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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

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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

Featured Sci-fi: Mercy’s Gate (The Heartseed Chronicles Book 1) by Nick Snape

August 10, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Mercy's Gate (The Heartseed Chronicles Book 1) by Nick Snape

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This is Futurum, Death’s Hollow, and where Jacks is going, there is no mercy.

Jacks, a corporate-owned mercenary, leads a skilled extraction squad. His goal is to buy out his lifetime contract by collecting whatever industrial secrets, agents, or turncoat executives AstEx Corp wants removed from under the noses of their main competitors.

That is until the mission of a lifetime falls into his team’s lap, promising more money than they could possibly imagine.

The target? An organic object known as the heartseed, prized by an alien race, that grows on a hostile planet.

The remit? Four corporate squads all competing for the same target, and to the winners, exclusive access to alien technology.

The catch? Six months, one hundred and fourteen teams of lost souls, ninety-three dropships, and the highest echelon of military technology, yet no one has ever come back from Futurum alive.

Time is running out, and where they’re going, everything wants to kill, eat, or lay its eggs inside them. Possibly all three.

But Jacks’ greatest enemy just might be his own mind as the creeping malevolence of the planet worms its way in. As his reality fractures, he begins to question what the aliens really want, and whether this world will ever let it go.

For fans of Battle Royale and Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, where the planet is more dangerous than the competitors.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Mercy's Gate, Nick Snape, The Heartseed Chronicles

Featured Science Fiction: Milijun by Clayton Graham

August 10, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Milijun by Clayton Graham

Expected to be 99¢ August 12, 2026
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A First Contact… with Earth’s fate hanging in the balance.

Laura and Jason Sinclair’s peaceful vacation becomes a nightmare when ethereal beings descend upon Earth under the cover of darkness. Stranded in a world suddenly turned upside down, they are drawn into a shadowy conflict between covert government factions and a mysterious alien presence. As reality itself begins to fracture, the lines between friend and foe blur.

Caught in a web of secrets and hidden agendas, Jason may hold the key to the alien visitors’ true purpose—but what role does he play in their mission?

As the world teeters on the brink of an interstellar revelation, humanity faces a future that could change everything—whether they’re ready or not.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Clayton Graham, Milijun

Featured Sci-fi: Galactic Terror by Michael Robertson

August 8, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Galactic Terror by Michael Robertson

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They say you can’t run from your past, and now she’s reached the other side of the galaxy, Sparks wonders if they’re right …

Living on a distant planet with a transient population for the past year, ducking in and out of spaceport dive bars, mixing with pirates, bounty hunters, and criminals, she’s become just another being in the crowd.

But she wasn’t born to eke out a living at the very fringes of society. Not with her powers.

So when a stranger makes her a tempting offer …

An adventure she’s been desperate to have …

She wonders if now’s the right time for her to step from the shadows?

To return to the planet-hopping, high-risk thrill-ride that used to be her life.

To take back control.

And if the next few months end up looking like the past twelve, then it’s not like she has anything to lose.

Galactic Terror is the first book in a series of space opera thrillers, where every page crackles with high-stakes action and interstellar intrigue.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Galactic Terror, Michael Ro

Featured Sci-fi: Contract of Defiance (Spectras Arise Trilogy, Book 1) by Tammy Salyer

August 5, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Contract of Defiance (Spectras Arise Trilogy, Book 1) by Tammy Salyer

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WHEN ALL OTHER OPTIONS RUN OUT, NEVER LET GO OF YOUR GUN.

In a few hundred years, the Algol system becomes humanity’s new home. The question is: is it a better one?

When a crew of arms smugglers botches their latest job, Corps-deserter and crewmember, Aly Erikson, is separated from her brother, the only person she can trust, and left behind to fight for her life. In the aftermath, as she tries to piece together what happened, a crew of roughneck settlers pressgang her into a dangerous mission in the heart of Corps territory.

Time is running out to get back everything she’s lost…

Her crew, her brother, and her options. But no one is taking her gun.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Contract of Defiance, Spectras Arise Trilogy, Tammy Salyer

Featured Sci-fi: Monuments to the Dead (Forgotten Ships Book 8) by Terry Mixon and J.N. Chaney

August 3, 2026 by Carolynn

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A living tomb dedicated to the long departed lies before them.

Drake and Yukiko have discovered three ancient megastructures. The smallest is an entrance to the defunct alien travel network that trapped them in this section of space, and may provide a way home again if they can unravel its secrets.

Secrets large and small left for those bold enough to find them and strong enough to keep them.

With the path home within their grasp, they must fight marauders and pirates if they want to keep both their finds and their lives. This is no time for half measures. Victory gives them everything, but defeat leads only to slavery or death. They must fight with everything they have or lose it all.

Will their discoveries open the path home for humanity, or will this place be their tomb as well?

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Forgotten Ships, J.N. Chaney, Monuments to the Dead, Terry Mixon

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