Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for December 3, 2025

Two newborn twins carry the Shard, an ancient alien intelligence once mistaken for a disease. As an empire collapses, a royal family flees elite soldiers and operatives willing to burn entire worlds to seize what the twins carry in their blood. Their only refuge is Earth, a planet erased from galactic records and believed lost, but something older than civilization is waking beneath its surface. As the twins’ connection to the Shard grows, a truth emerges that could unite the galaxy or destroy it. They are the future of humanity or its extinction.

He comes, the Devil that would be God, but he will not arrive unopposed. Zerin, the kingdom’s greatest outlaw, joins a man-giant and a murderous pirate to confront the tyrant King and his Blood-Mage who are planning to bring forth a new demonic ruler, known only as The Usurper. It’s up to Zerin to rise to the challenge or watch his Empire perish.

Category: Dark Fantasy

The first novel of the Epic Space Opera meets Hard Sci-Fi series, The Spiral Wars.

The legend of the UFS Phoenix, Captain Erik Debogande and Marine Commander Major Trace Thakur begins.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Exploration

Incredibly vivid, magical, with rich regency enchantment, and a bewitching touch of strangeness, Seeker is a deeply immersive first-person novel.

Naomi Novik meets Georgette Heyer and Bernard Cornwell in this sumptuous tale by the dazzling new voice in Fantasy, Samuel Griffin.

Griffin does for regency era fantasy what Robin Hobb did for medieval: this isn’t just a fiction, this is a living and breathing world you dunk yourself in. An intimate journey with real characters. With incredible, enchanting wordcraft, and a beating heart of a story that will leave you breathless.

Category: Science Fiction – Steampunk

FROM MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JASPER T. SCOTT
Born to royalty, raised by corsairs, and bound by vengeance.
His destiny waits to be reclaimed.
Corvus Centauri rises from the ashes of betrayal and loss to carve his destiny among the stars. Once a child of noble blood, now a battle-hardened warrior raised among corsairs, Corvus must navigate a galaxy rife with treachery, ambition, and the haunting echoes of his past.
As he pieces together the mysteries behind his family’s fall, Corvus discovers long-buried secrets that could tip the balance of power in Frontier Space.
But to reclaim his birthright, Corvus must wield more than a blaster or a plasma sword—he must become a wise and cunning leader like his father, one that knows not only how to fight, but who to fight, and when not to. Will he rise to greatness, or sink into villainy in his quest for revenge?

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

A LEGENDARY FLEET
AND A GALAXY ON THE BRINK OF WAR
Corvus Centauri learned who betrayed his family at the same time as he discovered the location of Admiral Aberon Zane’s legendary missing fleet, but he isn’t the only one racing to claim its secrets. A Solari armada is en route to the fleet’s coordinates, while Corvus only has his father’s old, battered starship and his motley crew.

THE STAKES ARE ASTRONOMICAL
The lost fleet holds advanced research that could tip the balance of power in the galaxy. Whoever controls it will gain the ultimate edge in battle. With Corvus and his nemesis both converging on its location, the choices of a few will decide the fate of trillions.

DANGEROUS DISCOVERIES THREATEN THE GALAXY
Corvus Centauri and his crew found the legendary lost fleet, but they lacked the fuel to claim it, so Jorhan Solari seized its ships and their experimental jump tech for himself, vowing to use them to expand his empire.

THE DOMINION IS ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE
Meanwhile, a crisis surges at the heart of the Dominion, on Earth. Spiraling corruption and economic ruin have triggered rebellion across the outer worlds. To preserve unity, the Galactic Assembly invokes a meritorium: neural scans of every citizen will determine the Dominion’s next Supremark.

DESTINY CALLS
On returning to Frontier Space, Corvus discovered that his adoptive parents are alive. They are rallying a fleet against the clans that betrayed them, and they are asking their children to join the fight. Corvus also learned that he’s eligible to compete in the meritorium, and an unlikely prophecy claims he will become the next Supremark of the Dominion. Pulled in every direction at once, Corvus must decide which cause is worth fighting for.

Alliances will shatter, secrets will be exposed, and a war is coming. Can Corvus stop the galaxy from unraveling before it’s too late?

Star Empires is a sweeping space opera perfect for fans of The Expanse, Foundation, and Star Wars.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Deirdre Buford rides her Soul Horse across a shattered and collapsed America to find her stolen sister. Forced to team up with a wandering photographer she grows to love, she’s driven toward a showdown with her sister’s captors—and must seek help from the Nations, who know her only as their feared foe: Crazy Hawk.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

The city of Bridunum is besieged.

Saorlach the demigod leads an army of thousands to its walls, eager to pillage and kill. Covered from head to toe in tattooed runes, he bears the blessing of the gods. No weapon can pierce his skin.

One by one, Saorlach challenges Bridunum’s champions, taunting and killing them at will. Heroes fall. Morale weakens.

Only one man can stand against him.

Athewain, a lowly shepherd of Logren’s countryside, longs for a life of heroic adventure. When Saorlach’s warriors slaughter his village, he sets out for vengeance, assisted by a long-forgotten god known as the Maker.

Now, Athewain must wield the power of this unknown deity to defeat his divinely-protected enemy.

But there are enemies within Bridunum as well as without. And the gods do not forgive.

If Athewain fails, his dream of justice dies with him. And all of Logren will fall to ruin

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Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

It was supposed to be a simple double-cross.

When things go wrong, Eliard Martin, captain of the infamous Mercury Blade, and his crew find themselves caught between two opposing forces trying to rule the galaxy. They must ally with one to defeat the other and save themselves. In the end, they just might find that their interests don’t align with either. Can the crew of the Mercury Blade fly their way to freedom and save the galaxy or will they be crushed by the opposing forces seeking rule them all?

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

A thief is captured by an Empire that burns witches and silences rebels. Sent to die in the cursed mountains, Kyit is saved—and claimed—by a silent, inhuman knight. To survive him, she must wield forbidden magic, buried memories, and her own growing hunger for the monster who guards her.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

At the end of a devastating war, humanity formally banned all weapons of mass destruction from space. One man warned of the dangers which lay down that road.

He was ignored.

Now, someone has broken the Lunar Accords. Armed ships ambush merchants travelling between Mars and the Belt, but that is only the tip of the conspiracy. Thomas, a young ship captain, finds himself in the midst of growing danger.

One man has prepared for this; Thomas’s estranged father, Admiral Nicholas Stein. Hero and villain of the last great war, he has spent decades preparing for the conflict he always knew was coming.

Now he and Thomas are all that stand between humanity and a ruthless enemy who will stop at nothing to control space – and from there, to enslave us all.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera