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Featured Sci-fi: No Stress Space Express: A Cozy, Low-Stakes, Slice-of-Life Adventure by Jack Bodett

October 8, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: No Stress Space Express: A Cozy, Low-Stakes, Slice-of-Life Adventure by Jack Bodett

99¢ as of October 8, 2025
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Buckle up, it’s gonna be a smooth ride.

Howdy, friend. I’m Rusty, and so is my big-rig’s engine. When the old girl finally gave up the ghost in the middle of nowhere, I wasn’t expecting to get a tow from an alien mothership. But the next thing I knew, me and my buddy Mike were halfway across the galaxy in an oversized hubcap full of the weirdest space creatures you ever did see.

Turns out aliens are mighty friendly folks, but they can’t fix their tech to save their lives. Didn’t take long for us to put our know-how to good use, fix a bunch of gizmos, and make a load of friends, but I was still eagerly countin’ the days ’til they’d drop us back in sweet home Alabama. That is until I met Piper Skyflare—a pretty little green-skinned lieutenant in the Martian Sky Force, with knockout curves and a right hook to match.

With Piper to hold my hand and Mike to hold my beer, I’m making the most of this cosmic road trip. It’s a wild ride, but one thing’s for sure—a sense of humor and a roll of duct tape can get you through darn near anything. That and coffee. Lots of coffee.

No Stress Space Express is a story about finding your true family, told with the common-sense wisdom of Jerry Boyd’s Bob and Nikki series (Bob’s Saucer Repair), and the low-stakes world building of Travis Baldree’s Legends & Lattes. Join Rusty and his crew for a heart-warming, laugh-out-loud adventure with no tension, and no drama. Just good clean fun, great friendships, and a little romance too.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Jack Bodett, No Stress Space Express

Featured Sci-fi: Stranded (Starship of the Ancients) by A.K. DuBoff

October 8, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Stranded (Starship of the Ancients) by A.K. DuBoff

99¢ US & UK October 8th
Available in eBook with Audio by Podium
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Shipwrecked on a distant planet. Mysterious alien relics. His fresh start just turned into an interstellar conspiracy.

After an undercover investigation goes bad, ex-soldier Evan hopes to forge a new life on a remote colony world. But when the transport ship explodes in orbit, his plans for a peaceful early retirement go out the airlock.

He crash-lands with a small group of settlers, away from the target site and with limited resources. Unable to call for help off-world, Evan and the mission’s xenobiologist Anya race for survival in the dangerous wilds—until they realize they aren’t alone on the planet.

Evan’s investigative instincts tell him that nothing about this colony mission going awry is an accident. When evidence points to an ancient alien starship hidden somewhere on the planet, he realizes that solving the mystery will be the biggest case of his life.

Can Evan survive the hostile planet long enough to uncover the truth?

Stranded is the thrilling first installment in the Starship of the Ancients series. If you like action-packed space adventures with dynamic characters, alien worlds, and interstellar intrigue, then you’ll love this exciting new space opera by author A.K. DuBoff, creator of the Cadicle Universe.

Grab your copy now to discover the secrets of a new alien world!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A. K. Duboff, Starship of the Ancients, Stranded

Featured Sci-fi: The Fold Series Book 1 – 3 by Nick Adams

October 6, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Fold Series Book 1 - 3 by Nick Adams

99¢ as of October 6, 2025
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What would you do if you materialised inside an alien starship?

It’s 2049, and NASA-sponsored physicist Edward Virr is on the cusp of man’s greatest breakthrough – the ability to fold space and travel faster than light.

He personally tests NASA’s futuristic prototype fold ship with a hand-picked crew. But as disaster strikes the first mission, Ed begins to suspect that he isn’t the only one developing the new technology.

Discovering there’s a lot more at stake than first contact, Ed soon realises that Earth’s very survival depends on his ability to solve a crime of galactic proportions.

Join Edward Virr and his rag-tag crew as they undertake their first space adventure into the depths of the Milky Way.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Nick Adams, The Fold Series

Featured Sci-fi: Metal Legion by GH Gideon, Caleb Wachter, and Craig Martelle

October 5, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Metal Legion by GH Gideon, Caleb Wachter, and Craig Martelle

START THE SERIES FREE—Books 2 & 3 only 99¢ Each in US & UK
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Five foot nothing and no fear because she drives a sixty-ton mech. Enter Lieutenant Xi Bao…

Does humanity deserve to survive?

