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Featured Sci-fi: Wilderness Five (Metapmorphosis Book 1) by C.R. Walton

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Featured Sci-fi: Wilderness Five (Metapmorphosis Book 1) by C.R. Walton

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In the 22nd century, humanity’s greatest leap could be its last.

Manifold technology accelerated human evolution—but unleashed a nightmare. Now, on the ringworld Wilderness Five, a rogue manifold experiment is again altering the course of history. It promises the stars, but also threatens extinction.

Bryn, a reluctant hero haunted by his past, faces down a day he prayed would never come. Summoned to stop the experiment, he must confront the final stage of evolution—a force that could consume the galaxy itself.

“Intelligent, fascinating and imaginative science fiction!” – Therese Schwartz, Amazon 5-star review, 2025

From Cambridge planetary scientist Dr. Craig R. Walton, Wilderness Five is a spectacular hard science fiction novel that launches the epic space opera series Metamorphosis. Perfect for fans of The Expanse and Adrian Tchaikovsky. Grab Book 1 now and join the fight for humanity’s future!

Featured Sci-fi: Space Raiders The Complete Series by Ken Lozito

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Featured Sci-fi: Space Raiders The Complete Series by Ken Lozito

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A treasure hunter. A dying alien. A legacy that could change the galaxy.

Nathan Briggs makes his living finding lost treasures others can’t—until a routine corporate espionage job puts him in the path of a dying alien who leaves him with mysterious nanites coursing through his veins.

Now he’s hunted across the stars by a ruthless military commander with galactic ambitions. His only shot at survival? A ragtag alien crew aboard a ship captained by the ex-partner who once betrayed him.

As Nate struggles to understand the power growing within him, he realizes he’s stumbled into the middle of an interstellar power struggle that’s been brewing for centuries. The alien technology in his blood could tip the balance—if he can stay alive long enough to use it.

With enemies closing in from all sides, Nate must navigate treacherous alien politics and master strange new abilities. He’s no longer just hunting treasure—he’s become it. Finding a way home seems impossible when you’re suddenly the galaxy’s most valuable commodity.

From the bestselling author of the First Colony series comes an action-packed space adventure where the greatest treasures might be the ones you never meant to find.

Sometimes the universe finds you when you’re not even looking.

Space Raiders – The Complete Series contains all three books in the series. There is a galaxy full of secrets waiting to be explored. If you’re a fan of old school heroes and villains where grit and determination are offset by a little bit of humor, then this might be the series for you.

Featured Sci-Fi: Between Mountain and Sea by Louisa Locke

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Between Mountain and Sea by Louis Locke

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Mei Lin Yu should have been looking forward to the next stage in her life. As a descendant of one of the Founding Families who led the exodus from a dying Earth and now rule New Eden, Mei’s choices are endless. But she has never felt part of the Yu Family or the world of technological marvels and genetic perfection the Founders created.

All that will change the summer she spends at Mynyddamore, the home her ancestor Mabel Yu built in western Caelestis. Here, living among the Ddaerans, the original inhabitants of New Eden, Mei will discover secrets about Mabel Yu that her family want to keep buried and a truth about herself that will forever change her own destiny.

Between Mountain and Sea is a coming of age novel, the first book in USA Today Bestselling author Louisa Locke’s Caelestis series in the Paradisi Chronicles (an open source, science fiction world created by multiple authors).

Featured Sci-fi: Non-Stop (Sci-fi Classic) by Brian W. Aldiss

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Featured Sci-fi: Non-Stop (Sci-fi Classic) by Brian W. Aldiss

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A “brilliant . . . classic of the field” generation ship adventure from the Golden Age of Science Fiction by the author of the Helliconia Trilogy (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction).
 
Non-Stop is Grand Master of Science Fiction and Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Brian W. Aldiss’s debut novel. Written in response to Robert Heinlein’s Orphans of the Sky and published in the late 1950s, it is set in a primitive world, home to tribes of inhabitants who endure their harsh and stunted lives in a maze of corridors. Though legends exist that they’re actually on a ship traveling through the universe, no one really believes it. But that conviction doesn’t stop a group of people from embarking on a mission to find the rumored “Forwards” section and its control room. Through a tangled, hydroponic jungle, they’ll encounter telepathic animals, giants, outcasts, and mutants in an epic race to uncover the truth—and survive . . .
 
“A breakneck ride filled with some truly disturbing and chaotic imagery . . . Aldiss’ world is visceral and powerful.” —Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
 
“Worth reading, and quite a significant contribution to the long SF history of generation ship novels.” —SF Site
 
Praise for Brian W. Aldiss
 
“A major figure in world SF . . . Whatever else Aldiss may be, predictable he is not.” —The Guardian
 
“One of the most influential—and one of the best—SF writers Britain has ever produced.” —Iain M. Banks, award-winning author of the Culture series
 
“One of the most important SF writers of the 20th century.” —Publishers Weekly

Featured Sci-fi: The Glass Complete Series by Nathan Hystad

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Featured Sci-fi: The Glass Complete Series by Nathan Hystad

99¢ as of April 24, 2025
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THE GLASS: THE COMPLETE SERIES is over 1200 pages of thrilling adventure, inspiring characters, and mysterious aliens. With over 5000 ratings, you won’t want to miss out. What’s really behind the Glass?

A hush falls over Earth as invisible barriers appear at random. Cars crash into them; trees are sliced in half, but nothing prepares humanity for what comes next.

As the effects take hold, Ransom learns his young daughter Chrissy is prone to inclinations, which is exactly what he’d feared the most. Drake, a seasoned detective, joins forces with Britt, a brilliant journalist, as well as Peggy and Will, two small town lovers unwittingly thrust into danger.

The road won’t be easy, and they have no choice but to venture past the Glass. What they find on the other side is another story.

From the best-selling author of The Event, First Life, Echoes From the Moon, and Lost Contact.

Included Inside:

The Other Place (The Glass Book One)
The Hidden Space (The Glass Book Two)
The Secret Base (The Glass Book Three)

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Featured Sci-fi: Slice of Entropy (Pizza in Space Book 1) by Lawrence M. Schoen

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Featured Sci-fi: Slice of Entropy (Pizza in Space Book 1) by Lawrence M. Schoen

99¢ as of April 23, 2025
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Melody Wilder just needs to complete her dissertation and life will be perfect. Alas, that’s not going to happen.

She hasn’t picked a topic yet, her undergraduate loans have been “un-forgiven” with a vengeance, the university is about to strip her of her stipend, her job, and her apartment, and a pirate-priest minotaur is systematically destroying her hopes and dreams.

Meanwhile, alien bear cub physicists are trying to extradite her best friend on charges of violating the laws of conservation of matter every time he makes a pizza!

And things are just getting started.

With a blend of colorful aliens, explorations of new types of memory, the introduction of social predestination, and the healing power of pizza, Slice of Entropy is a rollicking romp of science fiction fun and adventure that will leave you hungry for more.