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Featured Science Fiction: Operation Oracle (Merkiaari Wars Book 3) by Mark E. Cooper

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Featured Science Fiction: Operation Oracle (Merkiaari Wars Book 3) by Mark E. Cooper

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Burgton will preserve mankind, even if he has to break every single law to do it.

General Burgton’s self-imposed mission is to safeguard the Alliance from future alien invasion and murderous Merkiaari attacks. As the black missions Burgton authorizes begin to fail, he spends trillions of dollars on a forbidden solution: artificial intelligence.

When the project collapses, Burgton compounds his crime. If he can’t build an A.I., he’ll just have to steal one!

Operation Oracle is the third book in the Merkiaari Wars, a military science fiction space opera about the consequences of space exploration in the far future. Alien invasion is only the first of many consequences that pose the question: What is human?

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 Fantasy: The Cursed Academy – Complete Series by Holly Hook

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Featured Fantasy: The Cursed Academy - Complete Series by Holly Hook

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The Cursed Academy Complete Series Boxset is now here as a single omnibus! Binge on six full academy novels, or one complete series, for one low price!

When the Greek gods mysteriously woke twenty years ago, everyone descended from them gained special abilities. The gods opened Olympian Academy to find and teach those lucky souls how to hone their powers and succeed at life. Everyone dreams of that sacred invite.

My chances of getting a visit from a tracker are nothing. For one thing, I’m a klutz. For another, I live in a small town with no future, and I’ll just work at my grandmother’s dusty store once I graduate high school. I’d give anything to escape.

But when I accidentally summon a void that almost eats my so-called friend, my tracker finds me.

Ronin.

Insanely gorgeous, descended from Zeus, and out of my league, he sweeps me out of town to be sorted. Great, right?

But there’s a catch. Only some magical people go to Olympian Academy. Others get sent to Cursed, where the descendants of dark gods and monsters train to serve.

Guess what? I’m unlucky. Cursed Academy, here we come.

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 Fantasy: The Glass Gate – A Cinderella Retelling (Faerie Tale Romances) by Hanna Sandvig

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Featured Fantasy: The Glass Gate - A Cinderella Retelling (Faerie Tale Romances) by Hanna Sandvig

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Sometimes all a girl needs is a good dress and some magic shoes.
Prince Charming is optional.

My goal was simple: create a killer fashion design portfolio, win the scholarship to the school of my dreams, and never have to clean my step-family’s house again. I just needed some inspiration. Something to set my portfolio apart from all the other up-and-coming designers. A little fashion magic.

I didn’t expect literal magic.

But then my friend dressed me up like a fae princess, and whisked me away to Faerie. The food! The dancing! The dresses! This was just the inspiration I needed, so when the crown prince asked me to stay and be his fake girlfriend, I jumped at the opportunity.

Prince Tiernan is gorgeous and charming, but I’m just a part of a plot to find his bride. That’s fine by me. I’m just here for the fashion. No messy feelings. On the other hand, it’s very hard to not have my head turned by a boy who gives me a dragon egg.

The longer I stay in Faerie with Tiernan, the more caught up I get in the magic of his kingdom, and I start to believe the stories we’re spinning for everyone. Stories of magic and sacrifice and maybe even true love.
I can’t lose sight of my goals. I need to win that scholarship. Putting my heart on the line for a prince and his kingdom is just too risky. Am I brave enough to try? Maybe if I find the right dress.

Where’s a fairy godmother when you need one?

**If you think Ever After is the best Cinderella retelling, because they actually get to know each other, or that Project Runway would be improved by having a baby dragon, try The Glass Gate! This is a sweet, stand-alone retelling of Cinderella, set in the Faerie Tale Romances world**