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Featured Sci-fi: A Dead Ship in the Deep Black (Dominion Chronicles The Lyra Cycle Episode 1) by Rene Astle

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Rule number 1: Whatever you do, don’t open the box.

Well, that’s rule number two actually. Rule number one is don’t take salvage jobs from people who’ve tried to sell you to an Antillian bug salesman.

Neara “Tink” Bell is used to a life of odd jobs and even odder crewmates, working as the engineer and all-around fixer on the cargo ship Lyra. But when the ship picks up two new crew members and a salvage job on a third-rate space station, things go sideways in a cosmic way.

Alek Wa is on the run. And he’s pretty sure he can hide amongst the motley crew of Lyra. But that’s not the only reason he’s on-board. He has a mission. If only his minders had told him what it was.

Captain Rebeka Mino just wants to retire with a whiskey and a steamy novel. She’d even let the ship’s cat sit on her lap, provided he keeps his claws to himself. Too bad the ship keeps getting shot at.

And when they arrive at the coordinates for the salvage job, they’re confronted by a dead ship in the deep black.

Can Tink keep the Lyra running despite unexplained accidents? Can Alek outrun the people hunting him? Can Rebeka prevent their pursuers from blowing them up? Most importantly, can they keep their curiosity in check and not look in the box?

Find out now in this rollercoaster ride of a sci-fi adventure!

Featured Sci-fi: The Old Chrome Box Set (Book 1 – 3) by I. O. Adler

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Featured Sci-fi: The Old Chrome Box Set (Book 1 - 3) by I. O. Adler

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Hunter or Hunted?

After fleeing River City with a body full of hardware he doesn’t own, Miles Kim seeks refuge from Meridian Corporation in the wasteland town of Seraph. But Miles has a head full of secrets he can’t access.

All too soon, he learns his former masters aren’t ready to release an old soldier like him so easily. And Seraph has its own criminals, mercenaries, and bounty hunters who are all on the lookout for a payday.

Unfortunately for them, Miles Kim won’t go down so easily.

The Old Chrome Boxed set includes the following complete novels:

  • The Seraph Engine
  • The Atomic Ballerina
  • A Haunt of Jackals.

Discover a new favorite series in this post-apocalyptic cyberpunk adventure.
Grab your copy of the box set and enjoy the ride!

Featured Science Fiction: The Complete Earth Genesis Trilogy by Joe Vasicek

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Featured Science Fiction: The Complete Earth Genesis Trilogy by Joe Vasicek

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The ultimate voyage of discovery ends with the truth about yourself. The ultimate truth requires you to sacrifice your innocence. The ultimate redemption can only be gained after you confront the past.

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.

This omnibus edition contains:

Genesis Earth
Edenfall
The Stars of Redemption

Featured Sci-Fi Series: Deadmen’s War by Anthony Melchiorri

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Featured Sci-Fi Series: Deadmen's War by Anthony Melchiorri

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From the ashes of the ancients, a cataclysmic new threat rises.

Born on a forsaken desert planet, Cole Shaw has two options – perish from starvation and disease, or enlist in the New World Republic’s armed forces. He chooses the military. For the first time, he thinks he has a shot at a better life. But survival is not guaranteed.

Leading an elite team of mech operators, he is deployed to a frozen planet called Ferrous where dangerous relics of a past war lurk beneath the ice and savage creatures prowl the barren wastelands. Scientists on Ferrous are chasing rumors of godlike technologies buried in the ruins of a long-extinct civilization. When Shaw and his team are assigned to protect the researchers, they face an unexpected, merciless new enemy desperate to stop them.

An ancient secret has been awakened on Ferrous. The deadly race to claim this terrifying power has only just begun.

Featured Sci-fi: Nexus Movie on Pfaffen Skylands (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 4) by Ginger Booth

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Featured Sci-fi: Nexus Movie on Pfaffen Skylands (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 4) by Ginger Booth

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Nexus makes a movie.

Nexus visits planet Pfaffen to make a movie, Hidden in Plain Sight, to popularize the new three-species alliance. He’d rather study the cloud-tree skylands.

But his job is technical consultant, liaison to the aliens.

All three species live on the Pfaffen skylands. But a croc spy base, and the reclusive testudo, remained hidden. Humans never knew.

Three problems. First, Nexus’s digital friends demand equal standing as sentient species. He isn’t worried about the robot mink. But his translator was the victor in Earth’s AI Wars.

Second, for the movie, aliens can’t act. Nexus has enough trouble briefing the human actors.

Third, the Pfaffen crocs work for the Hierophant – the shadow power of fortune-telling oracles who advise the croc emperors. As an oracle, Nexus could learn so much from the pros.

But the secretive Hierophant might control all crocs, via their symbiotes. Now it seeks to own Nexus, too.

Don’t miss the exciting conclusion to the Nexus and Thrive series!

Featured Sci-fi: Freedom’s Fire Complete Series by Bobby Adair

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Featured Sci-fi: Freedom's Fire Complete Series by Bobby Adair

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The Bestselling, Epic Space Adventure, Freedom’s Fire – The complete series of 6 books, in one box set. 

It was never a question of if the aliens would come, it was only ever when.

The first interstellar war, a generation ago, left humanity enslaved. Now humans fight in the armies of their masters to save themselves from annihilation.

At least, that’s what the propaganda insists is true.

What the layers of lies keep hidden, is how badly the new war is going for the people of earth. Now it’s Dylan Kane’s turn to blast into the heavens and join the battle, but what his masters don’t know, is that by putting a weapon in his hands, they’re giving him the key to unlocking his hopes of freedom.

When the railgun slugs are tearing through his ship, and the vacuum is sucking the life out of his wounded friends, will Dylan’s years of repressed rage turn into enough bravery to make his dream come true? 

The Freedom’s Fire Series – All in this one, special edition 
Prequel – Freedom’s Siege
book 1 – Freedom’s Fire
book 2 – Freedom’s Fury
book 3 – Freedom’s Fray
book 4 – Freedom’s Fist
“book 5 – Freedom’s Fall
book 6 – Freedom’s Fate