Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for December 16, 2017

When the light of the human species vanished, there was a girl… and a spark.

In the not-so-distant future, aliens have wiped out society and use human children as slaves. In this fast-paced adventure, 17-year-old Freya must face her destiny when a friend whisks her away to join a rebellion. The small band of rebels known as Saviors just may be the only hope for the human race.

A sci-fi techno-thriller — a quantum computer, cyber-terrorists, identity theft, murder. Stir well and serve!

After his past academic failures and egregious family circumstances, Andrew Lawrence is looking forward to a fresh start solving the secrets of the universe. But before he can begin, his world turns into a lie. Everything is torn away from him and he’s embroiled in an international fraud investigation involving quantum computer hacking and murder.

Dodging the FBI while hiding from cyberterrorists, he’s forced into the underworld of the dark net, anonymous encryption, and AI financial transactions. While trying to throw off the ghosts of his haunted past, he must run faster and faster to evade the shadowy forces of assassins.

Despite a troubled partnership, the ego of rivals, and the threat of cyberterrorists, Lawrence perseveres on his quest to redeem himself.

Category: Hard Science Fiction

In the middle of nowhere, a nameless individual rises from the dark. With barely any knowledge apart from how to speak and how to kill, he finds himself in a world gone mad. Worse off, nearly everything that moves is out for his blood.
Not knowing where to turn, the wanderer traverses the desolate landscape of a ruined continent. Along his travels, his mind and body are pushed to their limits as he desperately tries to make sense of what is going on, what he is, and why he exists.
Foe after foe meets their end at his hands, yet each kill only serves to raise more questions. Is he even human? What has happened to the world? Where does his path lead?
The answer lies beyond the blood-stained horizon.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

A man with no name and no memory of his past wanders a desolate landscape. Something is horribly wrong with him: he seems to feed on murder.
In trying to learn his identity, he finds a strange, pyramid-like city called Babylon. Rumor has it that it is a place of prosperity; a sole refuge for the civilized in this apocalyptic wasteland. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Corruption runs rampant in Babylon, and its rulers seem to be something other than human. Worse off, one of them has a personal grudge against the wanderer.
But the Nameless does not give up easily.

This is a book about ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’ as exemplified in the archetypical characters of the title. We meet Theoclea as a child, as she experiences her first vision ‘seeing’ of the future. Pythagoras as the archetypical Scientist-Mathematician ‘knows’ things. The book moves on to a time when she has become The Delphic Oracle and gives the speech of a lifetime to a huge crowd before the Mysteries of Eleusis begin. The second part of the book moves on as Theoclea and her friends–her teacher, Pythagoras; Vorios the Magician; Morain, her Counselor, and Panelle, her Guardian/Protector get to ‘see and know’ Atlantis. In the end, we have been to Atlantis as well, witnessed the destruction, and the revelations that the characters give to us. A gift from ancient times.

Category: Fantasy – Alternative History

“It is a wonderful piece of speculative fiction, clearly inspired by the grand masters of the genre, Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein…”
“…this is dystopian sci-f at its best. Highly recommended.”
With nuclear war looming and population explosion depleting the Earth, a coalition of space agencies, launch the Evolution, the largest star ship ever conceived, on a 27-year trek to an exoplanet, 1400 light-years away, and hopefully, the new home to man. Jim Tale, the intrepid Captain, and his AI companion, CASS, encounter incredible odds, events that no one could have foreseen in this epic space odyssey to save mankind before it disappears under a cloud of nuclear fall-out. Haunted by his past and compelled by an obsession to know the truth about existence, was it God or the Big Bang, Jim Tale pushes the envelope and what he finds shakes all the paradigms.

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Smashwords

Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary

Winner Best of the Independent eBook Awards Contemporary/Urban Fantasy 2017
Libby is a mutant, one of the top burglars and assassins in the world. For a price, she caters to executives’ secret desires. Eliminate your corporate rival? Deliver a priceless art masterpiece or necklace? Hack into another corporation’s network? Libby’s your girl.

Climate change met nuclear war, and humanity lost. The corporations stepped in, stripping governments of power. Civilization didn’t end, but it became less civilized. There are few rules as corporations jockey for position and control of assets and markets.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

In the year 2200, the world has barely recovered the level of technology that existed before the ice melted and the subsequent wars. Corporate elites live in their walled estates and skyscraper apartments while the majority of humanity supplies their luxuries.

Libby’s security business is taking off, and she’s becoming more respectable than she ever dreamed. But when an insurance company hires her to recover a fortune in stolen art, it’s not her legitimate skills they seek. Bring them the stolen goods and they’ll pay an exorbitant fee, no questions asked.

The Vancouver art scene is hot, in more ways than one. Billionaires compete for bragging rights, and they aren’t picky who they deal with.

With billions of credits and reputations on the line, Libby is on a collision course with the super-rich. When she asks too many questions, she ends up on the wrong side of a bullet.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban