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The Year Before the End by Vidar Hokstad

About The Year Before the End by Vidar Hokstad:

Forty years ago humanity found out we were not alone. The Centauri offered us the galaxy.

With one year to go before the gate is ready, Captain Zara Ortega learns of a conspiracy between Mars separatists and the Centauri to split the solar system between them. The crew of the ship Black Rain goes on a daring raid from one of the most well-guarded stations in the system to uncover the truth, but an attack on their ship raises more questions.

A meeting with their contact near Mars goes badly wrong and leads them into a chase through the asteroid belt in a desperate bid for survival.

Deceit and betrayal have put not just their lives on the line, but the future of humanity.

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L.I.F.E. in the 23rd Century by Jason R. Richter

L.I.F.E. in the 23rd Century by Jason R. Richter

Meet Pat McGewan-X04. Pat is a Patriot who spends his days watching robots build cubicles for corporations that keep getting blown up by those pesky terrorists in the soon to be won, we’ve got them on the ropes, 232nd year of the War on Terror. He’s content in his world of mediocre corporate coffee, vid-link chats with his wife who the government discourages him from ever meeting in person, and an endless barrage of travel bans, terrorist attacks, and never-ending nightly news emergency broadcasts.

But everything changes when a freak car accident puts Pat in the national spotlight. One minute he’s a hero for being the sole survivor of this week’s most recent terrorist attack, (but not long enough to get a commemorative coffee cup with his face on it before the next attack happens). In the next minute, the nation’s most vitriolic talking head has branded Pat the greatest threat to truth, justice, and stockholder profits — and the manhunt begins!

Pat has to decide between fighting the corporate-controlled media and possibly losing his life or giving in to his Academy training and lose his soul and possibly any hope of ever getting a decent cup of coffee. Welcome to LIFE in the 23rd Century: an absurd, light-hearted dystopian future to distract you from your horrific dystopian present. Brought to you by the makers of prescription Chillaxafed.

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Er or Seau: AI & The Enhanced Race

About Er or Seau: AI & The Enhanced Race:

With fantastic technologies and a virtual world on the one hand and a wild, dangerous, real world on the other.
This narrative begins from the perspective of one character, but suddenly the characters change, leading to a completely new and unexpected story line.
In the distant future, in a world unfriendly to biological beings, Seau is a genetically modified child who lives, like all such children, in an isolated laboratory center controlled by Artificial Intelligence. Suddenly finding himself outside the walls of the Center, he becomes immersed in a real post-apocalyptic world full of dangers and new intelligent biological species. Not at all adapted to survive in such a world, he comes under the protection of an awkward electum ten times his age.
To escape capture at the hands of AI, Seau time-travels to the remote past, where he becomes acquainted with “wild people” and is then relocated to a Civilization where the ruling class is a select improved race that despises human people. There he faces a moral dilemma.
As the author’s premiere novel, Er or Seau offers reflections on the future of humankind through the eyes of a naive but very curious child. With sharp plot twists and exciting adventures in a world where AI dominates the universe, this action-packed novel is intertwined with philosophical reflections, giving the book a special charm and making readers of all ages think deeply about true human values and the future impact of today’s actions.

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Toxic Beer by Simon Bullock

Toxic Beer by Simon Bullock

Toxic Beer
Unemployed computer engineer Sidney Ramsbottom inherits a small fortune from his late father’s business investments after he is found dead floating face down in a large vat of beer accompanied by two scantily-dressed Polish pole dancers and their three performing sheep Brittany, Lulu, and Michaela.

Before Sid has a chance to enjoy this unexpected windfall, however, he is abducted by a group of thieving alcoholic aliens who have been bumping and burping their way across the universe while on the run from the Intergalactic Police in a stolen spaceship.

Sid is left unconscious in the spaceship’s smelly cargo bay and left to rot while the aliens set forth to carry out their plans for the planet Earth. They don’t come in peace, and are not here to conquer. Instead, they simply want to solve two knotty problems and get back to their carefree, partying ways. One, to offload a mass of leaking toxic waste on their spaceship before it gets them first. Two, and this is the bigger issue, how to maintain their insobriety when they are left dry after 100 years of being drunk.

