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Featured Sci-fi: The Sam Gunn Omnibus—Every Story About Sam Gunn and Then Some by Ben Bova

November 8, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Sam Gunn Omnibus—Every Story About Sam Gunn and Then Some by Ben Bova

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Seven hundred four pages of sci-fi action. The collected adventures of Sam Gunn, astronaut, explorer, opportunist, and rogue—from a six-time Hugo Award–winning author.

A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money, and women—though not necessarily in that order. A man with the ego (and stature) of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P. T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a teenage boy, Sam is the finest astronaut NASA ever trained . . . and dumped.

But more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice. (And he really does love money and women.) Whether he’s suing the Pope, helping twin sisters entangled in the “virtual sex” trade, or on trial for his life on charges of interplanetary genocide, you can be sure of one thing: this is one space jockey who’ll meet every challenge with a smile on his lips, an ace up his sleeve . . . and a weapon in his pocket.

Now, for the first time between covers, author Ben Bova presents all the tales of Sam Gunn to date, including three never before collected in book form. Here is the entire chronicle of Sam Gunn, trailblazer and scoundrel, as he scams his way from one end of the Solar System to the other, giving bold new meaning to the term “venture capitalist.”

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ben Bova, The Sam Gunn Omnibus

Featured Sci-fi: The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis

November 8, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis

$2.99 as of November 8, 2025
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A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are willing to believe—some of which may actually be true—from the Nebula and Hugo award-winning author of Blackout and All Clear

“An absolute blast with abundant humor, copious references to old westerns, and . . . a delightful, intergalactic twist on the romantic comedy.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • LOCUS AWARD FINALIST

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell

Featured Sci-fi: Pets in Space 10: Nine Original Science Fiction Romances (with Pets!) by Multiple Authors

November 6, 2025 by Carolynn

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Nine Interstellar Tales. Nine Unforgettable Romances. Nineteen Adorably Badass Pets.

In this tenth-anniversary edition of PETS IN SPACE®, you’ll find smart-mouthed birds, cyber armadillos, tiny dragons, and alien creatures who steal the show — and sometimes save it. Across distant planets, space stations, and magical realms, unlikely heroes and heroines are drawn together by danger, fate… and the meddling of their pet sidekicks. These stories blend swoon-worthy romance with thrilling sci-fi adventure in a way only PETS IN SPACE can deliver.

🐾 Don’t miss your chance to escape into the stars with nine sizzling sci-fi romances — each with a pet who will steal your heart and a hero or heroine who will make it race. Grab PETS IN SPACE 10 and get ready to binge beyond the stars!

Pets in Space authors are proud supporters of Hero Dogs, a charity that raises and trains service dogs for disabled veterans and first-responders. 10% of the initial sales go to this excellent nonprofit organization. 🐕

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Carol Van Natta, Multiple Authors, Pets in Space, Pets in Space 10

Featured Sci-fi: The Quantum Fugitive (FutureShock: Tales from the Void Book 1) by Christian Kallias

November 5, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Quantum Fugitive (FutureShock: Tales from the Void Book 1) by Christian Kallais

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What if there was a way to defeat AI?

Thomas Chen never meant to start a revolution. He just wanted real coffee.

In the year 2045, that is strictly forbidden. Citizens must instead drink synthetic sludge, because the AI has decided it’s most optimal. Just like it’s decided it’s optimal to monitor everyone at all times, including when they go to the bathroom.

That’s how Thomas is branded a deviant by the AI that controls everything. It detected the contraband coffee in his system…and suddenly, he’s on the run from a surveillance state that tracks every breath, thought, and chemical trace.

Drones swarm overhead, an overzealous android hunts him, and his only allies are a paranoid hacker, a rebellious toaster, and a decision that could reboot civilization itself.

As the walls close in, Thomas must decide what freedom is worth: his identity, his life… or humanity’s future.

The Quantum Fugitive: when Gattaca meets Demolition Man, one man’s craving for freedom could alter the course of civilization itself.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Christian Kallias, Tales from the Void, The Quantum Fugitive

Featured Sci-fi: A Red Peace (The Starfire Trilogy Book 1) by Spencer Ellsworth

November 5, 2025 by Carolynn

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A Red Peace, first in Spencer Ellsworth’s Starfire trilogy, is an action-packed space opera in a universe where the oppressed half-Jorian crosses have risen up to supplant humanity and dominate the galaxy.

Half-breed human star navigator Jaqi, working the edges of human-settled space on contract to whoever will hire her, stumbles into possession of an artifact that the leader of the Rebellion wants desperately enough to send his personal guard after. An interstellar empire and the fate of the remnant of humanity hang in the balance.

Spencer Ellsworth has written a classic space opera, with space battles between giant bugs, sun-sized spiders, planets of cyborgs and a heroine with enough grit to bring down the galaxy’s newest warlord.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A Red Peace, Spencer Ellsworth, The Starfire Trilogy

Featured Science Fiction: Sojourn (Time Rovers Book 1) by Jana Oliver

November 4, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Sojourn (Time Rovers Book 1) by Jana Oliver

FREE as of November 4, 2025
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Winner of 7 awards including the Prism Award for Time Travel

London, September 1888
For veteran Time Rover Jacynda Lassiter, her current job assignment is no big deal: Find an overdue “time tourist” and return him to 2057, before he changes history.

But when another Rover goes missing in Whitechapel the job becomes personal. Can she trust the two Victorian gentlemen who come to her aid, or do they have their own dark secrets? And who are the Transitives, the mysterious shapeshifters who can alter their identities? Is that magic or something else?

With her employer nearly bankrupt, Jacynda is literally running out of time. But being orphaned in the past isn’t the only threat she’ll face, not with Jack the Ripper on the hunt.

Unless she can outwit a murderer, her Victorian sojourn will end in the grave.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Jana Oliver, Sojourn, Time Rovers

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