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

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

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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

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Featured Science Fiction: Legacy Marines by Jonathan Brazee

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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.

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Featured Sci-fi: Echoes of War – Complete Series by Daniel Gibbs

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Almost 3,000 pages of Military Science Fiction action!

Corporal David Cohen thought he’d left war behind.

He was wrong.

The Terran Coalition faces repeated and brutal attacks from the repressive League of Sol. To defend his home planet, David trades his dream of becoming a rabbi for a battlefront in the far reaches of space. When particle beams fly, his courage under fire brings quick promotion. But in the lulls between battles when he must confront his soul, David finds a different enemy: the ghosts of those killed under his command.

Yet in war, it’s kill or be killed—and the enemy shows no mercy.

David must square the tenets of his faith against his responsibility to crew and country. If he fails in his command, billions face enslavement by a ruthless regime. Now it’s an all-out fight for the galaxy’s freedom.

Because a man’s greatest foe lies within.

If you love Babylon 5, Safehold, and Destroyermen, you must read “Echoes of War,” a military sci-fi series that will take you to the heart of duty, sacrifice, and the unseen scars of those who serve.

Includes all 7 novels in the Echoes of War series:

  • Fight the Good Fight
  • Strong and Courageous
  • So Fight I
  • Gates of Hell
  • Keep the Faith
  • Run the Gauntlet
  • Finish the Fight

Featured Sci-fi: Nexus Talks to People (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 2) by Ginger Booth

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Featured Sci-fi: Nexus Talks to People (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 2) by Ginger Booth

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How can Nexus be the Oracle?

On a hardscrabble colony world, Nexus tracks a mysterious rat outbreak to a shy tortoise-like alien, who calls him Oracle.

If his addled visions amount to fortune-telling, Nexus can’t read the tea leaves. He foresees alien crocs ravaging Earth and enslaving humanity. Another vision depicts him happy in love.

How to evade human extinction and win the girl is unclear.

Word leaks that Nexus is the new heir to a powerful fortune, compounding his social challenges.

To save the human race, escape gold-diggers, repair his space mink, and win the woman of his dreams, Nexus must decode his visions…and talk to people.

For readers who love the quirky found-family spaceship of Firefly, or the gritty future of Murderbot. A must-read for fans of Booth’s Thrive series.

Featured Sci-fi: Traitor’s Code (Freelance Book One) by Jane Killick

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Featured Sci-fi: Traitor's Code (Freelance Book One) by Jane Killick

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When a dying fugitive entrusts Cassy with a forbidden code, she must protect a secret which promises to save humanity – and threatens to get her killed.

Freelance spaceship captain “Cassy” Cassandra investigates the mysteries of a code stolen from the Fertillan royal family while Prince Stephen, the head of its security service, pursues her.
Evading soldiers, fighting pirates and calling in favours, Cassy returns to her home planet of Fertilla where her past and its connection to a dead king wait for her. Realising the key to both lies with Prince Stephen, she closes in on her enemy. But, what begins as a clandestine probe for information, turns to love as she discovers the real man behind the military uniform.

Until Cassy cracks the code and understands she must escape Fertilla to bring salvation to the galaxy.

Stephen follows, under orders to stop her, and only the final battle will decide if Cassy and the code survive.
A page-turning space adventure, Traitor’s Code mixes murder and intrigue with the heartache of impossible love in the first, unmissable instalment of the Freelancer trilogy.