Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for March 11, 2023

Stealing the deadly Virtue of War might have been the greatest heist of her thieving career, except that she was captured. Now a prisoner of the Ascendency, Kaylin finds herself whisked away from Earth and taken to the alien planet Skarlin, where the universe’s top scientists are working to replicate the deadly technology used in the Virtues.

If they’re successful, the Ascendency will become unstoppable.

That leaves Kaylin with only one option—break free from her captors and sabotage their labs, destroying the Virtues once and for all. It seems like an impossible task. But luckily, those are her specialty.

This is the story of the twin daughters of a living legend, the Queen of Aerianna. To their delight, they have been given permission to partake in their first solo adventure. They have decided to visit a small planetoid in the Andromeda Galaxy. What they don’t know is that the planetoid is home to the Infinite Requiem of Scientific Insufficiencies – a curious institution dedicated to repurposing failed scientific experiments. It is run by a sentient robot called an ALF Prime.

Their visit doesn’t go quite as planned. The other guests who happen to be visiting are a class of exceptionally bright students from a prestigious academy. One of them is P’yxx, an elfin-like being who teams with our twins to avert a galactic-wide catastrophe caused by a practical joke gone terribly wrong.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

Reading books can get you killed! In a land where magic is cast by reading words of power from rare Spoken Books, only the wealthy few are literate. But when a slave named Baztian learns to read, he’ll become the symbol of an uprising, whether he wants to be or not.
The start of an epic fantasy series that reviewers have called “Sanderson-esque” and praised for “realistic, believable characters set in a fascinating world.” Start the Spoken Books Uprising today!

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

Somehow, Baz survived the Acktus Trials and kept his secret safe… for now. But hanging over his head is that little promise he made to the Keepers of Under Tome: find the long-lost prophecy of the savior who will lead Oration’s slaves to freedom.
When Baz is forced to accompany his master on a diplomatic mission to address a recent slave revolt, Baz unexpectedly has an opportunity to search for that prophecy. Quickly, he finds himself at the center of a rebellion he’s unsure he wants to join, but is equally unsure he can escape. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, Baz discovers that the most powerful man in Oration not only holds a secret that could destroy all the land, but also knows Baz’s own.
Surrounded by enemies and friends he can’t trust, can Baz survive, find the prophecy, and keep his secret safe?

When the rules of war keep changing, fight for each other…

Humanity has been banished to a distant star. Left to fight over resources rationed to them by mysterious machine-overlords known as Wardens.

Commander Rylan Holt labors against inter-colony arms trafficking when an informant gives him horrific news. The ruthless cartel boss, Lilith, has stockpiled outlawed weapons of mass destruction.

Worse, she claims to have permission from the Wardens to unleash them upon the system.

When the battleship Audacity speeds to investigate Rylan’s discovery, operations officer Scott Carrick finds himself in a trap more deadly than he could have ever imagined. His only hope of escape may lie with their most junior crewmember, a nurse named Aila Okuma, who’s never seen battle.

Category: Science Fiction – Military

A century ago, my family was the elite of the magical community, the backbone of the mages. Then came the plague and the war, ravaging the world. When it was finally over, the mage Houses came out of hiding and divided the resources left.
Now, I live on the fringes of society, stealing to provide for my aunt and brother. But today is the day that things will change. With the end of the term and an opportunity to work for the best firm not owned by the supernaturals, life is finally looking up.
Except, when life seems too good to be true, that’s because it is.
Blackmailed and backed into a corner, I have no choice but to pull one last heist.
Success means exposing my forbidden magic, but failure can cost me the lives of everyone I love.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

A program designed to protect us. A malfunction that could obliterate us all.

When the US comes under attack from an AI program its government built in secret, IT specialist Terre Hoffman learns firsthand how deadly the program can be; with one strike, the machines decimate Terre’s entire family. As Terre comes to terms with the loss, he is assigned to investigate the AI anomalies and bring the bots back under control.

Under pressure and under attack, the two experts only have one shot at success—override the network and shut down the Guardian Program.

With everything on the line, Terre must overcome the pain of losing his loved ones in order to stop the war machines from causing absolute destruction. If they fail, it means handing over complete control to the very machines designed to protect them … but bent on killing them instead.

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Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Death by either man or bot is still death all the same.

Following the crippling robot attack on San Francisco, Terre Hoffman is haunted by the lasting scars born from the failings of the Guardian Program. Uncertain of the success of their efforts to patch the glitches that turned the military’s war machines on their own people, Terre and his colleague, robotics specialist Kristopher Klein, have parted ways with the CIA, hoping to put the harrowing experience—and the bots that caused it—behind them.

On vacation in Sin City, Terre drowns his sorrows as he looks to a future without his family. But when an ominous power outage plunges Vegas into chaos, Terre receives a call from his old employer asking him to return to duty. The bots are malfunctioning again, and an installation at the Hoover Dam holds the secret.

And, most worrying of all, Kristopher is somehow involved …

The Coven of Worlds is splintering, and a galactic war is inevitable. It’s your typical fight between good and evil. The bad guys have the superior force, but the good guys have the newly reconstituted Hameggattic Sisterhood. Smart money is on the women.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure