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Featured Fantasy: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Time Travel Sci-fi LitRPG Book 1) by Ginger Booth

November 5, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Time Travel Sci-fi LitRPG Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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Gabe relives history in an RPG, a mage in ancient pueblo and California apocalypse, training to lead a viable space colony.

Young Gabe Oliveri leaves Earth to colonize last-chance planet Rayas. The colony is privately funded by Mexican descendants of California’s El Grande – the Big One.

Rayas bootstraps its terraforming talent from teenagers. Their plastic minds will spend the interstellar years of stasis in a virtual reality academy.

But Gabe’s a physical guy. Cast among genius, what can he aspire to?

The history role-playing game captures his heart. Air is breathable under a clear blue sky, as he relives the Ancient Pueblo culture of New Mexico.

In this game, archaic beliefs fuel magic. Dreamer Gabe proves a natural mathemagician.

But what is the game’s agenda?

Next campaign, Gabe leads a team to experience El Grande itself, the California catastrophe that birthed his people. Can he reach safety in Mexico, or will the game AI drive him crazy.


Readers may recognize Gabe and his quirky education from Booth’s Thrive Luna Regroup space scifi, and California’s demise from her Feral America dystopian series. This time travel LitRPG adventure features weak to strong progression, with gritty bootstrapped space colony and overpowered artificial intelligence.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ginger Booth, Rayas Colony Legacy, Rayas Time Travel

Featured Sci-fi: Thrive Earth Return (Thrive Colony Corps Space Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

September 2, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Thrive Earth Return (Thrive Colony Corps Space Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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They thought Earth was dead.

Captain Sass Collier can’t die. A century ago, the Colony Corps carried her away to the stars. Because Earth was doomed.

She returns with tech advances from the colonies, hoping to restore the one best planet for humanity, and save isolated pockets of desperate survivors.

Instead her motley crew from the boonies finds not one, but three surviving worlds — Earth, Luna, and Mars. And she’s with the invading aliens.

Her homecoming starts with a bang.

The Northern League tyrannizes Earth now. They capture Sass and her ship separately, to hold them hostage against each other.

Can Sass save her crew from its most powerful foe ever – the mother world?

Join Thrive’s family of misfits for hard science fiction with rivets, and fresh page-turning space adventure! Book 1 — new to Thrive? Start here! The series is now complete.

Suggested for fans of Firefly, Lindsay Buroker’s Star Kingdom, and Dennis Taylor’s Bobiverse.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ginger Booth, Thrive Colony Corps Space Adventures, Thrive Earth Return

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

August 23, 2024 by Carolynn

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!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ginger Booth, Nexus Movie Pfaffen Skylands, Nexus Space History Mysteries

Featured Sci-Fi: Skyship Thrive (Thrive Space Colony Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

June 7, 2024 by B. G.

Featured Sci-Fi: Skyship Thrive (Thrive Space Colony Adventures Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive.

Mahina’s terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them.

The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.

Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.

Now she’s out, a reformed character. She assembles a diverse crew and finds odd jobs. She intends to mind her own business – how to make a profit with the skyship Thrive.

But her fellow settlers are still failing.

While her business model careens toward circus acts, Sass dares to defy the city again, to solve Mahina’s failure to thrive.

Pick up Skyship Thrive because you love upbeat character-driven SF with fun technology. Suggested for fans of Firefly, Jenny Schwartz’s Xeno-Archaeologist, or Nathan Lowell’s Golden Age of the Solar Clipper. This series is complete, and the second Thrive series as well.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ginger Booth, Skyship Thrive, Thrive Space Colony Adventures

Featured Sci-Fi: Nexus at Space Academy (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 3) by Ginger Booth

May 20, 2024 by B. G.

Featured Sci-Fi: Nexus at Space Academy (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 3) by Ginger Booth

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Can fortune-telling prevent a war?

Nexus and friends expect to enjoy their studies in sumptuous luxury on planet Sihnon, with leisure and elbow room. A few domestic misadventures in housing, medicine, and chopsticks, and they’re ready for deluxe virtual reality learning.

First project, reassemble Space Academy from storage. Because with lifespans stretching centuries, the Colony Corps simply hires experienced crew.

Next, a juicy mystery to unravel. Humans first learned of advanced aliens while investigating what killed a colony world. Too late, they found a hazard buoy left to warn off others, housed in a history museum to introduce the guilty – the violent crocs.

At the time, they buried the news. Humanity was too fragile to confront an advanced race.

But now alien croc and testudo demand to join Nexus at the Academy. What better team to study the ancient facility?

They uncover a devastating secret, one that could unleash war between croc and testudo, with humans in the crossfire. Can Nexus master the Oracle in time to avert three-species war?

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ginger Booth, Nexus at Space Academy, Nexus Space History Mysteries

Featured Sci-fi: Nexus Talks to People (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 2) by Ginger Booth

January 27, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Nexus Talks to People (Nexus Space History Mysteries Book 2) by Ginger Booth

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How can Nexus be the Oracle?

On a hardscrabble colony world, Nexus tracks a mysterious rat outbreak to a shy tortoise-like alien, who calls him Oracle.

If his addled visions amount to fortune-telling, Nexus can’t read the tea leaves. He foresees alien crocs ravaging Earth and enslaving humanity. Another vision depicts him happy in love.

How to evade human extinction and win the girl is unclear.

Word leaks that Nexus is the new heir to a powerful fortune, compounding his social challenges.

To save the human race, escape gold-diggers, repair his space mink, and win the woman of his dreams, Nexus must decode his visions…and talk to people.

For readers who love the quirky found-family spaceship of Firefly, or the gritty future of Murderbot. A must-read for fans of Booth’s Thrive series.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Ginger Booth, Nexus Space History Mysteries, Nexus Talks to People

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