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Featured Sci-fi: The Handler’s Gambit (The Saxen Saga Book 1) by Ingrid Moon

October 15, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Handler's Gambit (The Saxen Saga Book 1) by Ingrid Moon

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A young man undermines a warlord’s conquest to free himself and a girl he barely knows.

Play the game.
Murder the innocent.
Don’t let them see you sweat.

Commander Boone’s treacherous secret could save thousands of lives—if he could only escape from the murderous warlord who employs him. He wears his game face while following orders to destroy enemy fleets and handles a reckless assassin with elemental powers. Behind the scenes, he is undermining the warlord’s pursuit of an innocent rival.

The duplicity and the horrors are taking their toll. Boone wants out.

In a bold gambit, he crafts a plan to escape. But his superiors might be catching on, and the plan is not without its own horrors. With everything working against him, including the woman he thought was his salvation, he may not live long enough to execute it.

“Absolutely epic action with a tug at the heartstrings.”

Space Battles, Biological “Magic,” Ground Assaults, Betrayal, Unlikely Allies

The Handler’s Gambit is a dark, character-driven thrill ride across the galaxy, where the sacrifices made for freedom clash with the indomitable human spirit.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ingrid Moon, Saxen Saga, The Handler's Gambit

Featured Sci-Fi: Eater by Gregory Benford

October 15, 2024 by Carolynn

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Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton’s world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist’s beloved wife and partner—ex-astronaut-turned astronomer—is dying.

But something looms alarningly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons’ immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Channing have discovered “Eater,” an eons-old black hole anomaly that devours stars and worlds. Yet its most awesome and devasting secrets are still to be revealed…and feared.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Eater, Gregory Benford

Featured Sci-fi: Trading in Danger (Vatta’s War Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon

October 14, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Trading in Danger (Vatta's War Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon

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The first volume in the Vatta’s War series – action-packed military SF from the Nebula Award winning author of The Speed of Dark.

Ky Vatta is a highly promising military cadet with a great future ahead of her, until an insignificant act of kindness makes her the focus of the Academy’s wrath. She is forced to resign, her dreams shattered.

For the child of a rich trading family, this should mean disgrace on a grand scale. And yet, to her surprise, Ky is offered the captaincy of a ship headed for scrap with its final cargo.

Her orders are absolutely clear, but Ky quickly sees potential profit in altering the journey. Because, whatever the risks, it’s in her blood to trade – even if the currency is extreme danger.

‘I thoroughly enjoyed Trading in Danger and wholeheartedly recommend it’ THE BOOK SMUGGLERS

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Elizabeth Moon, Trading in Danger, Vatta's War

Featured Science Fiction: Red Dust (Gods & Assassins Book 1) by Frank Kennedy

October 12, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Red Dust (Gods & Assassins Book 1) by Frank Kennedy

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Fallen gods with a taste for murder. A criminal syndicate. A secretive desert town.

Ex-god Royal has a bone to pick with the human race. In his previous form, charismatic Royal and his surly partner Moon all but saved the forty worlds of the Collectorate from destruction. Their reward? Desert exile on Azteca to live as humans. No public gratitude. History rewritten.

Seriously. Doesn’t anyone respect a god?

Royal and Moon intend to leave their meager existence behind someday and recapture the old glory (random galactic chaos), but building an interstellar criminal network requires millions of credits. Assassinating the enemies of the Collectorate’s paranoid President pays well, yet the jobs are few.

Circumstance brings them to the tiny town of Desperido, where life – and a world of secrets – plays out beneath the desert’s red dust. Royal, ever the shape-shifting visionary (narcissist, some might say) conjures an exciting new path forward. First, the former deities will have to deal with enemies in their midst as well as the Horax, one of the planet’s most powerful criminal syndicates.

Prepare for a wild ride with a healthy dose of snark in the opening stanza of a five-book serial, “Gods and Assassins.” Pistols draw, rifles blast, traitors abound, conspiracies arise, wormholes open, and whiskey flows.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Frank Kennedy, Gods & Assassins, Red Dust

Featured Sci-fi: Reese Daniels Smuggler Series by T.D. Wilson

October 10, 2024 by Carolynn

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Smuggling precious cargo to a remote colony was supposed to be easy. I was dead wrong.

Smuggling is a dangerous business and Reese Daniels has the score of a lifetime within his grasp; however, getting shot down on one of Uranus’ moons wasn’t in his plan. Stranded and on the run in the middle of an alien invasion, Reese must work with a group of Marine cadets to escape a grisly fate.

Awarded Silver Honorable Mention in the recent first quarter Volume 40 of L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Reese Daniels Smuggler Series, T.D. Wilson

Featured Sci-fi: Viraquin Voyage by C.G. Harris

October 10, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Viraquin Voyage by C.G. Harris

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Ben Roberts hears voices…alien voices.

When word of his abilities spreads through the galactic grapevine, Ben ranks number one on an A.I.’s most wanted list to become their cybernated slave. A bleak prospect, but what if they offered him everything he ever dreamed of in exchange?

A headstrong spaceship, with an intelligence of its own, shows up to help Ben, but he doesn’t know if it can be trusted. When he discovers a powerful alien has taken refuge on Earth, Ben makes it his mission to rescue it from the race of A.I. beings.

If he can’t find a way to survive, the balance of power throughout the universe could be altered forever.

Aliens, robots, and spaceships all rolled up into one hilarious, page-turning story. Get your copy of Hometown Space Pirate to start the adventure.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: C.G. Harris, Viraquin Voyage

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