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Featured Sci-fi: Monuments to the Dead (Forgotten Ships Book 8) by Terry Mixon and J.N. Chaney

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A living tomb dedicated to the long departed lies before them.

Drake and Yukiko have discovered three ancient megastructures. The smallest is an entrance to the defunct alien travel network that trapped them in this section of space, and may provide a way home again if they can unravel its secrets.

Secrets large and small left for those bold enough to find them and strong enough to keep them.

With the path home within their grasp, they must fight marauders and pirates if they want to keep both their finds and their lives. This is no time for half measures. Victory gives them everything, but defeat leads only to slavery or death. They must fight with everything they have or lose it all.

Will their discoveries open the path home for humanity, or will this place be their tomb as well?

Featured Sci-fi: Space Punks by Anna Mocikat

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Featured Sci-fi: Space Punks by Anna Mocikat

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Meet the Space Punks—the only ones crazy enough to challenge the Pentad’s supreme power…

David wakes up in a high-security prison on the forsaken Martian moon Deimos with no memory of his past. A chance encounter with Aztec, a deadly purple-haired cyborg, propels him into a daring jailbreak. She brings him on board a mysterious warship manned by the most notorious and badass crew of the galaxy—the Space Punks.

One hundred years ago AI waged a devastating war against its human creators. Humanity won, but barely and at a horrible price. Ever since, the solar system has been strictly controlled by the Pentad, a ruthless coalition of megacorporations.

As David tries to regain his memory, he finds himself fighting battles between mechs, cyborgs, robots and super-soldiers alongside his new brothers and sisters-in-arms.

But is there more to the Space Punks than meets the eye? Everyone on board, human and cyborg alike, seems to have their own secret agenda.

Needless to say, the Pentad sends out their best people to get rid of this unruly menace.

And in the shadows lurks the seemingly defeated enemy, a threat to all humankind, ready to strike again…

Space Punks is a sexy, adrenaline-fueled ride for fans of Firefly and Guardians of the Galaxy!

From the bestselling, internationally-published author of Behind Blue Eyes!

Featured Fantasy: The Ingenious Mechanical Devices Series by Kara Jorgensen

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Featured Fantasy: The Ingenious Mechanical Devices Series by Kara Jorgensen

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A grounded archaeologist, a scrappy inventor, and a hidden city that holds the promise of a better tomorrow.

Eilian Sorrell is no stranger to cheating death, but when a dirigible accident costs him his arm, he fears his days of adventuring are over. As the eldest son of the Earl of Dorset, Lord Sorrell knows he will face a bleak future among London’s aristocracy unless he can escape. On a quest to return to his old life, Lord Sorrell commissions a prosthetic arm, but the craftsman isn’t quite what he expected.

Fenice Brothers Prosthetics is in trouble. Hadley’s brother is dead, and she is forced to pick up the pieces and finish what he started. When clients begin turning her away, she fears she will fail until she crosses paths with the enigmatic Lord Sorrell. In exchange for a new arm, he offers her a chance at adventure in the deserts of Palestine.
Beneath the Negev’s sand lies something far more precious than potsherds or bones. A long lost crystal city has been found that could change Eilian and Hadley’s world forever, but they aren’t the only ones who know its secrets. Will they make it out alive or will they, too, be buried beneath the desert sands?

Featured Fantasy: The Midnight Sea (The Fourth Element Book 1) by Kat Ross

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Featured Fantasy: The Midnight Sea (The Fourth Element Book 1) by Kat Ross

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Romeo and Juliet meets Gladiator in this “spellbinding” (Kirkus) epic fantasy trilogy set in ancient Persia!

They are the light against the darkness.
The steel against the necromancy of the Druj.
And they use demons to hunt demons.

Nazafareen lives for revenge. A girl of the isolated Four-Legs Clan, all she knows about the King’s elite Water Dogs is that they bind wicked creatures called daevas to protect the empire from the Undead. But when scouts arrive to recruit young people with the gift, she leaps at the chance to join their ranks. To hunt the monsters that killed her sister.

Scarred by grief, she’s willing to pay any price, even if it requires linking with a daeva named Darius. Human in body, he’s possessed of a terrifying power, one that Nazafareen controls. But the golden cuffs that join them have an unwanted side effect. Each experiences the other’s emotions, and human and daeva start to grow dangerously close.

As they pursue a deadly foe across the arid waste of the Great Salt Plain to the glittering capital of Persepolae, unearthing the secrets of Darius’s past along the way, Nazafareen is forced to question his slavery—and her own loyalty to the empire. But with an ancient evil stirring in the north, and a young conqueror sweeping in from the west, the fate of an entire civilization may be at stake.

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Featured Sci-fi: Stealthy Steps (Nanostealth Book 1) by Vikki Kestell

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Featured Sci-fi: Stealthy Steps (Nanostealth Book 1) by Vikki Kestell

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My name is Gemma Keyes. I was an ordinary, utterly forgettable young woman—until I vanished, and I mean that literally. Now I’m on the run in present-day Albuquerque, plunged into a world of cutting-edge nanotechnology, where invisibility is both a gift and a curse.

It all started with Dr. Samuel Bickel, a brilliant nanophysicist, who’s supposed to be dead, but instead is hiding in the tunnels beneath the old weapons storage facility on Kirtland Air Force Base. His creation—smart, learning nanomites—have “gifted” me with “optical invisibility” by bending light around me and have turned my life upside down! I mean, how am I supposed to live or even survive as an invisible woman without being hunted, caged, and treated like a science project?

Read my story. I dare you to.

Featured Science Fiction: The Galathea Chronicles – Shadows of the Void Space Opera Serial Box Set Books 1 – 3 by J. J. Green

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Featured Science Fiction: The Galathea Chronicles - Shadows of the Void Space Opera Serial Box Set Books 1 - 3 by J. J. Green

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Kickass sci-fi heroine versus deadly aliens.

Growing up as a Martian on Earth has left Jas Harrington solitary, quick-tempered, and with zero tolerance for fools. All plus points when working as chief security officer aboard prospecting starships.

Jas’s latest berth is on the Galathea, which trawls the reaches of the galaxy seeking precious minerals and rare resources. She thinks it’s a routine trip. She’s wrong.

An inspection of a far-flung planet leaves Jas suspicious that there’s more to the place than meets the eye. If only she could convince the captain of the need for caution, but she might as well wish for a tasty meal in the ship’s canteen.

All hell breaks loose, and Jas’s skills are put to the ultimate test. If she fails, the ship’s crew, the galactic empire, and humanity itself are at risk.

The fast-paced, action-packed Shadows of the Void space opera is a complete series.