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Featured Fantasy: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Time Travel Sci-fi LitRPG Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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Featured Fantasy: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Time Travel Sci-fi LitRPG Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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Gabe relives history in an RPG, a mage in ancient pueblo and California apocalypse, training to lead a viable space colony.

Young Gabe Oliveri leaves Earth to colonize last-chance planet Rayas. The colony is privately funded by Mexican descendants of California’s El Grande – the Big One.

Rayas bootstraps its terraforming talent from teenagers. Their plastic minds will spend the interstellar years of stasis in a virtual reality academy.

But Gabe’s a physical guy. Cast among genius, what can he aspire to?

The history role-playing game captures his heart. Air is breathable under a clear blue sky, as he relives the Ancient Pueblo culture of New Mexico.

In this game, archaic beliefs fuel magic. Dreamer Gabe proves a natural mathemagician.

But what is the game’s agenda?

Next campaign, Gabe leads a team to experience El Grande itself, the California catastrophe that birthed his people. Can he reach safety in Mexico, or will the game AI drive him crazy.


Readers may recognize Gabe and his quirky education from Booth’s Thrive Luna Regroup space scifi, and California’s demise from her Feral America dystopian series. This time travel LitRPG adventure features weak to strong progression, with gritty bootstrapped space colony and overpowered artificial intelligence.

Featured Science Fiction: The Stars Like Gods (Amaranthe 13) by G. S. Jennsen

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Featured Science Fiction: The Stars Like Gods (Amaranthe 13) by G. S. Jennsen

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When man and machine are one and the same, time moves differently. But it runs out all the same.
The Asterion Dominion government has fallen, its rulers slain–but in the Dominion, the dead rarely stay that way. A doomsday clock rushes headlong toward the day the monstrous alien shapeshifters known as the Rasu will demand their next tribute of lives. When denied it, the Rasu will burn every Dominion world to the ground.

Unless they can be stopped.

Nika, Dashiel and their allies fight to hold onto the reins of power even as they search for a way to defeat the enemy. Their quest will take them from barren deserts to a remote wilderness to the hidden homeworld of an ancient, mysterious species, all to uncover a secret 700,000 years in the keeping.

With everything they thought they knew now called into question and the reckoning at hand, the Asterions’ past, present and future will collide in a last daring gambit to save all three.

Featured Science Fiction: Of A Darker Void (Amaranthe 12) by G. S. Jennsen

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Featured Science Fiction: Of A Darker Void (Amarante 12) by G. S. Jennsen

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When man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life.
Diplomat. Rebel. Fugitive.
Nika Tescarav has lived many lives, though she no longer remembers most of them. Chased by agents of a regime that will do anything to protect the secrets of the Rasu Protocol, Nika flees to the stars with her once and future lover on a mission to expose those secrets. A race across alien worlds both exotic and deadly leads them to the bastion of the enemy, but its discovery brings a terrible revelation: sometimes the truth is indeed worse than the lies spun to conceal it.

With Nika and Dashiel on the run, NOIR steps up to defend against a virulent pathogen unleashed upon innocent civilians. When a desperate government moves to crush the resistance once and for all, unlikely alliances are forged between former adversaries and all paths converge in an explosive showdown that will change the future of the Asterion Dominion forever.

Featured Sci-fi: Darklanding Omnibus (Book 1 – 3) by Scott Moon and Craig Martelle

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Featured Sci-fi: Darklanding Omnibus (Book 1 - 3) by Scott Moon and Craig Martelle

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A frontier world. One Sheriff. And all the action one Spaceport can’t hold.

Darklanding is the wild, wild west of known space. Sheriff Thaddeus Fry will never completely leave the battlefields of Centauri Prime. His assignment as the Sheriff of Darklanding, could be a do-nothing job, or it could get him killed.

Book 01 – Faced with a dangerous collapse that could kill hundreds of workers, the new sheriff leaps into action and gets the story of Darklanding started.

Book 02 – There’s unrest among the miners. Desperation sets in for the Company Man. One wrong decision will destroy her career. The sheriff doesn’t care about any of that. There are strangers in town. One or all of them may be enemies. And how does a mysterious runaway fit into the picture?

Book 03 – Unrefined ore is moved by a state of the art mono-rail from the mines to the spaceport. It’s never gone off the tracks. Until now. What kind of crew is crazy enough to mess with SagCon’s investments?

Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this new series. Pick up this first of four Darklanding Omnibuses today.

Featured Fantasy: Demon in Exile by Rory Surtain

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Featured Fantasy: Demon in Exile by Rory Surtain

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An epic, twisted demon-slayer adventure!

A dark night and a deadly encounter grows into a twisting adventure filled with mystery, politics, and hard-fought survival.

Ara Storm and a company of demon-slaying sentinels march forth in defense of the medieval realm of Colivar. Borders are crossed. Kings and gang bosses too.

Is he an orphan or a prince? Is he human or something far worse? Read on to find out!

Featured Sci-fi: Star Bounty (The Complete Series) by Rick Partlow

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Featured Sci-fi: Star Bounty (The Complete Series) by Rick Partlow

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Get the Star Bounty Box Set, featuring all four books in the hit series from Rick Partlow (Drop Trooper). 1000+ pages of conspiracies, black market trade, and explosive military space opera action.

Grant Masterson is a man with nothing left to lose… A disgraced ex-cop, framed by a crooked politician, abandoned by his family, he’s forced into the life of a bounty hunter just to survive.

Tracking down a traitor who stole military grade weapons to sell on the black market, Masterson finds out things aren’t as simple as the wanted poster made them seem.

Because Delia Beckett isn’t a traitor, simply a patsy, and the forces manipulating her may be the same ones responsible for Masterson’s fall from grace.

Can a beat-up bounty hunter and his robot dog find the truth chasing a fugitive in a backwater colony town? Or will their journey to Absolution be their last hunt? Find out in this science fiction thrill ride from Rick Partlow, the bestselling author of the Drop Trooper Series.