Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for October 12, 2023

International bestselling phenomenon! Optioned for film!
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Earth is doomed. A killer asteroid is coming. Qualify for rescue… or die!
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Nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl Gwen Lark must compete in deadly trials against all other Earth teens, including her school crush, in order to Qualify for interplanetary rescue from an asteroid apocalypse. Can she save everyone she loves and impress her arrogant commanding officer?
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A high-octane dystopian SF adventure from a Nebula Award and Dragon Award Finalist author, in the vein of THE HUNGER GAMES, DIVERGENT, THE EXPANSE, and ANCIENT ALIENS.

David ends up in a high-security prison on the Martian moon Deimos, but he has no memory of how or why he got there—something that doesn’t really matter since anyone sent to this hellhole is sent there to die. Luckily, David meets Aztec, a purple-haired cyborg girl, who is as fierce as she is captivating.

Aztec isn’t in prison by coincidence: she’s been hired to help someone escape and brings David along on the jailbreak.

And that’s only the beginning of David’s adventure. He winds up on a spaceship with the most notorious mercenaries in the galaxy.

However, this crew is far more than mere guns-for-hire. Secrets and hidden identities abound aboard this mysterious vessel, which turns out to be a warship in disguise.

And the seemingly defeated enemy lurks in the shadows, ready to strike again…

Cyborgs, robots, mechs, and epic space battles!

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

“Forget where you came from. Forget the life you knew. You are now recruits of Talionis!”

America has fallen.

Seventeen-year-old Bria Averton grew up in a small town of survivors near the ruins of Portland, Maine. It’s all she’s ever known — until she’s kidnapped along with hundreds of other teens and brought to the city of Talionis. A city no one knew existed.

The soldiers tell them the intense trainings are for the good of the survivors, and Bria resists being forced into a new life as a recruited soldier. But she soon finds the dangers in the city are greater than she imagined.

Escape is impossible, and Bria fears drowning in the evil of the city… and the guilt from her own past. But can she find hope, even here?

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Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

The fantasy kingdom of Lentari (introduced in Jeffrey Poole’s Bakkian Chronicles series) comes to life once again, in this acclaimed series.

Lukas, a young dwarf, narrowly averts tragedy while attending a class by the master craftsman Maelnar, falling into the forge’s fire. Amazingly, he comes away from the near miss with only a mark on his back. The mark is not quite a burn. But it is disfiguring and embarrassing to the family, and it’s not fading away, so his father, Venk, takes young Lukas to consult the most respected wizard in the kingdom. They learn this mysterious mark is part of a Questor’s Mark, a sort of roadmap to an adventure that had long been the dream of many—to find the Lost City of Nar.

Tales abound about the riches of Nar and the unsurpassed skills of that dwarven community, but no one has been there and no Narian seem to have survived. What happened?

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Category: Fantasy – Epic

Three men. Two timelines. One wish.

Haunted by her choices, including marrying an abusive con man, thirty-five-year-old Elizabeth has been unable to speak for two years. She is further devastated when she learns an old boyfriend has died. Nothing in her life is right.

That night, Elizabeth wishes for a mulligan. When she wakes, to her surprise, it is no longer 2022, but 2017. Though thrilled to have a chance to fix mistakes, the past is not perfect. She has a stalker and is still voiceless. Just like before, her boyfriend slips into a mysterious coma, so she enlists his brother Christopher’s aid to determine the cause. In their investigation, he becomes her staunchest ally and her unexpected soulmate.

Elizabeth’s stalker threatens her happiness, as do those who wish secrets to remain buried. If she can’t reclaim her voice, her ex will die and her stalker may claim her life.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

He who controls the Wyverns, rules the world – The Sixth Kingdom is the center of the known world. It is the repository of the all knowledge and secrets, and the heart of arcane wizardry. It is the College, the arbiter and enforcer of world peace. It’s also the place to learn magic, perfect warrior skills, or bond with dragons.
Comprised of four Castes, the College accepts only the best and brightest of those who can afford to send their children to the hallowed halls of destiny where they are groomed to assume their future roles in each of the five kingdoms.
Four friends in four Castes… they call themselves ‘the Family.’ Their goal? To one day rule the College. Of the four, Fiach has the least claim to privilege as he was sold to the College by slave traders. It is a memory he can no longer repress as he and the Family are swept up into the power struggles to rule the world.

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Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age