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Featured Sci-fi: Off-World Hotel & Resort Sci-fi Mystery by Dave Terruso

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Featured Sci-fi: Off-World Hotel & Resort Sci-fi Mystery by Dave Terruso

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AGATHA CHRISTIE MEETS ISAAC ASIMOV

Marooned on a distant moon…

Doomed to die without ever seeing her daughters again…

Devoted mother Christie Calvin learns she has a year to live.

Christie’s daughters take a loan against her life insurance policy to send her on her dream vacation at the Off-World Hotel & Resort.

390 million miles from Earth, accessible only by teleporter, and staffed by robots, the resort has a maximum occupancy of 25 people and a guest list comprised of the ultra-wealthy and the incredibly famous.

After a couple days frolicking in paradise, Christie and the other guests become stranded in the resort.

It will take nearly three years for a rescue ship to reach them—and Christie doesn’t have that much time left.

Distraught and furious, Christie turns amateur sleuth to find the person who trapped her in the resort—so she can exact her revenge.


The perfect summer read for sci-fi fans and whodunit fans alike.

Featured Sci-fi: Defenders of the Rim: Beginnings (Far Future Book 1) by Randal Sloan

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Featured Sci-fi: Defenders of the Rim: Beginnings (Far Future Book 1) by Randal Sloan

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The Galactic Empire is in Grave Danger and unaware of what’s coming. Can a group of young heroes find a way to save the galaxy and survive?

Young Lieutenant Jarra Carsean, newly graduated from the Rim Patrol Officer Candidate School, is given a small ship and a crew of misfits, straight out of District Specialist Training. Can their young team come together and survive their first mission, a mission that becomes a much more difficult and risky endeavor than anyone suspects it will be?

What they discover has huge ramifications for the whole galaxy and they will have to use every skill their team has to survive.

Jarra carries with her a big secret that might well jeopardize her team or it may save them all and the Galactic Empire too.

The first in the Far Future Sci-Fi Thriller series, Defenders of the Rim: Beginnings is a far future sci-fi thriller in a world that combines science that just might be possible many years in the future with a Galactic Empire, rebels and aliens.

Featured Sci-fi: Phule’s Company Book 1 by Robert Asprin

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Featured Sci-fi: Phule's Company Book 1 by Robert Asprin

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From a New York Times bestseller “a . . . winning story about a commander who builds a company of misfits . . . into a disciplined military outfit” (Publishers Weekly).
 
After being court-martialed by the Space Legion for ordering the strafing of a treaty-signing ceremony, multimillionaire Willard Phule receives his punishment: He must command the misfit Omega Company on Haskin’s Planet, a mining settlement on the edge of settled space. At his duty station, he leverages his personal money and a knack for managing people to get the company to come together as a unit. Phule convinces the governor to leave the contract for an honorary duty up for competition between the Space Legionnaires and the Regular Army. The Army sends some of their most elite troops to take part in the competition, but Phule’s company operates with their own unique tactics . . .

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Featured Sci-fi: Primordial World Books 1 – 11 by Baileigh Higgins

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Featured Sci-fi: Primordial World Books 1 - 11 by Baileigh Higgins

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Discover A Savage Prehistoric World Lost To Time

Born 75 million years ago, Ridley has never known anything beyond the primeval wilderness and its primordial beasts. Fierce and headstrong, she’s no stranger to adversity and loves the thrill of the chase. When she learns about an extreme endurance race, she jumps at the chance to compete in the most dangerous competition in history.

A thrilling adventure awaits as Ridley and her loyal wolf companion, Loki, set off in pursuit of the ultimate prize. The competition is fierce, with cutthroat competitors, savage predators, and rugged terrain standing in their way. But Ridley is determined to prove herself and come out on top, no matter the cost.

Join Ridley and Loki as they face challenges and danger at every turn, pushing their limits and testing their survival skills. Will they be able to outwit, outsmart, and outlast the competition?

This heart-pumping tale of adventure and perseverance includes the entire Primordial World series and will keep you on the edge of your seat until the end. The first series in the Primordial Universe, Primordial Earth, can be enjoyed separately as part of its own collection.

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Featured Sci-fi: Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein

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Featured Sci-fi: Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein

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The capstone and crowning achievement of  the Future History series, from the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction…

Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein’s longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.

Featured Sci-fi: Ironhold Station (USS Hamiltron Book 1) by Mark Wayne McGinnis

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Featured Sci-fi: Ironhold Station (USS Hamiltron Book 1) by Mark Wayne McGinnis

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The surprise attack within the Auriga Star System was worse than brutal, it was heinous—leaving the US-Navy’s 3rd Fleet decimated. Thousands of crew are reported dead, including the ship’s Captain.

Reluctantly, the young XO, Galvin Quintos, will be taking command of the fleet’s crippled dreadnaught, the USS Hamilton, while doing his best to bring fleet survivors back to Earth.

Going from bad to worse, a murderer is running loose onboard the ship. Add to that fuel levels are critically low, and the Grish are back and in fast pursuit—ready to finish what they’d started. Only by sheer luck, along with a good measure of cagey smarts, will Quintos be able to rise to the challenge.