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Feature Sci-fi: SPACE COLONY ONE Books 1 – 3 by J.J. Green

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Feature Fantasy: SPACE COLONY ONE SERIES by J.J. Green

FREE as of October 3, 2026
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Terror stalks a new world colony.

After nearly two hundred years’ space travel, humanity’s first deep space colony expedition has arrived at its new home.

Ethan, the descendant of six generations who lived and died aboard ship, treads on soil and feels the wind and rain for the first time.

But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators lurk beyond the camp’s perimeter, and stowaway saboteurs are determined no one will survive.

Tensions in the new colony rise, and Ethan must fight to preserve the last hope of humankind.

Download books 1 to 3 today and start this epic space colonization adventure!

Featured Sci-fi: Fleet Rats Book 1 by Esa Ortega

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Featured Sci-fi: Fleet Rats Book 1 by Esa Ortega

FREE as of October 3, 2026
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“The best-kept secret in sci-fi… another hugely enjoyable and gripping read”

Protecting the universe from the scum of the Earth…

The Sleeper Agency doesn’t recruit heroes. It recruits villains.

It finds its troops anywhere from cyberpunk slums to military prisons, offering them freedom and a new identity.

In return, they owe the Agency 10 combat drops.

Virgil Lovell’s squad has just signed up.

Human. Avion. Elemental.

They don’t trust each other. They don’t like each other. And none of them has any idea what they’ve agreed to.

Because the Agency’s squads exist to stop the great empires from crossing the line. They steal back ships, rescue lost personnel and investigate strange phenomena in secret. They do the jobs nobody else can, or wants to do.

But war has a way of changing people. Every mission leaves a mark. Every victory has a price.

And when you throw a dropship full of criminals into a war zone, surviving the enemy may be the easy part.

Strap yourself in… because this is not just another bug hunt.

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Featured Science Fiction: Alien Hunters (Alien Hunters Book 1) by Daniel Arenson

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Featured Science Fiction: Alien Hunters (Alien Hunters Book 1)

FREE as of September 29, 2026
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The skelkrins. Predators from deep space. Creatures of claws, fangs, and unending malice. They swarm across the galaxy, slaying all in their path. Planets burn in their wake. And now they’re heading to Earth.

Raphael “Riff” Starfire commands the Alien Hunters, a group of scruffy mercenaries. Galactic pest controllers, they mostly handle small critters–aliens that clog up your engine pipes, gnaw on your hull, or burrow through your silos.

Riff and his crew have never faced anything like the skelkrins before. As these cosmic killers invade our solar system, will Riff be the one hunting aliens . . . or will aliens hunt him?

ALIEN HUNTERS — a free space opera adventure for fans of Star Wars, Firefly, and Guardians of the Galaxy. (Get a deal on the next two books in series – get the boxset!)

Featured Sci-fi: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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Featured Sci-fi: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

$2.99 as of September 29, 2026
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HUGO AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

“An epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi.”—USA Today

“If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.”—The Washington Post

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?

An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

Featured Sci-fi: Endurance the Complete Series by A.C. Spahn

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Featured Sci-fi: Endurance the Complete Series by A.C. Spahn

99¢ as of September 25, 2026
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USA Today Bestseller!

A disrespected ship, exiled to lonely patrol in the dark corners of the solar system.

A crew of screw-ups, written off by the entire fleet.

They’re about to change everything.

If they don’t blow themselves up first.

Join the Endurance’s crew – a trigger-happy first officer, a hyperactive engineer, a shy covert operative, a conspiracy-spouting physicist, and a captain trying to earn his way back into his superiors’ good graces – as they explore the galaxy by accident and trip their way into saving the world.

This anthology includes all five Endurance novellas, as well as two bonus short stories.

Featured Sci-fi: Level One (Galactic Merc Book 1) by Chris Kennedy

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Featured Sci-fi: Level One (Galactic Merc Book 1) by Chris Kennedy

Expected to be 99¢ from September 26-October 3rd, 2026
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Jack Taylor was having a bad night. And that was before the aliens showed up.

Abducted by Gray slavers and hauled across the galaxy, Jack wakes up months later with no money, no way home, and exactly one viable career option:

Mercenary.

But there are problems. Jack has no military training, no combat experience, no nanites, and no clue how to survive an alien battlefield. According to the software implanted in his head, he doesn’t even qualify as a Level One merc.

He’s Level Zero.

Jack will have to to train, fight, earn credits, and level up fast—because getting killed doesn’t pay very well, and the galaxy is far more dangerous than anything he ever wrote about.

And then he discovers the truth about Earth—aliens have been interfering with humanity for thousands of years.

Suddenly, getting home is no longer enough. Jack needs to become rich, powerful, and dangerous so he can do something about it.

But first, he’ll have to survive Level One.

For fans of Reluctant Emissary, Psyker Marine, Drone Ensign, and other military LitRPG science fiction. What does destiny have in store for you?