Your Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Bargains for September 29, 2025

Rise of the Black Star is no ordinary story. It’s the true journey of a boy who grew up in chaos, forged his strength in the Army, and learned to survive when everything else fell apart—told through the lens of LitRPG.

In a world divided into warring tribes, survival is measured like stats on a character sheet. Every challenge is a grind. Every setback, a boss fight. And for Johnny, every victory comes at a cost. From cracked city streets to battlefields, from training camps to ruined wastelands, his path is one of grit, loyalty, and unbreakable will.

Blending autobiography with progression fantasy, Rise of the Black Star transforms real struggles into an epic campaign. If you love LitRPG, post-apocalyptic survival, and stories where the hero earns every level-up, this book belongs on your shelf.

Part memoir. Part game. All true grit.

A series opener “with surprises at every turn” (New York Times bestselling author Susannah Charleson): Fia hates her ability to see spirits — but when she joins a search and rescue team with an unusual K9, she’s drawn into a haunt-filled mystery! “Favis handles the paranormal aspects with aplomb” (Publishers Weekly).

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

Perfect for fans of Star Wars and gritty sci-fi war epics. The Dominion has fallen. The Sovereign is dead. Stranded on Tal Ghrna, Commander Dorn must lead a ragtag team of miners, traders, and soldiers against a brutal uprising. Outnumbered and cut off, survival is their only mission!

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

For centuries, Lily has wandered the earth, unable to die and forced to keep her secret hidden. After she saves a young boy’s life, she attracts the attention of a handsome stranger — but their blossoming connection threatens to unleash an ancient curse…

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Category: Fantasy – Fairy Tales

Celestine, a witch with a talent for prophetic drawings is shocked when she draws her landlord Ray with his eyes gouged out, a winged-mermaid by him, and he turns up dead. She wanted to open a gallery, but first she must apprehend Ray’s killer. In a note, he revealed he was a supernatural pirate mage. Years back, his crew trapped a rival clan. Ray feared they’d escaped.

Oryn, a sexy fae in Celestine’s art class, asks nosy questions. Yet, he’s clever at brainstorming leads and insists his air magic could come in handy.

When pirates in Ray’s old crew are murdered, Celestine enlists help from Oryn and Luna, a mermaid asking to show at the new gallery—the same one in her drawing! Otherwise, the unleashed monstrosity will destroy Savannah. For lovers of PNR crime procedurals, slow-burn romance, fierce FMC, and fans of Kim Harrison. A Shelf Unbound Top 100!

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Detectives Luna and Celestine take a second case, when Tim Calhoun insists his Theater Conservatory has been cursed. He claims a red demon’s terrorizing him, upturning his library and setting fires. He’s desperate to solve this terrifying mystery before Hollywood directors and agents flock to Savannah to watch his students perform.

Hazards follow rehearsals of the 1811 play. Luna interviews students and inspects the campus. Finding a copy with odd red notations, she hires Dodge, a necro-visionary to discover their source. The shocking entity he resurrects says aerial realms must be won to end the curse. But where they are remains elusive.

To uncover clues, Luna uses water magic, consults root worker Dupree and realm-jumper Dao, all while resisting a crush on Tim. Celestine finds hints in drawings. If Luna fails to reach the realms, people will perish. Read books in any order.

In the final hours of the dying Earth planet, a convoy of Alien cruisers arrive to collect and preserve the last remaining members of the human race. However they soon discover that nothing goes according to plan when grumpy and disgruntled human beings are involved.

Category: Science Fiction – Alien Invasion

My new ability could get me killed.

I’m Claire Beckett, the newest detective in Crescent City. And I can see runes around dead bodies. Life would be perfect if I didn’t have to deal with the werewolf mayor and finding out that my mother lied to me about her ties to this place.

Bodies are dropping throughout the city, similar to a group of cold cases I’ve found. The killer’s ready to kill again and if history has anything to do with it, he’ll continue to hunt until he’s had his revenge.

But the more we keep digging, connections to both me and my partner amp up the need to find this killer and get him behind bars before the city begins to panic.

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Children of the Yellow Sun is a hard science fiction epic set on Hypnos, a tidally locked world where exiled humanity clings to survival between the burning day and frozen night. Along the narrow terminator band, two post-human civilizations walk a fragile path of uneasy coexistence. But when a long-buried AI stirs beneath the ruins, carrying forbidden truths from Earth’s forgotten age, that balance begins to unravel. As ancient knowledge resurfaces, the world will not remain unchanged.

Category: Hard Science Fiction