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<description><![CDATA[These are some of the titles new to the Based Book Sale or that haven’t appeared in recent sales. Authors include science fiction grandmasters, established mainstream authors and emerging indie talent. The contributors include Tony Andarian, J.M. Anjewierden, D.S. Blake, Graham Bradley, Henry Brown, R.J. Burle, C.J. Carella, J.D. Cowan, C.M. Craig, Richard Davis, Mel […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These are some of the titles new to the Based Book Sale or that haven’t appeared in recent sales. Authors include science fiction grandmasters, established mainstream authors and emerging indie talent.</p>
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<p>The contributors include Tony Andarian, J.M. Anjewierden, D.S. Blake, Graham Bradley, Henry Brown, R.J. Burle, C.J. Carella, J.D. Cowan, C.M. Craig, Richard Davis, Mel Dunay, Jeff Dunteman, Declan Finn, Milo James Fowler, Julie Frost, Karl K. Gallagher, Mark Goldblatt, Josh Griffing, M. Anthony Harris, Seth Hobbs, Rob Howell, Michael F. Kane, Joseph Kellogg, Chris Kennedy, L.S. King, Robert Kroese, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Frank B. Luke, TJ Marquis, Russell May, Christopher Menkhaus, Diana Murray, Ron Nielsen, M.A. Nilles, Melanie Nilles, John M. Olsen, Chance Paladin, S.Kirk Pierzchala, George Phillies, Thomas Plutarch, Francis Porretto, James Pyles, Alexander Robb, David Rowlett, Denton Salle, Steve Stark, K Steele, Kevin Steverson, James R. Strickland, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, S.C. Vincent, Allison Wade, Matt Waterhouse, Thomas J. Weiss, David J. West, Ryan Williamson, Marisa Wolf, John C. Wright, and Page Zaplendam.</p>
<p>And every title is either free or $0.99! Note: prices are set by the authors, so please confirm before you buy. And some of the offerings are short stories or novellas instead of full-length novels. A few titles won’t be on sale until Thursday November 23. With 80 titles from 58 authors, there’s sure to be something for every based reader.</p>
<p><strong>Sale Links:</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6218">Main Sale Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6221">Fan Favorites</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6223">New Arrivals</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6250">Non-Fiction</a></li>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3QQyBzW">Book of Feasts and Seasons</a><a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/feasts-and-seasons.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-6245 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/feasts-and-seasons-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/feasts-and-seasons-200x300.jpg 200w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/feasts-and-seasons.jpg 311w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /></a><br />
by John C. Wright</h2>
<p>The Book of Feasts & Seasons is a beautifully mind-bending stroll with a grandmaster of science fiction through the annual Catholic calendar. Over the course of the year, from January to December, the author takes his inspiration from 10 different holidays and explores their meanings in a series of stories of marvelous imagination. The book begins with New Year’s Day and “The Meaning of Life as Told Me by an Inebriated Science Fiction Writer in New Jersey”.</p>
<p>The Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin is represented by “A Random World of Delta Capricorni Aa, Called Scheddi”, while “The Parliament of Beasts and Birds” is the story for the Feast of Pentecost. The calendar and the anthology culminate on Christmas Eve with “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”.</p>
<p>John C. Wright is not only a deeply religious man, he is also a devout Catholic philosopher who regards reason as an intrinsic aspect of his faith. The Book of Feasts & Seasons is an imaginative embodiment of that faith, taking many different shapes and forms throughout the vast expanse of God’s creation.</p>
<p>Grab it now!</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3Gtbxml">Guardians of the Twilight Lands: The Sixth Book of Unexpected Enlightenment<br />
(Books of Unexpected Enlightenment 6)</a><br />
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<h2>by L Jagi Lamplighter (Author), John C. Wright (Illustrator), James Frenkel (Editor)</h2>
<p>An old enemy returns!</p>
<p>With the Heer of Dunderberg dead, Rachel Griffin is determined to save her beloved Roanoke Academy before time runs out, but to do this, a new covenant must be forged with the island’s fairies. On top of this, an old enemy has escaped and might reappear any moment</p>
<p>Rachel has learned not to wish on stars, but what should she do when she yearns for help? She is troubled by other questions, too: Where do the dead go? What became of her beloved late grandfather? Most annoying of all, with such a wonderful boyfriend, how can she be in love with two boys?</p>
<p>As her fourteenth birthday approaches, the answer to these questions awaits her, along with wonders such as she has never seen.</p>
<p>But there are terrible things ahead, too.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3RltHN7">Codex Babylon: A secret history sci-fi adventure (The Cross-Time Crusade Book 1) </a><br />
by Robert Kroese</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">The first book of The Cross-Time Crusade, the Kickstarter sensation that raised over $27,000!<a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hSPAHnXjL._UX300_PJku-sticker-v7%2CTopRight%2C0%2C-50_.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hSPAHnXjL._UX300_PJku-sticker-v7%2CTopRight%2C0%2C-50_.jpg" alt="Codex Babylon: A secret history sci-fi adventure (The Cross-Time Crusade Book 1)" width="242" height="403" /></a></span></p>
<p>A secret cabal of demonic forces threatens to destroy civilization and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Humanity’s only chance is a shadowy organization called GRAIL–the modern day heirs to the Knights Templar–which has discovered the secret to time travel. The past cannot be changed, but if GRAIL can send an agent into the past to recover a lost book on demonology called the Codex Babylon, they may have a fighting chance to save humanity from utter destruction.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Spanning 900 years and four continents, The Cross-Time Crusade is an epic saga of the eternal struggle against evil!</span></p>
<p>“This is a compelling page-turner which also makes you think about how time travel might work and motivates you to learn more about the enigmatic Templars.” – John Walker, founder of Autodesk</p>
<p>“…a whirlwind tale that jumps between the Middle Ages and 2023, with elements that reminded me of Connie Willis’ time travel sagas, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.” – Amazon reviewer</p>
<p>“Robert Kroese is one of the few writers still pursuing truly new ideas in science fiction. In this series, he looks at demonic influence in a new way… [T]he meat of the book is the desperate search for the Codex Babylon, an ancient tome with the secrets to fighting the demons and reclaiming our world. you find yourself rooting for all the characters both past and present, and reeling with the many surprising twists.” – Amazon reviewer</p>
<p>“Fans of Kroese’s Iron Dragon series will recall his combination of scrupulously researched historical detail, compelling characters, and gripping action – features on display again here.” – Hans Schantz, author of The Hidden Truth</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3QO2q4b">Escaping Fate (Paradox Book 1) </a><br />
by Henry Brown<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Em4phTDoL._CR0%2C0%2C0%2C130_.jpg" width="235" height="376" /></h2>
<p>Pete Bedauern began his life as a latchkey kid in a run-down trailer park with a single mom, living on stale hot dog buns and bleak prospects. Those were the cards Fate had dealt him, and Pete was on his way to becoming an angry young man. Then Pete’s estranged uncle burst on the scene to punch Fate in the mouth.</p>
<p>Uncle Si is scarred inside and out; he’s a hard drinker; painfully blunt; a little mysterious and maybe even scary, but takes an interest in his nephew that Pete’s father never took. Most of Uncle Si’s life is a secret, but through the part of it he shares, Pete undergoes a master course on life, love, and full-contact sports.</p>
<p>As it turns out, Uncle Si not only has tons of money, multiple businesses, and a fleet of fast cars, he also owns a time machine.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">Paradox</span> is one good-hearted-but-alienated boy’s odyssey into manhood, and <span class="a-text-italic">Escaping Fate</span> is the opening leg of that journey. Before it’s complete, Pete will learn the guarded secrets of history, take on a pan-continuum conspiracy, contend for a world championship, crack the code for success with women…and even save the world.</p>
<p>Well, one world, maybe…</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3sICH5f">Homecoming In Black (The Black Chronicles Book 6)</a><br />
by J. M. Anjewierden</h2>
<p>Home. For most the word evokes feelings of safety, but for Morgan it is a reminder of what she’s suffered and lost.</p>
<p>Her chance to change that has finally come, to end the war raging between her homeworld and her adopted home.</p>
<p>All she need do is smuggle a dozen Marines onto one of the securest space stations in the galaxy, penetrate to its core, and capture the man responsible for everything, right from under the fanatics who revere him.</p>
<p>Easy, right?</p>
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<p><strong>NOTE! Books 1-5 in The Black Chronicles are “Fan Favorites:”</strong></p>
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<li id="block-98a9b416-5c9b-4957-875e-c4aaa63515c4" class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/33tX5Ez">The Long Black </a><a href="https://amzn.to/33tX5Ez">(The Black Chronicles Book 1)</a></strong></em></li>
<li class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/34fZQMm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Black Holiday </a></strong></em><br />
<em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/34fZQMm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(The Black Chronicles Book 2)</a></strong></em></li>
<li id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3CBkgOJ">Running Black</a></strong></em><br />
<em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3CBkgOJ">(The Black Chronicles Book 3) </a></strong></em></li>
<li class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3HpFTFP" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Black Salvage </a>(The Black Chronicles Book 4)</strong></em></li>
<li class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3tOfbRl" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Battles in the Black (The Black Chronicles Book 5)</a></strong></em></li>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/46oyWiZ">Drumlin Circus / On Gossamer Wings</a> *TWO Titles in One!*<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51u-xTVub5L.jpg" alt="Drumlin Circus / On Gossamer Wings" width="219" height="329" /><br />
by Jeff Duntemann (Author), James R. Strickland (Author)</h2>
<p>A starship malfunctions and strands its 800 passengers on a planet eerily like the Pleistocene Earth, complete with prehistoric mammals including woolly mammoths, dire wolves, and smilodons. And something else: tens of thousands of abandoned alien machines consisting of a bowl and two pillars that respond with drum-like sounds when touched. Tap 256 times on the pillars in any combination, and…something…coalesces in the bowl. It might be a spoon or an axe or a twisted lump of silvery metal. These artifacts (dubbed “drumlins”) help the unwilling colonists survive, but there’s something a little weird about what comes out of the “thingmaker” machines. High-pitched sounds sometimes make drumlins twitch and combine into more complex things. Stranger still, what drumlins do seems to depend on the thoughts of nearby humans. Wish hard while you whistle just so…and something amazing may happen.</p>
<p>260 years on, the castaways have created a civilization resembling late 19th Century America, based in part on coal, steam, iron, and hard work–and in part on the mysterious drumlin artifacts. Both short novels in this volume are set against this background.</p>
<p>Drumlin Circus: Every spring, Bramble Ceglarek takes Pretty Alice’s Wonderland Circus down the dirt roads of the west country, dazzling townfolk with clowns, acrobats, calliope music, and trained animals — especially trained animals. His wife Julia trains them with a drumlin whistle, and they obey with peculiar precision. The cultlike Bitspace Institute, hoping to train animal assassins, sends agent Simon Kassel to steal the whistle. Unknown to him, Kassel has been set up to fail by his Institute rivals who want to be rid of him, and after Julia and her apprentice Rosa are abducted by Institute thugs who attempt to kill him, Kassel switches loyalties and joins the circus as a very scary clown.</p>
<p>He returns to Institute HQ to rescue Julia and Rosa, only to discover that the training whistle is much more than merely a whistle: a mysterious “function controller” that compels animals, human beings, and even the alien drumlin artifacts themselves to obey its bearer.</p>
<p>On Gossamer Wings: From out in the dry rye fields of the west, rumors have come to the Bitspace Institute that someone has drummed up something valuable from the alien thingmakers: a large sphere of pure iron. Institute agent Hiram König rides out to investigate, and discovers the strange, mute young woman who has done the drumming. He also learns that the Big Ball of Iron is just the beginning of the previously unknown drumlins that she has discovered in the vast “bitspace” of the alien thingmakers. Despite the slow progress of technology in the Valinor colony, where steam locomotives and the first primitive hydrogen airships are state of the art, Natalie Bishop is using her talents with the thingmakers to seek out the drumlin parts she needs to build a heavier-than-air flying machine. For her, the flier is her masterpiece, the work that will prove her worth to the people she cares about.<span style="color: #005f8f;"><a style="color: #005f8f;" href="https://amzn.to/3SYGl5T"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/511xImX9yjL.jpg" alt="Cold Hands and Other Stories" width="175" height="265" /></a></span></p>
<p>The race is on for König to extract Natalie from the pressure-cooker of a small town that is her home, before it blows up around her and before she takes the dazzlingly risky final step and tries to fly.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3SYGl5T">Cold Hands and Other Stories </a><br />
by Jeff Duntemann</h2>
<p>Veteran computer author Jeff Duntemann’s second collection of short fiction runs the gamut from spaceflight to mathematically rigorous witchcraft. The volume includes “Cold Hands,” (nominated for the Hugo Award) “Our Lady of the Endless Sky,” “Inevitability Sphere,” “Whale Meat,” “Born Again, With Water,” “Drumlin Boiler,” “Drumlin Wheel,” and “Roddie,” plus a new excerpt from his hard SF nanotech adventure novel, The Cunning Blood.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/46rLZjG">Ten Gentle Opportunities </a><br />
by Jeff Duntemann (Author), Blake Henriksen (Illustrator)</h2>
<p>Having been caught cheating a powerful magician out of ten nuggets of pure uncommitted magic in a rigged card game, Bartholomew Stypek needs a place to hide. As a spellbender he is at best a partial magician, who can read and change magic spells, but, absent a stash of magical force, cannot cast his own. With his anarchic familiar spirit Pickles and the ill-won kitty of magical Opportunities, Stypek throws himself on the mercy of the all-powerful Continuum and leaps blindly across universes, hoping to be dropped someplace far away, boring, and utterly without magic. As the Continuum chuckles in the background, Stypek lands in the break room of a small-town advertising agency in Upstate New York.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/46mTRmQ">Fear the Four Towers: Hero’s Metal: Book III (Hero’s Metal – Dark Fantasy Adventure 3) </a><br />
by TJ Marquis <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41ICHycdfjL._PJku-sticker-v7,TopRight,0,-50._SY300_.jpg" alt="Fear the Four Towers: Hero&#39;s Metal: Book III (Hero&#39;s Metal - Dark Fantasy Adventure 3)" width="193" height="339" /></h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">The Four Towers called, and Gorgonbane has answered.</span></p>
<p>With the murderous falselight repelled for now, and the devastating ultra-buipolad reduced to cinders by the Sun, it falls to our mighty heroes to brave the ancient accursed Towers.</p>
<p>What are they for? Who, or what, built them? Can whatever magics they hold contain the seemingly endless flood of corruption that is the falselight mass?</p>
<p>Agrathor, Pierce, Scythia, and their teams must find a way into the Towers, and beat the ever-ambitious Ess, and the coldly calculating Asel, to the invaluable secrets within, all while Axebourne pledges to hold the line.</p>
<p>But all is not as it seems within the Towers, as space, time, and even the purpose of the world are ripped away from apparent realities…</p>
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<p><strong>Note! Books 1 & 2 in the series:</strong></p>
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<li class="wp-block-heading"><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3AHeCfR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Black the Sky: A Heavy Metal Pulp Adventure (Hero’s Metal – Heavy Metal Pulp Adventures Book 1)</a> </strong></li>
<li class="wp-block-heading"><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3Xsd6rS" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Out of the Deep: A Heavy Metal Pulp Adventure (Hero’s Metal – Heavy Metal Pulp Adventures Book 2)</a></strong></li>
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<p><strong>Are in the Fan Favorites section. Buy them all!</strong></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3QNFYs8">A Lake Most Deep: The Edwardsaga (Firehall Sagas Book 1) <img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51rDnVi+TvL._PJku-sticker-v7,TopRight,0,-50._SY300_.jpg" alt="A Lake Most Deep: The Edwardsaga (Firehall Sagas Book 1)" /></a><br />
by Rob Howell (Author)</h2>
<h3><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">“Rob mixes intrigue, murder, and magic into his own cool blend.” – Larry Correia</span></h3>
<p>Edward sought a future of honor and hope, but only got murder and mayhem.</p>
<p>He came to the Empire of Makhaira to join the Imperial Guard, who admit only the best. Instead, he pledges his sword—and his life—to an innkeeper rather than the emperor.</p>
<p>In a land known for intricate plots and ancestral enmities, the empire’s corruption seeks to end his life with knives in the night and hidden treachery. And he must face these blades while memories of a father slain, a king defied, and oaths broken threaten his soul.</p>
<p>Can he find the one bringing schism, death, and hate before that steel tastes his blood? Or will be just another who came to the empire to lose everything?</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3uqSG8J">Mister Friday</a><br />
by Graham Bradley<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41uQfIJGflL.jpg" alt="Mister Friday" width="188" height="300" /></h2>
<p>In a near future, Black Friday is enshrined as an official economic holiday.</p>
<p>The violence and competition that have come to characterize the start of the Christmas shopping season are now encouraged and regulated by the US Government.</p>
<p>Jonathan Rigel Jr. quickly climbed the charts and became the greatest Friday Fighter of all time.</p>
<p>When he finally decides that he’s out for good, he learns the hard way that you can’t just turn down a good deal…</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About the Author:</span></h3>
<p>Graham took up creative writing in the 3rd grade and has pursued it ever since. Alongside his childhood hobby of drawing on any blank sheet of paper he could find, this talent blossomed into his eventual career goal, and his is now an author-illustrator.</p>
<p>Diving headfirst into just about any speculative genre, Graham prefers sci-fi and fantasy, with a focus on machinery and technology. Colorful worlds and aesthetics are a must, and above all, he wants readers to have fun.</p>
<p>Originally from Nevada, Graham lives in the mountain west with his wife and kids.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3tEzeki"><em>Armageddon Girl<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1o+U5RNC5L._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="321" /></em></a><br />
by C.J. Carella</h2>
<p>“Superheroes with style and wit.”<br />
– S.M. Stirling, best-selling author of the Change Series.</p>
<p>(WARNING: Contains violence, adult content and strong language.)</p>
<p>A world of larger-than-life heroes and villains with all too human failings. An action-packed tale, combining thrills with humor and more than a few pop culture references and nods to geek culture. This is the first tome of the New Olympus Saga.</p>
<p>College student Christine Dark wasn’t happy. Her social life sucked, she spent too much of her time playing computer games or reading sci-fi novels (and the occasional paranormal romance) and she felt like she was missing out on everything.</p>
<p>Fate had something special in store for her, though.</p>
<p>Without warning, an unknown force drags Christine out of her world and takes her to a whole new universe, an alternate Earth where superhuman beings have existed since the end of World War One, a world filled with strange and dangerous characters.</p>
<p>Christine soon learns she too is more than human, and that her choices may save her new home… or bring about its destruction.</p>
<p>REVISED EDITION: The original novel has been updated and revised, with some typo corrections and edition changes.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/39rq5WB" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Decisively Engaged (Warp Marine Corps Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91KjcSVGDmL._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="321" /></a><br />
by C.J. Carella</h2>
<p>(WARNING: Contains violence, strong language and adult content)</p>
<p><strong>They picked a fight with the wrong species.</strong></p>
<p><strong>A NATION AT WAR:</strong> The United Stars of America. Born in the conflagration of unprovoked alien attack, the newest entrant to galactic politics took the few crumbs of hypertech gifted to it and ran with them, soon expanding over dozens of star systems and establishing a wide trade network, protected by its powerful Navy and the dreaded Warp Marines.</p>
<p><strong>A FIGHT TO THE DEATH:</strong> A single Marine platoon, tasked with protecting an embassy on a hostile alien planet. An embassy – and the human enclave around it – that soon finds itself surrounded by armed mobs. Can the Marines and a ragtag band of civilian and Navy personnel survive long enough to be rescued?</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3QVVwds">Flower of Light: The Eternal Stones 1 </a><br />
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51DCWDR-wWL.jpg" alt="Flower of Light: The Eternal Stones 1" width="201" height="321" />by Allison Wade</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">“At the dawn of the tenth spring,</span><br />
<span class="a-text-italic">what was shattered will return whole.”</span></p>
<p>For centuries, the Flower of Light has kept the balance of the Bluand Empire. Each generation, new Wardens are chosen to protect the sacred stones and master their incredible powers.<br />
But not everyone can bear the weight of destiny in the same way, and it’s easy to stray from the path of Light.<br />
Ten years ago, the circle was broken and the true power remained hidden. But now, the time has come for a new balance. The time has come for the fated Wardens to awaken and set things right.<br />
Fire and Water, Earth and Sky. Equals and opposites.<br />
Eight are chosen by the Constellations, from all corners of the Empire. Destined to cross their paths and rediscover what was lost, facing the darkness that looms over the World of Light.</p>
<p>“<span class="a-text-bold">Flower of Light</span>” is the first book in <span class="a-text-italic">the Eternal Stones</span> series, a story of magic and adventure, ominous prophecies and unwavering hope.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3R4dBHa">Against Three Lands (Thousand Isles Book 1) </a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91-uREHjnRL._AC_UY218_.jpg" alt="Against Three Lands (Thousand Isles Book 1)" width="188" height="279" /><br />
by George Phillies (Author), Morineko- zion (Illustrator), Christopher Nuttall (Preface)</h2>
<p>.”…George Phillies is good at creating new and different universes. Mistress of the Waves features a world that is, in many ways, a work of art…The One World features a female-dominated society that seems plausible…In truth, George deserves to be known far better than he is…” … Chris Nuttall</p>
<p>Clan MacDonald is surrounded by enemies. Clan Gunn wants its lands. Mysterious pirates assail its shores. The All-Conquering Generalissimo suspects it of treason. Foreign trade is interrupted by barbarian invasions.</p>
<p>Angus Valentine Macdonald, seventh child of the One MacDonald, must travel to remote Mercia to defeat the treachery of the Lunarian Empire, the corruption of the Langwadooran invaders, and the rapacious greed of the alien Trell to protect his homeland and win the hand of his lady-love.</p>
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<h2><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/379ZmJ4">Mistress of the Waves<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81FFkmLSHJL._SL1500_.jpg" width="199" height="286" /></a></em></strong><br />
by George Phillies</h2>
<p>Orphaned Amanda Kirasdotr is a sailor on the lost planet Goddard. When she rescues a visiting starfarer from drowning, her reward is a trip into orbit. Now she wants to go there again, not easy when the hottest ship on Goddard has three masts and a full set of sails.</p>
<p>The shadowy Brotherhood of the Bell realizes that Amanda wants to bring that most dreaded of all menaces, change, to Goddard. They’ll do absolutely anything to stop her.</p>
<p>Amanda begins with her wits, her determination, and her dory Northstar. She’s up against typhoons, pirates, assassins, financial bubbles, starfarer ultratech, and the mythical giant ship-eating squid. Can she beat them all to find the path to her dream?</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/47lw9bX">Well Regulated Militia Kindle Edition</a><br />
by K Steele<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/well-regulated-militia.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-6234 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/well-regulated-militia-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/well-regulated-militia-200x300.jpg 200w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/well-regulated-militia.jpg 311w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /></a></h2>
<p>Julie Collins wonders why there isn’t an amendment in the Bill of Rights for the right just to be left alone.</p>
<p>Eighteen should be one of the best years of her life, a time of optimism for the future.</p>
<p>Instead, as she looks to the dawn of adulthood all she sees is pessimism around herself with little hope for improvement in the conditions slowly crushing her family.</p>
<p>But her grandfathers instilled her with longing for liberty, one by his death and the other by his life of struggle against tyranny, and this yearning within her for freedom refuses to capitulate to greedy despots.</p>
<p>“We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor,” ended The Declaration of Independence.</p>
<p>Inspired by these words of Thomas Jefferson, the words of John Locke, the Magna Carta, Aristotle and Cicero, Julie educates herself to the cause of liberty.</p>
<p>More than just hollow words to her, with the shadow of oppression hanging over them she decides it is time to take a stand for justice; it is time for her to join the militia.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/47Hb0bJ">The Spear of Destiny (Zarahemla Two Crows Book 2)</a><br />
by Ryan Williamson (Author)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41B4u1qDxPL._UX300_PJku-sticker-v7%2CTopRight%2C0%2C-50_.jpg" alt="The Spear of Destiny (Zarahemla Two Crows Book 2)" width="241" height="400" /></h2>
<p>Zarahemla Two Crows is in the saddle again, and the warrior nun Magdalena has been dispatched from the Vatican to ride with him! Together they must race against time to find and secure the fabled Spear of Destiny before an evil power can unleash a plague of terror on the world.</p>
<p>Join Zarahemla, Magdalena, and a cast of brand new characters in this exciting novella-length sequel to The Widow’s Son.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About the Author</strong></span></p>
<p>Ryan Williamson is the author of many short stories, the novel “The Widow’s Son,” and its sequel novella “The Spear of Destiny,” which have garnered him a dedicated following.</p>
<p>A unique sense of authenticity and realism marks Ryan’s writing, drawn in part from his experiences serving as a Cavalry Scout in the US Army.</p>
<p>When he’s not writing, Ryan indulges his love for adventure by exploring the backroads of the Pacific Northwest on his motorcycles.</p>
<p>His passion for storytelling and adventure is evident in all his work and continues to inspire readers around the world.</p>
<p>The first book from his military fantasy series “Doomsday Recon,” co-authored with Jason Anspach, is set to release in early 2024 from WarGate Books.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Note! Book 1 in the series, <a href="https://amzn.to/3mYSeHx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Widow’s Son,</a> is a Fan Favorite.</strong></h3>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/46iRpO4">The Dungeon Runner’s Echoes: The Runners’ Echoes Part 1 </a><br />
by C. M. Craig (Author)<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Dragon-Runner.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-6235 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Dragon-Runner-189x300.jpg" alt="" width="189" height="300" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Dragon-Runner-189x300.jpg 189w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Dragon-Runner.jpg 293w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px" /></a></h2>
<p>When Evan starts playing Dungeon Runners, he isn’t expecting to find real people trapped in this game.</p>
<p>But that’s what he finds.</p>
<p>Tore, a young storm giant, has just been rejected by his master and is dying.</p>
<p>Will Evan be able to save him?</p>
<p>And even if he does, will the young runner then be able to find a way to save the giant’s brothers from a corrupted giantess who has enslaved them?</p>
<p>And what about his plans of becoming a professional video game player? Evan is not sure he signed up for all of this when he started his ‘game’.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/40KLMqN">After Moses</a><br />
by Michael F. Kane (Author)<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/After-Moses.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-6236 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/After-Moses-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/After-Moses-200x300.jpg 200w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/After-Moses.jpg 310w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /></a></h2>
<h4>His gruff exterior hides a man who wants to do the right thing. But running from trouble won’t work when the planets need a hero.</h4>
<p>Arizona Colony, Mars. Matthew Cole doesn’t want anyone else aboard his ship. But the notorious solo freelancer is persuaded against his better judgment to guard a dangerous prison transport along with an exo-suit-clad former rival. Outmaneuvered when the crook’s cronies spring the inmate with heavy firepower, the poncho-wearing captain vows to scour the solar system to restore his rep and claim his paycheck</p>
<p>Reluctantly banding together with his seven-foot partner in her powered armor, Matthew has his hands full leading an unwanted ragtag crew. But the headache of dealing with people again is nothing next to the prickling between his shoulders as he continues to run afoul of greedy politicians and criminal syndicates.</p>
<p>Is this space cowboy’s moral compass sending him to a fatal crash landing?</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3uxrgxF">Wild Souls: A Werewolf Collection</a><a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/wild-souls.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-6238 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/wild-souls-193x300.jpg" alt="" width="193" height="300" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/wild-souls-193x300.jpg 193w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/wild-souls.jpg 273w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px" /></a><br />
by Julie Frost</h2>
<p>Julie Frost is best known for her Pack Dynamics series.</p>
<p>However, in this collection, she explores other aspects of lycanthropy, with stories running a gamut of timelines from the ancient Celts to American weird west to modern day—and even into the outer reaches of space.</p>
<p>Ranging between humor and horror, with a cast of characters varying from witches to hunters to soldiers to angels and demons, there’s something here for everyone.</p>
<p>Stories of families lost and found, new packs and old, love and loathing and loneliness…</p>
<p>And, above all, what makes us human, and who the real monsters are.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/47hZfJ4">Life Support: A House Divided</a><br />
by Joseph Kellogg<img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/516+HOeiX+L._SY300_.jpg" alt="Life Support: A House Divided" /></h2>
<p>Waylaid by space pirates, medical missionary Father Tanner is offered a deal: cure the pirate captain of his recent strange illness, or be left for dead.</p>
<p>But when the priest examines his patient, he fears the strange psychosis may be no mere sickness.</p>
<p>Tanner prepares to grapple with the Devil himself, as the squid-like alien shows all the signs of demonic possession.</p>
<p>As Tanner and the rest of his crew struggle to find the source of this mystery malady, his own captain, smuggler Damien Rogers, isn’t content to wager his freedom on an exorcism he doesn’t believe in.</p>
<p>He decides to pursue his escape the old-fashioned way: fomenting a mutiny among the pirate crew.</p>
<p>But the planet they take refuge on turns out to have more sinister dangers than just pirates.</p>
<p>Friends are lost, allies are gained, and the truth is revealed in this action-packed sequel to <span class="a-text-italic">Life Support: Secret Operations</span>!</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3upQGxh">Neighbors (Public Domain Agents Book 1)</a><br />
by Christopher Menkhaus</h2>
<p><strong><span class="a-text-bold">For a girl obsessed with the past…<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/neighbors.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-6237 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/neighbors-187x300.jpg" alt="" width="187" height="300" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/neighbors-187x300.jpg 187w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/neighbors.jpg 291w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px" /></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="a-text-bold">And a boy with no future…</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="a-text-bold">There’s no time like the present…</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="a-text-bold">No time at all!</span></strong></p>
<p>Heather Worth is about to take the biggest step of her life. She is moving across the country for an art scholarship at a prestigious university. For Heather, everything is about to change.</p>
<p>But, Heather has a secret motivation for her move. She recognizes one of the students in the background of one of the photographs in the university brochure.</p>
<p>She’s sure it’s him. It’s been over a decade since she’s seen him, but she would know him anywhere. After all, he was her first crush…and it’s impossible to forget someone who looks like they have lights under their skin.</p>
<p>Heather has finally found Chase Russet. This time, nothing is going to keep them apart. Not even Chase’s neighbors, who are harboring a dangerous secret.</p>
<p>Chase Russet takes the same steps every day. No matter how many times Chase’s family moves, they still live in the same house, with the same neighbors. For Chase, nothing ever changes.</p>
<p>Until the accident…</p>
<p>Buy <span class="a-text-italic">Neighbors</span> today! Every story out there is made up of fictional facts, but only this book contains factional fictions.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3MHr7yc">AGROTHARN the Interstellar Semi-Barbarian!<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81H1M65sZBL._SL1500_.jpg" width="195" height="311" /> </a><br />
<a href="https://amzn.to/3MHr7yc">(Chronicles of AGROTHARN Book 1) </a><br />
by Milo James Fowler</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">“I will bring your demise!”</span></p>
