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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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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 Fantasy: Witch Way to Murder & Mayhem and Jane Hinchey

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Featured Fantasy: Witch Way to Murder & Mayhem and Jane Hinchey

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To call Gran eccentric is somewhat of an understatement.

She has questionable fashion sense, cough, can anyone say bedazzled Ugg boots and a tutu? But my Gran? She is awesome. So when she suggested I buy The Dusty Attic Bookstore I was all in, after all, what could go wrong?

Try finding my high school nemesis dead on the floor of my newly acquired store for starters. Now I’m on the suspect list! Okay, so I just need to find the killer, clear my name, and pass my witches exam. Oh, didn’t I mention that? Yeah, seems the stunt I pulled on my cheating ex-fiancee cost me not only my job but my magic.

My name is Harper Jones and this is not how I expected my return to my magical hometown of Whitefall Cove to go.

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.

Featured Fantasy : The Starseed Universe the Complete Series by Ashley McLeo

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There is one prophecy, born of blood, fire, and stardust. 

And three sisters destined to fulfill it. 

But first, each must learn that the others exist. And that they’re witches.

Upon first meeting, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. Only the threat of otherworldly beings arriving on Earth unites them. 

That and their strange, uncommonly loud, persistent, estrogen-filled family. 

When one sister suffers an attack on those she loves, the others come together to help.

And find that the danger is closer, and stronger, than they ever could have imagined. 

Perfect for fans of the Charmed sisterhood and A Discovery of Witches.

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Featured Science Fiction: Exodus (The Exodus Trilogy Book 1) by Andreas Christensen

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Featured Science Fiction: Exodus (The Exodus Trilogy Book 1) by Andreas Christensen

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When mankind faces extinction, how can anyone survive?

In 2072, Earth faces the ultimate extinction event. In an America turned authoritarian, a race against time begins. To send a starship to a distant planet, where the remains of humanity can survive. Only a small number will be chosen for this final endeavor to save mankind from extinction, and among the contenders only the most resourceful will have a chance.

But while the government wants to choose loyal subjects in order to create another version of the society they have engineered, there are those who secretly conspire to let the starfarers choose their own destiny, free from the bonds of their mother world.

As mankind on Earth faces its final blow, the selected few set course for Aurora, more than 40 light years away!

Follow Tina Hammer, scramjet pilot and officer, Kenneth Taylor, Harvard professor and alienated by the nation he once held so dear, Maria Solis, daughter to one of the richest men in the world, a girl who would never have been chosen, except for her dad’s money, on their various paths toward the greatest adventure in human history.

“A race through the end of the Earth – excellent SF”

“Very well written and reads fast and easy in the style of other great sci fi writers such as Randolph Lalonde and Jack Campbell”

Featured Science Fiction: The Displaced – The Complete Series by Stephen Drake

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All three books in ‘Displaced’, a series of science fiction novels by Stephen Drake, now in one volume!

Displaced: When Kevin Murdock is revived from suspended animation aboard a transport pod, he and his nine fellow occupants have no idea what to expect. Murdock argues for caution after seeing something strange: animals also inhabit their new environment, all of them larger than their Earthly counterparts. Conflict soon erupts between Murdock and James Whittier – a politician with a lust for power and control. But soon, they all realize that there’s something even more dangerous onboard… something that might cost them all their lives.

Civilization: After a new transport pod holding 200 more people lands, none of the new arrivals know what to expect. Kevin Murdock finds that the pod holds an unexpected surprise for him personally; Rose’s brother, who has brought his own issues. Conflicts rage between Murdock and Phylicia Cunningham, a distaff cousin to James Whittier, with her own lust for power and has a need for vengeance against the person she is certain had killed her cousin. Soon, Murdock’s knowledge of the Oomah, and their ways, is expanded and further questions about his history are raised.

Resolutions: Kevin Murdock, husband, martial artist and longtime resident of the planet of the Oomah, is still center stage and still reluctant to mentor any of the new batch of 2,000 arrivals. He alone remains the only justice on the planet. Very few of the arrivals are leaders, and more clueless and dangerous individuals. Surprises await Murdock and his family members. Are the plateau dwellers going to be the seeds of a new civilization, or will they devolve into something else – something dangerous to the remnants of humanity?