October Round-up of Scifi Books
It's autumn and the days are getting shorter (sorry Americans for not calling it fall, and sorry antipodeans for being six months out). Time to start collecting even more books ready for those long dark nights.
And here are the books you want...
Captain Jack Grady feels his new mission is a waste of time. He and his ragtag crew of the spacecraft Adventurer are assigned to escort archeologists seeking mysterious relics in the passageways below an abandoned military base on a remote asteroid. But is the complex as deserted as it seems?
When dangerous forces awaken to fulfill a monstrous purpose, the subterranean corridors echo to the rasp of weapons fire as Grady struggles to survive.
Can he fight his way out of a deadly trap, one where even death itself would be a welcome release?
Olympia Blunt wakes up in a strange hospital, far away from everything familiar and haunted by memories of an Earth invaded by aliens. Taken captive and thrust into a galaxy lightyears from home, she soon gets tangled in the affairs of an alien civilization.
Facing her new reality Olympia finds out that the keys to her fate now holds the formidable Prince Adlai. Feared by many and heir to the alien empire, he has big plans for her. After Olympia coincidently saves the prince from an assassination attempt, he trains her to be his personal bodyguard, his Untouchable. But as Adlai grows more fascinated with her, her role becomes complicated.
Soon, Olympia finds herself walking a razor's edge between her own desires … and a plan to liberate the enslaved humans.
ake Adlar's goals in life were simple—possibly nonexistent. All he wanted was to fly a desk. Hence, he'd joined the Space Force, the service with the most extensive array of Earth-side clerical specialties.
All he needed to make him happy was an office, a computer, his favorite coffee mug, and a never-ending pile of requisitions.
Then a pretty woman came along. Perhaps a drink or ten. Next thing Jake knew, he's shipped off to the Legions, doomed to fight in the seemingly endless war raging throughout the galaxy.
Now, survival tops the chart. Except that isn’t so easy to do in the Legions, where everyone's a killer, officers are as merciless as the enemy, and dark schemes and secrets brood within the ranks.
Korvira—the Crown Princess of Vorcalix—enjoys a rare day out of the palace.
Farmers' markets. Local crafters. Meeting the people she will one day rule. It's the necessary connection to "regular" people that everyone in power should maintain.
But when a commotion distracts her security for one moment too long, Korvira vanishes.
When the ransom note arrives at the palace, there's only one team the King will trust with the safety of his daughter.
Shunned by friends and family for abandoning the pacifist beliefs of their religion, abandoned by the love of his life, he left his homeworld of Canaan to go to the Commonwealth Military Academy on Earth and train to fight in the looming war against the implacable alien threat of the Tahni Imperium.
When a training mission with a crew of cadets winds up caught in the middle of one of the worst battles of the war, Cal and his fellow students are officially declared dead.
That's when their war really begins.
Recruited for a top-secret special operations unit, Cal and his friends undergo experimental and dangerous physical augmentation that turns them into supersoldiers, designed to take the fight behind enemy lines and put the fear of God into an alien society who thinks their Emperor is God personified.
Now Caleb is asked to sacrifice his very humanity to protect his people.
But when Canaan itself is threatened by the Tahni, will he throw away his career and risk everything to save the people who turned their backs on him?
Hayden Kaine, a brash young cadet, thinks his family's influence has guaranteed his destiny as a future leader of the Earth Confederation. But falling on the wrong side of an Admiral is never a good idea, and he soon finds himself posted to an outdated starship at the farthest reaches of the Confederation.
What at first appears to be a routine mission turns south when an unforeseen disaster traps Kaine and the crew of the Scimitar at the edge of charted space, with no means to return home.
For generations, Earth’s militant rulers have waged a relentless, low-grade war against a group of genetically modified humans, branding them as demons and a threat to civilization. Now, the conflict is reaching its breaking point.
Gracely Fielder has spent her life on the fringes of this war, engaging in small skirmishes without ever intending to spark a full-scale conflict. But a chance encounter in deep space uncovers a shocking truth and thrusts her into a battle that will bring war to her home planet—a war her people cannot win.
Meanwhile, Gracely’s long-lost brother, Jered—raised in secrecy on Earth—has spent his life hiding his true identity from those who would destroy him. As war looms, his path leads him to an ancient force beyond time — one that defies the known laws of quantum physics, reality, and faith itself.
For the first time in his life, roboticist Casmir Dabrowski is headed to another star system as an advisor for the Kingdom space fleet. He's being given a chance to prove himself to King Jager by helping find the ancient artifact he inadvertently lost. It's best not to think about what might happen if he fails...
But with technologically advanced astroshamans after the artifact, not to mention the deadly mercenary captain Tenebris Rache, it's not long before the mission collides with disaster.
Soon, Casmir and his friends are caught between warring factions, and he must choose between what the king would want and what he knows is right.
Chronoscribe Tsai Yini monitors the tachyon communication system, which transmits data faster than the speed of light. When classified results from an astrobiologist’s research are leaked to her, she cannot believe what she reads. The report reveals that intelligent life forms exist on a tropical planet in the Gliese system.
Their civilization is still in its infancy but revolves around an artifact of unknown origin that seems to influence their body chemistry. But there’s more: the astrobiologist who uncovered this artifact has undergone a baffling evolution of his own, and he’s now en route to Earth!