<p>Long ago, before the days of recorded history, during the Hyperbolean Age of a much younger Earth, AGROTHARN the Interstellar Semi-Barbarian roamed the ancient volcanic lands in search of fame and fortune. These are his somewhat heroic tales, sure to enthrall the most adventurous of readers!</p>
<p>When AGROTHARN learns that his long-lost witch-mother is still alive, he sets off on a perilous journey with his loyal triceratops to find her. Along the way, they meet a conniving trickster, a vengeful T-Rex, and a bunch of bloodthirsty aliens from a distant planet. Nonstop adventures take AGROTHARN deep into space and back through time as he unravels new truths about the reality he’s always taken for granted. What he discovers will forever change his life, setting him on a new path to rewrite the past and forge a glorious future for one and all!</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/40OGDOr">Jiao Tu’s Endeavour: Episode 1: The Kidnapped Mousling Kindle Edition</a> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41I-To8HYWL._UX300undefined_.jpg" alt="Jiao Tu’s Endeavour: Episode 1: The Kidnapped Mousling" width="185" height="295" /><br />
by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">On a multigenerational colony ship five hundred years off course, a lagomorph warrior must survive using only his wits and his sword.</span></p>
<p>Jiao Tu has been hired to rescue a young kidnapped mousling. A tip leads him to the Below, home to the engines that keep the world in motion. His mission has hardly begun when an encounter with a monstrous being plunges him into the midst of a struggle not only for control of the Below but for the world itself.</p>
<p>Teamed with an untested ratling warrior and the ratling leader of a gang of thugs, Jiao Tu must stop the monster and save the mousling—and the world—before it is too late.</p>
<p>Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Leigh Brackett’s planetary romances, Gene Wolfe’s <span class="a-text-italic">Book of the Long Sun</span>, Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane stories, Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo, and the wuxia tradition starting with <span class="a-text-italic">Water Margins</span> and <span class="a-text-italic">Journey to the West</span>, Uitvlugt has created a world all his own that promises a far-future adventure unlike any other.</p>
<p>— “<span class="a-text-italic">Jiao Tu’s Endeavour</span> is a rarity in the Sword & Planet genre. It’s like nothing that came before it. Drawing from John Carter, Usagi Yojimbo, and <span class="a-text-italic">Orphans in the Sky</span>, Uitvlugt has created a fantastic tale no fan of pulp adventure should miss.”<br />
— Henry Vogel, author of the <span class="a-text-italic">Scout</span> series</p>
<p>— “In a world filled with anti heroes, Jiao Tu is a breath of fresh air. His virtues are on display for all to see. The mysteries around him unfold at just the right time. A real page turner.”<br />
— A.M. Able, author of the Uplift Protocol series</p>
<p>— “An adventure of mystique and mystery in an industrial jungle. Every moment drips with intrigue!”<br />
— T.J. Marquis, author of <span class="a-text-italic">Life City</span></p>
<p>— “A loving homage to the pulps of old, an intriguing blend of Sword, Sorcery, and Planet. A story where the hero is morally strong, not just skilled and of strong will, is a delight.”<br />
— D.J. Schreffler</p>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">This volume contains the complete first story arc compiled from the web serial </span>Jiao Tu’s Endeavour<span class="a-text-italic">, as well as the bonus stories “The Festival of Sweets” and “The Last Oracle.” Read more about the lagomorph warrior and his adventures at </span><u>https://jiaotusendeavour.wordpress.com/</u></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/49OsR2j">Solarvoid</a> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51RYc-ZaTXL.jpg" alt="Solarvoid" width="198" height="315" /><br />
by Russell May</h2>
<p>For centuries, the worldship Solarvoid has roamed the cosmos.</p>
<p>The might of an entire civilization contained in a colossal craft,<br />
a titanic triumph of science, engineering and culture,<br />
traversing the eternal night of space.</p>
<p>But now, an ancient and monstrous evil stalks the ship.</p>
<p>A sinister cult performs bizarre rituals in the half-forgotten bowels of the Solarvoid.</p>
<p>Intrigue, suspicion and murder haunt even the mightiest of Great Houses.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3SQNAMR">Crazy Moon</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81DEL1BIUOL._SL1500_.jpg" width="203" height="324" /><br />
A Short Story by Frank B. Luke</h2>
<p>Welcome to Lou’s Bar & Grill where the house special looks like a bargain but will cost more than you think.</p>
<p>Lou and his staff have everything a person could want, and they know the best way to present it to you.</p>
<p>After being stood up, werewolf fanatic Laney McMurphy went to Lou’s to forget her sorrows.</p>
<p>To her surprise, Lou offered her a place in the local pack.</p>
<p>To progress within the pack’s ranks, she’ll have to give in to her wild side.</p>
<p>And most importantly, she’ll have to indulge her wrath.</p>
<p>Each victory means a step up in rank.</p>
<p>What she knows about wolves will help.</p>
<p>What she doesn’t know just might get her killed.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/46iV9z6">PNW Affliction 3: Combination Plaza </a><img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41qhC9nSrxL._PJku-sticker-v7,TopRight,0,-50._SY300_.jpg" alt="PNW Affliction 3: Combination Plaza" /></h2>
<h2>by Chance Paladin (Author), Gem Gem (Illustrator)</h2>
<p>A relative calm has blessed the land in the six months since the collapse of the Pacific Northwest.</p>
<p>It’s time to leave the safety of the farm with the team though to check up on allies at the Combination Plaza.</p>
<p>Hopefully they are doing okay.</p>
<p>Pacific Northwest Affliction 3: Combination Plaza</p>
<p>PNW Affliction book #3: Combination Plaza</p>
<div class="AuthorBio__author-bio__title__CO2Dr"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About the author</strong></span></div>
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<p>Chance Paladin lives in the Pacific Northwest between resistance-held city-states. He lives with his wonderful wife of 15 years, likes gardening and taking care of stray cats, and taking care of his rescued potted plants. He’s an amazing business analyst, and heads towards the worst projects while everyone else runs away. He’s seen every type of migraine doctor there is, most of them three times a piece, and finally found some new treatments that worked enough for him to function normal’ish.</p>
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<h2><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3mh2Z5X">Panda Dreams and Other Hallucinations: A Collection of Short Stories<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81fT4TujLgL._SL1500_.jpg" width="202" height="323" /></a></em></strong> by Denton Salle</h2>
<p>Do pandas dream? And if so, what do they dream of? That question is asked in this anthology of stories by the award-winning author of Daemonic Mechanical Artifacts and Deep School Tuition. Enter the weird and wonderful worlds of Denton Salle, where a Slavic myth asks for help, an Austin PI is asked to recover a demon-possessed blade, and a Countess recruits help in a Steampunk French Empire.</p>
<p>Ranging from sweet romance to steampunk adventures to urban fantasy, with characters running from heroes to whores to ghouls, Salle’s stories range across genre and from North Texas to South France. Included in this collection are several never-published works, as well as two non-fiction pieces.</p>
<p>Come in and see where too long in quarantine, with too much bourbon, and an overactive imagination can take you.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3SVzMkj">The Brothers of Redemption: Technium, v. 1</a><br />
by Diana Murray</h2>
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<h3><span class="a-text-bold">The Journey You Start Isn’t The One You Finish</span></h3>
<p>It’s 2165 in the Old Calendar, 0093 in the New. The world is a desolate realm of vast zones governed by the mysterious Council Of the Brotherhood Orders. Brothers and Settlers vie for control in what once was the developed world. Insurgencies plague the rest. The past is taboo, erased by the enigmatic “Before.”</p>
<p>Jed and Max Kleer, half-brothers born into elite Brotherhood cohorts, share a mysterious bond that neither understands. They’re washouts living empty lives, adrift in the remnants of New York City. Jed, a disgraced Appraiser, works in the dreary Archives, feeding endless documents from the Before into Janus, the Council’s vast cloud drive. Max, a former combat engineer, lives in perpetual adolescent rage, smoking pellets, trading relics from “the Before” in a squatter colony.</p>
<p>Jed gets a chance at redemption in the Sonoran Desert and Max, in trouble and needing to lie low, joins him there. When Jed wins Hannah Joyner, a settler abducted to be a sex slave, in a card game, their lives take an unexpected turn. They embark on a perilous journey across the continent to guide the lost girl home.</p>
<p>What could possibly go wrong?</p>
<p>Everything.</p>
<p>The journey they start won’t be the one they finish.</p>
<p>Technium defies the conventions of the dystopian genre by combining romance, humor and lyrical meditations on the America that once was and might one day be. It consists of two volumes, <u>The Brothers Of Redemption</u> and <u>A Daughter Of Her People</u>.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/49GzIep">My Life as a Dixie Darling</a><br />
by Mark Goldblatt<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71F1aM526YL._AC_UY218_.jpg" alt="My Life as a Dixie Darling" width="211" height="317" /></h2>
<p>Doreen Martinelli doesn’t understand the power of social media. It’s 2007, so no one really does. But her husband, Bobby, has an internet vision: Why not earn extra money posting pictures of her on an adult website called <span class="a-text-italic">Dixie Darlings</span>? They don’t have to be nudes, just sexy enough to get viewers to pony up for bonus photos and messaging privileges. Doreen’s not sold on Bobby’s vision. But her mom once worked as a Playboy bunny to make ends meet. How is this different?</p>
<p>Doreen soon becomes the most popular Dixie Darling, and she and Bobby find themselves swimming in cash. They start up a college fund for their daughter. Gradually, though, they get drawn into the weird, wacky, and sometimes seedy world of online dreamers and schemers. Babe, the former #1 Darling, becomes a frenemy. She wants her top spot back… and a lot more than that.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Doreen is discovering that it’s hard to keep your life private when sexy photos of you are floating around the web, and it’s even harder to keep your husband in line when he’s coasting on your assets. Throw in a charismatic dwarf, misfit friends, and social media’s lust for scandal, and Doreen’s quiet life just took a turn for the complicated.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3SU2rXa">Gods in Darkness</a><br />
by David J. West<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/gods-in-darkness.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-6249 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/gods-in-darkness-195x300.jpg" alt="" width="195" height="300" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/gods-in-darkness-195x300.jpg 195w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/gods-in-darkness.jpg 312w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px" /></a></h2>
<h3><span class="a-text-bold">The Balance of Wonder and Terror</span></h3>
<p>Learn the truth of the secret war in space with both the Soviets and dark technomancers bent on world domination in<span class="a-text-italic"> Gods in Darkness</span>. Thrill to incredible truths buried in the sands of ages or in our own Area 51 in <span class="a-text-italic">The Dig</span>. Ride along with some crazed truckers dealing with Lovecraftian horrors in <span class="a-text-italic">At the Highways of Madness</span>. Know the stark terror of reading a forbidden book of the damned when the stars are not right. Love knows no bounds through time and space–especially for one of Lovecraft’s Elder Things in <span class="a-text-italic">The Queen in Shadow</span>. And finally, go beyond the past and future in <span class="a-text-italic">The Sleepers of Tartarus</span>. All these and more lurk at the edge of reason waiting to pounce.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3uu2NJN">A Hot Dose Of Hell </a><br />
by Steve Stark<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91m8EukluJS._AC_UY218_.jpg" alt="A Hot Dose Of Hell" width="191" height="306" /></h2>
<p>A deadly new drug has hit the streets of Scarmouth, one which turns users into bloodthirsty maniacs with superhuman tolerance for pain. Through insidious design a large quantity has fallen into the hands of squatters occupying the derelict Victoria hotel.</p>
<p>It’s a bad place for a group of woke, virtue-signalling social media influencers to promote their new homeless charity, but they’ve got a PR story in the making. One of their party is searching for a long-lost sister and if they can find her they believe the stunt could bring them international attention.</p>
<p>They’re not the only ones looking for something. Hired muscle, Fred and Pinkie have been tasked to recover that lost drug shipment. These men know what it’s doing to people. What they don’t know is just how many have been affected already, but within the bowels of that derelict hotel breeds a mindless, homicidal legion.</p>
<p>Scarmouth is known as the coastal town they forgot to burn down. It’ll only take a few hot doses to finally set it alight.</p>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51GITjw-vyL._UX300undefined_.jpg" alt="Marrying A Monster (The Jaiya Series Book 1)" width="201" height="321" /></p>
<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3uvDU0s">Marrying A Monster (The Jaiya Series Book 1) </a><br />
by Mel Dunay</h2>
<p>New, professionally edited edition! Journey to the country of Jaiya, in a world not quite like ours.</p>
<p>Here, humans ride trains, drive cars, and use cell phones, but they share their world with insect people and trollfolk, and stranger things lurk in the shadows…</p>
<p>As a favor to her parents, Rina agrees to come back to her hometown and take part in an old local custom: a symbolic marriage between the town’s women and the Mountain King, a mythical guardian spirit no one really believes in.</p>
<p>But the Mountain King really exists: a monstrous being that feeds on fear and suffering.</p>
<p>Rina’s only hope for survival may be Vipin, the dashing scholar hunting the Mountain King, but Vipin is hiding a few secrets of his own…</p>
<p>Note: Rina and another character are friends with or related to a few characters from the later books in the Jaiya series, but Monster is meant as a standalone.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3QSXATp">Salvage Title (The Salvage Title Trilogy Book 1)</a><br />
by Kevin Steverson</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">The Salvage Title journey begins!<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41KRft-o3ML._PJku-sticker-v7,TopRight,0,-50._SY300_.jpg" alt="Salvage Title (The Salvage Title Trilogy Book 1)" width="199" height="349" /></span></p>
<p>They couldn’t afford a ship, much less the cost of registering one. But there is always a loophole…</p>
<p>Harmon Tomeral wanted nothing more than to go to space. Sent to an orphanage when his parents were killed in a sandstorm, the odds were stacked against him. Despite that, he made it to the academy and graduated in the top ten percent of his class…only to find out the fleet did what it wanted, regardless of regulations, and he came from the wrong planet.</p>
<p>He didn’t give up his dream, though, because where there’s a will, there’s a loophole, and Harmon and his friends found their loophole in the Top Fleet Marine competition—the winner would get 100,000 credits, which would just be enough to start their own salvage company. If they could build a mech and win the competition, they would be set.</p>
<p>But the fleet had already shown they didn’t want him in space, so it would be an uphill fight. Good thing his friends and crew were very much against fleet regulations.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3R9enml">The Lyons’ Pride (The Phoenix Initiative Book 1) </a><br />
by Chris Kennedy (Author), Marisa Wolf (Author)</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">No other Human is more enigmatic than the Lyon.<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5121s6OP4EL._PJku-sticker-v7,TopRight,0,-50._SY300_.jpg" alt="The Lyons&#39; Pride (The Phoenix Initiative Book 1)" width="202" height="342" /></span></p>
<p>On the African savanna, the male lion is the lord who watches over his family, while the females of the clan do the real work.</p>
<p>Joel, “The Lyon” Lyons thought that owning a mercenary company would be similar—he could sit back and allow the Lyoness to run the Pride. Everything would go well, money from successfully completed contracts would flow like water into his bank accounts, and everything would be as easy as it had been for him when he’d owned a chain of highly-successful restaurants.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">It’s easy to be full of pride when everything is going your way.</span></p>
<p>But when he runs afoul of Peepo, the Veetanho who is arguably the most successful mercenary general in galactic history, he finally meets his match—someone who is every bit the master of logistics he is—and he is brought low.</p>
<p>The true measure of a man isn’t in never being knocked down, though—it’s in what you do when you are. When Peepo leaves him for dead on the battlefield, will the Lyon slink away from the galactic spotlight, or will he get back up again and let the galaxy hear him roar?</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/46qIPNd">Beneath the Caverns</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41QVL9Ld4FL.jpg" alt="Beneath the Caverns" width="202" height="312" /><br />
by R J Burle</h2>
<p>Is the enemy of my enemy my friend or another enemy?</p>
<p>Of all the terrors in the Forbidden Zone, no place strikes more fear in the hearts of the survivors than the Caverns. But when Bryan’s young son is kidnapped and dragged into its depths, the Mountain Warriors must storm it. They know the caverns are filled with blood mad vampires, but there’s a lurking evil they didn’t expect and a depth of deception they aren’t prepared for. Despite their usual bravery, when the rescue turns into violent chaos, the warriors retreat and Eric is abandoned. No longer the inept fighter, Eric is ready to shed his reluctant hero status and wage war against the vampires. His only friend is a vampiress sent to kill or turn him and their only way out of the caverns is to go deeper into them, beneath reality as they know it. Can Eric rescue the child or will the unexpected encounters in the caverns make him forget what’s real and more importantly, what matters most?</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/46uNuxE">Outcast: Mountain Warriors Book 1 </a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/518JCRxRhVS.jpg" alt="Outcast: Mountain Warriors Book 1" width="200" height="309" /><br />
by R.J. Burle</h2>
<p>Despite facing an immediate firing squad, a down on his luck journalist, Eric, violates a quarantine zone to investigate the wild lands of the Southern Appalachian Mountains that are inhabited by zombies, vampires and other terrors.</p>
<p>After a betrayal, the government permanently exiles Eric to the wasteland of The Forbidden Zone and sends the ruthless Specter to trail him.</p>
<p>Eric is no longer a nonparticipating observer but must quickly learn the ways of the warrior, when a group of survivors, who live under a strict code of sword and gun, turn against him, as they face off against a horde of zombies.</p>
<p>Will Eric be accepted by this band of survivors or will he be exiled again to face not only the undead, but the other creatures of the forest that might be even worse.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3QOuGDY">Silk Unspun (Exopreneurs Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41HGKLTYJaL._UX300undefined_.jpg" alt="Silk Unspun (Exopreneurs Book 1)" width="207" height="319" /></a><br />
by D.S. Blake (Author)</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">It should have been a routine negotiation, an easy task for even a novice bailiff to handle.</span></p>
<p>Jake Ambler, a disaffected youth searching for purpose in the cosmos, finds solace in the ranks of the disreputable “exopreneurs” – those who seek to profit from the exploitation of alien worlds. His assignment?</p>
<p>Bug Space, a region of the galaxy where colossal, intelligent insectoids reign supreme. But when Jake arrives on the insect-infested planet of Telia, he quickly discovers that nothing about his mission is routine. The Spider Queens of Teila, a domineering race of arachnids, wield power like nothing he’s ever encountered. Their disdain for lesser life forms is only surpassed by their insatiable desire for supremacy among their own kind, especially the males.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">And his fellow exopreneurs intend to cash in on it.</span></p>
<p>As Jake delves deeper into the tangled web of Teila’s intrigue, he finds himself embroiled in an uprising that threatens to consume him and those he cares for most. Survival is a high-stakes gamble, and the only way out is to unravel Teila’s greatest secret before Jake becomes yet another pawn in this galactic struggle for power.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Silk Unspun is a pulse-pounding science fiction odyssey that explores the boundaries of loyalty, survival, and the pursuit of forbidden knowledge in a universe where danger is as limitless as the cosmos.</span></p>
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<h2><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lucky-14-and-other-stories-david-rowlett/1139395176?ean=2940179146087">Lucky 14 and Other Stories</a><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://prodimage.images-bn.com/lf?set=key%5Bresolve.pixelRatio%5D,value%5B1%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.width%5D,value%5B600%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.height%5D,value%5B10000%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.imageFit%5D,value%5Bcontainerwidth%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.allowImageUpscaling%5D,value%5B0%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.format%5D,value%5Bwebp%5D&source=url%5Bhttps://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/2940179146087_p0_v1_s600x595.jpg%5D&scale=options%5Blimit%5D,size%5B600x10000%5D&sink=format%5Bwebp%5D" alt="Lucky 14 and Other Stories" width="192" height="288" /><br />
by David Rowlett</h2>
<p>The year: 1967. The place: Hollywood.</p>
<p>The script: impossible. — A blizzard hits America in July.</p>
<p>Why? — She hates him. Can she get away with poisoning his coffee? —</p>
<p>Why did the world’s greatest theater director vanish? —</p>
<p>Two small-town lawyers fake a murder. Are they equally guilty?</p>
<p>You will find these tales and more inside this funny and moving collection of fourteen new short stories by David Rowlett.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wild-goose-chase-david-rowlett/1128315840?ean=2940179216384">Wild Goose Chase</a><br />
by David Rowlett</h2>
<p>Russian spy Eva Fleet and film professor Hieronymus Dent must find a long-lost Hollywood film to prevent a nuclear war.</p>
<p>Their epic quest for the stuff-of-legends film is an adventure as suspenseful—and dangerous—as the film itself.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/those-who-know-david-rowlett/1006384572?ean=2940179172741">Those Who Know<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://prodimage.images-bn.com/lf?set=key%5Bresolve.pixelRatio%5D,value%5B1%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.width%5D,value%5B600%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.height%5D,value%5B10000%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.imageFit%5D,value%5Bcontainerwidth%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.allowImageUpscaling%5D,value%5B0%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.format%5D,value%5Bwebp%5D&source=url%5Bhttps://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/2940179172741_p0_v1_s600x595.jpg%5D&scale=options%5Blimit%5D,size%5B600x10000%5D&sink=format%5Bwebp%5D" alt="Those Who Know" width="177" height="266" /></a><br />
by David Rowlett</h2>
<p>Private investigator Andy Comb must recover a stolen piece of military technology before world war breaks out.</p>
<p>Standing in his way: a hot debutante, the U.S. government, a psychotic Chinese spy, and half the eccentrics in North America.</p>
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<h2><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://prodimage.images-bn.com/lf?set=key%5Bresolve.pixelRatio%5D,value%5B1%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.width%5D,value%5B600%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.height%5D,value%5B10000%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.imageFit%5D,value%5Bcontainerwidth%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.allowImageUpscaling%5D,value%5B0%5D&set=key%5Bresolve.format%5D,value%5Bwebp%5D&source=url%5Bhttps://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9798988270713_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg%5D&scale=options%5Blimit%5D,size%5B600x10000%5D&sink=format%5Bwebp%5D" alt="Three Screenplays" width="176" height="265" /></h2>
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<h2><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/book/1136011048?ean=9798988270713">Three Screenplays</a></h2>
<p>by David Rowlett</p>
<p>Three feature-length screenplays: High Note, Double Life, and The Underdogs.</p>
<p>In High Note, vocal student Laura Celt must clear her name of the murder of her idol.</p>
<p>In Double Life, a pop diva and a scientist dodge terrorists and government agents while on a quest to prevent insects from being weaponized. In The Underdogs, an undocumented migrant and a homeless man team up against corruption in a Florida town.</p>
<p>From the murder mystery of High Note, to the zany musical-adventure Double Life, to the harrowing portrait of evil in The Underdogs, THREE SCREENPLAYS offers a kaleidoscopic variety of cinematic entertainment.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/49NZUU9">Deuces Wild: Beginners’ Luck<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41KJe0Qe1jL._UX300undefined_.jpg" alt="Deuces Wild: Beginners' Luck" width="190" height="280" /></a><br />
by L.S. King (Author)</h2>
<p>All Slap ever wanted was his ranch and family.<br />
The gangster Lyssel destroyed all that, leaving only charred remains.</p>
<p>Tristan wanted nothing—<br />
He had no expectations from life and trusted no one, surviving by his wits, his sole amusement taunting his enemies—like Lyssel.</p>
<p>When the bereaved cowboy and space rogue meet, they discover they are hunted by this common enemy. Forced to work with each other against the gangster and his mob, the duo must try to escape the planet.</p>
<p>But can two total opposites put their differences aside long enough to stay alive?</p>
<p>Get it now!</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3QPLKcz">Sword’s Edge (Sword’s Edge Chronicles Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Cp7amCN3L._UX300undefined_.jpg" alt="Sword's Edge (Sword's Edge Chronicles Book 1)" width="201" height="301" /></a><br />
by L.S. King (Author)</h2>
<p>Ripped from her home—<br />
—thrust into danger.</p>
<p>Fifteen year old Tam finds herself in the midst of conspiracies to murder her family.<br />
Can she uncover the treason before it’s too late?</p>
<p>Tragedy strikes—<br />
Tam’s world crumbles.</p>
<p>Amidst grief, she must undertake a dangerous rescue mission, aided by a mysterious alien relic. Can this young lass succeed or will the assassins at her heels cost her all?</p>
<p>You’ll love this Epic Fantasy, because it’s science fiction with a twist.</p>
<p>Get it now.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/47KcF0o">The Tales of Susan Barthwaite <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/512dJ4B7OnL._AC_UY218_.jpg" alt="The Tales of Susan Barthwaite" width="204" height="291" /></a><br />
by Ron Nielsen (Author)</h2>
<p>With the end of the world fast approaching, Susan and Paul are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths that lurk beneath Manada’s veneer of polite society.</p>
<p>A tale of two souls set during the rise of the New Republic, their lives soon become intertwined by fate and then unravel before necessity compels natural enemies to become allies.</p>
<p>Will they survive the late stages of a silly society and build a new future, or will billionaire philanthropist and would-be Global King Jerome Absberg realize his ambition to rule the world?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3ehxDgx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Discovery (Polecat Protocol Book 1)</a> is a Fan Favorite.</em></h2>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3TakKHN">Breakdown (Polecat Protocol Book 2)</a><br />
by John M. Olsen</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Jericho Jackson</span> has a ship to build, a sister to find, and a fiancée to marry, along with a priceless store of interstellar jump ship fuel to protect from thieves and murderers. Not bad for a guy who is supposed to be dead.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Shanna Percival</span> has a driving need to not only constantly prove herself a mechanical wizard, but to also meet her mother’s expectations, and to tie the knot with Jericho. She has to do it all without tipping off those who might want her and Jericho to stay dead.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t have to go back to a troubled Earth, the home of both their problems and their goals. At each step, the mission grows more complex and more dangerous as they encounter mystery, intrigue and betrayal.</p>
<p>Through it all, questions surrounding the Polecat Protocol grow. Will it be their beacon of hope, or will it fail them as society crumbles?</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41AuGMWJ5ML._UX300_PJku-sticker-v7%2CTopRight%2C0%2C-50_.jpg" alt="Emergence (Polecat Protocol Book 3)" width="182" height="304" /></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3R9NTRD">Emergence (Polecat Protocol Book 3)</a><br />
by John M. Olsen</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Jericho Jackson</span> has some difficult choices to make. He controls a motley fleet of cargo jump ships with nowhere to go, and has a fledgling colony to protect from discovery.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Shanna Percival</span> (now Shanna Jackson) hopes to solve their problems with information gleaned from the Polecat Protocol archive, suspecting it has yet to give up its greatest secrets. Curiosity can be its own reward, but she needs answers.</p>
<p>Military deserters would kill for Jericho’s stockpile of jump-ship fuel, and there is nowhere to hide.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/40NPno6">Out Of The Ashes (The Four Guardians Book 1) </a><br />
by Matt Waterhouse (Author)</h2>
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<p>In the aftermath of a devastating war, a dead soldier is brought back to life as a Construct, a reanimated soul inside an giant armoured body.</p>
<p>With his memory fractured and body foreign, he takes on the moniker Ironclad, unsure of who he really is.</p>
<p>Along with his former comrades he journeys to the mysterious White Tower, hoping for answers as to his purpose.</p>
<p>Pursued by a vengeful Mage and a clan of reaving warriors, they discover a changed world of fire and death, and an old enemy that is more powerful than they could have imagined.</p>
<p>The first installment in the Four Guardians series.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3MUnV2m">A New Beginning (Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds Book 1) </a><br />
by M.A. Nilles (Author), Melanie Nilles (Author)<img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51BhFhMdgrL._SY300_.jpg" alt="A New Beginning (Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds Book 1)" /></h2>
<p>On a remote mining station, Nyalin hides a secret that would make her a hunted woman—she is a Crystal Keeper, a protector of a shard of the powerful Starfire crystal.</p>
<p>However, when a strange shuttle falls through a portal near the mining station, she can no longer avoid her responsibilities.</p>
<p>The human pilot, Vellin, is part of a research team that has developed gateways for instant travel anywhere in the universe without requiring a Starfire crystal, and he has been followed by an enemy through the portal.</p>
<p>To stop dangerous forces from possessing the gateways to spread destruction, Nya must team up with Vel and risk exposing her secret.</p>
<p>In their race to destroy the gateways, they will find allies and enemies… and a new reason to worry.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/46p8qpR">Rebel Slave (Rebel Slave Saga Book 1) </a><br />
by Richard Davis (Author)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51+nozOKg1L._PJku-sticker-v7,TopRight,0,-50._SY300_.jpg" alt="Rebel Slave (Rebel Slave Saga Book 1)" width="208" height="343" /></h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Broken by war… Enslaved by a corrupt queen… Imprisoned in a frozen Hell from which no man has ever escaped before…</span></p>
<p>Charles Raptor is a soldier, loyal and true. But after 18 years of fighting, he has one wish. To retire to a life of peace with a new wife in the country of his birth. But war isn’t finished with Charles Raptor.</p>
<p>Falsely convicted of a crime he did not commit. Torn from his wife and family. Sold into slavery to a tribe of dwarves. Condemned to a life of grueling labor in a prison, a thousand miles from freedom, run by a sadistic overseer who hates men with a passion.</p>
<p>None of this, by itself, could break him. But to see his wife in danger, her life hanging by a thread, while he remains locked in a cage…</p>
<p>To rescue his wife — to redeem his name — to reclaim his freedom, can Charles become the <span class="a-text-bold">Rebel Slave</span> that will give birth to a legend?</p>
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by Declan Finn</h2>
<p>For his own good, Detective Thomas Nolan has been sent abroad as part of the NYPD intelligence division.</p>
<p>But when Nolan awakes in the middle of the Italian wilderness, stripped naked and hunted by witches, he might find it safer back in New York.</p>
<p>These witches want to hunt the most dangerous game, but this one may be the most dangerous of all.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/46p8DJF">Principle Necromancy: A St. Tommy NYPD Short Story (#2) (St. Tommy N.Y.P.D.)</a><br />
by Declan Finn (Author) <img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/410WGBxvwwL._SY300_.jpg" alt="Principle Necromancy: A St. Tommy NYPD Short Story (#2) (St. Tommy N.Y.P.D.)" /></h2>
<p>When NYPD transplant Thomas Nolan stopped a writer from assaulting a film director, he thought it was another day in Rome.</p>
<p>But he was led there by the scent of evil, and an irked author was the least of the problems in set.</p>
<p>The leading lady hides in the shadows, the lead is a fugitive, and the screenplay author may lack a pulse.</p>
<p>Tommy knew Hollywood was murder, but he hoped the victims at least stayed dead.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/47GQgku">They Burn Witches, Don’t They?: A St. Tommy NYPD Short Story (#3) (St. Tommy N.Y.P.D.) </a><br />
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<p>When body parts end up on the front lawn of a cop, Detective Tommy Nolan would be the first on the scene. But he’s unavailable, driven out of the city by corrupt cops and more corrupt politicians</p>
<p>Tommy’s partner, Detective Alex Packard is a normal cop who knows that the supernatural can kill. With the local priest as a consultant and the ME at his side, they must dig into the rash of human sacrifices all over the city, and how it ties into Tommy’s past. With no powers of his own, Packard must face off against a coven of monsters.</p>
<p>Can he manage on his own? Or will he be next on the sacrificial altar?</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3GbAqT7">Vessel: A St. Tommy NYPD Short Story (#4) (St. Tommy N.Y.P.D.)</a> <img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41EmkxDiDuL._SY300_.jpg" alt="Vessel: A St. Tommy NYPD Short Story (#4) (St. Tommy N.Y.P.D.)" /><br />
by Josh Griffing (Author), Declan Finn (Author)</h2>
<p>It’s a simple job. Those are the worst kind.</p>
<p>Basic Method Three is to make chaos, exploit it, resolve it, and take the credit. It should be straightforward, and without Saint Tommy around, it shouldn’t take all week.</p>
<p>Lim Tong, head of Division Four, Beijing’s agency for tracing and acquiring supernatural weaponry, brought his team through the <span class="a-text-italic">Blue Saint </span>incident with only a fraction of their force left and nothing to show for it. So when the Politburo gets a lead on the Holy Grail itself coming to a golf course down in Georgia, the Division heads down South for a chance at redemption.</p>
<p>But capturing the most famous relic in Christendom takes more than a simple smash-and-grab. And the Grail has powers of its own.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3sN88eQ">The Hyperion Signals </a><br />
