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Featured Sci-fi: Junkyard Pirate Book 1 by Jamie McFarlane

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Featured Sci-fi: Junkyard Pirate Book 1 by Jamie McFarlane

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Vietnam vet Albert “AJ” Jenkins never dreamed he’d have his own starship.

When a pile of scrap rocket parts falls and crushes the overweight curmudgeon, he thinks it’s finally the end. But just as he’s about to take one final breath, a snarky extraterrestrial offers him one last chance.

AJ’s life in return for the alien sharing his body.

With a little coaxing from his new inner resident, AJ’s broken carcass improves so much that even an old flame is impressed. But his bright outlook fizzles when he discovers he’s at ground zero of a galactic conspiracy to strip Earth for all it’s worth.

Will AJ’s rusty military skills stand a chance against alien invaders or will humanity fall?

Junkyard Pirate is the first book in a found spaceship space opera series. If you like grizzled soldiers, unlikely heroes, and intergalactic conspiracies, then you’ll love Jamie McFarlane’s fast-paced alien adventure.

Buy Junkyard Pirate to dive into the fight for Earth today

Featured Sci-fi: Ascension Wars by Jasper T. Scott

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Featured Sci-fi: Ascension Wars by Jasper T. Scott

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The Forerunners set out from Earth to colonize neighboring star systems
And to search for intelligent life…
The United Nations of Earth sent out the Forerunner ships to explore and colonize the four most promising star systems within 50 light-years of Earth.

Forerunner One left Earth under the command of Captain Clayton Cross, heading for Trappist-1. After a ninety year journey to reach it, the crew encountered not only a habitable world, but alien life already inhabiting it, and dark secrets lurking beneath the surface.

The revelation of who these aliens are and what they want proves more terrifying than promising, and Captain Cross is forced to make tough decisions that will affect not only his crew, but the fate of the entire human race.

Featured Sci-fi: The Girl in the Zoo by Jennifer Lauer

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Featured Sci-fi: The Girl in the Zoo by Jennifer Lauer

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Mirin thought she was the last human on Earth.

Captured during the AI takeover, she’s being held caged in a zoo, and suspects her guard, Borgie, is becoming sentient. When they introduce a feral man they want her to mate with, she realizes she’s not alone. Now she could be in more danger than ever. When Mirin discovers secrets about the zoo and how she got there, she is determined to survive.

Aided by a feline companion and an unlikely love, Mirin must face forced proximity, emotional scars, a deranged scientist, and robots gone awry.

Will she finally escape the zoo?

Featured Sci-fi: On Impulse (Reliance Sinclair Space Opera Book1) by Heather Texle

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Featured Sci-fi: On Impulse (Reliance Sinclair Space Opera Book1) by Heather Texle

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Heather Texle launches with a thrilling, non-stop, action-packed novel that is a blend of space opera adventure and sci-fi murder mystery that won the 2023 Minnesota Author Project contest in Adult Fiction. If you enjoy books with a strong female lead, a sass-talking spaceship’s computer, an annoyingly hot detective who won’t give up, and more action scenes that you can shoot a blaster at, then this book is for you!

When the Department trained me to catch criminals, I never dreamed I’d become one.

Agent. Suspect. Intergalactic fugitive.

I was one of them until I shot my partner in self-defense. Even though the Department cleared me of wrongdoing, my co-workers didn’t agree. They turned their backs on me, so I turned my back on them.

My partner’s actions never made sense. After ignoring my gut for a year, I asked my tech-genius best friend to dig into it. Now Jarrett’s gone dark, and I soon discover he’d been brutally murdered. An officer finds me standing over the body, blaster in hand. Even I admit it looks bad.

There’s no way I can trust the Department to investigate further—not if I’m already the prime suspect. My only option is to run. Is it impulsive? Sure. Will having law enforcement dog me across the galaxy make life difficult? Most certainly. I’ll have to stay one step ahead of them if I want to solve Jarrett’s murder and clear my name.

Doing that will require every trick the Department taught me—and a few I learned on my own.

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Featured Sci-fi: Artifact (Old Man’s Comeback Book 1) by John Walker

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Featured Sci-fi: Artifact—Old Man Comeback by John Walker

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Veteran soldier Raymond “Flip” Kinnely believed his battle days were behind him.

Now, in the quiet twilight of his life, he toils as a janitor for a powerful military contractor, far from the chaos of war. But when he arrives to find his workplace in lockdown, his routine is shattered.

An otherworldly artifact has been discovered, harbored deep in the compound. As his employers attempt to understand how it works, a mysterious prisoner stands on the verge of a brutal interrogation. Through a chance encounter, Flip hears her plea for help. Drawn to her vulnerability, he discovers she may be the only thing standing between Earth and a coming disaster.

Flip must decide: will he walk away and condemn an innocent to torture and death? Or stand against his ruthless employers?

In a moment when age and experience weigh heavily, can one former warrior summon the courage to defy the odds?

Featured Sci-fi: The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey (Brainship Book 1) by Anne McCaffrey

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Featured Sci-fi: The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey (Brainship Book 1) by Anne McCaffrey

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Helva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved—saved to be schooled, programmed, and implanted into the sleek titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner—male or female—to share her exhilirating excapades in space!

Her life was to be rich and rewarding . . . resplendent with daring adventures and endless excitement, beyond the wildest dreams of mere mortals.

Gifted with the voice of an angel and being virtually indestructable, Helva XH-834 antipitated a sublime immortality.

Then one day she fell in love!