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Featured Sci-fi: Culture Shock (The Gunn Files Book 1) by M.G. Herron

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Featured Sci-fi: Culture Shock (The Gunn Files Book 1) by M.G. Herron

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Aliens are among us. Austin, Texas just got a whole lot weirder.

When down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Anderson Gunn snags his next job, he’s just happy to get the gig.

The target he’s chasing may be wanted for murder, but his debts won’t pay themselves.

He should’ve been more selective. When Gunn finds his mark, the wanted man turns out to be no man at all. Gunn faces off against a tentacled creature out of Ridley Scott’s worst nightmare—a mind-reading offworlder wearing his skip’s skin like a onesie.

And that’s just the first day.

Gunn’s world turns upside down as he gets swept up in the hunt for an escaped alien convict.

Amidst the chaos, an otherworldly puppeteer pulls hidden strings, implicating a shadowy organization with designs on Earth that are as cryptic as they are deadly.

The Gunn Files is a gripping and fast-paced sci-fi mystery with a dash of humor and the gritty allure of noir detective fiction.

Featured Fantasy: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

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Featured Fantasy: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

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New York Times Bestseller! Indiana. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother’s bedside. She’s been stricken with something the old-timers call “Milk Sickness.”

“My baby boy…” she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother’s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.

When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, “henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose…” Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.

Featured Sci-fi: Artifact (Starship Jericho Book 1) by Toby Neighbors

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Featured Sci-fi: Artifact (Starship Jericho Book 1) by Toby Neighbors

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There’s something out there. We’ve known about it for a long time. No one knows where it came from or who sent it. But one thing is certain: it wants us to find it.

The S.D.F. Jericho is a new ship, built from a new design, with a single purpose — to retrieve the artifact. She’s still in the early stages of shakedown cruise when the call comes in. The artifact is at the far end of the solar system beyond Saturn’s orbit. Only one ship has ever been built to travel that far, and once they pass Jupiter, they will be completely on their own.

Like every Fleet vessel, the Jericho has a platoon of Space Marines. They are all combat veterans, special forces, and Black Ops commandos. The Senior NCO, Master Sergeant Steel, is fresh from winning the Medal of Honor, but nothing in their training or experience has prepared them for what’s to come.

Join the crew of the Jericho, led by Captain Zeke Darius, as they go on a mission that will change the course of human history forever. Artifact is the first book in a new military sci-fi series by master storyteller Toby Neighbors. Told from the point of view of the characters on the ship and full of action, Artifact will take your imagination to a place it has never gone before. Prepare yourself for an epic series that will instantly become one of your favorites. Artifact (Starship Jericho Book 1) is an all-out thrill ride that will keep you turning pages and leave you anxious for more.

Featured Sci-fi: Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman

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Featured Sci-fi: Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman

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“Intellectually daring, brilliantly imagined, strongly felt,” this novel of alien contact, mystery and murder is “a winner” (Ursula K. Le Guin).

Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite, but since her prophetic delusions helped mobilize a revolt on Orem, she’s been banished to the farthest reaches of space, because of the risk that her very presence could revive unrest.

Upon arrival, the team finds an extraordinary crystalline planet, laden with dark matter. Then a crew member is murdered and Thora mysteriously disappears. Thought to be uninhabited, the planet is in fact home to a blind, sentient species whose members navigate their world with a bizarre vocabulary and extrasensory perceptions.

Lost in the deep crevasses of the planet among these people, Thora must battle her demons and learn to comprehend the native inhabitants in order to find her crewmates and warn them of an impending danger. But her most difficult task may lie in persuading the crew that some powers lie beyond the boundaries of science.

At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

”Gripping . . . Gilman has created a breathtakingly strange new world, and she’s populated it with vivid, compelling characters…[T]his book is science fiction at its very best.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Featured Sci-fi: Colonies the Forever World Complete Series by Ethan Rhodes

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A DEAD MAN’S QUEST IS NEVER OVER…
Nearly 1000 PAGES of riveting space opera with action, mystery, and everything in between!

Zane Lucas inherits more than his wildest dreams from a man he’s never met. The same week a mysterious cluster of drones appears before him during a random border patrol. Who sent them in the first place?

Earth’s alliance with the Gral is on the brink of collapse. The 43 colonies are under duress, and an unknown entity is coming for them.

His father vanished long ago in the heat of battle, and Zane can’t help but think there’s a connection. With the help of unlikely allies, a robot butler, and all the credits imaginable, Zane takes on the search for a fabled planet that might turn the tides in humanity’s favor.

Their only chance at real peace is to start a war.

Follow along with…

The Colonies: The Forever World Complete Series

Included within:

The Forever World
The Invisible Colony
The Frozen Outpost

Featured Fantasy: The Complete Coffee & Ghosts Seasons 1 – 3 by Charity Tahmaseb

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Featured Fantasy: The Complete Coffee & Ghosts Seasons 1 - 3 by Charity Tahmaseb

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*EDITORS NOTE: This is 738 pages of pitch perfect FUN. Believable characters, light humor, and increasing stakes. I paid full-price for the second and third installment of this series because I loved it. Now you can get it for 99¢—but only for a few more days. Charity is raising the price on Tuesday*

Come for the coffee, stay for the supernatural adventure. There’s more than one way to catch a ghost, and it’s never been this fun!

Katy and her grandmother have always used coffee to catch ghosts. It pays the bills and keeps them in high-end beans. After her grandmother dies and a rival ghost hunter moves to town, Katy fears things will never be the same.

She’s right. Malcolm changes everything.

When Christmas brings both strangers and ghosts of the past to Springside, Katy fears her new business, new relationship, and quiet hometown will never be the same.

She’s right, again.

Once she uncovers long-held family secrets, Katy finds herself entangled in past and present—and on a mission to find the truth. To unravel the mystery that links her family with Malcolm’s, she’ll need to bargain with a powerful entity and face retribution from the necromancer community.

Where Katy must go, Malcolm can’t follow. She’ll need to make the ultimate sacrifice. To save Malcolm, Springside, and everything she loves, Katy will need to give them up forever.

Coffee & Ghosts is a cozy paranormal mystery/romance told in a series of novellas. The Complete Coffee and Ghosts contains the first three books in the series and is perfect if you like quirky stories that are a little bit scary, a little bit romantic, and a whole lot of fun.