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Featured Sci-fi: Freedom’s Landing Book 1 by Anne McCaffrey

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Featured Sci-fi: Freedom's Landing Book 1 by Anne McCaffrey

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Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the spaceships floated into view above Denver. As human slaves were herded into the maw of a massive vessel, Kristin realized her normal life was over and her fight for freedom was just beginning…

The alien Catteni value strength and intelligence in their slaves—and Kristin has managed to survive her enslavement while hundreds of other humans have not. But her trial has just begun, for now she finds herself part of a massive experiment. The aliens have discovered a new world, and they have a simple way of finding out if it’s habitable: drop hundreds of slaves on the surface and see what happens.

If they survive, colonization can begin. If not, there are always more slaves.

Featured Science Fiction: It Ain’t Over (Cole & Srexx Book 1) by Robert M. Kerns

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Featured Science Fiction: It Ain't Over (Cole & Srexx Book 1) by Robert M. Kerns

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Buy a planet and disappear…

That’s all Cole wanted.

He spent thirteen years hiding on the fringes of society, piloting freighters for criminals and building a stash to do just that.

But life happens when you’re busy making plans.

When Cole chooses to save an ejected castaway and stumbles into a crew of his own, he starts down a path that will force him to choose.

Will Cole protect those who have become his people? Or will he slip away quietly in the night?Read Now to find out!

Featured Sci-fi: Farewell Amity Station by Frank Kennedy

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Featured Sci-fi: Farewell Amity Station by Frank Kennedy

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An empire on the brink. An enemy rises.
Two brothers fight the future.

Amity Station is the heartbeat of the forty-world People’s Collectorate. Three giant stations, each two miles long, connected by a train system called the Crossway. Built in the wake of war to unify humanity, it’s the center of galactic government and the most important scientific research.

It may also be the last refuge against a growing chaos.

Trevor and Connor Stallion, war survivors as children and bearers of a tarnished legacy, are thrown into a brewing conflict while enemies – seen and unseen – threaten the stability of an empire. Their story begins with a drug overdose that might signal much more and leads to subversive twists and turns in this five-book saga that will upend the shape of the galaxy.

Featured Sci-fi: Arena—The Complete Series by Daniel Young

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THEIR ARENA. HIS RULES.

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When Captain Joel Richmond is shot down during humanity’s war against the invading Brath, he crashes on a planet where combat isn’t just a means of war – it’s entertainment.

Sentenced to the Necrodrome, a deadly arena where prisoners pilot starships in lethal aerial battles for the masses, Richmond faces a stark choice: kill his fellow inmates or die trying.

But Richmond isn’t playing by their rules.

In a world where alliances mean death, he’s building them.

Where survival means destroying others, he’s uniting them.

His captors want a bloodthirsty spectacle – instead, they’re about to get a revolution.

There’s just one problem: no one has ever escaped the Necrodrome alive.

The Arena series offers an exciting adventure of survival, loyalty, and courage in the face of overwhelming odds!

Packed with space dogfights, daring rescues, alien intrigue and a hero pushed to his breaking point and beyond, the ARENA series is an action-packed sci-fi adventure that will leave you breathless until the final page.

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Featured Sci-fi: Legends of Earth by David Gwinn

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Featured Sci-fi: Legends of Earth by David Gwinn

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In this fast-paced science fiction interplanetary mystery thriller, FBI Special Agent Sharpe is one of the best in his field at tracking down outlaws. In pursuit of a female bank robber on the run, what should have been a simple arrest turns Sharpe’s world upside down when he realizes she has lured him through a space portal – and he’s not on Earth anymore.


Featured Sci-fi: Stars in Shadow by John Triptych

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Featured Sci-fi: Stars in Shadow by John Triptych

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The most lethal pirate crew in the galaxy just met their match.

In the far future, two major factions are locked in a galactic cold war. As tensions mount between the technocratic Union and the genome-harnessing Concordance, both sides anxiously watch for a chance to conquer the other.

The Nepenthe is a pirate vessel, loyal to neither. Led by the enigmatic Captain Dangard, her rough and ready crew includes the cat-like alien Commander Creull, Zeno the immortal synthetic, the dashing Garrett Strand, and Duncan Hauk, a promising young recruit.

Hired by a cryptic employer, the crew waylays a transport ship carrying a mysterious passenger. In due time, this incident sparks the beginnings of an interstellar conflict that could threaten the state of known space.

The first of an epic new sci-fi series, Nepenthe Rising delivers what today’s fans want: detailed world-building, thrilling action, and mind-blowing adventure on a grand scale.