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Featured Sci-fi: The Expanding Universe by Multiple Authors

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Featured Sci-fi: The Expanding Universe by Multiple Authors

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Available for a limited time, this collection includes my novella, Situation Normal All Furballed Up—an adventure with 6T9, Volka, Carl, and Sundancer. It doesn’t require any familiarity with these characters, but it takes place between Starship Waking and Darkness Rising for those familiar.

6T9, Volka, and Carl are back in this hilarious sci-fi rescue mission… with extra glitter, gladiators, and one grumpy telepathic furball.

Android 6T9 was designed for pleasure—not prison breaks, gladiator death matches, or interstellar diplomacy gone sideways. But when his mission to retrieve a stranded scientist on the patriarchal desert colony of Exeter 389 goes spectacularly wrong, he does what any self-respecting former sexbot would do: improvise with glitter, charm, and masochism settings dialed to maximum.

Now trapped in a gladiator barracks, wearing a glorified diaper, and surrounded by musclebound morons, Sixty’s only backup is an artistic wolf-girl, a sentient starship with communication issues, and Carl—a venomous, telepathic space-weasel who’d rather nap than save the galaxy.

The locals are bloodthirsty, the rescue window is closing, and a six-legged monster is about to enter stage left.

For Sixty and his crew, it’s Situation Normal, All Furballed Up!

Besides Situation Normal there are twenty-two other short stories by such indie author luminaries as Craig Martelle, Lawrence M. Shoen, Rick Paltrow, Rachel Aukes, Daniel Gibbs, and many more!

Featured Sci-fi: No One Left Behind The Complete Series by John Walker

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Featured Sci-fi: No One Left Behind The Complete Series by John Walker

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Edgar Bryce thought his war was over. Then he heard the signal.

Once a decorated soldier, Bryce now roams the stars as a freelance prospector, trading danger for solitude. The battles may be behind him, but peace has never come easy. He’s drifting until a strange signal pulls him off course.

A hidden transmission. A plea for help. A distress call from human prisoners long thought lost.

The authorities won’t act. Peace is too fragile. Diplomats would rather look away. But Bryce remembers what it means to wear the uniform and the unspoken vow that comes with it.

He’ll have to do the impossible: form a team, cross the border, and bring them home.

Because some promises don’t expire. And some missions… choose you.


This box set includes all six books in the Veterans Code series:
Veterans Code
Veterans Gamble
Veterans Honor
Veterans Duty
Veterans Wrath
Veterans Legacy

Featured Sci-fi: Soldiers of Earthrise Books 1 – 3 by Daniel Arenson

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Featured Sci-fi: Soldiers of Earthrise Books 1 - 3 by Daniel Arenson

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War rages among the stars. Can Jon Taylor survive?

Soldiers of Earthrise box set! 3 entire novels = 1,000+ pages of epic science fiction.

Jon Taylor is an Earthling. He doesn’t care much about space. At least until his brother dies on Bahay, a war-torn planet many light-years away.

After the funeral, Jon joins the army. He learns to kill. And he flies to Bahay, sworn to avenge his brother.

Centuries ago, Filipino colonists arrived on Bahay to build a utopia. But this world has become a nightmare. Jon finds himself in a dizzying dreamscape, a world of dark jungles and neon slums, of ruthless guerrillas and intoxicating bargirls, of blood-soaked battlefields and glittering brothels. Here on Bahay, a man can lose his life in the jungle, lose his sanity in the gleaming drug dens, or lose his heart to a local girl with a sweet smile and knife behind her back.

On Bahay, nothing is as it seems. In this place of strange dreams and secrets, Jon hunts the man who killed his brother. But he learns that revenge always comes with a price…

The bestselling Earthrise universe spans multiple series and dozens of novels. If you’re new to Earthrise, this box set is a great place to start. If you’re an old fan, buckle up for a new adventure among the stars.

Featured Sci-fi: Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg

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Featured Sci-fi: Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg

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Six science fiction novellas by the author hailed as “a master” by Robert Jordan—including two Nebula Award winners and two finalists.

Robert Silverberg’s novellas open the door to new worlds: In “Born with the Dead,” a woman wills her body to be “rekindled” after death, allowing her to walk among the living, while her husband is left in the impossible position of accepting her death when he can still see her. In the Nebula Award­–nominated story “Homefaring,” the time-traveling narrator finds himself trapped in the consciousness of a lobsterlike creature of the far future, leading him to reflect on what it means to be human. And in the collection’s Nebula Award­–winning title story, the Earth of the fiftieth century is a place where time is elusive and fluid, and young citizens live as tourists in ancient cities.

“When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better,” says George R. R. Martin. Also including Nebula Award finalist “The Secret Sharer,” as well as “Thomas the Proclaimer” and “We Are for the Dark,” this collection offers an engrossing exploration of the work of this Grand Master, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “the John Updike of science fiction.”

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Featured Sci-fi: Earthbound (Chronicles of Maca Book 1) by Mari Collier

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Featured Sci-fi: Earthbound (Chronicles of Maca Book 1) by Mari Collier

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“A page-turning, extraordinary excursion that crosses genres.” – Daniel Scott White, editor of Unfit Magazine

Marooned in 19th century West, Llewellyn meets young frontier woman Anna. The two become friends and comrades, their fates forever intertwined.

They find themselves together in the prairies of 19th century Texas, the bordellos of Civil War-era New Orleans, to Prohibition in the 1920s, the Great Depression, and the vastness of space.

But can they survive hardships through history, the enmity of their southern neighbors and the Civil War, to return to his home planet and exact his revenge?

Praise:

★★★★★ – “Well written and thoroughly researched, with realistic characters and events. I could not put the book down.”

★★★★★ – “A great story with memorable characters, but to me the most fun was the historical aspect of it. Mari has done her research.”

★★★★★ – “One of the most unusual sci-fi stories I’ve read… I love these books and recommend them completely.”

★★★★★ – “I don’t usually read western-themed books but this book breaks the mold, blending western, historical, and sci-fi / paranormal all into one. It was spellbinding.”

Featured Sci-fi: Legend (Four Horsemen Tales Book 1) by Christopher Woods

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Featured Sci-fi: Legend (Four Horsemen Tales Book 1) by Christopher Woods

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2018 Dragon Award Finalist–Best Military Scifi Novel

In the era of the original Four Horsemen, there comes a Legend.

At a time when Humans were just starting to venture forth into the Galactic Union as mercenaries, Martin Quincy survived long enough to do something no one else had—he retired.

There was only one problem. He got bored.

After battling aliens for many years—killing aliens and getting paid—retirement didn’t suit him, and he decided to strap on the combat armor and go back to the stars. Along with his old friend Kal, Martin joined Cartwright’s Cavaliers, humanity’s best merc company. Life was exciting!

But he got bored. Again.

What does a ‘Legend’ do when even the merc life gets boring? He starts his own company! Can Martin form a merc company out of non-merc races and stand up for the downtrodden of the galaxy, or has his long string of good luck finally run out? One thing is for sure—with Torvasi and Andori troopers, and a Sirra’Kan princess as his partner, he won’t get bored again!