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Featured Sci-fi: Lost Souls (Book 1 of the Get Lost Saga) by Noah Chinn

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Featured Sci-fi: Lost Souls (Book 1 of the Get Lost Saga) by Noah Chinn

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A smuggler, a stowaway slave, and a pirate find themselves on a collision course deep in the no-man’s-land of space, tracking a mystery that’s centuries old.

Maurice “Moss” Foote is down to his last hundred credits, which he needs to get his old ship back and start over. Again. But then, Moss is so familiar with rock bottom he has his mail forwarded there.

Hel was born a slave, or maybe she wasn’t. It’s confusing, just like the compulsion that keeps her building… something. When she sees an opportunity to escape aboard a ship, she takes it, not realizing the trouble she’s in for.

Roy “Hellno” Herzog is a pirate who prefers to work alone. Now he’s got a lead on a prize so big it could set him up for life, if he can stomach working with other people. All he has to do is track down one runaway slave.

“An action-packed space romp with a dry sense of humor that will appeal to fans of The Orville who wish that show was more like Firefly.” – Marcus Alexander Hart of the Galaxy Cruise series

Featured Sci-fantasy: The Excalibur Knights Saga Omnibus Books 1 -3 by Luke Mitchell

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Featured Sci-fantasy: The Excalibur Knights Saga Omnibus Books 1 -3 by Luke Mitchell

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An ancient legend. A snarky sword. And a reluctant hero who’s about to regret everything.

Nate Arturi never wanted to save the world. He wanted to graduate, land a decent job, and maybe figure out why his neighbor’s corgi keeps climbing onto roofs. But when a deranged alien beacon wakes up on Earth, Nate’s mundane life goes up in smoke—literally.

Ambushed by an alien monster, saddled with a sarcastic sword, and scammed by a scruffy wizard claiming to be the Merlin, Nate is thrown into an adventure that’s way above his pay grade. Worse still, an alien armada is gunning for Earth, and Nate might be the only thing standing between humanity and fiery oblivion.

But saving Earth is just the beginning. To survive, Nate must rise from reluctant hero to full-blown legend, even if it means facing galaxy-spanning conspiracies, ancient grudges, and more foul-mouthed AI sass than anyone should have to endure.

The Excalibur Knights Saga Omnibus brings together the first three explosive novels (The Eighth Excalibur, The Black Knight, and Spoils of War) with several exclusive bonus stories from the universe. If you love high-stakes adventure, laugh-out-loud banter, and underdog heroes who never quit, this 1,800+ page epic will keep you hooked till the very last page.

Included in this collection:

– The Eighth Excalibur (Book 1)
– The Black Knight (Book 2)
– Spoils of War (Book 3)
– Flight of the Huntress (short story)
– The Last Good Boy (short story)
– The Complete Meyerwitz Logs (novelette)
– The Leftovers (serial spin-off)

Don’t miss your chance to dive into the galaxy-spanning Arthurian space opera that readers are calling “hilarious, heartfelt, and impossible to put down.”

Featured Sci-fi: Burning Sands Trilogy by P. R. Adams

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Featured Sci-fi: Burning Sands Trilogy by P. R. Adams

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Sometimes, waking is worse than the nightmare.

Earth is dying, and humanity’s only hope of survival will be somewhere among the stars. When Reggie Lee agrees to test Frontierza’s advanced hibernation technology in a month-long cryogenic sleep, he believes it will be a huge benefit to his career.

But the world he wakes to is nothing like he expects. It’s a world where life is cheap, and only the strong survive. To save the human species, Reggie must overcome impossible odds and horrific enemies.

Pick up this action-packed post-apocalyptic trilogy today, and see this new world of Burning Sands.

Featured Sci-fi: Too Old to Die the Complete Series by John Walker

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Featured Sci-fi: Too Old to Die the Complete Series by John Walker

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Gareth Weston feels old.

After a lifetime as a soldier, he’s retired to a quiet part of Earth where he expects to live out the rest of his days in quiet tranquility. With the universe at peace, he experiences a sense of uselessness.

Long hikes in the woods only go so far in keeping him busy and active.

But sometimes, fate isn’t content to allow obscurity to set in. When a mysterious force descends upon Earth, Gareth learns how battered his body has become. What starts off as a threat to his small community swiftly escalates as the invaders obliterate major cities.

With few chances for survival, and only a rogue doctor as an ally, Gareth must find a way to escape his home.

If you enjoy seasoned heroes, high-stakes action and stories of resilience against impossible odds, then you’ll love Too Old To Die, the complete 9-book sci-fi adventure from John Walker.

Featured Sci-fi: Altered Carbon (Altered Carbon / Takeshi Kovacs Novels Book 1) by Richard K. Morgan

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN EXCITING SERIES FROM NETFLIX • The shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning in this “tour de force of genre-bending, a brilliantly realized exercise in science fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.

Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold.

Featured Sci-fi: Exo (The Exo Novels) by Fonda Lee

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Featured Sci-fi: Exo (The Exo Novels) by Fonda Lee

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“A deeply immersive story that balances fantastic, original world building with spine-tingling adventure.” —Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times–bestselling author

It’s been a century of peace since Earth became a colony of an alien race with far reaches into the galaxy. Some die-hard extremists still oppose alien rule on Earth, but Donovan Reyes isn’t one of them. His dad holds the prestigious position of Prime Liaison in the collaborationist government, and Donovan’s high social standing along with his exocel (a remarkable alien technology fused to his body) guarantee him a bright future in the security forces. That is, until a routine patrol goes awry and Donovan’s abducted by the human revolutionary group Sapience.

When Sapience realizes who Donovan’s father is, they think they’ve found the ultimate bargaining chip. But the Prime Liaison doesn’t negotiate with terrorists, not even for his own son. Left in the hands of terrorists who have more uses for him dead than alive, the fate of Earth rests on Donovan’s survival. Because if Sapience kills him, it could spark another intergalactic war. And Earth didn’t win the last one . . .

“Exo is my favorite type of sci-fi adventure—a novel that makes you question everything you think about our world . . . and what it means to be human.” —Kass Morgan, New York Times–bestselling author

“This action-packed novel asks readers to consider alien technology, what it means to be human or nonhuman, and the gray areas in war, where neither side is completely good or evil . . . Ethical questions add complex layers to this exciting sci-fi offering.” —School Library Journal