Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for May 7, 2025

When Lt. Simon Brooks discovered an alien A.I., he made a name for himself as an officer in the Unified Earth Fleet. And while his tech skills are next level, he has a lot to learn about running a combat squadron.

After flubbing a training exercise, Brooks is set to choosing worlds for human colonization, and he thinks he has the perfect candidate: Vega. But rumors and intelligence reports make him think there’s something there which the Sleer missed.

As Brooks and the crew of UES Gauntlet head to Vega to prove his theory, a Sleer science vessel is already working to claim the prize: an armored military base from a long-forgotten war. Acquiring it for the UEF would put humanity back in the fight to reclaim Earth…and Simon Brooks back in control of his career.

Two siblings torn apart by an empire’s cruelty. Ragnar becomes a pawn in deadly politics; Maja sparks rebellion with a fierce magic. As war rages, their choices will define freedom—or seal their doom. An epic fantasy where destiny and defiance collide.

Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

A rogue AI threatens humanity – and challenges our understanding of the nature of intelligence. This human tale of duty, courage, and sacrifice offers a profound reflection on the destiny of mankind and suggests that the fate of intelligence in the universe may depend NOT on intelligence itself, but on the power of society.

Category: Hard Science Fiction

His memory has been wiped, and his past is buried somewhere beneath the city.

The year is 2054. Humanity has fled the real world for the endless sprawl of the MetaVerses—except for Rome. Walled off and fiercely independent, the last city standing is a beacon of defiance in a sea of virtuality. But this utopia comes at a price.
Art is outlawed.
Freedom is a crime.

Enter Alex Snow. Weeks before his 29th birthday, the memory-wiped guerrilla artist awakens from a vivid dream with a fragment of his lost life. But when he descends into the shadowy underworld of tunnels, ruins, and old mines beneath Rome, the secrets he uncovers threaten to tear the city’s perfect façade apart.

Gritty, gripping, and wildly original, Ace of Paints is the explosive debut in a fast-paced series that reimagines the line between freedom and control, virtuality and reality.

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Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Brax, the snarkiest dragon in all the worlds, and his rider, have come face to face with an evil goddess bent on returning to the world. And Brax and Carmen are the only creatures to stand in her way.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

The world of man was brought to its knees with the zombie apocalypse. A hundred and fifty years have passed since man has clawed and climbed his way from the brink of extinction. Civilization has rebooted, man has begun to rebuild. It is on this fragile new ground that a threat worse than the scourge of the dead has sprung. One man finds himself once again thrust into the forefront of a war.

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Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

The endless road and life of a monster-hunting Runer has gone stale for Tzarik and death is the only alternative. Tired of risking his life for the prejudiced people of Al’Myrah, it’s time to just let go. The only thing that stands in his way: A Runer cannot take his own life, breaking his oath to the dark magic that binds him to the hunt. When a warlord from the far east threatens her family, Sybal, a young diamond mine heiress with a lavish lifestyle, takes action to protect her family and estate. But when her crime is witnessed, she must stand trial for murder. To save her own life, Sybal calls for a trial by Runing—a dangerous and often fatal dark pact with unknown magic. Thrown together by law and dark magic oaths, Tzarik and Sybal find themselves entangled with an eldritch force when alone necromancer hell-bent on devastation, rises up, and ravages the eastern continents.

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Nook

Category: Dark Fantasy