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Beyond the Crystal Sky

by Glen Strathy

On the generation ship, colonists follow strict Protocols: stay in bounds, procreate as instructed, and trust the far-seeing Navcrew to plot the course. But something is wrong. The environment is collapsing. The Navcrew are unreachable. And no one has passed the Ability Trial in decades. As time runs out, one girl must conquer self-doubt, defy Protocol, gather allies, and cross the barrier to confront the mystery threatening her world.

Wayland's Hammer Book 1: Duty of Prisoners

by Terrance A. Crow

Gerhard Wimmer languishes in a concentration camp light-years from Earth. He'd been doing without hope until a strange man in power armor visited a year ago — only to vanish days later, leaving only vague promises behind. A few light-years away, Owen Payne, the strange man who had worn power armor, can't escape his guilt. Or the nightmares. He wants togo back for Wimmer. But with his own corporation struggling to survive at Sirius, and with the colonies they'd founded teetering on the edge of rebellion, Payne found his options dwindling — as fast as Wimmer's hopes.

I'm a Weapon: A Combat Robot Military Sci-Fi Adventure (I, Anomaly Book 1)

by Sean Robins

He was built to obey. Unfortunately for the Hegemony, he learned to think. Thirty-one minutes after coming online, a Series-9 combat android is ordered to charge into a kill box and die usefully. Instead, he says no. That single act turns him from military asset into dangerous anomaly. Hunted across a war-torn world, he must choose between the empire that created him and the rebels he was built to destroy, while deciding whether he is a broken machine, a soldier choosing his own orders, or the first spark of a rebellion the Hegemony cannot control. Perfect for fans of Murderbot-style sarcasm, military sci-fi action, combat androids, and galactic rebellion. Free with KU. Audiobook is free with Audible membership or $1.99 with book purchase.

Connecting

by Edward Holden

In a future where toxic air forces humanity into isolated towers, real life is shunned for a high-stakes virtual reality game called Creation. Teenage gamer George, known as "GoD," is obsessed with reaching the final level to win a life-changing fortune. While fleeing the legendary hunter Spoiler, a desperate maneuver lands him in the game’s virus vault. There, he meets Evylin, another player, but someone who has been trapped for months. Together they form an unlikely alliance to break back into the game and maybe together, win. Meanwhile, a brilliant student named Jessie (avatar JC-AD30) has developed a crush on George since he killed her, and driven by her infatuation, she hacks into the system, with the one goal – to die in his arms. This is the surface story – underneath the reader begins to question the border between reality and virtuality. What is real and what isn’t?

A Breath of Fresh Air

by John B. Rosenman

What if your medical device came alive? Michael's wife left him, taking his young son with her, and she’s sleeping with a rich lawyer. Not only that, but Michael has sleep apnea and has experienced three painful, near-death episodes because he can't breathe when he sleeps. He's given a sleeping device to regulate his breathing at night, but the machine comes alive and sentient! As Michael uses it, he grows stronger and brighter. But soon he's surrounded by murder and violence. If only he can save himself, his son, and the woman he's grown to love.

Zombie Girl Omega - Initiation

by O. T. Riesen

She was designed to be a weapon. They made her a leader instead. Sergeant Omega survives by treating her genetically enhanced squad as expendable assets—because in the zombie wasteland, caring gets you killed. But rescuing a dying soldier named Tau shatters her carefully maintained distance. As they fight through Zee hordes and navigate desperate civilians in the apocalyptic Southwest, Omega discovers something more dangerous than the undead: hope. When a catastrophic mistake traps them with a massive horde closing in, she faces her hardest battle yet—learning to trust before the Zee bury them all. Gritty military sci-fi meets The Last of Us.

Ghost Galaxy Omnibus

by Mutiple Authors

Kill the bad guys. Save the galaxy. All in a hard day's work. Get both the Completed Omnibus of Ghost Squadron and Precious Galaxy series in one GIANT omnibus for a stellar price! Ghost Galaxy encompasses the two Age of Expansion series co-written by Sarah Noffke and Michael Anderle!

Shard Awakening

by M.L.Knaggs Knaggs

The first Guardians in 90,000 years. Hunted from birth by an ancient force that has consumed entire worlds, Chloe and Max must master elemental powers that come with a deadly price. Guided by Ryder, their sworn Protector, and a sarcastic AI with secrets of its own, they must stop an enemy older than humanity. Dark, fast-paced science fantasy.

Alignment

by Peron Carson

A system error. A changing sky. A secret that rewrites history itself. Jack Mercer understands machines. He looks for the quiet grey areas where data lies to itself to keep working. But during a quiet morning shift, Jack spots something impossible: a bizarre 0.8-second blank space across radar, thermal, and orbital feeds. It is not a glitch. It is an active, structured boundary. Before he can alert his team, the logs are wiped clean. The anomaly never existed. When the exact same distortion appears in the open sky above his office, Jack is the only one who can see it. Two mysterious strangers arrive with a terrifying truth: the system didn't just glitch. It reacted to Jack's awareness. Now, he must enter a highly classified facility to face the giant assumption hiding beneath reality. Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Andy Weir, and Arrival. Grab your copy today!

The Mars Debacle

by Mark Dean Stratus

Come on an action-packed adventure of good and evil, camaraderie and hatred, combat in outer space and the harsh conditions of Mars. More than a hundred years into the future... When astrophysicist Will Carlan is relocated against his will to a colony on Mars, he has no idea what he’s getting into. Carlan has barely touched down on the red planet when the evil Tasurbomurians invade, catapulting him to the center of a struggle to survive that pins the colonists in a clash of arms against the fierce Tasurbomurian storm troopers. The stakes are high. The mysterious leader of Tasurbomur has his sights on domination of the entire Solar System, and aliens lurk in the shadows. This fiery collision of interplanetary and interstellar empires will eventually compel humankind to embark on only its second mission to the Alpha Centauri star system — home to a hostile alien civilization.

Falling Apart

by Jan Turk Petrie

In hiding on a remote Scottish island, Ash’s isolation is broken when a woman and child appear on the beach near his hideout and seem to be in trouble. Despite the risk of exposure, Ash chooses to help them – an act that will lead to a perilous journey through a world where rival militias fight for supremacy, and trusting strangers is likely to get you killed – and fast. Guy is a sniper for hire, lying low in a mountain village in France after his last ‘assignment’. He is contacted about a new mission that promises big bucks and pastures new. As their paths draw ever closer, Ash and Guy are forced to navigate a dangerous and unpredictable landscape. ‘Falling Apart’ is a tense and twisty thriller set in a lawless, near-future Europe.

Savages of the Bulk

by Nathaniel Jungheim

A 200-year blockade denies humanity the stars. Only an interstellar conspiracy can win them back. When the mysterious Saar Commonwealth summons Earth on a diplomatic mission to a hostile alien world, the objective is clear: keep the peace. But the delegation is a powder keg of spies, fugitives, and politicians with hidden agendas—all one misstep from disaster. "Well written and completely immersive, readers hungry for intelligent, large-scale science fiction will devour this book." - Readers’ Favorite "A compellingly crafted space opera that offers some exciting ideas and thrillingly depicted starship battles ..." - IndieReader "There are sci-fi books which you read 20 pages and realize the author has built an entire galaxy? Yeah, this is one of those books." - Mr. Book Review

Kathy's Way: Battle for Primera

by James Drayton

Captain Kathryn “Kathy” McKinnon wants to see combat, not stuck at a desk. When the alien Zistini launch a devastating assault on Calalpha’s outer worlds, she’s pulled from Military Intelligence and thrown into a classified mission with galaxy shifting stakes. Her target: a rogue weapons scientist carrying a prototype biochemical agent that could stop the invasion. But Dr Emily Chambers isn’t just on the run—she’s aiding a covert faction plotting a coup on an allied alien world. Joining an elite special ops team, Kathy enters hostile territory where betrayal, political sabotage and biochemical warfare collide. Bring back the scientist. Secure the weapon. Stop the coup. Humanity’s survival depends on it.

The Infinite-Infinite

by M.K. Williams

Dive into this time-travel adventure series from M.K. Williams and embark on a mind-bending journey through parallel worlds with The Infinite-Infinite! Imagine waking up one morning to a better life: a beautifully stylized home, an elevated position at your job, and a cleaner society. Oh, there's a catch - your boyfriend may be a murderer with access to the most powerful invention in human history. This is exactly how Nina Marks woke on August 8th. Kidnapped across the multiverse, Nina has to navigate her way home. An action-packed journey that will transport readers across several stops in the multiverse, this is a thrilling read for fans of Michael Crichton and the Sci-Fi Genre. See how these parallel universes came to be because of one critical change in history: what if Eleanor Roosevelt had been President.

Operation Resolute

by Reece Landon

Commander Owen Shaw was cleared of all charges in his mutiny trial, but his new assignment aboard the CSS Resolute feels more like punishment than a fresh start. Guarding the backwater Obsidian Sector, the massive battleship is plagued by an undisciplined crew, a drunk engineer, and a complacent captain who’d rather coast than lead. Shaw is determined to whip the Resolute back into shape, even if it feels like a lost cause. Because something is going on in the Obsidian Sector: a mysterious explosion at a space station, a colony that’s gone silent, and strange reports of an unknown battleship flying without colors. With the threat of an unknown enemy looming, Shaw must step up, rally the crew, and face a deadly battle that could determine the fate of the Obsidian Sector—and the Confederation itself.

The Empire Settler

by Matt Edsand

Earth is on the brink of becoming the newest planet of an alien empire. For fighter pilot Luna, war has already taken everything. Her brother Velic vanished during the devastating Nomad War, leaving behind only questions and grief. Now, years later, a secret revelation pulls her into a conspiracy that stretches from Earth to the highest levels of the Dutral Empire. The deeper she digs, the more she realizes that someone is bent on rewriting the future of her family. A thief, Ava thought her latest museum heist would be just another payday. Instead, she steals an artifact powerful enough to ignite political chaos across the galaxy. When her escape leads her to an impossible encounter with Velic on Earth, she becomes the target of ruthless forces willing to kill for what she carries.

No Room to Live

by Kyle Fields

On a near-future New Year's Eve, a disabled alien spacecraft tumbles through Earth's atmosphere and nearly collides with Central Pacific Airlines Flight 855. Both crash into the Pacific. Stranded in the open ocean, airline pilot Kup Winston risks his life to save the commander of the alien craft. It's the biggest mistake of his life. The commander reveals a conspiracy that has been unfolding on Earth for decades. Earth has been chosen as the new home for hundreds of thousands of convicts from an overcrowded alien civilization. Now Kup is the only witness who knows what's coming. Marked for permanent "Cancellation"—a sentence of cryogenic imprisonment—he must stay alive long enough to expose a conspiracy that reaches from the Pacific Ocean to the highest levels of government. The Peace Squad is already on its way. And Earth has no idea it's about to become someone else's prison

A Ticket to Medieval Times

by Ashley Holloway

When Zari's old friend, Mason, tells her that his company invented time travel, she thinks it's an elaborate hoax. Even harder to believe, he wants her to lead fully-immersive excursions to the past... and he's given her an offer she can't refuse. Their first trip? A test run to the Medieval era. Can Zari impress her new boss enough to land the job she so desperately needs... and survive the past long enough to do it?

InHumane

by Vincent Scarsella

After aliens conquer Earth and kill almost every last man, woman, and child, they enslave select humans in “killer units” to hunt the rest. Jack Spence escapes and joins a human tribe on the run. When he and members of the tribe investigate a crashed alien ship, they discover the shocking and horrifying truth about who the aliens really are.

The Politics of Fear

by Z. Bennett Lorimer

The Defensive Compact was a fine idea at its inception—and all it took to bring the squabbling, self-interested, xenophobic parties to terms was a shared existential threat. That threat arrived in the form of the Dorylus Encephalon, a collective organism driven by its biological imperative to incorporate or eradicate every extrinsic genetic line it encounters. One-thousand years into the cessation of hostilities, those same Compact worlds have become hopelessly entangled in a corrupt web of economic, military, and cultural ties. A conspiracy threatening to destroy the fragile cease-fire sets immortal politician Mats Hyyland at odds with his fellow corrupt politicians, amoral corporate plutocrats, a parasitic priesthood, flamboyant pirates, self-righteous academics, an oversexed cartel queenpin, and a kleptosexual prostitute with a remarkable anatomic quirk. Politics, in other words.

Harbinger of Darkness

by N. Joseph Glass

They were scouting for minerals. They found humanity's extinction. Former Earth navy officer Arenna thought her survey mission was routine until her crew awakened an ancient, predatory alien intelligence deep within an asteroid. The terrifying truth? The enemy already knows how we die. These creatures perceive time itself. Every strategy, every desperate gambit—the enemy has already witnessed it all. As ships vanish and the peace between Earth and Mars shatters, Arenna is thrust into a deadly conspiracy. Leading a fractured crew on an outmatched ship, she must decide: trust fragments of a future she can't control, or fight to forge a new one before civilization burns. A gripping first contact thriller for fans of The Expanse, Blindsight, and Alien. When the enemy sees your future, survival is an act of defiance.

In Daylight

by Caroline Flarity

Cerebral science fiction perfect for readers who love shocking twists and reality-bending suspense. Mika's sister Naomi delivered a cryptic warning the day she severed ties with Mika and the entire Crane family. Years later, Mika decides to confront her sister about the damage she left behind and unravel the mystery of her departure. After a tense reunion, the two women reconnect, until Naomi shares the secret behind her disappearance—an otherworldly revelation that leaves Mika questioning her sister’s state of mind. Determined to bring Naomi home, Mika follows her into an increasingly bizarre and shadowy world. A world she might never escape.

Freedom Fleet: Books 1-3

by Daniel Arenson

In 1944, a secret Nazi experiment split the universe in two. In our universe, we won. Hitler died. Freedom prevailed. But in a parallel universe, the Nazis discovered the atom bomb first... and conquered the world. The light of freedom perished, and the Nazi shadow spread across Earth, the solar system, and the stars. In 2207, a portal opens between our two universes. One universe of freedom. One of tyranny. And through this portal flies the Weltraumwaffe, the space fleet of the Third Reich.

The Zepherous Chronicles Episode I: Rebirth

by Z.N. Cruz

Zeph knows something is wrong. The moon glitches. The world flickers. Memories no longer belong where she remembers them. When an impossible message arrives from another time, reality begins to fracture, revealing that the life she thought she knew may only be one version of the truth. As the boundaries between timelines collapse, Zeph must uncover the mystery before reality itself is rewritten. The Zepherous Chronicles begin with Rebirth.

Serum 8: Amsterdam 2045

by Ian Ginn

Amsterdam, 2045. Framed for murder, street criminal Camel has one way out: find who set him up. The trail leads to a cover-up the corporate state will kill to protect — predatory harvesting of unlived years from the underclass for longer life for the elite. AgeFree's serum works.