Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for December 20, 2023

A secret is hidden in the womb of history. Mr. Raju Ghodke unknowingly confronts that unimaginable secret and suddenly comes to a strange turn of life. He resolves to play the game that destiny has set before him. He gets dragged into some fatal possibilities that come his way. The line dividing reality and imagination gets thinner and thinner and then begins a journey… rapid and exciting…

Meet the Space Punks—the only ones crazy enough to challenge the Pentad’s supreme power…
David wakes up in a high-security prison on the forsaken Martian moon Deimos with no memory of his past. A chance encounter with Aztec, a deadly purple-haired cyborg, propels him into a daring jailbreak. She brings him on board a mysterious warship manned by the most notorious and badass crew of the galaxy—the Space Punks.

One hundred years ago AI waged a devastating war against its human creators. Humanity won, but barely and at a horrible price. Ever since, the solar system has been strictly controlled by the Pentad, a ruthless coalition of megacorporations.

As David tries to regain his memory, he finds himself fighting battles between mechs, cyborgs, robots and super-soldiers alongside his new brothers and sisters-in-arms.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Cara was a child when the sorcerer Sidonius stole her. Secluded in the Black Keep, she’s known nothing but obedience and duty. She can’t imagine escaping. Until she meets the captain…

Captain Khoury is a mercenary kidnapped by Sidonius as food for the sorcerer’s fading magic. A dark man with a dark secret, he uses Cara to escape only to find himself strangely bound to her.

Falin is a Huntress. Brutal and cold, she is sworn to kill any man who trespasses her people’s sacred forest. When the Mothers give her a task that will mark her as a traitor, she must choose between her old life and a new destiny.

Sidonius’s influence follows them from the frozen tundra to to the mountain city of Iolair. In the end, it will take all three of them to restore what Cara lost.

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Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

A coming-of-age adventure story. Seventeen-year-old Dagny Losh and an array of companions undertake a high-stakes quest guided by the stars and ancient myth, encountering danger from both criminal and supernatural forces. Along the way, Dagny will discover the bonds of true friendship and the depths of her own bravery in a brutal and enchanting world.

Ever the Night Road is the first book in a two part series.

*Readers Favorite International Book Awards Gold Medal Winner;
*IPPY Book Awards Gold Medal Winner;
*The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Winner

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

Humanity’s only hope is the commander they spurned…
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Once, Master Commander Carter Rose was the Union’s secret weapon. An augmented, bio-engineered officer in command of the most powerful warship ever devised by human minds, Rose brought them victory against the post-human Aternien Empire.

Then they cast him aside.

A century later, humanity’s enemy has returned, hell-bent on revenge, and the Union’s only hope is the man they had forsaken.
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Read the complete Aternien Wars series, an epic blend of space opera and militaristic sci-fi, from Kindle Storyteller Award Finalist and international bestseller, G J Ogden. Follow an elite crew of augmented officers as they fight a post-human enemy styled on the myths of ancient Egypt.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Killer. Rebel. Leader. Herald.
Senn was born a slave in the desert city of the Hub, fighting every day of his life to survive. Until the god of Greed inspires him to lead a rebellion against the tyrant Chainkeepers and he becomes his superpowered Herald and leader of Lordstown.

But when a new god appears, inspiring hope in its followers, Senn’s beliefs are put to the test, setting him on a new path.

Will Senn find redemption and a new purpose, or will he fall to the forces that seek to destroy him and turn all of humanity into thralls?

A Grimdark Epic, this is a start of a unique trilogy, perfect for fans of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn and Steven Erikson’s The Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

A mysterious, glowing book locked in their basement sends triplets Mika, Gabby, and Orr searching after their secret angelic lineage. In a world where angels gather in holy underground conclaves and legions of demons prowl the dark, busy streets of Jerusalem, the sisters navigate between their complicated divine callings and the crucial, life-defining moments of ordinary seventeen-year-olds: budding romances, college entrance exams, and band practices, which all become a lot more complicated when wings and time-bending powers are involved.

But when angels start to disappear without a trace, the sisters must come to terms with their true identities to save them from a fate worse than death. With humanity’s future hanging in the balance, the newly appointed Archangels will discover there are things far more dangerous than demons in their strange, new world.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

A starfighter pilot and his AI girlfriend face off against a military conspiracy involving the secret of the universe in this new space opera.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

A newbie pilot with a secret, broken comms, an alien artifact, a piece of viral code, a lot of empty space. What can go wrong?

Jax, a freshly minted spaceship pilot had a simple job: taking a group of sick people to Rebels’ Republic space station to have their brain implants fixed while keeping her secret – secret. She had a smart plan to get it done: just some tweaking of the comms to make it look like an accident.

But her ship had some surprises aboard: two healthy passengers, who weren’t who they claimed to be, a real emergency, and a piece of virally spreading rogue code. Then… came some more problems…

Can a loner learn teamwork to survive and save the solar system from collapse?

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure