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Featured Sci-fi: Colossus by Toby Neighbors

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Featured Sci-fi: Colossus by Toby Neighbors

99¢ New Release as of December 23, 2025
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The chance to leave Earth for a vibrant new world is finally here.

Nearly half a million people will board the Colossus for a two-year journey across space.

But not every passenger has come for the right reasons.

Sergeant Sawyer Flint is a last-minute replacement to lead a team of savvy detectives on the Colossus. He has only days to recruit his team and get everything in order before reporting to the Colony Ship.

On the upper decks will be some of the wealthiest people from planet Earth. Some are famous, others infamous. They will live in close quarters with experts and specialists from a variety of practical fields that are needed to help build a colony from scratch. The lower decks are packed tight with people from every nation on planet Earth. Chosen by a worldwide lottery, they are desperate to escape to a new world full of opportunity and promise. And while every passenger was supposed to be vetted, some have gamed the system in their favor and have little regard for rules of any kind. They will all be under the jurisdiction of the Special Investigation Unit. Part SWAT team, part Intelligence squad, the SIU will be tasked with solving crimes on the massive spaceship where there are a million places to hide, but no escape.

Colossus is a Science Fiction Police Procedural from master storyteller Toby Neighbors. It’s a fast-paced, multi-viewpoint, adventure in a unique setting. If you like The Expanse, Harry Bosch, and Firefly, you’ll love Colossus.

Featured Sci-fi: Artifact (Starship Jericho Book 1) by Toby Neighbors

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Featured Sci-fi: Artifact (Starship Jericho Book 1) by Toby Neighbors

99¢ as of September 29, 2024
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There’s something out there. We’ve known about it for a long time. No one knows where it came from or who sent it. But one thing is certain: it wants us to find it.

The S.D.F. Jericho is a new ship, built from a new design, with a single purpose — to retrieve the artifact. She’s still in the early stages of shakedown cruise when the call comes in. The artifact is at the far end of the solar system beyond Saturn’s orbit. Only one ship has ever been built to travel that far, and once they pass Jupiter, they will be completely on their own.

Like every Fleet vessel, the Jericho has a platoon of Space Marines. They are all combat veterans, special forces, and Black Ops commandos. The Senior NCO, Master Sergeant Steel, is fresh from winning the Medal of Honor, but nothing in their training or experience has prepared them for what’s to come.

Join the crew of the Jericho, led by Captain Zeke Darius, as they go on a mission that will change the course of human history forever. Artifact is the first book in a new military sci-fi series by master storyteller Toby Neighbors. Told from the point of view of the characters on the ship and full of action, Artifact will take your imagination to a place it has never gone before. Prepare yourself for an epic series that will instantly become one of your favorites. Artifact (Starship Jericho Book 1) is an all-out thrill ride that will keep you turning pages and leave you anxious for more.

Featured Science Fiction: Space Fever (McCoy Chronicles Book 1) by Toby Neighbors

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Featured Science Fiction: Space Fever (McCoy Chronicles Book 1) by Toby Neighbors

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Four brothers, one vintage spaceship, and a set of secret coordinates that lead to the most valuable mineral in the galaxy… What could possibly go wrong?

Easy McCoy is a Special Forces Commando at the end of a thirty year career…

Kitt McCoy is a commercial pilot facing mandatory retirement due to age…

Big Candy McCoy is a professional gambler with enemies…

And Hutch McCoy is a computer engineer who just found a secret that could change their lives forever.

Chasing down a dream is never easy.  But when all the elements needed for a grand adventure come together, the McCoy brothers go all in to purse a treasure that could make them all rich beyond their wildest dreams.  But they’ll have to pool their resources and talents, learn how to get along, and deal with a government blockade if they are going to have any chance of reaching the Quarzite Crystal mines in the Harpazo system. 

First they’ll need to run the blockade through contested space and hope they can make their way through an astroid field without getting killed … or killing each other.