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Featured Science Fiction : Star Scavenger Box Set by G J Ogden

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Featured Science Fiction : Star Scavenger Box Set by G J Ogden

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Firefly meets Indiana Jones in this epic sci-fi action-adventure with a unique alien-invasion twist. Read the complete 5-book series with over 330 global 5-star ratings as a single boxed set.

From book one:

Hudson Powell had always been a drifter, but after his father died, he vowed to turn his life around. He quit freelancing as a starship pilot and joined the Relic Guardian Force as a 38-year-old rookie.

That was a big mistake.

The RGF police the alien wrecks that have been found on every portal world discovered in the last century. They make sure the relic hunters pay taxes on the priceless alien tech they scavenge from the hulks. The snag is that the RGF is corrupt. And Hudson’s training officer Logan Griff is the worst scumbag of the lot.

Pushed over the edge, Hudson stumbles upon the exhilarating world of the relic hunters and meets the equally intoxicating and deadly mercenary Tory Bellona.

Cast out from the RGF, Hudson Powell chooses a new path. But the discovery of a unique alien crystal will set events in motion that cannot be undone. People stopped asking where the alien hulks had come from. People stopped asking who created the portals, and why.

Hudson will discover that some alien relics are best left buried. One decision can change the course of an entire civilization. One discovery can change your life.

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The series includes:

  • Guardian Outcast
  • Orion Rises
  • Goliath Emerges
  • Union’s End
  • The Last Revocater

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Featured Fantasy: The Corpse Whisperer by H.R. Boldwood

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The Corpse Whisperer (An Allie Nighthawk Mystery Book 2) Kindle Edition by H.R. Boldwood (Author)

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Welcome to the world of Allie Nighthawk, corpse whisperer and bad ass zombie hunter.

“If you raise deadheads, you’d better be able to put ‘em down. Nobody said it was pretty. But in this day, when vampires aren’t just for breakfast anymore, and the dead are disposable pawns for necromancers, someone has to ante up. Looks like I won the lotto. Imagine my delight. You should thank me, really, because the world is batshit crazy.”

When the zombie population spikes and no one knows why, it’s up to Allie to solve the mystery. But there’s a hitch. She’s stuck babysitting Leo Abruzzi, a zombie-bitten gangster who’s turning state’s evidence. But the mob and a powerful necromancer will stop at nothing to take Leo and Allie down.

Allie Nighthawk is Anita Blake on steroids, with a fondness for leather and Jack on the rocks. She has a healthy dose of Stephanie Plum and Rachel Morgan in her, too, though she’d never admit it.

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Featured Fantasy: Death’s Detective by Charlotte E. English

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Featured Fantasy: Death's Detective: The Malykant Mysteries, Volume 1 by Charlotte E. English

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To catch a killer, send a monster.

There’s a realm. Wreathed in ice and snow, drowning in the dark, Assevan needs a different kind of hero.

There’s a god. Merciless and cold, and quick to anger, the Lord of the Dead insists upon one thing only: vengeance for a murdered soul.

And there’s a man. A ruthless killer, Konrad is detective, judge and executioner in one. Dauntless, relentless, monstrous, he stands alone against the dark.

Meet the Malykant. Justice will be served.

Four cases. Four killers. Four executions. Dark fantasy and murder mystery collide in this first collection of the Malykant Mysteries.

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Featured Sci-fi : The Fire Planets Books 1 -3 by Chris Ward

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Featured Sci-fi : The Fire Planets Books 1 -3 by Chris Ward

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In a far corner of the galaxy, the seven systems of the Fire Quarter face a terrible threat from a dangerous warlord.

On the fire planet of Abalon 3, evil Raylan Climlee threatens to unleash a wave of destruction in order to take control of the planet’s valuable source of trioxyglobin, a dangerous but valuable liquid used for starship fuel. The only person who can stop him is Lianetta Jansen, a disgraced former Galactic Military Policewoman now turned smuggler, who is haunted by a terrible tragedy in her past. Along with her ragtag, wisecracking crew—the one-armed pilot Caladan, and the malfunctioning droid, Harlan5—Lia must confront her own demons, while trying to stop another.

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Featured Science Fiction: Coalition Defense Force: First to Fight by Daniel Gibbs and Gary T. Stephens

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Featured Science Fiction: Coalition Defense Force: First to Fight by Daniel Gibbs and Gary T. Stephens

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Almost 1,300 pages of Military Science Fiction action!

Courage. Commitment. Faith.

The brave men and women of the Coalition Defense Force are the only line of defense against a merciless enemy when peace in the Sagittarius Arm is destroyed by a vicious sneak attack. Experience three unique perspectives in an ongoing galactic fight for survival in this first-in-series boxed set.

Reservist Fighter Pilot Lieutenant Justin Spencer never expected a live-action battle during his annual two-week tour with the CDF. But when the communist League of Sol arrives on the scene with overwhelming force, illusions of returning home are shattered with one shot across Justin’s cockpit. Now it’s full-on engagement or permanent elimination in Weapons Free, book one in the BATTLEGROUP Z series.

As war rages on in the first installment of the ECHOES OF WAR series, the CDF’s struggle for the cause of freedom continues in Fight the Good Fight. Colonel David Cohen sacrifices dreams of becoming a rabbi when his courage under fire brings quick promotion—and nightmares filled with condemnation for those he couldn’t save. David must face the enemy within and square the tenets of his faith with his responsibility to crew and country, or see billions enslaved by a ruthless regime.

Includes:

  • Weapons Free, Book 1 of the Battlegroup Z Series
  • Fight the Good Fight, Book 1 of the Echoes of War Series
  • Breach of Peace, Book 1 of the Breach of Faith Series

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Featured Science Fiction: When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn

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Featured Science Fiction: When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn

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For better, for worse. In sickness and in health.
It’s a legal vow of care for families in 2050, a world beset by waves of climate-driven plagues.

Power engineer Lucía Ramirez long ago lost her family to one—she’d give anything to take that vow. The Power Islands give humanity a fighting chance, but tending kelp farms and solar lilies is a lonely job. The housing AI found her a family match, saying she should fit right in with the Senegalese retraining expert who’s a force of nature, the ex-Pandemic Corps cook with his own cozy channel, and even the writer who insists everything is stories, all the way down. This family of literal and metaphorical refugees could be the shelter she’s seeking from her own personal storm.

She needs this one to work.

Then an unscheduled power outage and a missing turtle-bot crack open a mystery. Something isn’t right on Power Island One, but every step she takes to solve it, someone else gets there first—and they’re determined to make her unsee what she’s seen. Lucía is an engineer, not a detective, but fixing this problem might cost her the one thing she truly needs: a home.

When You Had Power is the first of four tightly-connected novels in a new hopepunk series. It’s about our future, how society will shift and flex like a solar lily in the storms of our own making, and how breaks in the social fabric have to be expected, tended to, and healed. Because we’re in this together, now more than ever before.

Keywords: hopepunk, climate fiction, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican, Latino, Hispanic, solarpunk, climate change, climate crisis, solar energy, green energy, clean energy, global warming, pandemic, plague, underwater adventure, kelp farming, fusion engineering, wind energy, literary science fiction, mystery, suspense, hard science fiction, dystopian, heroine’s journey

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