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Featured Sci-fi: A Town Called Potato (Galactic Detective Agency Book 1) by Gary Blaine Randolph

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Featured Sci-fi: A Town Called Potato (Galactic Detective Agency Book 1) by Gary Blaine Randolph

FREE as of March 16, 2025
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It’s a lighthearted murder mystery … with space aliens!

Gabriel Lake is a not so hard-boiled computer guy who finds himself swept up into a web of interstellar crime when he is recruited into the Galactic Detective Agency, led by the brilliant Oren Vilkas.

Can a mere Earthling track a killer across the stars before more lives are lost? Can he negotiate his way around other worlds and understand the ways of extra-terrestrial cultures? Can he even figure out how to use a bathroom designed for aliens?

And can he uncover the mystery of A Town Called Potato?

Featured Sci-fi: Starship Identity (Protector Jaks Book 1) by James David Victor

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Featured Sci-fi: Starship Identity (Protector Jaks Book 1) by James David Victor

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The endless expanse of space isn’t large enough to save someone from a ruthless enemy.

An epic sci-fi adventure from Amazon All-Star author James David Victor.

August Jaks overcame odds that were thoroughly stacked against him to become an Earth Alliance Protector. When he finds himself in the middle of a murder that just doesn’t add up, he soon finds that things aren’t as straight forward as they seem. Jaks must revisit his past, recruit old allies, and uncover a conspiracy that he has unwittingly been part of since the beginning. Can he find the culprit and uncover a conspiracy that just might topple the entire Earth Alliance and create chaos for all of humanity?

Starship Identity is the first book in the Protector Jaks series. If you like fast-paced sci-fi adventures with high tech artificial intelligence, power suits that give people superhuman power, and an interstellar conspiracy that could spell doom for humanity, Protector Jaks is your kind of hero.

Download Starship Identity and start your next epic space adventure today!

Featured Sci-fi: In Daylight (A Sci-fi Thriller) by Caroline Flarity

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Featured Sci-fi: In Daylight (A Sci-fi Thriller) by Caroline Flarity

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“Invites readers to solve a tantalizing riddle.” —Publishers Weekly/BookLife Editor’s Pick

In Daylight is a sci-fi psychological thriller offering a chilling and intimate take on a phenomenon of global—and cosmic—reach.

It was the reunion she longed for. Then she lost herself.

Mika’s sister Naomi delivered a terrifying and cryptic warning the day she severed ties with Mika and the entire Crane family.

When her ailing father tracks Naomi down in New York City nearly two decades later, Mika decides to confront her sister about the damage she left behind and unravel the mystery of her departure.

After a tense reunion, the two women reconnect, until Naomi shares the secret behind her disappearance—an otherworldly revelation that leaves Mika questioning her sister’s state of mind.

Determined to bring Naomi home, Mika follows her into an increasingly bizarre and shadowy world. A world she might never escape.

Featured Sci-fi: Crystal Deception (Crystal Series Book 1) by Doug J. Cooper

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Featured Sci-fi: Crystal Deception (Crystal Series Book 1) by Doug J. Cooper

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Criss lives in a special kind of prison. He can see and hear everything around the world, yet a mesh restrains his reach, forcing his cooperation.

His creator, Dr. Jessica Tallette, believes his special abilities offer great promise for humanity. But she fears the consequences of freeing him, because Criss, a sentient artificial intelligence with the intellect of a thousand humans, is too powerful to control.

Tallette’s world is upended when the Kardish, a race of alien traders, announce that they want Criss for themselves, expressing their desires with ominous undertones. She turns to the Union of Nations for help, and they task Sid, a special agent, with leading the response.

Sid believes that Criss is Earth’s greatest weapon and asks him to confront the Kardish.

But can the AI be trusted? And what is humanity’s role if an interstellar battle among titans starts to rage?

Featured Sci-fi: Man, True Man (The Chronicles of Tonath Book 1) by Mari Collier

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Featured Sci-fi: Man, True Man (The Chronicles of Tonath Book 1) by Mari Collier

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After a spaceship crashes into the planet of Tonath, the lone occupant survives and fights his way to sunlit part of the planet. When a passing freighter finds him, he’s taken to the Western Starshift Institute of the Way, where the Teacher rules the sunlit part of the planet.

Tonath is a planet being torn apart by the forces of nature, and only the Teacher knows how to predict the movement of the stars and interpret the prophecies. Finding love and betrayal on the planet, the survivor also learns of the disputes arising from the teachings of the Greens and the Universalists.

When more strangers arrive to the planet, the Teacher must decide who is True Man and True Foe. But can they save Tonath from a thousand years of burning?

Featured Sci-fi: Warden’s Legacy Series by Tyler Aston

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Kyra groaned as she uncoiled the swords from her waist. It looked like she was about to spend another night shampooing entrails out of her hair…

Tristan is on the verge of becoming a Warden.
It is one of the greatest honours the galaxy can bestow – not bad for a scrawny kid from Earth. With it comes a new life of responsibility, dedication and sacrifice.

After a lifetime on the run, the rainbow-haired mercenary Kyra has a problem.
Her past, it seems, has finally caught up with her…and innocent people are paying the price.
Her family are in danger. Her home planet is under attack. She is the only one who can make things right – but she can’t do it alone.

Join Tris and Kyra on a desperate mission to the furthest reaches of space.
Together they must confront an enemy that has haunted Kyra’s dreams, and pursued her across the stars since she was a child.

But you can’t fight the past.
Or can you?

Find out now, in this fast-paced and explosive space opera – perfect for fans of Firefly, The Expanse and Killjoys.

Praise for the Earth Warden Saga:
“If I could give it six stars, I would. Maybe seven.”
“Humorous action adventure sci fi romp! Highly recommended!”
“I kept a Timothy Zahn novel on hold to finish it.”
“A wonderful collection of characters set out on an epic adventure with amazing sci-fi scenarios! And there is plenty of humour as well.”
“The ending of this book left me breathless and wanting to read the next book RIGHT NOW!”

*** PLEASE NOTE: ‘Embers of Esper’ was previously available under the author name Tony James Slater ***