Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for July 16, 2023

Harry Stubbs, an up-and-coming heavyweight boxer, takes on a dare to explore a disused amusement park attraction. The fake mine is said to be haunted by something with a craving for human blood, but Harry does not believe a word of it, and he’s not afraid of anything or anyone. The weird horror he encounters will change his mind — and Harry will need to use his brains as well as his piledriver punches if he is to survive

Hugo Strand dreams of seeing the world, becoming a travel writer, and making something of himself. But with little money, a fragile mother to care for, and the memories of his drowned father to haunt him, he fears he’ll be stuck on Shale Island forever – a place where storms and churning seas fuel whispers of the sea gods, said to awaken every thousand years.

When a sea monster attacks the sea-train, cutting Shale off from the mainland, what was once myth becomes reality. Teaming up with archaeologist Alma Merneith, Hugo sets out to investigate a strange affliction driving the islanders to madness and death.

Their search uncovers a force beyond imagining. Hugo must battle his lifelong fear of the sea, and Alma must put her archaeological knowledge to the test, to overcome a monstrous legend wearing a crown made of bones…

Category: Dark Fantasy

Embark on an epic urban fantasy adventure with reimagined divine beings in this alternate telling of one of humanity’s famed creation stories.

Adonai and Helel are divine creators, equal and co-existing on their cosmic realm of Alegion. Yet when an unforeseen clash of wills in how to govern the subspecies of humankind on the planet of Eden reaches a breaking point, one creator deceives the other.

Now banished to Eden, the only way to end this conflict is for the fallen one to lure the other onto Eden where a death blow can be administered.

For thousands of years, a veiled and methodical war ravages the plane of humanity. Notable landscapes are explored, resurrected, and manipulated. New and familiar historical characters, along with pivotal scenes throughout civilization, are remixed in this introspective and violent biblical-like saga.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

When war comes after a century of peace, it is sudden and brutal. Taken by surprise Earth’s far-flung colonies are in danger.

The only son of an admiral, Second Lieutenant Michael Sheridan finds himself thrust into a desperate conflict that he and the untried soldiers under his command are not ready for. Focusing on the people struggling to survive the onslaught, First Strike is a novel that propels the reader to the furthest limits of space. Fighting a ruthless and determined enemy, Sheridan soon learns the brutal lessons of war and that his enemy may not be what it appears to be.

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Category: Science Fiction – Military

Exiled, excommunicated, and with a bounty on his head, Athelas is lying low in Seoul for exactly one reason: he has a wedding to attend. Whether or not he’s welcome is another matter.

Luckily for Athelas, several bodies have turned up with their soft insides gnawed out—and the latest of those bodies is at the very wedding hall he has been staking out. The Behindkind investigators suspect one of Athelas’ housemates: YeoWoo, a gumiho with a thirst for revenge and an even greater appetite for soft underbelly than Athelas. To buy herself time, YeoWoo barters alibis with the suspiciously quiet fae sharing her house, but to remain free, she must find the real murderer.

By joining her, Athelas has exactly the chance he needs to prove that he is now a repentant, changed, and selfless fae…no matter how many Behindkind and humans he has to cut through to confirm that impression…

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

A Tragedy more beautiful than Revenge.

In the dark tomorrow of 2049, two worlds wrapped in one have tolerated and collided with one another for generations. The Unified Taskforce becoming one to represent the first world, the world you and I live in day to day, and then there is the second. A underworld society that reigns in the shadows. Thriving in war and chaos… But there are two sides to every war. Only a fool would believe conflict is ever so simple.

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Category: Science Fiction – Cyberpunk