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Featured Sci-fi: Human For Hire—Collateral Damage Included (Human For Hire Book 1) by T. R. Harris

August 24, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Human For Hire—Collateral Damage Included (Human For Hire Book 1) by T. R. Harris

FREE as of August 24, 2026
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Human!

A name that strikes terror in the hearts of the galaxy.

Well, maybe not terror, but respect. More like caution, actually.

Since you know how hot-headed Humans can be.

After the galaxy was savagely attacked by invaders, the Milky Way was left but a shadow of its former self. Gone are the vast empires that once brought stability, law and order to countless star systems. In its wake, a savage, almost Wild West existence emerged, ruled by gun and muscle. And for anyone needing help in either the gun or muscle category—or both—everyone knows you … Hire a Human.

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Featured Sci-fi: Midshipman Henry Gallant in Space (The Henry Gallant Saga Book 1) by H. Peter Alesso

August 24, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Midshipman Henry Gallant in Space (The Henry Gallant Saga Book 1) by H. Peter Alesso

FREE as of August 24, 2026
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As the last starfighter, only Henry Gallant can stop the alien invasion.

In the twenty-second century, genetic engineering has transformed humanity. Every officer in the United Planets space navy has been enhanced, their DNA optimized for peak performance. Every officer except one.

Midshipman Henry Gallant is the last Natural in the fleet. Unenhanced. Doubted by his shipmates. Dismissed by superiors who believe he cannot compete. Assigned to the battlecruiser Repulse on the volatile Jupiter frontier, Gallant must prove that courage and ingenuity matter more than engineered DNA.

When a devastating alien armada launches an all-out assault on the Jupiter colonies, three hundred fifty thousand colonists face annihilation. In the chaos of battle, Gallant boards a crippled enemy warship, captures vital alien technology, and becomes the last starfighter of Squadron 111. Wounded, low on fuel, and hunted through the asteroid belt, he must fly a damaged Eagle fighter across millions of kilometers of hostile space to deliver the intelligence that could turn the tide of war.

But survival is only the beginning. Political enemies and powerful industrialists have their own plans for the young midshipman, and the alien threat is far from over.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: H. Peter Alesso, Midshipman Henry Gallant in Space, The Henry Gallant Saga

Featured Sci-fi: Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn

August 18, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Dragon and Thief by Timothy Zahn

FREE as of August 18, 2026
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The first novel in the Dragonback series is “a romp of a space thriller” (Booklist) from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn.
 
Jack Morgan is dealing with more trouble than any young man deserves. Raised to be a professional thief and con artist by his late uncle Virgil, he’s survived on his uncle’s spaceship with the help of an AI program. But when he’s accused of a crime he actually didn’t commit, Jack is forced to flee to a remote, uninhabited planet where he can stay off the radar for a while.
 
His solitude is soon interrupted when a ship crashes on Jack’s hideout after a terrible space battle. There’s only one survivor: a warrior called Draycos, whose reptilian race is being targeted for extinction.
 
The good news is that if Jack helps Draycos, the odd creature might be able to help clear Jack’s name. The not-so-good news is that to survive, Draycos must bond—physically and mentally—with a sentient being to use as his “host.”
 
And it looks like Jack is the only sentient being around . . .

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Dragon and Thief, The Dragonback Series, Timothy Zahn

Featured Sci-fi: Space Hunter the Complete Series by Rick Partlow & Pacey Holden

August 17, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Space Hunter the Complete Series by Rick Partlow & Pacey Holden

99¢ as of August 17, 2026
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Get the Space Hunter War Complete Series Box Set, featuring all six books in the series. 2000+ pages of explosive military sci fi action from a pair of bestsellers.

Jack Bennet returns from the war to find the life he left behind has moved on without him. The only option he has to make ends meet lies in a military surplus junkyard starship. What’s a former Combat Search and Rescue soldier to do?

Fix up the ship, hire the cheapest pilot—a notorious drunk—and take the first contract that comes up: collect a bounty on one of the most ruthless killers in the Pirate Worlds, a place crawling with thieves, cutthroats and con artists whose primary language is violence. Jack must abandon his nice guy persona, or exploit it, if he is to survive.

What could possibly go wrong?

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Pacey Holden, Rick Partlow, Space Hunter

Featured Sci-fi: Star Dragon by James David Victor

August 16, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Star Dragon by James David Victor

FREE Books 1 – 4 as of August 16, 2026
(Books 5 – 9 only 99¢ Each in US)
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A Science Fiction adventure with aliens, an all-powerful galactic empire, and space dragons from #1 Bestselling author James David Victor.

Immortality can be nice. Of course, having your consciousness downloaded into a robot and being forced to serve the galactic emperor as an Imperial Marine isn’t exactly life in paradise.

Keel Hennity was one of the greatest gladiators in the universe, the victor of countless glorious battles. He was assigned to guard the most dangerous creatures on his home planet. Then he died, and his life truly began.

When Keel’s consciousness was downloaded into the robotic body of an Imperial Marine, he was tasked with protecting the emperor and controlling the incredibly dangerous creature that ended his first life. Can Keel unlock the secrets of Star Dragons and protect the galaxy from a dragon-human war that could end life as we know it?

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: James David Victor, Star Dragon

Featured Sci-fi: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Colony Sci-fi Academy Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

August 13, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Colony Sci-fi Academy Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

99¢ as of August 13, 2026
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History class drops Gabe into the past, barefoot and hunted.
His teacher is an AI.
Graduation is a new planet.


Gabe earns his keep hauling water through the choking heat of Guadalajara, until he wins a berth on a colony ship. And leaves a dying Earth behind.

His body rides in stasis for the twenty-five-light-year voyage. His mind lives inside the Dream – a virtual academy where lessons aren’t taught but survived. Each campaign leaves scars.

Gabe isn’t the smartest on the leaderboard. He’s rarer: the one who keeps his head, keeps his friends alive, and argues with the game itself. But the Dream hides a truth that lands like a gut punch, and it has plans for Gabe he never agreed to.

For readers who loved the mind games and lethal training of Ender’s Game.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ginger Booth, Rayas Colony Legacy, Rayas Colony Sci-fi Academy Adventures

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