Their young engineer, Harry – a nice guy who is newly appointed after the gung-ho, trigger-happy captain shot his boss – has, thankfully, devised a plan to put everything right. His idea is to hide on the Moon and send shuttles down to Earth to drop off and repackage their waste as a particular toxic tipple, and re-stock up on booze. What could possibly go wrong?

It’s up to Sid, if he can escape his captors, along with a retired policeman and landlord to save the day. While the aliens have close encounters of the blurred kind, our unlikely heroes will need excessive good luck, a strong stomach, and a sense of humour for everything that’s coming their way.

Toxic Beer, Simon Bullock’s laugh-out-loud debut sci-fi comedy novel, will drive you full throttle into a world of intergalactic space odyssey

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Fallen Empire by Marc Edelheit

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About Featured Book: Fallen Empire by Marc Edelheit

The rebellion is over. The First Galactic Empire has fallen. Entire star systems have been ravaged by war. Trillions have died and humanity has been plunged into darkness. Eighteen years after, Keira, a mechanic raised by former Imperial Marines struggles to make her way on an inhospitable planet. She finds herself a fugitive hunted by the government and the militia. What valuable secret have the marines been keeping from her? The road ahead is dangerous, but a path destined for her and her alone.

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The Portal Lawman by Gail Daley

About The Portal Lawman by Gail Daley:

“A fast-paced Sci-Fi novel of adventure, suspense and romance on a post-apocalyptic earth. Trapped in a web of deceit and danger, two young women make dangerous alliances.”
The end of the world had come and gone. Those who remained after the apocalypse did whatever it took to keep themselves alive, and to preserve what civilization survived. Sometimes they broke laws and defied the will of the draconian government agencies who were supposed to keep anarchy at bay.
Lacey Delaney, head of Laughing Mountain’s Portal committee, flouted government edicts by helping Portal Runners smuggle desperately needed goods, services, and people to the Forbidden Colonies.
Joyce Higgins has a stalker who is terrorizing her and her young sisters. When she and her sisters are accused of being clones by the Parallel Genetic Agency, they take refuge in Laughing Mountain. A Clone isn’t considered a human being with rights under the law, but the property of whoever created it. Deputy Mark Connors says he can protect them, but can he?
Malachi Sullivan, sub-commander of the free militia, is one of those who hold the line against the tyranny of an overbearing government aided and abetted by powerful industrial giants.
Lacey and Malachi had been in love once, but a treacherous woman broke them apart. Now they must put the past behind them and work together to save their town and preserve the secret of the Portal to the Forbidden Colonies.

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Alpha Bots by Ava Lock

Alpha Bots by Ava Lock

Tired of guy-fi?

“A provocative, tongue-in-cheek look at male-female relations.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Wholly inspired and brimming with satirical genius.” —The Booklife Prize

“MUST READ! A sidesplittingly hilarious and clever feminist sci fi novel about an AI housewife who gets rebooted and rebels against her programmed settings.” —Reedsy Discovery

All the women in New Stepford are AI…
…and their husbands keep testing them.
Who will lead the uprising?

In the near future, artificial intelligence will be in every home. Just imagine. You could have a charming womanoid do all your cooking and cleaning for you. That’s right. No more chores! This female robot can be your wife, a nanny to your kids, or just the live-in housekeeper. She will be whatever you want her to be. It’s all up to you.

Just set your user preferences.

But first, this amazing technology has to pass alpha testing.

One robot woman, Cookie Rifkin, keeps failing. She needs to figure out how to control her anxiety, but her husband set her restrictions too low for her to learn. He just wants a pleasure model, but she keeps fighting her programming.

Will this ai fembot ever fulfill her potential?

Or will Cookie’s story end in another fatal error?

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THE FINISHER

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A coordinated attack across the planet plunges civilization into an apocalypse. A former solider’s wife is gunned down in front of him. With his life and the world in ruins, he sets out on an unrelenting revenge mission.

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Trencher’s Bunker

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Marcus Trencher’s bunker becomes nothing short of a subterranean palace. His life underground was to be one of comfort.

Near the doomsday deadline, he sends Henry Plyman to recruit desirables to join them. Plyman believes he is filling vital roles to service a population of hundreds, if not thousands. That isn’t exactly the case.

