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Featured Sci-fi: Seeds of War Series by Lawrence M. Schoen and Col. Jonathan P. Brazee

May 19, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Seeds of War Series by Lawrence M. Schoen and Col. Jonathan P. Brazee

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“Invasion!” That’s what retired Marine Lieutenant General Colby Edison calls it when his farm is overrun by a horde of alien plants, leafy gremlin-like creatures that begin systematically destroying first his crops and then his home. And not just his farm, but all the surrounding farms as well. The relentless plants have apparently killed his neighbors, and clearly he and his dog Duke are next. But as a retired Marine, Colby has resources and skills not shared by other farmers on the newly terraformed agricultural world of Vasquez and soon he is bringing the fight to the invaders.

Except. . . who is really invading whom? High in orbit above Vasquez, a sentient vegetable studies the planet it had seeded and sculpted centuries before, laying it out as a world-sized garden. Now, returning to inspect the progress of its work, it finds its art has been tainted by the intrusion of crop grids, farm buildings, and people, all of which must be purged if the garden is to endure.

When two species clash, only one will survive.

Former psychology professor Lawrence M. Schoen and retired Marine Colonel Jonathan P. Brazee join forces in this first volume of the SEEDS OF WAR trilogy, pitting Marine against Gardener, with the fate of all of humanity hanging in the balance.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Jonathan P. Brazee, Lawrence M. Schoen, Seeds of War

Featured Sci-fi: BuyMort Grand Opening (Shopocalypse Saga Book 1) by Damien Hanson

May 19, 2024 by Carolynn

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In a world sold to the highest bidder, can Tyson save humanity from the insatiable greed of the universe?

When humanity finally fell, it wasn’t to war or disease—it was to shopping. BuyMort, the newest and last store to set up shop on Earth. The end of the world as everyone knew it.

Welcome to the Shopocalypse, the everything-must-go never again sales event that just lost us our world.

But not everything is lost. Meet Tyson, a no-cares slacker with a traumatic past, two wrinkled bucks in his wallet and a crap job caretaking a crap campground in the desert sands of Arizona. He had a deal with the world. He didn’t change it, and it didn’t change him. Seemed simple enough.

His world lost, monsters running rampant, and people dying everywhere he looks, it’s time to rise up from his dark past and become something he was never capable of being. It is time for him to be a hero. It is time for him to become the Windowpuncher!

59900 morties, 4.7 stars

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: BuyMort Grand Opening, Damien Hanson, Joseph Phelps, The Shopocalypse Saga

Featured Science Fiction: Exhalation – Short Stories by Ted Chiang

May 15, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Exhalation - Short Stories by Ted Chiang

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Editor’s note: I’ve read this one. The first two stories alone are worth the price.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Other

Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory.

Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.

In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Exhalation, Ted Chiang

Featured Sci-fi: Machine A White Space Novel by Elizabeth Bear

May 13, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Machine A White Space Novel by Elizabeth Bear

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A “spectacularly smart space opera” that follows Ancestral Night in the Hugo Award–winning author’s White Space duology (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Meet Doctor Jens.

She hasn’t had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years. Her workday begins when she jumps out of perfectly good space ships and continues with developing treatments for sick alien species she’s never seen before. She loves her life. Even without the coffee.

But Dr. Jens is about to discover an astonishing mystery: two ships, one ancient and one new, locked in a deadly embrace. The crew is suffering from an unknown ailment and the shipmind is trapped in an inadequate body, much of her memory pared away.

Unfortunately, Dr. Jens can’t resist a mystery and she begins doing some digging. She has no idea that she’s about to discover horrifying and life-changing truths.

Written in Elizabeth Bear’s signature “rollicking, suspenseful, and sentimental” (Publishers Weekly) style, Machine is a fresh and electrifying space opera that you won’t be able to put down.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Elizabeth Bear, Machine, White Space

Featured Science Fiction: Fire Fight (The Fire Planets Saga #1) by Chris Ward

May 13, 2024 by Carolynn

Chris Ward Fire Fight

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In a far corner of the galaxy, the seven systems of the Fire Quarter face a terrible threat from a dangerous warlord.

On the fire planet of Abalon 3, evil Raylan Climlee threatens to unleash a wave of destruction in order to take control of the planet’s valuable source of trioxyglobin, a dangerous but valuable liquid used for starship fuel. The only person who can stop him is Lianetta Jansen, a disgraced former Galactic Military Policewoman now turned smuggler, who is haunted by a terrible tragedy in her past. Along with her ragtag, wisecracking crew—the one-armed pilot Caladan, and the malfunctioning droid, Harlan5—Lia must confront her own demons, while trying to stop another.

Fire Fight is the beginning of the Fire Planets Saga, an epic new space opera series.=

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Chris Ward, Fire fight, The Fire Planets Saga

Featured Sci-fi: Weapons of Choice by Nick Snape

May 10, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Weapons of Choice by Nick Snape

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A failed military training exercise. An alien incursion, desperate and on the hunt. Survival is just the beginning…

‘This is a moment in time humanity will never forget. Hostile Contact.’★★★★★ Goodreads

Finn had thought he’d seen it all…but no…he had to admit…

Not quite everything…

There was a big universe out there and it was about to land in his lap.

Just how bad could it be?

Finn is a troubled war-hero, overseen by an unyielding Commanding Officer while dragging his group of rookies through basic training. When an alien incursion lands in the middle of a patrol exercise, wielding powerful weapons and alien armour far beyond their own, he is forced to lead the remnants of Delta Squad in a desperate struggle for survival.

Utilising light-reflecting camouflage, the aliens go on the rampage, killing indiscriminately and capturing Finn’s CO before going on the hunt. Outgunned, and with the world’s armed forces helpless to act after a second incursion drops, Delta set out on a desperate rescue mission, only for the aliens to reveal a weapon that could change modern-day warfare forever.

Finding themselves in a battle for Earth’s future, Delta Squad discover the aliens are more than they seem, and that alien technology can be just as deadly in the hands of humanity when they unearth a deadly secret ‒ the Weapons of Choice.

Read Hostile Contact, an action-packed sci-fi survival novel – where ‘Predator’ meets ‘Full Metal Jacket’ in a pulse-pounding, non-stop thrill ride.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Nick Snape, Weapons of Choice

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