Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 12, 2021

Introverted, intuitive healer, Jada “Jey” Grey has nothing left to lose. Her skills and knowledge couldn’t save her mother from a manmade virus and in 2071 the heat index is reaching crippling levels. When Jey stumbles upon an opportunity to launch from Earth, she feels compelled to go.

The mission—to create a new colony on an unexplored exoplanet—fits right in with her dreams. Her friendship with a clairvoyant child onboard the ship, her growing empathic abilities, and her attempts at love spark an unfamiliar hope.

But when a rival corporation sabotages their ship, and their target planet is a wasteland, Jey must set aside her old self-destructive patterns and take a leap into a new way of being—and seeing. Her connection to the seeds and plants changes everything. Can she convince the other colonists that her clairvoyant vision is exactly what they need?

A fully immersive virtual reality system. A beta testing opportunity that’s the stuff of dreams – or a nightmare that may never end.

Jack Owens has logged tens of thousands of hours on Marshfield Studio games. So he’s not surprised when the company hires him to be one of their first beta testers for the newly developed Dagger of Doom series.

Jack doesn’t think twice when the techs strap him into a VR apparatus and transfer his consciousness to the new world. He’s got a return switch. He can come back any time.

Except, he can’t. A bug in the software has trapped him. And the only way out is to finish the game.

Step one? Find the great MacGuffin. Step two? Get the h*ll out of here.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

An absorbing, imaginative retelling of The Little Mermaid! Forced to hide her ability to breathe underwater, Aria’s only escape from her difficult reality is The Colonists, a livestream of life on Mars. But when she gets the chance to join the colony, she’s plunged into a world of adventure, romance, and danger…

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Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

Extermination Day – January 15, 2038 – The day the world dies. It begins with a surprise meteor shower. Within hours millions become sick. The horrible virus quickly spreads, killing everyone in its path. Remnants of world governments soon discover that this is no ordinary virus. It was engineered to eradicate the human race.

Congressman Jeff Madison is one of the few surviving members of the US government. He and a team of scientists at a secret underground base must figure out who is behind the attack. Their only hope may be Project Chronos, the world’s first operational time machine.

Jeff and his team need to find a way to go back in time and warn humanity of the coming apocalypse. But what can they do when the very air they breathe can kill them, an overwhelming malevolent force is hunting them, and a traitor is undermining their efforts at every turn?

It’s a fight for survival throughout time with humanity’s past, present, and future at stake.

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Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

In this sequel to the post apocalyptic thriller, Extermination Day, the world waits quietly for the deadly virus to return. Only this time they are prepared thanks to time travelers from the future. Or so they think.

When something they believed had been destroyed emerges from the ground, Jeff Madison, Holly Scarborough, and Lieutenant Commander Buddy Paulson must join forces to stop it. As they are preparing to fight, another deadly threat emerges, this one completely unexpected, hiding its lethality in the form of an innocent.

Jeff Madison never wanted to be a hero. He never wanted to see his friends and family die. He never wanted to time travel into the past to try and save humanity from a deadly virus in the future. But the evil that attacked the world left him with no choice. He’s always been a fighter. Now is his time to fight.

Jeff and the others think they know what is coming on Extermination Day. They’ve had a lifetime to prepare for the onslaught. The days turn into years, and each passing moment brings the Apocalypse closer. But when the time finally arrives, no one is expecting what comes next.

Solar Storm is 280 page novel for those wanting a story that relates how the average citizen—not a super-soldier—reacts and adapts in a nationwide grid-down situation in contrast to his wife, an airline pilot, and his daughter, a college student. It is the story of change, survival, and ultimately the strength of one man’s love for his family.

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Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

Welcome to Echelon, a domed city that protects the survivors of a ravaged Earth. Here, the wealthy elite live in Sky, high above the poor dwellers of Dirt. And Dirt children known as Decimites are injected with nanobots, allowing them to survive in a world ravaged by toxins and violent mutants. Forced to gather resources from Outside, their enhancements grant them a chance for a better life.

But few live long enough to enjoy it…

Dirt Dweller Myla wasn’t chosen to be a Decemite. But she still carries the nanobots in her blood—a secret she has revealed only to a chosen few. When Myla’s young sister disappears after her first mission Outside, Myla must leave the safety of her dome to find her.

Lock, a Decimite champion, joins Myla on her journey. But as they venture across the perilous wasteland, they meet Ben, a human living beyond the dome….

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Discover the class you were born to play.

Wren, a seasoned healer, is dismayed when Somnia Online automatically assigns her character, Murmur, to the Enchanter class. Determined to overcome the unexpected setback, she assembles her guild, intent on the coveted #1 spot. Twelve keys stand between her and victory, but finding them is only part of the puzzle.

Armed with telepathic abilities, Murmur rises to the challenge. However, old rivals have followed her to Somnia Online desperate for revenge. Intricate quest lines become more dangerous as NPCs absorb powerful artifacts, and Murmur begins to wonder just what sort of AI controls the world.

Murmur questions her sanity as the real and virtual worlds mesh together. Everyone is keeping secrets from her, even the AI, and Murmur’s determined to uncover them.

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

Will refused to admit to the HR lady at Radical Interactive that he’d never played their debut virtual reality MMORPG The Realm. From what he’d seen in videos and heard from reviewers, the game sucked. With the company’s failed attempt at entering the gaming industry, they switched their sights to focus on smaller-scale educational programs.

Being a beta tester for Radical Interactive was not the dream job Will had envisioned. As he filled out his new-hire paperwork, he never realized he was literally signing his life away.

Now a phenomenally successful company, Radical Interactive was secretly working on something behind closed doors that would change both the medical and gaming industries forever. The Realm was reborn. The only problem was that it wasn’t a game – at least not to those trapped inside.

Category: Fantasy – TV, Movie, Video Game Adaptations

Strippers, drugs, and headless corpses… All in a day’s work for Bubbles Marlowe, HoloCity’s only cyborg detective.

In the gritty underbelly of the high-tech city, Bubbles stumbles upon a secret.

And somebody will kill to keep it quiet.

When heads literally start to roll, a luxury space cruise seems like the perfect place to hide.

But Bubbles is being hunted…

Can she solve the murders before she loses her head?

If you love glitter, grit, and hard-boiled action, you’ll love this cybernoir mystery because it’s shaking up the detective genre.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure