Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 13, 2022

Earth has been invaded by alien forces with overwhelming technological superiority. But we are an amazing people, well-practiced in the art of war, holding a few technological advantages of our own. Shockwave is a fitting name for the elite special forces team that is our best hope to overcome the invaders and the dark powers that stand behind them. YA flair, heavy on the Sci-Fi, and don’t forget some fantasy. All FREE! Come. Explore the worlds of Hammer Trollkin.

Isolated. Feared. A plot to end him. Sebastian Parker’s life is about to change.

Sebastian is thirteen. He thinks he is just an ordinary alpha off to join the Academy to refine his skills, but ‘the test’ shows something different. It turns out he is a Hybrid – a Quad-brid to be exact – and will grow up to be the most powerful alpha in more than two millennia.

Forced to join the Dark side of the Academy, Sebastian faces fear, rejection, and brutality. Making some unlikely friends and finding adventure, he strives to keep to the Light. However, in a final twist, unsure of who to trust, and what is real, Sebastian is faced with the ultimate decision of whether to embrace the Darkness …

Dark, brutal, and gripping, The Hybrid is the first novel in The Hybrid Series.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

A high-tech thriller with a hint of Sci-Fi à la Stargate. Fans of Mr. Robot and Jack Reacher shouldn’t miss this. Heists, secret agents, alien AI and world-class hacking.

A team comprised of a brilliant hacker with anxiety problems, a jaded international thief with trust issues, and a retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel haunted by the loss of his squad, are hired by an inconspicuous mining company. They join a secretive ex-CIA operative in a globetrotting adventure to retrieve four precious artifacts from private collections.

Nothing goes according to plan, and soon they find themselves hunted by the police, human traffickers, and rogue US government agents.

The stakes sky-rocket when they find out the truth about the artifacts they were hired to steal.

Would the alien AI and a battered old spaceship that crash-landed on Earth be enough to help them survive?

Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

A mysterious stalker blinds a young woman during a violent attack. Bleeding-edge prosthetic eyes restore her vision and open a new world to her—one where she can see dragons following some people around. To survive the denizens of this world, she must discover and master her latent supernatural abilities. Failure means the death of everyone she loves.

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Apple Books

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

2021 SPSFC Semifinalist.
The message from Carmen Vincent’s mother wasn’t possible. She died in the Mars base disaster two years ago.
But when government agents show up at Carmen’s door, she realizes the message is no hoax. Someone is still trying to cover up the disaster and the reason why Earth abandoned its space program.
It’s a race to discover the truth of what happened on Mars before Carmen loses her mother for a second time.
I.O. Adler’s relentlessly entertaining space opera adventure channels the excitement of The Expanse and the Mass Effect games.

Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

Haunted space stations? Puzzling totems? Cursed relics? No job’s too bizarre for the crew of the Nanshe.

Lasadi doesn’t like strangers on her ship, but she’ll need a bigger crew if she’s going to steal a mysterious artifact from a dead pirate’s long-lost space station. She takes a chance on a charming grifter named Raj, along with a skilled hacker and her genius little brother. And it’s . . . nice? If Lasadi isn’t careful, she’s going to start enjoying having a crew aboard.

Raj’s last bit of luck capsized right before he ran into Lasadi, and this job could finally get his life back on track — as long as Lasadi never learns the truth about his past. Raj isn’t the only one on this crew with secrets, though, and Auburn Station holds more than long-dead ghosts. Unless this fledgling crew can learn to trust each other, none of them are getting off this station alive.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

For centuries, a race of immortal warlords called the Fylking have occupied a backwater world to use as an outpost in an ancient war. Here, they guard a mortal realm that contains an interdimensional portal called the Gate. The Fylking’s enemies, who think nothing of annihilating a world to gain even a small advantage, are bent on destroying it.

After two centuries of peace, the realm is at war. A Gate warden with a tormented past discovers a warlock gathering an army that cannot die. A King’s Ranger is snared in a trap that pits him against the Fylking’s enemies. And a knitter discovers an inborn power revered by the gods themselves. Caught in a maelstrom of murder, treachery, swords and sorcery, they must rally to protect the Gate against a plot that will destroy the Fylking and leave the world in ruins.

SPFBO Finalist. “Grim, eerie, almost tangible world building.”

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Apple Books | Nook | Kobo

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Monsieur Resche has crossed a bridge into a quaint town, a town that disappeared from Switzerland four centuries ago. All the magic that our world once had has ended up there. A precisely tied knot, an exactly folded paper, or a cunningly drawn figure can unlock wonders and horrors. Resche has a mind that lets him excel at this new craft, but that brings him to the notice of powerful mages who play a great game of geomancy with tiles the size of countries. And when he looks for the bridge back to Geneva, it is nowhere to be found. The Fractalist priest offers aid that may not be what it appears, the Jeweler has intricate schemes, the newspaper editor has taken an interest, the Astromancer had good advice before she was murdered, and Resche’s cat just makes wisecracks.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban