkness (Ex Situ Book 3) by Deirdre Gould

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Featured Science Fiction: Torrent of Darkness (Ex Situ Book 3) by Deirdre Gould

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Out of fifty thousand, only thirty-three survived the Keseburg and the alien AI called Issk’ath. Hurtling toward an unfamiliar planet with few supplies and no preparation, they believe they are the last of humanity.

But Indra, trapped inside Issk’ath’s colony, knows better. What she uncovers of the Keseburg’s past forces her to confront the lies that governed her entire history. Her thirst for justice leads the colony down an ever darker path that risks them all.

Issk’ath must make a choice: Betray its directives to save them and face its own termination, or help Indra get the justice she is bent on and risk Earth, itself.

Featured Science Fiction: Cradle of the Deep (Ex Situ Book 2) by Deirdre Gould

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Featured Science Fiction: Cradle of the Deep (Ex Situ Book 2) by Deirdre Gould

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The Keseburg once boasted a complement of fifty thousand.

Generations of hardship, space hazards and disease have whittled it down to just under thirty thousand.

That was the number when a small crew of resource miners departed on a routine asteroid run three months ago.

But when they return home to the ship, all traces of their friends and family are gone. The Keseburg is silent, adrift, and running out of fuel.

Featured Science Fiction: Traveler in the Dark (Ex Situ Book 1) by Deirdre Gould

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Featured Science Fiction: Traveler in the Dark (Ex Situ Book 1) by Deirdre Gould

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Sixteen hundred years ago, they fled Earth. Now their long journey may finally be at an end. None of them have ever walked on soil, felt rain, or breathed unrecycled air.

Their resources nearly spent, they sent a last exploratory mission to a new planet. It’s ideal… but they are not alone.

In the struggle for survival, they must make a choice. Sacrifice another species or accept their own extinction. And time is running out.

Featured Science Fiction: Hunter’s Moon The Complete Series by Walt Robillard

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Featured Science Fiction: Hunter's Moon The Complete Series by Walt Robillard

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Don’t miss the Hunter’s Moon Box Set, containing all three books in the series. 1000+ pages of action blending military science fiction with hardcore space opera to weave a tale of brutality and blasters.

In a lawless galaxy, justice is only a blaster bolt away.

Beyond the Outer Boundary of the Core Worlds lies the Frontier. Colonists looking for a life outside the corporate choked governments, cross the border seeking new opportunities, trading security for freedom.

In the Frontier, law is absent except for the Marshals. The warrior mystics saved Orin Lashra from a grinding death in the gladiatorial slave pits, recruiting him as a deputy to serve beside them. During a routine tribal negotiation, violence verging on civil war kills the mentor he called mother. Rising from a grave he wouldn’t accept, Orin embarks on a path of brutal revenge, determined to draw the Marshals and their elite Lancer Regiments into the conflict.

Join Orin in his struggle against disciplined Marshals, relentless Lancers, and shadowy threats to find those responsible for her death and crush them for their mistake… Never hunt what can hunt you back.

In this special edition omnimus, fans of Killjoys, The Mandalorian and Dark Matter will fall right into the cockpit for an adrenaline-filled thriller that never lets up on the throttle.

Books in the Set:
Book 1: The Mongrel
Book 2: The Revenant
Book 3: The Sentinel

Featured Science Fiction: Alien Hunters (Alien Hunters Book 1)

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Featured Science Fiction: Alien Hunters (Alien Hunters Book 1)

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The skelkrins. Predators from deep space. Creatures of claws, fangs, and unending malice. They swarm across the galaxy, slaying all in their path. Planets burn in their wake. And now they’re heading to Earth.

Raphael “Riff” Starfire commands the Alien Hunters, a group of scruffy mercenaries. Galactic pest controllers, they mostly handle small critters–aliens that clog up your engine pipes, gnaw on your hull, or burrow through your silos.

Riff and his crew have never faced anything like the skelkrins before. As these cosmic killers invade our solar system, will Riff be the one hunting aliens . . . or will aliens hunt him?

ALIEN HUNTERS — a free space opera adventure for fans of Star Wars, Firefly, and Guardians of the Galaxy. (Get a deal on the next two books in series – get the boxset!)