Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for August 30, 2023

Things are not well in the splintered realm of Gauraci since the disappearance of the Goddess, Regula, a hundred years ago. The spirit, the power, of the people is fading. For the first time a prince, Eldred, lacks her gift, the Bond, the power that grants the Deirans their unparalleled ability to fight. He will take on any challenge to succeed.

A New Adult/College, Science-Fantasy Adventure Series by pdmac – A colonization mission turns into a nightmare when the spaceship explodes, forcing the last two survivors down to an unknown planet. To their surprise, this world is not what they expected, and they are immediately caught up in the war between two medieval kingdoms. While Alexis is sent to fight, Duncan issues a winner-take-all challenge to the High Priest. The loser dies.

This is a revamping of a former series titled Wolf 359. The Misfit series is geared to a wider audience and age groups.

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Category: Fantasy – Classics

Cora knows her grandmother’s stories of the noble dragon riders by heart, even though most people consider them just a myth. But for Cora, the legends are a pleasant distraction from her concern for her ailing father, and the enormous debt they owe to the king’s garrison.

Desperate to help her father, Cora becomes a scale scavenger, risking life and limb by entering the territory of the deadly, feral dragons to gather the highly valuable scales. But her first attempt nearly ends in tragedy when she’s trapped by an angry dragon. They are both stunned when she unlocks the secret of communicating with him.

As Cora and the dragon, Alaric, grow closer, they uncover more secrets from the kingdom’s past. There was a dark conclusion to the dragon rider legacy, brought about by a malicious force that sought power at any cost. That force still holds the kingdom in thrall…

Category: Fantasy – Epic

On the day of NASA’s long-awaited manned expedition to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa, neuropsychiatrist Amanda awakens after months in a coma caused by acute meningitis. Along with two patients, they discover themselves to be key pieces in an ever-growing puzzle involving an underground geopolitical corporation called The Firm, which plans to sabotage the mission, taking advantage of a new technology to hijack the ship and set a course to a habitable planet located seventeen light-years away from Earth.

Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

I hunt bad guys. I don’t work for them.

Supernaturally-gifted bounty hunter Rebel is on the trail of a gifted con artist in the heart of New Orleans. But she comes face-to-face with a shocking danger far more challenging than one handsome vampire… all the monsters that lurk beneath the Big Easy!

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Wizard Defiant is an epic adventure blending the best of science fiction and fantasy into a tale of courage, sacrifice, and friendship.

Cadet Richard Shepard, a first-year student at the Intergalactic Empire’s Wizard Scout Academy, is teamed with Nickelo, a one-of-a-kind, advanced prototype battle computer. Working together, they excel at the technology and psionic abilities that make wizard scouts the Empire’s elite soldiers.

When war breaks out with the Crosoian Federation, Richard is sent to a magic dimension to help an elf priestess defeat a demon and its army of undead. Trained at the academy to fight armored vehicles, phase beams, and attacking starships, he finds himself in unfamiliar territory. With the fate of two galaxies on the line, he must use his wizard scout skills and newly acquired battle suit to overcome a host of dragons, magic-using demons, trolls, and ghouls.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Wizard scouts are the elite, deep-recon forces of the Intergalactic Empire. They are a mix of technology and psionic abilities.

Cadet Richard Shepard is on assignment to retrieve a defecting scientist on a planet deep behind enemy lines. With a deadly Crosioian scout hot on his trail, he soon finds himself stuck with a couple of super-genius children who may hold a secret that could mean the salvation or destruction of three galaxies. Between dodging plasma rounds from heavily armored Crosioian soldiers to battling werewolves, ogres, magic users and deadly dimension-shifting cats the size of lions, Richard soon finds himself far outside his original mission parameters.

Will wizard scout training prevail, or is Richard doomed to fail? His only hope may well be to find allies in the most unlikely of places. Of course, a liberal sprinkling of luck wouldn’t hurt either.

July Jackson, sheriff for Egypt, Texas, (population, 1888) has some questions. Why is it snowing in Texas in August? Why don’t the cars, electronics, or phones work? Why can’t he remember what happened last night? Join Sheriff Jackson as he learns the truth about what is happening in Egypt, Texas. An Alien Occupation novel with a strong dose of humor. This is the first novel of a completed trilogy.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure