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Featured Sci-fi: Darklanding Omnibus (Books 1 – 3) by Scott Moon & Craig Martelle

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Featured Sci-fi: Darklanding Omnibus (Books 1 - 3) by Scott Moon & Craig Martelle

FREE as of March 30, 2025
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A frontier world. One Sheriff. And all the action one Spaceport can’t hold.

Darklanding is the wild, wild west of known space. Sheriff Thaddeus Fry will never completely leave the battlefields of Centauri Prime. His assignment as the Sheriff of Darklanding, could be a do-nothing job, or it could get him killed.

Book 01 – Faced with a dangerous collapse that could kill hundreds of workers, the new sheriff leaps into action and gets the story of Darklanding started.

Book 02 – There’s unrest among the miners. Desperation sets in for the Company Man. One wrong decision will destroy her career. The sheriff doesn’t care about any of that. There are strangers in town. One or all of them may be enemies. And how does a mysterious runaway fit into the picture?

Book 03 – Unrefined ore is moved by a state of the art mono-rail from the mines to the spaceport. It’s never gone off the tracks. Until now. What kind of crew is crazy enough to mess with SagCon’s investments?

Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this new series. Pick up this first of four Darklanding Omnibuses today.

Featured Sci-fi: Genesis Earth Book 1 by Joe Vasicek

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Featured Sci-fi: Genesis Earth Book 1 by Joe Vasicek

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The ultimate voyage of discovery ends with the truth about yourself.

Michael Anderson never thought he would set foot on an Earthlike world. Born on the farthest edge of the solar system, he studies planets from afar. But when his parents open a wormhole and discover signs of intelligent life on the other side, Michael is the only planetologist young enough to voyage to the alien star.

He is not alone, but Terra, his sole mission partner, is no more of an adult than he is. Soon after their arrival, she begins keeping secrets from him. But she doesn’t realize that her darkest secret is one that he already knows.

Twenty light-years away from humanity, what they discover on the alien world forces them to question their deepest beliefs about the universe—and about what it means to be human.

Featured Sci-fi: The Uplift Storm Trilogy: Brightness Reef, Infinity’s Shore, Heaven’s Reach (The Uplift Saga) by David Brin

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The award-winning author’s complete second trilogy of the Uplift Saga, featuring a planet of refugees, a fugitive Earthling ship, and her dolphin/human crew.

Brightness Reef

Six outcast races hunker down on the off-limits planet Jijo when a mysterious starship lands. However, it doesn’t bring the “law” they feared, but something worse—a dark secret the invaders will do anything to keep . . .

Infinity’s Shore

Earthship Streaker, with its dolphin and human crew, has been on the run for three years after discovering a derelict armada whose mere existence seems to drive the Five Galaxies mad. With Earth under siege and nowhere to turn, Streaker has come to far-off, isolated Jijo in search of sanctuary amid its population of secret refugees. Unfortunately, they’ve been followed . . .

Heaven’s Reach

With the arrival of deadly enemies, the peaceful isolation of Jijo’s six exile races has ended. While the races join forces to fight invaders, the Earthship Streaker must lure other foes into weird layers of the unknown. Meanwhile, a dire prophecy may put the entire universe at risk . . .

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Featured Sci-fi: Battlestations (Iron Fleet Book 1) by Daniel Gibbs

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Featured Sci-fi: Battlestations (Iron Fleet Book 1) by Daniel Gibbs

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“Battlestations is bold, action-packed military science fiction with characters so real, they feel alive—exactly what I’ve come to expect from Daniel Gibbs. Once you pick it up, you won’t put it down until the book’s finished.” – Rhett C. Bruno, USA Today Best-Selling Author

War never promised an easy tomorrow.

Lt. Colonel Arthur Hanson suffers from imposter syndrome. While grateful for promotion to second-in-command of the CSV Margaret Thatcher, he’s still a nerdy engineer at heart. The CDF’s presence in the Orion Spur is to project strength and maintain peace among the former League-held settlements. Confronting minor skirmishes is a cakewalk compared to open war.

But freedom demands a price.

Without warning, coordinated terrorist strikes across the Spur leave the fleet limping on life support. The Margaret Thatcher herself narrowly escapes destruction—at an unspeakable cost.

With the fleet decimated and backup stalled behind political power plays, Colonel Hanson is forced into shoes he feels ill-qualified to fill. But as ranking officer, survivors look to him to lead the charge against terrorists who wantonly rape and murder with no regard for the innocent.

Now Arthur must steel his spine and rise to the challenge of his namesake ship.

Because the Iron Lady does not turn from the fight.

Featured Sci-fi: The 28th Gate Volume 1 by Christopher C. Dimond

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With a stolen experimental starship and a pair of advanced synthetic limbs, Hunter isn’t an average bounty hunter.

“A gunslinger adventure with good, clean fun!”

When he accepted the job on a backwater planet, Hunter thought it would be easy. He and his partner just had to track down a missing researcher. But when they find her, she’s fled a quarter of the way around the massive ring of twenty-seven gates and Hunter realizes all is not as he was told.

That simple realization, and Hunter’s drive for retribution, kick off a series of adventures leading to the most important discovery since the fall of the Gate Age—and put him in direct confrontation with the corp he’s been running from for the past 10 revolutions.

Set in a far distant future, The 28th Gate is a series of tales that will appeal of fans who like space marines, space fleets, and military hard science fiction. The series consists of eight volumes spread across four seasons telling the story of Hunter’s struggles against the AAA corporation that created him. Each volume contains six episodic novelettes each with the action, character, and plotting of a complete story all crammed into an espresso-like package, while each season chronicles a different arc in the overall epic.

Join the adventure now in Volume 1!

Featured Sci-fi: The Time Bubble Box Sets Books 1 – 5 by Jason Ayres

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Featured Sci-fi: The Ti0me Bubble Box Sets Books 1 - 5 by Jason Ayres

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Time travel fans will love this innovative and bestselling series – now available in this handy collection which contains the first five of the original Time Bubble books.

1) The Time Bubble
Join the Time Bubble team on their very first adventure, set in 2018, as they stumble upon the means to travel to the future.

2) Global Cooling
Ten years after the events of The Time Bubble, the world is gripped by a catastrophic climate event. Can time travel provide an escape?

3) Man Out of Time
Imagine finding yourself 22 years in the future, cast adrift in a world where your home is no longer yours, your currency is worthless, and you’ve been declared legally dead.

4) Splinters in Time
What would it be like to be lost, not only in time but in a myriad of parallel universes, each eerily similar, yet different from our own?

5) Class of ’92
Relive the 1990s in this thrilling time travel extravaganza! If you were flung back to 1992, what would you do?

Begin your journey today, with each book building upon the last to craft an epic narrative that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Every book in the series will take you on a rollercoaster ride of innovation and ingenuity, presenting fresh, original ideas that push the boundaries of the time travel genre, alongside a rich cast of characters who intertwine throughout.

Two further box sets containing books 6 – 10 and 11 – 15 are also available.