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

Orphan, pirate, spy.

Before his murder, Jane Benedict’s father ordered her to memorize a mysterious code. Now, she and her brother, Will, are wards of United Earth Corporation. To evade the company’s deadly clutches, Jane leads Will on a desperate escape across the galaxy aboard the Freetrader smuggler ship, Solar Vortex. She discovers her father’s code identifies a secret cargo shipment. The trail leads to the planet Rimrock and the infamous prison complex of Golgotha. Undercover as a spy, Jane stumbles into a conspiracy that can spell doom for the entire Freetrader cause and the extinction of an alien race.

Piracy, intrigue, romance, and a daring rebellion from Earth wait on the planet Rimrock. Will Jane Benedict answer the call to adventure and find new purpose on the galactic rim or will death for high treason be her fate?

Sergeant Talon Stiler thought he’d been through hell. Then he got sent to Baker V.

Stiler thought he was out – discharged from the Terran Union Marines with all four limbs and a gold watch – until a devastating attack by the hated alien Dioscuri drags him right back in again. In a flash, a war fought on the frontier of human-controlled space comes close to home, pushing humanity to the brink.

Now responsible for the development of the Union’s most secretive weapon system, Stiler and his ragtag crew of Marines have one chance to turn the tide of the war. Their mission: rescue a stranded scientist who might have discovered the key to winning the war from an occupied planet deep behind enemy lines.

And that’s the easy bit…

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Category: Science Fiction – Military

The Best of 2023 Stories that Upend Genre Conventions
This anthology showcases 21 genre-busting stories to surprise even the most avid reader. Discover what talented authors can do with urban fantasy, westerns, romance, horror, sci-fi, mysteries, thrillers, and dystopian fiction. This collection proves that genre fiction doesn’t need to stay in one lane.

The repentant villain from a high fantasy tale goes on a blind date with a disillusioned heroine from a rom-com romance.

An interview with a werewolf, a vampire, and Frankenstein’s monster goes horribly wrong.

A South African city houses an insatiable beast—until its keeper takes a costly risk.

And so much more. Each entertaining tale offers you a chance to discover a new author of unconventional fiction that twists the tropes and crosses genre boundaries.

Category: Fantasy – Anthologies & Short Stories

On an abandoned oil rig in the middle of the ocean, a secret laboratory is conducting unthinkable research — and a biological weapon with petrifying implications for the human race has just been accidentally unleashed… A covert team races to prevent the apocalypse in this hair-raising collection!

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

His home broken into. His son slain. His daughter kidnapped. King Badron uses this to launch his final war against a long time foe. It is a war of dire consequences, for the dark gods stir once more and will stop at nothing to reclaim the world and bring all to ruin.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

A New Adult/College, Science-Fantasy Adventure Series – A colonization mission turns into a nightmare when the spaceship explodes, forcing the last two survivors down to an unknown planet. To their surprise, this world is not what they expected, and they are immediately caught up in the war between two medieval kingdoms. While Alexis is sent to fight, Duncan issues a winner-take-all challenge to the High Priest. The loser dies.

This is a revamping of a former series titled Wolf 359. The Misfit series is geared to a wider audience and age groups.

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Category: Fantasy – New Adult & College

Frozen in a dream for 8000 years … A Neolithic human is discovered trapped in ice carrying a mysterious cylinder. What story lays dormant in the Iceman’s brain? It will be up to a brilliant neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Cho to reveal the Iceman’s past where she finds the unexpected—an improbable love story and a dangerous link to another world.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

In an instant, an EMP attack plunges the nation into chaos.

Young parents Ethan and Brooke Spencer are on a romantic ski vacation in the Rockies when the lights go out, cars stall, and communications fail. Stranded eight hundred miles from home, they are desperate to return to their four-year-old twins and are willing to do whatever it takes to reach them.

When the lights go out, ordinary parents find themselves facing the end of the world as they know it. With chaos everywhere and society collapsing before their eyes, they’ll have to risk everything to get home to the people they love.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Discover the epic adventure of Genesis Horizon, a gripping sci-fi novel set in a dangerous new galaxy.

When the Citadel, a flagship colony vessel, is knocked off course by a dangerous space anomaly, the crew is left helpless in endless cryostasis.

But with the help of an unlikely hero, the ship is repaired and its course realigned. The citizens of the Citadel finally find a new home system filled with valuable ores and lush planets, and begin to peacefully rebuild their lives. However, this peace is soon shattered when a new faction of cybernetic brigands departs to begin their own legacy of violence and marauding.

In this thrilling novel based on the game universe created by The Citadel, join Cal and his crew as they embark on a perilous journey to uncover the valuable and tragic mysteries that the new galaxy holds.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure