Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for July 7, 2023

The Empire will kill him for stealing this ship… but they have to catch it first!

To the Empire the Wanderer was just another booby-trapped ship to claim, and Jess was just another worthless slave to be sacrificed.

Things didn’t go to plan. Jess survived the dangers and when he sat in the pilot’s chair the ancient ship came to life for the first time in centuries. Acting on instinct, he seized the chance, firing up the engines and fleeing the Imperial forces.

Now Jess and the ancient self-aware ship are on the run, their freedom and their very existence on the line.

Tens of thousands of people have loved travelling with the Wanderer. Get Wanderer’s Escape now to find out why.

Lucy’s luck isn’t just bad, it’s a curse. Bound in the throes of magical sarcasm, she races for an ancient relic to break her magical bond with undercover agent Malware Tanaka. Yet a dark djinni remains two steps ahead of them. On an exhilarating quest for Rasputin’s bones, Lucy must make a choice: free Malware or break her bad luck curse.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

THEIR CRUISE SHIP JUMPED TO THE WRONG STAR SYSTEM
Liam Price and his family are on a cruise to the exotic world of Aquaria in the Kepler star system. But soon after the voyage starts, they learn that they’ve somehow jumped to the wrong star system. Liam consults the ship’s computer to determine their location, but he can’t access that information. The captain claims that there’s nothing to worry about, but Liam wonders: if there’s nothing to worry about, why restrict access to the ship’s nav data?

Before they can learn more, the ship plunges into darkness, and suddenly the cruise of a lifetime turns into a trip to hell. As the crisis unfolds, Liam and his family are thrust into the middle of a deadly conspiracy and a desperate struggle for survival.
Into the Unknown is a mystery thriller set in space, perfect for fans of Michael Crichton, Suzanne Collins, and Arthur C. Clark.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Exploration

In 2035, Dr. Janet Hogan makes a stunning discovery: every one of earth’s nine billion inhabitants has become infected by five species of naturally-mutated viruses; viruses that hadn’t infected humans before. And everyone is now immortal.
Or are they? By the time Janet learns this immortality is an illusion, it’s too late to change people’s beliefs. Some love her for creating this miracle and the coming paradise they long for. Others hate her for what they see ahead: immoral behavior without consequences, overpopulation, famine, and worse. Zealots demand that she save people’s souls, humanity, the earth… or the viruses. Or else.
Janet realizes this awful truth: no matter what she does, no matter what anyone else wants, sooner or later, billions will die and she’ll be blamed. Will she live long enough to find a way out of this trap?
Meanwhile, the viruses are still mutating. And no one

Category: Hard Science Fiction

The Eternity Plague has entered a new phase: virtually everyone around the globe is being encased in a chrysalis and no one has any idea what people will be like after they hatch. Will they even be human?
A small group of people in Raleigh, North Carolina, who haven’t chrysalized struggle to stay alive after society collapses around them. And they wait, and wonder: what will emerge?

I’m one of a kind. Or I will be if I survive my first shift.

Sometimes life makes you take a path you never meant to. It’s called fate.
My whole life we’ve been moving from place to place to hide that we were witches from the world.
At least that’s what my mother told me.

But then, this gorgeous guy shows up in our small town and tells me that on the next full moon, I will turn into a wolf.
What he and my mother neglected to tell me was that no girl half-witch and half-wolf could survive the shift.
My kind was cursed more than two hundred years ago.
I wasn’t allowed to exist.

And if by some miracle I could survive the transition, I will become all the packs’ and covens’ nightmare and they all will try to catch and kill me.
Why? That’s a different question for another day that I’m dying to find the answer to.
And I will if I survive the shift.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

An epic fantasy adventure story. In a medieval world humans struggle to survive fighting wars against goblins, orcs, and other creatures.
Tor takes on a task to work for a merchant he met that turns out to be a wizard with ties to a strong guild. As he recovers items during his adventures, he gains strength and experience. Tor and his friends are thrust into battles with the goblins and a new goblin human war may be starting. Will Tor and his friends be able to prevent the conflict, or if its inevitable will they all survive? First three chapters are free

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Delve into a world where dragons and mortals bind…
The realm of Drinnglennin is poised on the cusp of chaos, for their High King is dying and has yet to name an heir. Rumors abound that the Helgrins, Drinnglennin’s bitterest foes, are preparing their longboats to raid their shores, while the å Livåri folk, for whom the island kingdom is the last sanctuary, are mysteriously disappearing. And in distant Belestar, the fabled dragons are stirring from their self-imposed exile.
Drinnglennin’s hopes lie with the wizard Morgan, who must safeguard the king’s possible heirs, all of whom are coming of age. Yet a dangerously powerful house seeks the succession for one of their own, even if it means disrupting the fragile peace of the realm.
One thing is certain: whoever next sits on the Einhorn Throne will determine the fate not only of Drinnglennin, but of all who dwell in the Known World.

Category: Fantasy – Epic