Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for December 20, 2020

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novel – Predators & Editors Readers Poll 2015

Gabriel Schist is spending his remaining years at Bright New Day, a nursing home. He once won the Nobel Prize for inventing a vaccine for AIDS. But now, he has Alzheimer’s, and his mind is slowly slipping away.

When one of the residents comes down with a horrific virus, Gabriel realizes that he is the only one who can find a cure. Encouraged by Victor, an odd stranger, he convinces the administrator to allow him to study the virus. Soon, reality begins to shift, and Gabriel’s hallucinations interfere with his work.

As the death count mounts, Gabriel is in a race against the clock and his own mind. Can he find a cure before his brain deteriorates past the point of no return?

Many lives are in imminent danger, but a mysterious entity has the power to change everything.
Life is a breeze for Andreas, a simple man, and the captain of a ferry in one of Norway’s tourist-packed fjords. But things are not as perfect as they may seem.
When Andreas begins to receive messages from an unknown source, he realizes that the future of the world is in danger. He decides to leave everything behind and devote his life to a single mission – saving the planet. He soon discovers that humanity’s history is entirely different from what he has known, and a different reality rules the world.
Now, Andreas faces the ultimate test – will he manage to complete his task, or has Earth’s fate already been decided?

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Gifted with unwanted magic. Burdened by tragic secrets. Will she risk her normal, safe life to save an innocent girl?

Bella Flores is determined to conceal her witchy abilities. When the sorcery-suppressing government executed her father, she chose a corporate cubicle to hide in plain sight. But she’s forced to jeopardize her secret when she becomes entangled in a supernatural kidnapping.

Rallying her self-centered feline familiar and unrequited crush, Bella embarks on a quest to rescue the stolen girl. But they’ll have their hands full, gathering the shattered pieces of the only weapon strong enough to slay the sinister abductor. And soon her fears of being seen become a deadly reality as she fights forgotten legends and eldritch horrors that could consume her soul.

Can Bella save the child before they both meet a savage end?

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

He thought he was the chosen one, a warrior of the gods. He had no idea that his god was a demon.

The Raven Son series is epic fantasy at its best, with a dash of mythology and Russian fairy tales thrown in for flavor.

If you love creative retellings of ancient myths, gorgeous worldbuilding, and complex characters who never do what you expect, you’ll love this series, described by readers as “The Lord of the Rings meets 1984”.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

SCWC WINNER – BEST SCIENCE FICTION

“This fast-paced sci-fi thriller satisfies on multiple fronts…Smart, engaging, with a touch of wry wit”

When a human invention accidentally breaks the laws of physics, the aliens hiding amongst us will fight each other to claim it. If they can’t win, they will ensure everyone else loses. Permanently.

Fleet Four assigns Keryapt Zess to uncover which galactic rival thinks Earth is worth fighting over. With a cutting edge Interloper body and the best support team in Labworld Command, nothing on Earth should be able to stand in her way.

But no plan survives contact with the enemy. There are only two people she trusts – her Shadow back in Fleet Four and a human photographer who was in the right place at the wrong time. Can they help her survive long enough to figure out who wants us dead?

And what will she do if the answer is “Everyone”?

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Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

Take a pair of ballet shoes, a faery queen and a disgruntled mage and what do you get?
A grim time in the Kingdom of Sweets.
Or so says the owner of the Magical Emporium, Mister Magigi, a monkey wizard long renowned for spinning a good yarn.
In Sugar Plum Scary he recounts the story of a beautiful, intelligent and benevolent queen, adored by all of her subjects. Except for one.
And as Mister Magigi explains, while Queen Sugar Plum imagines she’ll live happily ever after, that one man is determined to make her life a misery.
Loosely based on characters from The Nutcracker, you’ll love this cozy fairy tale retelling. It’s a story of love, heartbreak and vengeance from the bestselling author of the Wonky Inn books. Huddle closer to the fire, grab a cuppa, light a candle and listen entranced as Mister Magigi casts his spell on you.

Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

When an invading army threatens, Marilia, bastard daughter of a famous general, must work together with a group of unlikely allies —her estranged twin brother, the woman she’s secretly in love with, and the man who killed her father —to save the empire. An epic tale spanning a decade, Marilia the Warlord is the first part of a trilogy of war, forbidden romance, and the twists of fate that turned two twin children—once so close they would have died for each other—into the bitterest of enemies, each determined to send the other to the grave.

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Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age