C Gockel Writes

Featured Sci-fi: Claim the Void (The Star Current Saga Book 1) by Kate Sheeran Swed

by

Featured Sci-fi: Claim the Void (The Star Current Saga Book 1) by Kate Sheeran Swed

New Release
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

Apple, Nook, Kobo, GooglePlay

An alien disease. A cryptic bloodline. An ancient feud between worlds.

Well. It’s nothing a little swagger can’t handle.

Damian Riddle’s sick of bouncing around the known galaxy in search of a cure for the alien disease that’s been plaguing him for months. He hasn’t felt up to robbing a single pirate ship, or breaking into any cartel supply stashes. It’s inconvenient, at best.

Also, he’s got a feeling the illness just might be fatal.

The only solution? To start searching the unknown galaxy for a cure. And Damian knows how to do it.

But when a nosy reporter stows away in his smuggling compartment, throwing off his calculations, the ship slingshots them both to an unknown location–where political maneuvering is the status quo and sinister mysteries cast shadows over the crystalline beauty of the alien city.

If Damian can’t figure out where the heck they are–and whether these aliens can help him with a cure–his ailment is sure to kill him. And with his symptoms growing worse, he fears the fallout may not be contained to one man…

Featured Science Fiction: Earth Song Series – Multiverse Chronicles by Nick Cook

by

FREE | $2.99 | $3.99 as of November 8, 2023
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

For decades radio telescopes have scoured the skies for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence but have found none. Why?

Could it be we really are alone in the universe? Or is it that the truth has been withheld from us by a global conspiracy of silence?

When radio telescope operators Lauren Stelleck, a woman with a special gift enabling her to literally see certain sounds, and Steve Andrews, a diehard sci-fi geek, detect a signal like no other at Jodrell Bank in England, a chain of events is unleashed that propels Earth towards all-out nuclear war. Can Lauren and Steve unlock the secret of the signal before our species tears itself apart?

The Signal is a prequel novella to the Earth Song series, and the Fractured Light trilogy, and is part of the Multiverse Chronicles, an epic series of interlinked stories that follows the struggle of humanity to survive across parallel universes.

Watch the skies because the darkness is coming for us.

[Read more…]

Featured Sci-fi: Rogue Star Frozen Earth Book 1 by Jasper T. Scott

by

Featured Sci-fi: Rogue Star Frozen Earth Book 1 by Jasper T. Scott

FREE as of November 8, 2023
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

Apple, Nook, Kobo

A DEAD STAR IS HEADED FOR EARTH…
THE SHIFT IN EARTH’S ORBIT WILL UNLEASH A NEW ICE AGE…
AND THIS SUMMER WILL BE OUR LAST.

THE NEWS BREAKS
Logan Willis’s life is falling apart: he lost his job and found out that his wife is cheating on him all in the same day. Thinking that his world has ended, Logan checks into a hotel and turns on the TV to see that he’s not far wrong—radio telescopes have detected mysterious signals coming from inside our solar system, and the source is moving toward us at over 500 miles per second. The media concludes that these signals must be of an alien origin. Still reeling from the news, Logan gets a phone call from his brother-in-law. Richard is talking crazy about the end of the world again, but this time he doesn’t sound so crazy.

A DEADLY CONSPIRACY UNRAVELS
Meanwhile, Richard, who is an astronomer working with the James Webb Space Telescope, is at the White House briefing the president to announce what he and the government have known for almost a decade: aliens are not invading, a frozen ball of gas is. The so-called rogue star is predicted to make a near pass with Earth, disrupting our orbit and unleashing an ice age, the likes of which we haven’t seen for millions of years.

WE’RE PUTTING A COLONY ON MARS
Government insider, Billionaire Akron Massey, has received a steady flow of funding over the past decade for his company, Starcast, to put a colony on Mars. Over the same period he’s been using his personal fortune to create a colony closer to home where he plans to ride out the coming storm along with a thousand of the smartest people on the planet. Humanity will need seeds to plant in the ashes after the chaos clears.

AND WARS IGNITE
When the true nature of the threat becomes known, the nations of Earth prepare to fight over all the warmest parts of the planet. But as war fleets set sail and armies begin marching south, a stunning discovery is made that will change a lot more than just the weather….

Featured Sci-fi: Shadow Watch (Kethurg War Book 1) by Brandon Ellis

by

Featured Sci-fi: Shadow Watch (Kethurg War Book 1) by Brandon Ellis

New Release
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

The Expanse meets The Mandalorian in this high-stakes, science fiction adventure where the line between friend and foe is as blurred as the star-lines in hyperspace.

An elite unit. A dark secret. Can they stop interstellar war before it starts?

Hex Thorn, a hard-bitten veteran of the elite Special Operations Unit of the Dominion Empire, was content with retirement. He’d seen his share of firefights and bloodshed in a bitter war that ripped the galaxy apart.

But when an enigmatic stranger makes him an offer he can’t refuse–a chance to own a legendary Lancer ship–Hex is thrust back into the fray.

His mission?

Hunt down the elusive Dr. Attica Tharand, a person whose secrets could shatter the galaxy’s fragile balance of power.

Hex must reassemble his old Special Ops team, a ragtag crew of soldiers as skilled as they are unpredictable. But they soon find out they aren’t the only ones after the doctor.

With galactic tension on the razor’s edge, Hex will need all his grit, guile, and gunfire to uncover the truth about his target and those who wish him caught. An elite unit. A dark secret. Can they stop interstellar war before it starts?

SHADOW WATCH is the start of a pulse-pounding interstellar adventure from the minds of Brandon Ellis and Max Wolfe. Alliances will be tested, friendships will be forged, and through the darkest of trials, heroes will be born.

Featured Science Fiction: Desa Kincaid Series by R.S. Penney

by

Featured Science Fiction: Desa Kincaid Series by R.S. Penney

FREE / $2.99 / $2.99 on Amazon
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

Apple, Nook, Kobo, GooglePlay

Desa Kincaid has spent the last ten years in pursuit of a man whose experiments have killed over a dozen people.

Blessed with the power to transform ordinary objects into devastating weapons, she journeys through trading ports, backwater towns, forests, deserts and the haunted remains of a dead city.

But can she stop her enemy before he unleashes something terrible on the world?

Featured Science Fiction: Cydonia Rising (Andlios Book 1) by Dave Walsh

by

Featured Science Fiction: Cydonia Rising (Andlios Book 1) by Dave Walsh

FREE on October 26, 2023
Click for current price: Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia

Apple, Nook, Kobo, GooglePlay

The Emperor of the galaxy has fallen, slain at the hands of his own son.

Forced into exile, Katrijn was tasked with a mission sent to her by her father from beyond the grave: free the people of the Andlios Republic. Her biggest hurdle? First it’s the assassins sent after her by the emperor. After years alone on the fringes of the galaxy, who will be there to help her dethrone the mad emperor and reclaim the throne. Then, it’s dealing with her brother…

The Mad Emperor himself.

Katrijn must carve her own path forward, forging new alliances and swallowing her pride to take whatever help she can find along the way, no matter how… unconventional that help seems, even from sworn enemies.

If dethroning her deranged brother isn’t hard enough, she’s not the only one gunning for the throne, making it a deadly race to save the people of Andlios in this action-packed space epic.