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Featured Science Fiction: Earth Warden The Complete Series by Tyler Aston

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Featured Science Fiction: Earth Warden Books 1 - 5 by Tyler Aston

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Lord Anakreon, Warden of the First Circle, has a problem.

He’s been forced to kill another apprentice, and he’s rapidly running out of candidates.

In fact, there is precisely one left…

On Earth, Tristan Andrews is in trouble.

He has been ever since the day his dad left for work – and never came home.

Seven years later, living with one foot on the street, Tris is struggling to survive.

Until a tough old man with a scarred face breaks into his house. He claims to have the answers Tris seeks…

But there’s a price.

Join Tris as he’s catapulted into a galaxy he never could have imagined. Where bizarre aliens threaten mankind, genetically engineered assassins lurk in the shadows, and the mysterious Wardens live by an ancient code…

Of sacrifice.

Fans of Star Wars, Firefly and Warhammer 40K will love this fast-paced and explosive space opera. Buckle up, brace for impact, and grab your copy today!

Featured Sci-fi Thriller: State of Fear by Michael Crichton

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Featured Sci-fi Thriller: State of Fear by Michael Crichton

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride mixing cutting edge science and action-packed adventure in State of Fear.

In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.

In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications.

In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea.

And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.

A deftly-crafted novel, in true Crichton style, State of Fear is an exciting, stunning tale that not only entertains and educates, but will make you think.

Featured Sci-fi: Galaxy’s Most Wanted Books 1 – 4 by Michael Lavoice

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Featured Sci-fi: Galaxy's Most Wanted Books 1 - 4 by Michael Lavoice

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A smuggler in the wrong place. An ancient alien technology. Now, everyone is after him.

Kai Fletcher thought he could go straight, until he couldn’t. And when his last “last” job goes wrong, he finds himself stowed away in a starship belonging to an alien crime syndicate.

Forced into servitude to pay the debt for passage off world, Kai bargains with the syndicate. All he has to do is help them rob the Vakness Empire, the most powerful alien empire in known space, and he gets to go home.

Easy Peasy. Until it isn’t.

Planning the heist, Kai discovers that the Vakness Empire has stolen ancient alien technology that will allow them to achieve their dream of ruling over all other sentient species. He’s never been a good guy, but even he has limits.

Hunted by both the Empire, and the syndicate, he manages to get on the wrong side of everyone in the galaxy who wants the discovery for themselves.

Kai just wanted to get back to Chicago, but instead, he’s become the Galaxy’s Most Wanted in this Sci-Fi thrill ride from Michael LaVoice!

“An interplanetary Ocean’s 11. Well worth the read.”—Jeffery H. Haskell, Author of The Grimm’s War series.

Featured Sci-fi: Melody (The Unbound Duology Book 1) by David Hoffer

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Featured Sci-fi: Melody (The Unbound Duology Book 1) by David Hoffer

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A melody from the stars can save humanity, but only if Stephen can awaken the alien within…

Childhood therapy cured Stephen Fisher of disturbing visions and the delusion of having come from another world. But when his daughter obsesses over a star in the night sky, he fears that his genetic legacy may have burdened her with the same illness. His sanity is then shattered when he loses his child and the military abducts him claiming that she recorded a song broadcast from another world.

A voice inside Stephen’s head convinces him that he can bring his daughter back to life. What he discovers instead is a stunning truth about himself, his child’s destiny, and fate of the entire human race…

Melody is a riveting and thought-provoking science fiction novel. If you like first contact scenarios and action-filled pages, then you’ll love David Hoffer’s otherworldly adventure.

2021 San Diego Book Award for Magical Fiction
2022 Finalist Self-Published Sci-Fi Competition (SPSFC)

Featured Science Fiction: War Without End (Fall of the Terran Empire Book 1) by G.P. Hudson

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Featured Science Fiction: War Without End (Fall of the Terran Empire Book 1) by G.P. Hudson

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What Price Would You Pay for Freedom?

The Terran Empire, the greatest empire in the history of humanity, is crumbling. Throughout the galaxy, planetary systems seek independence and freedom. Everywhere there is war.

Trying to maintain its grip, the Empire has become more ruthless, and reliant on mercenary armies. The powerful Zeta Corp fills this need with its advanced weapons, and legions of genetically engineered soldiers. These soldiers, while fiercely loyal, are nothing more than slaves.

Danny is a Zeta Corp mercenary who has known nothing but war, and service to Zeta Corp in his short life. But when a routine mission ends in disaster, he finds himself questioning everything he believed in. Pitted against the Empire, and Zeta Corp, can he gain freedom for himself, his friends, and the galaxy?

Find out in War Without End, Book 1 of Fall of the Terran Empire.

Featured Sci-fi: Freedom’s Landing Book 1 by Anne McCaffrey

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Featured Sci-fi: Freedom's Landing Book 1 by Anne McCaffrey

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Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the spaceships floated into view above Denver. As human slaves were herded into the maw of a massive vessel, Kristin realized her normal life was over and her fight for freedom was just beginning…

The alien Catteni value strength and intelligence in their slaves—and Kristin has managed to survive her enslavement while hundreds of other humans have not. But her trial has just begun, for now she finds herself part of a massive experiment. The aliens have discovered a new world, and they have a simple way of finding out if it’s habitable: drop hundreds of slaves on the surface and see what happens.

If they survive, colonization can begin. If not, there are always more slaves.