Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for November 8, 2023

Taught to fear magic. Trained from a young age to destroy those who wield it. The First of the Blade Series begins.

Trained to destroy sorcery from a young age, Imogen Inaratha left that life behind, having come to see magic differently. When her brother asks for help, she embarks on a dangerous journey—and must face a part of her past she wanted to forget.

An encounter with one of the mythical Porapeth changes the course of the journey. Protecting him forces her to face dark magical creatures and a powerful sorcerer determined to destroy the Porapeth in his quest for even more power.

To succeed, she must learn the truth of the blade she’d long thought she’d mastered.

She must truly become the First of the Blade.

The Future is Virtual. Survival is Real.
In a world fractured by status and rights, Alex Sheppard aspires to be a space guide. His dreams are jeopardized when he’s thrust into Disgardium, a treacherous virtual realm. There, Alex earns the rare and coveted title of “threat”—bestowing him with unparalleled powers, but also painting a target on his back.

The year is 2074. Alex is a fifteen-year-old student dreaming of a career as a space guide. He eats, sleeps and breathes stars—but life has other plans. That’s how Disgardium, a new online game, becomes his only means of reaching his goal.

Alex is lucky enough to achieve what amounts to God mode complete with absolute immunity—but that’s only one side of the coin…

​​​​​​​As an imba player, he becomes a “global threat”—one of the few fellow wayward players whom the game company views as a danger to itself…

Category: Fantasy – TV, Movie, Video Game Adaptations

Forget the stars, the real threat is below us.

After a rough break up, Wyatt moves to New York City, eager to prove himself while working on Wall Street. When he’s asked to visit his ex-girlfriend’s father, a billionaire tycoon, his fate is sealed.

The revolutionary company, Nu-En, launches a radical innovation, an energy that will allow every person on the planet access to power. Only it doesn’t perform as anticipated.

Harnessing the ocean has consequences, and highly dangerous creatures emerge from the depths. Soon, the Earth is fracturing, and the world will never be the same.

Wyatt teams with Luna, a clever journalist, to escape the treacherous city with the ultimate prize: a robot capable of saving the world.

Their journey won’t be easy, but they meet others along the way that share the same determination.

Time is running out…

Category: Science Fiction – Post-Apocalyptic

In a galaxy where the last rare resource is unique humans, Yaniqui knows her ability to heal is priceless. But when her life in hiding is exposed and news travels all the way to Earth, it will have devastating consequences for her… and the galaxy.

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Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

“The Nine Lives of Bianca Moon, with its ingenious construct of anthropomorphic animals embodying 1950s New York society, is an engrossing blend of satirical wit, mystery, and the supernatural. I loved how the feline protagonist, Bianca, and her canine counterpart, Morton, navigated the labyrinth of crime and specters…. the strength of the novel lies in its vibrant and imaginative storytelling.”—Readers’ Favorite

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

In a battle against Lucifer’s General, an introverted high school student named Sophie discovers she possesses incredible angelic powers as a Viator. Teased for being a foster kid, she must learn to use her newfound abilities quickly as she becomes the target of the General and his army, while also unlocking the mystery behind her parents’ disappearance.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

In the far future, a dormant android awakes on a vast starship to find humanity’s last hopes rest with him.

Launched to carry the human species across the galaxy, Starship’s generations-long journey has crumbled as machines took everything from their human creators, including life itself. Given a mission by humanity’s last digital remnants, Gamma must traverse Starship’s vast, dangerous bulk in search of a way to preserve Starship’s original purpose.

A far-future science fiction action adventure that blends the real and virtual worlds, The Farthest Star kicks off a series that will have you wondering whether our biology or our beliefs make us human.

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Category: Science Fiction – Metaphysical & Visionary

When college student Muriel Aubrey inherits an old house in a small town, she imagines that moving into the rural community will be deathly dull. But the old house once belonged to her eccentric granduncle, a professor said to be researching something mysterious before his untimely death. Then Muriel finds the research notes that had been hidden away in the old Victorian; and she discovers what the professor was researching: vampires. It isn’t long before Muriel meets residents of the small town who knew the professor almost a century ago, and learns that everything he wrote in the notes he kept is true…And then she finds herself stalked by a vampire hunter.

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Nook

Category: Dark Fantasy