C Gockel Writes

Featured Science Fiction: Star Heroes Books 1 – 10 by G J Ogden

by

Featured Science Fiction: Star Heroes Books 1 - 10 by G J Ogden

99¢ on Amazon as of February 15, 2024
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

A bad decision. An alien treasure. A mistake that could destroy the galaxy…

Hudson Powell is a freelance starship pilot with no prospects, but a hunger to prove himself. So, at thirty-eight years old, he decides to turn his life around and join the Relic Guardian Force as a rookie officer.

That was a huge mistake.

Established to police the alien hulks found on every portal world discovered in the last century, the RGF ensure relic hunters pay taxes on the priceless alien tech they scavenge.

The problem is that the RGF is corrupt, and its a-hole officers are even deadlier than the star scavengers who plunder the wrecks, seeking their fortune.

Fed up with his obnoxious training officer – the most unlikable man in the galaxy – Hudson quits and enters the exhilarating world of the relic hunters, where he meets the intoxicating and deadly mercenary Tory Bellona.

But the discovery of a mysterious crystal will set events in motion that cannot be undone. An alien power of planet-destroying force, lost and wandering for eons, is about to be awakened.

And Hudson is to blame.

People stopped asking where the alien wrecks had come from. People stopped asking who created the interstellar portals, and why.

Hudson will discover that some alien relics are best left buried.

Firefly meets Indiana Jones in this epic sci-fi action-adventure with a unique alien invasion twist. Combining Star Scavengers and Star Guardians, this epic ten-book set covers the complete voyages of relic hunter, Hudson Powell.

– Ten books with 4,300 global 5-star ratings as a single boxed set! –

[Read more…]

Featured Sci-fi: The Pike Chronicles Books 1 – 10 by G.P. Hudson

by

Featured Sci-fi: The Pike Chronicles Books 1 - 10 by G.P. Hudson

99¢ on Amazon as of February 11, 2024
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

The Sol System was conquered and humans lived as slaves for 500 long years.

Now, after years of brutal warfare, humanity has been liberated. Liberation, however, comes at a cost, and the Sol System has become nothing more than a puppet state for a vast galactic empire.

For Jon Pike, a war hero who has lost everything, there is no substitute for freedom. He blames the aliens for humanity’s troubles, especially the one living inside him.

But when he is sent on a top secret mission into unexplored regions of the galaxy he discovers that humanity’s troubles are just getting started.

Can he find freedom for himself and humanity?

[Read more…]

Featured Science Fiction: Colony One (The Elderon Chronicles Book One) by Tarah Benner

by

Featured Science Fiction: Colony One (The Elderon Chronicles Book One) by Tarah Benner

FREE as of February 9, 2024
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

Apple, Nook, Kobo, & GooglePlay

Colony One is prepared for anything — except the saboteur who’s already on board.

For Jonah Wyatt, the Space Force is his last shot at a military career. After years leading an elite task force, he was discharged from the army and stuck working one menial job after another. Now this disgraced combat specialist is headed to space. He’s tasked with training his own unit aboard Elderon: colony one. Nobody bothered to tell him it would be a squad of white-hat hackers and intel eggheads who are definitely not Space Force material.

One recruit is Maggie Barnes — an undercover reporter who was brought on board as a member of the press corps. Her job is to create fluffy corporate propaganda that paints the colony as a futuristic utopia, but Maggie can’t follow the rules once she gets wind of a story.

When Maggie gets a tip from an unknown source, she realizes Elderon is not at all what it seems. As she gets closer to unraveling the conspiracy, Sergeant Wyatt begins to suspect that there’s a spy on board. The saboteur has been with them all along, and he’s been building an army of his own.

What Readers Are Saying:

“Brilliant, exciting and engaging.”

“The world-building is a fascinating effort of plausible, near-future science.”

“This book takes you on a wild ride with reporters, white hat hackers, space military and spies.”

“I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book. Can’t wait for the next one…Tarah Benner is my new favorite author.”

See all the Box Set List Featured Fantasy | See All Featured Sci-Fi

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

by

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

FREE as of February 3, 2024
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

Apple, Nook, Kobo, GooglePlay

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: The Blood Service (The Capital Adventures Book 1) by Allen Ivers

by

Featured Sci-fi: The Blood Service (The Capital Adventures Book 1) by Allen Ivers

FREE as of Feb 3, 2024
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

Apple, Nook, Kobo, GooglePlay

Aaron’s no super soldier. He’s just a convict—a Capital criminal.

They gave him a lifetime sentence at thirteen years old, so that he could toil his remaining days in the Empire’s distant galactic colonies. But not every planet the Empire has colonized is empty.

Aaron doesn’t need cybernetics to hear the big beasts battering away at the colony wall. These creatures dig day and night, two tons of leather and bone sending violent tremors through the dry soil. They’re coming, they’re coordinated, vicious and relentless.

Even all of the technology, weapons, and super soldiers can’t beat politics. Orders down for the colony garrison to depart, leaving them to the vengeful whims of their alien host. So the clever commander comes up with an idea. They may not be soldiers, but the Capital convicts are strong, united, and just desperate enough. They offer Aaron and his friends a devil’s bargain:

Serve a tour, go free.

Featured Science Fiction: Legacy Marines by Jonathan Brazee

by

Featured Science Fiction: Legacy Marines by Jonathan Brazee

FREE as of February 3, 2024
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

Apple, Nook, Kobo

Esther and Noah Lysander are the twin children of General Ryck Lysander, Commandant of the Marine Corps, leader of the Evolution, and Chairman of the Federation. When they are told that their father and mother have been assassinated, they are both devastated. Cut adrift, they each decide to enlist in the Corps—but for different reasons. Esther feels it is her duty to carry on the family legacy, confident that she can excel and reach the top. Noah simply wants to earn his father’s pride, even if it is too late.

As children of General Lysander, they are not “normal” recruits. Seniors and peers are well aware of their background, and the twins can’t escape the public eye. From under their father’s heavy shadow, the two have to discover his or her personal path in the Corps, even when that seems to pull them apart from each other.

See all the Box Set List Featured Fantasy | See All Featured Sci-Fi