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Featured Sci-fi: Phule’s Company Book 1 by Robert Asprin

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Featured Sci-fi: Phule's Company Book 1 by Robert Asprin

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From a New York Times bestseller “a . . . winning story about a commander who builds a company of misfits . . . into a disciplined military outfit” (Publishers Weekly).
 
After being court-martialed by the Space Legion for ordering the strafing of a treaty-signing ceremony, multimillionaire Willard Phule receives his punishment: He must command the misfit Omega Company on Haskin’s Planet, a mining settlement on the edge of settled space. At his duty station, he leverages his personal money and a knack for managing people to get the company to come together as a unit. Phule convinces the governor to leave the contract for an honorary duty up for competition between the Space Legionnaires and the Regular Army. The Army sends some of their most elite troops to take part in the competition, but Phule’s company operates with their own unique tactics . . .

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Featured Sci-fi: Primordial World Books 1 – 11 by Baileigh Higgins

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Featured Sci-fi: Primordial World Books 1 - 11 by Baileigh Higgins

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Discover A Savage Prehistoric World Lost To Time

Born 75 million years ago, Ridley has never known anything beyond the primeval wilderness and its primordial beasts. Fierce and headstrong, she’s no stranger to adversity and loves the thrill of the chase. When she learns about an extreme endurance race, she jumps at the chance to compete in the most dangerous competition in history.

A thrilling adventure awaits as Ridley and her loyal wolf companion, Loki, set off in pursuit of the ultimate prize. The competition is fierce, with cutthroat competitors, savage predators, and rugged terrain standing in their way. But Ridley is determined to prove herself and come out on top, no matter the cost.

Join Ridley and Loki as they face challenges and danger at every turn, pushing their limits and testing their survival skills. Will they be able to outwit, outsmart, and outlast the competition?

This heart-pumping tale of adventure and perseverance includes the entire Primordial World series and will keep you on the edge of your seat until the end. The first series in the Primordial Universe, Primordial Earth, can be enjoyed separately as part of its own collection.

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Featured Sci-fi: Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein

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Featured Sci-fi: Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein

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The capstone and crowning achievement of  the Future History series, from the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction…

Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein’s longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.

Featured Sci-fi: Ironhold Station (USS Hamiltron Book 1) by Mark Wayne McGinnis

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Featured Sci-fi: Ironhold Station (USS Hamiltron Book 1) by Mark Wayne McGinnis

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The surprise attack within the Auriga Star System was worse than brutal, it was heinous—leaving the US-Navy’s 3rd Fleet decimated. Thousands of crew are reported dead, including the ship’s Captain.

Reluctantly, the young XO, Galvin Quintos, will be taking command of the fleet’s crippled dreadnaught, the USS Hamilton, while doing his best to bring fleet survivors back to Earth.

Going from bad to worse, a murderer is running loose onboard the ship. Add to that fuel levels are critically low, and the Grish are back and in fast pursuit—ready to finish what they’d started. Only by sheer luck, along with a good measure of cagey smarts, will Quintos be able to rise to the challenge.

Featured Sci-fi: On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

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Featured Sci-fi: On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

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INTRODUCING
HONOR HARRINGTON

Having made him look a fool, she’s been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her.

Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship’s humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.

The aborigines of the system’s only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.

Parliament isn’t sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called “Republic” of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn’t work to police the entire star system.

But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They’ve made her mad.

Featured Sci-fi: Humanity’s Last Stand Books 1- 9 by Daniel Young

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Featured Sci-fi: Humanity's Last Stand Books 1- 9 by Daniel Young

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Commander Nathan McCrory expected a routine seven-month deployment.

He woke up three hundred years too late.

The solar system is unrecognizable. Mars has been renamed. The planets have moved. And humanity—once masters of the stars—now numbers fewer than five thousand souls, hiding in underground cells while relentless machines hunt them to extinction.

Everyone McCrory knew is dead. His civilization is gone. The enemy is overwhelming, tireless, and utterly without mercy.

But McCrory refuses to accept humanity’s defeat.

Armed with three-hundred-year-old military training and a stolen machine ship, he begins teaching desperate survivors a radical concept: they can fight back.

Humanity’s Last Stand collects all nine books of the Operation Brainstorm saga—over 400,000 words of desperate combat, impossible odds, and humanity’s refusal to surrender.

When extinction is certain and hope is gone, one man’s vision changes everything.

The war for humanity’s survival starts now.