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Featured Science Fiction: Midwinter at Bhisho (Seasons of War on Abira Book 1) by Earl Roske

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Featured Science Fiction: Midwinter at Bhisho (Seasons of War on Abira Book 1) by Earl Roske

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Providing aid becomes a fight for survival.

When Imara lands on Abira with the rest of her company, things don’t feel right. And it’s not just the constant, falling snow. Bhisho’s townsfolk are nervous. This makes the Hospitallers wary.

Then, thieves come in the night.

But the thieves aren’t just thieves, they’re citizens of Grabouw, the other town in the valley. The Hospitallers learn that the people of Grabouw are starving, too. Imara and her team are charged with escorting supplies, through the snow, to the other town.


The welcome here is even more chilling.

Imara is certain more is going on than just a shortage of food supplies. A passed note confirms her suspicions. Now, Imara not only has to get her team safely back to Bhisho, but she also needs to report the truth, even if it costs her teams’ lives.

Midwinter on Bhisho is the first story in the Seasons of War on Abira series. Follow Sgt Imara Fermo as she not only deals with her own demons but also struggles to understand the layers of deceptions that drive the civil war on Abira.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Wrecking Squad Book 1 by Nick Snape

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Featured Sci-fi: The Wrecking Squad Book 1 by Nick Snape

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One crew, one loyalty and a single shot at redemption.

Captain Rebekah Khan and her ragtag crew of the repair ship Sunstar finally have a chance to pay off their crushing debts when an automining vessel goes rogue. After preventing the high value cargo from disappearing into the outer system, they uncover sabotage only a crew with their military experience would recognise.

Instead of returning as heroes, they are blackmailed into taking on a new crew member and the hunt for a mysterious, uncertified spacecraft. Deep into the black, they desperately try to hide their murky past, while their loyalties are tested to their limits when they finally come across the marooned ship and its deadly cargo.

Featuring the action of Alien: Earth, the camaraderie of the Firefly tv series and the infighting of James S. A. Corey’s The Expanse books, The Wrecking Squad is the new science fiction novel from Nick Snape, author of the highly rated Weapons of Choice series.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Far Time Incident (The Incident Book 1) by Neve Maslakovic

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Featured Sci-fi: The Far Time Incident (The Incident Book 1) by Neve Maslakovic

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Thanks to the time travel lab at St. Sunniva University, history is no longer a mystery. But when the beloved co-inventor of the university’s time machine is inexplicably smeared across time, academic exploration and the future of St. Sunniva is thrown into doubt.

As assistant to the dean of science, Julia Olsen is tasked with helping Campus Security Chief Nate Kirkland quietly examine this rare mishap…then, just as quietly, make it go away. But when the investigation indicates that the professor’s disappearance may have been a murder, those inspecting the incident unwittingly find themselves caught in a deadly cover-up — one in which history itself is the weapon.

From the snow-blanketed walkways of St. Sunniva’s campus to the sun-bleached cobblestone of ancient Pompeii’s roads, The Far Time Incident is a lively romp through history, science, and the academic world in the wake of a crime.

Featured Sci-fi: Those Alien Skies Books 1 – 3 by Clayton Graham

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Featured Sci-fi: Those Alien Skies Books 1 - 3 by Clayton Graham

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Cross the threshold into uncharted realms.
Three linked worlds. Three captivating tales.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh

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Featured Sci-fi: The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh

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I haven’t read this series, but I loved her Foreigner series. I’m picking this one up!

The first in a series of “lively tales of swashbuckling capitalism in space,” featuring a fascinating alien culture based on the social structure of lion prides (Locus)

Chaos breaks out when the captain of an all-female alien crew agrees to rescue a human male wanted by their enemy . . .

No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company of humans―a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown―and he was a prisoner of his discoverers and captors―the sadistic, treacherous kif―until his escape onto the hani ship, The Pride of Chanur.

Featured Science Fiction: Dinosaur Lake by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

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Dinosaur Lake Kindle Edition by Kathryn Meyer Griffith (Author)

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An ancient predator has been reborn in the caves beneath Crater Lake
…and it’s hungry.

Ex-cop Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for eight years and he likes his park and his life the way it’s been. Safe. Tranquil. Predictable. But he’s about to be tested in so many ways.

First the earthquakes begin…people begin to go missing…then there’s some mysterious water creature that’s taken up residence in the caves below Crater Lake and it’s not only growing in size, it’s aggressive and cunning…and very hungry.

And it’s decided it likes human beings. To eat.

And it can come up onto land.

So Henry, with the help of his wife, Ann; a young paleontologist named Justin; and a band of brave men must not only protect his park and his people from the monster but somehow find where it lives and destroy it…before it can kill again.

*** An EPIC EBOOK AWARDS 2014 *Finalist* in their Thriller category. And now there are three sequels: Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs Arising; Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation and Dinosaur La

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