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Featured Sci-fi: Rise (Amaranthe Collections Book 1) by G.S. Jennsen

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Featured Sci-fi: Amaranthe Collections Book 1 by G.S. Jennsen

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A galaxy on the brink of war. A discovery that can unite humanity—or ignite its destruction.
When a lone-wolf starship pilot follows a hunch into a forbidden nebula, she discovers a secret powerful enough to rewrite humanity’s place in the cosmos – or erase it entirely.

Now Alex, acerbic loner and recalcitrant wanderer, is the fulcrum of a struggle spanning over 100 worlds, racing against time and political conspiracies to keep civilization from burning. As Earth and its colonies teeter on the brink of war, alien forces move in the shadows to bring a fragile peace crashing down.

Can one stubborn pilot prevent the destruction of everything she loves?

When faced with our greatest challenge, will we rise to triumph or fall to ruin?
Perfect for fans of The Expanse, Mass Effect, Peter F. Hamilton, and Adrian Tchaikovsky, AMARANTHE I: RISE is an electrifying tale of interstellar intrigue, extraordinary technology and the unyielding human spirit in the face of impossible odds. Strap in for a high-stakes adventure and join a cast of unforgettable heroes on a captivating journey that will keep you engrossed to the last page. This is space opera for rebels, dreamers, and explorers.

Over 1,400 Pages of Sci-Fi Adventure! **AMARANTHE I: RISE includes the 1st trilogy in the Amaranthe universe (Starshine, Vertigo, Transcendence) + 2 short stories + bonus content**

** AMARANTHE I: RISE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE “AURORA RISING: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION” **

Featured Sci-fi: Liminal Space (Shadows & Light Book One | Amaranthe 23) by G.S. Jennsen

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Featured Sci-fi: Liminal Space (Shadows & Light Book One | Amaranthe 23) by G.S. Jennsen

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** The thrilling finale trilogy to the 25-book Amaranthe saga begins **

A war has raged for endless aeons. Our greatest champions have fought it again and again in a tireless endeavor to save not merely innumerable lives, but existence itself.

It is a war that has never been won. But there has never been a timeline like this one before.

When Alex Solovy deactivated the Piega Strai to save two billion Elakri from annihilation, she never imagined the consequences would ripple across the universe. Now the Dzhvar, ancient devourers of the cosmic manifold, have returned from their million-year exile. And the weapon that once repelled them, diati, is nowhere to be found.

Though haunted by guilt, loss, and the weight of a relentless cycle of sacrifice, Alex and her allies—warriors, scientists, sentient planets and primordial beings—must step up to confront an impossible enemy. While Miriam marshals fleets to battle a foe no armament can touch and Alex probes scars in the cosmic fabric to solve a puzzle that spans time and space, Nika’s quest to unlock new kyoseil abilities pushes her ever closer to discovering the devastating truth about her past and future.

Secrets a million years in the making are about to come into the light.

In this epic opening to the Amaranthe saga’s final trilogy, destinies long foretold collide with shocking new revelations. Every alliance created, every technological marvel invented and every hero forged will be brought to bear against an enemy that threatens to unravel the very threads of the universe.

If Alex Solovy has anything to say about it, for the last time.

Featured Science Fiction: Exin Ex Machina (Amaranthe 11) by G. S. Jennsen

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Featured Science Fiction: Exin Ex Machina (Amaranthe 11) by G. S. Jennsen

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Cyberpunk and space opera collide in a thrilling new trilogy from the author of the acclaimed Aurora Rhapsody saga. When man and machine are one and the same, there are many crimes but only one sin: psyche-wipe. The secrets it has buried could lead to a civilization’s salvation, or to its doom.

The Asterion Dominion is at peace with its neighbors and itself. Its citizens enjoy great freedoms and all the luxuries their biosynthetic minds can imagine, design and create. But beneath the idyllic veneer, something is going wrong. People are going wrong, driven to commit inexplicable crimes without motive or purpose. And once imprisoned for those crimes, they simply vanish.

Psyche-wiped and dumped in an alley 5 years ago, awakened into a culture where ancestral memories stretch back for millennia, Nika Tescarav’s past is a blank canvas. But if whoever erased her did so in the hope of silencing her, they should have tried harder.

Someone must speak for the lost.

Someone must uncover how and why they became lost.

Someone must find the lost.

Nika is that someone.

Featured Sci-fi: The Universe Within (Amaranthe Book 22) by G. S. Jennsen

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Featured Sci-fi: The Universe Within (Amaranthe Book 22) by G. S. Jennsen

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* A stand-alone adventure set in the Amaranthe universe *

Thousands of years ago, the Elakri were a galaxy-spanning civilization—until one day they vanished. Forced to hide themselves away in the folds of space to escape an unstoppable foe, what was once their salvation soon became their prison.

Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano search the cosmos for signs of an ancient enemy’s return. When they detect a breach in the fabric of space, however, they discover something wholly unexpected: a people lost in time and space, who have forgotten all they once were.

Now Alex and Caleb must navigate a labyrinth of deception and danger on a world on the verge of collapse, as their mission to return the Elakri to their proper place among the stars becomes a desperate race against time to save everyone—including themselves.

The Universe Within is a thrilling sci-fi adventure overflowing with mysteries, conspiracies, and secrets within secrets. On a world where splendor is sovereign and myth is power, truth is the most dangerous weapon of all.

Featured Science Fiction: The Stars Like Gods (Amaranthe 13) by G. S. Jennsen

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Featured Science Fiction: The Stars Like Gods (Amaranthe 13) by G. S. Jennsen

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When man and machine are one and the same, time moves differently. But it runs out all the same.
The Asterion Dominion government has fallen, its rulers slain–but in the Dominion, the dead rarely stay that way. A doomsday clock rushes headlong toward the day the monstrous alien shapeshifters known as the Rasu will demand their next tribute of lives. When denied it, the Rasu will burn every Dominion world to the ground.

Unless they can be stopped.

Nika, Dashiel and their allies fight to hold onto the reins of power even as they search for a way to defeat the enemy. Their quest will take them from barren deserts to a remote wilderness to the hidden homeworld of an ancient, mysterious species, all to uncover a secret 700,000 years in the keeping.

With everything they thought they knew now called into question and the reckoning at hand, the Asterions’ past, present and future will collide in a last daring gambit to save all three.

Featured Science Fiction: Of A Darker Void (Amaranthe 12) by G. S. Jennsen

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Featured Science Fiction: Of A Darker Void (Amarante 12) by G. S. Jennsen

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When man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life.
Diplomat. Rebel. Fugitive.
Nika Tescarav has lived many lives, though she no longer remembers most of them. Chased by agents of a regime that will do anything to protect the secrets of the Rasu Protocol, Nika flees to the stars with her once and future lover on a mission to expose those secrets. A race across alien worlds both exotic and deadly leads them to the bastion of the enemy, but its discovery brings a terrible revelation: sometimes the truth is indeed worse than the lies spun to conceal it.

With Nika and Dashiel on the run, NOIR steps up to defend against a virulent pathogen unleashed upon innocent civilians. When a desperate government moves to crush the resistance once and for all, unlikely alliances are forged between former adversaries and all paths converge in an explosive showdown that will change the future of the Asterion Dominion forever.