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Featured Science Fiction: Embers of The Empire by Robert D. Armstrong

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Featured Science Fiction: Embers of The Empire by Robert D. Armstrong

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From USA Today Bestseller Robert D. Armstrong comes the military sci-fi thriller, Embers of the Empire.

By the end of his first combat tour on Narpal, Rivan was a decorated imperial tank commander.

But he and his artificial intelligence companion returned to an empire facing a new threat. Support for a mysterious faction known as the fourth legion has spread throughout the galaxy at an alarming rate. There were reports of instability at mining colonies and violent incursions. Regional governors have been attacked as the empire scrambled to regain control.

The death dealers.

Rivan is recruited by the elite Hexes squadron, a shadowy imperial faction known for its cutting-edge hardware. Hexes is led by Commander JT Zess and Admiral Vissers. They devise an aggressive preemptive strike to uphold the empire’s claim to a strategic planet named Jupa.

The EXO.

Hexes assigns Rivan to pilot a new EXO walker called the Nemesis. It is perhaps the most advanced military machine ever conceived. The empire is confident this EXO can prevent or turn the tide of any conflict and send a clear message to all those that oppose the imperial rule.

But are they prepared for the threat they don’t see coming?

Fans of military sci-fi action and futuristic colonization stories might like this book.

Featured Science Fiction: Starstruck (Starstruck Saga Book 1) by S.E. Anderson

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Featured Science Fiction: Starstruck (Starstruck Saga Book 1) by S.E. Anderson

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She could barely look after herself. Now, she’s looking after the entire planet.

After an incident with a hot-air balloon causes college-dropout Sally Webber to lose her job, she sets off to find direction in her life. Crashing into a teleporting alien, however, is not on her to-do list. Now she’s on the run from TV-drama-loving aliens, and things are just getting started. Zander won’t stop reeling her into life-or-death situations to save her planet, as he waits for his laser-wielding sister to search the universe for him. Though Sally isn’t quite sure if he wants to save Earth from annihilation, or just quell his curiosity of all things human. Sally has to find lost alien emissaries, as well as a job, and stop the planet from getting incinerated in the process. But with Zander as her roommate, what could possibly go wrong?

Featured Science Fiction: How to Buy a Planet (The Cleremont Conjectures Book 1) by D.A. Holdsworth

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Featured Science Fiction: How to Buy a Planet (The Cleremont Conjectures Book 1) by D.A. Holdsworth

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The Earth has been sold. What could possibly go wrong?

SHORTLISTED for The Selfies Fiction Award

FINALIST, Page Turner Awards

The location: London.
The date: Very, very soon.
Beset by multiple crises and buried under a growing mountain of debt, the leaders of the G7 have taken the only logical decision.

They’ve sold the planet.

When Toby, a penniless student, and his two new flatmates find out one morning on TV, they’re surprised to find the Earth’s new alien owners are staggeringly cute and bring the promise of a debt-free future. They’re just getting ready to celebrate along with the rest of the world, when a chance encounter with a mysterious professor reveals the truth. And there’s a glitch: the Earth is about to be destroyed.

Fresh, fun and fast-paced, How to Buy a Planet is the unforgettable tale of three students on an impossible quest to beat the system. Perfect for fans of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, or sci-fi hero, Doctor Who.

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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 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.