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Featured Sci-fi: Crystal Singer (Crystal Singer Trilogy Book 1) by Anne McCaffrey

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Featured Sci-fi: Crystal Singer (Crystal Singer Trilogy Book 1) by Anne McCaffrey

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“No dragons, but [Crystal Singer] has all of [Anne] McCaffrey’s gifts for world-building and characterization . . . an excellent book.”—Chicago Sun-Times

Her name was Killashandra Ree; and after ten grueling years of musical training she was young, beautiful—and still without prospects. 

Then she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild on the planet Ballybran, where the fabled Black Crystal was found.

For those qualified, the Guild was said to provide careers, security, and the chance for wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who landed on Ballybran ever left.

To Killashandra the risks were acceptable . . .

Featured Science Fiction: Murder on a Moon Trek (Sylvia Stryker Space Mysteries Book 1) by Diane Vallere

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Featured Science Fiction: Fly Me to the Moon by Diane Vallere

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It’s as if Star Trek married a cozy…very well done! Read and enjoy!” – Sharyn, Goodreads

Sylvia Stryker wants a job on a cruise ship. A family scandal led to a white lie. Will a dead body in her ward change the trajectory of her life?

Sylvia Stryker used to help run her parents’ dry ice farm, until her dad’s arrest nearly left them bankrupt. But after finagling a job on board an outer space cruise ship, she’s ready to explore all that outer space has to offer. With a private room in the staff quarters, her robot cat by her side, and the responsibilities of uniform management, Sylvia is thrilled to return to work – until she discovers the second navigation officer dead in the inventory closet.

Neptune, the head of ship security, finds Sylvia’s presence to be the most suspicious part of the incident; that’s what happens when you hack your way into a last-minute job opportunity! But despite his efforts to pin the murder on Sylvia, she won’t accept how the clues are unfolding. And if Sylvia doesn’t expose the murderer on the cruise, then she’ll never learn the truth about her family.

Fly Me to the Moon is the quirky first novel featuring uniform lieutenant Sylvia Stryker. If you like unique characters, delightful plots, and cool futuristic fashion, or read cozy favorites like Dakota Cassidy or Joanne Fluke, you’ll love Diane Vallere’s entertaining interstellar series.

“This is where Diane Vallere shines — giving you the unexpected and yet exactly what you didn’t even know you wanted. A galaxy of stars to the author!” — Barbara, Goodreads

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Featured Sci-fi: Rogue Stars 7 Novels of Space Exploration and Adventure by Multiple Authors

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Featured Sci-fi : Rogue Stars 7 Novels of Space Exploration and Adventure

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Sometimes you have to go Rogue …

Jump into seven full-length novels exploring the last great frontier. Rogue Stars has alien invasions, artificial intelligence, galactic intrigue, and heroes that will defy orders to do what is right.

Blast off to new worlds. Download this collection today.

About the Books:

Archangel Down – C. Gockel
Commander Noa Sato doesn’t believe in aliens. She’s wrong. In the face of genocide she must hatch a daring plan with a ragtag crew to save the lives of millions—and her own. Every step of the way she is haunted by the final words of a secret transmission: The archangel is down.

Betrayal – Pippa DaCosta
She is programmed to kill. He’ll do anything to survive.
In a world where only one thousand synthetics were built, synthetic #1001 should not exist. She is no ordinary synth and the memories locked inside her code could bring the entire Nine systems, an ex-con Captain Caleb Shepperd, to their knees.

Quantum Tangle – Chris Reher
A deep cover agent fights to keep the enemy as well as his own people from taking control of a strange alien that has invaded his ship, his mind and his life. It’s high adventure in deep space where the voices inside your head are all too real.

Starshine – G. S. Jennsen
Space is vast and untamed, and it holds many secrets. Now two individuals from opposite ends of settled space are on a collision course with the darkest of those secrets, even as the world threatens to explode around them.

Hard Duty – Mark E. Cooper
In the far future, nanotechnology will be all that keeps us alive in a brutal war with the Merkiaari. Into this war-torn galaxy a courageous Marine, an alien geneticist, and a broken hero will unite in common cause to oppose the coming onslaught.

Ambassador 1 – Patty Jansen
In Coldi society, you can get killed for looking a superior in the eye. Never mind accusing him of murder.

Lunar Discovery – Salvador Mercer
Alien technology has been discovered on the moon, and NASA scientist, Richard “Rock” Crandon must lead a desperate race to get there before America’s rivals. But it isn’t just the fate of Earth that is at stake in this exciting adventure.

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Featured Sci-fi: Bypass Gemini (Big Sigma Book 1) by Joseph Lallo

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Featured Sci-fi : Bypass Gemini by Joseph Lallo

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In a distant future, Trevor “Lex” Alexander was shaping up to be the next great race pilot until a fixed race got him banned from the sport.

Reduced to making freelance deliveries, he thinks his life can’t get any worse.

That’s when a package manages to get him mixed up with mobsters, a megacorp, and a mad scientist. Now his life depends on learning what their plans are, and how he can stop them.

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Featured Sci-fi: Alien Genesis (Eden’s Angels Book 1) by Gary Beene

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Featured Sci-fi: Alien Genesis (Eden's Angels Book 1) by Gary Beene

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In 1954, Ensign James Cortell wakes up from a coma with memories of an alien scientist who had visited Earth some fifty thousand years ago. Years later, he realizes this knowledge should not be taken to his grave.

Earth’s extraterrestrial visitors altered Homo sapien DNA to produce modern humans. Soon the industrialist overlords among the alien race realize that genetically altered humans offer a source of cheap labor. A galactic slave trade is born. When an unplanned mutation begins causing gigantism among some of the sapiens, Dr. Kadeya and her grandson, Ramuell, travel to Earth and plan to rectify the situation.

As the scientific and industrialist factions of Earth’s rulers clash, Kadeya and Ramuell are caught in the middle. But behind the scenes, an even greater power is at play, and very soon their future – and the future of both races now inhabiting the planet – will change forever.

Featured Sci-fi: Project Mind River Book 1 by Dave Spacer

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Featured Sci-fi: Project Mind River Book 1 by Dave Spacer

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In the near future, the world has changed in wonderful and dangerous ways.

Tara invented a sentient AI, but it was lost in a fire.

Many accidental deaths are happening throughout the country. The only problem is that many of them are government agents or criminals.

Tara and two FBI agents need to find out what’s happening before it’s too late.

The future is in jeopardy. Read the Sci-Fi story of what tech leaders fear. Buy your copy today!