Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for March 16, 2024

IN THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE, HOW CAN A PERSON GO MISSING?

The year is 2187. Crucial Larsen, a veteran of the brutal Consolidation Wars, is working as a labor cop on Earth. The planet is a toxic dump and billions of people are miserable, but so what? It’s none of his business. He’s finally living a good life, or good enough.

But then Essential, his beloved kid sister, disappears on Mars. When Halo—the all-powerful artificial intelligence overseeing Earth and Mars on behalf of the Five Families—can’t (or won’t) locate his sister, Crucial races up-universe. In the Choke, the frigid, airless expanse outside the luxury domes, Crucial uncovers a deadly secret from Essential’s past.

Blending science-fiction with the classic, hard-boiled detective story, Gates of Mars is a page-turning, futuristic thrill ride from award-winning authors Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall.

Category: Science Fiction – Colonization

Human enhancement through DNA rewriting – quantum leap or Pandora’s Box? You decide. Rayner and his offbeat team of “professionals” fight off gray aliens and super soldiers as they race against the clock to save his kids and others from the shocking aftereffects of an EMP anomaly and the godless, anti-human forces behind it.

Category: Science Fiction – Genetic Engineering

When your life has a deadline, why play it safe? Without a cure, grav-walker Jasper Pine’s alien infection will shatter gravity and endanger the planet. A feral boy with a secret and a handsome stranger on an undercover mission are her last hope. But her time is running out. Gravity Girl is a gritty and poignant science fiction adventure.

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Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

“These books are like The Selection series meets The Cure series meets Princess Diaries.” Chosen for the royal Assemblages, Jorah Demir will have the opportunity to vie for the twin crown princes’ affections. She only has one goal: to avoid the crown princes and not, under any circumstances, form an attachment with either one of them.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

An irreverent, liberal, twisty, time travel comedy!

What if you could change history to eliminate slavery, World War II, the Spanish Inquisition, global warming, and an egomaniacal nuclear-bomb-dropping US president? What if that change also made 5 billion people poof from existence? Would you do it? Time Is Irreverent explores those questions, as benevolent aliens send Marty Mann to AD 31 to correct an error in history.

Spanning from the Cretaceous period to 2056, Time is Irreverent is a hilarious, thought-provoking satire, with unpredictable twists, colorful aliens, huge dinosaurs, a smokin’ hot lesbian from the future, and a cameo from Jesus Christ himself!

“Ironic, original, hysterically funny, deftly crafted, and an impressively entertaining read from first page to last”—Midwest Book Review

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

Reluctant hero, Stella Jayne Walsh, must embrace her superpowers or lose everyone she loves in this fast-paced space adventure. Can Stella let go of the life she knew and learn to trust her new team of misfits to stop the awakening of a slumbering force of evil? If you like Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy, this book is for you.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Dragons, Magic, and a Quest to Rule the World! The Sixth Kingdom is the College, the center of all knowledge, secrets, and wizardry. And it has a secret, a BIG one. One that is about to turn the world upside down. Senior Acolyte Fiach has his world rattled when he’s mind-bonded to a dragon and has to stop the College’s secret from being revealed. Can Fiach save himself, let alone his dragon? 4 BOOK FANTASY SERIES. All 4 books of the completed series have been published.

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Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

Eddie Burma is the wizard that people come to when they have a problem…but what happens when the problems come looking for him?

After seeing an old acquaintance murdered, Eddie lands back in his quiet hometown, only to end up in conflict with a criminal coven he thought was long gone.

He also needs to deal with an ancient spirit that has re-appeared after hundreds of years, the assassination attempts by magically enhanced hit teams, and the demon possessed bikers. Then he still needs to get to the undead evil behind it all. Meanwhile, the bodies keep piling up.

Amidst the chaos, he somehow needs to train up his new apprentice; a 16-year-old girl with far too much moxy and talent for her own good.

Finally, when Eddie’s problems take the shape of a terrifying, soul-sucking shaman, he has to put everything on the line in a desperate fight to keep himself and his loved ones alive.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban