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ESCAPE FROM ZULAIRE, which was also in the Patty Jansen free books offer this week (still free): https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Zulaire...Andi Markriss hasn’t exactly enjoyed being the houseguest of the planetary high-lord, but her company sent her to represent them at a political wedding. When hotshot Sectors Special Forces Captain Tom Deverane barges in on the night of the biggest social event of the summer, Andi isn’t about to offend her high-ranking host on Deverane’s say-so—no matter how sexy he is, or how much he believes they need to leave now.
Deverane was thinking about how to spend his retirement bonus when HQ assigned him one last mission: rescue a civilian woman stranded on a planet on the verge of civil war. Someone has pulled some serious strings to get her plucked out of the hot zone. Deverane’s never met anyone so hard-headed—or so appealing. Suddenly his mission to protect this one woman has become more than just mere orders.
That mission proves more dangerous than he expected when rebel fighters attack the village and raze it to the ground. Deverane escapes with Andi, and on their hazardous journey through the wilderness, Andi finds herself fighting her uncomfortable attraction to the gallant and courageous captain. But Deverane’s not the type to settle down, and running for one’s life doesn’t leave much time to explore a romance.
Then Andi is captured by the rebel fighters, but Deverane has discovered that Zulaire’s so-called civil war is part of a terrifying alien race’s attempt to subjugate the entire Sector. If he pushes on to the capitol Andi will die. Deverane must decide whether to save the woman he loves, or sacrifice her to save Zulaire.
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Veronica wrote: "ESCAPE FROM ZULAIRE, which was also in the Patty Jansen free books offer this week (still free): https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Zulaire...Andi Markriss hasn’t..."
It was free today, March 16, 2017 for those (like me) who didn't get it last year.
Thanks for the mention! Yes, I've been keeping Escape From Zulaire as a permafree, although I may change that in mid April. So there's some time left to pick it up at no cost!
I can offer free eBook copies of Timberwolf for a limited time. My publisher went under and the rights reverted to me. Please let me know if you would like a copy. The reviews are really strong. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...Sample review:
Aug 08, 2015 Tito Barberi rated it
Humankind has finally conquered the last frontier…and has the Universe has come to regret it!
This brilliant story is much more than an action-packed, sci-fi thriller. Humankind has finally conquered space, and as history would like to remind us, it has been anything but pleasant for most, if not all intelligent life-forms that we’ve encountered amidst the stars.
The story’s told mainly from the point of view of Timberwolf Vélez, the protagonist, and Emmanuel Gray, his antagonist. Timberwolf and Gray are old warriors, former colleagues who get reacquainted with each other when they end up involved in a race for control of Highland, a major scientific and technological complex responsible for the creation of some of the most amazing weapons that humankind has ever created.
Through Timberwolf’s and Gray’s journey we come to find out that, no matter how an advanced a race humankind has become, we still carry the same old baggage with us. Entire alien species have been annihilated by overzealous humans driven by the power of a God that, according to the fanatical religious group known as the Believers, did not mean for these abominations to exist.
Then again, any major religious movement in history has had its share of inner schemes and power struggles. And the Believers are not the exception, of course. Their leaders will stop at nothing to reach their goal. And they mean business.
These folk have some seriously sick firepower at their backs, such as Wrath, a terrifying, genetically modified creature that made me wonder what would’ve happened if humankind had actually been able to tame H.R. Giger’s brilliant creatures to turn them into the perfect killing machine in the Alien films universe.
Standing in the way of the Gray-led Believers and their goal to control Highland are the Arnock, a race of giant, telepathic arachnids. These big spiders are led by Kizik, a master of the mind who is willing to do whatever it takes to preserve his race and civilization, including the sacrifice of some of his most respected and highly-regarded peers.
The interesting thing is that Kizik managed to infiltrate our protagonist’s head during a showdown between Timberwolf and the eight-legged telepath a few years ago. And as you can expect, the interaction between Kizik and Timberwolf in the latter’s mind is quite interesting and thought-provoking, to say the least.
Without giving away any major spoilers, the glimpses that we get into the Arnock and their civilization leads to empathy and compassion for all kinds of life-forms. At least it did for me. And that’s taking into account that I hate all kinds of arachnids.
Characters are excellent, well-developed and fleshed out. Timberwolf, Gray, Salla, Michael, Cardinal Jacob, Achilles and his brothers . . . major or minor, every single character has a past and is flawed, just like every single one of us. Even the Arnock.
Again, Timberwolf manages to drive its point home, the book and the main character both.
The book doesn’t come out preachy, which is no easy feat by any stretch of the imagination, given all the social, spiritual and philosophical topics that are being exposed here. And the action is simply amazing; it makes putting the book down nearly impossible.
