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Featured Sci-fi: Trading in Danger (Vatta’s War Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon

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Featured Sci-fi: Trading in Danger (Vatta's War Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon

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The first volume in the Vatta’s War series – action-packed military SF from the Nebula Award winning author of The Speed of Dark.

Ky Vatta is a highly promising military cadet with a great future ahead of her, until an insignificant act of kindness makes her the focus of the Academy’s wrath. She is forced to resign, her dreams shattered.

For the child of a rich trading family, this should mean disgrace on a grand scale. And yet, to her surprise, Ky is offered the captaincy of a ship headed for scrap with its final cargo.

Her orders are absolutely clear, but Ky quickly sees potential profit in altering the journey. Because, whatever the risks, it’s in her blood to trade – even if the currency is extreme danger.

‘I thoroughly enjoyed Trading in Danger and wholeheartedly recommend it’ THE BOOK SMUGGLERS

Featured Science Fiction: Spaceships & Dames – Nine Novels of Space Adventure by Multiple Authors

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Featured Science Fiction: Spaceships & Dames - Nine Novels of Space Adventure by Multiple Authors

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Nine full-length novels of unique heroines: mothers, gentle mutants, star mages, and scientists, all with destinies in the stars.

Included in this collection:
Project Charon 1: Re-entry by Patty Jansen
Starship Waking by C. Gockel
Star Mage Quest by J.J. Green
Children of Darkness by James E. Wisher
Faring Soul by Tracy Cooper Posey
Spaceberg by M. Pax
Ghost by Demelza Carlton
Traitor’s Code by Jane Killick
Derelict by LJ Cohen

Featured Science Fiction: Red Dust (Gods & Assassins Book 1) by Frank Kennedy

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Featured Science Fiction: Red Dust (Gods & Assassins Book 1) by Frank Kennedy

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Fallen gods with a taste for murder. A criminal syndicate. A secretive desert town.

Ex-god Royal has a bone to pick with the human race. In his previous form, charismatic Royal and his surly partner Moon all but saved the forty worlds of the Collectorate from destruction. Their reward? Desert exile on Azteca to live as humans. No public gratitude. History rewritten.

Seriously. Doesn’t anyone respect a god?

Royal and Moon intend to leave their meager existence behind someday and recapture the old glory (random galactic chaos), but building an interstellar criminal network requires millions of credits. Assassinating the enemies of the Collectorate’s paranoid President pays well, yet the jobs are few.

Circumstance brings them to the tiny town of Desperido, where life – and a world of secrets – plays out beneath the desert’s red dust. Royal, ever the shape-shifting visionary (narcissist, some might say) conjures an exciting new path forward. First, the former deities will have to deal with enemies in their midst as well as the Horax, one of the planet’s most powerful criminal syndicates.

Prepare for a wild ride with a healthy dose of snark in the opening stanza of a five-book serial, “Gods and Assassins.” Pistols draw, rifles blast, traitors abound, conspiracies arise, wormholes open, and whiskey flows.

Featured Sci-fi: Reese Daniels Smuggler Series by T.D. Wilson

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Smuggling precious cargo to a remote colony was supposed to be easy. I was dead wrong.

Smuggling is a dangerous business and Reese Daniels has the score of a lifetime within his grasp; however, getting shot down on one of Uranus’ moons wasn’t in his plan. Stranded and on the run in the middle of an alien invasion, Reese must work with a group of Marine cadets to escape a grisly fate.

Awarded Silver Honorable Mention in the recent first quarter Volume 40 of L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest.

Featured Sci-fi: Viraquin Voyage by C.G. Harris

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Featured Sci-fi: Viraquin Voyage by C.G. Harris

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Ben Roberts hears voices…alien voices.

When word of his abilities spreads through the galactic grapevine, Ben ranks number one on an A.I.’s most wanted list to become their cybernated slave. A bleak prospect, but what if they offered him everything he ever dreamed of in exchange?

A headstrong spaceship, with an intelligence of its own, shows up to help Ben, but he doesn’t know if it can be trusted. When he discovers a powerful alien has taken refuge on Earth, Ben makes it his mission to rescue it from the race of A.I. beings.

If he can’t find a way to survive, the balance of power throughout the universe could be altered forever.

Aliens, robots, and spaceships all rolled up into one hilarious, page-turning story. Get your copy of Hometown Space Pirate to start the adventure.

Featured Fantasy: Grave Cargo (Arcane Transporter 1) by Jami Gray

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Featured Fantasy: Grave Cargo (Arcane Transporter 1) by Jami Gray

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A dead mage, a missing friend, and an unpredictable alliance merge into a volatile package sending Rory careening through the Arcane elite’s deadly secrets.

Rory Costas, Arcane Transporter, is finally out from under the Guild’s thumb and ready to jumpstart her career as an independent contractor. Even better than the potential income, her promising future offers the additional perk of keeping her coveted magic out of the hands of the all-powerful Arcane Families. But when a dead mage drops at her doorstep on the same morning her best friend and roommate, Lena, goes missing, Rory is drawn out of her comfort zone and into an ominous race against time.

Retracing Lena’s convoluted path through the Arcane elite’s moneyed secrets, bitter vendettas, and lethal curses, Rory crashes into Zev Aslanov’s investigation of the murdered mage. When the Cordova Family’s enigmatic hunter reveals the dead man was Lena’s last client, Rory must convince Zev her missing friend is a victim, not a suspect. To uncover the truth and save her friend, Rory agrees to work with Zev, even though their uneasy partnership may mean revealing her hidden magic.

As the clock ticks down, can they dodge Zev’s suspicions and Rory’s secrets to expose the real evil mastermind or will they crash and burn?

Buckle in for a pulse-pounding, magical thrill ride as Grave Cargo races into the Arcane Transporter urban fantasy series with a high-octane ride filled with unexpected turns.

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