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Featured Sci-fi: Escape Velocity (The Quantum War Series Book 1) by Jonathan Paul Isaacs

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A remote colony.
A mysterious threat.
One man is all that stands between destruction and salvation.

In 2271, space is anything but empty. Exoplanet settlements drive a constant demand for new colonists and unending trade. But the dangers of interstellar expansion are many.

With responsibility for everything from pirates to broken spacecraft, Lieutenant Wyatt Wills doesn’t understand his latest orders: perform a covert reconnaissance mission to Juliet, home to twenty million people and humanity’s largest presence beyond Earth. All contact has been lost from the other side of the quantum gate. And what few rumors make it through smack of government conspiracies and an uncontrolled pandemic. Some even mention an alien invasion.

It will be up to Wyatt and a hastily-assembled team of replacements to go to Juliet and uncover the truth.

Once there, they may not make it back alive.

Featured Sci-fi: Summer at Xawela (Seasons of War on Abira Book 4) Earl T. Roske

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Featured Sci-fi: Summer at Xawela (Seasons of War on Abira Book 4) Earl T. Roske

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Hospitallers, be careful what you wish for.

In the wake of the Nongoma action, Sergeant Fermo’s team has been confined to base duty. But then there’s an ambush, and the peace talks mission goes pear-shaped.

There’s only one team available to respond.

Eager for action, Fermo’s team jumps at the chance to rescue their fellow Hospitalers. But the ambush is just the beginning of Fermo’s latest trial. She and her team must venture into unknown territory with few clues and no outside support.

But they are not alone.

They have brought help with them. Will it be enough to see them through the mission? And what costs will the team pay to survive?

There’s only one way to know.

Featured Sci-fi: The Book of Ruin Series by W.G. Hladky Series

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Featured Sci-fi: The Book of Ruin Series by W.G. Hladky Series

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Generations after solar storms sent the world spiraling into a Second Dark Age, descendants of American soldiers defend the last NATO stronghold in Germania.

From the Asiatic Steppes comes the mysterious Vucari. NATO sends Senior Chief Loveboy Weir and a team of rangers to investigate.

Traveling in anti-gravity vessels, they visit the beautiful city-state of New Reykjavik and mountains where Kazaks use giant eagles to hunt enemies. The rangers also journey to the City of Ghost that spews poison and to a floating monastery where monks protect the Book of Ruin.

They also encounter Vladimir the Resurrected, the Vucari’s warrior prince, who claims to want peace but decimates any population that resists him. Weir struggles to convince NATO not to trust Vladimir. While politicians and clerics make backroom deals to appease Vladimir, Weir prepares for a war he fears is coming…

Featured Sci-Fi: Kaine’s Regret (Shattered Empire Book 5) by D.M Pruden

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Featured Sci-Fi: Kaine's Regret (Shattered Empire Book 5) by D.M Pruden

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In a galaxy on the brink of war, one man stands against an empire.

Fifteen years after Earth’s colonies declared independence, the shadow of Terra’s ambition threatens to reclaim its lost dominion. The Grand Terran Confederation is back, armed with a new fleet and a relentless campaign to dominate the galaxy.

Hayden Kaine emerges as a beacon of hope for the embattled colonies. As the formidable Confederation launches its ruthless offensive, Kaine discovers a disturbing truth: the advanced alien technology meant to unite humanity is now a tool of oppression.

The resistance teeters on the brink of destruction. In a desperate bid to save humanity, Kaine unveils a shocking betrayal: the Glenatat, once thought allies, are covertly aiding the enemy. Humanity is caught in a cosmic game, manipulated by forces beyond comprehension.

Kaine must navigate treacherous political landscapes and brutal warfare to reveal the Glenatat’s hidden agenda and stop a deceptive peace that threatens to enslave humanity once more. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance as Kaine faces harsh truths about his allies and the universe itself.

Kaine’s Regret is a sweeping space opera where loyalty, betrayal, and the human spirit clash. Join Kaine in this epic battle for freedom. Download now to uncover the secrets of the cosmos and the resilience of humanity.

Featured Sci-Fi: Starship Bandits by Jonathan Yanez and Ross Buzzell

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Featured Sci-Fi: Starship Bandits by Jonathan Yanez and Ross Buzzell

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Two things hold our starship together.
Duct Tape and hate.

In the near future space debris around Earth has made it impossible to traverse our solar system. Or it would be, if not for prisoners sentenced to clearing that debris known as Orbital Garbage Removal Experts, or O.G.R.E. for short.

Former linguistics professor Dax has made it a habit of working aboard The Junkyard with a small crew, the conspiracy theorist, tech-savvy hacker Mark and the once decorated military hero turned war criminal, Kane.

One day a job goes badly when the “debris” turns out to be an alien ship with a deceased crew and an auto-pilot warp drive. The alien craft jumps with The Junkyard attached only to crash land on a desolate, alien world. A world home to insects the size of cars called Underbeasts and the native alien orc-like Dal’no who have been thrown back to the Iron Age.

Join Dax, Mark and Kane as they strike bargains with the formerly technologically advanced species, unravel the beginnings of a human written language and find out they aren’t the first humans to visit the strange planet.

Grab a copy of Starship Bandits to see if this scraggly bunch of criminals can succeed where Conquistadors, Crusaders and even Navy Seals have failed. Their mission? Kill the Underbeast queen and save what’s left of the Dal’no race.

Featured Sci-fi: Archangel Project Series by C. Gockel

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Featured Sci-fi: Archangel Project Series by C. Gockel

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In the year 2432, humans think they are alone in the universe. They’re wrong.

Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet Luddeccea … but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about.

Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past twenty four hours, or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he’s never met.

A military officer from the colonies and a civilian from Old Earth, they couldn’t have less in common. But they have to work together to save the lives of millions–and their own.
Every step of the way they are haunted by the final words of a secret transmission:

The archangel is down.