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Featured Sci-fi: A Dark Dawn by Ralph Kern

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Featured Sci-fi: A Dark Dawn by Ralph Kern

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Far from the fury of The Great War, the citizens of the Liberty Federation live in peace and prosperity.

The Dawn Empire’s light is fading. Admiral Ikson Koto has one chance to renew the flame before it is extinguished forever. To save the Empire from a slow death, he must destroy the Federation’s fleet in one fell swoop. His plan calls for a brutality that has never been seen before.

For Lieutenant Shannon Reeve, the horrors of battle still burn strong in her mind. Her posting to a fighter squadron in the paradise of the Federation’s premier base, Azure Anchorage, should be a welcome respite. Instead, she will witness her fears come true as it comes under a relentless assault by Koto’s overwhelming Imperial forces.

Deep in the expanse of space known as the Great Void, a place far from home, civilian engineer Winston Grant has been tasked with upgrading a lonely base’s defences. Soon, he will find himself holding the line in a desperate last stand against an armada.

Both will play their parts in these darkest of days.

The golden age of the Federation will soon end, and instead be engulfed in the raging fire of war as Koto’s grand plan comes to fruition.

Thrilling fighter combat. Brutal infantry battles. Heart-breaking nobility. An epic science fiction retelling of Pearl Harbor and Wake Island. Download now.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Great War Books 1 – 4 by Ralph Kern

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Featured Sci-fi: The Great War Books 1 - 4 by Ralph Kern

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Get the Great War Books 1-4 Box Set, featuring the first four books in the bestselling series. 1000+ pages of explosive Military Sci-Fi action and interstellar war await.

The dark forces of the Neo Hegemony strike, sweeping across the worlds of the Arcadian sector and crushing all in their path.

One system stands against the onslaught, the Kingdom of New Avalon. But the men and women of their expeditionary forces are trapped behind enemy lines on a besieged planet. Losing those troops will lose the war.

Their only hope? A daring last-ditch rescue mission.

Join the fight as brutal empires collide across space in this Special Edition Omnibus. It’s perfect for fans of Rick Partlow, Jay Allan, and Joshua Dalzelle.

Books included in Set:
Book 1: A Rain of Fire
Book 2: A Titan’s Vengeance
Book 3: A Relentless Fury
Book 4: A Heart of Ice

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MARS: A Hard SF Anthology (Mohs 5.5 Book 2) Kindle Edition by Bill Patterson (Author)

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The time has finally come for humanity to conquer Mars. Or die trying.

Though robotic explorers have vastly increased our knowledge about the Red Planet, there’s still so much we don’t know. Will Mars be a second home for humanity? Or will it usher in our destruction?

Thirteen hard science fiction writers take on the big questions in this groundbreaking anthology, which grapples with real-life scientific puzzles and dilemmas in the format of thrilling short stories.

MOHS 5.5 stands for scientific rigor, and MARS stands for non-stop excitement. Explore the fourth planet from the sun in the company of authors such as Peter Cawdron, Simon Morden, Gerald Kilby, Felix R. Savage, Douglas Phillips, and Ralph Kern. Plus a foreword by YouTube/What Da Math’s Anton Petrov!

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The Sleeping Gods Boxed Set: Books 1 - 2 Kindle Edition by Ralph Kern (Author)

First Two Books in the Bestselling Series + Bonus Novella

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Book 1: Endeavour

“Where are they?” It is an enigma that a long dead scientist called: The Fermi Paradox.
A brave crew will take humanity’s first Starship, Endeavour, on an epic journey that spans light years and centuries to solve this mystery. As they search amid long abandoned worlds and ancient relics, the question they seek to answer becomes:
“Where are they now?”

Book 2: Erebus

Humanity has tamed the worlds of Sol and taken the first, tentative steps to the stars.
When a terrorist attack destroys an entire moon, Inspector Layton Trent goes in pursuit of the those responsible. It is a hunt which takes him from the cradle of civilization to the very frontier of human space. And far beyond.
What Trent discovers, out among the ancient ruins of the alien Sleeping Gods, will change humanity’s place in the universe forever.

Bonus Novel: The Great War (Book 1) – A Rain of Fire

The dark forces of the Neo Hegemony strike, sweeping across the worlds of the Arcadian sector and crushing all in their path.

One system stands against the onslaught, the Kingdom of New Avalon. But the men and women of their expeditionary forces are trapped behind enemy lines on a besieged planet. Losing those troops will lose the war.

Their only hope? A daring last-ditch rescue mission.

In space, the skies, and on the ground. All will play their part in this Military Science Fiction retelling of Dunkirk.

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A Heart of Ice (The Great War Book 4) Kindle Edition by Ralph Kern (Author)

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The largest invasion in the history of the galaxy begins.

The People’s territory is a prize ripe for the Hegemony’s taking. Their worlds myriad. Their resources immense. From the highest echelons of government to the citizen toiling, it is a beacon of equality and a worker’s paradise.

Except some are more equal than others. To disobey, even to question, means death. Or worse.

Private Iriana Sharov is just one soldier in the People’s army of millions. When Hegemony assault ships darken the skies and disgorge legions of merciless troopers and mechs, she learns they are all merely pawns for their masters to sacrifice on an uncaring whim.

The two brutal empires collide. For Sharov and her comrades, hope is measured in surviving each day, even each hour, as it comes. But when she discovers her skill with a sniper rifle, Sharov soon finds herself a hero of the People.

Her odyssey will take her from the battlefields of an agricultural world, through the vicious street fighting of a labyrinthian factory moon, and into the very corridors of power in the People’s capital city.

But the greatest danger isn’t the Hegemony and its vast armies of ever-advancing troops and war machines. It is telling the truth to those who don’t want to hear it.

For thrilling infantry and mech combat, download the next intense novel of The Great War.

Audio book available. Narrated by Jeffrey Kafer.

In honor of Book 4, books 1, 2, & 3 are all on sale!

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A Relentless Fury (The Great War Book 3) Kindle Edition by Ralph Kern (Author)

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The Great War spreads…

One after another, the Kingdom’s star bases have fallen before the Neo Hegemony and their coalition. Only one remains in the strategically vital Talos Rift.

Valestra.

Low on supplies, low on fuel and low on food – The base’s only hope is a desperate resupply mission. The Kingdom fleet assembles the largest convoy yet, protected by dozens of warships and hundreds of fighters.

Even with all the firepower the Kingdom can bring to bear, if only a single freighter manages to run the enemy’s relentless gauntlet, then the relief operation will be deemed a success.

Lieutenant Jason ‘Rick’ Richards knows he’s the best Tempest pilot in the Kingdom. But there’s an enemy out there who is his equal. Someone only he can defeat. Someone he must defeat.

Hegemony pilot, Major Gan Corla’s hatred for Rick burns strong. He has given himself body and soul to the Neo cause, but his hunger to take down his nemesis could overwhelm even that fanatical loyalty.

Both will risk all to kill the other. Even the mission. Even the war, if need be.

And while fighters and warships collide in ferocious combat, hidden in the dark, a new kind of warrior rises. Lieutenant Commander Nisha Draper and her stealth ship, the KSS Ghost, may be all that stands between the convoy, and the massive fleet of enemy reinforcements headed their way.

For brutal dogfights, epic rivalry and massive warships clashing, download A Relentless Fury.

Audio book available. Narrated by Jeffrey Kafer.

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