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Featured Sci-fi: Third Loch From the Sun—a Scottish Sci-fi Adventure by Rex Burke

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Featured Sci-fi: Third Loch From the Sun—a Scottish Sci-fi Adventure by Rex Burke

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Secrets come in all shapes and sizes

Jake has left it late, and the only summer job he can find is on the remote Scottish island of Elsay. Still, that sounds fine – the work isn’t too hard, the pay’s all right, and the scenery is great.

But he soon has second thoughts about staying. His boss, Fraser, is a bit of a rogue, while Fraser’s cute but snippy daughter, Alva, takes against him from the start. And the oddball characters in the local pub aren’t exactly welcoming.

Then Jake stumbles on an extraordinary secret that changes everything that’s known about the universe. A secret he can scarcely believe. A secret that Alva and the island recluse, Ruan Strang, have sworn to protect at all costs.

As the mystery deepens, the questions only mount – and none of the answers make any sense. Plus, Jake’s falling for Alva and she still hasn’t so much as smiled at him.

One thing’s for certain – he’s not going anywhere until the full, fantastic truth is revealed.

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Featured Sci-fi: Starship Ass Series Sale by Ethan Freckleton and J.R. Frontera

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Featured Sci-fi: Of Donkeys, Gods, and Space Pirates (Starship Ass Book 1) by Ethan Freckleton and J.R. Frontera

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Donkeys. Pirates. Pizza.

Symbiont Harry—rejected by his tribe, exiled from home, and braying at the stars—is imprisoned in the form of a donkey.

Trapped on an interstellar livestock vessel, Harry dreams of being loved, or at least having a decent conversation.

Space pirates capture the ship, hoping to score. What to do with a hold full of livestock? And what’s with the wisecracking donkey?

When a galactic animal contest promises a fortune, the talking donkey starts to look like a potential winner—if only he can lay off the pizza.

Buy or BURRO this wonderful series today and see why readers can’t wait to get more Starship Ass!

★★★★★ ‘Sweet, adorable, emotive, hilarious, action-packed!’

★★★★★ ’Loved the Guardians of the Galaxy vibe…fast, funny, and fresh sci-fi writing.’

★★★★★ ’Why would you not want to read the adventures of a Star Trek-loving symbiont slash donkey duo, and his pirate crew?’

Featured Sci-fi: Frontier Corps (Forlorn Hope Book 1) by Joe Kassabian

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Featured Sci-fi: Frontier Corps (Forlorn Hope Book 1) by Joe Kassabian

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They fight the wars nobody else wants to.

The Frontier Corps are the Terran Empire’s repository for failures, malcontents, criminals, and other people with nothing left to lose but to sign their names on the dotted line of a ten year contract for another shot at life.

But flung across the stars to face horrifying enemies, it may as well be a death sentence.

Pari Petrosyan is a grizzled veteran of the Corps. With only a few months left of her contract, she has her mind on her discharge papers. Her easy path on her way to freedom is interrupted when a new commander arrives, ready to launch a large-scale military offensive to finally end the conflict she had spent her entire career fighting.

Caught between the grinding war machines of the empire and the inhuman monstrosities known as the Resh, Pari has to try to survive if she ever hopes to be free.

Experience the start of a Military Sci-Fi series from Joe Kassabian, author of the Liberty of Death Series. This gritty, space marine boots-on-the-ground series is perfect for fans of Rick Partlow, Galaxy’s Edge: Legionnaire, and Starship Troopers.

Featured Sci-fi: The Survivors Box Set Books 1 – 6 by Nathan Hystad

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Get the first six books of the epic space adventure in one collection. Over 1500 pages together for the first time.

The ships came at dawn.

Dean’s wife is dead. Her last words: When the ships come…wear the necklace. Then the ships arrived. Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky. Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth. A trail of clues left by his dead wife guide Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond, to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom. But not everything is as it seems. Begin the epic Survivors series by best-selling author Nathan Hystad today.

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Featured Sci-fi: Terminus (Fringe Worlds #1) by Kevin Hardman

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Featured Sci-fi: Terminus (Fringe Worlds #1) by Kevin Hardman

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Master Sergeant Gant Maker was a highly-decorated and well-respected Marine – until his last mission left him as the sole survivor of an encounter with a vicious race called the Vacra. Served up as a scapegoat and drummed out of the military, he has since lived a life of seclusion with only an adopted alien as a companion.

Now the Vacra have returned. As the only person to have ever faced them and survived, Maker is reinstated in the Corps and given the onerous task of finding this enemy on a world located at the edge of known space. Assisting him is an unlikely band of military rejects, including a blind sharpshooter, an unstable psychic, and a genetically-engineered killing machine who refuses to fight.

Given that the Vacra have superior weapons and technology, Maker recognizes that his team is at a distinct disadvantage. But Marines are nothing if not resourceful, and Maker has an audacious plan that just may level the playing field – if it doesn’t get them all killed.

Featured Sci-fi: Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

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Featured Sci-fi: Eversion by Alastair Reynolds

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Editor’s Note: I checked out the Audible version. It sounds riveting. I may have to get it. Not that I don’t have hundreds of other books I want to read …

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and space, where Doctor Silas Coade is tasked with keeping his crew safe as they adventure across the galaxy in search of a mysterious artifact.In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it’s up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.