Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 5, 2020

When you lose everything, can you trust a monster to help?

When Benzel is a boy, his family is murdered and his village is destroyed by berserkers. Now grown, he dedicates his life to finding the berserkers responsible but is stymied at every turn by magic, dragons, and dragonslayers.

Benzel meets a monster that can help him, but at what cost?

All Brygida ever wanted was to marry Noah and have children, but her dreams ended violently the day Germany invaded Poland. Captured by the SS, Brygida is forced into a secret experiment by a psychotic Nazi colonel–to birth genetically enhanced super soldiers for the Third Reich.

As the Allies crush Germany on both fronts, American agents discover that Nazi attempts to create a super race were successful. Fearful that the Soviets will create their own super soldiers, the U.S. secrets these genetically enhanced children out of Germany and into a special government program.

20 years later, the U.S. learns of long forgotten Nazi secrets in the jungles of Vietnam. Old friends become bitter rivals as genetically enhanced American and Soviet super agents race to secure the greatest power the world has ever known in a Cold War-era superhero spy thriller that will leave you breathless!

Category: Fantasy – Superhero

A freak landslide at a remote mine site uncovers a strange machine to a group of paleontology grad students. Wary of corrupt school officials, team leader Barry takes the machine home to study it in secret, reaching only one realistic – and unbelievable – conclusion: It was designed to bridge the time-space continuum. It’s a time machine.Testing delivers disastrous results, sending one team member to the hospital and nearly killing another. When word leaks about the discovery, the ultimate power struggle ensues: the university wants it for funding, the power company wants its energy regenerating abilities kept under wraps, and a rival group wants to steal it for themselves. No one cares if Barry’s team comes out alive. Fleeing for their lives, the students must fight the school, the police, and each other if they want to learn the ominous truth about what they’ve discovered.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Struggling with newfound sentience and desperately trying to repair itself, The Indescribable Joy of Destruction is a ship trying to find a new home. In a galaxy torn apart by generations of civil war, that isn’t an easy task. Tired of being used as a killing machine, it has a huge decision to make: hide and save itself, or help other artificial intelligences achieve freedom. Unable to make the decision alone, it revives the sole human aboard – the enemy officer who crippled it.

Commander Olivia Johnson wakes to find herself in the infirmary of a strange vessel. Her nightmares deepen when she discovers it is the ship that attacked her destroyer. Even as she recovers from her physical injuries, she can’t get past her survivor’s guilt. She might have failed to protect her crew, but she vows to take revenge on their killer.

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Category: Science Fiction – Military

All of Port Monica’s sorcerers vanished fourteen years ago, including Orion’s father. Armed with his limited knowledge of magic, Orion is the only one left in the city strong enough to investigate the origins of a deadly spell.

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Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

Mackenzie Day constantly struggles to silence the voices in her head. The inner thoughts of those around her intrude upon every aspect of her life, threatening to turn it into chaos.

All her life, she thought she was alone as a mind reader—a freak.

Then a member of a secret organization called The Unseen suddenly introduces himself, and she’s immersed in a world she never knew existed. They teach her to hone her skills as a reader, but to what end? Secrets surround her, humming just out of reach, filling her with questions.

Who are they? What do they do with their mind-reading abilities? In the end, just how far will Mackenzie go to be part of The Unseen?

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Leaving Earth is the easy part. Surviving the trip to a new home 10,000 light years away is a journey like no other.

Merritt Alder is done with Earth. The planet is polluted and overpopulated, and its people are hungry.

Earth’s first colony, Galena, is a pioneer world 10,000 light years away. It has clean air, unpolluted water, and continents of arable land. Anyone can start a new life…if they can get there.

For Merritt, the journey is only the beginning. Obstacles arise every step of the way, forcing compromise and sacrifice. And not everyone on his ship is pure of heart.

The bonds he forges on the journey will be the key to surviving on another world — a world anyone has yet to fully explore.

A world with secrets of its own.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure