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Featured Science Fiction: Call of Courage by Multiple Authors

April 27, 2026 by Carolynn

Call of Courage 7 Novels of the Galactic Frontier

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Some are called by duty. Some are called by adventure. All answer the call of courage.

Jump into seven full-length novels exploring the limits of space, science, and courage. Aliens, artificial intelligence, rogue governments, and galactic frontiers–you’ll find them all here.

Heed the call. Download this collection of series starters today!

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About the Books:

Archangel Down by C. Gockel 
Commander Noa Sato doesn’t believe in aliens. She’s wrong. In the face of genocide she must hatch a daring plan with a ragtag crew to save the lives of millions–and her own. Every step of the way she is haunted by the final words of a secret transmission: The archangel is down.

Anti Life by Allen Kuzara
The opposite of life isn’t death; it’s something far worse. Mission colonel John Alvarez must carry out one last mission, a rescue attempt. Unknown to Alvarez, however, is the hidden threat that awaits him, one that–if he cannot stop it–will doom humanity to a fate worse than death.

Allies and Enemies: Fallen by Amy J. Murphy
Born into service of the Regime, Commander Sela Tyron is about as subtle as a hammer. To hammers, any problem can look like a nail. But things aren’t always that easy–especially when Sela is forced to choose between the only life she’s ever known and rescuing a trusted comrade.

Traveler in the Dark by Deirdre Gould
Sixteen centuries ago, they fled Earth. They’ve never walked on soil, felt rain, or breathed unrecycled air. At last, they sent exploratory mission to a new planet. It’s ideal… but they are not alone. Struggling for survival, they must make a choice. Sacrifice another species or accept their own extinction.

Breakers of the Dawn by Zachariah Wahrer
Humanity has fallen from its once majestic place amongst the stars. Desperate for resources, they seize every available planet, exterminating their alien inhabitants. Sent to subdue an uprising, a government operative unearths an alien relic. The strange device promises extraordinary power, but can he trust it?

The Backworlds by M. Pax
After the war with the Foreworlds, competition among the Backworlds is fierce. Pickings are scant enough that Craze’s father boots him off the planet. Cut off from everyone he knows with little knowledge of the worlds beyond, Craze must find a way to survive and get his revenge.

Sky Hunter by Chris Reher
Terrorists plot to destroy a space elevator on a remote planet. Nova Whiteside, Air Command pilot, is caught behind enemy lines in a bloody uprising. The treacherous and illicit schemes she uncovers there make her question who, really, is the enemy.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Box Set, Call of Courage, Multiple Authors

Featured Sci-fi: Now I Have A Raygun Ho-Ho-Ho Sci-fi Holiday Stories With Recipes

December 18, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Now I Have A Raygun Ho-Ho-Ho Sci-fi Holiday Stories With Recipes

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Blasters, sleigh bells, and recipes from beyond the stars!
Now I Have a Raygun, Ho-Ho-Ho! is your Secret Santa gift of ten sci-fi stories, where the cocoa is hot, the lasers are hotter, and no one is safe from the merry chaos.

From toy thieves to red-nosed drones in the air ducts to winter carnival heists, this book will stuff your stocking with mischief and misadventure. Best of all, every story comes with a recipe so you can eat like the holiday hero you are.

The collection includes stories and recipes from Jeannette Bedard, MJ Blehart, Peter J. Foote, K. Gorman, R.M. Olson, Audrey Sharpe, Andrew Sweet, Heather Texle, Tami Veldura, and A. Webster. Edited by Jessie Kwak.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Multiple Authors, Now I Have A Raygun

Featured Sci-fi: Future Adventures by Multiple Authors

December 18, 2025 by Carolynn

Future Adventures 8 Full Length Science Fiction Novels

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Eight complete Adventure Science Fiction novels that will introduce you to new authors.

Watcher’s Web by Patty Jansen
Europa by Aurora Springer
Few Are Chosen by M.T. McGuire
The Truth Beyond The Sky by Andrew M. Crusoe
Generation by J.J. Green
The Girl Who Twisted Fate’s Arm by George Saoulidis
The Ares Weapon by D.M. Pruden
Exodus by Drew Avera

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Future Adventures, Multiple Authors, Patty Jansen

Featured Sci-fi: Pets in Space 10: Nine Original Science Fiction Romances (with Pets!) by Multiple Authors

November 6, 2025 by Carolynn

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Nine Interstellar Tales. Nine Unforgettable Romances. Nineteen Adorably Badass Pets.

