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Featured Science Fiction: Lucky’s Marines the Ultimate Collection by Joshua James

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Featured Science Fiction: Lucky's Marines by Joshua James

99¢ as of July 9, 2025
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Over 3,000 pages of nonstop action!

INCLUDES TWO BONUS STORIES AND AN EXCLUSIVE AFTERWORD

“Like Starship Troopers on CRACK!” -Goodreads reviewer

The name’s Lance Corporal Lucky Lee Savage. I’ve survived 157 missions, not because I’m good—because I’m lucky. But now my luck’s wearing thin.

What started as a standard op turned into a nightmare. My squad’s decimated, we’re stranded on some backwater planet, and we’re facing an enemy with weapons that can slice through Empire destroyers like they’re made of paper.

Worse, I’ve learned these freaks are pawns of something ancient—the Da’hune, aliens planning a full-scale invasion of our universe. And somehow, I’m connected to them through a darkness inside me called the Hate.

With only Rocky—my smartass AI copilot—on my side, I’m facing an impossible choice: unleash the monster inside me or watch two universes fall. This darkness might be our only hope—if it doesn’t devour me first.

If you like your military sci-fi brutal, your heroes damaged, and your stakes cosmic—welcome to my universe.

Includes all 13 books in the Lucky’s Marines series:

  • Lucky Universe
  • Lucky Legacy
  • Lucky Empire
  • Lucky Forever
  • Lucky Invasion
  • Lucky Revenge
  • Lucky Justice
  • Lucky Bastard
  • Lucky At Last
  • Lucky’s Mercs: Retribution
  • Lucky’s Mercs: Rebellion
  • Lucky’s Mercs: Resurgence
  • Lucky’s Mercs: Reloaded

Praise for Lucky Universe:

“This sucker is a grab your ass and hang on ride! Full throttle action from page one through the epilogue.” -Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

“A great military sci-fi novel! … The fight scenes are fast-paced and intense. There are lots and I do mean lots of twists and turns in the plot. Nothing is quite as it seems.” –Errant Dreams review

“One of the things that marks this book out from other military SF novels is the twists and turns. Just when you think you have it figured out, the author throws another one in. In hindsight, you can see how it all links together and how it drove the characters.” –SF Crows Nest review

“Do yourself a favor if you love sci-fi with nonstop action, great character depth and environments that are off the charts, read this series!” -Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

Featured Sci-fi: Lost Planet (Starship of the Ancients Book 2) by A.K. DuBoff

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Featured Sci-fi: Lost Planet (Starship of the Ancients Book 2) by A.K. DuBoff

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Sequel to the bestselling Stranded!

Powerful players scheming from the shadows. An ancient alien starship. Who can be trusted with the most coveted technology in the Commonwealth?

Evan and Anya flee Aethos with a target on their backs. Unfortunately, the ship’s sentient AI is missing thousands of years of history and is just as surprised to be on the run.

As they search for the ship’s makers, Evan and Anya soon discover that the interstellar plot to transform the Commonwealth with alien tech runs much deeper than they’d ever imagined.

With two factions squaring off on Aethos, they must pick a side. In the face of powerful adversaries, Evan and Anya will need to use all their skills and contacts to decide who they can trust with the ancient ship’s powerful technology.

Can they keep the ship from falling into the wrong hands?

Lost Planet is the riveting second installment in the Starship of the Ancients series. If you like suspenseful space adventures filled with sci-fi action, vivid alien worlds, and interstellar intrigue, then you’ll love this thrilling space opera by author A.K. DuBoff, creator of the Cadicle Universe.

Grab your copy now to continue the adventure!

Featured Science Fiction: Galactic Empires by Multiple Authors

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Featured Science Fiction: Galactic Empires by Multiple Authors and Patty Jansen

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Seven full-length novels of adventure, war, intrigue and survival in the far reaches of space.

The Backworlds by M. Pax
A man struggles to survive in the harsh world of humanity’s outer settlements and prove his father wrong.

Ambassador 1: Seeing Red by Patty Jansen
To look an alien superior in the eye is a deadly offense. To accuse him of a political murder…

Alien Hunters by Daniel Arenson
A scruffy alien pest controller faces an alien threat the likes of which the universe has never seen.

Hard Duty by Mark E. Cooper
Hostile aliens nearly eradicated humanity. Will the next encounter finish the job?

Bypass Gemini by Joseph Lallo
A disgraced racer pilot gets mixed up with a mega-corporation. Now he has to stop them.

Sky Hunter by Chris Reher
Sent to a human outpost to investigate sabotage, a pilot finds more trouble than she bargained for.

First Conquest by David VanDyke
To find a home and keep humanity safe from hostile aliens, Task Force Conquest must fight to

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Featured Science Fiction: Al Clark by Jonathan G. Meyer

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Featured Science Fiction: Al Clark by Jonathan G. Meyer

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Old Fashioned Science Fiction

A thousand specially selected people leave a troubled Earth for a new start on a virgin world many years away. Their starship is state-of-the-art and entirely automatic; its passengers safely sleeping through the long journey. All possible scenarios have been taken into account except one. There is no way to predict sabotage.

Al Clark wakes to begin a new life, alone on a crippled starship with no memory of what transpired to place him there.

It is the beginning of a quest that will take him places he could not have imagined, manage feats he would not have thought possible, and teach him the true meaning of friendship.

What the readers are saying:

★★★★★ SciFi as it was meant to be – Jennifer Seidler

★★★★★ I have a new (to me) author to add to my favorites – Lesley Wood

★★★★★ SciFi at its best, intrigue, robots, action, mystery, and very witty. Loved it! – Montzalee Wittman

★★★★★ Good old fashioned SciFi – Cenvillager

★★★★★  Reminds me a little of the Sci-Fi of days gone by – jcat-top 500 reviewer

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Featured Science Fiction: Murder on the Intergalactic Railway (The Ritchie and Fitz Sci-fi Murder Mystery Series Book 1) by Kate MacLeod

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For Murdina Ritchie, acceptance at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy means one last chance at her dream of becoming a diplomat for the Union of Free Worlds. For Shackleton Fitz IV, it represents his last chance not to fail out of military service entirely.

Strange that fate should throw them together now, among the last group of students admitted after the start of the semester. They had once shared the strongest of friendships. But that all ended a long time ago.

But when an insufferable but politically important woman turns up murdered, the two agree to put their differences aside and work together to solve the case.
Because the murderer might strike again. But more importantly, solving a murder would just have to impress the dour colonel who clearly thinks neither of them belong at his academy.

Featured Sci-fi: The Genesis Machine Boxset by K.J. Gillenwater

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Featured Sci-fi: The Genesis Machine Boxset by K.J. Gillenwater

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The Genesis Machine Box Set includes Inception, Decryption, and Revelation—a gripping sci-fi thriller trilogy.

When Navy linguist Charlie Cutter joins a secret NCIS team, she’s tasked with decoding an ancient text tied to top-secret photos—and a crashed alien pod. The language is familiar. Too familiar. Aliens have landed… and not for the first time.

As more pods appear, some containing human-like survivors, Charlie races to uncover the truth. A child emerges. A saboteur strikes. And secrets unravel—about the aliens, her team, and herself.

Haunted by past failures and drawn to the distant yet magnetic Agent Demarco, Charlie navigates a deadly web of conspiracies stretching from D.C. to the Vegas desert.

When Demarco goes rogue and a terrifying plan is revealed, Charlie must risk everything to decode the final truth—before humanity is changed forever.

Originally serialized on Kindle Vella. Now fully edited and complete.