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Featured Sci-Fi: Eater by Gregory Benford

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Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton’s world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist’s beloved wife and partner—ex-astronaut-turned astronomer—is dying.

But something looms alarningly on the far edge of the solar system: at once a scientific find of unparalleled importance that could ensure the Knowltons’ immortality, and a potential earth-shattering cataclysm that dwarfs their private one. For Benjamin and Channing have discovered “Eater,” an eons-old black hole anomaly that devours stars and worlds. Yet its most awesome and devasting secrets are still to be revealed…and feared.

Featured Sci-fi: Trading in Danger (Vatta’s War Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon

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Featured Sci-fi: Trading in Danger (Vatta's War Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon

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The first volume in the Vatta’s War series – action-packed military SF from the Nebula Award winning author of The Speed of Dark.

Ky Vatta is a highly promising military cadet with a great future ahead of her, until an insignificant act of kindness makes her the focus of the Academy’s wrath. She is forced to resign, her dreams shattered.

For the child of a rich trading family, this should mean disgrace on a grand scale. And yet, to her surprise, Ky is offered the captaincy of a ship headed for scrap with its final cargo.

Her orders are absolutely clear, but Ky quickly sees potential profit in altering the journey. Because, whatever the risks, it’s in her blood to trade – even if the currency is extreme danger.

‘I thoroughly enjoyed Trading in Danger and wholeheartedly recommend it’ THE BOOK SMUGGLERS

Featured Science Fiction: Red Dust (Gods & Assassins Book 1) by Frank Kennedy

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Featured Science Fiction: Red Dust (Gods & Assassins Book 1) by Frank Kennedy

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Fallen gods with a taste for murder. A criminal syndicate. A secretive desert town.

Ex-god Royal has a bone to pick with the human race. In his previous form, charismatic Royal and his surly partner Moon all but saved the forty worlds of the Collectorate from destruction. Their reward? Desert exile on Azteca to live as humans. No public gratitude. History rewritten.

Seriously. Doesn’t anyone respect a god?

Royal and Moon intend to leave their meager existence behind someday and recapture the old glory (random galactic chaos), but building an interstellar criminal network requires millions of credits. Assassinating the enemies of the Collectorate’s paranoid President pays well, yet the jobs are few.

Circumstance brings them to the tiny town of Desperido, where life – and a world of secrets – plays out beneath the desert’s red dust. Royal, ever the shape-shifting visionary (narcissist, some might say) conjures an exciting new path forward. First, the former deities will have to deal with enemies in their midst as well as the Horax, one of the planet’s most powerful criminal syndicates.

Prepare for a wild ride with a healthy dose of snark in the opening stanza of a five-book serial, “Gods and Assassins.” Pistols draw, rifles blast, traitors abound, conspiracies arise, wormholes open, and whiskey flows.

Featured Sci-fi: Reese Daniels Smuggler Series by T.D. Wilson

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Smuggling precious cargo to a remote colony was supposed to be easy. I was dead wrong.

Smuggling is a dangerous business and Reese Daniels has the score of a lifetime within his grasp; however, getting shot down on one of Uranus’ moons wasn’t in his plan. Stranded and on the run in the middle of an alien invasion, Reese must work with a group of Marine cadets to escape a grisly fate.

Awarded Silver Honorable Mention in the recent first quarter Volume 40 of L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future contest.

Featured Sci-fi: Galaxy Bridge Books 1 – 3 by Daniel Gibbs

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Featured Sci-fi: Galaxy Bridge Books 1 - 3 by Daniel Gibbs

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Over 1000+ pages of Military Science Fiction action!

An all-new galaxy. A terrifying new enemy.

Exploration of Sextans B is underway via the first stable transgalactic wormhole in recorded history. Colonel Mateo Larra takes command of Joint Base Sagittarius Arch, the visionary new space station housing diplomats, merchants, and military personnel eager to make their mark.

But with every opportunity comes opposition.

Pirates harass travelers throughout the newly charted system. Smugglers, hauling valuable contraband, slip under the CDF’s nose. Even the League of Sol continues spy games as if the war never ended. Colonel Larra barely steps aboard the Arch before facing the most daunting challenges of his storied career.

Challenges that have only begun.

Ships vanish without a trace. The mysteries deepen when one reappears like a ghost, pristine as the day she left the shipyard—without her crew. But when the League ambassador is kidnapped, his bodyguards murdered in cold blood, Colonel Larra encounters an unimaginable horror on their doorstep.

And this time, it’s a fight the Coalition can’t win.

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Featured Sci-fi: Stars Shroud (The Ascension Series Book One) by Ken Lozito

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Featured Sci-fi: Stars Shroud (The Ascension Series Book One) by Ken Lozito

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They’ve been watching us for hundreds of years.
Now they need our help.
Earth is not safe.

Zack is good at finding things, but when he discovers a global conspiracy, life as he knows it is over. Sometimes the truth doesn’t set you free. It traps you instead.

Kept secret for 60 years, the discovery of an alien signal forces an unlikely team to investigate a mysterious structure discovered in the furthest reaches of the solar system. Join the crew of the Athena, Earth’s most advanced spaceship on the ultimate journey beyond our wildest imagining.

Strap yourself in. The Star Shroud is the first book in this action-packed space opera series. Readers describe them as “a cross between David Weber and John Ringo.” If you like space opera adventure stories with clever heroes, impossible situations, and chilling discoveries, then you’re in for a fun nonstop thrill ride. Read it now!

Find out why thousands of readers have fallen for Ken Lozito’s thrilling series!
What readers are saying about the Ascension series:
“Hard to put down!” – Amazon Reviewer
“Buckle up and hang on tight. You’re in for a wild ride!” – Ed Ramos
“Fantastic! One of the best SciFi books I have read in a long time.” – Harold Wilson
“Refreshing approach to sci-fi-fi. Fast paced and believable.” – T I Muller
“Fantastic feel of classic sci-fi which grows into a modern space opera.” – Amazon