Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for July 31, 2023

Interstellar con man Rex Nihilo and his long-suffering robot sidekick Sasha are back, and they’re neck-deep in their most outrageous scam yet: selling black market planets!

Terraforming uninhabitable planets and selling them to criminals right under the nose of the repressive interstellar Malarchy is good work if you can get it, but there’s a price: as the pair’s profits soar, they find themselves on the run from… well, pretty much everybody. Rex and Sasha hop from planet to planet, with nothing but their wits and a motley crew of loyal friends to keep them alive.

But when their antics draw the attention of an ancient intelligence determined to wipe humanity from the galaxy, they put their moneymaking plans on hold–and team up with their biggest rival–to save the galaxy once again.

First contact.
A galactic test.
One desperate chance to save humanity.

Tarek Kutriah completely believes AI is the future. Driven to transform himself into the most intelligent being on Earth, the NASA scientist has implanted a permanent brain-computer interface directly into his skull. So when aliens invade and demand humans prove their right to exist, he accepts the challenge… and immediately fails.

Susan Ma Ash is running for her life. Known by her nickname “SMASH,” the over-achieving high schooler is in the middle of a cross country race when it’s interrupted by a hostile extraterrestrial invasion. And now trapped in Houston under an impermeable dome, the take-charge teenager helps her best friend escape brutal attacks.

Are they witnessing the beginning of the end of civilization?

Read SMASH to find out.

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion

An accident is all it takes to turn my mundane life in a London children’s home upside down.

Power and magic lurk at the priory, my new home in the Oxfordshire countryside, and I learn fast that nothing is ordinary around here. Not my newfound family—the Penhaligons. Not my long-lost twin sister. And not the hostile new neighbours—a coven of vampires, vaewolves and demons.

As I grapple with family secrets, four powerful new brothers, and latent abilities of my own, my sister and the man who raised her find themselves in mortal danger—a danger that draws me and my family into a battle to save them.

Finally embracing the meaning of family, two questions burn at the back of my mind.

If vampires and demons exist, what are the Penhaligons?

And what am I?

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Rookie superhero Spitball is out to prove his mettle to the world. And to himself. If he doesn’t get eaten first…

Luke Gillis is barely dragging himself through college. Of course, if he wrote term papers the way he thrashed bank robbers, he’d probably be a doctor by now.

His mentor is the Miracle Worker. Yes, that Miracle Worker. Some say he’s more outlaw than hero, but beggars can’t be choosers.

Still, he must be doing something right. The U.S. Army has invited his alter ego—the dashing speedster Spitball—on a top-secret mission. With the country’s premier superhero team missing-in-action, this could be his big break.

What he doesn’t know is this will be the most important lesson of his life, what being a hero is really all about. If it doesn’t kill him.

Category: Fantasy – Superhero

A sinister funhouse, apocalyptic cultists, and a mutant crime war. Suit up, hero. It’s going to be a busy day.

It’s a lovely day for a summer carnival. The sun is out, the Twinkies are deep-fried, and romance is in the air. Luke Gillis (a.k.a. Spitball) finally musters the courage to ask his lab partner out on a date. But with a shape-shifting villain on the loose, his timing couldn’t be worse…

Red Mantis is determined to shatter a kidnapping ring, but can he do it alone?

Gabriel Simonson and Xavier Remy are inner circle henchmen of the infamous Warlocke. Until a crime war threatens to kill them and half of California.

Six top-secret superhero origin stories that lay the foundations of the Identity Crisis Universe!

Invisible boundaries have isolated Cor’s village for centuries. He accidentally discovers a way out.

What he finds outside is a blighted and violent world in decline—and he is tasked with fixing it, together with several fellow wanderers. They soon acquire the power to cross the boundaries fragmenting the world.

And what they find waiting on the other side endangers life itself … but also just might save it.

Category: Fantasy – Epic