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Featured Sci-fi: The Tradepoint Saga the Complete Trilogy by LL Blacklocke

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Featured Sci-fi: The Tradepoint Saga the Complete Trilogy by LL Blacklocke

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Get the Tradepoint Saga Box Set, featuring all three books in the series. 1000+ pages of space opera filled with political intrigue, mystery, and a diverse cast of alien characters!

Nine hundred Vennans undertake a cultural exchange to Tradepoint, a space station where aliens from different worlds meet to do business. A young and gifted Speaker, Gredin, is translator and diplomat for the happy occasion.

But a horrific vision shatters her first night’s sleep on Tradepoint. Venna, their homeworld, has been destroyed. Now, the safety of the delegation, the only Vennans left in all of time and space, rests on Gredin’s young shoulders.

Stunned and grieving, she navigates trade wars and political prejudice, bartering with other races — some friendly, some neutral, some outright hostile – for what her people need to survive. And the cost of failure is the unthinkable.

Extinction.

Buy this special-edition omnibus to experience this complete space-opera trilogy today. This coming-of-age tale is perfect for fans of CJ Cherryh, Arkady Martine, Wen Spencer, and Star Trek: Picard.

This bundle contains three full-length novels: Refuge, Aftershock, and The Bereft.

Featured Science Fiction: The Galactic Mage by John Daulton

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Featured Science Fiction: The Galactic Mage by John Daulton

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Altin Meade is a sorcerer with a curse. Seeking to avoid a looming doom, he sets his magical sights on the stars—a quest that will likely bring about the very consequence he’s seeking to escape.

Far across the galaxy, Ensign Orli Pewter of planet Earth has a looming doom of her own—one of loneliness, depression and, worse, a race of genocidal aliens known as “Hostiles” seeking to destroy humanity. Trapped aboard a spaceship she never asked to be upon, Orli is in a fight for both her life and her sanity.

Worlds apart, Altin and Orli share a destiny, but neither knows the other is alive. The Hostiles know. And they have other plans.

Featured Science Fiction: Port State

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke

There are many ways to test humanity to destruction. Serving tea and cakes is one of them.

And it is over tea and cakes that the enigmatic Mr. Day makes his proposition to skeptical diplomat Thaddeus Maine.

The offer is for the United Kingdom to become the sole distributor of technology so advanced as to be out of this world. A conduit, delivering wonders to the rest of the globe.

Naturally, the United Kingdom will want to attach a premium, to cover their costs and so forth…

But when it comes to a sufficiently advanced technology, we are so conditioned by what we see at the movies that the real thing no longer seems magical.

And unfortunately, that’s exactly what happens.

Featured Science Fiction: Blackout the Complete Seres by Daniel Young

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Featured Science Fiction: Blackout the Complete Seres by Daniel Young

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SAVE THEIR WORLDS? CHECK. DON’T KILL EACH OTHER? MEH.

A stubborn captain, an angry gunner, an alien trickster, a haughty monster, and a pair of twin assassins.

When it comes to motley crews, the Blackout has most starships beat.

But as a ruthless force swarms over the quadrant, crushing and enslaving all civilizations in its path, it might fall to this unlikely band of non-heroes to turn the tide.

If they don’t end up killing each other first.

Blackout: The Complete Series is old-fashioned space opera at its best, perfect for fans of action-packed drama and fun!

If the top things you look for in your sci-fi are…

  1. Action.
  2. Action.
  3. Action!

…then welcome to your next binge read.

Note: The Blackout series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you’re interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you’re looking for action-packed adventures on strange worlds with even stranger aliens, this series is for you!

Featured Sci-fi: The Left Hand of Dog (Starship Teapot Book 1) by SI Clarke

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Featured Sci-fi: The Left Hand of Dog (Starship Teapot Book 1) by SI Clarke

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Escaping intergalactic kidnappers has never been quite so ridiculous.

When Lem and her faithful dog, Spock, retreat from the city for a few days of hiking in Algonquin Park, the last thing they expect is to be kidnapped by aliens. No, scratch that. The last thing they expect is to be kidnapped by a bunch of strangely adorable intergalactic bounty hunters aboard a ship called the Teapot.

After Lem falls in with an unlikely group of allies – including a talking horse, a sarcastic robot, an overly anxious giant parrot, and a cloud of sentient glitter gas – the gang must devise a cunning plan to escape their captors and make it back home safely.

But things won’t be as easy as they first seem. Lost in deep space and running out of fuel, this chaotic crew are faced with the daunting task of navigating an alien planet, breaking into a space station, and discovering the real reason they’re all there…

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Featured Science Fiction: Gunn and Salvo Box Set 1 – 4 by Joshua James

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Featured Science Fiction: Gunn and Salvo Box Set 1 - 4 by Joshua James

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TWO (MOSTLY) HONEST BOUNTY HUNTERS. ONE UNIMAGINABLE ALIEN SECRET.

When deep space bounty hunters Gunn and Salvo chase down a teenager linked to the catastrophic loss of a space station, everything about the job feels off.

For starters, the stolen ship is full of priceless treasures from humanity’s lost past.

And then there’s the target itself. It ain’t quite human, at least not like anybody has seen before.

But the biggest red flag of them all? Honest people are lying.

So Gunn and Salvo do the one thing they swore they would never do on a job: Get curious.

Before they know it, they’re the ones on the run with a bounty on their heads … and the fate of humanity in their hands.

Included in the Gunn and Salvo Box Set:

  • Galaxy Run
  • Friendly Fire
  • Calypso End
  • Bygone Star

What readers are saying about book 1:

★★★★★ “It made me fall in love with space stories!!”

★★★★★ “LOTS of action, LOTS of twists, LOTS of fun!”

★★★★★ “fantastic non-stop action and a delicious amount of sarcasm.”

If you like your sci-fi packed with colorful characters and pulse-pounding action, JUMP IN.