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Featured Science Fiction: The Bohr Maker (The Nanotech Sucession Book 1) by Linda Nagata

January 30, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: The Bohr Maker (The Nanotech Sucession Book 1) by Linda Nagata

$4.99 as of January 30, 2023
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Editor’s Note: I loved this novel. It has believable characters, adventure, action, strange new worlds, and a message that resonates.

“…phenomenal….This one is a winner—grab it when you see it…” —Analog Science Fiction & Fact

An award-winning novel of nanotechnology, adventure, and high-tech revolution.
Nikko is the first “post human” genetically engineered to survive in the airless void of space. But the research permit that allows his existence is about to expire. His body has begun an insidious, pre-programmed failure that will end in his death—unless he can cancel his own expiration date. His hopes ride on an illegal and extremely powerful nanotech device known as the Bohr Maker—but his attempt to steal it soon goes awry. The device escapes to infect a young woman named Phousita who lives on Earth, in an impoverished slum, where nanotechnology runs amok, regulated only by the black market. Nikko and Phousita are from different worlds, but their convergence sets off a domino effect of unforeseeable events that threaten to change the definition of “human” for all time.

A brilliantly original, fast-paced biotech thriller, The Bohr Maker won the Locus Award for Best First Novel.

The Nanotech Succession is a collection of stand-alone novels exploring the rise of nanotechnology and the strange and fascinating future that follows.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Linda Nagata, The Bohr Maker, The Nanotech Succession

Featured Sci-fi: Gods of War (The Last Marines Book 1) by William S. Frisbee Jr.

January 30, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Gods of War (The Last Marines Book 1) by William S. Frisbee Jr.

99¢ as of January 30, 2023
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The mission was supposed to be his last.

After more than twenty years in special operations, USMC Gunnery Sergeant Wolf Mathison wasn’t looking forward to retirement when—implanted with an experimental artificial intelligence—he deployed on his last mission with a platoon of Marine Raiders being sent to the Jovian moon Europa.

The USS Jefferson was destroyed en route, though, and only Mathison and three other Marines survived. Trapped in stasis, they were hurled into the outer reaches of the solar system, where they wouldn’t be found for hundreds of years.

Meanwhile, on Earth, the United States is destroyed and a fascist regime rises to power, expanding into the galaxy to plant its boot heel on the necks of humanity. But SOG, the Social Organizational Governance, is not unopposed, and researchers at a top-secret research outpost are working on a solution that will let SOG reign supreme. Unfortunately for the Marines, they’re awakened from stasis at the same time the researchers awaken a threat that endangers the entire human race.

The odds are against them, but that’s nothing new for the Marine Raiders.

Semper Fidelis and Semper Invictus!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Gods of War, The Last Marines, William S. Frisbee Jr.

A Classic Sci-fi Series! Foreigner (Foreigner Series Book 1) by C J Cherryh

January 22, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Foreigner (Foreigner Series Book 1) by C J Cherryh

$2.99 as of January 22, 2022
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The groundbreaking novel that launched Cherryh’s eponymous space opera series of first contact and its consequences … Editors note: I became an addict of this series. Now you can, too.

It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registered assassination, alliances were defined by individual loyalties not geographical borders, and war became inevitable once humans and one faction of atevi established a working relationship. It was a war that humans had no chance of winning on this planet so many light-years from home.

Now, nearly two hundred years after that conflict, humanity has traded its advanced technology for peace and an island refuge that no atevi will ever visit. Then the sole human the treaty allows into atevi society is marked for an assassin’s bullet. The work of an isolated lunatic? The interests of a particular faction? Or the consequence of one human’s fondness for a species which has fourteen words for betrayal and not a single word for love?

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: C. J. Cherryh, Foreigner, Foreigner Series

Featured Sci-Fi: Ether War the Complete Series by John Walker

January 22, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-Fi: Ether War the Complete Series  by John Walker

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A Resource as Precious as Life

Ether. It revolutionized human technology. Made faster than light travel possible. With this new form of energy, people expanded beyond Earth to distant stars in other galaxies across the cosmos. After years of conflicts, a rebellion, and countless skirmishes, the Human Confederacy is a thriving government, a beacon of civilization.

Until an ether facility is destroyed out of the blue with no one taking credit for the destruction. Enter the Morrigan, a state of the art ship with a brilliant but inexperienced crew. Their captain Noah Markel is no stranger to battle and he believes this may not be as simple as an act of terrorism but rather an incursion. Their first contact with an alien race. One bent on crippling human space travel in preparation for something far worse than a border dispute.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ether War Complete Series, John Walker

Featured Science Fiction: Star Scavenger the Complete Series by G J Ogden

January 20, 2023 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Star Scavenger the Complete Series by G J Ogden

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Firefly meets Indiana Jones in this epic sci-fi action-adventure with a unique alien-invasion twist. Read the complete 5-book series with over 1200 global 5-star ratings as a single boxed set.

From book one:

Hudson Powell had always been a drifter, but after his father died, he vowed to turn his life around. He quit freelancing as a starship pilot and joined the Relic Guardian Force as a 38-year-old rookie.

That was a big mistake.

The RGF police the alien wrecks that have been found on every portal world discovered in the last century. They make sure the relic hunters pay taxes on the priceless alien tech they scavenge from the hulks. The snag is that the RGF is corrupt. And Hudson’s training officer Logan Griff is the worst scumbag of the lot.

Pushed over the edge, Hudson stumbles upon the exhilarating world of the relic hunters and meets the equally intoxicating and deadly mercenary Tory Bellona.

Cast out from the RGF, Hudson Powell chooses a new path. But the discovery of a unique alien crystal will set events in motion that cannot be undone. People stopped asking where the alien hulks had come from. People stopped asking who created the portals, and why.

Hudson will discover that some alien relics are best left buried. One decision can change the course of an entire civilization. One discovery can change your life.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: G J Ogden, Star Scavengers

Featured Science Fiction: A World of Dinosaurs (Mintari Book 1) by Daniel Arenson

January 13, 2023 by Carolynn

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A dinosaur adventure for fans of Jurassic Park! From the USA Today bestselling author of Earthrise.

Dinosaurs. Majestic giants. They’ve captured our imagination for generations. On planet Mintari, they live again.

Mintari is far from Earth. Wild. Pristine. A world where triceratops herd across grasslands, pterosaurs soar over golden mountains, and T-rexes prowl the misty forests.

But these magnificent beasts might soon disappear. And only one man can save them.

They call him Jurassic Joe. A semi-mythical figure. A ranger who lives in the wilderness of Mintari. Defender of dinosaurs. Bane of poachers. Folk hero. But is he real?

He better be. Because big game hunters are landing on Mintari. A lot of them. It will take a hero to stop them. And they must be stopped. Or the dinosaurs of Mintari will be lost forever.

Discover a world of savage beauty, terrifying danger, and ancient beasts brought back to life. Welcome to Mintari.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A World of Dinosaurs, Daniel Arenson, Mintari

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