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Featured Sci-fi: The Dragon Mage Series Book 1 – 3 by Scott Baron

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Featured Sci-fi: The Dragon Mage Series Book 1 - 3 by Scott Baron

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Charlie had all the luck. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the good kind.

Sucked through a wormhole, Charlie’s spaceship crash landed on a distant world, yet somehow he survived. But survival was about to get a lot harder as he found himself not just stranded on a new planet, but in another galaxy entirely. One ruled not by the laws of technology, but by magic. A realm of space pirates, deadly assassins, alien gladiators, and even dragons. For the spaceman from Earth, it was enough to make his head spin.
And that was only the beginning.

Welcome to the Charlieverse.

Contains Books 1-3 of the 12 book Dragon Mage series:
1. Bad Luck Charlie
2. Space Pirate Charlie
3. Dragon King Charlie

Featured Sci-fi: Space Janitor by Julia Huni

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Featured Sci-fi: Space Janitor by Julia Huni

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It’s a dirty galaxy and someone has to clean it. Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of Station Kelly Kornienko is bot-programmer Triana’s number one rule. Well, number two, right after “eat all the chocolate.”

But when one of her cleaning bots finds a dead body, all the rules go out the airlock. A highly connected security agent interrupts her routine with stories of missing bodies, and Triana can’t ignore him; it’s cooperate or find a new job. A girl has to pay the rent, even on a crappy studio compartment.

Working with a shiny detective beats a shuttle dirt-side, so Triana lends her programming skills to Agent O’Neill’s investigation. Together, they find more victims and evidence of a major cover-up.

It will take all Triana’s technical talents, most of O’Neill’s connections, and some really excellent croissants to stop the murders, save her job, and ultimately, her life.

The Vacuum of Space is the first book in a completed series.

This book was previously published as Murder is Messy

Featured Sci-fi: Stormhaven Rising (Atlas and the Winds Book One) by Eric Michael Craig

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Featured Sci-fi: Stormhaven Rising (Atlas and the Winds Book One) by Eric Michael Craig

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An extinction-level asteroid.

A divided world. One last chance.

When a rogue asteroid is discovered on a collision course with Earth, time runs out faster than governments can react.

Colton Taylor, an eccentric industrialist and architect of the global Stormhaven empire, may be the only man with the resources to stop it. But saving the world means stepping into a political battlefield where nations, power, and survival collide.

As tensions erupt across Earth and the Moon, Taylor must risk everything to save a fractured world—before humanity’s last chance slips away.

Read Stormhaven Rising today, and find out how far one man will go to save the world.

Featured Sci-fi: D-Day (Time Patrol Series) by Bob Mayer

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Featured Sci-fi: D-Day (Time Patrol Series) by Bob Mayer

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June 6th. Six dates in history. One mission: Save D-Day—or watch our timeline disappear forever.

The Shadow strikes again, this time targeting the most pivotal day in modern history: D-Day, June 6, 1944. But the invasion of Normandy is only one of six simultaneous attacks across time. From ancient Greece to prehistoric France, from West Point to the storming of Omaha Beach, the Time Patrol must defend history itself against an enemy that can strike anywhere, anywhen.

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Featured Sci-fi: Legacy of Pandora (Shan Takhu Legacy: Book One) by Eric Michael Craig

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Featured Sci-fi: Legacy of Pandora (Shan Takhu Legacy: Book One) by Eric Michael Craig

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Stranded beyond the edge of civilization.

One crew. One secret. One shot at survival.

Commander Jephora Cochrane and the crew of the Jakob Waltz stumble upon a secret lost to time — a half-billion-year-old relic that could change humanity’s path through history.

Cut off from civilization and surrounded by uncertainty, Cochrane must lead his crew through chaos, betrayal, and shifting loyalties toward a discovery powerful enough to rewrite the past and change the future.

But with danger closing in and no one left to trust, survival is far from guaranteed. If Cochrane can’t navigate the maze of hidden agendas and keep his crew alive, humanity may never learn the truth.

Legacy of Pandora is Sci-Fi Suspense at its best. If you loved The Expanse, or The Arrival, be sure to grab yours today!

Featured Sci-fi: Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

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Featured Sci-fi: Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

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HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente’s wildly funny space opera spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic song competition…and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth.

A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented—something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding.

Once every cycle, the great galactic civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix—part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. Species far and wide compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes, or faces. And if a new species should wish to be counted among the high and the mighty, if a new planet has produced some savage group of animals, machines, or algae that claim to be, against all odds, sentient? Well, then they will have to compete. And if they fail? Sudden extermination for their entire species.

This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe. And while they expected to discover a grand drama of diplomacy, gunships, wormholes, and stoic councils of aliens, they have instead found glitter, lipstick, and electric guitars. Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny—they must sing.

Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes have been chosen to represent their planet on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of Earth lies in their ability to rock.