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<p><span class="a-text-bold">In June of 2165 technicians find a way to send messages faster than light. They call it </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">The Hyperion Signal</span><span class="a-text-bold">, and if messages can move at translight speeds, why not machines and men as well?</span></p>
<p>We drive ourselves to the next frontier, and the next. And at each frontier another wonder lingers.</p>
<p>In <span class="a-text-italic"><u>Pyre and Ice</u></span>, the job of terraforming Titan’s frozen wilderness falls to Jotunheim Station, but the threat within the station is as deadly as the cold outside. It takes integrity, courage, and teamwork to see the mission through.</p>
<p>With translight ships, we set out across the galaxy, seeking out marvels our mere telescopes only hinted about. The first two ships to make the translight quest were <span class="a-text-italic">Petra</span> and <span class="a-text-italic">Henley</span>, sent to survey a world where strange trees grow <span class="a-text-italic"><u>Under a Wayward Sun</u></span>.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3MVCYc5">Gemini Warrior (Gemini Man Book 1) </a><br />
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<h3><span class="a-text-bold">TWO MEN; ONE POWER</span></h3>
<p>Matthew and Jason are just two nobodies in a city of heroes and villains. But when they are given bracelets that endow them with powers, and then get thrown into a whole new world beyond all reason, they are soon in over their heads!</p>
<p>Now they must team up with aliens, battle magical creatures, and get back home before the bombs inside them go off! All that, and they still have to defeat the magical being who sent them there in the first place!</p>
<p>Two heads are better than one, but will they be enough to save two whole worlds? Find out in the first book of the Gemini Man trilogy, Gemini Warrior!</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3QOzLMy">Gemini Destroyer: An Epilogue (Gemini Man Book 4)<img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51JmrSMnkXL._SY300_.jpg" alt="Gemini Destroyer: An Epilogue (Gemini Man Book 4)" /></a><br />
by J.D. Cowan (Author), Thomas Plutarch (Author)</h2>
<h4><span class="a-text-bold">THE END IS HERE</span></h4>
<p>The Great Sorcerer King is dying, and his path to Earth is sealed. In a last bid effort to smash the Gemini Man and curse his enemies, he has decided to use his remaining power for one last assault on those who wronged him. Now it is time for the final battle.</p>
<p>Gemini Ender is the final book in the Gemini Man series, collecting two crowdfunded novellas into one volume for the first time. Gemini Dreamer deals with two fugitives from Riverview as they discover the truth behind the power that wrecked their lives. Gemini Destroyer is the last story, following the Great Sorcerer King’s final bid for control over the Gemini Man, his home planet, and the Earth.</p>
<p>Can Matthew and Jason finally put a stop to their sworn enemy? Find out in this final book!</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/49QwB3B">Torchship Pilot</a><br />
by Karl K Gallagher</h2>
<p>WAR IS BAD FOR BUSINESS:</p>
<p>The crew of the freighter Fives Full want to enjoy the profits of their dangerous voyage, but when war breaks out they’re pressed into service for missions a warship can’t do.</p>
<p>Winning the war demands pilot Michigan Long act ruthlessly . . .</p>
<p>and may cost her her conscience and her marriage.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3QT1knW">Dawn of Chaos: (Sanctum of the Archmage, Volume One) </a><br />
by Tony Andarian</h2>
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<h4><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">It wasn’t demons, death, and slavery to the Dark that truly frightened her. It was the woman she would have to become to fight them.</span></h4>
<h5><span class="a-text-italic">Dawn of Chaos: Full Trilogy Edition (Includes Prologue to Chaos, Hell Gate, and Aftermath)</span></h5>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">A new constitution prepares Carlissa for an era of enlightenment. The old order fades, and a promise of freedom stirs the air. In the space of one terrifying day, that promise is shattered in a bloodbath of fire and magic.</span></p>
<p>Thousands of years ago, an epic battle was fought between good and evil. The demon lords had opened a door to the realms of hell itself, and their horde threatened to overrun the earth. But the Kalarans, led by the hero Calindra, destroyed their hellgate and drove them from the world.</p>
<p>The Great War has long since been lost to myth and legend. The Church struggles for relevance as the people forget their covenant with the gods. A renaissance of freedom and learning stirs the air in the modern age of Carlissa, led by the royal family, and the wisdom of the Archmage.</p>
<p>All that comes to an end when a dome of shimmering magic appears in the capital city. The people fight desperately to survive in the chaos that follows, and wonder bitterly why the gods seem to have abandoned them. Their only hope lies with the magic of the Archmage — and his, with a free-spirited princess who never wanted to rule. She must find the strength to set aside her bard’s calling and take up a battle against impossible odds, or surrender her land and people to the Black Magus and his demons.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">Dawn of Chaos</span> finally brings the award-winning <span class="a-text-italic">Sanctum of the Archmage</span> role-playing games to the world of fantasy fiction. Get it today and don’t miss this exciting first volume in the series!</p>
<p><u>Note to Readers.</u> This is an omnibus volume that collects previously published books in the <span class="a-text-italic">Dawn of Chaos</span> series.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/47ISJuH">The Warm Lands </a><br />
by Francis Porretto<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/warm-lands.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-6257 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/warm-lands-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/warm-lands-200x300.jpg 200w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/warm-lands.jpg 323w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /></a></h2>
<p>Gregor of Serebal, a journeyman sorcerer educated at the Scholium Arcanum in the East, is on a cross-continent trek through the Great Waste: the lifeless desert left by the Dieback that all but eliminated life from Aeol. He has been tasked to chart the courses of the major mana conduits of the continent. In the process he discovers that they have been diverted from their normal paths: Whereas they once flowed from north to south, they now flow from east to west. While there is no obvious explanation for their diversion, they appear to flow directly toward Pontreval, where the Scholium Arcanum in the West is situated.</p>
<p>Laella of Anam is a gifted one: a potential sorcerer not yet trained to the disciplines that would make it safe to practice. Yet the mana has already touched her to ill effect. It has made her a virgin mother, to the horror of her family and neighbors. The ruler of her village has executed her infant son, and the infant children of three other women similarly afflicted, when Gregor arrives in Anam.</p>
<p>Mutual admiration brings them together. Once mated, they travel further west through the Great Waste in pursuit of Gregor’s errand. But though his intent was to walk all the way across the continent, charting the mana streams as he traveled, events will force them to return to Urel, the site of the Scholium Arcanum in the East where Gregor was made an initiate of the Arcana. There he and Laella will confront mysteries the sorcerers of the Scholium cannot unravel. Beneath those mysteries lies a threat to the life of Aeol that will demand all that Gregor, Laella, and their colleagues have to give.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/47tVVdZ">The Discovery Phase: An Onteora County Romance<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51MpIZBRmLL.jpg" alt="The Discovery Phase: An Onteora County Romance" width="214" height="321" /></a><br />
by Francis Porretto</h2>
<p>Loren was good looking, well mannered, and highly intelligent. He was broadly competent in applied mathematics, the physical sciences, and computer technology. He could fix almost anything, and would do so happily. Yet for years he’d spent most of his days doing janitorial work at a state college. While at age forty-eight he had never known love, he was reasonably happy…but his past included a darkness over which he still brooded.</p>
<p>Sylvie was a lawyer, and radiantly beautiful. Yet at age forty-two she’d been celibate for more than twenty years. After sixteen years at Weems, Farkas, interviewing prospective clients, drafting motions and memoranda, and filtering out those applicants the firm couldn’t profitably assist, she’d become the firm’s senior associate…but when she learned that the senior partners expected to use her as a party favor for their wealthiest clients, she became disheartened and angry.</p>
<p>They met in a blue-collar bar on a Monday evening. Despite their professional, financial, and religious differences, they seemed perfect for one another…but their pasts and unforeseeable events would have their say.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3QNntE5">The Powers of the Earth (Aristillus Book 1) </a><img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51vyIGDMubL._PJku-sticker-v7,TopRight,0,-50._SY300_.jpg" alt="The Powers of the Earth (Aristillus Book 1)" /><br />
by Travis J. I. Corcoran (Author)</h2>
<p>PROMETHEUS AWARD WINNER “BEST NOVEL” 2018</p>
<p>Earth in 2064 is politically corrupt and in economic decline. The Long Depression has dragged on for 56 years, and the Bureau of Sustainable Research is hard at work making sure that no new technologies disrupt the planned economy. Ten years ago a band of malcontents, dreamers, and libertarian radicals bolted privately-developed anti-gravity drives onto rusty sea-going cargo ships, loaded them to the gills with 20th-century tunnel-boring machines and earthmoving equipment, and set sail – for the Moon.</p>
<p>There, they built their retreat. A lunar underground border-town, fit to rival Ayn Rand’s ‘Galt’s Gulch’, with American capitalists, Mexican hydroponic farmers, and Vietnamese space-suit mechanics – this is the city of Aristillus.</p>
<p>There’s a problem, though: the economic decline of Earth under a command-and-control economy is causing trouble for the political powers-that-be in Washington DC and elsewhere. To shore up their positions they need slap down the lunar expats and seize the gold they’ve been mining. The conflicts start small, but rapidly escalate.</p>
<p>There are zero-gravity gun fights in rusted ocean going ships flying through space, containers full of bulldozers hurtling through the vacuum, nuclear explosions, armies of tele-operated combat UAVs, guerrilla fighting in urban environments, and an astoundingly visual climax.</p>
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<p>The Powers of the Earth is the first book in The Aristillus series – a pair of science fiction novels about anarchocapitalism, economics, open source software, corporate finance, social media, antigravity, lunar colonization, genetically modified dogs, strong AI…and really, really big guns.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3QNnAQ1">The Team (Aristillus) </a><br />
by Travis J I Corcoran (Author)</h2>
<p>In 2055, nine years before the events of The Powers of the Earth, US Special Forces soldier John Hayes discovers a secret research project that’s being shut down by the Bureau of Sustainable Research. Are the reports of uplifted dogs – creatures genetically engineered to have human intelligence – true? Can John sit by while bureaucrats end the project – and incinerate all the inconvenient evidence?</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3MUA8E8">Staking A Claim (Aristillus)<img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51VmmKV1hdL._SY300_.jpg" alt="Staking A Claim (Aristillus)" /></a><br />
by Travis J I Corcoran</h2>
<p>In the early days of the Aristillus moon colony a lone geologist uses a small inheritance to do what the universities and government won’t – fund basic research. Alone on the north face of the central peak in the Aristillus crater, equipped with just a small rover, a Quonset hut, and a small research lab, he finds pyrite – fool’s gold. Except – perhaps it’s not what he assumes after all. Of what use money to someone who cares about science, not lucre? In an anarcho-capitalist border town on the moon with no police and no courts, who enforces property rights? Will Mike ever stop Darcy from whimsical purchases? From the two time PROMETHEUS AWARD WINNER Travis Corcoran (Best Novel 2018, Best Novel 2019), a prequel story set in the Aristillus universe.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/46uivlr">Caterpillar</a><br />
by Travis J I Corcoran<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51dJB8TKEBL.jpg" alt="Caterpillar" width="204" height="306" /></h2>
<p>A zombie apocalypse is bad enough if you’re far out in the country – but what happens when you’re trapped in a two story brick building in the dense suburbs of Boston, and the streets around you are a sea of biters?</p>
<p>Most people would give up and accept their fate…but Chris, Todd, Stacy and David aren’t most people. They’ve got unique skills … but also unique handicaps.</p>
<p>Todd is the building’s maintenance guy who can weld, cut, and build … but he’s also fighting a losing battle with the bottle.</p>
<p>Chris is a hacker, who can scrape data from the web before the internet crashes for the last time … but he’s also a lot heavier than he should be, and he knows more about cosplay than the real world.</p>
<p>Stacy is a secretary who can run fast, but she’s finding it hard to accept the new reality.</p>
<p>David, the CPA, is fit enough to fight zombies, but he’s a coward.</p>
<p>Given their flaws, it’s doubtful they can survive.</p>
<p>…but there’s one more part to the puzzle. In the first floor garage, there’s a 30 year old, rusted, poorly maintained bulldozer.</p>
<p>The brick walls may keep the zombies out – for now – but the sky overhead is turning orange, and there’s smoke in the air. Watertown is burning, and the wind is blowing this way.</p>
<p>Can Todd, Chris, Stacy, and come together to MacGyver a solution, even though they’re got no armor plate, are short on fuel, and are almost out of MIG welding wire?</p>
<p>They’d better hope so, because they’re about to be forced to leave their cocoon.</p>
<p>Note: This story was originally published in the collection ‘Places Beyond the Wild: A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Anthology’, and was set in the world created by Daniel Humphreys. It is republished here outside of that world, in a distinct setting.</p>
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by Brian Niemeier</h2>
<p id="block-d704a2fb-29e5-4747-9241-549954611264"><em><strong>The future is over.</strong></em></p>
<p id="block-e4969889-657c-46eb-bb53-5649bec4f5b6">Civilization on Earth has collapsed.</p>
<p id="block-e4969889-657c-46eb-bb53-5649bec4f5b6">Oligarchs have established a new order in manmade space colonies at the Earth-Moon LaGrange points.</p>
<p id="block-81744318-cf01-4855-b6f4-7184d104a2cb">A group of powerful colonies form the Systems Overterrestrial Coalition to re-civilize the earth, but grounders view the colonists as hostile meddlers.</p>
<p id="block-81744318-cf01-4855-b6f4-7184d104a2cb">The Coalition counters the rising violence with giant manned robots called combat frames.</p>
<p id="block-5d6eb2e6-1eb9-481e-bdd6-1c1b9732a022">The independent L3 colonies denounce the war on Earth. In response, Coalition Security Director Sanzen takes L3 leader Josef Friedlander’s wife and daughter hostage.</p>
<p id="block-5d6eb2e6-1eb9-481e-bdd6-1c1b9732a022">Amid the tense standoff, Friedlander’s son Sieg launches an unsanctioned rescue mission to L1’s Byzantium colony.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3sCgs0Z">Privateer: A Space Opera SciFi Series (Hinterspace Book 1) <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51w+qNDz58L.jpg" alt="Privateer: A Space Opera SciFi Series (Hinterspace Book 1)" width="191" height="305" /></a><br />
by Page Zaplendam</h2>
<p>Hinterspace: In the largely lawless region between the belts, the ruthless are happy to take advantage.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">A Rogue Psyborg</span><br />
<span class="a-text-bold">A Dead Captain</span><br />
<span class="a-text-bold">A Transport Gone Terribly Wrong</span></p>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">Ross, a psyborg war veteran turned privateer whose very existence is illegal, is hired to retrieve stolen tech from one of the most secure research sites in the Sol system. </span><span class="a-text-italic">When everything goes sideways, he finds himself faced with a dilemma: risk exposure or place himself at the center of a conspiracy spanning the length and breadth of Hinterspace.</span></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3GdDHl0">A Kingdom of Ash and Steam: The Ogress Son: A dystopian neo-dark age fantasy</a><br />
by Page Zaplendam<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bqu+ciu0L.jpg" alt="A Kingdom of Ash and Steam: The Ogress Son: A dystopian neo-dark age fantasy" width="197" height="285" /></h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">Slade’s blood stirred at the thought of defeating more of those who wreaked havoc against the people. It was a good day for a quest.</span></p>
<p>Raised in forested isolation by the dread Annearol, the Unearthly, Slade is distrustful and suspicious of his own kind. After the murder of his adoptive mother, he is determined to obtain justice, no matter the cost.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">In A Kingdom of Ash and Steam….</span></p>
<p>His own desperate actions set him at odds with the crown, and he finds himself launched into fighting battles on behalf of a people he thought he was loathe to call his own. But is it justice, or is vengeance?</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">War is looming.</span></p>
<p>When his training and genes reveal he has combat skills well above the average warrior, he finds himself fighting for dominion over his soul as dark forces put their pieces in play to ensure a victory for themselves, no matter who is vanquished.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">A gritty, neo-dark-age, steam-tech fantasy for lovers of Lindsay Buroker and Jonathon Yanez.</span></p>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">This work was previously published under the title, The Ogress’ Son. If you already purchased the Ogress’ Son, please do not purchase, the interior is the same. Appeals to lovers of dystopian adventures, steampunk elements, sword fighting, and smatterings of romance.</span></p>
<p>Page Zaplendam is a southern writer with a wide range of fiction interests. As mama to a lot of littles, she doesn’t gets her books out there as often as she’d like, but it’s not for lack of having the need to craft, create, and share new stories with the world. Besides exciting dystopian adventure tales, she also writes space opera, science fiction, and hosts a podcast on her Substack, titled Hinterspace.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3Gdxply">Terminal </a><br />
by M. Anthony Harris</h2>
<p>Ezra’s seventeen, homeschooled, Chinese American, and very much in love.</p>
<p>He’s been pining over Crystal for ages now, and what should have been the best day of his life, the day that he learned she loves him back, turns into the worst when he learns he has superpowers, because powers always kill their host.</p>
<p>After a horrific accident Ezra’s carted off to be studied, poked, prodded and experimented on until either his powers take him or one of the other superpowered residents accidentally kills him.</p>
<p>Now Ezra has to learn the most important lesson of them all, how to live with dying.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/49QobsG">The Haunting of the Ginger’s Regret: 224-Verse </a><br />
by James Pyles (Author), Starry Eyed Press (Author), A.S. Charly (Illustrator)<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/GIngers-Regret.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-6287" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/GIngers-Regret-188x300.jpg" alt="" width="165" height="263" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/GIngers-Regret-188x300.jpg 188w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/GIngers-Regret.jpg 250w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px" /></a></h2>
<p>Kam Samir Naji has always been an above-average smuggler but finds himself in a new<br />
dimension of possibility when he becomes the owner of a restored space freighter that seems to<br />
have a mind of its own.</p>
<p>With an assassin tracking his every move and a hold full of cargo in need of delivery, everything<br />
Kam thinks he knows about reality is coming into question in a galaxy where answers may lie on<br />
the far side of a jump gate.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">The Haunting of the Ginger’s Regret is a part of the 224-Verse continuity but is a completely stand-alone short with no prior knowledge of the characters or settings required for enjoyment.</span></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/40OmhoA">The Fallen Shall Rise: 224-Verse</a> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41QoZDKKrQL._PJku-sticker-v7,TopRight,0,-50._SY300_.jpg" alt="The Fallen Shall Rise: 224-Verse" width="161" height="282" /><br />
by James Pyles (Author)</h2>
<p>Jepheth Shinzi, archeologist on the rigid backwater Kaamus star system, discovers a controversial anomaly when scans taken of space match up with 3,000 years worth of cultural mysteries.</p>
<p>Fearing being labeled a traitor to his government, he proceeds to share the findings in confidence before the evidence becomes overwhelming and the situation warrants in-person investigation.</p>
<p>There appears to be an ancient gate in deep space and it’s emitting an energy signal.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3Gejlbs">Powers and Principalities: Short fiction</a><br />
by S. Kirk Pierzchala (Author)</h2>
<p>From award-winning author S. Kirk Pierzchala, a collection of sixteen short stories that encompass humor, horror and wonder across a generous selection of political satire, science-fiction, paranormal and mystical fables.<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41jKovoNXvL.jpg" alt="Powers and Principalities: Short fiction" width="190" height="304" /></p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">End Game:</span> A woman’s desperate warnings of impending disaster are ignored, until she speaks the ultimate words of power.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Experts Agree:</span> During an endless pandemic, the authorities will always know what’s best, even if it makes no sense.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">When Fall the Scales:</span> A dutiful citizen is grateful to receive an implant that promises relief from her dystopian existence.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Resolution of Impossible Goals:</span> A cynical doctor discovers how to cash in on one of the most twisted trends in modern society.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">The Shield:</span> A vulnerable, homeless teen is saved by an unexpected handout.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Hounded:</span> He can run, but can’t hide, from something that’s been pursuing him all his life.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Leaving Home:</span> Some journeys get cut short, but are still worth taking.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Free Lunch:</span> A young girl confronts an ancient evil seeking to enslave her family. Is her book-learning enough to save them?</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Olivia’s Beach:</span> A child escapes unimaginable horror, but will lingering darkness contaminate her safe haven?</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Mother’s Love:</span> When Aubrey contends with a supernatural force for the life of her newborn, she and her child must live with the consequences.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Chiron Awakes:</span> When a clever scientist creates a fabulous entity, will his dreams of fame be destroyed as he battles for the creature’s loyalty?</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Powers and Principalities:</span> On his first day in office, the new American President learns some mind-bending truths about his duties. Is he strong enough to stand up to the true powers behind the throne?</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">The Dark Beyond:</span> A young man leaves his brutal and primitive village to seek answers to life’s most disturbing questions.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Pareidolia:</span> A young boy is relieved to learn that the faces haunting him in patterns are just a trick of his mind…probably.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">The Secret of Phelim Darke:</span> A suave womanizer realizes his latest conquest has some secrets of her own.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Ruin of Souls:</span> The last living human has no power to resist the relentless enemy who has plagued mankind forever. Are there any heroes left at the farthest reaches of the universe?</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3Geeu9W">The Mighty Sons of Hercules : Volume 1 Kindle Edition</a><br />
by Abraham Strongjohn, Adrian Cole, Misha Burnett, Mark Mellon<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51mFUgexZDL.jpg" alt="The Mighty Sons of Hercules: Volume 1" width="190" height="284" /></h2>
<p>Long ago, in ages past…</p>
<p>There were men who travelled the world, seeking adventure, fighting injustice, defending the weak and the helpless, looking to right wrongs wherever they are found:</p>
<p>These were the Mighty Sons of Hercules!</p>
<p>Cirsova Publishing invites you to join eight of the Mighty Sons of Hercules on their daring adventures!</p>
<p>You’ll be amazed by their impressive feats of superhuman strength. You’ll be dazzled by the exotic and dangerous beauties who would seek their downfall. You’ll cheer as they save the innocent from peril and mete out justice to dastardly villains.</p>
<p>Wherever righteousness must have a champion, there you will find the Mighty Sons of Hercules! Whenever there is need and no mortal man can suffice, a Mighty Son of Hercules shall appear!</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3STRWD3">A Sword of the Three Rivers: The Sendyne Empire Series</a><br />
by Seth Hobbs</h2>
<p>Begin an epic journey in a forgotten time, where empires rise and fall, helping or destroying smaller provinces along the way. Follow the bloody and lusty adventures of young Bovir of the Woodlands, as his destiny becomes intertwined with the many colorful characters, beautiful vixens, kingdoms, politicians, priests, bankers, and terrifying warlords that he meets along the way, simply trying to return home and find his revenge for the many wrongs dealt to him. Alongside these quests, he must deal with the whims of the gods, ancient prophecies, and the corruption of the religious overlords that keep their secrets. An odyssey for a new generation of readers and fantasy fans.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3uu2UVT">Four Puppet Kings and a Fool: An Epic Fantasy Novel</a><br />
(The Sendyne Empire Series Book 2)<br />
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<p>A devastating plague; rampant inflation; propaganda for the masses; breakthroughs in innovative technology; rumors of civil war; racial and ethnic tensions; nefarious conspiracies; class struggles and street preachers yearning to overthrow the nobility. The Sendyne Empire is at the height of its power, but it has never been in a more precarious position…and it is about to reach a boiling point.</p>
<p>General Rotilla Voxinus and the teenage Emperor Kwisus continue their relentless campaign to destroy Bovir of the Woodlands, and lock down their colony in the Three Rivers. Amidst the mayhem, bold pirate fleets, lusty vixens, and rogue city-states assert their own power in the East. The crafty and beautiful Abzrielle must navigate her own path among deadly buccaneers and repulsive men in a foreign land. Xeno Von Oceanskimmer must return to the distant continent of An’Fazzor, to negotiate with a father and culture that he abandoned years ago.</p>
<p>Jethias Voxinus, son of the famous general, lands a dream job at Godhead Mountain, working for the eccentric technological genius, Udo the Originator. Duke Stolis Panthorrien of Bottom Knuckle works around the clock to prepare for a possible Sendyne incursion of his own lands, guided by the mysterious philosopher known only as Great Grandfather.</p>
<p>Delve deeper into the series in this sprawling epic, where nothing is quite what it seems– as religion, science, dark secrets, mythology, lust, love, political intrigue, exotic realms, and brutal warfare explode in style! In this highly-anticipated sequel to “A Sword of the Three Rivers”, worlds will collide, veils will be lifted, blood will flow in the streets, and the Sendyne Empire’s inner workings will finally be laid bare.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">What readers are saying about Book 1 in the series:</span></p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">“A well written Fantasy novel with an action line that races like a runaway train!”</span></p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">“Hobbs has a way of transporting the readers into the adventure. This “epic journey” throws the readers into a fast paced fantasy that keeps hearts racing for the next twist and turn!”</span></p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">“Hobbs’s imaginative, sweeping, humorous style easily drew me into the adventure, even when I found the prose at times somewhat windy. Readers who look for an escape into a richly adorned, rousing fantasy world will certainly not be disappointed.”</span></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/46sBpsL">Murmurations </a><br />
by Thomas J. Weiss<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61M1Zo7djHL._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="352" /></h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">They wanted him to start a war.</span> <span class="a-text-bold">Instead, he became a God.</span></p>
<p>Daniel Lyon loves living his life in virtual reality. His days are filled with games and friends and a family that loves and cares for him. Until one day, when terrorists – <span class="a-text-italic">religious</span> terrorists – rip it all away.</p>
<p>Motivated by an unrelenting desire to even the score, Daniel leaves home and enlists in the Defense Force. There, he learns how to control some of the military’s most secure intelligence collection assets: robotic Starlings that look and sound like the real thing.</p>
<p>Two years later, after discovering the DF isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, Daniel meets a rich, eccentric man with plans of his own for dealing with the terrorists. The payoff is great but so is the price. Daniel must leave behind everyone and everything he knows to journey to Geb, the terrorists’ home planet.</p>
<p>On the way there, Daniel loses his partner and discovers that the plan requires him to do things – kill innocent civilians – that he will never do.</p>
<p>So he changes the plan.</p>
<p>He teams up with a striking young woman who has first-hand knowledge of the terrorists and together, they embark upon the most audacious mission in the history of warfare, one that will end the conflict once and for all, if everything goes according to plan.</p>
<p>It doesn’t.</p>
<p>What happens instead is far more outrageous and terrifying and Daniel Lyon has no idea how he’ll live through it.<br />
<span class="a-text-bold">Advance praise for </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">Murmurations</span><span class="a-text-bold">:</span></p>
<p>“The story hooks you, right away, and doesn’t let you go. You will not want to put it down.”</p>
<p>“Classic sci-si in the grand tradition of Heinlein, Asimov, and Crichton.”</p>
<p>“This isn’t popcorn fiction you’ll forget about tomorrow or the next day. This one will stay with you long after you finish it.”</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/47LvQqv">Everfont</a><br />
by Alexander Rob<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71gUEKVZf1L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></h2>
<p>The world of Gritt is dead—its inhabitants just haven’t caught up yet.</p>
<p>For years, Ryan has saved money to leave. Sand sailors willing to cross the desert are expensive. A month more of work and she and her younger sister will kiss Gritt goodbye.</p>
<p>But their time is cut short. Ryan is an Imperial, and The Seeker has orders to stop her from leaving—and breathing.</p>
<p>If there’s one thing the people of Gritt are known for, it’s their ability to survive. Now Ryan needs this skill more than ever before. She must rely on her wits, tenacity, and a bit of luck to carry out the plan.</p>
<p>There’s no more time to wait. Ryan must get herself and those she cares about safely away from this hellish landscape.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3TcWRzl">Ys The Fallen</a><br />
S.C. Vincent<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81rlJr-z1UL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">She has a curse. He has scales.</span></p>
<p>The Kingdom of Ys has been cursed by the Devil, a mighty dragon who seeks celestial conquest. As Princess Dana, one of the last acolytes of a forgotten church, scours the Dracon Lands hoping to find help for her people, she stumbles upon a giant egg. A handsome man named Ru, who has supernatural abilities, breaks free from the shell.</p>
<p>They set forth on a journey to free Ys of the curses by slaying the Devil, all the while facing Dana’s evil sister and her insidious machinations. But before the apocalyptic battle begins, they first face their own inner turmoil. Ru confronts his relation to the dragon and his contradictory tendency towards good. Dana treads the line between love and lust as she struggles to remain moral in a fallen world.</p>
<p>Can the curses be broken? Or will their relationship be broken first? The bells of Ys must ring.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">The fight for salvation begins now!</span></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3RotZCV">McMann and Duck<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61c4Ircwj9L._SL1200_.jpg" width="200" height="192" /></a><br />
by Frederick Key</h2>
<p>It’s 1951, and Army veteran McMann is down in his luck in a Texas town, accompanied by his partner, Duck. Duck is an actual duck, which McMann credits for saving his life in the war. They are asked to investigate a case of theft at the local trucking company, where an employee vanished with the contents of the safe. The search for the missing man leads to the discovery of a murder — a murder in which McMann himself looks like an interesting suspect to the sheriff. Of course, all the locals think he’s crazy already, hanging around with a duck. Can McMann and Duck find the real killer — or will the real killer find them first?</p>
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<description><![CDATA[These are some of the top offerings from previous book sales including science fiction grandmasters, established mainstream authors and emerging indie talent. Authors include: P. Abbott, Kyle Adams, James Alderdice, P Alexander, J.M. Anjewierden, Hawkings Austin, Daniella Bova, Leigh Brackett, Graham Bradley, Timo Burnham, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Howard Butcher, Jonathan P. Brazee, Henry Brown, Rachel […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These are some of the top offerings from previous book sales including science fiction grandmasters, established mainstream authors and emerging indie talent.</p>
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<p>Authors include: P. Abbott, Kyle Adams, James Alderdice, P Alexander, J.M. Anjewierden, Hawkings Austin, Daniella Bova, Leigh Brackett, Graham Bradley, Timo Burnham, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Howard Butcher, Jonathan P. Brazee, Henry Brown, Rachel Fulton Brown, Bokerah Brumley, V. A. Boston, Jacob Calta, Blake Carpenter, Carlos Carrasco, Kit Sun Cheah, Paul Clayton, Travis J.I. Corcoran, Lucca Dejardins, Jon del Arroz, Declan Finn, Marina Fontaine, Milo James Fowler, A.M. Freeman, Jake Freivald, Adam Furman, Dennis Garcia, Leonard Getz, Peter Grant, Steve Griffiths, Paul Hair, David Hallquist, Eric M. Hamilton, M. Anthony Harris, Harry Harrison, Julian Hawthorne, Frederick Heimbach, Alexander Hellene, Robert E. Howard, Daniel Humphreys, C.S. Johnson, Becky R. Jones, Michael R. Kayser, Joseph Knowles, Robert Kroese, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Moe Lane, Christopher Lansdown, N.R. LaPoint, Frank B. Luke, Robert A Lupton, Loretta Malakie, T.J. Marquis, Russell May, Yakov Merkin, Connor Mccoy, Plum McCauley, Jack Mikkelson, Jonathan Moeller, Neovictorian, Brian Niemeier, Richard Nichols, Andre Norton, Christopher G. Nuttall, John M. Olsen, Chance Paladin, Julie Pascal, Richard Paolinelli, Iris Paustian, George Phillies, P.A. Piatt, Francis Porretto, Justin Robinson, J. Trevor Robinson, Matthew W. Quinn, Hans G. Schantz, Thomas Sewell, Richard Sezov, E.E. “Doc” Smith, R.H. Snow, Steve Stinson, John Taloni, Michael Tierney, Kevin Trainor, Kalkin Trivedi, Henry Vogel, Erik Waag, David J. West, H.G. Wells, Benjamin Wheeler, Ryan Williamson, Christopher Wilson, Dawn Witzke, Fenton Wood, and John C. Wright.</p>
