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Featured Sci-fi: Nexus Movie on Pfaffen Skylands (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 4) by Ginger Booth

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Featured Sci-fi: Nexus Movie on Pfaffen Skylands (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 4) by Ginger Booth

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Nexus makes a movie.

Nexus visits planet Pfaffen to make a movie, Hidden in Plain Sight, to popularize the new three-species alliance. He’d rather study the cloud-tree skylands.

But his job is technical consultant, liaison to the aliens.

All three species live on the Pfaffen skylands. But a croc spy base, and the reclusive testudo, remained hidden. Humans never knew.

Three problems. First, Nexus’s digital friends demand equal standing as sentient species. He isn’t worried about the robot mink. But his translator was the victor in Earth’s AI Wars.

Second, for the movie, aliens can’t act. Nexus has enough trouble briefing the human actors.

Third, the Pfaffen crocs work for the Hierophant – the shadow power of fortune-telling oracles who advise the croc emperors. As an oracle, Nexus could learn so much from the pros.

But the secretive Hierophant might control all crocs, via their symbiotes. Now it seeks to own Nexus, too.

Don’t miss the exciting conclusion to the Nexus and Thrive series!

Featured Sci-fi: Freedom’s Fire Complete Series by Bobby Adair

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Featured Sci-fi: Freedom's Fire Complete Series by Bobby Adair

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The Bestselling, Epic Space Adventure, Freedom’s Fire – The complete series of 6 books, in one box set. 

It was never a question of if the aliens would come, it was only ever when.

The first interstellar war, a generation ago, left humanity enslaved. Now humans fight in the armies of their masters to save themselves from annihilation.

At least, that’s what the propaganda insists is true.

What the layers of lies keep hidden, is how badly the new war is going for the people of earth. Now it’s Dylan Kane’s turn to blast into the heavens and join the battle, but what his masters don’t know, is that by putting a weapon in his hands, they’re giving him the key to unlocking his hopes of freedom.

When the railgun slugs are tearing through his ship, and the vacuum is sucking the life out of his wounded friends, will Dylan’s years of repressed rage turn into enough bravery to make his dream come true? 

The Freedom’s Fire Series – All in this one, special edition 
Prequel – Freedom’s Siege
book 1 – Freedom’s Fire
book 2 – Freedom’s Fury
book 3 – Freedom’s Fray
book 4 – Freedom’s Fist
“book 5 – Freedom’s Fall
book 6 – Freedom’s Fate

Featured Fantasy: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

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Featured Fantasy: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

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An outcast princess must earn her birthright as a hero of the realm—in this “utterly engrossing” Newbery Medal–winning fantasy (The New York Times).

Aerin is an outcast in her own father’s court, daughter of the foreign woman who, it was rumored, was a witch, and enchanted the king to marry her.

She makes friends with her father’s lame, retired warhorse, Talat, and discovers an old, overlooked, and dangerously imprecise recipe for dragon-fire-proof ointment in a dusty corner of her father’s library. Two years, many canter circles to the left to strengthen Talat’s weak leg, and many burnt twigs (and a few fingers) secretly experimenting with the ointment recipe later, Aerin is present when someone comes from an outlying village to report a marauding dragon to the king. Aerin slips off alone to fetch her horse, her sword, and her fireproof ointment . . .

But modern dragons, while formidable opponents fully capable of killing a human being, are small and accounted vermin. There is no honor in killing dragons. The great dragons are a tale out of ancient history.

That is, until the day that the king is riding out at the head of an army. A weary man on an exhausted horse staggers into the courtyard where the king’s troop is assembled: “The Black Dragon has come . . . Maur, who has not been seen for generations, the last of the great dragons, great as a mountain. Maur has awakened.”

Featured Science Fiction: Milijun by Clayton Graham

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Featured Science Fiction: Milijun by Clayton Graham

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First Contact is imminent, but it comes with conditions…

Laura and Jason are on vacation when their lives are turned upside down by otherworldly creatures that fall to Earth in the dead of night.

Frightened and bewildered, they become trapped in a dark and mysterious conflict between clandestine Earth forces and the alien wave—and Laura’s world starts to unravel.

But everything may not be as it appears. Could the aliens have an ulterior motive? And do they have a mission for Jason?

The world may not be ready for alien communication, but it may have little choice in the matter.

If you like Close Encounters, Contact, and Arrival, then you’ll love Milijun, the first novel of a gripping new alien interaction series from Clayton Graham.

“Captured my interest from the very beginning, and never once let go.” Jenna – Indie Book Reviewers

“If you love the genre, read this gem.” Julius Zon – Self Publishing Review

“This is a must-read for science fiction fans who appreciate a hard scientific foundation, in the tradition of Asimov, Niven, or Heinlein.” Patrick Dent

Featured Sci-fi: The Curse of Sotkari – A Romantic Space Opera Book 1 by Maria A. Perez

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Featured Sci-fi: The Curse of Sotkari - A Romantic Space Opera Book 1 by Maria A. Perez

Expected 99¢ Sale August 18, 2024
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Stolen from Earth…only to learn she’s not entirely human.

Mina, a wife and mother, is snatched from her family and forced to serve the ruthless Lostai on a distant science station. The DNA of an evolved race known as Sotkari Ta lies dormant in her genes. The Lostai, determined to harness her latent telekinetic and telepathic abilities, push Mina through a brutal boot camp. Despite the hardships and abuse, Mina completes her training and is assigned her first mission, one that goes against her most basic principles. A mission she will not accept.

If Mina is to escape the Lostai, she must trust an arrogant and unpleasant soldier whose morals seem questionable, at best. The strong attraction between them both annoys and unnerves her.

Even if she gets away, she will need to survive in this alien environment while evading the Lostai. Will she ever make it back to Earth, or have her actions already changed her destiny and the fate of those who assist her?Content Disclosure. This series is a space opera with strong romantic elements and heat. It features infidelity, violence, consensual sexual scenes, attempted rape, and sexual and physical abuse. Think Outlander meets Star Wars.


Featured Sci-fi: Song of the Caged Warrior (The Curse of Sotkari Ta) by Maria A. Perez

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Featured Sci-fi: Song of the Caged Warrior (The Curse of Sotkari Ta) by Maria A. Perez

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An orphan with amazing powers forced to serve his enemies.

Montor is a child, happily growing up on the planet of Aranda—until the Lostai, an imperialist alien race, invade his planet, then attack his seaside village. Soon, Montor loses his whole family to injuries, sickness, and punishment.

With his aggressive temperament fueling dreams of revenge, Montor seems destined to follow the same fate as his family and succumb to the cruelty of Lostai enslavement. Then the Lostai military discovers that Montor is no ordinary child; he possesses dormant telekinetic and telepathic abilities. Montor is transferred to a military science station where a devious commander intends to turn him into a Lostai super soldier.

Can Montor survive the brutal and humiliating bootcamp? How will he manage the anger, depression, and self-loathing that comes from serving in the very same military that decimated his people? Or will he refuse to be a pawn in Losta’s war and risk everything to take on the mantle of an Arandan warrior?


This space opera features non-human spacefaring civilizations, galactic war, and people with special abilities. It is a prequel to the romantic space opera trilogy, The Curse of Sotkari Ta, that can be enjoyed before or after reading the trilogy.