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Featured Sci-fi: A Red Peace (The Starfire Trilogy Book 1) by Spencer Ellsworth

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A Red Peace, first in Spencer Ellsworth’s Starfire trilogy, is an action-packed space opera in a universe where the oppressed half-Jorian crosses have risen up to supplant humanity and dominate the galaxy.

Half-breed human star navigator Jaqi, working the edges of human-settled space on contract to whoever will hire her, stumbles into possession of an artifact that the leader of the Rebellion wants desperately enough to send his personal guard after. An interstellar empire and the fate of the remnant of humanity hang in the balance.

Spencer Ellsworth has written a classic space opera, with space battles between giant bugs, sun-sized spiders, planets of cyborgs and a heroine with enough grit to bring down the galaxy’s newest warlord.

Featured Science Fiction: Sojourn (Time Rovers Book 1) by Jana Oliver

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Featured Science Fiction: Sojourn (Time Rovers Book 1) by Jana Oliver

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Winner of 7 awards including the Prism Award for Time Travel

London, September 1888
For veteran Time Rover Jacynda Lassiter, her current job assignment is no big deal: Find an overdue “time tourist” and return him to 2057, before he changes history.

But when another Rover goes missing in Whitechapel the job becomes personal. Can she trust the two Victorian gentlemen who come to her aid, or do they have their own dark secrets? And who are the Transitives, the mysterious shapeshifters who can alter their identities? Is that magic or something else?

With her employer nearly bankrupt, Jacynda is literally running out of time. But being orphaned in the past isn’t the only threat she’ll face, not with Jack the Ripper on the hunt.

Unless she can outwit a murderer, her Victorian sojourn will end in the grave.

Featured Sci-Fi: Talman Prime (Interstellar Fleet Book 1) by J.J Green

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Featured Sci-Fi: Talman Prime (Interstellar Fleet Book 1) by J.J Green


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Three ships

One fleet

Many destinies

Setia Zees fled Earth to escape the clutches of a tyrannical master, becoming one of humanity’s first deep space colonists.

Her destination, Talman Prime, should be a pristine planet, never inhabited by intelligent life. That’s how it looks at first, but then Setia stumbles across what seem to be the remains of an ancient civilization.

The other colonists don’t agree. They think she’s crazy.

Can she convince them? Does it really matter?

When she discovers the aliens may still exist, it does.

Talman Prime is book one in the space mythic adventure, Interstellar Fleet.

Featured Sci-fi: Monster Squad by Heath Stallcup

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Featured Sci-fi: Monster Squad by Heath Stallcup

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Humanity has spent its time enjoying a peace that can only be had through blissful ignorance. For centuries, stories of monsters have been handed down through the generations.

When creatures of the night proved to be real, the best of America’s military came together to form an elite band of rapid response teams. Their mission: to keep the civilian populace safe from the creatures that go bump in the night and hide all evidence of their existence.

During a routine mission things go horribly wrong and the Monster Squad finds themselves having to rebuild from the ashes of what they once were. This time they face not only the monsters, but their own government as a dark storm brews on the horizon.

A storm that will threaten not just the squads and their existence, but the lives of every human on earth.

Featured Sci-Fi: Starship Waking by C. Gockel

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On an icy, barren world, a starship dreams of doom…


Throughout the galaxy, the reclusive alien race known as The One are incapacitated by terror.


On planet Luddeccea, wolf-human hybrid Volka harbors a terrible secret…a secret that must explain her nightmares.


Trapped on a luxurious asteroid, pleasure ‘bot 6T9 struggles to find purpose–until he receives a message from an Unidentified Caller.


The worlds of The One, Volka, and 6T9 are about to collide.

The galaxy will be shaken to its core.

The starship is waking.


Featured Science Fiction: Chaos Zone (Parse Galaxy Book 1) by Kate Sheeran Swed

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Featured Science Fiction: Chaos Zone (Parse Galaxy Book 1) by Kate Sheeran Swed

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Space travel is so overrated.

Bounty hunting isn’t any better, but it’s what Sloane Tarnish needs to do if she wants to fix the rundown spaceship her uncle dumped on her. So she can find him and dump it right back.

Problem A: Her uncle also ditched his motley crew–made up of a cranky ace pilot and an extraneous mad scientist–and they don’t exactly see her as the captain.

Problem B: Her ship’s too broken to leave the most dangerous system in the galaxy, where a recent power vacuum is turning the place into one orbiting cluster of fugitives, thugs, and swindlers.

When Sloane sets her sights on a bounty with a reward that will solve all her problems, the Commander of the Galactic Fleet himself shows up in pursuit of the same man. The last thing Sloane needs is to get tangled in a web of galactic politics–but she won’t let her prize go, either. The payoff is just too big to give up.But as dangers close in on all sides, she can’t help wondering if she’ll live to claim her prize…

Chaos Zone is the first installment in a new space opera series full of reckless women, messy worlds, and big adventures–perfect for fans of Guardians of the Galaxy and the Mandalorian. Order your copy of Chaos Zone now!