<p>And every title is either free or $0.99! Note: prices are set by the authors, so please confirm before you buy. A few titles won’t be on sale until Thursday November 23. And some of the offerings are short stories or novellas instead of full-length novels. With 199 titles from 102 authors, there’s sure to be something for every based reader.</p>
<p><strong>Sale Links:</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6218">Main Sale Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6221">Fan Favorites</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6223">New Arrivals</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6250">Non-Fiction</a></li>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3QlngWe" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Somewhither: The Unwithering Realm — Omnibus Version</a><br />
by John C. Wright</h2>
<p>Ilya, as he has secretly dreamed, is called upon to save the mad scientist’s beautiful daughter.</p>
<p>With his squirrel gun, his grandfather’s sword, and his father’s crucifix, Ilya races to save the girl, and, incidentally, the world.</p>
<p>So it is, Ilya Muromets is a big, ugly, motherless boy who does not look like anyone else in his Oregon town.</p>
<p>His father is often absent on mysterious Church missionary work that involves silver bullets, sacred lances, and black helicopters.</p>
<p>One night, Professor Dreadful sends a warning to Ilya that his Many Worlds theory correct, but that his experiments have opened a door that should have remained closed, and his beautiful daughter, Penny, is in trouble.</p>
<p>The 2016 Dragon Award-winner for Best Science Fiction Novel, Somewhither is the first part of A Tale of the Unwithering Realm, a new science-fantasy series from science-fiction master John C. Wright.</p>
<p>It is an adventure, it is a romance, and it is a coming-of-age story of a young man who is not a man, in a world that is only one among many.</p>
<p>It is a tale of a greater and darker evil with longer reach than anything he could imagine, of pain beyond measure, and of the faith required to surmount all three.</p>
<p>It is a story of inexorable destiny written in the stars and the stubborn courage that is required to defy it.</p>
<p>Get it now!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3wDohzN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">All Men Dream of Earthwomen and Other Aeons</a></em><br />
by John C. Wright</h2>
<p><strong>Come behold Aeons Near and Far</strong></p>
<p>“I have traveled in vision from futures near at hand to those immeasurably remote and returned with tales of mystery and wonder, sorrow and hope, humanity and what comes after, and further yet, to the time beyond the end of time, and perhaps glimpsed eternity.</p>
<p>I convoke the witness of my dreams of things to come, and reveal them as curios and treasures. Behold future wars and children’s power armor, see the planetkiller seeking immortal vengeance against planetkillers, learn whom the choosers of the slain will choose for love, or when the dolphins will inherit the earth, or why all men dream of earthwomen.”</p>
<p>Enjoy these haunting tales of futures near and far by Science Fiction master John C. Wright.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3tNV5qb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">One Bright Star to Guide Them</a><br />
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81wTQGKCRAL._SL1500_.jpg" width="224" height="356" />by John C. Wright</h2>
<p>Tommy Robertson was once a king.</p>
<p>As a child, he and his three friends found their way to a magical elfin world and saved it from the Winter King.</p>
<p>Now a grown man successful in the world, Tommy has all but forgotten his childish adventures. He hasn’t even spoken to those friends in years.</p>
<p>Then a silver key and a black cat show up on his front porch, and Tommy starts to remember. Just because he grew up and left Faerie behind doesn’t mean that Faerie is finished with him.</p>
<p>Tommy is called to be the hero of England, and for that, he wants his friends at his side. But the real world has weighed them down and they are no longer the children he remembers. And evil things from childhood stories grow older and darker and more frightening with the passing of the years.</p>
<p>One Bright Star to Guide Them begins where other fairy tales end.</p>
<p>Can Tommy remember the courageous boy he once was, and set aside grown-up things to be a child again to save England? Or will the weight of the world prove to be too much for him and his friends?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3AQtEjE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lost Causes</a><br />
by Richard Nichols<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81kNfIgujOL._SL1500_.jpg" width="264" height="420" /></h2>
<p>IF YOU LIKE JAMES BOND, JASON BOURNE OR JACK BAUER, THEN YOU”RE GOING TO LOVE JOHN BUCHAN!</p>
<p>John Buchan is a relic from a bygone age, a man constantly at odds with the modern world; a man who finds sanctuary in the only role that brings him peace of mind – as an assassin for a top-secret British government agency called the Mill. Specializing in what they call ‘ungentlemanly warfare’, its operatives are instructed to kill their targets wherever they find them, irrespective of boundaries, laws, jurisdictions or circumstances. Day-to-day, Buchan lives a simple, anonymous life in the Belgian countryside, restlessly roaming the battlefields of the Western Front in an attempt to kill time. All the while he waits patiently for the message that will signal the start of his next mission. It’s a message that will arrive, the way it always does, hidden within the solutions of the Daily Telegraph’s cryptic crossword puzzle. And when it does arrive, it’s like he’s been reborn, because in Buchan’s world being on a mission is the only time when things really make sense; the only time he feels truly alive. He barely remembers the time before he was recruited by the Mill.</p>
<p>His name wasn’t John Buchan then. In those days he was known as Charlie Hook, a happy-go-lucky, rugby-playing, ex-Rhodesian Light Infantry trooper turned Gurkha officer with an eye for the girls. But Charlie Hook is long dead, and so too are his memories of the events that led to him becoming a professional killing machine. Buchan is getting older now. Retirement beckons, but the man he calls Control has one last mission for him. It involves a ruthless army of some of the world’s worst terrorists, an equally ruthless drug lord, an enormous hurricane and seemingly unsurmountable odds. But it also offers Buchan a last, desperate chance to take revenge on those that took his young life – and love – away from him all those years ago, and he plans to go out with a bang.</p>
<p>Set against a backdrop of unprecedented worldwide socio-political upheaval, Lost Causes is an old-style thriller that moves from the modern-day Ypres Salient and London to the badlands of Northern Ireland and the exotic but deadly jungles of southern Mexico. Mixing the kind of plot found in an Ian Fleming novel with the unashamed masculinity of an Alistair Maclean or Wilbur Smith hero and the tough, muscular prose of Mickey Spillane, Lost Causes is a startlingly intelligent and original work that interweaves dramatic action, sudden violence, stunning plot twists and subtle humour to entertain and inform in equal measure. It will especially appeal to anyone bored by the stale unambitious writing, and inane, politically-correct sensitivities of so many modern novels; as well as anyone looking to understand the sinister and dangerous forces that have plagued our lives for decades and which now threaten to destroy our civilization altogether.</p>
<p>Richard Nichols studied philosophy and psychology at Edinburgh University. He was a businessman for several years before turning his hand to writing. He enjoys watching rugby and visiting battlefields. He hates crossword puzzles.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3C7A1Nx">The Dream of the Iron Dragon: An Alternate History Viking Epic (Saga of the Iron Dragon Book 1)</a></em> *FREE*<br />
by Robert Kroese</h2>
<p>DRAGON AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVEL<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91HTWyB9IkL._SL1500_.jpg" width="243" height="365" /></p>
<p><strong>Trapped 1300 years in the past, they have one mission: survive.</strong></p>
<p>In the 23rd century, humanity has been hunted to the verge of extinction by an alien race. When an exploratory ship accidentally travels back in time to Viking age Scandinavia, the human race is given a second chance. Pursued by the power-hungry King Harald, the four surviving crew members join a ragtag band of Vikings as they pillage their way across Europe. It will take all their ingenuity, courage and technical know-how just to survive. But survival is only the beginning. To save humanity, they must somehow return to the stars.</p>
<p>Thus begins a decades-long effort to teach the Vikings to build a craft capable of reaching space—a ship that will come to be known as the Iron Dragon.</p>
<p>THE DREAM OF THE IRON DRAGON is the first installment in the 5-part Saga of the Iron Dragon.</p>
<p>“Terrific storytelling, letter-perfect alternate-history, and the highest stakes for humanity imaginable combine to make this a thrilling start to an exciting new Viking saga. Kroese avoids both romanticizing and demonizing the Vikings, showing them to us in all their humanity, while spinning a tale that pulls no punches and leaves us gasping for more.” – Lars Hedbor</p>
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by Robert Kroese</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">“My favorite read this year. A hilarious space adventure. Hard book to put down.” ―Hugh Howey, author of Wool</span></p>
<p>A space-faring ne’er-do-well with more bravado than brains, Rex Nihilo plies the known universe in a tireless quest for his own personal gain. But when he fleeces a wealthy weapons dealer in a high-stakes poker game, he ends up winning a worthless planet…and owing an outstanding debt more vast than space itself!</p>
<p>The only way for Rex to escape a lifetime of torture on the prison world Gulagatraz is to score a big payday by pulling off his biggest scam. But getting mixed up in the struggle between the tyrannical Malarchian Empire and the plucky rebels of the Revolting Front―and trying to double-cross them both―may be his biggest mistake. Luckily for Rex, his frustrated but faithful robot sidekick has the cyber-smarts to deal with buxom bounty hunters, pudgy princesses, overbearing overlords, and interstellar evangelists…while still keeping Rex’s martini glass filled.</p>
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<h2><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/33aHah9">Aye, Robot (A Rex Nihilo Adventure) (Starship Grifters Book 2) </a> </em></strong><br />
by Robert Kroese</h2>
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<p><span class="a-text-bold">Praise for Aye, Robot</span><br />
“Once again, Kroese gives me a story I can’t put down with a hero I can’t bring myself to despise. A brilliant sequel to one of my favorite space romps of all time.” – Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool</p>
<p>“With this book, Robert Kroese has planted his flag atop Sci-Fi Humor Mountain and dared everyone to knock him off. If this isn’t the funniest book you read all year, there’s something wrong.” – Paul P.</p>
<p>“I’ve never laughed so hard while reading a book.” – Greg O.</p>
<p>“Mr. Kroese is the Douglas Adams of our generation.” – Ellen C.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">The Newest Name in Piracy Starts with Arrrrr</span><br />
Rex Nihilo, interstellar con man… and space pirate? When space grifter Rex Nihilo hijacks a cargo freighter on a whim, he decides that he and his long-suffering robot sidekick Sasha have found their calling as space pirates. But when the ship’s cargo turns out to be a cryogenically frozen religious fanatic who holds the secret to a vast galactic conspiracy, Rex and Sasha find themselves on the run from *real* pirates–as well as agents of the oppressive Malarchy, crazy space cultists and the trigger-happy goons of the Ursa Minor mafia. If Rex is going to get out of this jam alive, he might just have to save the galaxy… again. Aye, Robot is a sequel to Starship Grifters, but it’s not like it’s going to make any more sense if you read that book first, so you should probably just buy this book now while you’re thinking about it. SPECIAL BONUS FOR PEOPLE WHO BUY AYE, ROBOT IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS*: Get an exciting scifi novella, The Yanthus Prime Job, absolutely free!</p>
<p>*Probably also available for people who buy it after that. But maybe not! There’s no way to know!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GxuSE1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hell and Gone (The Retreads Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91EUcxKFHIL._SL1500_.jpg" width="231" height="348" /></a><br />
by Henry Brown</h2>
<p>An Amazon Bestseller!</p>
<p>This rag-tag gang of has-beens has never worked together before, but Dwight “Rocco” Cavarra has less than a week to train them and lead them on the hairiest operation of their lives.</p>
<p>It’s not bad enough that they have to plow through an African civil war, infiltrate a fortified terrorist encampment and steal a black market tactical nuke from a mob of fanatic sociopaths – there are Israeli wild cards in play: two death-dealing Mossad agents who don’t necessarily share Cavarra’s agenda.</p>
<p>When the mission is compromised before it has even started, Rocco and his Retreads are caught between bloodthirsty local warlords and the genocidal government in a fight to the death. And this battle might be just the first in the next world war.</p>
<p>Hell and Gone is a character-driven pulp action thriller that will take you on a wild ride.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3tR26GT" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tier Zero (The Retreads Book 2)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/716L-GNBAFL._SL1500_.jpg" width="238" height="357" /></a><br />
by Henry Brown</h2>
<p>When a party of American college girls are sold into slavery by human traffickers, a rescue mission is too dirty, too dangerous, and too difficult for any government to touch. That’s where The Retreads come in.</p>
<p>The pirates thought they found the perfect target: a private yacht foolishly sailing through the Malacca Straits, which could discretely and easily be sold on the black market.</p>
<p>The human traffickers thought the boat was hauling the perfect cargo: young, attractive women who would generate income in brothels around the region.</p>
<p>What made the caper not so perfect was that one of the girls had an uncle who took it personally.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Another Amazon Bestseller from Henry Brown…”One helluva adventure writer.” – Jim Morris (author of <em>War Story, The Devil’s Secret Name</em>)</h3>
<p>You can take a man out of Special Operations, but you can’t take SpecOps out of the man. Tommy Scarred Wolf calls on his old friend Rocco Cavarra, who still has contacts in the intelligence business. Other survivors of the Sudan mission also rally behind Tommy, signing on for the kind of favor that can never be repaid.</p>
<p>Armed with all the firepower and force multipliers they can scrounge, shadowed by a team of secret assassins, the Retreads ride again, bringing smoke and taking names. <em>Tier Zero</em> is old-school military adventure you haven’t enjoyed since the full-auto glory days of Able Team and Phoenix Force.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3AASYtw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">False Flag (The Retreads Book 3)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71NPKNzcAEL._SL1500_.jpg" width="203" height="305" /></a><br />
by Henry Brown</h2>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">“Thanks, Hank, for the authenticity. Semper Fi!”</h3>
<p>A perfect storm is bearing down on the United States of America, combining nationwide financial devastation, conventional and nuclear terror, and Civil War II. High-placed traitors in the Deep State want to make it worse–not better. The Retreads have overcome some long odds in the Sudan and Indonesia, but nothing like this end game on the home front.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” – Samuel Adams</h3>
<p>Diverse Americans are living their lives the best they can during twilight’s last gleaming–most of them never suspecting the turmoil about to come crashing down all around them. Others see the storm approaching, but don’t know what, if anything, can be done to avoid it.</p>
<p>Joshua Rennenkampf loves his country, but prepares for an economic collapse he believes inevitable. Dwight Cavarra is horrified by what looks like an impending race war, but speaking reason into the pressure cooker of irrational hatred might as well be punching at the wind. Tommy Scarred Wolf pushes back against the fundamental transformation from Rule of Law to a Strong Man police state, but can only accomplish so much by himself.</p>
<p>Rennenkampf discovers evidence of what might be a false flag attack in the making. Cavarra is tipped off about a secret hit list of “potential domestic terrorists,” through which he and his friends are targeted. Scarred Wolf has already lost his brother for the sin of poking his nose into government Black Ops; and now must decide whether a little more temporary tranquility for his family is worth the shock and awe to be wrought on the entire country if he fails to take action.</p>
<p>With harbingers of national cataclysm all around, there will be no averting disaster if the false flag conspiracy turns out to be true. These men, who have put their lives on the line for their country so many times already, now have little choice but to treat the threat as real. And in the tumultuous political climate, their lives, fortunes and sacred honor will all be at risk. Where they go one, they go all.</p>
<p>The bestselling Retreads Series turns the corner from military thriller to apocalyptic fiction. <em>False Flag</em> blazes a fiery trail where other political books fear to tread.</p>
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</span>by Robert E. Howard</h2>
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<p><span class="a-text-bold">Originally appearing in the pulp fiction publication “Weird Tales” throughout the 1930’s, Conan: The Barbarian complete collection is the complete collected stories of Conan the Cimmerian as written by Robert E. Howard. This eBook, which is optimized for Kindle, re-tells all 18 stories of Conan.</span></p>
<p>Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films<br />
The various stories of Conan the Barbarian occur in the pseudo-historical “Hyborian Age”, set after the destruction of Atlantis and before the rise of any known ancient civilization.</p>
<p>Stories included:<br />
Cimmeria — A Poem<br />
The Phoenix on the Sword<br />
The Scarlet Citadel<br />
The Tower of the Elephant<br />
The Slithering Shadow/ Xuthal of the Dusk<br />
The Pool of the Black One<br />
Rogues in the House<br />
Gods of the North/The Frost Giant’s Daughter/The Frost King’s Daughter<br />
Shadows in the Moonlight<br />
Queen of the Black Coast<br />
The Devil in Iron<br />
The People of the Black Circle<br />
A Witch Shall Be Born<br />
Jewels of Gwahlur<br />
Beyond the Black River<br />
Red Nails<br />
The Hour of the Dragon<br />
The Hyborian Age<br />
Robert E. Howard- Biografy and more!</p>
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<h2 id="block-71a1fc2a-8f94-4ffc-99c1-57556d90edb8" class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/2IBbQyc">Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves (Yankee Republic Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51EtgipN7uL._SL1013_.jpg" width="199" height="326" /></a></strong></em><br />
by Fenton Wood</h2>
<p id="block-280c39a5-46f1-4399-b7c8-3159768ab6b1">A young radio engineer travels across an alt-history America, encountering primeval gods, mythical beasts, and tall tales come to life, in a quest to build a radio transmitter that can reach the stars.</p>
<p id="block-cae6a496-b42c-4c48-b74a-f8312d99d23b">It all starts in the mountain town of Porterville.</p>
<p id="block-cae6a496-b42c-4c48-b74a-f8312d99d23b">Twelve-year-old Philo starts a pirate radio station with his friends, and learns that the world is a stranger place than he ever imagined.</p>
<p id="block-cae6a496-b42c-4c48-b74a-f8312d99d23b">The Ancient Marauder, the Bright and Terrible Birds, the Mishipeshu, and other creatures of myth and legend populate this enchanting mixture of science and fantasy.</p>
<p>YANKEE REPUBLIC is an old-school adventure series with traditional values and down-to-earth heroes. Escape from the pessimism and propaganda of modern fiction, and take a journey through a mythic America that might have been.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2XgFCly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Black Amazon of Mars<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://imgs.search.brave.com/j-o9E4uPuE46-jhHqauYlnZoHaA-cLvf-OG-whpP2_U/rs:fit:500:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLm1l/ZGlhLWFtYXpvbi5j/b20vaW1hZ2VzL0kv/NTFWZE5ZTWRuQUwu/anBn" alt="Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett science fiction and fantasy book and audiobook reviews" width="210" height="313" /></a></em></strong><br />
by Leigh Brackett *FREE*</h2>
<p>Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city—with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt.</p>
<p>Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel—ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures—at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!</p>
<p>Classic sci-fi from the writer of The Empire Strikes Back.</p>
<p><strong>Review:</strong> I picked this up because Gary Gygax recommends Leigh Brackett in his Appendx N to the 1st edition AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide Unfortunately, it is not the beginning of her Mars series, as I discovered, but nearer the end. Even without knowing the protagonist’s backstory, however, it’s a great pulp space opera story in what some authors call Old Mars – the Mars of the pulps, full of ancient cities consumed by endless deserts, canals bearing life-giving water, frozen cities under the polar ice caps, etc. I really liked this one – I’m going to read more! But this is the easiest Brackett book to find on Amazon, so it is where I started!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/2Y7GDrI" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Hidden Truth<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://imgs.search.brave.com/NMqnI7jcZVsK3xdjvF_Q_L8aEYHPuPnN-2Il7jTaxHY/rs:fit:860:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLm1l/ZGlhLWFtYXpvbi5j/b20vaW1hZ2VzL0kv/NTEtQ0xuRGNrb0wu/anBn" alt="The Hidden Truth: A Science Fiction Techno-Thriller by [Hans G. Schantz]" width="215" height="343" /></a></strong></em><br />
by Hans G. Schantz</h2>
<p><strong>Change the past. Control the present. Rule the future.</strong></p>
<p id="block-47d33b7d-ba8d-457e-8c0c-5817f9fe51ae"><strong>They’ll do anything to hide the truth.</strong><br />
When high school student Peter Burdell uncovers a subtle clue in a dusty book buried deep in a forgotten Appalachian library, he realizes someone altered history. Who’s been lying, and why?</p>
<p id="block-a5a35764-68c9-4524-bde5-c50b376404cf">His discovery lands Peter in the cross hairs of the deadly Cabal whose Deep State agents changed the past to control the present, so they can rule the future. Aided by family and friends, Peter races against the odds to expose the conspiracy and uncover the answer to the most important question of his life:</p>
<p id="block-19f51810-e820-48c5-98d9-4dec51ee7b8f">What is <em><strong>The Hidden Truth</strong></em>?</p>
<p id="block-f70dec78-d7f7-427a-8b1b-3dc24cce1f3c"><strong>Reviews:</strong> <a href="https://upstreamreviews.com/?p=762">“Umberto Eco <em>wishes</em> that he had written these books.”</a></p>
<p id="block-063ffeee-0e20-4a92-95a2-408635662097"><strong>Hans G. Schantz’ THE HIDDEN TRUTH is most highly recommended. </strong><br />
It is a gem of a book, a rare find, combining a charming coming of age story, diamond-hard science fiction speculation, a conspiracy thriller, a touch of trenchant political commentary, and, uniquely, a challenge written into a science fiction book of the reigning scientific orthodoxy of the day….</p>
<p id="block-063ffeee-0e20-4a92-95a2-408635662097">This trilogy works on several levels. In style, theme, in social commentary, in genre, in plot-weaving and world-building, the craftsmanship is top-notch.</p>
<p id="block-063ffeee-0e20-4a92-95a2-408635662097">Stylistically, it is written in the same journalistic prose as a Heinlein juvenile, but, frankly, is better. Not only are some of Heinlein’s more dubious moral lessons absent, the work attempts something more ambitious: introducing a real theory of physics in the midst of a fictional adventure yarn.</p>
<p id="block-063ffeee-0e20-4a92-95a2-408635662097">Thematically, it is a bracing and inspiring coming-of-age story telling young readers and reminding older readers what it means to be a man, a man of integrity, in a world where no one is there to dig you out of a mess.</p>
<p id="block-063ffeee-0e20-4a92-95a2-408635662097">It works as social commentary. As in a Heinlein juvenile, there are memorable quips and trenchant observations about political realities peppered throughout the dialog, which have as much application in our world as theirs.<br />
<a href="http://www.scifiwright.com/2020/09/the-hidden-truth-by-hans-g-schantz/">Review by John C. Wright</a></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/42Y06vu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Transmutation Texas (Watcher of the Damned Book 1)</a><br />
by R.H. Snow</h2>
<p>In a World gone Viral, a Hero shall Arise – join the Revolution with WATCHER of the DAMNED!</p>
<p>The Happening wreaked havoc as Humanity got a hard reset from a deadly gender-cidal Virus – and for TransMutated Survivors like The Watcher, life in Post-Apocalyptic Texas just got a whole lot bloodier and a whole lot lonelier. In a cyberpunk Wild West gone awry, The Watcher was a Rebel without a clue under the System: a brutal, high-tech Social Construct engineered to serve the Enlightened and oppress the Damned. But that’s all about to change, thanks to a cheeky chaos agent named Rose…</p>
<p>Now The Watcher must lead a Revolution to save Rose from the System He helped create, or Rose will die – and Humanity will die with her.</p>
<p>Fight the System – Join the Revolution – with WATCHER of the DAMNED!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3KOmq37" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Talk to a Real, Live Girl: And Other Stories</a><br />
by Paul Clayton<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Talk-to-a-Real-Live-Girl.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5591 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Talk-to-a-Real-Live-Girl.webp" sizes="auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Talk-to-a-Real-Live-Girl.webp 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Talk-to-a-Real-Live-Girl-188x300.webp 188w" alt="" width="237" height="379" /></a></h2>
<p><strong>2021 !WINNER! in Science Fiction — Los Angeles Book Festival! Readers’ Favorite 5 Star review: Talk to a Real, Live Girl And Other Stories</strong> by Paul Clayton is a short collection of light sci-fi tales. The flagship story is Talk to a Real, Live Girl. Disillusioned with the extreme societal and political changes on Earth and a ruined relationship, Alex leaves home to work at a mine on Kratos, a distant planet. Kratos also offers some free time diversions, one being particularly appealing to men far from home; robot females who are perfect and always willing. Alex has no real interest in them, despite his loneliness. Then, one day he meets Traci, a “real, live” girl. Do Alex and Traci have any real hope of a future together? In the next story, The Lawn, Bob Hanlon struggles mightily to come to terms with his forced retirement and the strange presence that seems to have taken up residence in his overgrown yard. In the third story, Happy Acres, a couple finds their new life on Mars less perfect than what they had been promised. Finally, the first two chapters of a novel-in-progress about the fabled Lost Colony of Roanoke complete this collection of stories. In <strong>Talk to a Real, Live Girl And Other Stories</strong> by Paul Clayton, readers find entertaining stories that almost read like episodes of beloved classic sci-fi TV series. The main story, a poignant tale of loss, new possibilities, and adventure, makes some subtle, near humorous observations about contemporary American society and what the future could hold. The other two stories, while lighter fare and shorter, are no less interesting. These stories are a quick, enjoyable read, and Paul Clayton has a talent for immersing readers almost immediately in their narrative, including the bonus chapters at the end. Any message the author is trying to convey does not get in the way of the basic flow of the stories, which is a desirable feature. He also draws attention to other stories he has written, and readers will find themselves willing to invest time in reading these. Alex has fled a broken marriage and a society on Earth grown hostile toward men. Landing on the mining planet, Kratos, known to its male work force as “Boyz Wurld,” he hopes to lose himself in hard work, drinking, and the illusion of female companionship provided by robots. Will that be enough? In time, Alex finds himself longing to Talk to a Real, Live Girl. Predictably, there aren’t many on Kratos. Then he finds Traci, as well as the dream of a new beginning back on Earth—a normal life—if only the forces controlling Kratos will permit it.A genuine love story, Talk to a Real, Live Girl explores consequences of a #MeToo movement run amok, and of adaptations brave individuals may be forced to make.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3BedEbN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Crossing Over</a><br />
by Paul Clayton<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Crossing-Over.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5590 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Crossing-Over.webp" sizes="auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Crossing-Over.webp 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Crossing-Over-188x300.webp 188w" alt="" width="239" height="382" /></a></h2>
<p><strong>REVIEW by Donna Gielow McFarland for Readers’ Favorite. Crossing Over</strong> by Paul Clayton tells the story of an American family trying to survive the beginnings of the second civil war. Set some time in the not-too-distant future, the existence of two simultaneous presidents has split the country along ideological lines. The protests are becoming violent, sections of the country have formed their own militias, along with the militias of the two warring parties. In the midst of shortages of food and other necessities, gangs and thugs are terrorizing formerly safe neighborhoods. Realizing that it is no longer safe to remain in their home, Mike McNerney decides to pack the camper and flee to Canada with his wife, Marie, and disabled teenage daughter, Elly. Unfortunately, everyone else has the same idea.Once I started reading, I could not put down this well-written and compelling short novel. Clayton’s premise is chillingly realistic. The book does not focus on the politics, but instead focuses on regular Americans who not long before led totally normal lives, and who are quickly turned into refugees as they try to escape the crime and violence taking over the country. The scene at the Canadian border was highly believable, as was the deterioration of Mike and Marie’s relationship as it crumbled under the stress of their ordeal. Complicating matters is the need to protect their beautiful daughter Elly, who is naïve enough to wander off with any stranger. Crossing Over should stand as a warning to anyone inclined to think that violence is the answer to political disagreement, as it paints a picture of how America could slide into chaos far too easily. There is some mature subject matter and language. Recommended for readers who are brave enough to read it.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3OpgCiA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Blue World: Anunnaki Advent; a Short Story<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81vDsA3CTOL._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="321" /></a><br />
by Paul Clayton</h2>
<p>The best laid plans of gods and men go awry on… the Blue World.</p>
<p>Loosely based on Zecharia Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles, The Blue World follows the efforts of the Sumerian gods, the Anunnaki, as they land on earth to mine the gold there in order to repair the damaged atmosphere of their home planet, Nibiru.</p>
<p>The Anunnaki miners find gold mining laborious and dangerous, so they genetically engineer a hybrid race to do it for them.</p>
<p>Mixing Anunnaki DNA with simian, they create The Human, “those who work.”</p>
<p><strong>Paul Clayton</strong> is the author of a three-book historical series on the Spanish Conquest of the Floridas– Calling Crow, Flight of the Crow, and Calling Crow Nation (Putnam/Berkley), and a novel, Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (St. Martin’s Press), based on his own experiences in that war.</p>
<p>Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam was a finalist at the 2001 Frankfurt eBook Awards, along with works by Joyce Carol Oates (Faithless), David McCullough (John Adams), and Alan Furst (The Kingdom of Shadows).</p>
<p>Clayton’s historical novel — White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke — explores the mystery of the vanished English colonists on Roanoke Island. His realistic contemporary novel, In the Shape of a Man, explores the dark side of the go-go lifestyle of turn-of-the-century Silicon Valley workers.</p>
<p>Clayton’s collection of traditional sci-fi and fantasy stories, Strange Worlds, pays homage to the sci-fi greats. Clayton’s novel, Van Ripplewink: You Can’t Go Home Again, is a modern twist on the classic Rip Van Winkle story, that wades into America’s current socio-racial dysfunction. Clayton’s novella, Crossing Over, tells the story of the 2nd American civil war. His latest sci-fi collection, Talk to a Real, Live Girl, tells of a future world where the MeToo movement and the sophistication of robotic companions… collide with unforeseen and astounding consequences.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3enRcnA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Strange Worlds</a><br />
by Paul Clayton<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Strange-Worlds.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5593 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Strange-Worlds.webp" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Strange-Worlds.webp 329w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Strange-Worlds-197x300.webp 197w" alt="" width="241" height="366" /></a></h2>
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<p>In the future, the love of a young man’s life is dying. He would do almost anything to keep her alive…except that! In Dog Man, it turns out that Oscar the tomcat was just misunderstood — with deadly consequences… A love sick young man attempts to tap the power of an ancient religion to secure the affections of a girl on their class trip to Christland… The dead come briefly back to life every year when the astral dimensions align in Day, or Two, of The Dead. A cynical young ‘player’, adrift in the modern, amoral age meets God on a mountain top and his life is changed forever — but not in the way he’d ever imagined. Traditional sci-fi/fantasy and satire from the author of Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam. Clayton channels the spirits of Huxley, Orwell and Philip K. Dick in these and ten other intelligent, provocative and highly entertaining stories. WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING “Thank you for writing this. This is the sort of book I was hoping would begin to spring from the Indie world. No way would NYC Corporate Publishing ever allow something with this world view through.” “… I expected Strange Worlds to be about dystopias, supernatural monsters, zombies, and futuristic technologies, but now after reading this collection, I realize that the stories are about us.” “Clayton leads the modern reader through dark and dangerous territory, but the gems they will find there are worth the risk. Very few Indies would have had the courage to put their names to something like this.” “… while you are being taken away to a place and time which is… strange and… disturbing… the humanity of (most of) his characters will make you feel right at home; of course, you’ll want to leave a light on.”</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TM2MsH" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Escape From the Future and Other Stories</a><br />
