Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 29, 2023

The year is 2043, years after a horrific outbreak turned Long Island into an apocalyptic wasteland. The dead about to escape.

Hacker Jessie Daniels marches to the beat of a different drummer. Daughter of the man who created the vilified Reanimation technology, she’s had no choice. For the tough-as-nails hapkido black belt, it’s fight back or be eaten alive. Literally.

A powerful entertainment company has turned the tech into a lucrative gaming empire with Long Island a live-action playground for the rich, the dead as their avatars. Jessie wants to tear the whole thing down.

Breaking into the arcade is embarrassingly easy. But now, trapped inside fifty-foot walls, cut off from the world and hounded by mysterious villains who kill for sport, her adventure turns into a deadly struggle to survive.

But in Gameland, dying doesn’t end the game, it’s just another way to level up.

They came from deep space. They came to destroy us.

Fifty years ago, bloodthirsty aliens devastated the Earth. Most of humanity perished. We fell into darkness.

But now we rise from the ashes. Now we fight back.

Marco Emery was born into the war. After his mother is killed, he joins the Human Defense Force, Earth’s ragtag army. Emery must survive basic training, become a soldier, and finally face the aliens in battle.

Against the alien onslaught, Earth stands alone. But we will fight. We will rise. We will win.

If you loved Ender’s Game, Starship Troopers, and Old Man’s War, you’ll love Earthrise, a new military science fiction series. From a USA Today bestselling author.

Category: Science Fiction – Military

Earth burns.

We call them the scum. They came from deep space. Creatures of claws and endless malice, they ravage the world.

As the war flares, as cities crumble, Private Marco Emery and his platoon blast into space. They won one battle on Earth. Their next battle must be fought in the darkness.

The scum will not rest until the last human is dead. Marco and his friends must defeat them. They must win. Or Earth will fall.

A ship that cannot leave
A Mage that will not stay
A meeting of desperations

In a galaxy tied together by the magic of the elite Jump Mages, Damien Montgomery graduates into their numbers—only to discover that without connections, he can’t find a ship and is stuck in the Sherwood system.

Pirates attacked David Rice’s jump freighter, leaving him with a dead Mage and a damaged ship—stuck in Sherwood, where a grieving father has blacklisted him from hiring a replacement Jump Mage.

When their desperate needs meet, Damien Montgomery is drawn into a conflict with the most powerful criminal organization in the galaxy—and to the attention of the Mage-King of Mars himself!

Category: Science Fiction – Galactic Empire

A loyal world torn apart by corruption
The Protectorate’s shield cracked by treason
Their only hope: a rogue mage turned royal envoy

Three years ago, as Ship’s Mage of the starship Blue Jay, Damien Montgomery was pursued to the edge of human space by both the agents and enemies of the Mage-King of Mars — before being brought in from the cold.

Now, trained in new skills by the Mage-King himself, Damien has been sent to the planet Ardennes alongside Alaura Stealey, Hand of the King. A rebel movement there has destroyed cities fighting a Governor seemingly lost to corruption.

But not all on Ardennes is as it seems. As allies become enemies and an entire world comes apart in chaos around him, Damien will find both his skills and integrity tested to the utter limit.

They had it wrong when they said with great power comes great responsibility. Great power comes with a target on your back.

My ancestral past is rich with magic and the target on my back is huge.

Only, Mom isn’t a believer. Intent on ‘protecting us from fanciful ideas,’ she rips us from our grandmother’s home in the Garden District and forces me to start a new school in the French Quarter—a place where my family isn’t welcome.

Now I’m being preyed on by vampires and haunted by a creepy, stalker ancestor in my head. The only silver lining is Phillip, my could-be boyfriend. So why does Mom’s boyfriend seem dead set on chasing him away?

Finding out is easier said than done with the devil in the work sleeping under the same roof. But if I don’t, it will be more than life as I know it crashing down around me. It’ll be the supernatural world swallowing me whole.

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Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

Men thought they had won the war against magic, when a demi-god had sundered their realm and banished magic and its keepers to the deadlands. But then another terror was born. Nothing can survive the approaching Blight. Terren, the last refuge of mankind, now stands alone in its path. Only the bridge across the great chasm offers any hope of escape… for some.

Elika has long feared the bridge to the Deadlands. It had taken her parents, and the lives of more poor fools than she could count. What’s there for them anyway on the other side but more suffering and death? Though the gods had abandoned them, the king and his priests will stop the Blight. They just need to destroy every echo of magic, the source of the Blight. Then she discovers that the biggest echo of magic is hiding inside her, and through her it seeks to enact the will of its own.

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Category: Dark Fantasy

In the 23rd century, there is only turmoil. Corporations have established colonies throughout the solar system. They’ve exploited people and resources in their never-ending hunger for profit. Companies have genetically modified workers to survive in the hostile environment of space as well as on wartorn Earth.
Skip risks his life to fight for the rights of his fellow workers. Without intending to, he starts a rebellion that will either give them freedom or devour them all.

Kareena is a security officer on Mars. She tries to fight the collapse of her homeworld, but the rebellion descends into war. Soon she will have to choose sides: Does she risk the collapse of the solar system by helping the oppressed? Or should she support the powers that be to prevent a possible end of humanity?

Category: Science Fiction – Military

English Physicist Amy Hunter, with her engineer husband John, complete their build of Vix – a new type of compact atomic collider – in a laboratory beneath their home in St Lucia. Their intention is to further the research into the nature of time and space.

They will exceed their expectations.

Elsewhere on the island, a beach seller resurrects – changed – with singular aims of death and destruction.

In Britain, Earth Sciences graduate Robert Birch, passes through his adulthood, befriending the Scottish Industrialist Vic Macken. A choice Rob makes will lead him down the diverging paths of despair and hope involving a nameless, but enthralling, young woman.

While paradise is lost, Hunter’s Vix will uncover the horrifying revelations of humanity’s global impact, and the consequences therein from an ambivalent Universe.

Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary