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Featured Sci-fi: The Book of Ruin Series by W.G. Hladky Series

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Featured Sci-fi: The Book of Ruin Series by W.G. Hladky Series

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Generations after solar storms sent the world spiraling into a Second Dark Age, descendants of American soldiers defend the last NATO stronghold in Germania.

From the Asiatic Steppes comes the mysterious Vucari. NATO sends Senior Chief Loveboy Weir and a team of rangers to investigate.

Traveling in anti-gravity vessels, they visit the beautiful city-state of New Reykjavik and mountains where Kazaks use giant eagles to hunt enemies. The rangers also journey to the City of Ghost that spews poison and to a floating monastery where monks protect the Book of Ruin.

They also encounter Vladimir the Resurrected, the Vucari’s warrior prince, who claims to want peace but decimates any population that resists him. Weir struggles to convince NATO not to trust Vladimir. While politicians and clerics make backroom deals to appease Vladimir, Weir prepares for a war he fears is coming…

Featured Sci-Fi: Kaine’s Regret (Shattered Empire Book 5) by D.M Pruden

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Featured Sci-Fi: Kaine's Regret (Shattered Empire Book 5) by D.M Pruden

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In a galaxy on the brink of war, one man stands against an empire.

Fifteen years after Earth’s colonies declared independence, the shadow of Terra’s ambition threatens to reclaim its lost dominion. The Grand Terran Confederation is back, armed with a new fleet and a relentless campaign to dominate the galaxy.

Hayden Kaine emerges as a beacon of hope for the embattled colonies. As the formidable Confederation launches its ruthless offensive, Kaine discovers a disturbing truth: the advanced alien technology meant to unite humanity is now a tool of oppression.

The resistance teeters on the brink of destruction. In a desperate bid to save humanity, Kaine unveils a shocking betrayal: the Glenatat, once thought allies, are covertly aiding the enemy. Humanity is caught in a cosmic game, manipulated by forces beyond comprehension.

Kaine must navigate treacherous political landscapes and brutal warfare to reveal the Glenatat’s hidden agenda and stop a deceptive peace that threatens to enslave humanity once more. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance as Kaine faces harsh truths about his allies and the universe itself.

Kaine’s Regret is a sweeping space opera where loyalty, betrayal, and the human spirit clash. Join Kaine in this epic battle for freedom. Download now to uncover the secrets of the cosmos and the resilience of humanity.

Featured Sci-Fi: Starship Bandits by Jonathan Yanez and Ross Buzzell

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Featured Sci-Fi: Starship Bandits by Jonathan Yanez and Ross Buzzell

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Two things hold our starship together.
Duct Tape and hate.

In the near future space debris around Earth has made it impossible to traverse our solar system. Or it would be, if not for prisoners sentenced to clearing that debris known as Orbital Garbage Removal Experts, or O.G.R.E. for short.

Former linguistics professor Dax has made it a habit of working aboard The Junkyard with a small crew, the conspiracy theorist, tech-savvy hacker Mark and the once decorated military hero turned war criminal, Kane.

One day a job goes badly when the “debris” turns out to be an alien ship with a deceased crew and an auto-pilot warp drive. The alien craft jumps with The Junkyard attached only to crash land on a desolate, alien world. A world home to insects the size of cars called Underbeasts and the native alien orc-like Dal’no who have been thrown back to the Iron Age.

Join Dax, Mark and Kane as they strike bargains with the formerly technologically advanced species, unravel the beginnings of a human written language and find out they aren’t the first humans to visit the strange planet.

Grab a copy of Starship Bandits to see if this scraggly bunch of criminals can succeed where Conquistadors, Crusaders and even Navy Seals have failed. Their mission? Kill the Underbeast queen and save what’s left of the Dal’no race.

Featured Sci-fi: Archangel Project Series by C. Gockel

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Featured Sci-fi: Archangel Project Series by C. Gockel

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In the year 2432, humans think they are alone in the universe. They’re wrong.

Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet Luddeccea … but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about.

Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past twenty four hours, or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he’s never met.

A military officer from the colonies and a civilian from Old Earth, they couldn’t have less in common. But they have to work together to save the lives of millions–and their own.
Every step of the way they are haunted by the final words of a secret transmission:

The archangel is down.

Featured Sci-fi: The Cyborg’s Crusade Book 1 by Benoit Lanteigne

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Featured Sci-fi: The Cyborg's Crusade Book 1 by Benoit Lanteigne

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How did it come to this? My life used to be so simple. Back then, I hated it; I found it boring. Let me tell you: boring’s good. Boring’s great! I should’ve been thankful…

It was supposed to be a date like any other for James Hunter, a simple convenience store clerk. Nothing more than watching a movie in the town of Moncton. A place as unknown and unimportant as he considered his own existence to be. And yet, while walking to a cinema, James teleports to another world. There, a hostile crowd surrounds him, including various mutants with strange deformities.

Before he can even gather his wits or make a dash for it, a lone ally presents herself in the form of a winged woman named Rose. An important cultural figure in the country where James appeared, she offers him both protection and a home.
Soon, James learns that this new world is divided by a cold war. On one side is Nirnivia, home to Rose. The other, Ostark, is led by a mysterious cyborg. James is unaware that the cyborg has him in his crosshairs, thinking of him as the Deus ex machina that will end the war in his favor.

But the cyborg is far from the only potential threat to James. Soon after his arrival, BRR, a terrorist organization, kidnaps him.
What would a rogue group out for revenge-seeking to turn the cold war hot want with someone like James? Is there anyone also aware of this other world who will try to find him? Or is he on his own? If so, how is he supposed to escape? If that’s even an option…

Featured Sci-Fi: Skyship Thrive (Thrive Space Colony Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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Featured Sci-Fi: Skyship Thrive (Thrive Space Colony Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive.

Mahina’s terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them.

The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.

Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.

Now she’s out, a reformed character. She assembles a diverse crew and finds odd jobs. She intends to mind her own business – how to make a profit with the skyship Thrive.

But her fellow settlers are still failing.

While her business model careens toward circus acts, Sass dares to defy the city again, to solve Mahina’s failure to thrive.

Pick up Skyship Thrive because you love upbeat character-driven SF with fun technology. Suggested for fans of Firefly, Jenny Schwartz’s Xeno-Archaeologist, or Nathan Lowell’s Golden Age of the Solar Clipper. This series is complete, and the second Thrive series as well.