As an avid reader of George R.R. Martin’s masterful A Song of Ice and Fire, I’ve always contended that it’s not the otherworldly menaces (The Others/White Walkers) that are the real monsters in Martin’s world, but humankind as a whole; a theme that certainly resonates given the way things are in this day and age.
I believe no such argument is needed for Tom Julian’s Timberwolf. The author has certainly managed to get this point across in quite entertainging and exciting manner.
The Nosferatu Chronicles: OriginsNow free on Amazon -- Giveaway expires AUG 8th.
Book 1 of the series reveals how the vampire legend is the result of a secret alien invasion that began with a crash landing in Transylvania in the 15th Century.
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There's tons of space opera and space fantasy in a new Bookfunnel giveaway, the
Autumnal Equinox Sci-Fi Extravanganza
. It runs through Oct. 8.
To celebrate Indie Author Day on October 14th, I'm giving away a limited number of ebooks (mobi and epub) of Absence of Blade, a dark, philosophical space opera. On a contested world, a hegemonic human empire is set to crush an alien colony. An assassin, a spy, and a scientist will have to summon the last of their resolve to resist the Terran Expansion.
Whether they succeed depends on what they can withstand.
Get your free copy on BookGobbler today!
The prequel novella to my Tales of the Neverwar series is permafree just about everywhere, but here's the Amazon link.Origins of the Neverhttps://www.amazon.com/Origins-Never-...
Now that Embrace the Romance: Pets in Space 2 is out (a USA Today bestseller) I'm offering my original Pets in Space novelette free via Instafreebie. Your choice of .mobi, epub or PDF formats. 
Instafreebie link: https://www.instafreebie.com/free/lTsVO
Hi everyone, For the next 9 days, Bookfunnel is hosting a sci-fi and fantasy ebook giveaway! Absence of Blade, the first volume in my space opera Expansion series, is free to download, along with 44 other great books. The giveaway ends Saturday, November 4th.
Check it out here: https://books.bookfunnel.com/scifiand...
I also have book one in my Tales of the Neverwar series up on Instafreebie. Souls of the Neverhttps://instafreebie.com/free/HLKS1
Hi folks.I have put book 1 of my series, The Gene Weavers Sequence, on a free promotion for Amazon Kindle from 1st to 5th January 2018. Please give it a go.
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Gene-Weavers-R...
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gene-Weavers...
Steve wrote: "Hi folks.I have put book 1 of my series, The Gene Weavers Sequence, on a free promotion for Amazon Kindle from 1st to 5th January 2018. Please give it a go.
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Gen..."
Hi folks - 48 downloads so far, you have 3 days to go (today inclusive) if you want to get a free copy.
Bystanders, a superhero story heavily influenced by space opera themes is free this President’s Day weekend. It’s the first book in a series of four, but the first novel is a stand-alone. It is violent with a lot of profanity.https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B071KC...
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All Systems Red by Martha Wells, which is the first Murderbot book. You have to sign up for the Tor newsletter though.https://www.tor.com/2018/04/06/free-e...
Teresa wrote: "This weekend you can get a free ebook of All Systems Red by Martha Wells, which is the first Murderbot book. You have to sign up ..."Loved that book. Can't wait for #2 to be released!!
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I think it’s this on Goodreads
The Fallen Empire CollectionThis looks like space opera, and I’ve enjoyed several of this author’s fantasy novels. Free for now, unlikely to be permafree as it is over 1000 pages.
I'm giving away the first three novels in The Fleet Quintet FREE for the rest of July 2018. Available to download for all devices including Kindle.
Transference (Book 1)https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Flesh for Sale (Book 2)https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
V. Gomenzi (Book 3)https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
About The Fleet Quintet:
An unconventional sci-fi series in which the story isn’t linear and the books aren't sequential. On some worlds, the tech is laughably low. The hero used to be an evil entity and the heroine hides in a library. They first appear to meet inside her head. The alien enemy can’t be seen and the invasion takes so long that no one notices for several centuries. The only real angel has no wings. The strongest theme is that of immortality yet few can remember much about anything. The prevalent church is called SPIT with a lesser cult known as TRVTH, though neither know the truth about the Fleet. There’s no time travel but two of the main characters are thrown about in time. Dark themes covering metaphysics, religion and supernatural existentialism run parallel to the darkest humour, while different layers of space are explored, exploited or torn to pieces. But the greatest theme of all is love – written against a vast backdrop of shadowy entities whose purpose is never clear. Those entities are the Fleet.
NEW FREE BOOK ONLY 18 HOURS REMAINING:Friends, My Best Seller Science Fiction Storybook, Time Crawlers , is now FREE on Amazon ONLY today, just 18 hours remaining. Grab your copy now.
