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Featured Sci-fi: Just One Command by M.E. Harker

July 21, 2025 by Carolynn


Featured Sci-fi: Just One Command by M.E. Harker

FREE as of July 21, 2025
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In a space-faring future, janitorial engineer Casey Cassandra spends her days contentedly fixing robots on an ambassador’s spaceship. But when one of her robotic cleaning cubes happens to be in the wrong place at the right time, Casey overhears an ominous threat.

Someone is plotting to kill the ambassador, and that someone is a traitor within their own fleet.

Armed with only a hefty cleaning cube bot (named Charles) and her eccentric engineering knowledge, Casey must go against all fleet standards. She’ll have to break the rules in order to secretly warn her boss, Ambassador Dessian Tandor, that he’s in imminent danger — from his own people.

Although Dessian is hard-pressed to believe Casey’s claims, he can’t deny that things have been strange lately aboard his ship. With the help of a lazy yet charming pilot, Dessian and Casey escape from their spaceship home. Within a few hours, all three of them are publicly branded as criminals. On the run now, Casey and Dessian must find out why they’re being framed — and who they can trust, when the whole fleet seems to be against them.

It’s just one command between life and death, and somehow the ship’s janitor has found herself at the helm of a universe-wide conspiracy plot.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Just One Command, M.E. Harker

Featured Sci-fi: Not Alone Series by Craig Falconer

July 21, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Not Alone Series by Craig Falconer

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Aliens exist, the government knows, and Dan McCarthy just found the proof.

When Dan McCarthy stumbles upon a folder containing evidence of the conspiracy to end all conspiracies — a top-level alien cover-up — he leaks the files without a second thought.

The incredible truth revealed by Dan’s leak immediately captures the public’s imagination, but Dan’s relentless commitment to exposing the cover-up and forcing disclosure quickly earns him some enemies in high places.

For his whole life, Dan McCarthy has searched for a reason to believe. Now that he finally has one, he might soon wish he didn’t…

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Not Alone is a multi-time Kindle Unlimited All Star title and Audible.com ‘Best of 2016’ finalist. Dive in to a roller-coaster tale of contact and disclosure for the 21st century, with well over 100,000 copies sold.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Craig A. Falconer, Not Alone

Featured Sci-fi: Quiet Like Fire a Novella by Cameron Cooper

July 20, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Quiet Like Fire by Cameron Cooper

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In a fractured near-future, the United States has crossed the northern border—and nothing will ever be the same.

Evan Cano is a medic in occupied Alberta, treating wounds on both sides of a war she never chose: Homies, Maplebacks, and everyone caught in between.

When her wife disappears and the Dominion Defense Network offers protection at a cost, Evan is forced to flee. Across mountains. Across borders. Across the line between survival and resistance.

Science Fiction Novella

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Cameron Cooper, Quiet Like Fire

Featured Science Fiction: Exodus (The Exodus Trilogy Book 1) by Andreas Christensen

July 16, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Exodus (The Exodus Trilogy Book 1) by Andreas Christensen

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When mankind faces extinction, how can anyone survive?

In 2072, Earth faces the ultimate extinction event. In an America turned authoritarian, a race against time begins. To send a starship to a distant planet, where the remains of humanity can survive. Only a small number will be chosen for this final endeavor to save mankind from extinction, and among the contenders only the most resourceful will have a chance.

But while the government wants to choose loyal subjects in order to create another version of the society they have engineered, there are those who secretly conspire to let the starfarers choose their own destiny, free from the bonds of their mother world.

As mankind on Earth faces its final blow, the selected few set course for Aurora, more than 40 light years away!

Follow Tina Hammer, scramjet pilot and officer, Kenneth Taylor, Harvard professor and alienated by the nation he once held so dear, Maria Solis, daughter to one of the richest men in the world, a girl who would never have been chosen, except for her dad’s money, on their various paths toward the greatest adventure in human history.

“A race through the end of the Earth – excellent SF”

“Very well written and reads fast and easy in the style of other great sci fi writers such as Randolph Lalonde and Jack Campbell”

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Andreas Christensen, Exodus, The Exodus Trilogy

Featured Sci-fi: Talented (Talented Saga Book 1) by Sophie Davis

July 16, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Talented (Talented Saga Book 1) by Sophie Davis

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With over Half a Million worldwide downloads and Twenty-Eight Million pages read in Kindle

Unlimited, readers are raving about the Talented Saga: “X-Men meets Divergent in a new way.” “Intoxicatingly good.”

Block out thoughts.
Talia Lyons has one goal at the McDonough School for the Talented: learn to use her Talent as a Mental Manipulator to kill the man who murdered her parents.

Block out pain.
She’ll deal with anything. The brutal physical demands. The emotional toll. Whatever it takes to reach her objective.

Block out friendship.
With only one year left in the program, Talia is suddenly finding it harder than ever to ignore the rest of her life. Block out love. Even worse, she can’t seem to turn off her psychic connection to her first love…or quit thinking about her fascinating new teammate.

Feel only vengeance.
Ian Crane. The man who destroyed Talia’s life. The one she’s determined to eradicate.

Now focus.
It’s time to kill.

The Talented Saga is an award-winning and internationally bestselling Dystopian Romance series about the life of a girl with extraordinary psychic powers, and what happens when a heart is torn between love and rage…

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Sophie Davis, Talented, Talented Saga

Featured Sci-fi: Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton

July 15, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton

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“A fascinating, compulsively readable clash of hardware and ideals” in a stand-alone space opera from an acclaimed sci-fi author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

In the distant future, corporations have become sustainable communities with their own militaries, and corporate goals have essentially replaced political ideology.

On a youthful, rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined the military of a corporation that he now recognizes to be ruthless and exploitative. His only hope for escape is to earn enough money to buy his place in a better corporation. When his platoon is sent to a distant colony to quell a local resistance effort, it seems like a stroke of amazing fortune, and Lawrence plans to rob the colony of their fabled gemstone, the Fallen Dragon, to get the money he needs. However, he soon discovers that the Fallen Dragon is not a gemstone at all, but an alien life form that the local colonists have been protecting since it crashed in their area. Now, Lawrence has to decide if he will steal the alien to exploit the use of its inherent biotechnical processes—which far exceed anything humans are capable of—or if he will help the Resistance get the alien home.

“One of Hamilton’s best . . . undeniably a page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Fallen Dragon, Peter F. Hamilton

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