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Featured Sci-fi: Thalassic Series by Liz Shipton

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What do you do with a drunken sailor when the world is underwater?

In a brutal dystopian water world, where survival depends on skill and smarts, Bird Howsley is a beautiful disaster. A drunken sailor, a sharp-tongued back-talker, and a magnet for chaos, Bird is one bad decision away from watching her life go completely down the drain.

Her only lifeline? Level-headed sailing teacher, Sargo Paz. Sargo is a second-generation immigrant striving to prove himself in a city where no one looks like him, and despite Bird’s salty demeanor, he seems determined not to give up on her.

But when a cryptic message from her dead brother sets Bird on a quest to find answers about her past, one reckless act puts her and Sargo in the crosshairs of a dangerous underground organization hell-bent on their demise.

Forced to flee their hometown, they embark on a treacherous voyage across the Salt – where pirates, perilous seas and close quarters stir up emotions neither of them expected, and they discover that the organization they’re running from holds darker secrets than they ever imagined…

Featured Sci-fi: Krimson Run (Krimson Empire Book 1) by Julia Huni

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Featured Sci-fi: Krimson Run (Krimson Empire Book 1) by Julia Huni

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The Federation made three mistakes:

– Leaving Quinn to die

– Framing Quinn for treason

– Taking Quinn’s kids

She could get over the first two.

With her friend Tony, a man of surprising connections and mysterious family, Quinn rescues herself and the other “inconvenient” spouses left to die on the abandoned asteroid outpost. When Quinn launches her campaign to retrieve her kids, the Federation will realize taking children from their mother is the biggest mistake of all. Because Quinn will do whatever it takes to get them back–even start a revolution.

Featured Sci-fi: Anti Life by Allen Kuzara

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Featured Sci-fi: Anti Life by Allen Kuzara

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The opposite of life isn’t death; it’s something far worse.

In an anarcho-capitalist future, space-based corporate settlements have replaced the State. Colonel John Alvarez, a fifteen-year veteran, is unwilling to waste more years leading missions into deep space. He wants to start over and make a new life with his wife and son.

But when a distress message from a distant research probe is received, Novos Corp reactivates Alvarez’s contract. He must carry out one last mission, a rescue attempt. Unknown to Alvarez, however, is the hidden threat that awaits him, one that–if he cannot stop it–will doom humanity to a fate worse than death.

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.