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Featured Sci-fi: The Kurgan War by Richard Turner

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Featured Sci-fi: The Kurgan War by Richard Turner

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When war comes after a century of peace, it is sudden and brutal. Taken by surprise Earth’s far-flung colonies are in danger.

The only son of an admiral, Second Lieutenant Michael Sheridan finds himself thrust into a desperate conflict that he and the untried soldiers under his command are not ready for. Focusing on the people struggling to survive the onslaught, First Strike is a novel that propels the reader to the furthest limits of space. Fighting a ruthless and determined enemy, Sheridan soon learns the brutal lessons of war and that his enemy may not be what it appears to be.

Featured Sci-fi: The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files Book 1) by Charles Stross

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Featured Sci-fi: The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files Book 1) by Charles Stross

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The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross’s witty Laundry Files series

Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob’s under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe—but then he went and got Noticed.

Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . .

Featured Sci-fi: Four Minutes by Brian Andrews & Jeff Wilson

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Featured Sci-fi: Four Minutes by Brian Andrews & Jeff Wilson

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Four Minutes is the latest brilliant techno-thriller from the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling duo behind the Sons of Valor series.

It is said that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, but what if you remove the one thing no one can control: uncertainty about the future?

Special Operations Chief Tyler Brooks might not know quantum mechanics, or have an eidetic memory, but he is the very best in the world at one thing: leading covert ops. When an unpredictable enemy causes the catastrophic loss of his entire SEAL team, Brooks is recruited by Pat Moody to lead a new elite squad, Task Force Omega. Moody’s promise—access to mind-bending tech that grants a glimpse of the future.

Together with Navy Intelligence Specialist Zee Williams, Brooks leads a new kind of counterterrorism task force, one that collects intel from the future to stop attacks in the present. But there’s a catch. Each mission can only last FOUR MINUTES. Stakes quickly escalate when Omega discovers an unprecedented future attack against America threatening the lives of millions—including Tyler’s daughter.

Despite their prescient advantage, Brooks and Williams find themselves thwarted at every turn as they try to stop the plot. To make matters worse, they have somehow gone from hunter to hunted, targeted by an unknown enemy hidden in the shadows. With the country on the brink of nuclear war, Tyler’s daughter in mortal danger, and a commanding officer they’re not sure they can trust, Omega Team faces a terrible dilemma: Even if you know the future, is FOUR MINUTES enough time to change it?

Featured Sci-fi: MOON BASE DELTA (The Complete Trilogy) by Gerald M. Kilby

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Featured Sci-fi: MOON BASE DELTA (The Complete Trilogy) by Gerald M. Kilby

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When a high-energy solar storm causes a cascade of destruction to the vast satellite constellations that orbit Earth, the ever-increasing debris cloud makes travel back to the home planet impossible.

For the thousands of colonists now stranded on the Lunar colonies and beyond, all caught in the grinding gears of this unfolding catastrophe, only one brutal choice remains — survive or die.

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Featured Sci-fi: Lost Souls (Book 1 of the Get Lost Saga) by Noah Chinn

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Featured Sci-fi: Lost Souls (Book 1 of the Get Lost Saga) by Noah Chinn

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A smuggler, a stowaway slave, and a pirate find themselves on a collision course deep in the no-man’s-land of space, tracking a mystery that’s centuries old.

Maurice “Moss” Foote is down to his last hundred credits, which he needs to get his old ship back and start over. Again. But then, Moss is so familiar with rock bottom he has his mail forwarded there.

Hel was born a slave, or maybe she wasn’t. It’s confusing, just like the compulsion that keeps her building… something. When she sees an opportunity to escape aboard a ship, she takes it, not realizing the trouble she’s in for.

Roy “Hellno” Herzog is a pirate who prefers to work alone. Now he’s got a lead on a prize so big it could set him up for life, if he can stomach working with other people. All he has to do is track down one runaway slave.

“An action-packed space romp with a dry sense of humor that will appeal to fans of The Orville who wish that show was more like Firefly.” – Marcus Alexander Hart of the Galaxy Cruise series

Featured Sci-fantasy: The Excalibur Knights Saga Omnibus Books 1 -3 by Luke Mitchell

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Featured Sci-fantasy: The Excalibur Knights Saga Omnibus Books 1 -3 by Luke Mitchell

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An ancient legend. A snarky sword. And a reluctant hero who’s about to regret everything.

Nate Arturi never wanted to save the world. He wanted to graduate, land a decent job, and maybe figure out why his neighbor’s corgi keeps climbing onto roofs. But when a deranged alien beacon wakes up on Earth, Nate’s mundane life goes up in smoke—literally.

Ambushed by an alien monster, saddled with a sarcastic sword, and scammed by a scruffy wizard claiming to be the Merlin, Nate is thrown into an adventure that’s way above his pay grade. Worse still, an alien armada is gunning for Earth, and Nate might be the only thing standing between humanity and fiery oblivion.

But saving Earth is just the beginning. To survive, Nate must rise from reluctant hero to full-blown legend, even if it means facing galaxy-spanning conspiracies, ancient grudges, and more foul-mouthed AI sass than anyone should have to endure.

The Excalibur Knights Saga Omnibus brings together the first three explosive novels (The Eighth Excalibur, The Black Knight, and Spoils of War) with several exclusive bonus stories from the universe. If you love high-stakes adventure, laugh-out-loud banter, and underdog heroes who never quit, this 1,800+ page epic will keep you hooked till the very last page.

Included in this collection:

– The Eighth Excalibur (Book 1)
– The Black Knight (Book 2)
– Spoils of War (Book 3)
– Flight of the Huntress (short story)
– The Last Good Boy (short story)
– The Complete Meyerwitz Logs (novelette)
– The Leftovers (serial spin-off)

Don’t miss your chance to dive into the galaxy-spanning Arthurian space opera that readers are calling “hilarious, heartfelt, and impossible to put down.”