by Paul Clayton<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Escape-From-The-Future.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5592 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Escape-From-The-Future.webp" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Escape-From-The-Future.webp 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Escape-From-The-Future-188x300.webp 188w" alt="" width="241" height="385" /></a></h2>
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<p><strong>What if you had access to a time machine and could go back to visit a deceased love… one more time. Would you?</strong></p>
<p>In 1962, Bobby Newman’s Grandpa, a basement inventor, loses his wife to cancer, then begins to lose his mind to grief. While tuning up his not-yet-perfected time machine for one last visit with his wife, he ends up going the wrong way… into the dystopian future of 2025. Inexplicably, he sends the machine back.</p>
<p>Fourteen-year-old Bobby uses it to lead Mom and Dad on a mission to find Grandpa and bring him back.</p>
<p>But Grandpa has other ideas…</p>
<p><em>This volume brings together five of Paul Clayton’s most ambitious stories to date, stories that juxtapose a familiar America of the very recent past with ominous new versions of the country now coming into focus.</em></p>
<p>Clayton’s concern is with ordinary people—their innate wisdom and persistent foolishness, their capacity to do good or harm, and their resiliency—with what happens when time travelers from the 1960s arrive in a city dominated by criminal gangs and corrupt politicians, or when a woman opts for a new procedure to avoid losing her cancer-ridden husband, or when a soldier in Vietnam is granted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to give his elevator speech, or when a man, illegally alive, attempts to stay that way…</p>
<p>Clayton shows how people make choices that, collectively, point civilization in new directions, be it toward forcible reclamation of vast tracts of land as primeval wilderness or elimination of those deemed to be nonproductive ‘useless eaters.’</p>
<p>This is a first-rate collection of stories by a serious writer.—Stephen Gallup, author of What About the Boy?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3JsznAe" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Calling Crow (The Southeast Series Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/810jc9SlRNL._SL1500_.jpg" width="203" height="325" /></a><br />
by Paul Clayton</h2>
<p>1555. Calling Crow is haunted by his recurring dream of the Destroyer who will one day lay waste to his village.</p>
<p>Then Spanish colonial slavers from the island of Hispaniola arrive on the shores of the Southeast, lands that have been home to the Muskogee people for generations.</p>
<p>Calling Crow and another brave are taken and bound into slavery.</p>
<p>Life in the gold pits and slave camps is humiliating and brutal, but Calling Crow refuses to let them break his spirit.</p>
<p>Aided by a kindly priest, Calling Crow vows to learn the language and ways of an overwhelmingly powerful enemy in order to eventually save his own people. But first he must regain his own freedom.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pm7QV5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">In the Shape of a Man<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81-TKzMD2aL._SL1500_.jpg" width="218" height="348" /></a><br />
by Paul Clayton</h2>
<p><strong>Rosemary’s Baby meets Revolutionary Road…</strong></p>
<p>On the border between the necropolis of Colma, home to over two million dead souls and 1,794 somewhat live ones — and the gritty industrial working-class town of South City —</p>
<p>At 1015 Crestview, little seven-year-old Reynaldo cowers under the escalating abuse hurled by an adoptive mother who now sees him as a burden.</p>
<p>Allen, a workaholic Silicon Valley techie, seeks relief from domestic conflict by slipping away to sample the sweet brews at McCoy’s, a mysterious pub and Hell’s Angels hangout.</p>
<p>Up the street, young adults Rad and Tawny drift between the worlds of skateboarding and community activism, free love and commitment. Sampling Buddhism and squabbling with the relatives, they avoid thinking about the 15-foot Burmese python in their garage.</p>
<p>Does evil exist? Is it still with us? How would it manifest in modern life? This genre-bending novel of alienation and betrayal suggests that evil, as well as redemption, can come <em>In the Shape of a Man.</em></p>
<p>Paul Clayton is the author of <em>Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam </em>, which was short listed for a 2001 Frankfurt eBook Award, along with works by Joyce Carol Oates and David McCullough.</p>
<p>“Society’s ambivalence about the value of children, and personal responsibility, creates drama in two neighboring households. The haunting story of little adopted Reynaldo will send you running to hug your kids.” — Stephen Gallup, author of <em>What About the Boy</em></p>
<p>REVIEW: From the opening scene on, IN THE SHAPE OF A MAN wraps a fog of dread around readers, pulling them into the misty depths of moral turpitude. Adopted as an infant, then later shunted aside after the birth of his sister, seven-year-old Reynaldo is at the epicenter of abuse from his mother Tina and benign neglect from father Allen. Through skilled juxtaposition of description, dialogue and narrative, author Paul Clayton does such an effective job of depicting family dysfunction, and the underlying evil forces, that the reader’s heart just breaks for Reynaldo. One knows this child is doomed, but the who, what, where and how keep the pages turning.</p>
<p>Less compelling but also skillfully portrayed are a freewheeling young couple down the street, Tawny and Rad, the default caretakers of Ketsel, a 15-foot Burmese python who resides in their garage, a good faith deposit from a former roommate who never claims him. Tawny struggles with an unwanted pregnancy and Rad’s infidelity while Ketsel has his own agenda. — Judge, 2nd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published eBook Awards.</p>
<p>In 2015, In the Shape of a Man was selected as a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Awards. (Only ten percent of submitted books become finalists) The Hoffer Award was founded… to honor freethinking writers and independent books of exceptional merit. The commercial environment for today’s writers has all but crushed the circulation of ideas …Furthermore, many of the top literary prizes will not even consider independent books …choosing instead to become the marketing arms of large presses. The “Hoffer”… books are chiefly from small, academic, and micro presses, including self-published offerings. Throughout the centuries, writers such as Emily Dickinson, James Joyce, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Wolfe have taken the path of self-publishing rather than have their ideas forced into a corporate or sociopolitical mold.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3KRQwDe" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Steam Knight (The Adventures of Baron Von Monocle Book 5)</a><br />
by Jon del Arroz</h2>
<p><strong>Courage, Danger, Valor…<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/SteamKnight.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5610 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/SteamKnight.webp" sizes="auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/SteamKnight.webp 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/SteamKnight-200x300.webp 200w" alt="" width="208" height="312" /></a></strong></p>
<p>…all await in Steampunk’s special forces.</p>
<p>The Knights of the Crystal Spire are Rislandia’s most elite fighters. Trained from a young age, they alone can face the deadliest enemies of their kingdom and beyond.</p>
<p>James Gentry joins the Knights’ ranks, starting as an apprentice on his journey from a simple farmer’s life to the way of the warrior. He must face spies and traitors, soldiers and assassins, and doing so under the watchful eye of a beautiful princess.</p>
<p>Does he have what it takes?</p>
<p>Fans of strong men relying on the camaraderie of a band of brothers will love The Steam Knight. Read today!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3MVf1yo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stars Entwined: An Epic Military Space Opera<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91F6p1on1OL._SL1500_.jpg" width="211" height="326" /></a><br />
(The Aryshan War Book 1)<br />
by Jon del Arroz</h2>
<p><strong>Earth needs a spy…</strong></p>
<p>…is he prepared?</p>
<p>Lieutenant Sean Barrows is thrust into a plot of sabotage and destruction brought on by the mysterious Aryshan Empire.</p>
<p>His assignment: to infiltrate an enemy warship to bring his superiors information on their destructive capabilities and battle plans.</p>
<p>But the Ayrshans share telepathic bonds which make them paranoid of outsiders, and try as he may to win the heart of a beautiful Aryshan commander, he can only get so close.</p>
<p>To make matters worse, Earth stands on the brink of destruction as the Aryshans develop a new, invisible weapon.</p>
<p>Fans of The Old Man’s War by John Scalzi and The Ember War by Richard Fox will love this epic space opera. Read today!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3MT1cAK" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Empire’s Corps</a><br />
by Christopher G. Nuttall</h2>
<p>You Should Never Speak Truth To Power…</p>
<p>The Galactic Empire is dying and chaos and anarchy are breaking out everywhere. After a disastrous mission against terrorists on Earth itself, Captain Edward Stalker of the Terran Marine Corps makes the mistake of speaking truth to power, telling one of the most powerful men in the Empire a few home truths. As a result, Captain Stalker and his men are unceremoniously exiled to Avalon, a world right on the Rim of the Empire. It should have been an easy posting…</p>
<p>Well, apart from the bandits infesting the countryside, an insurgency that threatens to topple the Empire’s loose control over Avalon, and a corrupt civil government more interested in what it can extort from the population than fighting a war. The Marines rapidly find themselves caught up in a whirlwind of political and economic chaos, fighting to preserve Avalon before the competing factions tear the world apart. They’re Marines; if anyone can do it, they can.</p>
<p>The battle to save the Empire starts here.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3b3fnpN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ark Royal<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91llzWa0rxL._SL1500_.jpg" width="202" height="322" /> </a><br />
by Christopher Nuttall</h2>
<p>If you wish for peace, prepare for war.</p>
<p>-Royal Navy Motto</p>
<p>Seventy years ago, the interstellar supercarrier Ark Royal was the pride of the Royal Navy. But now, her weapons are outdated and her solid-state armour nothing more than a burden on her colossal hull. She floats in permanent orbit near Earth, a dumping ground for the officers and crew the Royal Navy wishes to keep out of the public eye.</p>
<p>But when a deadly alien threat appears, the modern starships built by humanity are no match for the powerful alien weapons. Ark Royal and her mismatched crew must go on the offensive, buying time with their lives And yet, with a drunkard for a Captain, an over-ambitious first officer and a crew composed of reservists and the dregs of the service, do they have even the faintest hope of surviving …</p>
<p>… And returning to an Earth which may no longer be there?</p>
<p>[Like my other self-published Kindle books, Ark Royal is DRM-free. You may reformat it as you choose. There is a large sample of the text – and my other books – Try before you buy.]</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xqsaKi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Zero Blessing (The Zero Enigma Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/714wY9TW89L._SL1360_.jpg" width="203" height="307" /></a><br />
by Christopher G. Nuttall</h2>
<p>Caitlyn Aguirre should have been a magician.</p>
<p>Her family certainly expected her to be a magician.</p>
<p>But by the time she reached her twelfth birthday, Caitlyn hadn’t even managed to cast a single spell!</p>
<p>In desperation, her parents send her – and her magical sisters – to Jude’s Sorcerous Academy, her last best chance to discover her powers.</p>
<p>But as she struggles to survive her classes without a single spell to her name, Caitlyn starts to uncover an ancient mystery that may prove the key to her true powers …</p>
<p>… If she lives long enough to find it.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3zEUuvo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Schooled in Magic<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71cfhxr0D8L._SL1200_.jpg" width="205" height="307" /></a><br />
by Christopher G. Nuttall</h2>
<p>Emily is a teenage girl pulled from our world into a world of magic and mystery by a necromancer who intends to sacrifice her to the dark gods. Rescued in the nick of time by an enigmatic sorcerer, she discovers that she possesses magical powers and must go to Whitehall School to learn how to master them. There, she learns the locals believe that she is a “Child of Destiny,” someone whose choices might save or damn their world … a title that earns her both friends and enemies. A stranger in a very strange land, she may never fit into her new world …</p>
<p>…and the necromancer is still hunting her. If Emily can’t stop him, he might bring about the end of days.</p>
<p>Book I in the Schooled in Magic series.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3tQHRsQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lessons in Etiquette (Schooled in Magic Book 2)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Lz1Rj1wIL._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="303" /> </a><br />
by Christopher G. Nuttall</h2>
<p>After completing her first year of learning magic at Whitehall School, Emily accepts an invitation from Princess Alassa to accompany her on her progress back to her home country of Zangaria, where the princess may meet her future husband. Alassa, who was a spoiled brat before she met Emily, wants to show off her friend – and impress potential suitors.</p>
<p>For Emily, it is a chance to relax and explore a world very different to Earth, meet new people and come to terms with her reputation in the Nameless World. After her defeat of Shadye, everyone wants to know her, to talk with her, to kill her … or to marry her. For Emily, hardly a social butterfly, the experience is disconcerting. She was never seriously courted before, not on Earth.</p>
<p>And yet, as she sees more of the countries surrounding Whitehall, she feels more and more out of place. The locals come from a very different culture, one that is often strange and horrifying to her eyes. Even her friends seem different people in their homes.</p>
<p>But dark forces are at work, plotting to capture the princess, take power in Zangaria … and undo all of Emily’s work. As all hell breaks loose, Emily may be all that stands between Zangaria and a return to the dark ages of brute force that threatened to lay the kingdom low, once before. And if she fails, her friends will be just the first victims of a war that will rip the Allied Lands apart.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3HsuwwS" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Study in Slaughter (Schooled in Magic Book 3)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71vj7MwGl4L._SL1200_.jpg" width="205" height="309" /></a><br />
by Christopher G. Nuttall</h2>
<p>Brimming with new ideas for magical research, Emily returns to Whitehall School for her Second Year, only to discover that things are going to be different. Her friends have become sports-mad fanatics, her new roommates are strangers to her, her new classes are far harder and one of the teachers seems to actively dislike her. As she returns to the comforting routine of the only place she considers home, she finds that Second Year will be far harder than the first.</p>
<p>But as the students settle in to continue their studies, it rapidly becomes clear that all is far from well at Whitehall. There’s a murderer running loose in the school. A murderer who may be a newborn necromancer. And then there’s the spy watching Emily from the shadows, waiting for her to make one tiny, but fatal mistake …</p>
<p>As the darkness falls on Whitehall, Emily may be their salvation…or the person who damns them all.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3D2l93j">The E. E. “Doc” Smith MEGAPACK®: 11 Classic Novels and Stories<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61bwZCSeONL.jpg" width="207" height="276" /></a><br />
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<p>The E. E. “Doc” Smith MEGAPACK<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> collects 11 works by Smith, including entries in the Lensman, Skylark, Subspace, and Lord Tedric series — in all, more than 1,700 pages of galaxy-spanning adventure! Included are:</p>
<p>TRIPLANETARY</p>
<p>FIRST LENSMAN</p>
<p>THE VORTEX BLASTER</p>
<p>THE GALAXY PRIMES</p>
<p>MASTERS OF SPACE</p>
<p>THE SKYLARK OF SPACE</p>
<p>SKYLARK THREE</p>
<p>SPACEHOUNDS OF IPC</p>
<p>SUBSPACE SURVIVORS</p>
<p>TEDRIC</p>
<p>LORD TEDRIC</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3b4mazr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Centrism Games<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71RaTnvOFkL._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="321" /></a><br />
by Rachel Fulton Brown and the Dragon Common Room</h2>
<p>Chivalry is dead. These knights want Fame. And Fama’s a witch.</p>
<p>Follow a band of very different Knights on their quest to become the most balanced, the most tolerant, the most compromising of everyone on the modern political spectrum.</p>
<p>Each knight dares to liberalize and conserve, but who will win the ultimate prize and stay safely in the centre?</p>
<p>A cautionary tale in heroic couplets modeled on Alexander Pope’s scathing 18th-century <em>Dunciad</em>.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Reviews:</strong></h3>
<p><em>Dr. Rachel Fulton Brown and her merry band of poets have compiled here a fun, pointed collection of verse through the very active Dragon Common Room Telegram chat. The whole point–as I gather it–is that rather than mucking about in the culture wars, we should be out _creating_ culture on our own.</em></p>
<p><em>_Centrism Games_ does just that. It’s wonderful to see these modern knights prove that the pen is, indeed, mightier than the sword</em>.</p>
<p><em>This poem savagely rips the hearts out of political centrists and moral relativists, and makes them eat it.</em></p>
<p><em>Polite Christians and social Conservatives (so-called) will be offended at the prose in ‘Centrism Games’, justly so. Readers both Right and Left will be asking themselves “what would I be willing to do for glory in this world?”, and at each page realize the inglorious catastrophe of the politically correct, postmodern, subjective and relativistic dogmas that praise tolerance and liberty whilst hell is set loose all around us. Readers will be challenged to overcome their revulsion at the themes and language to see the great moral lesson of this modern-Dunciad: every ticket has a hidden price.</em></p>
<p><em>This is not a Boomer-friendly story.</em></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/43SPUFW" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Murders at the Manor (Inspector Broekstein Mysteries Book 1)</a><br />
by Milo James Fowler</h2>
<p><strong>Murders Most Foul</strong></p>
<p>“What would you say if I were to tell you I believed…that in the heart of every man and woman alive, there lies the potential for ultimate evil?”</p>
<p>So begins a mystery of murder, jealousy, and revenge, as old friendships are tested and new alliances form.</p>
<p>When a wealthy heir invites half a dozen people to his recently inherited estate, all hell breaks loose, and it will be up to the quirky, lovelorn Inspector Willem Broekstein to find out <em>whodunnit</em>. But of course all is not as it seems, and Broekstein will need his wits about him if he’s to keep from losing his head—or his heart—along the way.</p>
<p><em>Murders at the Manor was originally serialized on Kindle Vella.</em></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3cBxnVC">The Space-Time Conundrum:<br />
A Funny Sci-fi Space Adventure<br />
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by Milo James Fowler</h2>
<p><strong>Captain Quasar is out of time.</strong></p>
<p>Pursued by vengeful Goobalob toll collectors, savage Arachnoid bounty hunters, and formidable Amazonians, Captain Bartholomew Quasar must do whatever he can to keep the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude out of harm’s way.</p>
<p>All in a day’s work—except time is not on his side.</p>
<p>Torn from the present to relive his past, he vows to keep mistakes from occurring the second time around. But is he doomed to repeat history? Or can he erase his regrets?</p>
<p>Villains will be vanquished. Lives will be lost. Bonds will be betrayed. Heroes will be heroic. Join the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude for a hilarious time-travel space adventure the likes of which you’ve never seen!</p>
<p><strong>The Hitchhiker’s Guide meets Star Trek in this series for fans of Galaxy Quest, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Star Wars Legends.</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3nEPW1p">After the Sky:<br />
(Spirits of the Earth Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91WAZ3MCi5L._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="269" /></a><br />
by Milo James Fowler</h2>
<p><strong>The meek have not inherited the earth.</strong></p>
<p>The world isn’t how they left it.</p>
<p>When the bunker airlocks release them after twenty years in hibernation, the survivors find a silent, barren world outside.</p>
<p>But they are not alone.</p>
<p>There is a presence here, alive in the dust—spirits of the earth, benevolent and malicious as they interact with the human remnant.</p>
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by Milo James Fowler</h2>
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<p><strong><span class="a-text-bold">How are your survival skills?</span></strong></p>
<p>It’s the late 19th century, and you’re a young English aristocrat lost in the American Southwest. A lynch mob is after you for horse theft. Irritable natives are on your trail. And the woman with you is not the type you’d bring home to your mother. Would you survive long enough to find safety? Or would you curl into a fetal position and cry?</p>
<p>This is where Clarence Oliver Edwards finds himself in Westward, Tally Ho! Bored with his privileged life in England and weary of the relatives who share his family estate, Clarence follows his recently dismissed butler, Guthrie, on a non-stop adventure from the busy streets of Boston to the dusty trails of Santa Fe. What begins as Guthrie’s search for his long-lost daughter becomes a shocking introduction to the American West for Clarence. His idea of proper etiquette is stretched to the limit as he’s bombarded with characters of all types: tough gunslingers, seductive saloon girls, crafty frontier traders, an eccentric Zuni Indian chief, and a wild hermit.</p>
<p>Through it all, Clarence realizes the value of loyalty and the cost of redemption. But most importantly, he discovers a degree of inner strength he never knew he possessed. Will Guthrie find his daughter? Will Clarence survive unscathed? Take a wild ride through the Old West and find out!</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/47WX2nf">Double Murders are Twice as Bad: Vic Boyo, Doofus Detective #1<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/710YSLo3YKL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="319" /></a><br />
by Milo James Fowler</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Two murders. One detective. Half a brain.</span></p>
<p>1931, New York City: Detective Vic Boyo may not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but that doesn’t stop him from solving cases as only he can. With a little luck and a whole lot of gumption, Boyo sets out to find the murderer of a local cop. Problem is, Boyo’s more interested in a gorgeous femme fatale accused of killing her husband. She’s destined for the electric chair, but Boyo’s got a hunch she might be innocent.</p>
<p>And nobody gets in the way of Boyo’s hunches, not even Vic Boyo himself.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3r0jriI">The Unusual Clients (Suprahuman Secret)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bWHO-R63L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="319" /></a><br />
by Milo James Fowler</h2>
<p><strong>Collects the novellas <span class="a-text-italic">Doppelgänger’s Curse</span>, <span class="a-text-italic">Up in Smoke</span>, and <span class="a-text-italic">Death Duel</span>:</strong></p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">A woman stalked by her double. A detective in over his head.</span></p>
<p>In a city where the cops are on a mobster’s payroll, private investigator Charlie Madison stands in the gap. When a wealthy young socialite asks him to help her catch a threatening stalker, he takes the case. But things aren’t what they seem, and Madison has to act fast before he’s framed for murder.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">A life ended in flames. A detective sorting through the ashes.</span></p>
<p>Private eye Charlie Madison saw plenty of bloodshed during the war, but he’s never seen a billionaire burst into flames in his office. Until now. Searching for answers, Madison uncovers more than he bargained for: a bizarre mystery of human combustion that’s smoking with jealousy, revenge, and murder. Add a pair of cops on his tail who are more interested in putting him out of business than seeking justice. It’s just another action-packed day for the Charlie Madison Detective Agency. Now accepting…unusual clients.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">An honest cop impaled through the chest. A detective fighting his way to the truth.</span></p>
<p>Private eye Charlie Madison saw his share of murder and mayhem during the war. But he’s never seen anything like this on home soil. The culprit can’t be human. A mandroid, then? Cyborg? Madison’s investigation takes him deep into the underground world of extreme fighting—duels to the death, showcased beneath the city’s biggest casino. Along the way, he discovers a new steroid quietly coming out of Little Tokyo. If rumors are true, it can turn a man into a killing machine.</p>
<p>Before vengeful police can find and execute the murderer, another officer is found slain. With rogue yakuza, the Russian mob, and Federal agents in the mix, Madison must put the pieces of this violent mystery together before the city loses another good cop. Problem is, the killer may be one of his own clients.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3VlJb2u" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Night Mage (Academic Magic Book 2)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91xqh1miu2L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Becky R. Jones</h2>
<p>After fighting a demon in the middle of Philadelphia, Zoe O’Brien wants nothing more than to return to her normal, if stress-filled, life as an assistant professor of history at Summerfield College.</p>
<p>But she’s an Elemental mage and that means when there’s potential magical trouble on campus, the squirrels come to her.</p>
<p>Who or what is the dark presence moving around campus?</p>
<p>Why is it here and what does it want?</p>
<p>Zoe struggles to come to terms with her mage powers and the leadership role her colleagues have given her.</p>
<p>Complicating everything are all the papers that have to be graded, classes that need to be prepped, and most importantly, cats that require attention.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah.</p>
<p>She might actually have a boyfriend as well.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3vsSlhq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Faith and Empire: Book One of The Holy Terran Empire</a></em></strong><br />
by Carlos Carrasco</h2>
<p><strong>One Faith. One Galactic Empire. And A Thousand Worlds Yet To Convert!<img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/712Pfcm-A2L._AC_CR0%2C0%2C0%2C0_SX480_SY360_.jpg" /></strong></p>
<p>In the 51st century, man has spread throughout a great swath of the galaxy without having found any sign of alien life or another habitable world. Instead, mankind has splintered into a score of bio-engineered sub-species spread out across more than a thousand terraformed worlds. The Holy Terran Empire rules over three hundred of these man-made planets. Earth, the One, True World is the Empire’s Capital. The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Rome governs the Empire, hand-in-hand, with the Imperial Family.</p>
<p>Not everyone is pleased with this arrangement.</p>
<p>Zephyrinus Zapatas, a dutiful citizen of the Empire and loyal son of the Church is more than happy with the Co-Dominion of Emperor and Pope. At sixteen, Zeph leaves home, seeking a life of service to the two crowns. He finds his opportunity in an invitation to join the Emperor’s Own, the elite Corps of Imperial Marines.</p>
<p>The Corps’ training is arduous; its moral code, exacting, but; Zeph welcomes the trials and the strictures. The Corps will demand sacrifices. In return, the Imperial Marines offer its recruits little more than a career fraught with peril to life and limb. Zeph accepts the life, however short it might be, because it comes with the chance of achieving his greatest ambition: reaching the rank of Knight Defender of the Faith and Empire.</p>
<p>His training, ambition and his faith will all be tested in the fires of battle against a cruel alliance of space pirates terrorizing scores of worlds.</p>
<p>The Holy Terran Empire is a new space opera series for anyone who can’t get enough sword & blaster action.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3fnjyw0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eta Cancri</a></em><br />
by Russell May <img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/919pjz5K+4L._AC_CR0%2C0%2C0%2C0_SX480_SY360_.jpg" /><a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/eta-cancri.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5085 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" alt="" width="198" height="315" data-src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/eta-cancri.jpg" data-sizes="(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px" data-srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/eta-cancri.jpg 314w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/eta-cancri-188x300.jpg 188w" /></a></h2>
<p>Five hundred years into the future, humans have conquered the void of space and spread throughout the galaxy. But we’re about to discover that – in the cold, dark places between the stars – an ancient horror has been watching. And waiting.</p>
<p>On the distant edge of a far-flung planetary system, faith and science are about to go to war with monstrous evil.</p>
<p>Lars Stockwell is one of the last combat Cyborgs still in service. When a remote mining colony falls mysteriously silent, he and his team of black ops veterans are sent in with orders to terminate any threats to human life.</p>
<p>What they discover is worse than anything they could’ve imagined.</p>
<p>Along with a callow data analyst, a rogue Artificial Intelligence, and a spacefaring grifter, Lars and his men find themselves on the front lines of a war between humanity… and Hell incarnate.</p>
<p>if an ancient monster doesn’t devour both worlds first.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3mYSeHx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Widow’s Son</a><br />
by Ryan Williamson</h2>
<p><strong>KEEP THE GOOD BOOK CLOSE AND YOUR SIX-GUN CLOSER</strong></p>
<p>Pass the bottle, stranger, and I’ll tell you a true story of a West that never was. A tale of the lawman Zarahemla Two Crows and his quest for the widow’s son that led him through the gates of Hell.</p>
<p>A story of the child’s young pioneer mother who joins Two Crows, and the vampire-hunting nun and cavalryman with his steed of steam and iron who come to their aid. A tale of a world where one needs a trusty six-gun at their side and an even greater trust in God to survive.</p>
<p>I’ll tell you of their battle into the heart of darkness, and the faith required to prevent the resurrection of a godlike entity of evil—a power greater than the world has ever known.</p>
<p>I’ll tell you a story, friend, of when the West was <em>weird</em>.</p>
<p>Ryan Williamson’s <em>The Widow’s Son</em> is a gritty blend of steampunk fantasy, the occult, and Western adventure “that will take you on a wild ride unlike anything you’ve experienced before.” (Woelf Dietrich, author of <em>The Seals of Abgai</em>).</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Note! Book 2 in the series, <a style="color: #005f8f;" href="https://amzn.to/47Hb0bJ">The Spear of Destiny (Zarahemla Two Crows Book 2)</a>, is a New Arrival.</h3>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ExbX9P" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Fistful of Demons: An Anthology of the Weird West (Zarahemla Two Crows)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91sbuxmvQ-L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="314" /></a><br />
by Ryan Williamson, David J West, J E Tabor, Jim Carran, Bradley R Mitzelfelt, Brina Williamson, Clinton A Love, K J Shepherd, Michael Nethercott, and Brandon Jimison</h2>
<p><strong>Six-Guns and Strange Shooters</strong></p>
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<p>Headlined by veteran storyteller David J. West, <em>A Fistful of Demons</em> assembles over twenty of the freshest voices in the Weird West genre into one massive anthology of short fiction that will take you on a wild ride unlike anything you’ve experienced before.</p>
<p>Weird West, Western Horror, Fantasy Western—call it what you will—the stories in <em>A Fistful of Demons </em>deftly weave together a complex and thrilling blend of North American mythology, magic, alternate histories of American icons, steampunk, and more—all framed in the action-rich setting of the Old West. Famous novels, comics, and games in the genre include Joe R. Lansdale’s epic <em>Deadman’s Crossing</em>, the classic RPG <em>Deadlands</em>, John Albano & Tony DeZuniga’s award-winning <em>Jonah Hex comic book </em>series, Stephen King’s opus <em>The Dark Tower</em>, and R.S. Belcher’s bestseller <em>The Six-Gun Tarot</em>.</p>
<p><em>A Fistful of Demons </em>packs over 600 pages of Weird West stories inspired by the novel <em>The Widow’s Son </em>between two covers. No denying it, partner, this tome is fair bursting at the seams.</p>
<p>Stories in the anthology include:</p>
<p><strong><em>It Couldn’t Happen Here </em></strong><strong>by David J. West</strong><br />
Porter Rockwell remembers a time years ago when his foster son and a friend were worried over undead near their home along the Utah lake—it turned out to be just a resting place for Indian dead until they could be buried—but years later when there <em>really are </em>undead troubling the area, Porter is forced to face a situation he never thought would be on his own doorstep.</p>
<p><strong><em>The Spear of Destiny</em></strong><strong> by Ryan Williamson</strong><br />
Magdalena, a young Mayan woman belonging to an order of demon-hunting priests, nuns, and monks is sent by the Vatican on a quest to recover the lost Spear of Destiny—the very lance that pierced the side of Christ. In her quest she travels to America and is joined by an old friend, the fabled lawman Zarahemla Two Crows. To recover the spear, they must battle cultists, unholy beasts, and conquer a forgotten monastery possessed by an unimaginable evil.</p>
<p><strong><em>A Reunion on Bloody Island </em></strong><strong>by J. E. Tabor</strong><br />
Orphaned when she was just a girl, Penny grew up among the Lakota who took her in as their own. But when the ravenous dead poured into the Great Plains to drive the foreign settlers from the land, she was forced to flee, whether her people accepted her or not. Separated from the newly wed husband who promised to bring her back home, Penny is confined to a U.S. refugee camp miles from the militarized border on the Mississippi River. With the help of a mysterious stranger serving an unsavory patron, Penny makes a deal to get across and back to her husband and the rest of her family. What Penny doesn’t realize is that the deal she made just might be with the devil.</p>
<p><strong><em>Call Me Rex </em></strong><strong>by Jim Carran</strong><br />
Young Jedediah Burroughs is the lone survivor of a brutal attack on his isolated fort. Seeking revenge and redemption, he partners with a mysterious sword-wielding stranger called Rex to track down the source of the invasion and save whoever he can. But Jed is no warrior and Rex won’t always be by his side.</p>
<p><strong><em>The Devouring Eye </em></strong><strong>by Bradley R. Mitzelfelt</strong><br />
July 13th, 1868. Evil has come to the blossoming city of Minneapolis in the form of an ancient demon. A lone demon hunter, the last descendant of the famed Halez Family, Jacob Halez, is on the hunt and has followed the demon known as Ketev Meriri across the world to the city on the edge of the doomed west. Now, he seeks to confront it and end its reign of terror among the Jewish people, but his efforts may be doomed from the start! One man against a host of demons. Can he succeed, or will he, too, be devoured by the Eye?</p>
<p><strong><em>And over a dozen more…</em></strong></p>
<p>KEEP THE GOOD BOOK CLOSE AND YOUR SIX-GUN CLOSER.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3qhcaHc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">All Hallows<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81hYBbny+9L._SL1500_.jpg" width="199" height="298" /></a><br />
