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Featured Science Fiction: The Lost Warship (6 book series) by Daniel Gibbs

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There is a time to weep and a time to mourn.

For the CSV Lion of Judah, that time has not yet come.

The war with the League of Sol ended in victory for the Terran Coalition. Major General David Cohen and his crew conclude their three-month goodwill cruise with one final FTL jump. But instead of returning home in a blaze of glory, the wormhole collapses and hurls them more than four million lightyears into the unknown.

Stranding them in a distant galaxy.

With dwindling supplies but buoyed by hope of a miracle, David follows the evidence to a nearby inhabited planet. After a disastrous first contact with the less advanced alien civilization, rival factions threaten the tenuous peace—and reignite a centuries-old genocidal conflict.

Now David and the war-weary Lion must take up arms once again to head off a catastrophic event in hopes of unlocking an ancient technology’s secrets.

Before the chance to return home is lost forever.

Featured Sci-fi: The Chronicles of Tonath by Mari Collier

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Featured Sci-fi: The Chronicles of Tonath by Mari Collier

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After a spaceship crashes into the planet of Tonath, the lone occupant survives and fights his way to sunlit part of the planet. When a passing freighter finds him, he’s taken to the Western Starshift Institute of the Way, where the Teacher rules the sunlit part of the planet.

Tonath is a planet being torn apart by the forces of nature, and only the Teacher knows how to predict the movement of the stars and interpret the prophecies. Finding love and betrayal on the planet, the survivor also learns of the disputes arising from the teachings of the Greens and the Universalists.

When more strangers arrive to the planet, the Teacher must decide who is True Man and True Foe. But can they save Tonath from a thousand years of burning?

Featured Sci-fi: Pax Machina (Mechaven Book 1) by Greg Sorber

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Featured Sci-fi: Pax Machina (Mechaven Book 1) by Greg Sorber

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The last stop for retired war machines. A new arrival with missing memories. When foes return, can he recall enough to halt a planet-wide catastrophe?

Major Misty Durham hoped to put tragedy and bloodshed behind her. Now the human administrator of Mechhaven, she’s committed to providing sanctuary for decommissioned mechs. But conflict returns with a bang when a legendary machine with crucial secrets crash-lands on her world.

Angel is desperate to remember his mission. As the advanced mech seeks asylum after a failed deep-cover operation, he brings intimate knowledge of the enemy’s tactics… except battle-inflicted damage prevents him from accessing the data. And when his adversaries come hunting, his last chance for survival is to pray the mothballed locals won’t give him up.

After refusing to surrender her newest charge, Misty gathers disarmed mechanized warriors and former enemies to prepare for the inevitable mêlée. And Angel knows if he can unlock the intel buried in his memory matrix, he could be the key that stops them all from being shipped to the scrapyard.

Can an embattled leader and a fugitive mech inspire a ragtag crew to rise up and fight for peace?

Pax Machina is the action-packed first book in the thrilling Mechhaven science fiction series. If you like thunderous tech, complex relationships, and shocking twists and turns, then you’ll love Greg Sorber’s tumultuous tale.

Featured Sci-fi: Sunken City Capers Series By Jeffrey A Ballard

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Featured Sci-fi: Sunken City Capers Series By Jeffrey A Ballard

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Almost a hundred years ago, a major terrestrial event reshaped the earth’s coastlines. Goodbye entire cities. Goodbye entire states. Goodbye entire countries. And when the authorities outlawed salvaging from these underwater cities, why say hello to a new breed of criminal: underwater reclamation specialists. Even a hundred years later, there’s still a whole lot of loot for the reclaiming.

But it’s not theft if you put it back, right?

After cracking an underwater vault in their first major heist in the Seattle Isles, Isa and her crew think they’re on easy street again—that is, if they can figure out what it is exactly they stole. A question, they soon learn, where their very lives hang in the balance.

Thrust into a high-stakes game of subterfuge and deception by the local mob boss, Isa and her crew must scramble to unravel the mystery of what it is they stole while unseen forces move against them.

Harried. Threatened at every turn. Isa and her crew must stay one step ahead to stay alive.

Sunken City Capers is a fun post-apocalyptic series with no zombies, just criminals and mischievous ne’er-do-wells. Fans of heist books/movies and strong female protagonists will likely enjoy this series.

Featured Sci-fi: Irrelevant (The Relevance Series Book 1) by Sarah Addison-Fox

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Featured Sci-fi: Irrelevant (The Relevance Series Book 1) by Sarah Addison-Fox

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☢☣ For fans who loved Divergent, Razorland, and Moon Dwellers comes an astonishing dystopian romance like no other. ☢☣

Mallory’s been hiding who she is for 18 years…

But now her terrible secret has been exposed.

Branded Irrelevant, Mallory is cut off from everything she knows.

Irrelevants are criminals, banished to live in the old city. But in the wasteland between the new city and the old, she stumbles on Cristan.

He’s bitter, paranoid, and possibly crazy…

He may also be right about everything.

To survive, Mallory must figure out who to trust, and embrace the behaviour she’s been taught to deny.

The answers may lie in a place even the most rebellious Irrelevants won’t go.

Featured Sci-fi: Alterian Wars Series Sale by G J Ogden

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Featured Sci-fi: Alterian Wars Series Sale by G J Ogden

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– KINDLE STORYTELLER AWARD WINNER 2023 –

Humanity’s only hope is the commander they spurned.

Once, Master Commander Carter Rose was the Union’s secret weapon. An augmented, bio-engineered officer in command of the most powerful warship ever devised by human minds, Rose brought them victory against the post-human Aternien Empire.

Then they cast him aside.

A century later, living alone on a distant forest moon, feared and forsaken by the people he fought to save, Rose has grown bitter and resentful, while his superhuman body refuses to age.

When Major Carina Larsen seeks his help to save Earth from becoming the last frontier of humanity, Rose is reluctant to return to duty. Until Larsen reveals the real peril: the Aterniens are on the rise again, hell-bent on revenge.

And after a century of peace, the Union has forgotten how to fight.

But even if Rose can recover his marooned warship and assemble a crew, his allegiance is now a valuable commodity — and a secret weapon is only ever as dangerous as those who wield it…

Forsaken Commander is the winner of the Kindle Storyteller Award 2023 and book one of the Aternien Wars series, an epic blend of space opera and militaristic sci-fi. Follow an elite crew of augmented officers as they fight a post-human enemy styled on the myths of ancient Egypt.