The Metal Legion, aging mechs with a lot of fight left in them. They lead the way, find the enemy’s weaknesses and exploit the hell out of them. Then they call in suborbital artillery to finish the job, even while the battle rages.

Never fight fair when fighting for your life. This is the motto of the Metal Legion.

They fight to win.

The mechs stand tall, or crawl, or run, or scamper. A dozen different designs, held together by rough welds and sheer willpower. But the bodies within, like Xi Bao, refuse to give up, refuse to give in.

Taking her Scorpion-class mech underground, she finds the enemy, in numbers far greater than she was told. Knee deep in the war, her crew gives their old mech new vigor for one last chance at glory.

Victory or death! Fight to survive.

Fire the mains and enjoy the company of the crew as they live for each other, as they fight for all humanity. Unleash the Scorpion’s fury. Join the Metal Legion today.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: C.H. Gideon, Metal Legion

Featured Sci-fi: First Wave the Complete Series by Daniel Young

October 4, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: First Wave the Complete Series by Daniel Young

99¢ as of October 4, 2025
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EXCLUSIVE: READ THE FINAL TWO BOOKS IN THE SERIES BEFORE THEY ARE RELEASED!

Ancient tech. Lost history. A mission buried in silence.

“A really great story that you can’t put down.” -Goodreads reviewer

The Massey brothers have seen plenty of strange things salvaging in deep space… but nothing like the massive, silent vessel drifting near the edge of known territory. No heat. No life signs. Just a relic from a war no one’s ever heard of.

Then the ship powers on.

Trapped inside a labyrinth of deadly alien technology with a crew on edge and systems that seem to have a mind of their own, they must figure out what the ship wants… and what it will destroy.

It’s not abandoned. It’s hunting.

But the brothers and crew aren’t alone for long. Others are interested in the ship. Raiders are closing in. A cold war is heating up. And something terrifying is waking in the dark.

Welcome aboard the Vanguard. Pray it doesn’t remember what it was built to do.

Note: The First Wave series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you’re interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you’re looking for action-packed adventures on strange worlds with even stranger aliens, this series is for you!

Includes all 9 books in the First Wave series:

  • Derelict
  • Raiders
  • Powerless
  • Control
  • On the Run
  • Defense
  • Infected
  • Corrupted
  • Aliens

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Daniel Young, First Wave the Complete Series

Featured Sci-fi: Liminal Space (Shadows & Light Book One | Amaranthe 23) by G.S. Jennsen

October 1, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Liminal Space (Shadows & Light Book One | Amaranthe 23) by G.S. Jennsen

NEW RELEASE
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** The thrilling finale trilogy to the 25-book Amaranthe saga begins **

A war has raged for endless aeons. Our greatest champions have fought it again and again in a tireless endeavor to save not merely innumerable lives, but existence itself.

It is a war that has never been won. But there has never been a timeline like this one before.

When Alex Solovy deactivated the Piega Strai to save two billion Elakri from annihilation, she never imagined the consequences would ripple across the universe. Now the Dzhvar, ancient devourers of the cosmic manifold, have returned from their million-year exile. And the weapon that once repelled them, diati, is nowhere to be found.

Though haunted by guilt, loss, and the weight of a relentless cycle of sacrifice, Alex and her allies—warriors, scientists, sentient planets and primordial beings—must step up to confront an impossible enemy. While Miriam marshals fleets to battle a foe no armament can touch and Alex probes scars in the cosmic fabric to solve a puzzle that spans time and space, Nika’s quest to unlock new kyoseil abilities pushes her ever closer to discovering the devastating truth about her past and future.

Secrets a million years in the making are about to come into the light.

In this epic opening to the Amaranthe saga’s final trilogy, destinies long foretold collide with shocking new revelations. Every alliance created, every technological marvel invented and every hero forged will be brought to bear against an enemy that threatens to unravel the very threads of the universe.

If Alex Solovy has anything to say about it, for the last time.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Amaranthe, G.S Jennsen, Liminal Space, Shadows & Light

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