by Kalkin Trivedi</h2>
<p>A day in the life of Cyrus, who works on a plantation.</p>
<p>The day begins with an accident, and then goes downhill from there after a run-in with a pit-viper and a long day of hard labor.</p>
<p>Then he remembers how he got himself and everybody he loved into this mess, and how things used to be…</p>
<p>Does it seem like things are crazy right now? Read Cyrus’s backstory for clues.</p>
<p><em>This is your guide to adapting to the rest of the 21st century.</em></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3uqxt8R" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Deathworld<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://imgs.search.brave.com/e_wEkBx39saB1zHU-PAni4yS_V4YaWgHfPhwD5wsGKM/rs:fit:500:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWFn/ZXMtbmEuc3NsLWlt/YWdlcy1hbWF6b24u/Y29tL2ltYWdlcy9J/LzUxMzBNS0tWRTNM/LmpwZw" alt="Deathworld #1" width="201" height="308" /></a></em><br />
by Harry Harrison *FREE*</h2>
<p>Harry Harrison’s Deathworld is a 1960 sci-fi classic, nominated for a Hugo. The story is a straight up action packed thriller of a planet that appears intent on killing its human inhabitants. An adventurer with a flair for gambling due to psionic powers assists its leader with acquiring more weapons for their never ending battle with both fauna and flora that continuously mutates to ever deadlier forms that are constantly attacking the small colony. The adventurer checks out the place and finds a dwindling community that is so focused on exterminating nature that they can’t even remember how they arrived on the planet generations ago. Eventually, he goes native and finds others living under better conditions and slowly surmises the basis for the state of affairs which the groups have little interest in pursuing.</p>
<p>While space travel is routine, biological mutation and evolution is front and center. Psionic abilities also play a prominent role. Given the global state of affairs at the time of its publication, the planet is clearly a metaphor for the single-minded stubbornness of large groups (be they colonists or whole governments) to pursue self-destructive paths with expectations of total annihilation of an equally matched enemy, never questioning the overall strategy and constantly upping tactical approaches. Not surprisingly, the story transcends its time and resonates even today.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/34wFAEL"><em><strong>The Good Fight</strong></em></a><br />
by Justin Robinson<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41mqqcfa9yL.jpg" alt="The Good Fight" width="201" height="302" /></h2>
<p><em><strong>Atlas Shrugged Meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Good-FIght.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5030 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" alt="" width="209" height="314" data-src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Good-FIght.jpg" data-sizes="(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px" data-srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Good-FIght.jpg 230w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Good-FIght-199x300.jpg 199w" /></a></strong></em></p>
<p>Terry is an ordinary 16-year-old girl in Toronto.</p>
<p>Her days are usually filled up by schoolwork, karate class, and helping out in her mother’s store, but strange things are happening behind the scenes of the city.</p>
<p>People are disappearing and coming back changed, with their identity torn out of them.</p>
<p>A series of close calls with an unthinkable adversary puts a target on Terry’s back.</p>
<p>It’s everywhere, enslaving people, hollowing them out into puppets… and now it wants her.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/45WDTjt">Silent Order: Iron Hand<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61QG1BT4ftL._SL1200_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Jonathan Moeller *FREE*</h2>
<p>The galaxy is at war, but wars are won and lost in the shadows.</p>
<p>To the galaxy at large, Jack March is a privateer of the interstellar Kingdom of Calaskar and a former Iron Hand commando of the malevolent Final Consciousness. In truth, he is an alpha operative of the Silent Order, the most efficient and feared intelligence organization in human space. When there is a crisis, Jack March is the man to call.</p>
<p>But there are many forces that wish to enslave or destroy humanity.</p>
<p>And when a mission leads March to a lawless asteroid space station, he might be the only one left to stop those forces…</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3aQpSMP" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Techno Ranger: A Sam Harper Military Thriller<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81NnQJkpW-L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="301" /></a><br />
by Thomas Sewell</h2>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>North and South Korea are on a collision course with the prospect of reigniting war in this action-packed military thriller!</strong></h3>
<p>1LT Sam Harper, surfing engineer, tries to fit in on his new job. He’ll risk everything to prevent mass destruction.</p>
<p>Sam’s intelligence analysts identify security vulnerabilities in a government lab in Seoul.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, his CIA ex-girlfriend complicates his life with her spy priorities.</p>
<p>A desperate North Korean general sends a naive Special Forces lieutenant and his team across the DMZ to steal nuclear materials technology.</p>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Sends them disguised to infiltrate the top-secret lab Sam protects.</h4>
<p>Sam will need all his combat and technical skills to safeguard those he cares about, but his involvement with a traitor and a CIA temptress may teach him the wrong lessons about who to trust.</p>
<p>Dedicated to Tom Clancy, David Drake, and Robert Ludlum.</p>
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<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Army Engineer vs. Infantry Officer</strong></h4>
<p>Lieutenant Harper, surfing Army Engineer, must pass the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program (RASP). He’s promised Michelle, his ex-girlfriend CIA Officer, to be one of the few selected for the coveted 75th Regimental scroll. She’s recruited him to back her up by commanding a Military Intelligence platoon in Korea.</p>
<p>But he has to be selected as a Ranger first.</p>
<p>RASP won’t be easy. Harper must lead a pair of enlisted Ranger candidates to victory. Captain Dobbs, an infantry officer also competing for selection, has Harper’s number.</p>
<p><strong>Aggressive officers battle head-to-head in each task;</strong> Engineer vs. Infantry.</p>
<p>The 75th Ranger Regiment’s motto, <em>Sua Sponte</em>, requires initiative, but will Harper win or lose against Dobbs by sticking with the Ranger Handbook? Or might he die in the process?</p>
<p>★This short story is complete on it’s own, but takes place chronologically between Part I and Part II of the book <strong><em>Techno Ranger</em></strong>.★</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XothGC" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Providence<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/811x5uO7zSL._SL1500_.jpg" width="199" height="298" /></a><br />
by Richard Sezov</h2>
<p>Two coasts, two tragedies.</p>
<p>A car accident in the east sends the lives of multiple unrelated people in different directions, some of them on collision courses.</p>
<p>A school shooting in the west takes some lives and saves others.</p>
<p>What are we to make of all this?</p>
<p>Is life just a series of meaningless, unrelated events, or is reality following a plan?</p>
<p>A teacher, plumber, librarian, student, deadbeat, and others learn the answer to this and more during the course of a single, roller coaster of a day.</p>
<p>James R. Hannibal, award-winning and bestselling author of <em>The Paris Betrayal</em> says “Richard Sezov holds nothing back in this thoughtful and intense look at God’s sovereignty. He paints an intricate portrait of a dozen lives, steadily blending each stroke to show the Master Painter at work bringing good out of their suffering and sin.”</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3oThq2L">Luna<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/814eqkyrpyL._SL1500_.jpg" width="202" height="300" /></a><br />
Declan Finn, editor</h2>
<p>These are the tales of the orb that lights our night sky and drives the tides of our oceans. The bright companion that orbits our planet, invades our dreams and drives us mad.</p>
<p>The Curse and the Covenant by Ann Margaret Lewis – Tal, in the land of Ur, is son to a Lord. When a demon offers his father a gift to make him and his people like gods, Tal knows it’s a bad idea.</p>
<p>The Doom that Came to Necropolis, by Steve Johnson – Necropolis is a small town, complete with small town values and small town myths. Unbeknownst to them, their doom is about to arrive, riding a motorcycle, and armed with the weapons of science.</p>
<p>How to Train your Werewolf, by Margot St. Aubin – Jason Branch recently escaped from a home for the insane. His only goal now is to rest and be left alone in the woods. But when strangers decide that the same stretch of land would be perfect for their needs, they will soon discover Jason’s true madness.</p>
<p>Luna Sea, by Jody Lynn Nye – the moon can be a harsh mistress … or can she?</p>
<p>Regolith, by Penelope Laird – How far would you go to prevent your favorite band from being kidnapped and held for ransom on the Moon?</p>
<p>Crazy like an Elf, by Declan Finn – When astronomer Barbara Davis hired a private security firm, she didn’t expect a man who claimed to be from Middle Earth.</p>
<p>Samaritan, by Karl Gallagher – Thomas’ people settled on the Moon to avoid contamination from biotech and nanotech gadgets. But when a high-tech spacer crashes Thomas must risk exile from his home to save the stranger’s life.</p>
<p>Moonboy, by Karina L. Fabian – Cory Taylor is the first boy born on the moon and may just be the first to die on it. But his first attempt to leave the moon may move up that date to closer than even he expects.</p>
<p>Fly Me To the Moon, by Mark Wandrey – Annmarie Smith dreamed of going to space, and she finally succeeds in creating a company to mine water on the moon. Everything looks great, until alien first contact makes it all much, much more complicated.</p>
<p>The Hyland Resolution, by Justin Tarquin – Charles Hyland is caught in the crossfire of an interplanetary war, their only hope is that Charles can extricate himself from the labyrinth of his own mind.</p>
<p>Another Fine Day in the Corps, by L.A. Behm II – Some days you get the bear. Some days, the bear is packing mortar rounds.</p>
<p>The Mask of Dhuran Zur, by John C. Wright – Some manuscripts you just shouldn’t read.</p>
<p>Elwood, by Bokerah Brumley – Mysterious things happen to Emma Kelly when she meets the lunatic gypsy at the end of the lane and the gypsy’s invisible púca.</p>
<p>Much Madness is Divinest Sense, by Lori Janeski– A madman doesn’t usually believe that he’s insane. But the ones who are truly dangerous are the ones who not only believe it, but embrace it.</p>
<p>The Night my Father Shot the Werewolf, by Josh Griffing – The boys in Mrs. Carroll’s third-grade class learned a lot last year, about things like cursive, and multiplying, and werewolves.</p>
<p>The Black Dogs of Luna, by Paul Go – The crew of the Sirocco find a nightmare of the ages on the Moon.</p>
<p>Despot Hold ’em, by Caroline Furlong – You have to know when to hold them, know when to fold them. But most importantly of all, know when to run.</p>
<p>Polar Shift, by Richard Paolinelli – After the pole’s shift, Sam Peck may just be the last living human being in the entire universe.</p>
<p>The Price of Sanity, by A.M. Freeman – Never make deals with the unknown. Especially when it’s paying for your freedom with your soul.</p>
<p>Vulcan III, by William Lehman – Unfortunately for the crew of “Scorpion” the Vulcan III, the moon is the harshest engineering environment we’ve ever built in, especially when something goes wrong.</p>
<p>Merry By Gaslight, by L. Jagi Lamplighter – What if that million-dollar mansion you hardly dare to long for were so much less than you deserved.<span style="color: #005f8f;"><a style="color: #005f8f;" href="https://amzn.to/3DJA5Eo"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81fIaNYbjJL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="301" /></a></span></p>
<p>Squeeze on the Moon, by Lou Antonelli – An expert in disaster recovery gets the opportunity of a lifetime – plus a little walk down memory lane.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3DJA5Eo">Sol</a><br />
Benjamin Wheeler, ed.</h2>
<p>Sol, the center of our solar system, the very reason why we exist at all.</p>
<p>These are the stories of our Sun, stories of nobility and righteousness.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xhE1tS">Mercury<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91851Gt8LvL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="301" /></a><br />
David Hallquist, ed.</h2>
<p>It wanders through space in fiery temperatures that make Hades look like a vacation spot by comparison. The first planet in our Solar System that races around the Sun once every 88 days. Named after the Roman god of commerce, eloquence, messages, travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves; he also serves as the guide of souls to the underworld.<br />
These then, are the tales of Mercury:</p>
<p>In The Palace of Promised Immortality, by John C. Wright, takes place on Mercury itself, yet is also the tale of a traveler not only in time, but alternate worlds.</p>
<p>Schubert to Rachmaninoff, by Ben Wheeler, deals with a messenger braving hazards while traveling across the barren wastes of Mercury.</p>
<p>The Element of Transmutation, by Jagi L. Lamplighter, brings us the mythic character Mercury himself, and the element’s fascination with early alchemists.</p>
<p>The Haunted Mines of Mercury, by Joshua M. Young, brings a man into confrontation with the past while exploring the subterranean tunnels of Mercury.</p>
<p>The Tower of the Luminous Sages, by Corey McCleery, is a tale of fantasy and fantastic travel though strange realms.</p>
<p>Quicksilver, by J.D. Beckwith, is the tale of a crisis on a ship traveling near Mercury.</p>
<p>Ancestors Answer, by Bokerah Brumley, is a tale of a different type of travel: time, in a matter of family honor.</p>
<p>Last Call, by Lou Antonelli, brings us a Mercury of the far future, mined out of its precious minerals and all but forgotten.</p>
<p>Deceptive Appearances, by Declan Finn, brings a tale of rogues and schemes under the domes of Mercury.</p>
<p>mDNA, by Misha Burnett, is a tale of a different kind of messanger: a genetic courier in a desolate wasteland.</p>
<p>The Star of Mercury, by April Freeman, involves bitter rivalry and high technology on Mercury, but most of all, the importance of a child’s life.</p>
<p>Cucurbita Mercurias, by Dawn Witzke, brings us a murder mystery during a crucial phase of the colonization of Mercury.</p>
<p>The Wanderer, by David Hallquist, is a tale of two explorers, one an alien probe, and the other a man researching the interior of Mercury.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3oMwYFy">Venus<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81N7jGBpucL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="297" /></a><br />
A.M. Freeman & L. Jagi Lamplighter, eds.</h2>
<p>Oh Venus. Doesn’t that just roll off the lips like a lovers kiss?</p>
<p>What image does it draw to your mind? A great planetary body of deadly gases neighboring Earth, existing as its own world, mysterious and alluring? Or an image of a more fantastical nature such as the jungles described by Edgar Rice Burroughs? Or do you think perhaps, of a goddess who holds power and beauty beyond measure, whose name, throughout the ages, has been synonymous with love? Perhaps you imagine something in-between, with adventure and romance.</p>
<p>Love, of any kind, has the power to bring the magic of Gods into the events of men. Within these covers you will find tales of wonder, some of space, some of the heart, some that follow in the footsteps of the goddess herself.</p>
<p>Read and be enchanted!</p>
<p>These are the stories of Venus: Tales of the planet, of the goddess, and of love:</p>
<p>Just Look, I’ll Be There, by A. M. Freeman —A Gypsy boy leaves Venus for the stars, but his beloved’s eyes shine brightest of all.</p>
<p>Morning And Evening Star, by David Hallquist — A honeymoon among the sulfurous fumes of Venus takes an unexpected turn.</p>
<p>90 Seconds, by Bokerah Brumley — Online video blogger heads to Venus for the ultimate extreme sports, and jumps into something more than just the sky.</p>
<p>The Wrong Venus, by Lou Antonelli — The worst criminals are sent to a high security prison on Venus, but an intrepid criminal might get himself sent to a different Venus.</p>
<p>Texente Tela Veneris, by Edward Willett — If you could change the history of your love life, would you? That is the question a pair of tourists on a remote Grecian island must answer.</p>
<p>Happiest Place On Earth, by Misha Burnett — A story of pure love in an unexpected place.</p>
<p>Love Boat To Venus, by Declan Finn — On a tour around the solar system, elite fighters pause to give marital advice, until they are interrupted.</p>
<p>Venus Times Three, by Margot St. Aubin — Two lawyers travel to Mars to settle a will that, inexplicably, involves Venus. Will they be able to untangle this complicated web?</p>
<p>Avalon, by Dawn Witzke – A new school on Venus brings new opportunities for a young man to escape the shadow of his childhood friend.</p>
<p>The Rituals Of Venus, by Joshua M. Young — A hero fights cultists among the jungles of Venus for the sake of his love. Can he save her?</p>
<p>First Cat In Space, by Dana Bell — Some cat has to be lucky enough to be the first cat in space.</p>
<p>Venus Felix, by W. J. Hayes — A routine day at the bar turns into anything but for this gumshoe, when robots begin shooting at a newcomer.</p>
<p>The Rocket Raising, by Frederic Himebaugh — A young girl must choose between marrying her love and venturing to a new world for the sake of her people.</p>
<p>Star-Crossed, by Julie Frost — A werewolf detective helps an unlikely client in her revenge after her lover is murdered, but old memories aren’t the only thing that comes back.</p>
<p>Honeymoon In Fairland, by L. Jagi Lamplighter — Can love and trust be rekindled between a betrayed husband and his wife? Even when they are as powerful as Gods?</p>
<p>37 Shades of Yellow, by J.D. Beckwith — The new Venus base is up and running, but what does it take to live there when your wife is homesick for Earth?</p>
<p>The Fox’s Fire, by Danielle Ackley-McPhail — A spirited fox spirit seeks love in ancient America.</p>
<p>Smiley The Robot, by Amy Sterling Casil — An old woman living alone on Venus finds herself falling for Smiley, the police robot.</p>
<p>Stones In High Places, by Jane Lebak — A dying world watches with anguish as a young one awaits its demise, until one man conceives of a way to save them, but it will take an act of unprecedented love.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3oWn2cu">Earth<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1rJj8TBRyL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="297" /></a><br />
Dawn Witzke, ed.</h2>
<p>Welcome to Earth. We know so much about our home planet, yet so very little. From the ancient astronomers who sought to figure out our place among the stars to the modern day scientists studying the deepest oceans to those who looking for life on other planets.</p>
<p>In this anthology resides 18 stories of discovery and daring that exhibit the spirit of adventure that has led explorers to risk their lives trying to discover the mysteries and secrets of Earth.</p>
<p>Silesian Treasure by WJ Hayes – RAF Group Captain Enoch P. Simmons is tasked as liaison to a business convention. He meets Buchanan Polk and the pair suddenly find themselves in the midst of a robbery.</p>
<p>This Planet is a Hole by Lou Antonelli – An alien teen is forced to move with her family to the worst planet in all of space and she’s not happy about it.</p>
<p>Extinction Point by Richard Paolinelli – Every civilized planet reaches a point when its technological advances lead to its ultimate demise. Major Adam Armstrong has just discovered that Earth has reached its extinction point and he is racing back to warn his homeworld before it is too late.</p>
<p>I Hate Mars! By Arlan Andrews – An exile from Earth is sent to Mars in a robotic body. He hates the Red Planet, but makes an unexpected life for himself there.</p>
<p>The Mantle of Gaia by Jody Lynn Nye – When Earth is under attack from an enemy force, her defender might be the one with the most unlikely of talents. College student Winston Chun is the last survivor of the programmers who can operate the planetary repulsor web against the incursion of bloodthirsty aliens, but can he reach the control center in time?</p>
<p>Reality Run by Alfred Genneson – A post-human discovers the world outside of the computer.</p>
<p>The Lamp By Which My Feet Are Guided by R. W. Ware – What’s left after a religious apocalypse? The brave men and women of the Mavericks.</p>
<p>Escape From The Lost Land by Nathan Dabney – Explorers Virgil Shephard and Ross Kent have discovered a tropical paradise deep in the snows of Antarctica, but there lurks a mysterious evil from which they must escape.</p>
<p>Unacceptable Losses by John M. Olson – Caroline Storm is stranded in a combat zone, her team missing or dead, communications on blackout. Can she complete her mission and survive?</p>
<p>Climate of Change by Marie Genneson – A marital spat between Pluto and Persephone sends the world into chaos. Can Athena mend the split before the drastic temperature changes destroy the humans and kill them all?</p>
<p>Welcome to Mars! by A. M. Freeman – Some rivalries span decades, but how far is too far when doing what it takes to win?</p>
<p>The Dawn of Reason by Dan Gallagher – At the dawn of humanity there was a choice to walk in trusting humility, or else covet equality with God as a thing to be grasped. How’d that work out?</p>
<p>Under A Wayward Sun by Josh Griffing – Terran Fleet Ensign Jack Williams is about to make history on Topeka-2 as the youngest officer ever to lead a survey team to a planet’s surface.</p>
<p>The Hidden Conquest by Hans Schantz – Faster-than-light travel is a myth, yet an invasion crosses light years of space and eons of time, employing a small but devastating secret weapon to conquer another world. Can he can stop the Civic Circle’s “Hidden Conquest,” before it’s too late? An updated version of the story is available <a href="https://wiseofheart.substack.com/p/the-hidden-conquest">here</a>, and a <a href="https://youtu.be/KQj54GBpPyg?si=JFyFQ6k6fN__yzNP">video</a> of The Hidden Conquest is also available.</p>
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<p>Complicit in Their Bondage by J. Manfred Weichsel – A US Soldier discovers an ancient secret in the mountains of Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Ringrun by Ben Wheeler – A robotic scientist is on the run from a nanotech swarm desperate to rip out the information he holds in his mind.</p>
<p>Xolotl Resurrected by J. D. Beckwith – A convergence of breakthroughs in quantum intelligence and materials technology has led to the birth of matter conversion. Can the idealistic inventors prove its viability to the world?</p>
<p>We’ll Always Have Earth by Bokerah Brumley – Ilsa Land works as an AA, Aware Android. When a ship-wide malfunction sends Ilsa’s plans awry, she must choose between saving her future or an innocent life.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3HWDoL8">Mars<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/816+yzaflyL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="301" /></a><br />
Lucca Dejardins, ed.</h2>
<p>Mars.</p>
<p>The Red Planet.</p>
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<p>Bringer of war, the God of war itself.</p>
<p>The planet that gave birth to the modern era of science fiction when H.G. Wells gazed upon the red light in the night sky and envisioned an army gathering upon its plains to invade our world.</p>
<p>These are the stories of Mars.</p>
<p>Stories of adventure, conflict and war.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3cDuwvk">Jupiter<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91fho3ptf5L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="301" /></a><br />
Julie Pascal, ed.</h2>
<p>There are stories here that explore the mythology of Zeus and the personalities in myth, as well as urban fantasy and fantasy stories that explore our understanding of leadership.</p>
<p>The science fiction worlds range from splendidly alien to profoundly human to mixes of each as authors presented their visions of what life might be like on Jupiter’s moons.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2Zewlf8">Saturn<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8183cvgOzFL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="301" /></a><br />
Bokerah Brumley, ed.</h2>
<p>Saturn.</p>
<p>The Ringed Planet.</p>
<p>Harbinger of ideas and wonder.</p>
<p>The planet that gave birth to the modern era of science envisioning the myriad of multi-colored rings circling the planet, one of the reasons for the invention of the telescope and the second largest in our solar system.</p>
<p>These are the stories of Saturn, the great Titan. Tales of time, age and endings.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3nEMfsB">Uranus<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81g2HZWAx-L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="301" /></a><br />
Christopher Wilson, ed.</h2>
<p>These are the stories of Uranus. Stories of new beginnings and creation. Stories of the mysterious seventh planet in our solar system and of the God of the sky that it was named after:</p>
<p>The Rising of Michael Reid, by Constantine Nakos – Michael Reid wasted his life. Now he has been given the chance to make amends. Every day he wakes up in the grave where he was buried and sets off for wherever Providence guides him.</p>
<p>Serendi-bunny, by Julie Frost – Alex Jarrett may be a mad scientist, but he’s a mad scientist on a mission to cure cancer. When he buys a pair of robot bunnies from the internet to help him accelerate his research, he gets more than he bargained for when they turn out to be assassin-bots sent from the future.</p>
<p>Forty-Two Years of Summer, by Karina Fabian – Forty-Two years of summer is a love story, an old woman’s reminiscing, and a peek at what the future could be. It reminds us that whatever the challenges, even the coming 42 years of Uranus winter, there is love and joy and the 42 years of summer.</p>
<p>Weather Witch of the West, by Ben Wheeler – Uranus is controlled by the Weather Witches. From their floating sky-palaces, they manipulate the weather, change the seasons and hold the lives and deaths of the countless inhabitants of the gas giants in their calculations.</p>
<p>Muddification, by Clint Hale – When human-like creatures are produced by advanced technology, they have no soul. They are a mere shell. What happens when mankind attempts to fuse the human soul and intellect with one of these uninhabited bodies? Is the body only a vessel, or does it also have some impact on who and what a person is?</p>
<p>The Last Human, by Richard Paolinelli – Anne Fontana needed a getaway, a vacation all to herself. But some vacations are just too short. The world has changed, and when she returns, she discovers that she alone holds the power to save humanity, or change it irrevocably.</p>
<p>Blue Ring Beginning, by Bokerah Brumley – Archibald wants a new start. A former detective, he lands on the Uranus station, desperate for work. Will a last-second offer from the station’s commanding officer give him the fresh start he needs, or dredge up the past he wants to forget?</p>
<p>Two Households, None Alike, by A.M. Freeman – Two worlds collide with an inharmonious clash at a ceremony meant to unite. The Princess of Uranus, full of pride for her society’s progress, must marry the Prince of Mars – and become queen of a rough and foreign land.</p>
<p>Creativity, by Arlan Andrews Sr. – Arlan was once criticized by a supervisor for being “too creative.” This is a wish fulfillment revenge story. “Sometimes management should not try to screw over a truly creative person.” (And never, never irritate a science-fiction writer)</p>
<p>Kashika’s Empty Nest, by Sarah Byrne – As the newly widowed dowager queen of an ancient kingdom, Kashika is looking forward to a life of retirement and freedom from her royal duties when she finds herself arrested for the murder of the late king. Only her young and inexperienced son, now king in his own right, believes in her innocence.</p>
<p>The Long Dream, by Caroline Furlong – The U.S.S. Andrew Jackson discovers an abandoned cryo-pod in orbit over Uranus, prompting questions about the first manned mission to the seventh planet in the Solar System – questions someone does not want answered.</p>
<p>The Morrigan, by Christopher Wilson – Civilization is dying, society falling apart, anarchic reavers and hungry gangs taking control now that no one is left to stop them. But an aging scout pilot, driving an old relic from a bygone era, may finally have an answer.</p>
<p>Cold Heart of Ouranos, by J.D. Cowan – Underneath Ouranos lies a hidden evil forgotten by those who live in the frozen wastes and the heated city. Mysteries from the past have revealed themselves once more.</p>
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<p>Room to Breathe, by Marina Fontaine – Home. Family. Friends. Daniel knows those words used to mean something special. But not anymore. Not for him.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3qZKath">Neptune<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81z+5P15spL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="301" /></a><br />
Jake Freivald, ed.</h2>
<p>Artists in every era and medium have depicted Neptune as a tempestuous god with ever-changing moods, so it’s fitting that his anthology follows suit. In these pages, you’ll find stories by turns heroic, comic, pensive, absurd, uplifting, and ambiguous.</p>
<p>They also reflect different conceptions of what it means to be “related to Neptune,” as this volume was intended to be.</p>
<p>Some anchor themselves in mythology–the power of the sea, naturally, but also of earthquakes, along with Neptune’s love of horses and his sexual proclivities–while others focus on the planet, and still others are weird amalgams of Neptunian themes. Sometimes it’s just an beguiling blend of water and wonder.</p>
<p>These pages are graced with stories from talented authors with a broad range of sensibilities and perspectives. These are the the 15 stories of the God of the oceans, stories of the high seas and knowledge.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xfw8oC">Pluto<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81EeHOYryNL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="297" /></a><br />
Dawn Witzke & Richard Paolinelli, eds.</h2>
<p>Pluto, the Roman god of death and wealth, ruled the underworld far away from all of the other gods. So it was only fitting when, in 1930 and working on a theorized ninth planet proposed by Percival Lowell, Clyde Tombaugh used the telescope at Lowell Observatory to locate the ninth planet in our solar system, far, far away from its brothers and sister.</p>
<p>Then came that day in July of 2015. Like the Romans when they found themselves within Pluto’s realm and discovered it was nothing like the desolate fires of damnation assigned to his Greek counterpart, Hades, those of us in modern time discovered that Pluto was nothing like we had imagined since 1930.</p>
<p>That iconic photo of Pluto, with the heart-shaped plain later named Tombaugh Regio, told us that there was so much more to the planet. First, it was not blue and not just solid ice as so many had expected it to be. Just like Pluto’s mythological domain, the planet displayed a variety of features and composition.</p>
<p>In this volume, what you will find in the pages that follow are twenty-one amazing stories of death and wealth set around a wandering cousin far out in the cold edges of our solar system. You will find Vikings, knights, warriors defending home and hearth, of triumph and tragedy, and, yes, even the god himself. You will read tales of great courage and great loss. Of sacrifice for a greater good and of justice delivered to the overly greedy. You will even find the aforementioned Walt Disney himself.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3V1MX1w" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Gods & Proxies<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91nIe5JmQmL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="267" /></a><br />
by M.R. Kayser</h2>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">WHEN THE GODS GO TO WAR, YOU HAD BETTER BE SURE THE ONE YOU SERVE WILL PREVAIL…</h3>
<p>The invisible god, El Elyon, has promised the young nation of Yacov their own homeland. Trouble is, the land is full of giants, backed up by a pantheon of gods who would rather see Yacov slaughtered to a man.</p>
<p>And they are just <em>men</em>. The Yacovites are desert nomads without even enough swords for all their militia.</p>
<p>Salmon and Othniel are two of the young soldiers who must face the gigantic warriors in battle, starting at the fortress city of Bet-Yariq, with formidable walls that only giants empowered by gods could build.</p>
<p>Brave men’s hearts melt with fear. The very planet reels to and fro as if ready to tear itself apart. But though El Elyon is outnumbered by the enemy gods, and his warriors are far outclassed, he has assured them that he himself will lead them into war, and together they will beat all the odds.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ESDyn5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fast Cars and Rock & Roll: The Ultimate Gearhead Novel (A Deke Jones Romp)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/814vE-b5a-L._SL1500_.jpg" width="199" height="298" /> </a><br />
by Michael Kayser</h2>
<p>Deke Jones finally has a car ready to compete in the Conquistador—a short but grueling campaign covering racetracks all over the Southwest United States. He can’t wait to challenge the rich boys with their expensive toys, but complications begin stacking up on him before the first flag drops.</p>
<p>First, he is invited to join Stormin’ Norman’s new rock band for a whirlwind tour. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play with a musical genius and he can’t let it pass…but it’s scheduled for the very week he needs for last minute wrenching so his car can make the Conquistador’s tech inspection.</p>
<p>Next, he gets tangled up with beautiful bad girl Lena Castillo, just when he was patching things up with a local débutante he lost touch with after high school. Lena has a deadly superpower: the ability to turn any man stupid—and Deke Jones is no exception.</p>
<p>Jones also crosses paths with five-time Conquistador champ Bob Tilford, and there’s bad blood between them from the starting gun. It was going to be challenging enough racing against Tilford with his big-time sponsors, high-dollar mechanic and world-class GT car, but Tilford also has tremendous influence over race officials he doesn’t hesitate to use in his grudge against Deke Jones. To keep it all interesting, Deke’s co-driver bails on him at the last minute, with no time to scrounge up a replacement.</p>
<p>Get your motor runnin’. Deke Jones is gonna close this summer out with a bang, one way or another.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3tP2CFh" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shadow Hand Blues: A Cold Case Murder Mystery (A Deke Jones Romp)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81IpTEzXpvL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Michael Kayser</h2>
<p>In 1954 budding blues virtuoso Waymon “Tornado” Fuller is executed for the murder of a North Carolina woman. In 1994 nomadic hot-rodder, moonlighting private investigator and blues aficionado Deke Jones stumbles upon Fuller’s guitar, triggering a mudslide of buried truths. Fuller’s innocence is one revelation. Another is “Shadow Hand Blues”–the last song he recorded, which Jones has never heard of.</p>
<p>An impromptu search for the studio where the recording session took place leads Jones to a small hippie town seemingly still enjoying the Summer of Love, where the psychodelic atmosphere turns from surreal to hostile when he begins asking questions.</p>
<p>Vintage Fender Telecaster in one hand, steering wheel of his radical Cyclone Spoiler II in the other, Deke Jones launches a one-man crusade to exonerate the infamous musician and find the obscure recording. The blood trails are 40 years cold, but neither corrupt good ol’ boy cops, sex industry sadists, nor fanatical pyramid-schemers can throw Deacon Jones off this case.</p>
<p>This investigative pilgrimage propels Jones right into the bloodstained fingers of a clandestine power elite Tornado Fuller called the Shadow Hand.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3EmuDsw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Curly Wolf<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81K7W8MfOJL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by M.R. Kayser</h2>
<p>The settlers in the Redbud Valley are peaceable, God-fearing folk who try to follow the golden rule, but they’ve been pushed too far by the mayor of Blue Stone, who wants their land and seemingly has the law on his side.</p>
