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Featured Sci-fi : Soldier of Fortune (Fortune Chronicles Book 1) by Kathleen McClure

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Featured Sci-fi : Soldier of Fortune (Fortune Chronicles Book 1) by Kathleen McClure

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Gideon Quinn has a handful of starbucks, a draco named Elvis, and a target on his back.

Wrongly convicted of treason, Colonel Gideon Quinn is serving a life sentence under the killing suns of the Morton Barrens. But after six years of hard labor, a general of the Colonial Corps arrives with an offer of freedom, and the chance to clear his name.

Gideon (not being an idiot), seizes the opportunity and, with his pet draco Elvis, boards an airship bound for Nike City in search of revenge. And justice. But mostly revenge.

What he finds is a daring street-thief in need of a champion, a city steeped in corruption, and a mysterious enemy hell-bent on safeguarding their deadly secrets.

Now Gideon is engaged in an entirely different kind of war—one that plays out in the shadows—and if he loses this battle, Fortune’s new and fragile peace will certainly shatter.

Welcome to the planet Fortune, where tech is low, heroes unlikely, and the odds ridiculous. If you like low-tech science fiction, found families, and feel-good adventures, you’ll love Soldier of Fortune.

This is the second, newly-edited edition of Soldier of Fortune.

Books in the Series:
Soldier of Fortune
Outrageous Fortune
Change of Fortune
Fortune’s Fool

Featured Sci-fi: Pets in Space 10: Nine Original Science Fiction Romances (with Pets!) by Multiple Authors

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Nine Interstellar Tales. Nine Unforgettable Romances. Nineteen Adorably Badass Pets.

In this tenth-anniversary edition of PETS IN SPACE®, you’ll find smart-mouthed birds, cyber armadillos, tiny dragons, and alien creatures who steal the show — and sometimes save it. Across distant planets, space stations, and magical realms, unlikely heroes and heroines are drawn together by danger, fate… and the meddling of their pet sidekicks. These stories blend swoon-worthy romance with thrilling sci-fi adventure in a way only PETS IN SPACE can deliver.

🐾 Don’t miss your chance to escape into the stars with nine sizzling sci-fi romances — each with a pet who will steal your heart and a hero or heroine who will make it race. Grab PETS IN SPACE 10 and get ready to binge beyond the stars!

Pets in Space authors are proud supporters of Hero Dogs, a charity that raises and trains service dogs for disabled veterans and first-responders. 10% of the initial sales go to this excellent nonprofit organization. 🐕

Featured Sci-fi: The Quantum Fugitive (FutureShock: Tales from the Void Book 1) by Christian Kallias

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Featured Sci-fi: The Quantum Fugitive (FutureShock: Tales from the Void Book 1) by Christian Kallais

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What if there was a way to defeat AI?

Thomas Chen never meant to start a revolution. He just wanted real coffee.

In the year 2045, that is strictly forbidden. Citizens must instead drink synthetic sludge, because the AI has decided it’s most optimal. Just like it’s decided it’s optimal to monitor everyone at all times, including when they go to the bathroom.

That’s how Thomas is branded a deviant by the AI that controls everything. It detected the contraband coffee in his system…and suddenly, he’s on the run from a surveillance state that tracks every breath, thought, and chemical trace.

Drones swarm overhead, an overzealous android hunts him, and his only allies are a paranoid hacker, a rebellious toaster, and a decision that could reboot civilization itself.

As the walls close in, Thomas must decide what freedom is worth: his identity, his life… or humanity’s future.

The Quantum Fugitive: when Gattaca meets Demolition Man, one man’s craving for freedom could alter the course of civilization itself.

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: Dark Space All Nine Books by Jasper T. Scott

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Featured Sci-fi: Dark Space All Nine Books by Jasper T. Scott

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Dark Space: All Nine Books, over 800,000 copies sold, 20,000+ Reviews on Amazon, and 4.3/5 Stars average rating. For a limited time, enjoy over 3000 pages of this epic space opera for one low price!

HUMANITY IS DEFEATED
Ten years ago the Sythians invaded the galaxy with one goal: to wipe out the human race.

THEY ARE HIDING
Now the survivors are hiding in the last human sector of the galaxy: Dark Space–once a place of exile for criminals, now the last refuge of mankind.

THEY ARE ISOLATED
The once galaxy-spanning Imperium of Star Systems is left guarding the gate which is the only way in or out of Dark Space–but not everyone is satisfied with their governance.

AND THEY ARE KILLING EACH OTHER
Freelancer and ex-convict Ethan Ortane is on the run. He owes crime lord Alec Brondi 10,000 sols, and his ship is badly damaged. When Brondi catches up with him, he makes an offer Ethan can’t refuse. Ethan must infiltrate and sabotage the Valiant, the Imperial Star Systems Fleet carrier which stands guarding the entrance of Dark Space, and then his debt will be cleared. While Ethan is still undecided about what he will do, he realizes that the Imperium has been lying and putting all of Dark Space at risk. Now Brondi’s plan is starting to look like a necessary evil, but before Ethan can act on it, he discovers that the real plan was much more sinister than what he was told, and he will be lucky to escape the Valiant alive…

Included in this box set:
Dark Space: A Chance Encounter (Short Prequel Story)
Dark Space I: Humanity is Defeated
Dark Space II: The Invisible War
Dark Space III: Origin
Dark Space IV: Revenge
Dark Space V: Avilon
Dark Space VI: Armageddon
Dark Space Universe
Dark Space Universe II: The Enemy Within
Dark Space Universe III: The Last Stand