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Featured Sci-fi: Big Trouble, Little Earth by J.N. Chaney and Jason Anspach

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Long after Earth’s destruction, Humanity is an endangered species…

When freighter pilot Dalton Thorne reunites with his old friend Kota at Little Earth’s best noodle shop, he’s expecting a straightforward job. Instead, he finds himself embroiled in a centuries-old mystery that could change humanity’s place in the universe forever.

Little Earth is a decaying city carved into an alien planet where humans live as refugees.

Beneath its neon-lit streets and crowded markets lies a secret: fragments of Earth’s past, preserved by a mysterious race of aliens and hidden from the ruling Consortium.

Now, Dalton and his fledgling crew must uncover a vital piece of evidence, long buried in depths of Little Earth—one that might lead to a real home for humanity.

With combat-enhanced martial artists, power-hungry crime lords, and the iron fist of the Consortium all hot on their trail, Dalton must navigate a web of divided loyalties and hard choices.

If only he’d kept eating his noodles, none of this would have happened.

Grab your copy of “Big Trouble, Little Earth” today and join Dalton Thorne on a journey that will take him from the depths of Little Earth to the secrets of humanity’s forgotten past.

Featured Sci-fi: Stellar Drift (A Central Galactic Concordance Novella)

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Featured Sci-fi: Stellar Drift (A Central Galactic Concordance Novella)

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He must choose between his duty and the truth. She must choose between her solitude and the man she can’t resist saving.

For fugitive pilot Sairy Sarvand, survival in the vast rainforest on Qal Corona depends on one rule: trust no one, especially not a government forest ranger. But when she finds the handsome and honorable Houyen succumbing to a fatal illness, her conscience won’t let her walk away. Even though saving him exposes one of her secrets.

Haunted by a memory of the woman who saved him, Ranger Houyen Albasrey is trapped between a corrupt command that wants the truth buried and his own unshakeable integrity. His search for answers leads him back to Sairy, forcing them into an uneasy alliance. Together, they must uncover the source of the plague before their deadly secrets—and their growing attraction—destroy them both.

When they discover the source might be even deadlier than the disease, can they survive long enough to do what must be done? Or will they be caught in a web of secrets, lies, and betrayal?

If you love stories with genetically engineered pets, a principled ranger defying his bosses, and a romance that sparks in the face of danger, you’ll love this thrilling novella.

Buy Stellar Drift and uncover the dangerous truths today!

Note: Stellar Drift first appeared in the limited-edition Pets in Space 8 science fiction romance anthology. This new standalone version has been expanded from the original.

Featured Sci-fi: Reckoning (Archangel Book 4) by Rick Partlow

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Featured Sci-fi: Reckoning (Archangel Book 4) by Rick Paltrow

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Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

Brent Parthet finds himself far too close to his enemies. Trapped in an uneasy alliance with the corporate monopoly and the secret police who control the Coalition, Brent and the other Archangels wonder if their new allies are worse than Conrad Janus and his Insurrection. One wants to prop up a corrupt government while the other wants to throw the galaxy into chaos, no matter how many millions of lives it costs.

But Brent is no puppet, and he has his own plans for the monolithic organizations who seek to pit one enemy against another. For the men responsible for starting a genocidal war and for killing Brent’s family, there’s going to come a reckoning.

Book 4 in this new military science fiction series by Rick Partlow, bestselling author of Drop Trooper and Taken to the Stars.

Filled with explosive and realistic military action as well as heroes you can’t help but root for, this is military Sci-Fi the way it’s to be!

Featured Sci-fi: Fallen (Archangel Book 1) by Rick Partlow

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Featured Sci-fi: Archangel Fallen by Rick Paltrow

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A new military sci-fi series by Rick Partlow, bestselling author of Drop Trooper and Taken to the Stars.

They pissed off the wrong soldier…


Brent Parthet just wanted to be left alone.A deadly supercommando in the Southwind War, Brent had retired a hero to a wildlife preserve as far from civilization as possible to enjoy the simple life with his wife and young son.

But when one of the Southwind, the massive, genetically-engineered slaves who’d rebelled against their human masters, shows up at Brent’s door, asking for help from an old enemy, Brent will find out that the war isn’t really over. And he may have been fighting for the wrong side.

Don’t miss the start of a new military science fiction series by Rick Partlow, bestselling author of Drop Trooper and Taken to the Stars. Filled with explosive and realistic military action as well as heroes you can’t help but root for, this is military Sci-Fi the way it’s meant to be!

Featured Sci-fi: My Junkyard Starship (Interstellar Birthright Book 1) by Marc Stapleton

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Featured Sci-fi: My Junkyard Starship (Interstellar Birthright Book 1) by Marc Stapleton

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Jace thought he’d inherited a dusty old ranch. What he really got was a flying rust bucket and a cosmic mess with his name all over it…

Weeks after his beloved father’s passing, Jace Jones is surprised to discover he’s been left a ranch in the middle of nowhere; a place so remote, even the tumbleweeds are lonely. Curious and confused, he makes the trip… only to watch a starship drop out of the sky and obliterate the entire property!

Inside the smoking wreck? No crew, and no answers. Just a sarcastic onboard AI, a storage bay stuffed with useless contraband, and a mysterious set of coordinates burned into the flight computer. And if all that wasn’t puzzling enough, the ship greets Jace like he’s its long-lost captain…

Now, dizzily launched into a deep space adventure alongside his sass-bot copilot, sustained by critical circuitry held together with tape, and troubled by the prospect of a shadowy alien stowaway, Jace must unravel a galactic mystery tied to a past he never knew he had.

Turns out, some legacies aren’t handed down in wills…
They come screaming out of the sky, loaded with secrets, sarcasm, and space grease.

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

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

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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….