Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for July 24, 2020

He awoke in a four-foot-high slave hold…

Rene must escape, but to where?

The North Atlantic, 1672. Though trained with a sword from childhood, one sword against a slaver’s crew in the middle of the ocean will not be enough. Having defended his friends, he is drugged and kidnapped at the whim of a wealthy nobleman. To return home will demand knowledge, allies, and an ancient memory to say nothing of a journey across the face of the known world. But first he must survive and escape a slave ship in the midst of the ocean.

Rapier sharp pulse pounding action across the warp and weave of the seventeenth century. Sailing ships, pirates, and past lives contend in this first book of a page turning trilogy.

Where the distance to one’s enemies was measured by the length of a rapier’s blade.

Turns out, punching zombie bears is fun.
Who knew?

Enter the world of Metamorphosis Online, a fully immersive video game where players compete for spots in the Global Top 10—ranks that actually pay you to play the game.

You Need A Bigger Sword:

Broke, single, and working a crappy job as a blackjack dealer, Gracie’s just blowing off steam and having fun.

Can playing a new type of immersive game help her overcome real-life issues, or will it cause more problems?

Before she knows it, Gracie has intervened in a generations-long war between the kobolds and the fae and started a ragtag guild, and her weird math abilities make themselves known in a way that most could not have imagined.

Can she deal with being pitted against the game developers?

For the first time Gracie can remember, she has something worth fighting for.

Category: Science Fiction – TV, Movie, Video Game Adaptations

From the pages of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress anthologies comes Justice Anthea and Brother Luc’s first full-length adventure…

The Reverend Mother’s machinations left Anthea as the chief justice in her home city of Orrin, a post she despises. Even worse, a messenger from Duke Marco interrupts her breakfast. Again. This time, the duke’s retainers found a body in a wine barrel at the duke’s estate. The body of a priestess from the Temple of Love.

In trying to solve the bizarre murder, Anthea and Luc stumble across a massive conspiracy to eliminate the Twelve Temples, the only thing standing between the human race and another demon invasion.

Will swords, magic, and wits be enough to stop the renegades?

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Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

His orders: defend a team of civilians from an enemy he cannot see.

Sgt. Miles Reardon has the sharpest vision of anyone alive, although it comes at a price: he sees only shades of gray. He grew up being taunted, embarrassed, and blamed for mistakes where color was a factor. He buried his feelings in order to survive, and eventually found the perfect job as sniper.

That changes when a man in Antarctica becomes infected by a colored rash that shifts in unusual patterns. It spreads by absorbing color from its environment, leaving its surroundings as gray as a black-and-white photograph. As the rash grows, it bestows extraordinary and dangerous abilities on the man. The US government moves him to a colorless isolation vault in a secure biohazard facility and assembles a diverse team to study him.
Miles gets the task of keeping them safe.

Category: Science Fiction – Military

In the Awakened World of twenty-first-century North America, the Fey Sleep no longer hides magic from humankind–but many wish it did. Their uneasy truce with fairies, elves, and other supernatural creatures is fragile at best, and without functioning technology, every day is a struggle for survival. Angie Ritter is an involuntarily retired combat mage battling the demons of PTSD as well as literal monsters. When a mysterious blood cult begins hunting her werewolf colleagues, she’s pressed back into service to save them. Will her sword and sorcery be any match for Shrike helicopters and machine guns? This action-packed military fantasy will leave you breathless.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Deception Well is a world on the edge, a lone surviving outpost at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization has fallen to ruins. Powerful telescopes can see only dust and debris where once there were orbital mega-structures so huge they eclipsed the light of their parent stars.

Now a determined crew has resolved to cross the light years. Their goal: To explore the fallen worlds of old and discover what monstrous life might have grown up among the ruins. EDGES is a far-future space-faring adventure from the award-winning author of VAST.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Exploration

A plague of unknown origin has returned the dead to life. These undead attackers—carriers of a lethal virus that turns anyone who is bitten into one of their own—possess a singular purpose. Destroy the world of the living.

In the earliest days of the outbreak major metropolitan areas were the first to fall. Miller, a Captain in the United States Army was part of a top-secret mission to help quell an indeterminate threat rising on the eastern seaboard.

Their mission was a failure. Philadelphia was overrun with a legion of reanimated corpses. The city was a complete loss.

Miller’s unit was left roaming, battered, and broken. They fled east hoping to join up with the remnants of other units massing near DC. The undead population of Philadelphia followed.

Their journey was interrupted when they stumbled upon a small out-of-the-way town called Pepperbush.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic