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Featured Science Fiction: What Price Honour (Merkiaari Wars Book 2) by Mark E. Cooper

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Featured Science Fiction: What Price Honour (Merkiaari Wars Book 2) by Mark E. Cooper

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Under attack, she’ll stop at nothing to keep her crew alive.

Nanotechnology was all that sustained humanity in their brutal war against the Merkiaari. The consequence was the creation of vipers, a regiment of cyborg super soldiers tasked with protecting the Alliance against the Merkiaari’s murderous alien invasion. When Gunnery Sergeant Gina Fuentez finds one of the fabled viper cyborgs in a terrorist camp during a mission, her squad comes under attack.

Two members of her squad are dead, and she’ll face the same fate if she can’t escape the ensuing firefight.

What Price Honour is the second book in a military science fiction series, a space opera of space exploration and alien invasion.

Featured Sci-fi: Hard Duty (Merkiaari Wars Book 1) by Mark E. Cooper

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Featured Sci-fi: Hard Duty (Merkiaari Wars Book 1) by Mark E. Cooper

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Hostile aliens nearly eradicated humanity. Will the next encounter finish the job?

Sixteen billion dead in the last alien invasion of the Alliance’s colony worlds.When survey ship Captain Jeff Colgan discovers a new alien race, he’s required to investigate.

As the aliens discover Colgan’s ship and begin to hunt him down, the captain’s mission changes from one of study to one of survival.

Hard Duty is the first installment in Merkiaari Wars, a military sci-fi of alien invasion and space exploration. If you like realistic engineering, vivid battles, and futuristic warfare, then you’ll love Mark E. Cooper’s sci-fi work of art.

Featured Science Fiction: The Rosetta Man (Rosetta Series Book 1) by Claire McCague

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Featured Science Fiction: The Rosetta Man (Rosetta Series Book 1) by Claire McCague

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Wanted: Translator for first contact. Immediate opening. Danger pay allowance.

When aliens finally make first contact, they abduct Estlin Hume from his home and take him across the globe to act as translator — too bad he has no idea what they’re saying.

Estlin Hume lives in Twin Butte, Alberta surrounded by a horde of affectionate squirrels. His involuntary squirrel-attracting talent leaves him evicted, expelled, fired and near penniless until two aliens arrive and adopt him as their translator. Yanked around the world at the center of the first contact crisis, Estlin finds his new employers incomprehensible. As he faces the ultimate language barrier, unsympathetic military forces converging in the South Pacific keep threatening to kill the messenger. The question on everyone’s mind is why are the aliens here? But Estlin’s starting to think we’ll happily blow ourselves up in the process of finding that out.

“The Rosetta Man is an intriguing alien first contact novel–with non-verbal aliens.” – Nicole Luiken

Featured Science Fiction: Transcendence Aurora Rising Book Three (Amaranthe 3) by G. S. Jennsen

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Featured Science Fiction: Transcendence Aurora Rising Book Three (Amaranthe 3) by G. S. Jennsen

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What does it mean to be human? What if the price of saving humanity is giving up your own?
The year is 2322, and we stand upon the precipice of extinction. The invading Metigen armada has decimated the eastern third of settled space in a matter of days, leaving tens of millions dead. Determined to save the heart of human civilization, Earth and Seneca at last put aside their differences to face the threat together. But even this may not be enough to stop the fleet of colossal dreadnoughts inhabited by advanced AIs.

Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano hold the key to defeating the invaders, for they know the secrets the aliens wage war to protect. Now they face a deadly gauntlet of relentless alien hunters and assassins sent to kill them before they can unleash a potent new weapon. They will risk everything in a bid to save their families, their loved ones, the entire human race—even if it means they can’t save each other.

The lines blur between man and machine, ally and enemy, and soldier and civilian. In a final stand against an ancient, powerful foe intent on eradicating it from the universe, humanity comes face to face with its destiny.

Featured Science Fiction: Vertigo Aurora Rising Book Two (Amaranthe 2) by G. S. Jennsen

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Featured Science Fiction: Vertigo Aurora Rising Book Two (Amaranthe 2) by G. S. Jennsen

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Where do you run when there is no escape? Where do you turn when the enemy within is as dangerous as the enemy unknown?

The year is 2322 and humanity is under attack. An engineered war between rival superpowers escalates even as the shadowy Metigen armada begins attacking colonies on the frontiers of settled space.

Individuals from across the galaxy fight for their own survival and to protect those they hold dear, while a group of unlikely allies race to expose a secret cabal. As the aliens draw ever closer, leaving utter destruction and death in their wake, the strongest defenders of Earth and Seneca fall to one another in a war of lies and misdirection.

Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano stand accused of terrorism and murder. In a desperate gambit to clear their names and find a way to defeat the invaders, they breach the dimensional portal at the heart of the Metis Nebula. In a strange, mystical realm where nothing is what it seems, they will uncover secrets about humanity’s past and future—and one revelation which will change everything.

Featured Science Fiction: The Forgotten Sky (The Crown of Dreams Series Book 1) by R.M. Schultz

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Featured Science Fiction: The Forgotten Sky (The Crown of Dreams Series Book 1) by R.M. Schultz

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Like nothing you’ve read this year. Layered in story and intrigue and brimming with character …

In a galaxy at the edge of imagination.

Six diverse characters share a strange dream: a figure composed only of shadow holding a pulsing red sun in its palm.

Ruled by six masked councilmembers, the Northrite corporation exploits the powers of Elemiscists—those with magical abilities—and keep them as indentured servants. When a nearby sun turns bloodred and begins pulsing, people flee their homes and the millennia-old government crumbles.

Together, a military recruit, a sheltered woman, a cunning slave, an environmental activist, a morbid bounty hunter, and a medieval knight hope to understand their shared vision. They fight for survival and against all odds struggle to curtail the rise of the Northrite corporation.

The fate of the galaxy will depend on these six people.

The Forgotten Sky is perfect for fans of Sci Fi Fantasy like Star Wars and Dune, and fantasies like A Game of Thrones and The Fifth Season. R.M. Schultz is a #1 best-selling Sci Fi and Fantasy author and has published over a half dozen best-selling novels.

The Crown of Dreams series is already being hailed as the next great epic. Scroll up and click the READ NOW or BUY NOW button near the top right of this page to join thousands of addicted readers in finding out what happens when these protagonists encounter the Northrite.

Note: Similar to A Game of Thrones, these books contain sex and violence—although not as often and not as graphic.