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Featured Sci-fantasy: The Dragonriders of Pern (Books 1 – 3) by Anne McCaffrey

October 19, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fantasy: The Dragonriders of Pern (Books 1 - 3) by Anne McCaffrey

$2.99 as of October 19, 2025
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Together in one volume—the first three books in the world’s most beloved science-fiction series!

DRAGONFLIGHT

On a beautiful world called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack. Lessa is an outcast survivor—her parents murdered, her birthright stolen—a strong young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. But when an ancient threat reemerges, Lessa will rise—upon the back of a great dragon with whom she shares a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection. Together, dragon and rider will fly, and Pern will be changed forever.

DRAGONQUEST

Since Lessa and Ramoth, her golden queen dragon, traveled into the past to bring forward a small army of dragons and riders to save their world from deadly alien spores, fear and desperation have spread across the land. But while the dragonriders struggle with threats both human and otherworldly, a young rider named F’nor and his brown dragon, Canth, hatch a bold plan to destroy the alien scourge at its source—the baleful Red Star that fills the heavens and promises doom to all. 

THE WHITE DRAGON

Never in the history of Pern has there been a dragon like Ruth. Mocked by other dragons for his small size and pure white color, Ruth is smart, brave, and loyal—qualities that he shares with his rider, the young Lord Jaxom. Unfortunately, Jaxom is also looked down upon by his fellow lords, and by other riders as well. His dreams of joining the dragonriders in defending Pern are dismissed. What else can Jaxom and Ruth do but strike out on their own, pursuing in secret all they are denied? But in doing so, the two friends will find themselves facing a desperate choice—one that will push their bond to the breaking point . . . and threaten the future of Pern itself.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Anne McCaffrey, The Dragonriders of Pern

Feature Sci-fi: The Fallen Empire Omnibus (Books 1 – 3 and prequel) by Lindsay Buroker

October 19, 2025 by Carolynn

Feature Sci-fi: The Fallen Empire Omnibus (Books 1 - 3 and prequel) by Lindsay Buroker

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A fighter pilot on a mission to reunite with her daughter.
A cyborg soldier on a quest to regain his humanity.

Mortal enemies during the war, they must now work together to salvage a seventy-year-old freighter and navigate the gauntlet of pirates, scavengers, mercenaries, and other pitfalls that stand in their way after the fall of the largest empire mankind has ever known.

This set includes:

Book 1: Star Nomad
Book 2: Honor’s Flight
Book 3: Starseers
The previously unpublished prequel novella Last Command
The short story Starfall Station

Star Nomad was a nominee for the Goodreads Readers’ Choice Awards and also made Amazon’s Top 20 list of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2016. Start the adventure now!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Fallen Empire, Last Command, Lindsay Buroker, Starfall Station

Featured Fantasy: Song of Dragons the Complete Series by Daniel Arenson

October 17, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Song of Dragons the Complete Series by Daniel Arenson

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Song of Dragons, an epic fantasy trilogy, tells a story of blood, steel, and dragonfire. This bundle contains all three novels:

BOOK 1: BLOOD OF REQUIEM – Requiem, a kingdom of men who could become dragons, lies in ruin. Its destroyer, the tyrant Dies Irae, leads his griffins on a hunt for survivors. Will Requiem’s last children perish in the wilderness… or once more become dragons and fly to war?

BOOK 2: TEARS OF REQUIEM – Dies Irae masters new servants: the nightshades, demons of shadow who fear no sword or arrow. They suck the souls from all who live, like a glutton sucking marrow from bones. Can Requiem’s last children, a mere scattering of survivors, defeat them?

BOOK 3: LIGHT OF REQUIEM – The world lies in ruin. Forests smolder. The crows feast. From the ashes, Dies Irae raises new soldiers: monsters sewn together from dead body parts. As the undead army marches, Requiem’s survivors muster what forces they can… and prepare for their final confrontation.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Daniel Arenson, Requiem, Song of Dragons

Featured Sci-fi & Fantasy: The Dragonback Series Book 1 – 3 by Timothy Zahn

October 16, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: The Dragonback Series Book 1 - 3 by Timothy Zahn

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The first three adventures in the Dragonback science fiction fantasy series from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Thrawn series.

Dragon and Thief: Young thief and con artist Jack Morgan is hiding out on an uninhabited planet after he’s falsely accused of a crime. But his solitude is interrupted when Draycos, a warrior whose reptilian race is being targeted for extinction, makes an emergency landing. The two will be able to survive, but only if they literally bond together . . .

Dragon and Soldier: When all is well, Draycos looks like nothing more than a tattoo on Jack Morgan’s back. But when Jack’s threatened, the K’da warrior appears in his true, dragonlike form. Together they go undercover to investigate a mercenary outfit connected to the extermination of Draycos’s people, and it turns out Jack isn’t the only new recruit with a secret . . .

Dragon and Slave: Following a lead, Jack becomes a slave on a Brummga alien estate where he must find out all he can while under the cruel watch of a vicious slave master who has no problem killing the help. Fortunately, Draycos always has his back.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: The Dragonback Series, Timothy Zahn

Featured Sci-fi: Off Midway Station (Guardians of the Dark Book 1) by Marc Alan Edelheit

October 16, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Off Midway Station (Guardians of the Dark Book 1) by Marc Alan Edelheit

99¢ as of October 16, 2025
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“I realized that I wasn’t going to get any sleep (Just one more page… Just one more page…) I’m not just reading words on a page, I’m there… A hell of a ride.” NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Humanity is on the brink of annihilation. Only one man can turn the tide.

For centuries, we explored the stars and settled new worlds. But a mysterious alien threat emerged, launching devastating attacks and seizing entire star systems. Every fifty years they come, silent and relentless, before disappearing again into the dark. And as they close in on humanity’s home worlds, one more defeat could mean total extinction.

Captain Jim Garrett joined the navy to fight back. But when a delicate mission ends in madness and mutiny, Garrett takes the blame and his career is left in ruins.

Now, the only thing he commands is a construction site. The CNS Surprise is an experimental warship, half built in the dockyards of Midway Station. Garrett knows the ship inside out, but the navy brass would never let him take the helm, let alone lead her in battle.

But when the aliens strike early, with unexpected ferocity, it’s clear that every ship in the fleet will be needed. And the Surprise could be the only hope of slowing the enemy onslaught.

Garrett is thrust into command for the first time, launching straight into combat. He must unite a maverick crew and master new technologies, as he leads a desperate counterstrike that will decide mankind’s future.

Off Midway Station is a military SF adventure of high-stakes space warfare, nail-biting action, and characters you would gladly follow into battle. A monumental journey of courage, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of survival, it’s perfect for fans of Jack Campbell, David Weber, and Marko Kloos.

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Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Guardians of the Dark, Marc Alan Edelheit, Off Midway Station

Featured Sci-fi: Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently Book 2) by Douglas Adams

October 16, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently Book 2) by Douglas Adams

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Beloved, bumbling Detective Dirk Gently returns in this standalone novel from Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

When a check-in desk at London’s Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the event is said to be an act of God. But which god? wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently. And how is this connected to Dirk’s battle with his cleaning lady over his filthy refrigerator…or to the murder of his latest client? Or are these events just another stretch of coincidences in the life of the world’s most off-kilter private investigator?

Douglas Adams, “one of England’s top exporters of irreverence” (Chicago Tribune), continues the implausible adventures of supersleuth Dirk Gently in his quest to solve the mysteries of the universe.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Dirk Gently, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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