Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for November 11, 2019

In a future totalitarian America, government historian Joel Levine is assigned the task of reminding people of their nation’s sins in the Sino-American War. Complications arise when a US Marine veteran’s account of the war challenges Levine’s beliefs, forcing the historian to decipher between propaganda and history.

In so many tales, we find ourselves enamored with a kindly wizard guiding our protagonist, curious to his roots, source of power, and hidden knowledge. This is that wizard’s story.

Falin is only twenty years of age, and with nine-hundred eighty years left to explore the world, he is eager to begin his quest for the Gems of Elsana, four jewels that provide wizards with their full power. Accompanied by four Champions, Falin considers himself lucky, joined by a sage healer, elven assassin, drakkish warrior, and madorian prince.

All seems well until the elder wizards reveal they expect Falin’s quest will take them into the Wildbarrens, a desolate and horrid land teeming with creatures of the Dark. Given the circumstances—and to the chagrin of Falin’s honorable Champions—the group is accompanied by an unscrupulous pair of outlaws claimed to have traveled through the Wildbarrens.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

Sky Brooks’s life started with a death—her own. She always thought she was just a shapeshifter until she wakes up in a strange house in rural Illinois with only vague memories of the day before.

At the request of a powerful witch, Sky is put under the protection of the Midwest Pack. But she isn’t sure she can trust them, especially after she meets the dangerously sexy Ethan, a pack member, who’s known for being more ruthless than altruistic. After she’s attacked by a necromancer, a mercenary, and the vampires who killed her mother, she has no choice but to accept the pack’s help.

The Midwest Pack aren’t quite what they seem—but then again, neither is Sky. As they form an uneasy alliance to search for the reason behind the vampires’ vicious attacks, it becomes clear that Sky possesses magic no one has ever seen—and it all started with what happened at her birth.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Thief…addict…wife killer?

Once a fine, upstanding member of society, Alexander Asherton has reached the low point of his life. Once he had prospects. A place in society. Once he had a beautiful wife. But that was before Aimee left him, before the explosion…and before magic. His promising future with the Church of England went up in flames with the explosion that wrecked his body.

Now he works for the cruel and mysterious Misters, who keep him awash in the magic he needs to feed his addiction. The magic he needs to live. His only comfort is that he doesn’t do wet work.

He’s only a thief, not a murderer.

Who is Ash really? A priest or a killer? An addict, or a hero?

And what is the strange and deadly merging of science and magic that serves the Duke?

Is Ash truly lost to addiction and darkness, or if he can become something more? Find out by reading This Strange Engine today.

Category: Science Fiction – Steampunk

BLOODRUNNERS: THE COMPLETE TRILOGY

A bit Logan’s run, Running Man, Escape from New York, and even some Ready Player One.

Marisol is a bounty hunter, tasked with tracking down “Runners,” people who have been paid to take the fall for crimes committed by the wealthy.

But when she captures a young Runner with a secret, she unknowingly stumbles into a vast conspiracy. The hunter becomes the hunted as those in power turn the city inside out trying to crush anyone who would dare to expose the truth.

Nowhere is safe as Assassins close in from every direction. The unlikely duo of Runner and rising-star Hunter must survive the endless onslaught to blow the lid off the rampant, city-wide corruption… or be silenced forever.

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

After a single encounter with the mysterious alien race identified only as Species 4876, the United Planetary Alliance was nearly decimated. Stopping their lone vessel was almost a hollow victory in the aftermath of the haunting mystery that Species 4876 presented: Where had they come from? Why did they attack us? And most of all, what if they came back?

But they never did.

Today, the threat of Species 4876 is a distant memory, a nearly forgotten footnote in the history books.

Or is it?

On the outer rim, cut off from any backup, ignored by Fleet Admiralty and surrounded by a hostile empire and an interstellar crime syndicate, Captain Mitchell and his crew of the USS Defiance find themselves as the first, and possibly only, defense against an alien menace that the rest of the galaxy has all but forgotten about.

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Category: Science Fiction – Military

On the edge of UPA space a mysterious vessel has appeared.

No one knows where it came from.

It has no callsign or identifying marks.

The vessel simply transmits a standard S.O.S. in a signal that hasn’t been used in hundreds of years: Morse code.

While still recovering from their losses on Carlock, the USS Defiance is dispatched to investigate. But when they arrive they discover that every single individual on the ship has already been dead for hundreds of years.

As Captain Mitchell and his crew work to unravel the mystery of this ghost ship, they soon find themselves confronted by something far worse than a simple space mystery:

What killed this crew so long ago is still very much onboard and still is very much alive.