Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for July 22, 2022

In a white desert at a time of famine, Kit is among the starving children who beg and thieve the streets. Until one day, she discovers she has the makings of a great knight. Becoming a knight would bring her family wealth and prestige, but it also means risking her life to pass the Tests…

“Reading Books can get you killed.”

In Oration, magic is cast by reading aloud words of power from Spoken Books. The catch? Books are hoarded by a small, elite faction of society and no one else is ever taught to read.

Baztian is a slave to one of Oration’s poorer Libraries. He’s content with the relative safety of anonymity, but when he learns to read, he’ll become the symbol of an uprising, whether he wants to be or not…

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

Twin sisters. One destined to rule; the other destined to fight. A quest that will destroy the fabric of magic.

Princess Naomi, the rightful heir of Wildbriar, learned at a very young age she must neglect her heart in favor of duty, even as she jealously watches her twin sister, Nayeli, do as she pleases.

But the seemingly carefree Princess Nayeli, the King’s Champion, has duties of her own. Despite her passion for training with the soldiers, Nayeli nonetheless dreads the day she’ll become Commander of Naomi’s army and be forced to uphold their father’s legacy—to protect Wildbriar from the war currently raging between three powerful kingdoms on the other side of the continent.

During their eighteenth birthday celebration, the castle is attacked by unknown rogues—and Naomi is poisoned.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

Ao never believed in monsters; not when everyone sees him as one. What he does believe in: his guilt in a crime he can’t remember committing. The punishment: death—if one man hadn’t saved him. Now an exile, he lives, dedicated to his savior.

Ten years pass. The earth, still hurting from its last great war, heals. But peace can never remain undisturbed.

When the Talarians arrive, a celebration becomes a bloodbath. Soldiers kill the chief, burn the village, and kidnap Ao’s mentor. Ao might be free but he remains alone.

Ao vows to rescue him no matter the cost. He knows the risks. He knows the dangers. But never would he know that someday, somehow, he would finally believe in monsters.

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Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Escaping a monster. Killing a king. Ao thought he was free.

Two months after the Spades’ raid, Ao and the Legionnaires discover a plot that could destroy the Legion: an alliance between Talus and Harena, two of the most powerful nations in the world. The accord is all but official. Regicide is their only option.

But when a betrayal frames Ao as the killer and turns Harena against the Legion, Ao must ally with the Spades once more. Together, they must wrest the capitol from Talus’ control. Fail, and not only will his friends fall, but an entire nation will too. Worse, a familiar horror has finally caught up to him.

Ao escaped nothing at all.

They want Felix Lasko to solve a murder while getting chased by coyotes, one-eyed assassins, and killer robots. He’d say no, but that’s not an option—since they’ll kill him outright if he refuses.

Felix had always dreamed of becoming a detective: just not at gunpoint. Besides the hot lead motivation, solving the murder of Jeff Hense will get him a ticket into Neotopia. It’s the last city on the planet with power, and he’s run hundreds of miles only to get stuck outside its blue forcefield dome.

He’ll need to get through a brothel-ship wedged into a cliffside, and a gang of violent criminals called the Mayors. All while avoiding instant death by a deadly piece of Tek known only as the Scream Ray.

Whatever the odds, he’s done running. He’ll get into Neotopia even if it kills him.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Dragon riding, fae illusions, dark magic and a forbidden romance.

Bells, a poor fae who works on a farm outside the protections of the dragon city, never planned to go on a quest. But when trolls attack her family, she goes to the city for help. Instead, she finds herself teaming up with the one dragon she knows: Jaekob.

Years ago, dragons rose up to bring peace to the city and the surrounding area- and now Jaekob, a dragon heir, believes there’s no reason for further involvement. But when the dark elves infect his city with a virus unlike anything he’s ever seen, he knows they need a solution. Now.

The sword of peace.

The one thing that can help them both- or so the legends say. If a highborn dragon and a fae of the lowest class can overcome their prejudices and combine their magic, they might be able to gain the sword.

Of course, it might be nothing more than a myth.

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Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

In a not-so-distant future, a mysterious phenomenon causes women to outnumber men 7 to 1. Threatened by this, the government strips women of their rights, leading to a nationwide revolution that brings America to its knees. What will happen when one woman with a tragic past has had enough?

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

2242. America is defending itself against a foreign invasion from the tratos people. The enemy fleet is met orbiting planet Geldon by the Starfleet Independence – where a series of gargantuan battles will devastate both sides. From the marines on the ground to the fighter pilots to the admirals in command – live every facet of the action in this pulse-pounding military SF novel by genre writer Dalton Lewis.

Category: Science Fiction – Military