<p>Just as the nesters are banding together to resist the land grab, Blue Stone’s newest deputy rides through their valley.</p>
<p>Before they realize the sleepy-eyed youngster called Arizona is a veteran gunfighter hired to bulldoze them off their claims, he has already broken bread with them, danced with their daughters…and stolen the heart of one.</p>
<p>Young Theresa Gutierrez believes Arizona is more than a curly wolf with quick trigger fingers and a stone-cold heart, but her parents and neighbors have good reason to believe otherwise.</p>
<p>What everyone agrees upon is that, in the brewing range war, the Arizona Kid is liable to be right smack in the midst of the killing.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3MVcQLx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fire Ant (The Navy of Humanity: Wasp Pilot Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81KlmYUoWFL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Jonathan P. Brazee *FREE*</h2>
<p>2018 NEBULA AWARD FINALIST: BEST NOVELLA</p>
<p>Floribeth Salinas O’Shea Dalisay is an Off-Planet Worker, employed as an exploration pilot by the giant corporation, Hamdani Brothers. Sent on a routine mission to analyze one of the millions of systems in the galaxy, she stumbles across something that could threaten humanity’s very existence. She barely escapes with her life, but in the process, has to shut down her scout’s AI.</p>
<p>As with all OPWs, she has few rights, and instead of being lauded as a hero, the corporation thinks she is lying.</p>
<p>Her managers believe she found something valuable and shut down her AI in an attempt to hide that fact, hoping she can sell that information to the highest bidder.</p>
<p>Grounded, and with a huge debt now over her head, Beth has to convince the powers that be that a very real danger to humanity is lying in wait out there in deep space.</p>
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<h2 id="block-27b63b9f-bd65-4b4f-afc6-5323f20f000c" class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/33bUB0p">Dungeon Samurai Volume 1: Kamikaze (An Anti-LitRPG Dungeon Crawl)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81OylasVERL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a></em></strong><br />
by Kit Sun Cheah</h2>
<p id="block-245e53c6-0835-48af-9fad-e254b0bf3ebc">Yamada Yuuki is an ordinary college student with an extraordinary hobby: the classical martial art of Kukishin-ryu.</p>
<p id="block-245e53c6-0835-48af-9fad-e254b0bf3ebc">Until one fateful day when a demon rips through the fabric of space-time, abducts everyone in his dojo, and transports them to another world.</p>
<p id="block-93c735a9-8b4b-48d2-a829-52c634a92e07">To return home, Yamada and his friends must join forces with other displaced humans to conquer the dungeon that runs through the heart of the world.</p>
<p id="block-93c735a9-8b4b-48d2-a829-52c634a92e07">Standing in their way are endless hordes of bloodthirsty monsters and countless traps.</p>
<p id="block-93c735a9-8b4b-48d2-a829-52c634a92e07">Armed only with steel, faith and guts, they must battle their way through the winding catacombs to confront the demon waiting at the bottom floor.</p>
<p>Yamada was once a student. Now he must become a samurai.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">About the Author</h3>
<p>Singapore’s first Hugo and Dragon Award nominated writer. A blogger and martial artist, he is the Herald of the Pulp Revolution, combining the aesthetics and mindset of the pulp era with modern-day tastes and tradecraft.</p>
<p>Author of the Covenant Chronicles and Song of Karma series.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3OvXVK6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Saga of the Swordbreaker<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81EjFk5DyoL._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="301" /></a><br />
by Kit Sun Cheah</h2>
<p><strong>#1 Best Seller in Teen & Young Adult Other Religious Fiction!<br />
#1 Teen & Young Adult Buddhism Books!<br />
#1 New Release in Taoism!<br />
#1 New Release in Buddhism!<br />
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#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Myths & Legends eBooks!</strong></p>
<p>Li Ming is a small-town boy with big dreams.</p>
<p>In the era of the Five States and Ten Corporations, the immortals of the jianghu stand head and shoulders above the masses. Li Ming aspires to join their ranks.</p>
<p>But the world of the rivers and lakes is fraught with peril. Deception and danger lurk in the shadows. Bloodthirsty beasts roam the wilds. Martial cultivators constantly battle for wealth, glory and status.</p>
<p>Armed with his ancestral swordbreaker, Li Ming enters the jianghu as a biaohang, eager to deliver justice with steel and magic—and to chase the dream of immortality.</p>
<p>But first, he must prove himself worthy.</p>
<p>Author’s Note: This series is not a power fantasy. There are no LitRPG / GameLit elements, no unconventional relationships, and no sexual content. It is, quite simply, a cultivation story—in the actual sense of the term.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3fiMuoX" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Singularity Sunrise 1: Edenet: A Cyberpunk Espionage Thriller<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71e3JPvgVNL._SL1181_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a></em><br />
by Kit Sun Cheah</h2>
<p><strong>The Singularity is Coming!</strong></p>
<p>The 22nd century brings an era of technological wonders—and horrors.</p>
<p>Cybernetics and genetic engineering. Mass surveillance and social credit. Full body cyborgs and nanoscale engineering. And the pinnacle of human achievement: machine intelligence.</p>
<p>Edenet is the next generation of the Internet. Designed by Anatol Corporation, it will bring the power of a supercomputer to the fingertips of every user, anywhere in the world. At the heart of Edenet lies a cutting-edge artificial intelligence that regulates all traffic on the network.</p>
<p>And one of its lead scientists has disappeared.</p>
<p>Fearing the worst, Anatol hires psychic contractor James Morgan to track her down. Accompanying him is Eligia Ogrod, the mysterious assistant to Anatol’s CEO. Their investigation takes them through the militarized streets of Warsaw, a corporate fortress in Shenzhen, and the human hives of Hong Kong.</p>
<p>Morgan is no stranger to intrigue. Yet the deeper he digs, the more questions emerge. Who is Eligia Ogrod? What does Anatol want?</p>
<p>And what is the truth behind Edenet?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3PnITsf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Diary of A Bomoh<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91GOSNfh2mL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Kit Sun Cheah</h2>
<p>In a quiet neighbourhood in Singapore, a body is found inside a locked apartment.</p>
<p>Tasked with identifying the deceased, Inspector Ibrahim has his work cut out for him.</p>
<p>With no identity documents at the scene, and no neighbours who remember the resident, his only clue is a set of diaries written in English, Malay and Arabic.</p>
<p>Partnering with Station Inspector Jafri, Ibrahim translates the diaries. They discover the story of a bomoh, a traditional Malay shaman.</p>
<p>It is a story of sorcery and occultism, vice and sin, madness and damnation.</p>
<p>But the diaries won’t give up their secrets so easily.</p>
<p>A terrible evil lurks within their pages.</p>
<p>And now, it is awake.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3nFyQ3r">Take The Star Road<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Ct3FdIMOL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="309" /></a><br />
(The Maxwell Saga Book 1)<br />
by Peter Grant</h2>
<p>Nineteen-year-old Steve Maxwell just wants to get his feet on the star road to find a better homeworld.</p>
<p>By facing down Lotus Tong thugs, he earns an opportunity to become a spacer apprentice on a merchant spaceship, leaving the corruption and crime of Earth behind.</p>
<p>Sure, he needs to prove himself to an older, tight-knit crew, but how bad can it be if he keeps his head down and the decks clean?</p>
<p>He never counted on the interstellar trade routes having their own problems, from local wars to plagues of pirates – and the jade in his luggage is hotter than a neutron star.</p>
<p>Steve’s left a world of troubles behind, only to find a galaxy of them ahead…</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3CXsW5L" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tales From the Fermi Resolution: Vol. 1: Shadow of the Tower (Tom Vargas Mysteries)</a><br />
by Moe Lane</h2>
<p>Set in the same world as FROZEN DREAMS, this sprawling anthology stretches over 900 years of future post-apocalyptic fantasy history!</p>
<p>There are ten stories, including several never before published.</p>
<p>And, for fans of FROZEN DREAMS, there’s a new novelette starring Tom Vargas.</p>
<p>Moe Lane is a stay-at-home father and unrepentant geek who is interested in fantasy, science fiction, and roleplaying games. He’s had a variety of jobs over the years, from retail worker to political New Media blogger/digital activist; but now he writes books, short stories, and gaming supplements. He finds it all very, very restful. TINSEL RAIN is his latest novel.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/45ENUC4" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/45ENUC4">Tears Of Paradox (Storms Of Transformation Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71AvhG1CQsL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Daniella Bova</h2>
<p><strong>NEWLY REVISED AND EDITED 2021 RE-RELEASE!</strong></p>
<p><strong>When the sharks are in charge, it’s no longer business as usual.</strong></p>
<p>Slowly but surely, Air Force veteran, devoted husband, and auto mechanic Jason Wallace finds himself existing in a country transformed by a malevolent ideology. In the new America, human and individual rights are history. Life is cheap. Death is gain. Division and destruction are the name of the game.</p>
<p>At the behest of shark-like overlords, gangs of teens terrorize suburban neighborhoods, and parents come to fear their own children. Yet dark as things are, Jason still dreams of becoming a father.</p>
<p>The sharks have instituted a new way of doing business, where families are anathema. When Jason’s dream finally meets reality he must find a way to save his child from their crushing jaws.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3HKU2gw">Life City – a novella<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81H4RDNShjL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
T.J. Marquis</h2>
<p><strong>THE LAMB LIFTED THEM UP…</strong></p>
<p><strong>…BUT THE BEAST WANTS TO TEAR THEM DOWN.</strong></p>
<p>The uplifted animals of Life City are used to destructive alien incursions from above.</p>
<p>Everyone knows how to fight back.</p>
<p>Heroic rock band Magikrash makes a living playing music and fighting invaders, but there are some threats they may not be prepared for…</p>
<p>When a new and disturbing trend pops up in Life City, punk singer Saqi and her bear bassist Barley must discover how to save their brainwashed friends, and the city.</p>
<p><strong>Vibes of classic Saturday Morning cartoons, punk rock and metal, synthwave, and fast-paced adventure combine for an uplifting read with the Lamb at its heart.</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3AHeCfR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How Black the Sky: A Heavy Metal Pulp Adventure (Hero’s Metal – Heavy Metal Pulp Adventures Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71lDTfrXtrL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
by T.J. Marquis</h2>
<p><strong><em>How Black the Sky</em></strong></p>
<p>A young spellsword looking to prove his mettle stumbles on news of imminent doom. Falling in with legendary warriors from the Overland, Pierce heralds the coming attack from the hollow earth below.</p>
<p>His new friends are Gorgonbane. Once mercenaries, now <strong>heroes</strong>, they are the only thing standing between Overland and the <strong>horrid</strong> Monstrosities of the Underlord. His <strong>lust</strong> for power has reached its peak, but the coming <strong>invasion</strong> may not be exactly what it seems…</p>
<p><strong>Pierce</strong> – a brash young man with rare blessings of <strong>strength</strong> and really bad news.</p>
<p><strong>Axebourne</strong> – the fatherly berserker with infectious <strong>laughter</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Scythia</strong> – calm and motherly, her Circlet of Knowing reveals <strong>secrets</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Agrathor</strong> – a mighty spearman with an <strong>electric</strong> personality and a terrible skin condition.</p>
<p><strong>Ess</strong> – Second only to the First Great Master of Convergent Reality Theory. Mysterious and <strong>alluring</strong>.<em>The Hero’s Metal universe:</em></p>
<p>The world of Chasmgard is a place with endless secrets and a strange cosmology. A deep red sun crawls across a canvas of black, and nobody remembers why. Landlocked by a depthless Chasm, Overland and the Underlands have always vied for power and land. In How Black the Sky, we join a band of legendary warriors who may just be at the end of an age.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Xsd6rS" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Out of the Deep: A Heavy Metal Pulp Adventure (Hero’s Metal – Heavy Metal Pulp Adventures Book 2)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71WkUZ5V4WL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
by T.J. Marquis</h2>
<p><strong>Pierce and the heroes of Gorgonbane</strong> defeated the subterranean conqueror Kash one year ago. Since then, <strong>monster infestations</strong> have increased a hundredfold.</p>
<p>It’s good for business, but bad for the citizens of the reluctantly joined nations.</p>
<p>When a <strong>strange new entity</strong> crashes a dangerous extermination mission, everything falls into chaos.</p>
<p>Revelations about the world and whispers of a <strong>new form of magic</strong> litter the path from <strong>doom </strong>to an unexpected beacon of <strong>hope</strong>.</p>
<p>What is the Underlord Kash’s prophesied threat?</p>
<p>Can Gorgonbane save the continent from destruction?</p>
<p>And who will Pierce have a crush on next?</p>
<p><strong>Find out in Out of the Deep – Hero’s Metal, book two.</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2XmrNlq"><em>The War of the Worlds</em></a><em><a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/WarWorlds.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81c4UdLCqqL._SL1500_.jpg" width="217" height="330" /><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5158 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" alt="" width="214" height="333" data-src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/WarWorlds.jpg" data-sizes="(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px" data-srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/WarWorlds.jpg 321w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/WarWorlds-193x300.jpg 193w" /></a></em><br />
by H.G. Wells</h2>
<p><strong>“This isn’t a war,” said the artilleryman. “It never was a war, any more than there’s war between man and ants.” ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds</strong></p>
<p>The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It first appeared in serialized form in 1897, published simultaneously in Pearson’s Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The first appearance in book form was published by William Heinemann of London in 1898.</p>
<p>It is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and that of his younger brother in London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. The War of the Worlds has two parts, Book One: The Coming of the Martians and Book Two: The Earth under the Martians.</p>
<p>The narrator, a philosophically inclined author, struggles to return to his wife while seeing the Martians lay waste to the southern country outside London. Book One also imparts the experience of his brother, also unnamed, who describes events as they deteriorate in the capital, forcing him to escape the Martian onslaught by boarding a paddle steamer near Tilling ham, on the Essex coast.</p>
<p><strong>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Xl9rMr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kill The Beast</a><br />
by Graham Bradley <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51840CuLcfL.jpg" alt="Kill The Beast" width="222" height="355" /></h2>
<p>In this spoof on a classic fairy tale, village hero Gautier must get past his recent spurning by local heartthrob Robinette, who has gone missing from their French mountain town.</p>
<p>When newcomer Danielle arrives in the middle of the night, claiming to have been attacked in the woods by a giant beast, Gautier sets out to find it and put it down…</p>
<p>…only to learn that Robinette might be involved, and that his love for her might not be true.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">About the Author:</h3>
<p>Graham took up creative writing in the 3rd grade and has pursued it ever since. Alongside his childhood hobby of drawing on any blank sheet of paper he could find, this talent blossomed into his eventual career goal, and his is now an author-illustrator.</p>
<p>Diving headfirst into just about any speculative genre, Graham prefers sci-fi and fantasy, with a focus on machinery and technology. Colorful worlds and aesthetics are a must, and above all, he wants readers to have fun.</p>
<p>Originally from Nevada, Graham lives in the mountain west with his wife and kids.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3AECsJ9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rebel Heart (Engines of Liberty Book 1)</a><br />
by Graham Bradley <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51S6fGIwMoL._PJku-sticker-v7,TopRight,0,-50._SY300_.jpg" alt="Rebel Heart (Engines of Liberty Book 1)" width="222" height="372" /></h2>
<p>For centuries the British Empire has ruled territories the world over, maintaining its grasp on its far-flung colonies by way of magic and brute force. Any successful attempt at rebellion is short-lived, as the rebels do not have the benefit of wizardy on their side.</p>
<p>The most recent attempt at secession happened in the New World in 1776, some two hundred years ago. General George Washington nearly succeeded at rallying his countrymen in a military revolt against the Crown. But disunity and infighting ultimately brought them down, and Washington was executed in a public spectacle.</p>
<p>Most people gave up. But not all.</p>
<p>The cleverest and most driven survivors went to ground. They learned from their mistakes. They planned, they plotted, they tinkered and they toiled. They began to develop new weapons and machines that would level the playing field. With technology at their fingertips, anyone could stand toe-to-toe with a British mage and come off conqueror.</p>
<p>The uprising has been a long time coming. The arsenal is as large as it’s going to get. Now all the “technomancer” army needs is soldiers, young patriots like Calvin Adler, who has had enough of the mages pushing him around.</p>
<p>Freedom beckons, if he will but pay the price in blood, sweat, and tears.</p>
<p>This is the New Revolution.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3hyd1iQ">Which Art In Hope</a></em><br />
<em><a href="https://amzn.to/3hyd1iQ">(Spooner Federation Saga Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51TCDCAwlwL.jpg" width="200" height="272" /></a></em></h2>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">by Francis Porretto</h2>
<p>When the remnant of the anarchist Spooner Federation fled Earth before the genocidal wrath of the States, the fugitives had only the slimmest chance of finding a habitable world orbiting a benign star. Yet 544 years after embarking on their planetoid-ship, they found one that seemed too good to be true. They named it Hope.</p>
<p>Like all things that are too good to be true, Hope isn’t what it seemed.</p>
<p>For 1200 years, a secret Cabal has elevated powerful psi talents to the the management of Hope’s crust, at the eventual cost of their lives. The alternative was a choice between mass death by heavy-metal poisoning and mass death by starvation. But the pool of psi talents has dwindled till only two remain: Armand Morelon, heir apparent to the richest and most prestigious clan on Hope, and Victoria Peterson, a young woman of great beauty and intelligence immured in poverty and abuse. But one is utterly unwilling and the other is murderously insane. And the survival of Mankind hangs in the balance.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3AV0CP6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Freedom’s Scion</a><br />
<a href="https://amzn.to/3AV0CP6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Spooner Federation Saga Book 2)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/817waElGgHL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
by Francis Porretto</h2>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Sequel to Which Art In Hope.</h3>
<p>As they pass from mortal life, Armand and Teresza Morelon, foremost of all the residents of the wholly ungoverned world of Hope, lay a charge upon their granddaughter Althea: to break the lightspeed barrier, travel to Earth, and determine why no radio emissions from the cradle of Mankind have reached Hope since the Spoonerite Hegira. It shapes the young polymath’s life from that moment onward.</p>
<p>Althea spends her young adulthood playing Hope’s equities market, amassing a fortune for her mission. At 30 she falls in love with Martin Forrestal, a genius of another kind. The two are soon married.</p>
<p>Jacksonville is in flux. Armand Morelon had facilitated a mass relocation from the Hopeless peninsula, where Hope’s undesirables had sheltered, to the Jacksonville region. Douglas Kramnik, patriarch of one of the relocated clans, seeks payback for the long-ago diminution of his clan to outcast status. First, he seeks to marry Althea to his son and clan scion Barton. When Morelon matriarch Charisse declines the offer, his resentments swell. They culminate in an attempt to thwart Barton’s betrothal to Althea’s cousin Nora, which elicits an intervention by Althea herself.</p>
<p>Charisse tries but fails to dissuade Althea from going to the stars. Her failure couples to her desire for power, and she begins to scheme. Her attempts to become a local baroness are revealed through a discovery by Patrice Kramnik Morelon of irregularities in the clan’s finances. It costs Charisse her position, but doesn’t end her quest for power.</p>
<p>After Althea and Martin have tested Freedom’s Horizon, a ground-to-orbit spaceplane, Martin presses her with his desire for children. It proves catastrophic: the child is stillborn. The birth leaves Althea in lasting agony. She and Martin are estranged for two years. They reunite after an intervention by Barton and Nora, but the tensions between them have not been dispersed.</p>
<p>Hope’s progress has emphasized biotechnology. Hallanson-Albermayer Corporation develops a medipod capable of healing its owner of virtually any ill. Althea and Martin become the first customers. Althea’s medipod provides her with cover for a telekinetic repair of her damaged nervous system. She’s guided by her “dead” grandfather Armand, who has taught her the use of her psi powers, as great as his own.</p>
<p>Althea and Martin establish an orbital lab on the Relic, the planetoid-ship that ferried the original Spoonerites to Hope. Groundside, Charisse abandons Clan Morelon and her husband Chuck without warning, and isn’t seen again for years. Althea soon discovers a way around the lightspeed limit, and a power source suitable for propelling a starship.</p>
<p>When Althea’s starship Liberty’s Torch is ready for its maiden voyage, she finds an unexpected ally in her desire to leave Martin safely behind: Barton Kramnik Morelon, who rose upon Charisse’s resignation to the Morelon patriarchy. Between them, they persuade Althea’s husband to remain on Hope for the three years of her journey to Eridanus cluster, signals from which hint at intelligent life.</p>
<p>At Eridanus, Althea is greeted by representatives of the Loioc, a humanoid race whose males have been deliberately rendered nonsentient, supposedly to put an end to violence among them. It’s their intention that Althea do the same to the men of Hope. Althea escapes their plot and destroys the space station the Loioc had used to suppress interstellar travel, but is infected with the nanites the Loioc women use to suppress the development of intelligence in men.</p>
<p>Althea returns to the Relic, hoping that her medipod has removed the nanites from her body, and discovers that in her absence, Hope has been visited by the supreme evil the Spoonerites fled Earth to escape: warfare.</p>
<p>To be continued in Freedom’s Fury, the concluding volume of the Spooner Federation trilogy.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3U3KO5p" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Freedom’s Fury</a><br />
<a href="https://amzn.to/3U3KO5p" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Spooner Federation Saga Book 3)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81yVhscPFsL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Francis Porretto</h2>
<p>Althea Morelon has returned from Eridanus cluster. The Loioc have infected her with a self-replicating nanite that destroys the sentience potential of male zygotes, filling her with a lust for vengeance.</p>
<p>But she has more to cope with than just her nanite infection.</p>
<p>Interclan warfare has broken out on Hope.</p>
<p>Though Althea must remain on the Relic until she’s certain she‘s free of the Loioc nanite, only she can save her kin from subjugation. And there’s more and worse to come.</p>
<p>The State is rising again.</p>
<p><em>Freedom’s Fury,</em> the third volume of the <em>Spooner Federation</em> saga, completes the tale of struggle and survival begun in <em>Which Art In Hope</em> and continued in <em>Freedom’s Scion.</em></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3BtY8Zz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chosen One (Realm of Essences Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51jgt1uw9FL.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Francis Porretto</h2>
<p>From his earliest days, Louis Redmond proves to be a prodigy: brilliant, powerful, and great-souled, a trailblazer of the spirit and a natural leader of men.</p>
<p>Armies would follow him into the mouth of Hell.</p>
<p>Yet tragedy dogs his steps, depriving him of family and friends. Hammerblow follows hammerblow, giving him little time to recover.</p>
<p>But Louis is watched over by one who knows all the ways of Man: Malcolm Loughlin, immortal grandmaster of all things martial, who’s trained the world’s great warriors for two millennia.</p>
<p>His wisdom, enough to elevate Louis to the throne of the world, is available to Louis, for a price…</p>
<p>A price even a Titan would shudder to meet.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TLYtxD" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">On Broken Wings (Realm of Essences Book 2)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/4164uVt50xL.jpg" width="199" height="270" /></a><br />
by Francis W. Porretto</h2>
<p>Christine has no memory of her past.</p>
<p>She’s been made a sexual slave by the Butchers, a gang of vicious bikers.</p>
<p>After ten years’ agony, she’s freed herself by committing murder and earning a faceful of hideous scars.</p>
<p>But Tiny, the Butcher king, is obsessed with her.</p>
<p>Her sole chance of escaping him lies in trusting a mysterious young man she’s just met.</p>
<p>She takes a chance, the biggest of her life, on her serendipitous rescuer, and he proves more than equal to the task. But Louis Redmond has a few secrets of his own…and they prove to be just as important to Christine’s future as his intrusion into the horror show her life has been…</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3qncVOY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shadow Of A Sword (Realm of Essences Book 3)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ge9qP6YNL.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Francis Porretto</h2>
<p>Christine D’Alessandro has been away from Onteora County for three years when the death of Helen Davenport draws her back. She is swiftly, albeit unwillingly, enmeshed in a war between two private security companies: Integral Security, owned and operated by Kevin Conway, and Lawrence Security Patrols, owned and operated by Ernest Lawrence, brother to Onteora Chief of Police Raymond Lawrence.</p>
<p>Shortly thereafter, Stephen Sumner, the lieutenant governor of New York, decides to campaign for the presidency of the United States on the Constitutional Party ticket. He approaches Conway about security, and acquires Christine’s services for the duration of his campaign. It proves a fortunate choice: powerful forces are determined to prevent the charismatic and principled Sumner from getting his message to the American people.</p>
<p>Sumner proves to be exactly what the nation, crushed by debt, taxes, and near-totalitarian government, has been looking for. That doesn’t endear him to the powers that be or their supporters. One such supporter, political strategist Adam Zlugy, currently in service to President Walter Coleman, sees an opportunity for himself that his affiliation with Coleman cannot equal.</p>
<p>Malcolm Loughlin, Christine’s old mentor, becomes alert to the multifarious threats to Sumner and Christine. They prove to be of a nature that reaches beyond mere politics…indeed, all the way to the forces that governed the creation of the world.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3qgkzuu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Polymath (Realm of Essences Book 4)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/815vkOcQlAL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Francis Porretto</h2>
<p>Even in his high school years, it was clear to all who knew him that Todd Iverson is special. There are no sciences, no technologies, and no arts he cannot master. There is no field of human endeavor he will leave untouched. He has the power to transform human civilization utterly, and he means to do so.</p>
<p>Todd does have a few little problems. For one, his mother crippled him emotionally by artificially orphaning him, abandoning him to become a nun just after his father’s death. For another, he can’t abide the idea that anyone might be better than he is—at anything. For a third, he might just be a sociopath: the most dangerous sociopath ever to be born among men.</p>
<p>The powers of darkness are aware of him, and they don’t plan to let him work unmolested.</p>
<p>But Todd will not go his way unmentored or unprotected. The most powerful creatures on Earth have resolved to complete his upbringing and bring his strength to fullness:<br />
Malcolm Loughlin.<br />
Christine D’Alessandro.<br />
And Louis Redmond.</p>
<p>Todd will find love and deliberately forsake it.<br />
He will know the most terrible kinds and occasions of loss.<br />
He will enter the world of business, first as an employee, later as an entrepreneur.<br />
And his powers will reach their zenith just as a most improbable figure takes the White House.</p>
<p>For Todd Evelyn Iverson has his eyes on the skies. He has resolved that Man shall leave his species’ womb at long last. As Stephen Graham Sumner and the Constitutional movement rise to prominence, he is preparing to set his foot upon the first rung of a ladder to the stars. It’s a ladder he is uniquely qualified to design and build.</p>
<p>Polymath chronicles the bursting of an Onteora County giant from his chrysalis to spread his wings over the world. It’s the fourth novel of the Realm of Essences series, and begins the story of an American Renaissance.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3KQRy2f" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Statesman (Realm of Essences Book 5)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/918hazhHFEL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="286" /></a><br />
by Francis Porretto</h2>
<p>Stephen Graham Sumner is a lawyer from Onteora County, New York and a descendant of the late William Graham Sumner, one of America’s forgotten great thinkers. We meet Sumner in his mid-thirties: he’s capable and passionate about justice, but his life ambitions are unformed. He becomes general counsel to Onteora Aviation, a defense-industry corporation, and meets those who will mold his ambitions, with particular emphasis on a single figure: Louis Redmond.</p>
<p>In consequence of his reluctant agreement to become the running-mate of the incumbent governor of New York, Sumner develops a vast distaste for what American politics and government have become. Surprised and made optimistic by his unexpected popularity, not merely in New York but throughout the Northeast, he campaigns for and wins the presidency on the Constitutional Party ticket: the first candidate to rise to the White House from a third party since Abraham Lincoln.</p>
<p>Sumner’s presidency is not a tranquil one. Foreign military adventures, provoked by Islamic terrorism, lead to horrifying consequences. These, plus his domestic efforts to return American government to its Constitutional origins and his support for maverick inventor and space enthusiast Todd Iverson’s orbital habitat project, cause the rise of an implacable enemy: Ian McIlvaine, U.S. Senator from California. By dint of brilliant though darkly-motivated tactics, McIlvaine succeeds Sumner in the Oval Office, and contrives a downfall for Sumner that no previous president has had to face.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3zIhj10" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collateral Damage: A Kaiju Thriller<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81l3iDMe1GL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
by Adam Furman</h2>
<p><strong>Destructive Battles Rage Between Hellish Kaiju and Giant Mech Protectors</strong></p>
<p>A desperate father must rescue his son when a deadly kaiju rampages across his city.</p>
<p>When opportunists lurk and buildings crumble around him, the battle might be the least of his worries.</p>
<p>Each minute means more destruction, and the clock is ticking.</p>
<p>The first in a new kaiju series where the ordinary collides with the oversized, Collateral Damage is based on a short story of the same title originally published in Broadswords & Blasters Magazine.</p>
<p>Experience the first taste of this series with a punch to the gut.</p>
<p>Mind the shadows — you could be crushed.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3NXxPyn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Fugitive Heir: Matt & Michelle Book 1<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81G3aEKrzmL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
by Henry Vogel</h2>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em>“My parents are not dead!”</em></strong></h4>
<p>Everyone thinks I’m in denial, and have been ever since my parents vanished seven years ago. Everyone thinks I should just shut up and accept the vast inheritance coming my way. Everyone <em>thinks </em>I should let it go and get on with my life.</p>
<p>Everyone is wrong. I know my parents are still alive—but if I reveal how I know, I’ll be drafted into Psi Corps.</p>
<p>My inheritance can fund my search for them. I didn’t count on deadly opposition from the board of the very company I’m about to inherit. There are powerful people involved who will go to any lengths to protect their dark secrets and silence me forever, but these people don’t know about my three wildcards: my rebuilt spaceship, my best friend (who is also my bodyguard), and the psychic powers I’ve kept secret my entire life.</p>
<p>My parents are alive, and I’m going to find them and save them—<em>whatever it takes</em>.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/39q8WfN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Scout’s Honor: A Sword & Planet Adventure<br />
(Scout Series Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81y2ulLyrbL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
by Henry Vogel</h2>
<p>After crash landing on a long-lost colony world, Terran Scout David Rice’s life got really tough.</p>
<p>Thrown from the space age to the steam age in the blink of an eye, David is drawn into a desperate battle to save the beautiful Princess Callan from treacherous air pirates and ruthless slavers. Trapped in a world of clashing swords, brutal savages, royal machinations, and desperate rescues, David’s greatest battle is against his growing feelings for the betrothed Princess. With her life and the fate of two kingdoms hanging in the balance, which will David choose: love or honor?</p>
<p>Told in a relentlessly fast-paced style, Scout’s Honor is an exciting homage to the classic tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett, as well as the cliffhanger-driven energy of the early science fiction movie serials. If you long for honorable heroes and feisty heroines, treacherous villains and loyal companions, get Scout’s Honor and join David’s journey.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3VfYNof" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Recognition Run<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81GvWoZzh9L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
by Henry Vogel</h2>
<p>Jeanine is on the run from someone very powerful.</p>
<p>She doesn’t know who wants her dead, or why.</p>
<p>She only knows they have already killed her family, and if they catch her, she’s next.</p>
