Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for June 28, 2022

Humanity is in the eye of the beholder.

But for street-smart detective Amber Payne, it’s the eyes that aren’t human. Cybernetic implants replaced the organics she lost in the line of duty, and their appearance often causes Amber to doubt her self-worth.

Rookie detective Kevin Glass is her partner. And though he may be new, Kevin’s unparalleled skill as an elite cyber-surfer makes him an invaluable asset.

When Alta Corp contracts the two of them to solve a case of high-stakes data theft, they will need every bit of skill, experience, and determination to succeed. For the more they investigate, the more it becomes evident that this case is much more than it appears, and its resolution may forever alter the world in which they live.

Captain Luta Paixon of the far trader Tane Ikai needs to know why she looks like a woman in her thirties–even though she’s actually eighty-four. She isn’t the only one desperate for that information.

The explanation might lie with her geneticist mother, who disappeared over sixty years ago, but even if her mother is still alive, it’s proving to be no small task to track her down in the vast, wormhole-ridden expanse of Nearspace. With the ruthless PrimeCorp bent on obtaining Luta’s DNA at any cost, her ninety-year-old husband asking for one last favor, and her estranged daughter locking horns with her at every turn, Luta’s search for answers will take her to the furthest reaches of space–and deep inside her own heart.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Luta Paixon has plenty of trouble on the Tane Ikai, with relationships in flux and the sticky problem of two captains on one ship. But when an alien artifact shows up on the other side of a newly-discovered wormhole, the crew also find themselves pressed into the service of the Nearspace Protectorate. Their task: covertly deliver an alien historian to the site to decipher its meaning—and possible threat.

Immortality sucks. Just ask Imogen Gray.

A smart mouth, quick temper, and the ability to painfully regenerate from bloody shreds after a fight has left her teetering on the edge of total insanity for thousands of years.

Unfortunately, finding a cure is put on hold when an evil power-crazed sorcerer sneaks into town. Will she find him in time before he completes the ritual to turn himself into a god?

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

The adventures of four youngsters lost in a desolate world of giant trees. A story of dangers, challenges, ingenuity, courage, and friendship. This is another world, another planet, called Arboregal, and finding a way back home become their goal. Unfortunately, this world is hunted by an evil spirit, Hellferata, who suspects Michelle to be the golden-hair hero who will vanquish her. Without delay she sends her son, Dracu Mort, to kill Michelle. A path back home may be found in the next giant A path back home may be found in the next giant tree, the Cascade Tree, hundreds of miles away, but traveling there safely is impossible because of the night land monsters. Will their creativity, cunning, and courage help them make it to the Cascade Tree and find a way home, or will Hellferata and Dracu Mort mete out their wrath before they can escape?

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Category: Fantasy – Superhero

Playing a virtual game is fun…until the game wants you dead.

Nigel Watson is a clever teenage hacker who uses his skills to make extra spending money. But, after someone plunders his mother’s bank account and drains the funds,Nigel realizes his hacking could save the family.

Soon, Nigel’s online expertise is noticed by the billionaire founder of the Colossal Machine, a virtual game played by millions of people around the planet. When Nigel is given a chance to show his prowess, his skills outshine the work of the current developers. He even discovers new ways to cheat the game that no one else knows.But, Nigel doesn’t realize that his sudden success has made enemies who want him dead.

In this cyber thriller, you never know who to trust when the virtual world makes it impossible to decrypt friend from foe.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

As I lay on the stone slab waiting to be sacrificed to the Dark God, Kaal, life flashes before my eyes.
The night I was chased by the shadow demons, Rakshasa.
The moment Hunter waltzed into my life.
It’s funny in this near end, his eyes are all I think of. Well, it brought me here to this altar.
I shouldn’t have followed the handsome stranger into the woods, into Sinzar.
And now I pay the price. The ritual knife hangs high.
Some truths are just not worth dying for.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery