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Featured Sci-fi: Search the Stars (Cross the Stars Book 1) by Nicole Grotepas

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Featured Sci-fi: Search the Stars (Cross the Stars Book 1) by Nicole Grotepas

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Whoever controls faster-than-light travel controls the stars…

Zacharia Coburn’s flight-state mushroom business barely makes a dent in the FTL industry, controlled by a few powerful, interstellar corporations. Starship pilots can take a dose of these ultra-rare mushroom strains to pull a ship into the jump plane and rapidly cross the stars.

There’s no reason for anybody to ever notice the Very Good Mushroom Concern, the business Zach’s running with his partner, Anna Brooks. Organic. Homegrown in a barn in the northern Idaho territory. Made with love. They’re just a barnacle on the tail of a behemoth.

Until their secret gets too big to control. Zach and Anna have cracked the code. Their mushroom strains allow the kind of jump distances pilots have only dreamed about.

In a galaxy where commodities are king, jump distances control the market.

So, when Anna goes missing, Zach isn’t sure where to start looking. Even with the best mushrooms ever grown at his disposal, finding Anna somewhere in the galaxy will be harder than locating a needle in a haystack. Try finding a needle on a planet covered in hay.

The odds are against him, but giving up isn’t an option. Anna might just be the key to the entire galaxy: whoever gets their hands on her will have it at their feet.

This is more than love or business.

This is war.

Grab your copy today and join the search in a series that’s been called Taken in space crossed with a psychedelic dose of Firefly.

Featured Science Fiction: It Ain’t Over (Cole & Srexx Book 1) by Robert M. Kerns

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Featured Science Fiction: It Ain't Over (Cole & Srexx Book 1) by Robert M. Kerns

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Buy a planet and disappear…

That’s all Cole wanted.

He spent thirteen years hiding on the fringes of society, piloting freighters for criminals and building a stash to do just that.

But life happens when you’re busy making plans.

When Cole chooses to save an ejected castaway and stumbles into a crew of his own, he starts down a path that will force him to choose.

Will Cole protect those who have become his people? Or will he slip away quietly in the night?Read Now to find out!

Featured Sci-Fantasy Dystopia: The Omni Towers Boxed Set Books 1 – 3 by Jamie A Waters

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Featured Sci-Fantasy Dystopia: The Omni Towers Boxed Set Books 1 - 3 by Jamie A Waters

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**Winner of the Readers’ Favorite Award for Fantasy & Science Fiction Romance**
**Winner of the Colorado Independent Publisher’s Association’s EVVY Award for Science Fiction**
**Global Ebook Awards Honorable Mention for Science Fiction**

Some secrets are better left buried…

Kayla is a scavenger, driven to search the ruins of abandoned cities for artifacts in exchange for critical life-saving supplies. But, the rarest artifacts are found in the most dangerous ruins—those under control by the OmniLab traders.

Carl is one of those traders—and Kayla’s invaded his district. He’s determined to stop her and the best way to do that is to recruit her. The only problem?

Kayla hates traders.

When a powerful man intent on revenge starts hunting her, Kayla realizes the only way to save herself may be to accept Carl’s offer. But that would mean surrendering to OmniLab and giving up everything she knows.

Only everything isn’t quite what it seems.

Including OmniLab.

And Kayla’s in a lot of trouble.

Featured Science Fiction: Time Guild 1 (A Folding Space Novel) by AM Scott

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Featured Science Fiction: Time Guild 1 (A Folding Space Novel)

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The adventures of Saree, Captain Ruhger, and the crew of Lightwave Fold Transport continue!

In her newly confirmed status as Queen of Lightwave Clutch, Saree plans to train new human clock maintainers to carry on the work she started: tuning fold clocks and smoothing space. But the skills that came so naturally to her prove difficult to transfer, and progress is slow.

When a shady faction in Gov Human decides to take matters into their own hands, Saree, Ruhger and Lightwave’s crew must run for their lives—and the lives of their future children.

Dependable allies refuse to assist them. Neutral parties become adversaries. And every fold seems to drop them into a hotter system with new enemies and more conspiracies. Saree and the crew are running out of time and places to hide.

Sometimes the best defense is attack. Do they dare take the fight to their enemies? And if they do, can they possibly survive?

Featured Science Fiction: USS Lincoln Mercy Kill (USS Hamilton Book 7) by Mark Wayne McGinnis

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USS Lincoln: Mercy Kill (USS Hamilton Book 7)

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Brace yourself for the most electrifying, adrenaline-fueled mission yet with ‘USS Lincoln — Mercy Kill’ by Mark Wayne McGinnis.

Caught in a deadly game of interstellar cat and mouse with a new and vile alien enemy, Captain Galvin Quintos will be forced to make choices no US Space Navy Captain should ever have to make — including who among those he cares most about should live or die.

A cosmic storm is coming, one that has already decimated the long-lost crew of USS Lincoln.

Has USS Adams already fallen into the same perilous trap, poised to succumb to the same fate? Has Doctor Vivian Leigh finally had enough uncertainty aboard a military warship? Is it time to bid farewell to a three-hundred-year-old ChronoBot friend? Put up the ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign, grab a bag of popcorn, switch your phone to silent, and sink into that favorite chair of yours… you’re in for a long night.

And when you’re done with this book you don’t want to miss ChronoBot Chronicles coming out in August of 2023.

Featured Science Fiction: Fractured Orbits (Encoded Orbits Book 1) by Jeannette Bedard

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Featured Science Fiction: Fractured Orbits (Encoded Orbits Book 1) by Jeannette Bedard

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She is a mutation. She is an abomination. She is a power that could change the universe – or end it. And she is only seven years old.

It’s been 250 years since we discovered the vast web of wormholes, created by an alien race, linking a series of planets. Worlds where, with a little genetic tinkering, humans could thrive. No one thought about side effects until it was too late. Now laws prevent further tampering—but not everyone follows the law. The Protectorate used their military might to enforce these laws.

For Veena, a military cipher decoder, these wars are more than her job – they’re the centre of her existence. She knows a secret: the alien race that created the wormholes may not be gone, and pose a threat.

And even worse, she knows that her own daughter is one of “the enemy”. Born with telekinetic powers, seven-year-old Molly is a mutant who must hide her true nature, or face extermination.

But when an accident reveals her child’s powers, Veena’s worst nightmare comes true. The military snatches Molly—to turn her into a weapon, and use her power to change the face of the galaxy… or destroy it.

Now, Veena is on the run, trying to save her child. Nowhere to hide, no one to trust. She can’t give up. The universe is on the brink of destruction, and it is up to her to stop it all from escalating and falling into the madness of a Fractured Orbit.