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Featured Sci-fi: Space Academy Dropouts by C.T. Phipps & Michael Suttkus

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Featured Sci-fi: Space Academy Dropouts by C.T. Phipps & Michael Suttkus

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUPERVILLAINY SAGA:

“Boldly going because they’re completely lost.”

The newly renamed Vance Turbo has sabotaged his own career at Space Fleet Academy due to a desire to atone for a training accident. Unfortunately, his actions result in him getting press-ganged into an expendable crew of misfits recruited by a legendary starship captain. Their mission? To recover a collection of lost sun-destroying missiles that could restart a galactic war. Unfortunately, Vance is smart enough to know something is wrong with this picture. After all, no sane person would recruit this crew to save the universe.

SPACE ACADEMY DROPOUTS is an all-new series from the hilarious duo of C.T. Phipps (Supervillainy Saga, Agent G) and Michael Suttkus (I Was a Teenage Weredeer, Lucifer’s Star) that lampoons the space opera as well as military science fiction genres.

Featured Sci-fi: Metal & Blood Complete Series by GJ Ogden

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– From Kindle Storyteller Award Winner, G J Ogden –

A spark of rebellion can topple an empire.When Finn Brasa is thrust into a deadly gladiatorial battle against high-tech assassins and intelligent robots, it’s all for the entertainment of the masses.

No one expected him to survive – least of all, Finn himself.

His reward? Status and riches. But what Finn truly hungers for is revolution. The common people are desperate for a leader to rise up and challenge the ruthless empire that has subjugated humanity for centuries.

From the streets of Earth’s last city to the colossal space station Nimbus, Finn will stop at nothing to crush humanity’s high-tech overlords.

He’s beaten the odds before – but can one man really bring down an empire?

Fans of sci-fi adventure, daring rebellions, and epic battles against deadly AI will love Metal and Blood. Read the complete series in this thrilling box set.

Featured Sci-fi: Fallen (Archangel Book 1) by Rick Partlow

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Featured Sci-fi: Fallen (Archangel Book 1) by Rick Partlow

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A new military sci-fi series by Rick Partlow, bestselling author of Drop Trooper and Taken to the Stars.

They pissed off the wrong soldier…

Brent Parthet just wanted to be left alone.A deadly supercommando in the Southwind War, Brent had retired a hero to a wildlife preserve as far from civilization as possible to enjoy the simple life with his wife and young son.

But when one of the Southwind, the massive, genetically-engineered slaves who’d rebelled against their human masters, shows up at Brent’s door, asking for help from an old enemy, Brent will find out that the war isn’t really over. And he may have been fighting for the wrong side.

Don’t miss the start of a new military science fiction series by Rick Partlow, bestselling author of Drop Trooper and Taken to the Stars. Filled with explosive and realistic military action as well as heroes you can’t help but root for, this is military Sci-Fi the way it’s meant to be!

Featured Sci-fi: Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse Book 1) by Jim C. Hines

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Featured Sci-fi: Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse Book 1) by Jim C. Hines

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A “damn hilarious” military science fiction series that “skates just on the right side of the line between clever absurdity and complete chaos”—for fans of Douglas Adams and John Scalzi (Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times–bestselling author)

Hugo Award–winning author Jim C. Hines introduces the unlikely heroes who may just save the galaxy from a zombie plague: a crew of space janitors.

The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. However, they happened to arrive after a mutated plague wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. You know—your standard apocalypse.

Now, a century later, human beings might not be what they once were, but at least they’re no longer trying to eat everyone. Mostly.
 
Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos is surprisingly bright (for a human). As a Lieutenant on the Earth Mercenary Corps Ship Pufferfish, she’s in charge of the Shipboard Hygiene and Sanitation team. When a bioweapon attack wipes out the Krakau command crew and reverts the rest of the humans to their feral state, only Mops and her team are left with their minds intact.

Escaping the attacking aliens—not to mention her shambling crewmates—is only the beginning. Sure, Mops and her team of space janitors and plumbers can clean the ship as well as anyone, but flying the damn thing is another matter. As they struggle to keep the Pufferfish functioning and find a cure for their crew, they stumble onto a conspiracy that could threaten the entire alliance… a conspiracy born from the truth of what happened on Earth all those years ago.

With Terminal Alliance, Jim Jim C. Hines takes us into a brand-new universe of entertainment certain to appeal to fans of both Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.

Featured Sci-fi: The Lure of Infinity (Bridgers Book 1 ) by Stan Smith

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Featured Sci-fi: The Lure of Infinity (Bridgers Book 1 ) by Stan Smith

FREE as of June 18, 2025
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Some worlds are better left alone.

Infinity Fowler has been fighting all her life. As a kid, she fought to survive. Then she fought professionally. When humans obtained the technology to bridge to alternate versions of Earth, she saw a chance for a new life. She signed up to become a bridger—an elite survival expert who protects tourists bridging to alternate worlds.

Desmond Weaver is making a last-ditch effort to complete his PhD in evolutionary biology. He has booked the excursion of a lifetime, a data-collecting mission to a vastly different version of Earth. If he fails, his career is over.

Infinity is Desmond’s assigned trainer and bridger. She’s one of the best, willing to die protecting tourists. She’s also willing to kill. When the time comes to bridge, Desmond and his two college roommates feel well prepared.

But they aren’t. Naked and weaponless, in an extraordinary world teeming with lethal predators, the team becomes entangled in a life-and-death struggle more terrifying than anything they could have imagined.

The Lure of Infinity, the first book in the Bridgers series, is for readers who love nonstop action, strange alien landscapes, and unforgettable characters.

Featured Sci-fi: Outcast Marines by James David Victor

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Featured Sci-fi: Outcast Marines by James David Victor

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A Military Science Fiction adventure from #1 Bestselling author James David Victor.

The Outcast Marines are the worst of the worst. If you’re conscripted, you will likely spend the rest of your days going on desperate missions that no one else can, or will, do. That’s an option Solomon, Jezzie, Malady, and the other Outcasts gladly took, though, because the alternative was certain death on a remote prison moon. And it’s a good thing too, because sometimes it takes some truly bad guys to save the day.

Outcasts of Earth is the first book in the Outcast Marines series. If you like science fiction with “heroes” who are anything but, the Outcast Marines will suck you into their battle to save humanity, from itself and the rest of the galaxy.

Download Outcasts of Earth and see if the “bad guys” can save humanity in the 23rd century!

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