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Book consists of six fast-paced stories on Science Fiction themes such as Alien Invasion and Colonization, Dark Artificial Intelligence, Time-Travel, High-Tech Mythology, Djinn Folklore, Psychics, Telekinetics and life-consuming Cosmic Entities. I am sure you will love the stories.
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NEW FREE BOOK Today 22 August and Tomorrow 23 August:Friends, My Best Seller Science Fiction Storybook, Time Crawlers , is now FREE on Amazon ONLY for two days today and tomorrow, 22nd August and 23rd August 2018.
Book consists of six fast-paced stories on Science Fiction themes such as Alien Invasion and Colonization, Dark Artificial Intelligence, Time-Travel, High-Tech Mythology, Djinn Folklore, Psychics, Telekinetics and life-consuming Cosmic Entities. I am sure you will love the stories.
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Time Crawlers
Perchance To Live
Free eBook on Amazon throughout the Labor Day weekend. (Offer starts today, August 30, through Monday, September 3, because who doesn’t deserve a 5-day weekend?)
Perchance To Live is a Young Adult science fiction novel.
When their colony fails, a group of young friends is faced with moving to Earth after living their entire lives on a beautiful, blue waterworld.
A ten-year-old boy asks his mother if she can save his world. His mother died just after he was born, which only goes to prove that a mother’s work is never done.
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Thanks for your note. I looked at the Kindle posting. It says the List price is $0.99 but the current Kindle price is $0.00There have been 33 free eBook units ordered during this promotion so far this weekend so I think it's set up okay. I hope it ends up working for you. Perhaps you could put it in your cart and just clear it if it doesn't show as free.
Thanks again. Cheers!
Teresa wrote: "Amazon doesn’t show it as free, at least right now. You might want to double check that."
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Sorry. Wish I knew what to suggest. I'm not tech-challenged but not overly tech-savvy either. Guess I'm sort of "tech-middle-of-the-road" ;-)The good news, it's the 5th day of a 5-day promotion and still getting the occasional unit being ordered. Gotta love the goodreads community. Thanks to you all!
@Teresa: let me know if you would like a pdf or something you could read and where I can send it. It wouldn't have that wonderful cover my illustrator did but otherwise it would be complete.
Thanks again for your efforts and interest.
Teresa wrote: "Very strange, it’s still telling me Kindle price is 99 cents. Shrug."
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Wonderful! Thanks!Teresa wrote: "Aha! Now it says free. I assume that the update took a while to propagate through the database server farm."
FREE SCI-FI,
#BlackFriday through #CyberMonday - Experience the world in 2163 - in anticipation of Book 2 available early 2019. Nov. 23-27th - https://www.amazon.com/I-Insurrection...
Free just for a few days. Scout Pilot of The Free UnionA light hearted romp around the seedier parts of the galaxy, said one reviewer... Captain Frank Eric Russell had everything going for him - until a careless moment ruined his reputation and career. Re assigned to a less prestigious unit, given less glamorous (ie more dangerous) missions and a somewhat well used ship, Frank discovers that the life of a scout pilot is full of interest. Not in a good way, either.
First in a growing collection.
Gene Weavers: RevelationsFree on Amazon Kindle from 11/01/19 to 15/01/19
Shawn Beamish is a young pilot happily working as a freight transporter on Wenlock, a primeval planet undergoing terraforming for future human colonisation. Timid, with few friends, Shawn has followed his scientist parents from one new planet to the next, never settled for long or resident on well populated 24th century human worlds. Happiest when flying, he has achieved his initial dream of attaining flight approval but has a newer, bigger dream to realise. One fateful day he gets his chance, his one good friend has wangled the opportunity for him. However, it ends up going horribly wrong and Shawn finds himself light years away and potentially the only surviving member of his family. How will the first contact with an alien species develop from its violent start and will Shawn discover his family’s fate?
The follow-up, Gene Weavers: The Faleen Factions is also on a countdown deal over the same dates.
Book 1 in my Gene Weavers Sequence is available to download for free all weekend: 6 - 7 April 2019. Book 2 is on a countdown deal 6 - 8 April 2019.
On this last day of April, I am running an Amazon promotion for free downloads of Assassin Marked! You are welcome and, in fact, encouraged to share this promotion with your friends and spread the love.
Assassin Marked
An interplanetary crime syndicate.
A debt, long overdue.
An assassin gone rogue.
Love. Revenge. Betrayal.
Although he knows it will mean the end of his relationship with both the Crime Syndicate and his long-time lover, Captain Victoria Maruska, Damian can’t let sleeping dogs lie. After overcoming his captain’s well-intended efforts to hold him back, Damian sets off to exact his revenge on the man who had once left him to die on the barren wastelands of Earth. . . .
Victoria may not know where to look, but she knows she has to find him. Following Damian’s disappearance and the not-so-mysterious murder of one of his superiors, the Syndicate has called Captain Maruska’s loyalty into question. As a result, she has been assigned the unenviable job of leading a task force to hunt him down. . . .
On the outs with his lover and on the run from trained killers, Damian DuFonte is . . .
An Assassin Marked.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07688D1T5
Celebrating Apollo 11's epic voyage the Arcturian novels are free on Amazon from now to the splashdown on the 24th.An unstable utopia...
The nine-world Arcturian Confederation have imposed five centuries of peace across more than five hundred human colonies. If orthodynamics, the technology behind faster than light travel, fell into the wrong hands, this utopia could end in a catastrophic interstellar war.
The Arcturian Space Fleet grew old and inflexible waiting for the wars that never came. Now two unscrupulous adventurers believe it would be easy prey.
Space Fleet's Jane Gould alone can save their victims, but at what personal cost?
R Billing takes hard SF, accelerates it way past the speed of light, and runs it directly into a wall of suspense that knocks you breathless. -- Holly Lisle
Run from the Stars
Turn to the Stars
Free during this week: why not follow Frank's adventures as he careers around the universe trying to avoid being killed by friends and enemies alike...Scout Pilot of The Free Union
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Redshirts by John Scalzi available until March 21st. You have to join a mailing list but you can unsubscribe after getting the ebook.Details here
https://www.tor.com/2020/03/17/downlo...
The novel "Andromeda Expedition" is available for FREE in Amazon Kindle from today until 17th January, 23:59 PST. A thrilling space opera novel with cyberpunk elements.
No sign of life.
But Earth can't wait.
Five people were sent to a distant planet to find the only thing that might save humanity from a fate worse than extinction. However, it has been several weeks since the last transmission.
Captain Fox Stockton embarks on a rescue expedition into the unknown. What will he find upon his arrival?
Find out now.
Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097PWYMG
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Food Fight short story, set immediately before Rembrandt’s Station starts. Likely perma free but the author hasn’t said so.
The Marann free until Nov 30. This was the first book published in the Tolari Space stories. I’ve read it several times. I nominated it several times for a group read back when it was newish but it wasn’t chosen.
Into Tolari Space also free until Nov 30. This is a prequel to The Marann and if memory serves it’s a few short stories that can be enjoyed whether you read them before or after Marann.
Strand: "The Antilles"The first book in the Strand series is FREE on Amazon in the kindle store until jan 3rd. Pick it up if you're looking for a new military sci fi story to read.
https://www.amazon.com/Antilles-Stran...
My epic sci-fi adventure, The eom Expression: Beautiful Chaos - A Satirical Science Fiction Adventure is free starting December 1st 2023 and ends in 5 days. Enjoy!
The first three books of my military space opera series, The War in Shadow, are available for free for the next several weeks on all storefronts in the omnibus First Shadow.https://www.amazon.com/First-Shadow-M...
https://books.apple.com/us/book/first...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/firs...
https://play.google.com/store/books/d...
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/firs...
P.R. wrote: "The first three books of my military space opera series, The War in Shadow, are available for free for the next several weeks on all storefronts in the omnibus First Shadow.https://www.amazon.com..."
I picked one up. Thanks!
David wrote: "P.R. wrote: "The first three books of my military space opera series, The War in Shadow, are available for free for the next several weeks on all storefronts in the omnibus First Shadow.https://w..."
Thanks!
P.R. wrote: "The first three books of my military space opera series, The War in Shadow, are available for free for the next several weeks on all storefronts in the omnibus First Shadow.https://www.amazon.com..."
Got it! Thanks!
Greetings Earthlings and other Space Opera fans. Get some free reads to celebrate summer. I’m happy to announce that all of my ebooks are going to be available for free* on the first Sunday of each month beginning on May 4th. (May the fourth be with you.) This offer expires at the end of October, but may be extended in the future, so be sure to check back if you missed out on it. Happy reading, all!* Currently available on Amazon only.
Stardancer is a portal story that begins with a friendly rivalry between two college students, and develops into an ensemble cast as things progress. Follow Mason and Tara, along with their ragtag group of companions as they try to find a way back to their respective homeworlds.
Stardancer: Pocket Universe
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C...
The Sentinels Saga is an epic length space opera series with touching moments and exciting space battles as seen from both sides of an ongoing conflict.
Sentinels: Children of Valhalla
https://www.amazon.com/Sentinels-Chil...
Childhoods Lost
https://www.amazon.com/Childhoods-Los...
Cosmic Thunder
https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Thunder...
Starlight Cavalry
https://www.amazon.com/Starlight-Cava...
Shield Maidens
https://www.amazon.com/Shield-Maidens...
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Sounds like fun! I always loves me some evil corporations.