Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for April 5, 2023

Only a few decades after planet Earth was abandoned for a compromised Martian colony, a group of researchers led by Doctors Drake and Shelby Hilton must travel back to the once-desolate planet in order to investigate sudden traces of life in the planet’s atmosphere.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

An award-winning fantasy retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth Bennet is hiding a forbidden power. She can speak to draca, the fire-breathing creatures kept as status symbols by English gentry. But Mr. Darcy has noticed, and he has his own dark secret.
When Elizabeth’s sister falls deathly ill, the cure lies in the mysteries of draca. Elizabeth, aided by her brilliant sister Mary, defies restrictive English society to hunt for lost draca lore. Elizabeth’s search leads her to the fabulous Pemberley estate, home of the entitled and infuriating man whose proposal she scorned.
There, Elizabeth’s worlds smash together—protocol against passion, and exultation against the risk of love. But the stakes are greater than her sister’s life. Elizabeth must test herself against a distant war. And her enemy is not who she thought.

Category: Fantasy – Historical

Begin an epic journey in a forgotten time, where empires rise and fall, helping or destroying smaller provinces along the way. Follow the bloody and lusty adventures of young Bovir of the Woodlands, as his destiny becomes intertwined with the many colorful characters, beautiful vixens, kingdoms, politicians, priests, bankers, and terrifying warlords that he meets along the way, simply trying to return home and find his revenge for the many wrongs dealt to him. Alongside these quests, he must deal with the whims of the gods, ancient prophecies, and the corruption of the religious overlords that keep their secrets. An odyssey for a new generation of readers and fantasy fans.

Category: Dark Fantasy

A devastating plague; rampant inflation; propaganda for the masses; breakthroughs in innovative technology; rumors of civil war; racial and ethnic tensions; nefarious conspiracies; class struggles and street preachers yearning to overthrow the nobility. The Sendyne Empire is at the height of its power, but it has never been in a more precarious position…and it is about to reach a boiling point.

Fifteen-year-old CORDELIA PAREDES’s best friend Persie has gone missing.  If that isn’t bad enough, all of the adults in her hometown of Blackgale, Pennsylvania – from her teachers, to the local officials, to Persie’s own parents – seem oddly unconcerned. Cordelia must therefore take it upon herself to find Persie, digging deep not only into Blackgale’s mysteries, but into the personal stories of the little town’s most mysterious residents.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

Archaeologist Leah Andrews stumbles upon something in New Mexico: inside a dark cavern lies an undiscovered, Native American cliff dwelling abandoned for eight-hundred years. Ancient human remains—slaughtered in a long-ago massacre—cover the cavern floor and several brilliantly colored granite crystals. The rare gems are native to only one place on earth: a frozen mountain range in central Antarctica. Could Native Americans have traveled to the icy continent of Antarctica eight-hundred years before the first known human exploration? If so, how? And why? Only one person can get Leah to those mountains in Antarctica: her estranged husband and climbing guide Jack Hobson. They make a stunning discovery at their destination, changing history and science forever.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

The first book in the Broken Well Trilogy is ‘the stuff of fantasy writers’ fantasies. An epic, enthralling, towering triumph.’ (AurealisXpress)

The lands of shadow and light have been locked in a stalemate for millennia, but a prophecy tells that a blue-haired boy will soon break the bloody balance. Mages from the opposing sides race to claim him as their own, but the ensuing magical battle sees the child’s soul ripped apart, and reformed as two separate babies. Is either one still capable of ending the age-old conflict, or has destiny itself been undone?

Prophecy’s Ruin subverts tropes of the genre in fresh and original ways, and stars a colourful cast of mighty warriors, undead mages, psychopathic goblins, indestructible butterflies and an evil talking bird, among others.

‘If you are sick of cliché heroes and villains then this is the one to read.’ (Bookseller + Publisher)

Category: Fantasy – Epic

In this near-future sci-fi novel about robots and AI, society has reached a point where artificial intelligence and robotics have become a part of everyday life.

The story centers around Austin Nilsen, a US Army veteran and tech specialist who has spent years working on robotics programs and integration with army units. Invited to speak at a college about the dangers of advanced AI and robotics, Austin finds himself torn between his moral obligation to warn society and his oath to secrecy.

The tension builds as Austin heads to Northern Virginia’s Advanced Robotics and Computer Learning College, where he meets Professor Rajan and prepares to give a speech about the need for more government intervention and oversight in the rapidly growing robotics AI industry. Chaos erupts when the robots designed to help out at the conference room suddenly go rogue, attacking the humans.

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Category: Science Fiction – Adventure