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Featured Science Fiction: Entropy (The Anti Life Series) by Allen Kuzara

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Featured Science Fiction: Entropy (The Anti Life Series) by Allen Kuzara

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What do you fight for when you’ve already lost?

After the surprise attack on Trinity, John Alvarez is left holding the key to defeating anti-life, Dr. Black’s vac-shielding weapon.

But the pendulum swings back when a message is received saying Novos is under siege. Unknown to Alvarez, anti-life fighters are focusing their attack on Novos’s flagship, the same ship Nadia and Adam are on. There’s more behind the attacks than what meets the eye.

Alvarez must race home to beat back the merciless onslaught of the anti-life fleet. Everything is at stake, but time’s running out.

Featured Sci-fi: Interdictum (The Anti Life Series Book 2) by Allen Kuzara

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Featured Sci-fi: Interdictum (The Anti Life Series Book 2) by Allen Kuzara

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How do you defeat what you cannot kill?

After surviving the incident at probe NC-108, John Alvarez believes he is free to make a new life with his family. But when a radio wave emission source is observed approaching incorporated space, all that changes.

An impending anti-life attack is expected, and Alvarez is suddenly thrust into action as the new face of Novos diplomacy. He must thrash against the slow-moving wheels of corporate leadership and convince holdouts from other settlements to join the inter-corporate defense strategy.

But can he do it in time to give mankind a fighting chance?

Featured Science Fiction: Duneflyer (Stormweaver Book 1) by Jay Aspen

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Featured Science Fiction: Duneflyer (Stormweaver Book 1) by Jay Aspen

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A mysterious stranger. A murderous ambush. A sinister plot in the deep desert.
And… a fleeting image of a future romance.

Since the death of her sister, Alissa has always felt a restlessness that keeps drawing her back into the great sand sea of Irithen, a remote province on a distant planet.

Her attempt to save Talin’s life confronts her with terrifying memories of her past – and a ruthless military attack in the heart of the desert.

She has trained in the intense shaman-warrior skills that might help her survive in this vast expanse of sand, heat, enormous lizards and poisonous scorpions.

Learning to fly a giant condor before it kills her might help as well.

But who is the mysterious off-world mercenary in that fleeting glimpse on stolen video?

The battle and the threat to her city will demand everything of her – challenges, loss, and the understanding that the ultimate defeat of these stealth-invaders will be a long campaign, demanding every ally and resource she and her people can muster.

Duneflyer is the first book in the Stormweaver series, the far-future adventure-romance by Jay Aspen.

Perfect for fans of Avatar and Lord of the Rings

Publisher’s note; Stormweaver is a 6-part series, best read in chronological order. Each book tells a completed story, while the full series resolves the ultimate defeat of the traitor and the invaders. Readers who like the whole series and character depth all at once can download the Stormweaver Trilogy Box Sets.

Featured Science Fiction: Into Twilight (The Stefan Mendoza Series Book 1) P.R. Adams

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Featured Science Fiction: Into Twilight (The Stefan Mendoza Series Book 1) P.R. Adams

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He does the government’s dirty work. When he’s double-crossed by one of his own, he’ll stop at nothing to take out the trash.

Korea, 22nd Century. Surrender isn’t in Stefan Mendoza’s DNA. So when a traitor betrays his black-ops team, he alone pushes through the torture and escapes with revenge burning in his mind. On the verge of a systems failure, he taps into his underground network for a set of cybernetic limbs. But his high-tech recovery comes at a heavy price—an assassination hit on a rising political star.

Filled with resentment for the cutthroat world of contract killers, he uses the hit job as a cover to track down the traitor. When he discovers he’s competing with other assassins for the same political target, he starts to piece together a sinister conspiracy that could lead him straight to the shadowy figure behind his betrayal.

Trapped within a hotbed of corruption, can Mendoza exact his revenge and win his freedom or will he spiral deeper into the twisted game of brokered death?

Into Twilight is the first book in The Stefan Mendoza Trilogy of high-octane cyberpunk techno-thrillers. If you like street-smart soldiers, complex conspiracies, and immersive sci-fi settings, then you’ll love P.R. Adams’s noir-style page-turner.

Featured Sci-fi: The Planetsider Complete Series by G J Ogden

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Featured Sci-fi: The Planetsider Complete Series by G J Ogden

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Ethan is a ranger, sworn to protect his walled settlement from the dangers of his war-ravaged planet. Then one night he discovers a crashed spacecraft and two soldiers from a moon base he didn’t even know existed.

Captain Salus and Commander Kurren have risked everything to find a Planetsider to help save their people. Ethan needs them to answer questions that have haunted him all his life – what happened to his world and why?

Seduced by the prospect of learning the truth, Ethan agrees to help Captain Salus and Commander Kurren. Disobeying the orders of his council, he travels to the UEC outpost on the moon. There Ethan gets his answers, but the truth only leads to more questions and more doubts.

To make matters worse, Kurren and Salus are not the only ones looking for a Planetsider. An enemy faction, trapped on an orbital space station, will stop at nothing to capture Ethan, and prevent him from helping the UEC. With time running out to save the moon base, Ethan agrees to embark on a dangerous mission to recover vital technology set adrift in a radiation field that only a Planetsider can survive.

But his ship is intercepted by the rival faction and Ethan is taken to the space station. There he meets the faction’s leader, who turns his life upside down and inside out. Everything he thought he knew was a lie.

Plucked from a life of ignorance and obscurity, Ethan is thrust into the center of a war that has raged for over a century – a war that created the world he grew up in. Yet fate has a cruel sense of irony, because now the survival of two entire civilizations rests in the hands of a solitary Planetsider.

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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.