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Featured Science Fiction: The Senthien (Descendants of Earth Book 1) by Tara Jade Brown

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Featured Science Fiction: The Senthien (Descendants of Earth Book 1) by Tara Jade Brown

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Five thousand years in the future, the Earth is dead. A galactic network of terraformed planets, connected by teleportation portals, is populated by the genetically improved Descendants. The original Humans, labeled dangerous and barbaric, are kept under constant surveillance.

In this seemingly peaceful society, Dora Dana Dasnan, a gifted Visionaire, serves the leading race of Descendants by reporting her Visions of the future. But when she witnesses a forbidden Vision — an intimate contact with a Human man — her very life is in danger.

She needs to escape before her masters find out, but in this disciplined and controlled society that is impossible. Just when Dora loses all hope, a teleportation error sends her to a new and astoundingly beautiful world. Soon, she meets the natives, and as she adapts to an alien culture, she also reveals a tightly kept secret of her own.

Featured Science Fiction: Chaos Zone (Parse Galaxy Book 1) by Kate Sheeran Swed

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Featured Science Fiction: Chaos Zone (Parse Galaxy Book 1) by Kate Sheeran Swed

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Space travel is so overrated.

Bounty hunting isn’t any better, but it’s what Sloane Tarnish needs to do if she wants to fix the rundown spaceship her uncle dumped on her. So she can find him and dump it right back.

Problem A: Her uncle also ditched his motley crew–made up of a cranky ace pilot and an extraneous mad scientist–and they don’t exactly see her as the captain.

Problem B: Her ship’s too broken to leave the most dangerous system in the galaxy, where a recent power vacuum is turning the place into one orbiting cluster of fugitives, thugs, and swindlers.

When Sloane sets her sights on a bounty with a reward that will solve all her problems, the Commander of the Galactic Fleet himself shows up in pursuit of the same man. The last thing Sloane needs is to get tangled in a web of galactic politics–but she won’t let her prize go, either. The payoff is just too big to give up.But as dangers close in on all sides, she can’t help wondering if she’ll live to claim her prize…

Chaos Zone is the first installment in a new space opera series full of reckless women, messy worlds, and big adventures–perfect for fans of Guardians of the Galaxy and the Mandalorian. Order your copy of Chaos Zone now!

Featured Sci-fi: Prometheus Outbound (ExoRok Rebels Book 1) by Steve Ruskin

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Featured Sci-fi: Prometheus Outbound (ExoRok Rebels Book 1)

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Noemi never wanted to be a rebel leader…
…but like any spacer, she rarely gets what she wants.

It’s hard enough being the only female cargo foreman on Aikkan Station. Sure, Noemi can pilot a mech with the best of them, and her team is made up of the finest mech pilots she could find. But when their boss runs afoul of the most ambitious Council Prince in the system, the repercussions are deadly—and they land squarely on Noemi’s shoulders.

Accused of murder and in possession of an impenetrable secret, Noemi and her team are suddenly rebels on the run. Trapped on a stolen freighter and surrounded by the enemy fleet, their only hope is to plan a daring rescue right into the heart of enemy territory: the planet Aquitania. With only their mechs as weapons, they must stage a daring rescue. If they fail, they’re as good as dead. If they succeed, they could alter the balance of power throughout the system… and maybe even the entire Empire.

A rebel leader, her unlikely team, and a handful of modified cargo mechs are all that stand between freedom… or certain death.

Featured Sci-fi: Never War (Star Mage Saga Book 9) by J.J. Green

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Featured Sci-fi: Never War (Star Mage Saga Book 9) by J.J. Green

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Deadly arrival.

Life is never simple and especially not for Carina Lin. Bloodthirsty tyrants, savage aliens, and vicious adversaries are just a few of the challenges she’s been forced to overcome on her galactic voyage to the birthplace of mages: Earth.

Against all the odds, she’s made it.

Eager to discover if the planet is a safe place for her and her family to openly practice their ‘magical’ abilities, she travels to the surface. What she finds there confounds all her expectations.

In some ways, Earth is a paradise, but in others it’s a nightmare—for the new world harbors a dark secret that threatens to destroy her dream and end her life.

Before she can make a home she must root out the evil, but it’s going to take time, and her merc band companions, the Black Dogs, are impatient to start their new lives. If they go planetside they could ruin everything.

Can Carina vanquish her final enemy before time runs out?

Never War is the ninth and final book in the dark space fantasy, Star Mage Saga.

Featured Sci-fi: Imperial Deserter (Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire Book 1) by Andrew Moriarty

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Featured Sci-fi: Imperial Deserter (Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire Book 1) by Andrew Moriarty

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Kill a man and you’re a murderer. Kill a million and you’re a statesman. Dirk should have killed more people.

Dirriken Friedel used his aristocratic connections to rescue his troops. He didn’t plan on starting a war or killing them himself. Now he spends his days in jail, waiting for an assassin sent by his dead officers families to end his misery.

When he’s broken out by off-duty marines he has a chance to start over, if he’s worthy. During his ramshackle escape he collects a broken-down trading ship, a bitter former army officer, a genetically altered religious fanatic, a runaway ingenue, a sham engineer, and a murderous femme fatal. Pursed by a fanatical imperial tribune bent on bloody justice, can he keep the crew from killing each other, the ship from exploding, and himself from the bottom of a bottle. Or would it be easier just to give up?

If you like Galactic Empires, honorable enemies, and snappy dialog, this one’s for you.

Featured Science Fiction: Extensis Vitae Book 1 by Gregory Mattix

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Featured Science Fiction: Extensis Vitae Book 1 by Gregory Matix

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Michael Reznik is a soldier who wakes up in a mysterious underground bunker, with a technologically advanced body he doesn’t recognize. The people around him have cast aside fighting and warfare. They haven’t needed them–until now.

Reznik is charged with tracking down a band of ruthless killers and finding a kidnapped doctor. He finds himself honor-bound to do what is right for the people who brought him back from the dead. A peaceful people are depending on him to do what is right. Can he live up to their expectations, even when he finds out that his new body has an expiration date?

Extensis Vitae is a gritty, post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure.