Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for July 21, 2026

Gnomes are meant to do as they’re told. They aren’t supposed to become barbarians.
Nanoc isn’t like the other gnomes who serve the Static Empire. He doesn’t like being a clerk class, or filling out forms, or sitting quietly in the corner. When a chance encounter with a magical banana gives him the opportunity of a new life, he becomes the universe’s first and only gnome barbarian, free to wander where he will and do as he pleases — with or without pants. He never has to pick up a pen again.

The only catch? Nanoc has to dedicate his life to uniting the seven pieces of Chaos, the goddess of fire and story, which the other gods have hidden across the world. This is an impossible task for any mortal, especially a level 1 barbarian. Failure — and death — seem inevitable.

But Nanoc reckons that’s still better than paperwork.

*No GenAI were used in this work*

Syra doesn’t ask for much. A locked door, a clean blade, and no one looking too closely at her past.
A former pit fighter known on the streets as the Greykiss, she survives New Merserat’s margins with her head down and blades ready. When sentenced to ten days of public service, she expects simple. Predictable. Forgettable.
Then she meets Lienne.
Warm, bookish, and seemingly ordinary, the librarian is everything Syra isn’t. But something about her draws the wrong kind of attention. When Syra’s former patron resurfaces with questions about Lienne and shadows from the north begin to circle, the danger isn’t only what’s hunting them. Lienne sees the woman behind the monster—and doesn’t flinch.
As strange rumors spread from the Salt Fields and old debts come due, the walls around Syra crack—not from violence, but from something she’s far less equipped to handle: a reason to keep going.

Category: Dark Fantasy

Confessing killers? Easy. Stealing relics? No sweat. Doing it with a cocky, too‑handsome bad boy? Impossible.
I’m Harleigh Sinclair, a Neotact—touch someone, dive into their mind, locate anything they’ve handled. My boss sends me after an Egyptian ankh owned by Jagg Ransom, who’s as arrogant as he is attractive. He won’t sell, so I steal the location from his mind. Huge mistake.
The ankh created Neotact powers, and Ransom isn’t who he pretends to be. Suddenly I’m dragged from Texas to a Scottish castle dungeon to the Egyptian desert, chasing a relic that could change everything while fighting feelings I definitely shouldn’t have.
If I don’t find the ankh in time, I lose my job—and maybe my life.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Set in a future of space colonisation, Ultimate Survival plunges readers into a struggle for survival: repairing a wrecked spaceship, exploring an unknown planet, facing its dangers and building a new civilisation. An intense, strategic and challenging universe.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Jack Mercer questions the anomalies that break our reality. When a strange object is found deep in the Australian outback, he is recruited into a secret international program.

But this recovered craft isn’t advanced tech. It doesn’t obey physics. It doesn’t respond to commands.

It responds to intent.

As leaders fight for control, Jack discovers an ancient truth: this system was left behind by early civilisations. Now, it offers integration beyond human boundaries—but the price is the end of separation.

Jack must choose: pursue the ultimate answer, or preserve the boundary for all of us.

Category: Hard Science Fiction

One unlucky thief. One grumpy genie. Together, they’ll save the world…whether they like it or not.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

A vanished relic. A warparty on a perilous mission. A young warrior with awakening Powers.
Jalinda has trained her whole life to defend her people, but nothing prepares her for the day the ancient Sword Channel—the source of her people’s strength—disappears. Her encounter with a powerful creature leaves her with a rare ability: she can detect the Sword Channel’s presence across vast distances, making her the only person capable of tracking the Channel.

Her warparty sets out across hostile lands, where every step reveals deeper secrets, older loyalties, and dangers no training could anticipate. As Jalinda learns to wield her new Powers, she discovers that recovering the Sword Channel may require more than skill—it may demand choices that will shape the future of her people.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

The Sword Channel Saga continues in Book 2.
The trail is still alive. The dangers are growing. And Jalinda’s Powers are becoming harder to conceal.

The Sword Channel remains missing, and the warparty continues its pursuit across unfamiliar lands. Every new city brings fresh obstacles. The thief stays ahead of them, leaving traps, misdirection, and signs of a deeper plan the warparty struggles to understand.

Jalinda’s rare ability to sense the Sword Channel over great distances is the warparty’s greatest advantage — and its greatest risk. Those who can detect Power begin to notice her, and the warparty must navigate encounters where one wrong move could expose her abilities or cost them their lives.

Medieval Spain, 1212. Orphaned on the streets of Toledo, sixteen-year-old Francisco guards a deadly secret: a plain gray stone that heals any wound. He uses it to save the outcasts no one else will touch—and to stay a step ahead of an uncle who has already killed for it.

Then strangers arrive with an impossible claim. The stone is no relic. It’s technology from a thousand years in the future, and Francisco has been drawn into a war for control of history itself. Two factions of time travelers have shaped the centuries from the shadows—and a prophecy names him one of six recruits who could end their war, or lose it forever.

To survive, he must choose who to trust, what his gift is truly for, and whether one orphan can change the fate of history—as healer or warrior, in faith or doubt.

The Healing Stone begins The Shadows of Time: where the medieval past and a far future collide.

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

What if the Knights Templar found proof that Christ wrote his own Gospel and the Vatican buried and suppressed the truth?

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Zervana and Milo used to be heroes. Now, a botched train robbery has left 85 dead, and the galaxy’s greatest space pirates are starting to wonder if they were ever heroes at all. Milo just wants to know that Zervana still needs him. Zervana just wants to keep fighting the empire who rules everything. For both of them, failure isn’t an option.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera