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Featured Sci-fi: Buried Starship (Shadow of War Book 1) by Anthony J. Melchiorri

June 21, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Buried Starship (Shadow of War Book 1) by Anthony J. Melchiorri

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Some ships are meant to stay buried.

Veteran Marine Jace Hawthorne thought his warfighting days were over when humanity fell to the alien Overlords.

Now he smuggles outlawed medical tech under the Overlords’ oppressive rule, doing whatever it takes to keep his family safe and alive. But when a routine job leads him to a remote space station blasted to ruins, Jace uncovers a secret the Overlords tried to erase after the war: evidence of ancient alien technology powerful enough to challenge their empire.

The Overlords move fast. His family is imprisoned. Jace is marked for elimination.

Hunted across the stars, Jace follows a trail of shattered clues to a long-buried starship with unimaginable power—a dangerous alien relic from a forgotten war. A ship that could change everything.

To save his family—and humanity’s future—Jace must choose:
keep running… or risk everything to awaken what was meant to stay buried.

He knows one thing for certain. The Overlords messed with the wrong Marine.

Buried Starship is the explosive first book in the Shadow of War series. If you love military space opera with mysterious spaceships, alien technology, underdog rebellions, and heroes forged in the fires of war, you’ll be riveted by this tale of humanity’s fight for survival—perfect for fans of J.N. Chaney, M.R. Forbes, and Red Rising.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Anthony J. Melchiorri, Buried Starship, Shadow of War

Featured Sci-fi: Flash Point (A Project RIFT Novel) by Jake Darst

June 21, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Flash Point (A Project RIFT Novel) by Jake Darst

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DARPA proved the impossible.

The experiment succeeded. That was the problem.

Former Tier 1 operator Grayson Maddox now leads a classified physics project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

His team has breached the known boundaries of physics.

They call it RIFT.

It’s a breakthrough as dangerous as splitting the atom. Project RIFT could transform civilization—or destroy it.

Then the sabotage begins.

A mysterious outage cripples his lab. An armed intruder targets his assistant, Mari. A bomb detonates outside a DARPA briefing he just left. Someone knows exactly what Maddox has unlocked, and they’re moving with lethal precision to stop it.

On the run, Maddox turns to the only people he trusts: his former Unit teammates. But even CIA safe houses aren’t safe. Somewhere, there’s a leak, and two rival factions are closing in. One wants to harness RIFT. The other wants it erased—and Maddox along with it.

To stay alive, Maddox must become the operator he thought he’d left behind.

Because if RIFT falls into the wrong hands, the next battlefield won’t be a country.

It will be reality itself.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Flash Point, Jake Darst, Project Rift

Featured Sci-fi : Fortune Chronicles by Kathleen McClure

June 21, 2026 by Carolynn

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

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Fortune Chronicles, Kathleen McClure, Soldier of Fortune

Featured Sci-fantasy: Cradle (12 Book Series) by Will Wight

June 19, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fantasy: Cradle (12 Book Series) by Will Wight

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“The Cradle series is explosively fun, endlessly addictive, and it somehow manages to make reading feel like a full-contact sport. Wight makes writing this stuff look so easy.” — Matt Dinniman, New York Times best-selling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl

Lindon is born Unsouled, the one person in his family unable to use the magical Paths of the sacred arts. He uses every trick and technique he can borrow or steal to improve his life, but it seems he will never be able to join the ranks of the truly powerful.

Until the heavens descend and show him the future.

When Lindon becomes the only one who sees the approaching doom, he must leave his homeland to save it… and to see how far he can go by walking his own Path.

10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION includes a new cover and two bonus scenes!

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Featured Sci-fi: Star Rebels by Multiple Authors

June 18, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Star Rebels by Multiple Authors

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There are rebels among the stars…

Meet eleven protagonists battling to save themselves and the ones they love. Human, cyborg, clone, or alien, they’ll find themselves pitted against intergalactic crime bosses, interstellar mercenaries, a quantum-wave-riding collective mind, and the universe itself. Along the way, there’s plenty of action, adventure, humor, and even some romance.

Written by the freshest voices in science fiction, these stories are short, but they’ll light your imagination like a solar flare.

Strap yourself in and join the rebellion!

 Download this collection today!

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Multiple Authors, Star Rebels

Featured Sci-fi: Space Punks by Anna Mocikat

June 16, 2026 by Carolynn


Featured Sci-fi: Space Punks by Anna Mocikat

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Meet the Space Punks—the only ones crazy enough to challenge the Pentad’s supreme power…

David wakes up in a high-security prison on the forsaken Martian moon Deimos with no memory of his past. A chance encounter with Aztec, a deadly purple-haired cyborg, propels him into a daring jailbreak. She brings him on board a mysterious warship manned by the most notorious and badass crew of the galaxy—the Space Punks.

One hundred years ago AI waged a devastating war against its human creators. Humanity won, but barely and at a horrible price. Ever since, the solar system has been strictly controlled by the Pentad, a ruthless coalition of megacorporations.

As David tries to regain his memory, he finds himself fighting battles between mechs, cyborgs, robots and super-soldiers alongside his new brothers and sisters-in-arms.

But is there more to the Space Punks than meets the eye? Everyone on board, human and cyborg alike, seems to have their own secret agenda.

Needless to say, the Pentad sends out their best people to get rid of this unruly menace.

And in the shadows lurks the seemingly defeated enemy, a threat to all humankind, ready to strike again…

Space Punks is a sexy, adrenaline-fueled ride for fans of Firefly and Guardians of the Galaxy!

From the bestselling, internationally-published author of Behind Blue Eyes!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Anna Mocikat, Space Punks

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