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Featured Sci-fi: Machine A White Space Novel by Elizabeth Bear

May 13, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Machine A White Space Novel by Elizabeth Bear

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A “spectacularly smart space opera” that follows Ancestral Night in the Hugo Award–winning author’s White Space duology (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Meet Doctor Jens.

She hasn’t had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years. Her workday begins when she jumps out of perfectly good space ships and continues with developing treatments for sick alien species she’s never seen before. She loves her life. Even without the coffee.

But Dr. Jens is about to discover an astonishing mystery: two ships, one ancient and one new, locked in a deadly embrace. The crew is suffering from an unknown ailment and the shipmind is trapped in an inadequate body, much of her memory pared away.

Unfortunately, Dr. Jens can’t resist a mystery and she begins doing some digging. She has no idea that she’s about to discover horrifying and life-changing truths.

Written in Elizabeth Bear’s signature “rollicking, suspenseful, and sentimental” (Publishers Weekly) style, Machine is a fresh and electrifying space opera that you won’t be able to put down.

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Featured Science Fiction: Fire Fight (The Fire Planets Saga #1) by Chris Ward

May 13, 2024 by Carolynn

Chris Ward Fire Fight

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In a far corner of the galaxy, the seven systems of the Fire Quarter face a terrible threat from a dangerous warlord.

On the fire planet of Abalon 3, evil Raylan Climlee threatens to unleash a wave of destruction in order to take control of the planet’s valuable source of trioxyglobin, a dangerous but valuable liquid used for starship fuel. The only person who can stop him is Lianetta Jansen, a disgraced former Galactic Military Policewoman now turned smuggler, who is haunted by a terrible tragedy in her past. Along with her ragtag, wisecracking crew—the one-armed pilot Caladan, and the malfunctioning droid, Harlan5—Lia must confront her own demons, while trying to stop another.

Fire Fight is the beginning of the Fire Planets Saga, an epic new space opera series.=

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Featured Sci-fi: Weapons of Choice by Nick Snape

May 10, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Weapons of Choice by Nick Snape

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A failed military training exercise. An alien incursion, desperate and on the hunt. Survival is just the beginning…

‘This is a moment in time humanity will never forget. Hostile Contact.’★★★★★ Goodreads

Finn had thought he’d seen it all…but no…he had to admit…

Not quite everything…

There was a big universe out there and it was about to land in his lap.

Just how bad could it be?

Finn is a troubled war-hero, overseen by an unyielding Commanding Officer while dragging his group of rookies through basic training. When an alien incursion lands in the middle of a patrol exercise, wielding powerful weapons and alien armour far beyond their own, he is forced to lead the remnants of Delta Squad in a desperate struggle for survival.

Utilising light-reflecting camouflage, the aliens go on the rampage, killing indiscriminately and capturing Finn’s CO before going on the hunt. Outgunned, and with the world’s armed forces helpless to act after a second incursion drops, Delta set out on a desperate rescue mission, only for the aliens to reveal a weapon that could change modern-day warfare forever.

Finding themselves in a battle for Earth’s future, Delta Squad discover the aliens are more than they seem, and that alien technology can be just as deadly in the hands of humanity when they unearth a deadly secret ‒ the Weapons of Choice.

Read Hostile Contact, an action-packed sci-fi survival novel – where ‘Predator’ meets ‘Full Metal Jacket’ in a pulse-pounding, non-stop thrill ride.

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Featured Sci-fi: Imprint of Blood (Birth of Rimfed — Book 1) by Phil Huddleston

May 5, 2024 by Carolynn

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Jake Hammett was selected. He didn’t volunteer. He just got the job handed to him, like it or not.

Time to get busy and do it.

A distant Star Empire ruled by ancient Amazon warriors, forgotten by Earth for 3,000 years. In the other direction, an implacable alien enemy, bent to destroy every human on Earth. A final warning from an AI starship, who just happens to like humans – and makes damn good vodka screwdrivers! All dumped into the laps of three unlikely lovers. Now they must build a space navy from scratch – forge an alliance with an ancient matriarchy who shoots first and asks questions later – and prepare to fight a cruel and unmerciful enemy!

Good luck with that!

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Featured Sci-fi: The Tribal Wars by Stella Atrium

May 4, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Tribal Wars by Stella Atrium

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A space colonization story about seeking independence and home rule in the face of corporate greed. Tribal women bind together in a war zone where they are discounted as not important enough to save or keep safe.

On Dolvia, Lt. Mike Shaw demands Dr. Greensboro’s doctoring skills at the hospital, forcing the closure of her bush clinic. She witnesses forced labor, forced migration, and the threat of an epidemic from bad water. She sees how tribal women–often wearing burkas–find solutions for saving the children in a conflict zone, and she commits to the their cause for Home Rule.

Brianna Miller is an isolated girl–a mixed-blood orphan–among the Dolviet tribes. With the lessons from Dr. Greensboro, the abuse from soldiers, the sisterhood among victims, Brianna prepares for a future she will choose for herself. But first she must travel offworld.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Locus Series Box Set by Ralph Kern

May 4, 2024 by Carolynn

The Locus Series Box Set by Ralph Kern

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THE COMPLETE LOCUS SERIES

An epic tale of mystery, survival, exploration, and war.

The cruise ship, M/S Atlantica is lost. On strange and uncharted seas, where even the compass shows the sun rising to the west, Atlantica’s passengers and crew must do what it takes to survive in a strange new world.

Full of pulse-pounding action, intrigue and mystery – This series is for anyone who likes their characters deep, and facing impossible odds.

UNFATHOMED

The cruise ship Atlantica finds herself lost on a strange and seemingly endless ocean. Unable to locate land, and with no way to contact home, the crew must find new allies, fend off relentless enemies, and discover the horrifying truth behind the reason why they are here – The Locus.

EXPEDITION

Atlantica and her fleet are slowly moving beyond simple survival. But an expedition to the mainland discovers an unstoppable threat, and leads to a devastating new conflict. A dark secret tears apart friends and families.

OSIRIS

The future of humanity will be decided as the fleet confronts the architect of the Locus. Not everyone will survive the desperate final battle.

The Locus boxset contains all three action-packed novels in this best-selling science fiction thriller series: Unfathomed, Expedition and Osiris.

Acclaimed for great characters, thrilling action, technical accuracy, and a compelling sense of mystery. This series is for anyone who loved Lost, BSG, and The Last Ship.

Buy today.

Also available on Audio – Narrated by Michael Kramer.

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