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Featured Sci-fi: Beyond the Impossible by Frank Kennedy

June 1, 2025 by Carolynn

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Betray your family. Save your world.

Kara Syung has always lived a life of luxury and privilege among Hokkaido’s elite. Yet beneath the glitz and glamor, she senses a looming darkness. Not until her brother’s mysterious death and his final words to her – “They’re going to burn it all. Be a soldier.” – does Kara open her eyes.

Determined to seek justice for her brother and uncover the truth behind his death, Kara must navigate against powerful forces, including her own family and those who control the planet’s food supply. With only a few allies by her side – a lifelong best friend and servant, a ruthless immortal seeking vengeance, a renegade from a fallen empire, and a snub-nosed laser pistol – Kara’s time is running out. In seven days, she will be forced to marry a man she doesn’t love.

Does Kara have the strength to go against everything she has been taught and stand up for what is right? Will she be able to uncover the dark conspiracy that threatens not only Hokkaido, but the entire galactic sector? Join Kara on a wild journey through unexpected worlds as she faces desperate odds in the first installment of the galaxy-spanning nine-book series, Beyond the Impossible.

Expect insane twists and turns in a complex saga where nothing is what it seems, and the laws of time and space are flexible. For readers who love intricate mysteries, space opera on a grand scale, and the rise and fall of galactic empires.

Featured Science Fiction: Red Dust (Gods & Assassins Book 1) by Frank Kennedy

October 12, 2024 by Carolynn

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Fallen gods with a taste for murder. A criminal syndicate. A secretive desert town.

Ex-god Royal has a bone to pick with the human race. In his previous form, charismatic Royal and his surly partner Moon all but saved the forty worlds of the Collectorate from destruction. Their reward? Desert exile on Azteca to live as humans. No public gratitude. History rewritten.

Seriously. Doesn’t anyone respect a god?

Royal and Moon intend to leave their meager existence behind someday and recapture the old glory (random galactic chaos), but building an interstellar criminal network requires millions of credits. Assassinating the enemies of the Collectorate’s paranoid President pays well, yet the jobs are few.

Circumstance brings them to the tiny town of Desperido, where life – and a world of secrets – plays out beneath the desert’s red dust. Royal, ever the shape-shifting visionary (narcissist, some might say) conjures an exciting new path forward. First, the former deities will have to deal with enemies in their midst as well as the Horax, one of the planet’s most powerful criminal syndicates.

Prepare for a wild ride with a healthy dose of snark in the opening stanza of a five-book serial, “Gods and Assassins.” Pistols draw, rifles blast, traitors abound, conspiracies arise, wormholes open, and whiskey flows.

Featured Sci-Fi: Code Exodus: A science fiction thriller (Farewell Amity Station Book 4) by Frank Kennedy

August 3, 2024 by B. G.

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A conspirator unmasked. A fight for power. A deadly betrayal.

Ten months after their lives changed, the Stallion brothers have earned front-row seats to history. Their winding, improbable journeys collide as momentous events threaten to shape the foundations of the Collectorate.

New Gov. Trevor Stallion adapts to life as an administrator and politician, beset by competing interests and the need to please various factions. Through it all, he questions the circumstances that brought him to the highest office on Amity Station.

Lt. Connor Stallion, now fully immersed in Requiem’s dangerous plans, prepares to return home and fulfill his role in Code Exodus – a project that could change the course of history. But as his loyalty to his brother clashes with his duty to his cause, Connor must make a decision that could tear their family apart.

Meanwhile, Thomas Quinlan plots his ultimate revenge against the Stallion brothers, while the mastermind behind their turmoil steps into the light.

In this tense, penultimate chapter of the Farewell Amity Station series, revelation will bring clarity, fear, and heartbreak.

Featured Sci-Fi: Quiet War: A science fiction thriller (Farewell Amity Station Book 1) by Frank Kennedy

July 7, 2024 by B. G.

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Fragile peace. Murder at the heart of an empire.

Deputy Trevor Stallion survived an interstellar war, found love, a good job, and a chance to overcome a tarnished family legacy. For what? To pass down a crippling genetic disease to his little girl, to see his wife turn to another man, to almost lose the only job that ever mattered.

At 35, the so-called “Forever Deputy’ tries to salvage his crumbling life aboard the massive Amity Station, heart of the forty-world People’s Collectorate. This three-sector city in space houses the Interstellar Congress and leads the way in scientific and technological advances. Built in the wake of war to unify humanity, Amity Station provides a beacon of hope as dark tidings spread across the galaxy.

When a school-age resident with a brilliant mind dies from an overdose of the deadly drug Motif, which is ravaging member worlds, Trevor and his reluctant partner investigate. The mystery sends Trevor into dangerous territory which may unearth a presence no one on Amity foresaw.

Will Trevor bend his principles in search of the truth, all while dealing with his beloved daughter’s struggling health, his brother’s wayward behavior, and the resistance of his superiors? How will fate steal his joy this time? And is anyone on Amity safe?

Quiet War is the opening stanza in the five-book saga of an empire on the brink, threatened by rising enemies – seen and unseen. Fans of Babylon 5 and anyone who loves solving a mystery will be captivated by this series.

Featured Sci-fi: Black Star (Gods & Assassins Book 4) by Frank Kennedy

October 8, 2023 by Carolynn

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Spreading chaos, one planet at a time

Royal and Moon’s army grows, but so are threats from forces on Azteca and beyond. Armed with a brilliant new resource that gives the fallen gods a distinct advantage, our wannabe intergalactic crime lords become bolder in pursuit of their goals.

But even they risk taking on too much too soon. Their human followers – devoted to the idea of wreaking havoc across the stars – could be the first to fall victim.

The penultimate chapter in the five-book saga takes an explosive turn as the future catches up to Royal and Moon.

Featured Science Fiction: The Impossible Future by Frank Kennedy

April 8, 2023 by Carolynn

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“The darkness will drown them all.”

One night in a small town will change two universes in this relentless, action-packed saga.

The clock is running out on Jamie Sheridan, who carries a genetically-engineered time bomb inside him. In eight hours, he will become a god, a monster, or he will die. He fights to survive against all hope, with his best friends Michael Cooper and Samantha Huggins at his side.

Their desperate quest will take them into another universe, where a galactic empire stands on the brink, and the balance of forty worlds is about to be shattered.

Destinies will be formed, friends and lovers will face betrayal, the fire of war will grow, and an ancient force will rise.

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