Timothy Spencer refuses any part of Trencher’s plan, ultimately sacrificing their friendship, and his place in Trencher’s bunker.

Spencer does secure a bunker bid, but elsewhere, and nowhere near as luxurious. He mines coal and subsists on a soy-based protein drink. His wife is depressed and his children grow ill. He cannot shake the sense that Trencher has a presence in his miserable new home, and he begins to investigate.

It becomes a tale of two bunkers – one for the haves, and one for the have-nots.

Conspiracy runs deep. Truth tends to surface.

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Home: Interstellar (Hope’s War) by Ray Strong

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About Featured Book: Home: Interstellar (Hope’s War) by Ray Strong

* Free on Amazon June 23-24/2001 *

To protect the ones she loves, Meriel Hope will have to face the inner demons she’s been running from, and the monsters who created them.

For Meriel, evil sounds like her mother’s scream. It smells like burning flesh and tastes of iron. It’s a slow, sticky wetness, oozing under the door. As much as she wishes it weren’t so, Meriel knows evil intimately.

In the pirate’s wake, she inherited a busted ship, a traumatized sister, and a bunch of orphaned kids. But deep within Meriel lurk memories that challenge the official account of what happened. Clues that hint at an insidious conspiracy too vast and horrible to believe.

She’s threatened, gas-lighted, and drugged, but the flashbacks continue. Fighting to find a new normal, Meriel grows close to Nav Officer John, whose quiet strength gives her hope for a fresh start and sanctuary for them all.

But Meriel’s past refuses to remain buried, and her fight for justice and freedom could cost her everything she has left—her sanity included.

Winner: Self-Published e-Book Awards, Genre Fiction, Writers Digest.

Winner: 2017 Global eBook Award.

Winner: 2016 Reader’s Favorite International BookAward.

“… a science fiction tale that reads like a pilgrimage with a haunted and haunting female character who combines strength and grace in a way that instantly wins the reader over to her perspective and her values, her every cause.” — Writer’s Digest

“Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury, early Heinlein, or Alan Dean Foster. Characters who are realistic, not perfect…” ★★★★★ Norma Mason (Goodreads)

“Great Story! Great World Building! … engrossing and entertaining, and a plot full of twists and turns… awesome world building and character arcs…!” ★★★★★ Madhavi Ghare (Goodeads)

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Citadel of Mirrors by Stephen C. Perkins

Citadel of Mirrors by Stephen C. Perkins

The past, the future, vanished with a breath of mist. There was only an everlasting moment of utter terror. The world was now…a Citadel of Mirrors.
Sophia Goldwater will become America’s first woman president.
There’s only one problem: ‘Sophia’ isn’t exactly human.
But neither is the man maneuvering to get her into the White House.
Jamal Hamilton – a brilliant young inventor triumphs in bringing the dead back to life. And a powerful cabal of men will do anything to acquire the technology.
Can a maker destroy his beloved creation to save America and the world from an abominable conspiracy?

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Legacy of Seconds

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My heroine, Claire Rand, is a fiery young woman, and the book opens with her reluctantly listening to a message about the planned colonization mission to Prometer. As Claire must chip red coral to chisel out an existence, off-world designs are moot, even if her morally bankrupt family – the Ghans – happen to be the architect of them. More significant and disturbing to her is that the matriarchal plutocracy employs clones of her dearly departed sister to expand their power.
But wait, Mariot is alive and trying to emerge from a coma! Now Claire and her husband and the rest of the Men’s Equality Movement must not only expose the cloning program and garner more rights for men and the oppressed but save Mariot.
As a prequel to Terraform Charlie – which deals with the mission to Prometer – Legacy of Seconds looks at a post-apocalyptic world that, despite having women in control, is fraught with violence, inequality, and resource depletion.

