Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for July 23, 2020

Gretchen is down on her luck, until she gets a commission from the King himself. A damsel is in distress. A prince is on his way. All is not as it seems. To skid to the finish line, he must face a wraith, goblins and a mighty dragon. But to get the gold, Gretchen must ensure he looks the part. Fairy tales are written by the victorious, after all.

Life is simple in Ben’s village until an unexpected attack brings the arrival of exciting strangers. Before he understands what is happening, the strangers have recruited his sister to go with them on an adventure. Ben leaves with them to ensure her safety. Soon, they venture into a more dangerous world than he ever imagined. Mages, demons, thieves, and assassins are just a few of the perils they will face on an epic journey to a city shrouded in myth and legend.

As the six volume series unfolds, the stakes get higher, and much more than Ben’s life is at risk. Against the backdrop of warring political, economic, and military factions, Ben and his friends battle a threat to all of mankind. Ben’s knowledge and skill grows, but he must decide if he will live under the control of the unscrupulous leaders who rule the land, flee from them, or break them.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

Something smells at Penrose’s Department Store and it isn’t sugarplums.

Christmas had always been a magical time for Rosalie, but not this year. The new manager introduces idiotic rules and steals the affections of the cute temp Santa. The worst is forcing employees into butt-ugly elf hats. The worst, that is, until Rosalie meets a real E.L.F. (Elemental Life Form) named David and gets lassoed into a desperate hunt for the stolen Naughty and Nice List. Now all Rosalie and David must do is dodge a murderous invisible demon and recover the missing artifact before hellhounds track them down. The couple race against time for without the magical guidance of the Naughty and Nice List, the world will tumble toward eternal chaos.

Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

After studying alien life in the seas of Europa, Kiara has become one of Earth’s foremost exobiology experts. Her research brings her to the attention of the Global Space Federation, which has a top-secret mission for her: an advanced alien civilization has been discovered in the depths of an icy planet five light-years from Earth, and Kiara is expected to join the crew making first contact.

Kiara has her hesitations, but as usual her scientific curiosity gets the better of her. She and her crew will be using experimental technology which establishes long-distance contact via a dream-reality beamed through a wormhole: the spacetime sequence. It’s even riskier than it sounds.

Of course, Kiara’s not the only one with hesitations about the GSF’s actions. And some of those people have the resources to do something about them.

Category: Science Fiction – First Contact

A Cat and his human minions fight to bring peace to humanity.

Compared to Andre Norton, the Free Trader series takes you to a colonized world across the galaxy where humans and their sentient creations struggle together to build a better world. Not everyone believes. Some believe that being stronger means they can take what they want. People suffer, until the Free Trader arrives. He only wants to trade, but the takers have other ideas.

Join the Free Trader as he journeys across the world of Vii in search of something better.

Category: Science Fiction – Colonization

Set in St Ives the Cornish boutique holiday resort this fast paced page turning adventure fantasy draws on the locality, traditions, religions and myths for its themes.

Starring Alexander Crowley a smart arsed shoot from the hip trickster (Supposedly the bastard Great Grandson of Aleister Crowley the 20th Century Occultist) who is on the run from his recent escapades.

He decides to lay low in a holiday home borrowed from a dubious benefactor and his swashbuckling adventures throughout the summer draw on supernatural foundations and circumstances that are well researched and contain a modicum of reality. From the minute he enters the town our hero is pitched at odds with the local mobsters, demons and deities.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Big, green, and ugly. Who says a troll can’t be the hero?

Punished for his toxic online behavior, Chad faces a thirty-day sentence of full-immersion therapy designed to improve his anger issues.

For his endless trolling in real life, he’s forced to play as a forest troll, the most hated race in Isle of Mythos, so that he can finally experience what it’s like to be on the other side.

To make matters worse, the heroes sent to rid the world of evil aren’t heroes at all—they’re violent felons on their own twisted paths to redemption.

Playing as a monster in a world where it ain’t easy being green, what could possibly go wrong?

Pick up this epic litRPG full of humor, action, and adventure today!

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery