Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for September 26, 2017

When small-time conman, Cal Carver, is mistakenly abducted by aliens, he thinks his day can’t possibly get any worse.

He is wrong.

Whisked across the galaxy, Cal is thrown into a team of some of the sector’s most notorious villains and scumbags. Their mission should be simple enough, but as one screw-up leads to another, they find themselves in a frantic battle to save an entire alien civilization – and its god – from total annihilation.

Featuring epic space battles, alien gangsters, and several thousand flying Tobey Maguires, Space Team is the first book in the internationally bestselling series by award-winning author, Barry J. Hutchison, and is perfect for fans of Hitchhiker’s Guide and Guardians of the Galaxy.

An infection that consumes and changes people…

When an alien entity lands in the remote Appalachian Mountains, a clairvoyant psychology professor, a drunken dirt farmer, and a disillusioned tycoon must team up to stop it before the infection spreads.

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion

The fate of Earth’s first colony rests on the shoulders of a pair of misfits: Theo Puck, a rogue hacker with a gift for speaking to machines, and Selena Samuelson, a brash but talented pilot with a dark secret in her past.

Earth went silent fifteen years ago. No contact. No resupply. The colony is on the verge of collapse. To survive, they must make a desperate return to Earth on the old colony ship, Chimera. However, the AI that allows faster-than-light travel has gone to sleep. No one knows how to wake her, and hundreds of years of neglect have taken their toll.

Theo and Selena’s fates become intertwined while behind the scenes, a brilliant sociopath sets in motion events that may doom the colony once and for all.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Drystan tried to free all mages from their enslavement. Now, he’s the one in trouble.

Waking from a black out with blood on his hands, Drystan knows the worst has happened. He sought powers he thought he could control only to have them twist him into a tool of evil. Now he’s hunted by all. His only hope for redemption lies with the Arbiter.

Prue is the Arbiter called to judge Drystan for his crimes. Trained since childhood to be impartial and unemotional, she must ascertain Drystan’s motives and decide his fate. There’s only one problem. The young mage stirs feelings that threaten to consume her.

As Drystan struggles with his growing affection for Prue and his desire to free the mages once and for all, the world around them boils with revolution. If Drystan chooses to follow his heart, he risks losing his last chance at redemption. His time to choose is coming to an end.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

Sick of elves and orcs? Then this is the epic fantasy for you!

Waking in Anaskar Prison, covered in blood and accused of murder, nobody will listen to Notch’s claims of innocence until he meets the future Protector of the Monarchy, Sofia Falco.

But Sofia has her own burdens. The first female Protector in a hundred years, her House is under threat from enemies within, the prince has made it clear he does not want her services and worst of all, she cannot communicate with her father’s sentient mask of bone, the centuries-old Argeon. Without the bone mask she cannot help anyone — not herself, and certainly not a mercenary with no powerful House to protect him.

Category: Fantasy – Epic

The chapters practically fly by…it’s a strong continuation of the story that began in ‘City of Masks’ and certainly leaves a reader itching to get their hands on the third and final installment.
– Fantasy Literature