Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for July 12, 2019

When you come home from boarding school, you probably expect a hug from your parents, maybe a party with your old friends, definitely to sleep in your own bed again.

But coming home from an alien boarding school (a.k.a. Cadet Training, a.k.a. galactic hostage situation)…

Well, your parents aren’t allowed contact until you’ve “re-entered,” your friends are too busy trying to figure out if you’re still human to throw a party, and your bed was burned for heat when LA experienced its first post-event winter.

My homecoming sucks, is what I’m saying.

My friends and I had no choice but to go with the aliens, and it would have been stupid to reject the education they were giving us. But I’m still loyal to humanity. I’m still me.

Even if the tattoo on my face and the alien gripping my shoulder say otherwise.

Political propaganda would have us believe vampires are our friends. Fanged teddy bears misunderstood thanks to archaic lore. Activists picket for them to be welcomed into our society.

They claim vamps don’t kill.
They preach we are safe.
They … are dead wrong.

One year ago a hive slaughtered my family and left me for dead. Found by a team of scientists with their own agenda, I was forged into an unstoppable weapon.

I possess their strength, with none of their weaknesses.
I can move among them free from their crippling hunger.
I am their greatest threat.

Armed with this arsenal, vengeance will feed my desire to penetrate the seedy underbelly of their fetishized lifestyle and expose them for the monsters they truly are.

“The writing is brilliant along with the plot. It was a different twist from all the other vampire novels I’ve read and it was fantastic.” USA

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

“Tell us how we get back home.”
“You don’t. There’s no way to go back.”

What started as a pleasant hiking trip turns into the adventure of a lifetime for Lydia and her friends. It’s an adventure they never expected. After walking through a magical gateway, they arrive in the world of Adylra. Navigating this new world becomes difficult when they get pulled into events they don’t understand.

While her friends search for a way back home, Lydia tries to hide the growing power inside her. She doesn’t know who she can trust, her friends from home, or the new friend she finds in Aidric, Prince of the Kingdom of Thavell. As she struggles to keep her growing powers under control, she realizes she may be the reason they arrived here. And she may be the reason they can’t get back home.

Join Lydia and her friends as they embark on their adventures in Adylra. Buy Gatebreaker now.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

What if being a hero was encoded in your genes?

And nobody told you?

Casmir Dabrowski would laugh if someone asked him that. After all, he had to build a robot to protect himself from bullies when he was in school.

Fortunately, life is a little better these days. He’s an accomplished robotics engineer, a respected professor, and he almost never gets picked on in the lunchroom. But he’s positive heroics are for other people.

Until robot assassins stride onto campus and try to kill him.

Forced to flee the work he loves and the only home he’s ever known, Casmir catches the first ship into space, where he hopes to buy time to figure out who wants him dead and why. If he can’t, he’ll never be able to return home.

But he soon finds himself entangled with bounty hunters, mercenaries, and pirates, including the most feared criminal in the Star Kingdom: Captain Tenebris Rache.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

It didn’t happen overnight, not like in the movies.

I mean, it took more than a year before anybody looked up from their smartphones long enough to wonder why so many of their neighbors were infected. Why so many were dying.

The vaccination riots came and went. The grocery store shelves emptied out. The spigots eventually ran dry. That was around the time I moved underground and sealed the hatch on my backyard bunker.

That was a couple of years ago.

Now, my radio hasn’t picked up a signal from the world up top since I can’t remember when. My exterior camera died in a storm last spring. And the loneliness has set in, gnawing at me, making me think crazy thoughts, including the one that’ll change everything.

I have to leave the bunker and see if anyone is left alive.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

On the eve of Humanity’s first great journey beyond our solar system, tragedy strikes. Hostile ships arrive, attacking the fledgling fleet and decimating it with ease. Only the intervention of strangers, benevolent aliens prevents the total annihilation of not only the starships, but the planet itself.

Category: Science Fiction – Colonization