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Featured Science Fiction: Cold Eyes – First Contact Series, by Peter Cawdron

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Featured Science Fiction: Cold Eyes - First Contact Series, by Peter Cawdron

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Cold Eyes is an original First Contact novel, written as a tribute to the 1974 science fiction classic, The Mote in God’s Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

The UN warship Magellan is twelve light-years from Earth, exploring a cold eye, a tidally-locked super-earth called Bee. At least two advanced, intelligent species evolved on the planet, but the crew’s attempts at radio communication result in garbled replies. No one is waiting for them in orbit. The crew has to figure out why. Any misunderstandings could lead to war.

Warning: The most absurd part of this story is true and accurately portrayed.

The FIRST CONTACT series is similar to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE in that this collection is based on a common theme rather than common characters. This allows these books to be read in any order. Technically, they’re all first as they all deal with how we might initially respond to contact with aliens, exploring the social, political, religious, and scientific aspects of First Contact. Some of the other highly acclaimed novels in this series include Jury Duty, Anomaly, 3zekiel, Losing Mars, Xenophobia, Wherever Seeds May Fall, and Welcome to the Occupied States of America.

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Featured Fantasy: A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong

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Thorne Manor has always been haunted…and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt’s house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. After a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination.

Now, twenty years later Bronwyn inherits Thorne Manor. And when she returns, William is waiting.

William Thorne is no longer the boy she remembers. He’s a difficult and tempestuous man, his own life marred by tragedy and a scandal that had him retreating to self-imposed exile in his beloved moors. He’s also none too pleased with Bronwyn for abandoning him all those years ago.

As their friendship rekindles and sparks into something more, Bronwyn must also deal with ghosts in the present version of the house. Soon she realizes they are linked to William and the secret scandal that drove him back to Thorne Manor. To build a future, Bronwyn must confront the past.

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Featured Science Fiction: Prosperine The Alien Corps Book 1 by PJ McDermott

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Featured Science Fiction: Prosperine The Alien Corps Book 1 by PJ McDermott

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Book 1 of Prosperine, a page-turning series to delight fans of space opera science fiction.

On the planet Prosperine, intelligent life has evolved like no other in our universe. The inhabitants might look human—more or less—but they do hatch from eggs. It comes as a shock, then, when one of the locals is reported to be performing miracles.

Hickory Lace and her crew, space pilot Jess Parker and the young genius Gareth Blanquette, are sent to check out the situation. If they can survive the savage beasts and carnivorous plants, a bloody civil war, and a sinister alien plot, they might discover something truly astonishing about the mystic known as “the Teacher.”

If you enjoy futuristic science fiction with a touch of the supernatural and strong female characters, then you’ll love this imaginative thriller from PJ McDermott. Also available in paperback.

Download The Alien Corps today and see why readers are calling McDermott a “contemporary Asimov.”

What Amazon readers are saying about this thrill-a-minute science fiction adventure.

“A Great read. Had me at the first chapter. I didn’t want to stop reading. Loved the plot, the story line, the action!!”

“Fantastic Story! From start to finish, chock full of really interesting characters doing really dangerous stuff, this story was fabulous. The twists made it difficult to put down. Dinner time was an annoyance. Loved it!”

“McDermott creates a very original and hopeful future world similar to the kind of sci-fi I grew up loving. His alien characters are delightful and believable. I couldn’t wait to read the second book, Rise of the Erlachi, which is even better!”

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Featured Fantasy: Meow, Catnip Assassins Book 1 by Skye Mackinnon

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Featured Fantasy: Meow, Catnip Assassins Book 1 by Skye Mackinnon

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Assassin. Private Investigator. Cat shifter.

Kat is used to killing people, but for a blank cheque, she’s willing to do the opposite and help solve a murder – even though it sounds boring as hell. That is, until she finds some body parts in her fridge, makes friends with the neighbourhood cats and realises there may be an assassin better than her…

Suddenly, things have become purrfectly exciting.

An urban fantasy full of cats, secrets and murders. This is a slow-burn reverse harem where Kat will find her love interests over time. Book one in the Catnip Assassins series.

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Featured Science Fiction: Drone Rider by Ginger Booth

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Featured Science Fiction: Drone Rider by Ginger Booth

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A novice cyborg defends Chicago in the opening salvo of Earth’s AI Wars.

By day, drone rider Betta Graham herds migrants from her cubicle in dismal Chicago, via her remote-controlled robotic bunnies and dogs. Her flocks beg for a place in the sealed domes by Lake Michigan. By night, Betta frolics in virtual with her lover Valentin.

But when she’s forced to become a cyborg, allies become enemies, friends turn foes, and even her boyfriend is not the man she thought he was.

Because confusion is the tool of a dire new adversary – sentient AIs, rogue artificial intelligence developed to direct Earth’s defenses.

How can humanity prevail against AI, when sensors lie to them, diplomacy is rewritten to fuel hostilities, and weapons have minds of their own?

A cyborg like Betta is uniquely vulnerable – and potent – in the opening salvo of global cyber war.

Pick up Drone Rider because you love gritty action, laser-eyed bunny robots, and flawed characters in a cyberpunk future where lines blur between man and machine.

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Featured Science Fiction: The Lead Cloak by Erik E. Hanberg

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Featured Science Fiction: The Lead Cloak by Erik E. Hanberg

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In the future, privacy is a thing of the past.

“Staggeringly smart… Hanberg’s expertly honed storytelling is sleek and fast… [an] entertaining tale.” —Kirkus Reviews

Nevada, 2081. Colonel Byron Shaw safeguards the world’s innermost secrets. From a control center in Area 51, he monitors the expansive surveillance system that once saved him certain death at the hands of ruthless kidnappers. But not everyone trusts technology that peers through strangers’ eyes, so it’s no shock when a guerrilla attack nearly wipes out the network and spills his blood.

Tasked with tracking down the terrorist cell, Byron sets off on a globe-spanning chase that brings him to the outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere. But as he infiltrates their ranks, a growing suspicion about the system that preserved his own life could sabotage civilization.

Torn between duty and doubt, one man’s decision could rewire humanity’s future.

The Lead Cloak is a tech-savvy sci-fi adventure novel. If you like high-stakes action, thought-provoking dystopian themes, and gripping twists, then you’ll love Erik Hanberg’s cerebral page-turner.

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