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Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy

Scout Selection: SPED-BOT

SPED-BOT A little Howey, a little Asimov, hard sci-fi goodness.   All work and no play makes an android a dull toy. The remnants of human civilization create their own utopia on an alien planet. A brilliant robotic scientist breaks the rules in an attempt to make his impaired son whole. Meshing android and human minds is considered impossible, a societal taboo, and illegal. Can the sorrow of a father, […]

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High Barrens

High Barrens Flint has a rare skill that could change the world, or get her killed.   Seeing into a soul is easy for Flint. She can change a life or even the world with her words. She should have kept her mouth shut. Flint thought that having six older brothers and growing up in a dangerous frontier town would prepare her for anything. She soon discovers that the world […]

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Scout Selection: Worse than Wicked

Worse than Wicked A forbidden secret sparks a perilous journey.   Banned from visiting the Merfolk, sixteen-year-old Sofi schemes to stow away the next time her parents sail. When her actions reveal a hidden truth, the plan backfires, imprisoning her mother in the mermaid queen’s lair. The price of freedom? Journey deep into the forest and bring back an ancient magic stolen from the sea. But that fearsome power is […]

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Star Crusades: Nexus

Star Crusades: Nexus An epic military science fiction series.   The greatest warriors, engineers and scientists of the age blaze a path to the worlds of T’Karan and Helios, far away from the human worlds of the Alliance. There they will meet alien races and become embroiled in intergalactic politics and conflict. Characters such as Spartan, the illegal pitfighter turned war hero of the Great Uprising, Teresa Morato, senior commander […]

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Nightblade

Nightblade Loren’s dagger holds incredible power—but something keeps her from using it.   Loren dreams of escaping her cruel parents and becoming a great thief: Nightblade, a warrior of darkness and a champion of the light. Following the fugitive sorcerer Xain out of her forest home, she wears a stolen noble’s cloak of fine black cloth and carries a dagger the world has not seen in centuries—a blade that can […]

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Wards and Wonders

Wards and Wonders They couldn’t be less alike, but nothing will keep them apart.   They met the day the moat monsters attacked! It was Tyla’s first day at Elantoth Fortress, and Tina Ann stayed with her until the danger had passed. Now, it doesn’t matter that one is a pure-blood gnome, the other a deformed variant. Or that one is a researcher and the other a member of the […]

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Messenger’s Soliloquy

Messenger’s Soliloquy Alien invasion at tequila distillery!   Messenger’s survivalist family flees for their lives when three alien craft suddenly appear in the sky and attack his family’s Organic Tequila Distillery and Ice Caves. Inside the ice caves, sixteen-year-old Messenger discovers that not only have his parents been expecting and preparing for this, but the invaders are the vanguard of a celestial event that will irrevocably wipe out most life […]

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Scout Selection: Reclamation

Reclamation Epic, high-octane science fiction   A team of remotely controlled robotic fighting machines leaves on a mission to fight their way across Europe and most of Asia to reach a meteor that is the source of an alien infection that has taken over half the world. Battling horrific creations and vicious creatures, our heroes must search for stranded survivors and lost technology along their way to the crash site. […]

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Beyond the Forest

Beyond the Forest Lana’s gemstone powers draw her into a world full of enchanted creatures and unexpected dangers.   “A bright fantasy for readers who are tired of exaggerated violence and slippery morals.” — Kirkus Reviews Lana can draw arcane powers from gemstones. When she started reading the folklore, it sounded farfetched. She should have closed the books right then and walked away. Special abilities are nothing but trouble. Someone […]

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Scout Selection: Tuning In

Tuning In What if you triggered mass telepathy?   Jon Gunnarson never meant to transform humanity. He just wanted a normal life. A life where he doesn’t absorb other people’s emotions, lose himself and have to live like a hermit. So he jumps at the chance to help develop a scam telepathy app because it will get him to Bhutan, where he hopes an old friend will teach him how […]

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