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Featured Sci-fi: The Martian by Andy Weir

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Featured Sci-fi: The Martian by Andy Weir

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A survival story for the 21st century and the international bestseller behind the major film from Ridley Scott, starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain.

I’m stranded on Mars.

I have no way to communicate with Earth.

I’m in a habitat designed to last 31 days.

If the oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I’ll die of thirst. If the hab breaches, I’ll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I’ll eventually run out of food and starve to death.

So yeah. I’m screwed.

Featured Sci-fi: Future’s Fall — The Complete After the Apocalypse Books 1–5 by Kevin Partner

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Future’s Fall by Kevin Partner

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The complete series in one thrilling collection.

Thirty-five years after the world ended, a lonely man picks his way across the ashes of America on a final mission.

Reuben Bane spent decades believing he was a force for good, preserving humanity’s gene pool by hunting and eliminating deviants.

Now, he seeks redemption for his evil deeds, and revenge on the cultish Foundation. He must travel across a broken country to find a woman from the past who holds the key to the future.

Set among the ashes of a destroyed world, the series brings to life a possible future world teetering on the brink between endless darkness and an uncertain future.

Featured Science Fiction: Into Twilight (The Stefan Mendoza Series Book 1) P.R. Adams

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Featured Science Fiction: Into Twilight (The Stefan Mendoza Series Book 1) P.R. Adams

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He does the government’s dirty work. When he’s double-crossed by one of his own, he’ll stop at nothing to take out the trash.

Korea, 22nd Century. Surrender isn’t in Stefan Mendoza’s DNA. So when a traitor betrays his black-ops team, he alone pushes through the torture and escapes with revenge burning in his mind. On the verge of a systems failure, he taps into his underground network for a set of cybernetic limbs. But his high-tech recovery comes at a heavy price—an assassination hit on a rising political star.

Filled with resentment for the cutthroat world of contract killers, he uses the hit job as a cover to track down the traitor. When he discovers he’s competing with other assassins for the same political target, he starts to piece together a sinister conspiracy that could lead him straight to the shadowy figure behind his betrayal.

Trapped within a hotbed of corruption, can Mendoza exact his revenge and win his freedom or will he spiral deeper into the twisted game of brokered death?

Into Twilight is the first book in The Stefan Mendoza Trilogy of high-octane cyberpunk techno-thrillers. If you like street-smart soldiers, complex conspiracies, and immersive sci-fi settings, then you’ll love P.R. Adams’s noir-style page-turner.

Featured Sci-fi: Peace Warrior Book 1 by Steven L. Hawk

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Peace Warrior by Steven L. Hawk

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A soldier from the past. A peaceful world under alien rule. One last chance for humanity.

Sergeant First Class Grant Justice dies in combat in the mid-twenty-first century. Six centuries later, scientists recover his body from an Arctic lake and bring him back to life.

The world he awakens to has rejected war and forbidden violence—but its devotion to peace has left humanity enslaved by the alien Minith. A man trained for a way of life everyone else has abandoned may be their only hope of freedom.

Featured Sci-fi: Star Legend Books 1 – 3 (Star Legend Series) by J.J. Green

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Featured Sci-fi: Star Legend Book 1 - 3 (Star Legend Series) by J.J. Green

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King Arthur in outer space?

Endless warfare has ravaged Earth. Billions are desperate to escape.

Driven from her home and severed from her children, Taylan Ellis enlists with the Britannic Alliance, hoping she can help regain her homeland and find her kids.
Her ship, the Valiant, picks up a distress signal that leads to the mummified remains of a Dark Ages warrior chieftain.

Then her commanding officer discovers the ‘mummy’ has a pulse.
Taylan suspects she knows who the mystery man is, but can she convince her superiors in time to save the BA, her country, and her children?

Download books one to three of the epic space fantasy adventure Star Legend today! Complete series.

Featured Sci-fi: Alien Arena by Jasper T. Scott

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Alien Arena series by Jasper T. Scott

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Only the winner goes home.

Former Army Ranger Cole Maddox survived the massacre that wiped out most of his company. No one could explain how.

Years later, Cole is back home with a wife, two kids, a dead-end job, and a life that feels too small for the war still raging inside his head. Then the nightmares begin—strange jungles, towering ruins, shadowy monsters, and hovering drones watching his every move. At first, everyone tells him it’s PTSD. Then he wakes up bleeding.

When Cole discovers that other survivors from his old unit have been vanishing one by one, he realizes something is coming for the men who should have died that night. And when Cole is taken, he learns the truth.

He has been chosen for an alien blood sport, thrown into a deadly arena with other human contestants and monsters from across the stars. Every new environment brings another trap, another impossible choice, and another reason for the survivors to turn on each other.

The rules are simple: fight, run, kill, and survive.

Cole has already survived one impossible slaughter. Now he has to survive another, because somewhere back on Earth, his family is waiting.

And only the winner goes home.

Alien Arena is a military sci-fi action thriller for fans of The Hunger Games, Squid Game, and Predator.