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Featured Sci-Fi: The Shores of Eternity (A Prayer for Earthrise Book 4) by Daniel Arenson

May 24, 2024 by B. G.

Featured Sci-Fi: The Shores of Eternity (A Prayer for Earthrise Book 4) by Daniel Arenson

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This is our darkest hour.

The storm is here. The winds of war howl. The aliens swarm.

They are everywhere.

The hydrians, squids from another galaxy, topple our forests, fill our oceans, storm our cities. Years of civil war have weakened Earth. As the aliens attack, we fall fast.

But some still stand. A group of heroes rises. The legendary Einav Ben-Ari, the Golden Lioness, leads the resistance.

We are a young species. New to space travel. We dipped our toes into the cosmic ocean, and in its waters, we found venomous squids. Now we stand upon the shores of eternity. If we can defeat the monsters in the depths, the stars are ours. Yet if we fail… we all drown.

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Featured Sci-fi: Hear, O Earth (A Prayer for Earthrise Book 1) by Daniel Arenson

May 24, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Hear, O Earth (A Prayer for Earthrise Book 1) by Daniel Arenson

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They came from beyond.

From beyond the galaxy. From beyond human understanding. They came with one mission.

To kill us all.

Some call them aliens. Others call them gods. Their tentacles grip worlds. Their malice destroys civilizations. They’ve crushed a million planets.

And now they crave Earth.

Marco and Addy, veterans of the Alien Wars, are retired. They fought for many years. They saved Earth many times. Now they’re raising their children in a peaceful forest. They’ve earned this peace.

But Earth needs them. More than ever.

Because a war is coming. A war unlike any before. A war that can devour our very galaxy.

The enemy is almost here.

From the shadows of despair, heroes will rise. Heroes will sound the cry of our world, the prayer of our people. “Hear, O Earth! We will live!”

From the USA Today bestselling author of Earthrise comes a tale of courage, sacrifice, and honor among the stars. A Prayer for Earthrise returns to the bestselling Earthrise universe with a brand new story—one for new fans and old readers alike.

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Featured Sci-Fi: Nexus at Space Academy (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 3) by Ginger Booth

May 20, 2024 by B. G.

Featured Sci-Fi: Nexus at Space Academy (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 3) by Ginger Booth

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Can fortune-telling prevent a war?

Nexus and friends expect to enjoy their studies in sumptuous luxury on planet Sihnon, with leisure and elbow room. A few domestic misadventures in housing, medicine, and chopsticks, and they’re ready for deluxe virtual reality learning.

First project, reassemble Space Academy from storage. Because with lifespans stretching centuries, the Colony Corps simply hires experienced crew.

Next, a juicy mystery to unravel. Humans first learned of advanced aliens while investigating what killed a colony world. Too late, they found a hazard buoy left to warn off others, housed in a history museum to introduce the guilty – the violent crocs.

At the time, they buried the news. Humanity was too fragile to confront an advanced race.

But now alien croc and testudo demand to join Nexus at the Academy. What better team to study the ancient facility?

They uncover a devastating secret, one that could unleash war between croc and testudo, with humans in the crossfire. Can Nexus master the Oracle in time to avert three-species war?

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Featured Sci-fi: Seeds of War Series by Lawrence M. Schoen and Col. Jonathan P. Brazee

May 19, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Seeds of War Series by Lawrence M. Schoen and Col. Jonathan P. Brazee

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“Invasion!” That’s what retired Marine Lieutenant General Colby Edison calls it when his farm is overrun by a horde of alien plants, leafy gremlin-like creatures that begin systematically destroying first his crops and then his home. And not just his farm, but all the surrounding farms as well. The relentless plants have apparently killed his neighbors, and clearly he and his dog Duke are next. But as a retired Marine, Colby has resources and skills not shared by other farmers on the newly terraformed agricultural world of Vasquez and soon he is bringing the fight to the invaders.

Except. . . who is really invading whom? High in orbit above Vasquez, a sentient vegetable studies the planet it had seeded and sculpted centuries before, laying it out as a world-sized garden. Now, returning to inspect the progress of its work, it finds its art has been tainted by the intrusion of crop grids, farm buildings, and people, all of which must be purged if the garden is to endure.

When two species clash, only one will survive.

Former psychology professor Lawrence M. Schoen and retired Marine Colonel Jonathan P. Brazee join forces in this first volume of the SEEDS OF WAR trilogy, pitting Marine against Gardener, with the fate of all of humanity hanging in the balance.

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Featured Sci-fi: BuyMort Grand Opening (Shopocalypse Saga Book 1) by Damien Hanson

May 19, 2024 by Carolynn

FREE as of May 19, 2024
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In a world sold to the highest bidder, can Tyson save humanity from the insatiable greed of the universe?

When humanity finally fell, it wasn’t to war or disease—it was to shopping. BuyMort, the newest and last store to set up shop on Earth. The end of the world as everyone knew it.

Welcome to the Shopocalypse, the everything-must-go never again sales event that just lost us our world.

But not everything is lost. Meet Tyson, a no-cares slacker with a traumatic past, two wrinkled bucks in his wallet and a crap job caretaking a crap campground in the desert sands of Arizona. He had a deal with the world. He didn’t change it, and it didn’t change him. Seemed simple enough.

His world lost, monsters running rampant, and people dying everywhere he looks, it’s time to rise up from his dark past and become something he was never capable of being. It is time for him to be a hero. It is time for him to become the Windowpuncher!

59900 morties, 4.7 stars

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Featured Science Fiction: Exhalation – Short Stories by Ted Chiang

May 15, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Exhalation - Short Stories by Ted Chiang

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Editor’s note: I’ve read this one. The first two stories alone are worth the price.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Other

Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory.

Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.

In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.

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