Yini suspects he carries a danger far greater than anyone could imagine. To stop him, she must make unimaginable decisions that could determine not only her fate but the future of the universe.
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And here are the books you want...
Captain Jack Grady feels his new mission is a waste of time. He and his ragtag crew of the spacecraft Adventurer are assigned to escort archeologists seeking mysterious relics in the passageways below an abandoned military base on a remote asteroid. But is the complex as deserted as it seems?
When dangerous forces awaken to fulfill a monstrous purpose, the subterranean corridors echo to the rasp of weapons fire as Grady struggles to survive.
Can he fight his way out of a deadly trap, one where even death itself would be a welcome release?
Olympia Blunt wakes up in a strange hospital, far away from everything familiar and haunted by memories of an Earth invaded by aliens. Taken captive and thrust into a galaxy lightyears from home, she soon gets tangled in the affairs of an alien civilization.
Facing her new reality Olympia finds out that the keys to her fate now holds the formidable Prince Adlai. Feared by many and heir to the alien empire, he has big plans for her. After Olympia coincidently saves the prince from an assassination attempt, he trains her to be his personal bodyguard, his Untouchable. But as Adlai grows more fascinated with her, her role becomes complicated.
Soon, Olympia finds herself walking a razor's edge between her own desires … and a plan to liberate the enslaved humans.
ake Adlar's goals in life were simple—possibly nonexistent. All he wanted was to fly a desk. Hence, he'd joined the Space Force, the service with the most extensive array of Earth-side clerical specialties.
All he needed to make him happy was an office, a computer, his favorite coffee mug, and a never-ending pile of requisitions.
Then a pretty woman came along. Perhaps a drink or ten. Next thing Jake knew, he's shipped off to the Legions, doomed to fight in the seemingly endless war raging throughout the galaxy.
Now, survival tops the chart. Except that isn’t so easy to do in the Legions, where everyone's a killer, officers are as merciless as the enemy, and dark schemes and secrets brood within the ranks.
Korvira—the Crown Princess of Vorcalix—enjoys a rare day out of the palace.
Farmers' markets. Local crafters. Meeting the people she will one day rule. It's the necessary connection to "regular" people that everyone in power should maintain.
But when a commotion distracts her security for one moment too long, Korvira vanishes.
When the ransom note arrives at the palace, there's only one team the King will trust with the safety of his daughter.
Shunned by friends and family for abandoning the pacifist beliefs of their religion, abandoned by the love of his life, he left his homeworld of Canaan to go to the Commonwealth Military Academy on Earth and train to fight in the looming war against the implacable alien threat of the Tahni Imperium.
When a training mission with a crew of cadets winds up caught in the middle of one of the worst battles of the war, Cal and his fellow students are officially declared dead.
That's when their war really begins.
Recruited for a top-secret special operations unit, Cal and his friends undergo experimental and dangerous physical augmentation that turns them into supersoldiers, designed to take the fight behind enemy lines and put the fear of God into an alien society who thinks their Emperor is God personified.
Now Caleb is asked to sacrifice his very humanity to protect his people.
But when Canaan itself is threatened by the Tahni, will he throw away his career and risk everything to save the people who turned their backs on him?
Hayden Kaine, a brash young cadet, thinks his family's influence has guaranteed his destiny as a future leader of the Earth Confederation. But falling on the wrong side of an Admiral is never a good idea, and he soon finds himself posted to an outdated starship at the farthest reaches of the Confederation.
What at first appears to be a routine mission turns south when an unforeseen disaster traps Kaine and the crew of the Scimitar at the edge of charted space, with no means to return home.
For generations, Earth’s militant rulers have waged a relentless, low-grade war against a group of genetically modified humans, branding them as demons and a threat to civilization. Now, the conflict is reaching its breaking point.
Gracely Fielder has spent her life on the fringes of this war, engaging in small skirmishes without ever intending to spark a full-scale conflict. But a chance encounter in deep space uncovers a shocking truth and thrusts her into a battle that will bring war to her home planet—a war her people cannot win.
Meanwhile, Gracely’s long-lost brother, Jered—raised in secrecy on Earth—has spent his life hiding his true identity from those who would destroy him. As war looms, his path leads him to an ancient force beyond time — one that defies the known laws of quantum physics, reality, and faith itself.
For the first time in his life, roboticist Casmir Dabrowski is headed to another star system as an advisor for the Kingdom space fleet. He's being given a chance to prove himself to King Jager by helping find the ancient artifact he inadvertently lost. It's best not to think about what might happen if he fails...
But with technologically advanced astroshamans after the artifact, not to mention the deadly mercenary captain Tenebris Rache, it's not long before the mission collides with disaster.
Soon, Casmir and his friends are caught between warring factions, and he must choose between what the king would want and what he knows is right.
Chronoscribe Tsai Yini monitors the tachyon communication system, which transmits data faster than the speed of light. When classified results from an astrobiologist’s research are leaked to her, she cannot believe what she reads. The report reveals that intelligent life forms exist on a tropical planet in the Gliese system.
Their civilization is still in its infancy but revolves around an artifact of unknown origin that seems to influence their body chemistry. But there’s more: the astrobiologist who uncovered this artifact has undergone a baffling evolution of his own, and he’s now en route to Earth!
Yini suspects he carries a danger far greater than anyone could imagine. To stop him, she must make unimaginable decisions that could determine not only her fate but the future of the universe.
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