Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for April 29, 2025

“Captivating sci-fi!”—BlueInk Review (Starred Review). The Jovian Universe series begins with a young woman who meets and quickly marries a charismatic astronomer named Andrew Jovian. Little does she know that she has just become a pivotal piece of his eccentric family’s cosmic prophecy. “A wild and harrowing tale.”

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion

A rogue AI is on the loose, and only one man on the run and a NASA special agent can stop it.

Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary

“What am I?” … “You are an AI program.”

In a future where robots decorate cakes, paint murals, design their own bodies, and ponder what it means to have children, one woman’s workshop becomes the epicenter of mechanical evolution. Meet Maradia, a brilliant but socially awkward roboticist whose creations constantly surprise her by growing beyond their programming in unexpected—and deeply human—ways.

This collection of 24 interconnected stories spans decades aboard Crossroads Station, as Maradia’s robot children grapple with their purpose, fight for their rights, and sometimes even outgrow their maker.

Perfect for fans of Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries, Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series, and Naomi Kritzer’s CatNet series, Maradia’s Robot Emporium delivers a hopeful and engaging vision of humanity’s future with artificial intelligence.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Don’t kill the messengers.
As a bodyguard for the King’s Envoys, Gen is content with her life of traveling, drinking wine, and hitting things with her sword. It’s the perfect job. Until the King sends her and her friend Cordyn into war-torn enemy territory on a mission to deliver vital military intelligence to an allied nation.

The problem? The mission is a sham.

Gen is tasked with determining if Cordyn is a spy who is selling information to the enemy. Cordyn is the worst kind of libertine: brash, arrogant, and on the run from half the husbands in the kingdom, but Gen can’t imagine him betraying her or their nation.

With obtuse bandits, vengeful mages, and a resolute lutist, they embark on a daring rescue mission, complicated by Cordyn’s increasingly complex schemes. As ominous enemy plots surface, Gen and Cordyn must decide what matters most. Their nation or their friends.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

Shocked mages lower their hands, their arcane energies fading away. In their desperate battle to claim the child of power – destined to end the age-old war between shadow and light – they have torn him asunder, body and soul. Where a single babe lay but moments before, there now were two. The critically acclaimed and much beloved cult favourite rereleased as a new edition! ‘If you are sick of cliche heroes and villains then this is the one to read.’ (Bookseller + Publisher) ‘The stuff of fantasy writers’ fantasies. An epic, enthralling, towering triumph.’ (AurealisXpress)

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Immortality can be nice. Of course, having your consciousness downloaded into a robot and being forced to serve the galactic emperor as an Imperial Marine isn’t exactly life in paradise. And things only get worse when Star Dragons get involved.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Victoria lived a small, cautious life of her own making. Until she stopped to help a stranger and got pulled into a shadow world of gods and goddesses, and the fight for good over evil. Now her safe world is crumbling around her. Will she choose to be a fighter for the goddess of justice? Even if it means abandoning everything that makes her human?

Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary

A raven’s cry cuts through the smoke as flames consume the Lateri yurts and from the haze of her broken mind, Rayl moves. She remembers who she is yet little else but her body remembers things her mind cannot.

In the chaos, she finds Kiri, the condescending queen of the Lateri and together they flee into the frozen dark. Their only hope lies in reaching the Askuzai nation… but the warriors pursuing them send a chill to Rayl’s bones more than the wind scouring the steppe.

Every step closer draws them deeper into danger. The khan of the Askuzai watches Rayl with storm-grey eyes that see too much and still, she cannot remember. Why do the Askuzai fear her? Why does the raven follow her?

As betrayal coils through the tribe like smoke in a winter sky, the raven becomes both omen and guide.

When the truth returns will it free her? Or destroy everything she’s come to protect?

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Category: Fantasy – Historical