Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 24, 2024

In a white desert at a time of famine, Kit is among the starving children who beg and thieve the streets. Until one day, she discovers she has the makings of a great knight. Becoming a knight would bring her family wealth and prestige, but it also means risking her life to pass the Tests…

The fantasy kingdom of Lentari (introduced in Jeffrey Poole’s Bakkian Chronicles series) comes to life once again, in this acclaimed series. Tales abound about the riches of Nar and the unsurpassed skills of that dwarven community, but no one has been there and no Narians seem to have survived. What happened?

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Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

James has been selected to join a group of skilled teens who will be transformed into elite human weapons. Follow James and his friends as they mature from teenagers to lethal warriors. Together, they will face life altering events navigating a new existence dedicated to protecting their friends, families, and humanity at all costs.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

After witnessing the devastating power of the BlankZone James and his team head South. Their self-ascribed mission is to explore the most dangerous place on the planet – the new BlankZone border in the Southern Federation.

While conspiracies drive the narrative in the North, James and his team set out to learn about the Federation’s mysterious aggressors. Jump back into the adventure as James and his friends discover new families, build allies, and come face to face with the enemy threatening their existence. Secrets, lies, and manipulation are exposed as James gets closer than he ever imagined to their greatest threat.

Imagine Jack Reacher or Harry Bosch or Lucas Davenport investigating crime in a space city of two million residents, with chases taking them across worlds, their quarry defeating technology of the future to commit what remains the most horrific offense today: murder. ==> Each Lagrange book is a stand-alone thrill ride. Read this one now and enjoy!

Category: Science Fiction – Colonization

From the halls of D.C. to the remote shores of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, OFF GRID is a wild ride through a dystopian near future of mass surveillance. In the wake of a global calamity, the economy collapses. The Feds respond by wielding every power of the Welfare State to control the populace. A key tool is PivPal, an indispensable smartphone used to track citizens. As civil liberties crumble, resistance is relegated to flyover country whose residents—derided as off-gridders—cling to the time-honored virtues of freedom, self-reliance, and charity. Against this backdrop, Jenny Hernandez struggles to keep her rural church community nourished and safe. Hiding from the Feds, a team of inventors, and Jenny’s ex, arrive to complete the amazing plasma drive. They bring hope, but also the watchful eye of Big Brother. With the authorities closing in, local law enforcement must choose sides.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Callum is a survivor, yet principles hasten his near death during an encounter with an alien entity. He is given a choice; either take his chances with his ruined body, or gamble on a new life. Awakened in the comatose body of a non-human female, Callum is reborn as Rayna in a new world where she fights fresh horrors alongside memories of her past.

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Category: Dark Fantasy

Free-spirited Isla Blackwood has never accepted the shackles of her family’s nobility. Instead, she sails the open water, searching for belonging on the waves.

But when tragedy forces Isla home, she realises she can no longer escape the duty she’s been running from. Selkie raiders plague the island’s coasts, and when they strike at Blackwood Estate, Isla has no choice but to flee.

To reclaim her home, Isla will have to set aside her grief and join forces with an exiled selkie searching for a lost pelt. The heirloom might be the key to stopping the raids—but only if they can steal it from the island’s most ruthless selkie hunter, the Grand Admiral himself.

Forging an unlikely friendship with the selkie who should have been her enemy, Isla must decide once and for all where her loyalties lie if she wants to save what’s left of her family—and find the belonging she’s searching for.

Category: Dark Fantasy

IT’S LIZARD VS WIZARD! The Last of the Giant Fire Lizards is an action-packed, R-rated comedy fantasy adventure – think Monty Python meets Lord of the Rings. When her nest is destroyed and her forever mate slaughtered, Zephyr Ignitus, the last of an ancient breed of fire-breathing dragon, gathers together a team of saber-toothed panthers, woolly mammoths, and a crew of howler monkeys brandishing swords and weapons stolen from the ships of men, all to hunt down and scorch the evil beast-killing wizard that did her wrong. Follow the dragon on her hunt to slaughter the demented sorcerer that slayed her lover, blew up her mountain, and murdered her hatchling. The Last of the Giant Fire Lizards is a ton of fire-breathing, magic-flinging fun!

Category: Fantasy – Epic

INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED! If you like stories that indulge your mind with expansive world building and thought-provoking cerebral storytelling, you will enjoy SENTIENT. Described by readers as: “Mind bending!”; “…a work to be savored.” SF Book Review said: “Simply out of this world! …a marvelous work of science fiction at the highest level.”

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Category: Science Fiction – Colonization

The people of planet Earth are faced with a pandemic that threatens to wipe out the human race, and in their desperation to find a vaccine, the world’s authorities allow, without adequate testing, the use of an experimental enzyme that alters the DNA of the embryo in the mother’s womb, making the baby girl or boy immune to all known diseases. But this enzyme not only makes humans immune, it also has an additional effect on females, making them grow as much as males. The first generations amaze the world, but when the second generations are born, something goes wrong and the females become dangerous and terrifying beings with the arrival of their first menstruation. The fierce and intelligent creatures manage to conquer the world within a few years, and humans are forced to live underground. Thus begins the war of reconquest…

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure