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Featured Science Fiction: When They Came Book 1 by Kody Boye

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Featured Science Fiction: When They Came Book 1 by Kody Boye

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I was never afraid of monsters—at least, not until They came: the visitors from outer space.

Six years later, at the age of seventeen, I’m just about to graduate from school and declare my career of choice. The Midnight Guard—who protect our community from the vicious things that lie outside our walls—calls to me, and a shortage of applicants instantly lands me a spot in their ranks.

But when I am bitten by an alien on a supply run, I begin to dream of things not of this world—and will soon find that my life is about to change forever.

Featured Science Fiction: Open Minds (Mindjack Book 1) by Susan Kaye Quinn

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When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep. 

Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can’t be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves.

When she accidentally controls Raf’s mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she’s dragged deep into a hidden underworld of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.

Featured Science Fiction: Kyron Invasion The Complete Series by Jasper T. Scott

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Featured Science Fiction: Kyron Invasion The Complete Series by Jasper T. Scott

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THEY HAVE ARRIVED.
2150 AD: Chris Randall just lost his job as a bodyguard. That night, after picking up his wife, Bree, from her shift at a local casino, he breaks the bad news.

Moments later, thunder cracks the sky, but there’s no lightning. Flaming debris rain across the valley, and a dark mass goes sailing out of the clouds, headed straight for LA.

It’s not one of the Union’s starships, because they can’t defy gravity like that. But then what is it?

The answer chills both Chris and Bree to their cores: it’s an invasion.

They have to pick up their kids and get away from the city. But the Randalls soon discover that nowhere is far enough away to keep them safe.

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Featured Sci-fi: Horizon Protocol The Complete Series (Jackson Stone Science Fiction Thriller) by Brandon Ellis and Max Wolfe

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Featured Sci-fi: Horizon Protocol The Complete Series (Jackson Stone Science Fiction Thriller) by Brandon Ellis and Max Wolfe

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Hope you’re well-rested. Horizon Protocol will WRECK your REM cycle!

Eight found dead under futuristic UFO beams…

Artifacts adrift across time in Egypt’s past…

The beginning of the truth intertwines with the Garden of Eden.

Jackson Stone—a ufologist weaponized by a covert agency—questions his murky past. The answers he seeks perch inside a web of lies.

What secrets does his femme fatale partner Agent Alabama Wren hide? Are her uncanny empathic abilities a match for the Others?

Forced to work together, their secret organization assigns Stone and Wren on a mission to prevent a national crisis that uncovers a worldwide conspiracy.

Aliens. Time travel. Mythic sites of religious renown…

…All presumed fictitious. Everything assumed sacred must be scrutinized.

But a rival paramilitary Deep State dispatches dark ops to neutralize Stone and Wren. These ego-crazed men will gladly sacrifice casualties to reshape the world.

If the Horizon Protocol initiates, will it unravel the fabric of reality?

Globetrot alongside this tough-as-nails team on an adrenaline-inducing espionage adventure, spanning the past and present to save the future of humanity.

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Featured Science Fiction: Kaine’s Sanction (Shattered Empire Book 1) by D.M. Pruden

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Featured Science Fiction: Kaine's Sanction (Shattered Empire Book 1) by D.M. Pruden

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Undisturbed for aeons, something has been awakened…

When the UEF Scimitar is dispatched to retrieve an archaeologist from an isolated and abandoned Terran colony, young officer Hayden Kaine thinks it is a routine mission. But when a mysterious accident traps the ship in the quarantined star system, survival soon becomes everyone’s only concern.

Attacked by an unknown alien species, the ship is damaged and half of the crew is killed or injured, including the captain. The only surviving bridge officer, Kaine is thrust into the command seat; a role for which he is neither experienced nor prepared, and which most of the surviving crew do not easily accept.

While the enemy amasses an overwhelming invasion fleet capable of overwhelming the unsuspecting confederation, Kaine must stave off a mutiny long enough to find a way to warn Earth of the danger. If he fails, the empire which has survived for five hundred years will fall and humanity will be doomed to extinction by a foe whose existence seems to defy the laws of physics.

If you love the science fiction works of Heinlein, Clarke or Asimov, try D.M. Pruden’s rousing military space opera adventure, Kaine’s Sanction, the first book in the Shattered Empire series.

Book Reviews: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

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Book Reviews: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

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Editor’s Note: This is one of my favorite books of all time. Sometimes darkly humorous, always heartfelt and engaging.

“A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review

Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.

But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.