In this tenth-anniversary edition of PETS IN SPACE®, you’ll find smart-mouthed birds, cyber armadillos, tiny dragons, and alien creatures who steal the show — and sometimes save it. Across distant planets, space stations, and magical realms, unlikely heroes and heroines are drawn together by danger, fate… and the meddling of their pet sidekicks. These stories blend swoon-worthy romance with thrilling sci-fi adventure in a way only PETS IN SPACE can deliver.

🐾 Don’t miss your chance to escape into the stars with nine sizzling sci-fi romances — each with a pet who will steal your heart and a hero or heroine who will make it race. Grab PETS IN SPACE 10 and get ready to binge beyond the stars!

Pets in Space authors are proud supporters of Hero Dogs, a charity that raises and trains service dogs for disabled veterans and first-responders. 10% of the initial sales go to this excellent nonprofit organization. 🐕

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Carol Van Natta, Multiple Authors, Pets in Space, Pets in Space 10

Featured Sci-fi: The Best of the Best, Volume 2—20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels by Multiple Authors

October 25, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Best of the Best, Volume 2—20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels by Multiple Authors

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*EDITORS NOTE: Sailing to Byzantium is worth the price of admission.

Thirteen “masterfully written longer tales that span the spectrum of speculative fiction’s most inventive scenarios. . . . An indispensable treasury” (Booklist).
“This outstanding follow-up to Dozois’s Best of the Best Volume 1 . . . pays homage to the science fiction novellas of the past two decades and by extension to the entire genre in all its varied glory.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

For more than twenty years The Year’s Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005 the original Best of the Best collected the finest short stories from that series and became a benchmark in the SF field. Now, for the first time ever, Hugo Award–winning editor Gardner Dozios sifts through hundreds of stories and dozens of authors who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form, to bring readers the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels from his legendary series.


Included are such notable short novels as:

Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg: In the fiftieth century, people of Earth are able to create entire cities on a whim, including those of mythology and legend. When twentieth-century traveler Charles Philip accidentally lands in this aberrant time period, he is simultaneously obsessed with discovering more about this alluring world and getting back home. But in a world made entirely of man’s creation, things are not always as they seem on the surface.

Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. Le Guin: Le Guin returns to her Hainish-settled interstellar community, the Edumen, to tell the tale of two star-crossed lovers who are literally worlds apart in this story of politics, violence, religion, and cultural disparity.

Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds: On a sea-wold planet covered with idyllic tropical oceans, peace seems pervasive. Beneath the placid water lurks an ominous force that has the potential to destroy all tranquility.


Contributors include: Greg Egan; Joe Haldeman; James Patrick Kelly; Nancy Kress; Ursula K. Le Guin; Ian R. MacLeod; Ian McDonald; Maureen F. McHugh; Frederick Pohl; Alastair Reynolds; Robert Silverberg; Michael Swanwick; Walter Jon Williams


With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best: Volume 2 stands as the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels ever published in the world.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels, Multiple Authors, The Best of the Best Volume 2

Featured Sci-fi: The Expanding Universe by Multiple Authors

September 13, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Expanding Universe by Multiple Authors

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Available for a limited time, this collection includes my novella, Situation Normal All Furballed Up—an adventure with 6T9, Volka, Carl, and Sundancer. It doesn’t require any familiarity with these characters, but it takes place between Starship Waking and Darkness Rising for those familiar.

6T9, Volka, and Carl are back in this hilarious sci-fi rescue mission… with extra glitter, gladiators, and one grumpy telepathic furball.

Android 6T9 was designed for pleasure—not prison breaks, gladiator death matches, or interstellar diplomacy gone sideways. But when his mission to retrieve a stranded scientist on the patriarchal desert colony of Exeter 389 goes spectacularly wrong, he does what any self-respecting former sexbot would do: improvise with glitter, charm, and masochism settings dialed to maximum.

Now trapped in a gladiator barracks, wearing a glorified diaper, and surrounded by musclebound morons, Sixty’s only backup is an artistic wolf-girl, a sentient starship with communication issues, and Carl—a venomous, telepathic space-weasel who’d rather nap than save the galaxy.

The locals are bloodthirsty, the rescue window is closing, and a six-legged monster is about to enter stage left.

For Sixty and his crew, it’s Situation Normal, All Furballed Up!

Besides Situation Normal there are twenty-two other short stories by such indie author luminaries as Craig Martelle, Lawrence M. Shoen, Rick Paltrow, Rachel Aukes, Daniel Gibbs, and many more!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: C. Gockel, Multiple Authors, The Expanding Universe

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