Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 17, 2022

If you love magic, romance, funny unique characters and non-stop action, then you’ll love the Demigoddess Chronicles! Readers are calling this urban fantasy series “Captivating,” “Wicked and wonderful” and “Fantastic, not-to-be missed excitement!” Perfect for fans of Dannika Dark, Patricia Briggs, K.F. Breene, and Shannon Mayer.

Scharlette fears she might live her whole life without doing anything, or mattering to anyone. It still comes as quite a surprise when a handsome time traveller appears out of nowhere and verifies she’s correct – that, according to records from the future, she doesn’t matter at all. Scharlette isn’t sure this news is too wonderful, but as she soon learns – given she was to have no impact on the timeline whatsoever, she is now free to blast off into space, and have amazing adventures with heedless abandon.

This is a contemporary comic sci-fi with heart, with over 500 five star reviews across Amazon and Goodreads, which readers are calling “endlessly endearing”, “riotously funny”, “refreshingly different” and “dazzlingly colourful”.

Category: Science Fiction – Time Travel

In 1846 Alta California, Catalina Delgado daydreams about her future: roping cattle, marrying Angelo and raising children. But now, invaders from the United States—the Bear Flaggers—have declared war against Mexico, her country. Bear Flaggers have imprisoned one close friend of her family and murdered others. How can Catalina, only sixteen, help protect all those she loves? The spirits provide Catalina with answers, but not ones she wants. Plus she fears the strange spirit man who rides a black Andalusian stallion through the sky. For the sake of all she holds dear, Catalina must risk her reputation as a chaste young woman, her future with Angelo, her life and her very soul. When hopes and dreams clash with cold reality, Catalina finds the fortitude to accomplish what only she can do.

Category: Fantasy – Historical

The war was bad. The cleanup is worse.

Sure, the dragon is dead and the Sorcerer is defeated. But with all the silly left-over magic running around the kingdom of Baltica, things are ‘worser-than-worse’. Who’s going to clean it all up?

Gulchima Brixby thinks she’s the girl for the job. She’s just inherited the family construction company, and they’re drowning in debt. When a bill-collector threatens her family with prison, Gulchima makes a risky decision. She signs a contract to remove all the left-over magic from the kingdom’s biggest town.

Fairy poo in the fountain? Swan-maidens under the bridge? Pumpkins that strangle you in your sleep? How hard could it be? It’s only magic…
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Preposterous plots, ridiculous reasoning, glowing beards and obliteration of the fourth wall. If you need a trope-twisting laugh, buy Dragon Removal Service today!

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Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends

Bookish, nonbinary Ruarnon thought their biggest challenge was proving a worthy heir to Tarlah’s perfect King. But when their parents are abducted, Ruarnon must shoulder the burden of the throne in the face of unreliable allies and a brutal, expansionist neighbour.

Trapped in Ruarnon’s world, Linh is desperate to return to loved ones in Australia, but her best shot at getting home is sailing to Ruarnon with reinforcements while dodging a growing plague of monsters.

If Linh succeeds, she’ll gain knowledge that could help Ruarnon secure lasting peace. But securing peace means co-operation with Tarlah’s ancient enemies. So to pursue their heart’s greatest desire, Ruarnon risks betrayal, all Tarlah and their own murder.

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

Two mountain climbers in the French Alps have made a startling discovery—a perfectly preserved frozen Neolithic human. But who was this Iceman, what was he doing high on a glacier 8000 years ago, and why was he carrying a strange metallic cylinder?

Archaeologists can only speculate, but neuroscientist Doctor Lisa Cho has an idea. Using technology capable of replicating the neural pathways of the human brain, Cho wants to wake the Iceman from his primeval slumber and let him provide the answers to his past.

Waking Iceman takes the reader on a sweeping journey from the inner mind of an ancient human to a parallel world with a profound secret. Is human consciousness more than basic biology? Can love survive an 8000-year divide? And what is real and what’s only a dream? For Cho, the answers come at a price—sending her and everyone else on a collision course with destiny.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

A Quantum Dual World is about to be revealed.

At a remote archaeological site in Guatemala, archaeologists discover a mysterious artifact hidden under a giant Mayan pyramid. There’s only one problem; it doesn’t belong there. So who made it, and where did it come from?

It will be up to theoretical physicist Hans Verlink and his brilliant graduate student, Katrien De Vries from Waking Iceman, to devise an elaborate experiment to unravel the mystery. But when their investigation takes an unexpected turn, they are sent on a perilous journey to another world where they become trapped and must find a way back home.

Anti-Paradox picks up where C.R. Wahl’s Waking Iceman left off, sending the reader on a non-stop techno-thriller ride through the jungles of Guatemala to Amsterdam and beyond to another dimension.
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Humanity has opened a door that allows for instantaneous travel through the stars. What they find on the other side might mean the end of all mankind.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera