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Featured Science Fiction: Galactic Empires by Multiple Authors

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Featured Science Fiction: Galactic Empires by Multiple Authors and Patty Jansen

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Seven full-length novels of adventure, war, intrigue and survival in the far reaches of space.

The Backworlds by M. Pax
A man struggles to survive in the harsh world of humanity’s outer settlements and prove his father wrong.

Ambassador 1: Seeing Red by Patty Jansen
To look an alien superior in the eye is a deadly offense. To accuse him of a political murder…

Alien Hunters by Daniel Arenson
A scruffy alien pest controller faces an alien threat the likes of which the universe has never seen.

Hard Duty by Mark E. Cooper
Hostile aliens nearly eradicated humanity. Will the next encounter finish the job?

Bypass Gemini by Joseph Lallo
A disgraced racer pilot gets mixed up with a mega-corporation. Now he has to stop them.

Sky Hunter by Chris Reher
Sent to a human outpost to investigate sabotage, a pilot finds more trouble than she bargained for.

First Conquest by David VanDyke
To find a home and keep humanity safe from hostile aliens, Task Force Conquest must fight to

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Featured Science Fiction: Al Clark by Jonathan G. Meyer

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Featured Science Fiction: Al Clark by Jonathan G. Meyer

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Old Fashioned Science Fiction

A thousand specially selected people leave a troubled Earth for a new start on a virgin world many years away. Their starship is state-of-the-art and entirely automatic; its passengers safely sleeping through the long journey. All possible scenarios have been taken into account except one. There is no way to predict sabotage.

Al Clark wakes to begin a new life, alone on a crippled starship with no memory of what transpired to place him there.

It is the beginning of a quest that will take him places he could not have imagined, manage feats he would not have thought possible, and teach him the true meaning of friendship.

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Featured Science Fiction: Murder on the Intergalactic Railway (The Ritchie and Fitz Sci-fi Murder Mystery Series Book 1) by Kate MacLeod

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For Murdina Ritchie, acceptance at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy means one last chance at her dream of becoming a diplomat for the Union of Free Worlds. For Shackleton Fitz IV, it represents his last chance not to fail out of military service entirely.

Strange that fate should throw them together now, among the last group of students admitted after the start of the semester. They had once shared the strongest of friendships. But that all ended a long time ago.

But when an insufferable but politically important woman turns up murdered, the two agree to put their differences aside and work together to solve the case.
Because the murderer might strike again. But more importantly, solving a murder would just have to impress the dour colonel who clearly thinks neither of them belong at his academy.

Featured Sci-fi: The Genesis Machine Boxset by K.J. Gillenwater

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Featured Sci-fi: The Genesis Machine Boxset by K.J. Gillenwater

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The Genesis Machine Box Set includes Inception, Decryption, and Revelation—a gripping sci-fi thriller trilogy.

When Navy linguist Charlie Cutter joins a secret NCIS team, she’s tasked with decoding an ancient text tied to top-secret photos—and a crashed alien pod. The language is familiar. Too familiar. Aliens have landed… and not for the first time.

As more pods appear, some containing human-like survivors, Charlie races to uncover the truth. A child emerges. A saboteur strikes. And secrets unravel—about the aliens, her team, and herself.

Haunted by past failures and drawn to the distant yet magnetic Agent Demarco, Charlie navigates a deadly web of conspiracies stretching from D.C. to the Vegas desert.

When Demarco goes rogue and a terrifying plan is revealed, Charlie must risk everything to decode the final truth—before humanity is changed forever.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Aliomenti Saga by Alex Albrink

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Featured Sci-fi: The Aliomenti Saga by Alex Albrink

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“They took everything he loved. Now he’ll take everything they have.”

They destroyed his life. Now they’ve created their worst enemy.

Will Stark had everything—a billion-dollar tech empire, a brilliant wife and son, and a future he’d built from the ground up. Then came the fire. The slaughter. The near-death beating. A brutal, calculated strike… meant for someone else.

It was supposed to be a clean hit. But they missed.

Pulled from the wreckage by a rogue trio with secrets of their own, Will is thrust into a shadow war between rival factions of an ancient society known as the Aliomenti—puppet masters of power, wealth, and human evolution. Their technology defies explanation. Their reach is global. And they believe Will is dead.

He’s not. He’s evolving.

As Will learns to unlock dormant abilities and master forces that blur the line between science and sorcery, he must navigate a deadly new world of espionage, betrayal, and impossible choices. Driven by grief, powered by purpose, he’ll seek the truth behind the Aliomenti’s lies—and become something they never saw coming.

Fast-paced. Mind-bending. Emotionally charged.
Fans call A Question of Will “unputdownable,” “brilliantly plotted,” and “the beginning of an unforgettable journey.”
If you love high-tech thrillers with heart, conspiracies with teeth, and heroes who rise from the ashes, this is the series for you.

Featured Sci-fi: No Freedom by Inge-Lise Goss

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Can humans survive the android uprising?

Paislee Hobson is born into a world struggling after a war that killed most of the world’s population. Rebuilding has been accomplished through androids developed by and under the control of The Institute. The human population has been divided into strata.

An Artifical Companion

Paislee, a legal clerk, is a member of the upper stratum. Her recent boyfriend dumped her. To avoid another heartache, she purchases a human-looking android companion, Pellegrin. No one suspects Pellegrin is not human. He arouses and satisfies all her desires and is a polished companion and conversationalist in public.

Murder and Missing Persons

When strange things begin to happen around the courthouse, people start acting mysteriously. Some disappear and others are murdered. Pellegrin’s true identity surfaces as he slowly and methodically takes over all aspects of Paislee’s life. She is in turmoil trying to find a way out. The love of her youth appears and she longs for a life that is denied to her.

Can Paislee regain her freedom or is she doomed to a life under Pellegrin’s control?