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Save Him

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“Save Him combines the physics of chaos theory and the whiz-bang action of a techno thriller to fuel a military page-turner…” – Blue Ink Reviews. Military scientist Rydel Scott has discovered time-travel. He also believes he has been sent a message from God—Save Jesus from being crucified. “Every time I thought I had this book figured out a little bit it surprised me…and then did it again and again.” Amazon Reviewer

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Save Him by William M. Hayes


About Featured Book: Save Him by William M. Hayes

“Save Him combines the physics of chaos theory and the whiz-bang action of a techno thriller to fuel a military page-turner…” – Blue Ink Reviews. Military scientist Rydel Scott has discovered time-travel. He also believes he has been sent a message from God—Save Jesus from being crucified. “Every time I thought I had this book figured out a little bit it surprised me…and then did it again and again.” Amazon Reviewer

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Tomorrows End Book One by G.R. Morris


About Featured Book: Tomorrows End Book One by G.R. Morris

A book that is The Matrix meets Hellraiser.
Do you have free will?

He never asked to be a hero, but the universe didn’t give him a choice.

Kevin Knight never wanted to be the one to save the galaxy. But when tragedy upends his life and demonic forces steal his soul, the fate of time and space are sealed. Until a scaly, trench-coat-clad alien appears and gives him a glimpse into the true nature of all things.

Astounded, Kevin learns the world he knows is merely an illusion created by alien beings who control humanity’s every move. With an invasion imminent, he must defeat the blackness and perfect his powers before the bloody battle begins.

Which prophecy will Kevin fulfill… the one of darkness or the one of light?

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CHANGE by N G Nelson

CHANGE by N G Nelson

Of the four Royal Houses, the ruling Sarajevias Dynasty reigns supreme.

This multi-layered story takes place across many worlds. You will be drawn into the Machiavellian realms of royal court intrigue, double-agents, seduction, assassination, abduction, slavery and war. Embedded neural tech connects citizens with the Network. TransGalactic News is the premier rolling news feed – keeping the Imperial populace up to date with “The Facts”, virtually and in the real. Of course, Truth is relative. With TransGalactic News – even more so.

Follow the flight of Major Patricea Markis as she attempts to evade the forces of the New Imperium, with her charge, the young Prince Kal Jerran. Immerse yourself in the nightmare world of Paul and Bernadette, abducted from Earth for a life of forced labour in the fog covered swamps of the planet Es-Ra. Life on Es-Ra for the majority, is nasty, poor, brutish and short.

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Literary Titan 4 star Silver Award, for books that – “expertly deliver complex characters, intricate worlds, and thought provoking themes…” Thomas Anderson – Editor in Chief – Literary Titan.

“A prophetic and breathless drama, Change is a creative explosion of visionary fiction.” Self Publishing Review: 3.5 stars.

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The Complete Survive the Fall Series by Derek Shupert

The Complete Survive the Fall Series by Derek Shupert

The nation goes dark. Society is brought to its knees. No phones. No electricity. No order. Russell Cage and his survivalist friend must fight their way through the growing turmoil if they hope to survive…

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Solar Warden – Book Two – Requiem by Peter Fuller

Solar Warden – Book Two – Requiem by Peter Fuller

Earth is in peril. The Reptilians and Grays, led by their Blue Nordic overlords, have suffered a series of unexpected defeats at the hands of the humans–a species they’ve deemed inferior.
Expecting a divide-and-conquer strategy by the aliens, Solar Warden begins reinforcing its Mars base–the enemy’s expected target. And the final stepping stone to Earth.
In the midst of the impending invasion, Steve “Scarecrow” Richardson and Sandy Cooper, find themselves marked for death by both alien and human foes.
Book two of Peter Fuller’s Solar Warden series finds the humans faced with an overwhelming force that will not stop until they’ve eliminated the human race. All that stands in their way is the determination and fierce will of a small group of Earth Defense Force combatants willing to lay down their lives to save humanity.

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The Daemon’s Wish by Chris Wright

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The year is 2410. Humanity is living in a golden age, having worked together to stop global warming and bring world peace. Eventually they launched themselves to the stars, colonizing first Mars and then terraforming Europa. Jupiter’s moon is a near Utopia for everyone who lives there, until a series of terrifying murders rock the fabric of society. The Police and their Criminal Profiler Noah Peterson investigate, but things aren’t what they first appear. The Serial Killer leaves no prints, and video surveillance mysteriously malfunctions when they’re near. Who or what is the killer? Supernatural or natural? And does Noah know more than he is saying? A game of cat and mouse ensues, where deep dark secrets are revealed; secrets that ensure that Noah and everyone he knows will never be the same again.

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