<p>Drake’s family was in the wrong place at the wrong time.</p>
<p>Now, he drifts from spaceport to spaceport, searching for cargo and running from the grief he can never escape.</p>
<p>When Jeanine barrels into Drake’s life, he must push aside his grief and run with her.</p>
<p>But time is not their ally.</p>
<p>When they cannot run from their enemies, Jeanine’s and Drake’s only hope is to run toward those enemies.</p>
<p>Their only hope is to make The Recognition Run.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3NeC7Cv" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The First Knight (Flavius Stilicho Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81gRVdAH8FL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Dennis Garcia</h2>
<p>It’s hard to be a man of honor when the Emperor wants you dead.</p>
<p>Flavius Stilicho’s quiet provincial life ended the day he was called up to the Emperor’s Own Proctectores, who served both as bodyguards at official functions and as a pool of junior officers for the most prestigious military positions in the Empire. Here, he grew close to the children of Rome’s greatest people, including the barbarian prince Alaric, and fell in love with Serena, the lovely adopted daughter of the Emperor Theodosius.</p>
<p>When Stilicho and his companions foil an attempt on the Emperor’s life, he boldly asks for Serena’s hand in marriage as a reward. The Emperor, to escape this quandary, poses an impossible task for Stilicho as a prerequisite: he would be the Emperor’s plenipotentary, a special ambassador holding the powers of the Emperor himself in bargaining with other nations, and he would bring home a peace treaty with alien and treacherous Persia, Rome’s greatest enemy and rival. While he would be well-provisioned and encouraged to bring a small detachment of men for protection and support, Stilicho’s courage, honor, and skill with diplomacy would determine his success or failure.</p>
<p>But first Stilicho had to survive months of travel through the most dangerous lands on the edges of the Roman Empire, where the Pax Romana had long since broken down. Worse, his own close-knit circle of friends begins to fall apart as it becomes clear that the goals of some diverge from Rome’s well-being.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3PkycXy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Innocent Spouse<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/610syLj9mvL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Leonard Getz</h2>
<p>Being an IRS agent isn’t all fun and games. Mostly it’s downright dull, and that suits agent Ivan Samuels just fine. Sure, there was that time he’d found illegal gambling and organized crime when he audited a restaurant, but that was an anomaly. He was happy quietly pursuing tax cheats in court, dating his tax lawyer girlfriend Alice, and raising his college-student daughter Liz.</p>
<p>But no. Somehow he acquired an assistant and trainee, the chirpy and cheerful Keisha, and a new case: investigating the <em>Philadelphia Times</em>, ostensibly for taxes but secretly looking for leads that the FBI could pursue. And then a dead body turns up – Liz’s dear friend and a star reporter for the <em>Times</em>.</p>
<p>Pursuing leads from the archives and stacks of the <em>Times </em>seemed less important than supporting Liz or dealing with his stubborn, independent father Harold’s heart condition from thousands of miles away – until it becomes clear that the body, the <em>Times</em>, and Islamic terrorism are all interconnected. Now Ivan must figure out the links before tragedy strikes.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XdngN6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Flip<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61RHWEtrZJL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Steve Stinson</h2>
<p>What happens when you take both roads?</p>
<p>Young Matt Andrews knew right from wrong. He just had a habit of sliding into wrong – until one wrong step forced him to make a man’s choice.</p>
<p>The wrong one, of course.</p>
<p>One man heals him, sets him straight, and launches him into a well-lived life. One woman loves him, giving him the perfect backdrop of a warm home, happy children, and a nurturing retreat to complement his successful career as a cartoonist.</p>
<p>Then, FLIP.</p>
<p>A spinning coin carelessly tossed by a mysterious traveler forces Matt to revisit the life of fame and fortune he would have lived – the family he would have had – and the daughter he betrayed. He learns to love them, then</p>
<p>FLIP.</p>
<p>Back and forth between present and present, Matt endures a bewildering and agonizing journey – not toward redemption, but to learn what redemption truly is, AND TO DISCOVER THE MEANING OF THOU.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3ieQo6w" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chasing Freedom<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/818Zs67hAGL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a></em><br />
by Marina Fontaine</h2>
<p><em>The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. — Thomas Jefferson</em></p>
<p><strong>It started with love.</strong></p>
<p>The love of a young man for his Julie; the love of a mother for her doomed daughter; the love and sacrifice of an orphaned brother for his kid sister. No force in the world, even that of a totalitarian nanny-state, can erase the power of love.</p>
<p><strong>It became a movement.</strong></p>
<p>With the youthful and charismatic energy of lovers Randy and Julie at the core, dissident freedom-loving groups come together. From outright rebels to smugglers, from gay-rights groups to Christian congregations, they all recognized a common purpose: the reignition of freedom.</p>
<p><strong>It ended in blood — and hope.</strong></p>
<p>Julie’s rebels identify key weaknesses in the government structure that can be exploited, given time, skill, and luck. But the government has lost patience with the dissidents, brutally cracking down on freedom-fighters and ordinary citizens alike in its efforts to exert full control. With the government growing ever closer to uncovering the secrets of the alliance, will Julie and Randy be able to hold off annihilation long enough to emerge victorious?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3PCsHDR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Product<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81+ScZBHacL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="301" /></a><br />
by Marina Fontaine</h2>
<p>The Product. It’s addictive, seductive, mind-altering, life-changing. Dangerous. Deadly, even. Your friendly local government wants to protect you from all dangerous things, so those dealing the Product are persecuted to the fullest extent of the law – public beatings, brutal mishandling, and ultimately permanent psychological reprogramming or death.</p>
<p>If you’re a dealer and they see you, you run. Capture is not an option.</p>
<p>Kevin got caught. His girlfriend Lily knows it. Now her only goal is to help him escape, and to do that, she must enter the underworld formed around the Product. They might say no. They might even kill her. And even if the rescue succeeds, Lily needs to choose: stay in her safe, Government-protected life or join Kevin as a hunted fugitive or in the dangerous freedom of the Outers.</p>
<p>But first, they have to make it through the day.</p>
<p><strong>What Reviewers Say:</strong></p>
<p>“There is a hardness to the setting and the ideas here that is reminiscent of Ayn Rand.” – Jeffro Johnson</p>
<p>“. . . a well-paced, descriptive offering. . . I recommend it to anyone who is looking for fiction from the Superversive movement.” – Dave Truesdale</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3N7Sh0s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jonah: A Novel of Men and the Sea<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91draqCfKHL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="318" /><br />
</a>(Wild Ocean Book 1)<br />
by Howard Butcher</h2>
<p>Jonah, an apprentice oil field diver, is partnered with Seed, a parolee from Angola, Louisiana’s notorious maximum security prison.</p>
<p>The two strangers work in the brutal and exotic offshore world of the Gulf of Mexico.</p>
<p>An accident enrages Seed, and his shocking retaliation starts a blood feud. Roughnecks and Riggers across the Gulf want retribution against Jonah’s dive team.</p>
<p>Every assignment sends Jonah farther out to deeper and more dangerous jobs.</p>
<p>Topside, he must fight to survive the worst that men can do, while undersea he works in a surreal world where every breath can bring death, the night ocean lights up with bioluminescence, and giant predators hunt.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">About the Author</h3>
<p>Howard Butcher has worked as a shark researcher in the Caribbean Sea, apprentice commercial diver in the Gulf of Mexico, and as the manager of a horse farm in the San Juan Mountains. Apart from his Wild Ocean sea thrillers, his other works include a children’s book that is also an animated show, The Dancing Pumpkin and The Ogre’s Plot, which is available on Amazon Prime. Today he teaches high school English and lives in Colorado with his wife and children.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3EUEwPN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kill Sequence<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61bUYWEe4nL._SL1350_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Steve Griffiths</h2>
<p>After the trauma of his wife Liz’s murder, Shawn Nash wanted vengeance.</p>
<p>He never expected to be hunted.</p>
<p>A stranger’s knock at his door plunges Shawn into a strange underworld of digital espionage, false identities, and violent mayhem.</p>
<p>His mysterious benefactor Michael seems to be equal parts guardian angel and trickster, and Shawn has a growing awareness of connection with something else in his mind.</p>
<p>Hunted by hitmen, haunted by memories, and hidden from digital surveillance, Shawn must discover what really happened the night his wife died — and then find a way to save the world from the monster she inadvertently created.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Njmxp8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Minutegirls<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91PprCXyekL._SL1500_.jpg" width="199" height="298" /></a><br />
by George Phillies (Author), Cedar Sanderson (Illustrator)</h2>
<p>Massive space battles! Desperate hand-to-hand combat! Politics! Hot babes with guns!</p>
<p>Minutegirls… Nice young women who just want some good clean fun with power armor, plenty of high explosives, and a few cute Minuteboys.</p>
<p>It is 2174. From the hills of American Manchuria to the depths of Outer Space. America’s Girl Militia battles Franco-German treachery to shield the American Stellar Republic.</p>
<p>Second edition with author’s revisions.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">About the Author:</h3>
<p>I retired from being a physics professor in order to write. I’ve been doing that my whole life. 170 scientific papers, more single-author than not. and more than two dozen books. Now I can write full time. My current novels in progress include Academician (Adara volume 2), Of Breaking Waves (Eclipse volume 4), Tales of the Anglic Union Astrographic Service, and Phenomenology of Polymeric Fluid Simulations.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/45VUtzV">Practical Exercise<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/815iwiPxyQL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="296" /></a><br />
by George Phillies</h2>
<p>Adara Triskittenion has been admitted to the school of her dreams, Dorrance Academy, the premier magical research university of the Commonality of the Timeless. Her objective: Become a faculty member and stay forever. Her family, House Triskittenion, the Hall of the Three Kittens, still has claims on her time. For most of the year she has books to read, courses to ace, but first that trivial test of combat magic skill, the Practical Exercise.</p>
<p>Readers are perhaps familiar with fictional magical academies allegedly modeled after English Public (meaning private, boarding) Schools. Dorrance Academy is not one of these places. Dorrance resembles an American research university, except that the ‘science’ majors are fields of sorcery.</p>
<p>A minor authorial aside: As it happens, your author is also a research scientist, a retired physics professor. Once upon a time, many decades ago. I was a student at America’s Dorrance Academy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I have woven into the tale a fair piece of advice on how to succeed at such a school. If you are headed off to such a place, please keep my advice in mind. You may correctly assume that some of the modest vignettes are lightly disguised real occurrences, including ‘construction line’ and ‘personal self-aggrandizement’.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/4629ccL">Eclipse: The Girl Who Saved the World (Eclipse — the Girl Who Saved the World Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81qsm4uhOQL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="298" /></a><br />
by George Phillies (Author), Brad Fraunfelter (Illustrator)</h2>
<p>Eclipse —<br />
World’s Greatest Tween Superhero<br />
World’s Most Terrifying Tween Supervillain<br />
Opinions differ.<br />
She’s caring, daring, deadly<br />
…and here to save the world<br />
whether it likes it or not.</p>
<p>Meet Eclipse.</p>
<p>She’s twelve. She’s hardworking, bright, self-reliant, good with tools, vigorously physically fit, tough as nails, still young enough to disguise herself as a boy. She’s also a persona: She flies, reads minds, and is not afraid of necessary violence.</p>
<p>She had a bit of a problem with her mom. Her mom threw her out of the house. Then Mom blew up the house and disappeared.</p>
<p>Now she’s procured the Holy Namestone, the Key to Paradise. And everyone in the world will be happy to kill her to get their hands on it.</p>
<p>Meet Trisha.</p>
<p>She’s not quite a year older than Eclipse. She’s friendly, considerate, really good in school, athletic, does more than her share around the house. She’s also a persona. She has superspeed…an hour of housework in a minute. She flies, including from here to the next galaxy in an hour.</p>
<p>She also has a bit of a problem with her parents. They always treat her with complete contempt, totally grounded her, and won’t say why.</p>
<p>Her brother and sister are personas, too. Year-younger sister Janie is a budding world chess and go champion. She also reads minds, sees distant events, and can kill with a glance. Her twin brother Brian is incredibly good with tools, builds fantastic models from scratch, has a nearly unbreakable force field, and summons plasma beams that cut battleships in half.</p>
<p>Eclipse is Volume 1 of the This Shining Sea series. Volume 2, Airy Castles All Ablaze, will be a major rewrite of my much older novel This Shining Sea. There will be a Volume 3, Stand Against the Light, and a Volume 4, Of Breaking Waves, because Eclipse still needs to save Spindrift from having died.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3i6fF2H" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shoot the Devil<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81BZO03I5bL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
by N.R. LaPoint, Steven G. Johnson, James Pyles, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Daniel Humphreys, Declan Finn, Russell Newquist, John C. Wright, Corey Comstock, and Michael Gallagher</h2>
<p>Ten of superversive’s finest team up to bring you tales from a serial killer’s basement, to the weird west, to the average small town, all featuring “mostly” ordinary men and women fighting back against the forces of darkness.</p>
<p><strong>Review:</strong> A collection varied in style from hauntingly beautiful, to high octane action, all mix with a common theme, overcoming evil. The stories can all be read on their own but some involve characters with an establish history and previous stories. Every story is at least very good and several are excellent, like John C. Wright’s contribution. Overall its a great read and I would recommend to anyone who wants stories that are gritty and real but with a positive message showing human courage.</p>
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<h2 id="block-b766e972-b1a4-4512-810b-dda1477259c0" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3hHR52N"><em>Let Sleeping Gods Lie: A Lovecraftian Gods Horror Story</em></a><br />
<a href="https://amzn.to/3hHR52N"><em>(Cowboys & Cthulhu Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/816wbbdd6PL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></em></a><br />
by David J. West</h2>
<p id="block-c07f00d9-2109-4870-9846-bc789053416a"><strong><em>Louis L’Amour Meets Lovecraft</em></strong></p>
<p id="block-c0bc2a57-71e2-4072-a591-1129534617a8">Porter Rockwell, wanted for a murder he did not commit, is hiding out in Old California selling whiskey to thirsty forty-niners. When his friends dig up some monstrous bones and a peculiar book and offer to sell it for a helluva price, Porter can’t resist the mystery.</p>
<p id="block-bf5d8b31-7fb1-4712-a0b1-32809348ad5a">But when both his night bartender and the sellers are murdered at his saloon Porter has to find out what the mysterious artifacts are all about. With some Native American legends, Sasquatch, Lovecraftian horror, and murderous bandits thrown in, not even bullets and blades can stop Rockwell from leaving a swath of righteous carnage in his wake.</p>
<p id="block-4d1ebd63-d7ab-450f-9416-64359658a6f9"><strong><em>Let Sleeping Gods Lie</em></strong> is a weird western fantasy in the vein of classic pulp fiction and Louis L’Amour books. If you like frontier justice, larger-than-life characters, and witty humor, then you will LOVE the first installment of the Cowboys and Cthulhu series.</p>
<p><strong><em>Buy Let Sleeping Gods Lie to get lost in a horrific weird western adventure today!</em></strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2RaYYDN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em><strong>In My Time of Dying<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91DJ9do4SQL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></strong></em></a> (#Savant Book 1)<br />
by David J. West</h2>
<p>A young woman seeking arcane knowledge. A saint of killers riding shotgun. And an immortal who wants to die… all aboard a runaway train.…</p>
<p>Elizabeth Dee never expected a knock at the door would have her taking sides in a power struggle between two feuding wizards, but she discovers that she is the magical key to a cursed mystery centuries old. As she evades the murderous knights and demonic minions of the sinister Count of St. Germain, she learns more of her own true power and legacy…Her father never prepared her for anything like this…</p>
<p>But it’s dangerous to go it alone and she is going to need some protection, enter the infamous and touched, Porter Rockwell. If the legendary long-haired gunfighter can’t keep her safe, no one can…</p>
<p>In My Time Of Dying is full steam ahead gas-lamp fantasy in the vein of True Grit meets The Prestige. If you like big action, larger-than-life characters, and witty humor, then you’ll love David J. West’s gripping novel.</p>
<p>Buy <strong><em>In My Time Of Dying</em></strong> to get lost in a thrilling occult adventure today!!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3yE38XR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>IRON MAIDEN: An Epic Fantasy Adventure</em></a><br />
<a href="https://amzn.to/3yE38XR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>(The Iron Testament Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91QaOmdI2YL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="309" /></em></a><br />
by James Alderdice</h2>
<p><strong><em>You can take the girl out of the dragon, but you can’t take the dragon out of the girl…</em></strong></p>
<p>Aisha has the blood of dragons in her veins, but its only ever brought pain and hardship despite giving her incredible powers. Now she wants to serve her country and atone for past sins but things never go how they should. When she rides into the borderlands, she finds a treasure map to the legendary graveyard of dragons. She doubts the hoard of treasure truly exists, but everyone else from bandits to invading armies and even a lusty princess want to get their hands on the map. As Aisha unwillingly begins her quest, she’s not surprised when the blood begins to flow…</p>
<p>The journey will take her across a cursed landscape brimming with foul sorceries and terrible monsters. The promise of both treasure and revenge is irresistible. Surrounded by bloodthirsty enemies, can she survive and claim her reward?…</p>
<p><em>IRON MAIDEN</em> is an action-packed fantasy in the vein of classic pulp fantasy and rip-roaring eighties movies. If you like desperate battles, larger-than-life characters, and black humor, then you’ll love James Alderdice’s epic tale.</p>
<p><strong><em>Buy IRON MAIDEN to join a sword and sorcery fantasy today!</em></strong></p>
<p>This book was previously published as Sowing Dragon Teeth, this is an updated version.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3z6t3q7"><em>BRUTAL: A Sword & Sorcery Fantasy (THE BRUTAL SWORD SAGA Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91w3C2g3c+L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="318" /></em></a><br />
by James Alderdice</h2>
<p><strong>He has no name. His past is a mystery. His future is etched in blood…</strong></p>
<p>The Sellsword knows an opportunity when he sees one. When he rides into the border city of Aldreth, he can tell that the power struggle between two feuding wizards needs a solitary spark to ignite into all-out-war. As he sets the corrupt paladins and demonic adepts against each other, he’s not surprised when the blood begins to flow…</p>
<p>But after the alluring duchess catches his eye, the Sellsword puts himself in harm’s way to protect her and the innocent people of Aldreth. To save the noble few, spells and blades won’t stop the Sellsword from leaving a swath of righteous carnage in his wake…</p>
<p><em>Brutal</em> is an action-packed grimdark fantasy in the vein of classic pulp fiction and Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns. If you like gory battles, larger-than-life characters, and witty humor, then you’ll love James Alderdice’s gritty tale.</p>
<p><strong>Buy <em>Brutal</em> to get lost in a bloody sword and sorcery adventure today!</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3NYOOk7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tales of the Blade: Heroic Fantasy Short Stories<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91i6PDutqiL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by James Alderdice</h2>
<p>Tales of the Blade collects 9 heroic fantasy tales previously published by James Alderdice/David J. West. Take the weird adventure and journey to eldritch temples and witness strange rites among the barbaric splendor of elder days. Follow brave warriors and daring thieves as they defy the grip of monsters, wizards and terrible gods. Sword and sorcery is alive once more.</p>
<p><em>Tales of the Blade</em> is an action-packed heroic fantasy collection in the vein of classic pulp fiction and old school D&D. If you like gory battles, larger-than-life characters, and witty humor, then you’ll love James Alderdice’s heroic fantasy stories.Buy <em>Tales of the Blade</em> to get lost in a heroic sword and sorcery adventure today!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Z6Na6q" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3Z6Na6q">Silence and Starsong Magazine:<br />
Spring 2023, Volume 1 Number 1<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61fzKfs-XDL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="318" /></a><br />
by Joseph Knowles, Frederick Heimbach, & 8 more</h2>
<p>The inaugural issue of Silence and Starsong Magazine contains stories in a variety of genres from science fiction and horror to fantasy and action/adventure. There are authors you already know and love as well as promising newcomers. All share a common goal: to inspire wonder and awe through stories of high strangeness and other modern fairytales for grown-ups.</p>
<p><strong>A Matter of Honor by Jason McCuiston</strong></p>
<p><em>Decades of religious war have forced friends and foes under one roof for the night. Will bonds of friendship and fragments of a common faith be enough to protect them from a supernatural enemy?</em></p>
<p><strong>A Wanderer of Ur by Gaston Nerval</strong></p>
<p><em>Long ago, much more easily did strange beings pass through the veil between earth and heaven. Thark ventures into the wilderness, seeking out the terrors that cause the cities to tremble.</em></p>
<p><strong>Archangel by </strong><strong>Frederick Gero Heimbach</strong></p>
<p><em>American missile silos promise annihilation by the heat of a thousand suns. In Czarist Russia, however, even more sinister weapons lurk beneath the ocean</em>.</p>
<p><strong>The Two Godly Fishmongers: A Tale of Strange Providences by Kevin White</strong></p>
<p><em>In Merrie Olde England, two feuding fishmongers encounter a strange providence that takes them beyond their earthly sphere. As they break from their everyday affairs will they also break off their quarrel?</em></p>
<p><strong>Free Lunch by S. Kirk Pierzchala</strong></p>
<p><em>Sally knows that the most crucial part of dealing with the uncanny is: don’t eat mystery food. Free meals may have strange strings attached.</em></p>
<p><strong>Have Ye Offered Unto Me by Zachary Grafman</strong></p>
<p><em>The day-to-day life of an academic is accompanied by worries that seem mundane to most of us. Yet, what is discussed in the lecture hall or inscribed in dusty tomes, does not always remain in the realm of speculation.</em></p>
<p><strong>The Gamer by Nathan Karnes</strong></p>
<p><em>The gamer had frequented dull locales in the past, but rarely so mundane as this. This was dangerous. In his profession it was almost guaranteed that something exciting would happen about the same time that he carried out his business</em>.</p>
<p><strong>The Secret of Phelim Darke by S. Kirk Pierzchala</strong></p>
<p><em>All the gurus will say that “communication is key” for married couples. For some couples, however, the secrets between them are almost beyond imagination</em>.</p>
<p><strong>The Shadow of the Stain by Patrick Lauser</strong></p>
<p><em>Two sisters discover the heavy cost that comes from deeds carried out in secret. What’s done in the dark will inevitably be brought into the light.</em></p>
<p><strong>Hidden Empire by T.R. Alexander</strong></p>
<p><em>In the world of espionage and counterintelligence, the men who secretly guide the ships of state will take whatever advantages they can get. When Joseph Cartwright is dispatched to CIA headquarters, he discovers just how far the agency is willing to go.</em></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3qTu3jD" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Time Traders</a></strong></em><br />
by Andre Norton<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://imgs.search.brave.com/KFDRXUrvFabEkADeAMKyFj-5Ui4EGSDXwn-X3QOZgps/rs:fit:560:320:1/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly91cGxv/YWQud2lraW1lZGlh/Lm9yZy93aWtpcGVk/aWEvZW4vdGh1bWIv/My8zMi9UaGVUaW1l/VHJhZGVycy5qcGcv/NTEycHgtVGhlVGlt/ZVRyYWRlcnMuanBn" width="229" height="347" /></h2>
<p><strong>DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIME</strong><br />
Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA’s greatest adversary on the world stage is sending its agents back through time! And someone or something unknown to our history is presenting them with technologies—and weapons—far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition’s ancient source . . . and take it down.</p>
<p>When small-time criminal Ross Murdock and Apache rancher Travis Fox stumble separately onto America’s secret time travel project, Operation Retrograde, they are faced with a challenge greater than either could have imagined possible. Their mere presence means that they know too much to go free. But Murdock and Fox have a thirst for adventure, and Operation Retrograde offers that in spades.</p>
<p>Both men will become time agents, finding reserves of inner heroism they had never expected. Their journeys will take the battle to the enemy, from ancient Britain to prehistoric America, and finally to the farthest reaches of interstellar space.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3syeZYS" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3syeZYS">Swords and Maidens: Eleven Tales of Chivalry and Valor<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81KAJkfk0vL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by N.R. LaPoint (Author), Declan Finn (Author), L. Jagi Lamplighter (Author), Michael Gallagher (Author), & 7 more</h2>
<p>From magic battlefields where horses fear to tread, to flying fortresses, fantastical otherworlds, a planet infested with eldritch abominations, and lands ruled by fear, heroes will fight for what is worth fighting for. Knights in gleaming armor, soldiers, Middle Earth’s most deadly Elvish assassin, hunters, and kings. All will risk their lives to defend the defenseless, to destroy monsters, to preserve the lives and honor of fair maidens.</p>
<p>See a soldier fight to rescue a besieged princess from marauding, magitech barbarians, an immortal knight fight for a farmstead, a husband and wife fight for the honor of a fallen comrade against a deadly dragon, a hunter seek to recover a maiden’s stolen soul, an elf defend a woman from assassins, a deposed king fight for his kingdom, and more!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/47XNckW" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/47XNckW">Death Planet (Dinosaur Warfare Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91sfjPakhLL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="299" /></a><br />
by N.R. LaPoint</h2>
<p>The Vidarian scourge has swept through many star systems,<br />
killing and enslaving in an endless invasion.</p>
<p>When his home world is targeted, Ambrose Weaver flees with a crew of exiles.<br />
Hunted down and forced to crash land on the mysterious planet Typhon,<br />
they soon find their escape from sure death<br />
has only led them to new troubles and prehistoric dangers.</p>
<p>The dinosaurs are only the beginning.</p>
<p>Can Ambrose and his crew brave primeval jungles<br />
and survive a planet filled with horror?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xQ1HHA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chalk (Raven Mistcreek Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/714VYXpwXsL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="322" /></a><br />
by N.R. LaPoint</h2>
<p>Catholic schoolgirl Raven Mistcreek has no memory.</p>
<p>Her family is missing, her home is gone, and she is being hunted by monsters.</p>
<p>Why do demonic forces want her dead?</p>
<p>Is her family still alive?</p>
<p>And why do her chalk drawings become real?</p>
<p>Across the Qualitative Continuum, levels of reality are sinking lower.</p>
<p>A colossal terror lies sleeping. Waiting.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3RyCVCA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Gun Magus</a><br />
by N.R. LaPoint<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/GunMagus.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5609 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/GunMagus.webp" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/GunMagus.webp 331w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/GunMagus-199x300.webp 199w" alt="" width="238" height="359" /></a></h2>
<p><strong>Low on luck, but not ammo</strong></p>
<p>The last thing Kenneth Jericho needed was<br />
a gunfight and car chase with human traffickers.<br />
What started as a bad morning only got worse.</p>
<p>A flash of light sends Ken to a strange world<br />
filled with magic, hideous monsters, beautiful women,<br />
and seemingly unlimited ammo.</p>
<p>With pistol in hand,<br />
Ken is thrown into a race against time<br />
to stop a local ganglord’s reign of terror.<br />
But is the thug the brains behind the violence,<br />
or is someone – or something – else<br />
pulling his strings?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3AF8uVn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">PNW Affliction 1: Recycled<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61FJXBmKAAL._SL1429_.jpg" width="200" height="286" /> </a><br />
by Chance Paladin</h2>
<p>This is the first book in the PNW Affliction series, book #1.</p>
<p>In my opinion the best place to start, because the story starts out small and contained before opening up into the shared story in the subsequent books.</p>
<p>Story:<br />
Our hero finds himself away from his home the eve of the collapse, trying to figure out what’s going on and unable to make it back.</p>
<p>Can he find a place to shelter in the darkness before he freezes in the cold, quiet night?</p>
<p>Pacific Northwest Affliction 1: Recycled<br />
PNW Affliction book #1: Recycled</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pm2MP1">365 Infantry: The 2022 Collection<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71n0Q+wuhML._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="260" /></a><br />
by Jacob Calta (Author, Editor), Kevin Jacob (Illustrator), Alexander Hellene (Editor)</h2>
<p><strong><em>“This is a man who has a vision…to bring fun back into your life by any means. Trust me, this is someone you’ll be seeing a lot of in the years to come!” – </em>J.D. Cowan, author of <em>The Last Fanatics</em> and <em>The Pulp Mindset</em></strong></p>
<p>For the brave wolven warriors of the 365th Infantry, the fight against the strange creations of the sentient computer A.C.E.S. is a nonstop war for the freedom of the Wastelands and those in the heart of the distorted metropolis Haven. A war of nerves, a war of force, and a war waged in denim, leather, & chrome.</p>
<p>Creator Jacob Calta takes readers on a fantastic journey into a savage world, a post-apocalyptic circus that is as much a celebration of classic science fiction as it is a salute to hot rods, chopped hogs, and heavy metal, all with a unique and stylish vision from the multi-talented author, composer, and filmmaker. Enjoy 25 exciting tales across multiple series within the setting, including a brand-new spy thriller NEVER BEFORE RELEASED! Hop in and hang on for the most savage hounds this side of the Bomb.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3fDVrYU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Franklin Pierce in Death of a Vice President<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91ky-oJ+w1L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="304" /></em></a><br />
by Eric M. Hamilton</h2>
<p>Madness, murder, and mystery permeates throughout this Edgar Allan Poe-inspired thriller!</p>
<p>It is early April 1853.</p>
<p>Franklin Pierce, the newly elected President of the United States, has suffered the greatest personal tragedy of his life, plunging him into a depression fueled madness.</p>
<p>The Vice President, William King, unexpectedly appears at the White House in the middle of the night having overheard details of an international assassination conspiracy that threatens both King and Pierce. Unfortunately, Vice President King is killed without any clue as to who could have done it.</p>
<p>Can President Franklin Pierce overcome his personal demons and discover who killed the Vice President before they kill him too?</p>
<p><em>Franklin Pierce in Death of a Vice President</em> is a thrilling psychological horror, starring the president from the 1850’s you forgot in 4th Grade. It’s an exciting read, and you don’t have to be familiar with Franklin Pierce at all to enjoy the story (in fact, it may be a better story if you go in knowing almost nothing). This is perfect for the American history-buff and “normal people” alike!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3yDCcYj" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Through the Lichgate<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91NEDtHezTL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="309" /></a></em><br />
by Kyle Adams</h2>
<p>Thana Ayers is a part-time necromancer, the undefeated defender of Green Grove Cemetery.</p>
<p>She commands small armies of the dead to repel worse abominations, and still manages club meetings, homework assignments, and church services.</p>
<p>It’s a balancing act, but hey, the dead don’t raise themselves. Right?</p>
<p>Thana’s act is turned on its head when a new breed of monster shows up.</p>
<p>He’s got necromantic powers and secrets she’s never seen before, but he’s not after the power of the gate.</p>
<p>He knows Thana’s name, and he’s coming for her.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xpTmZE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Illusion of Grandeur<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81MXEKc89sL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="307" /></a><br />
(The Drama Club Presents Book 2)<br />
by Kyle Adams</h2>
<p>High-schooler Pierre Chastain, surly hobbyist and shady dealer, secretly holds the power of illusions. With it, he controls perception and bends reality to his will. He is a god among men, or at least he was until he discovered he was not alone.</p>
<p>The girl who can animate the dead was only the first to appear. Many more magic-users of all types reveal themselves–illusionists, summoners, kids who can see the future, and entire agencies with nefarious goals. They all seek to exploit Pierre’s talents in their schemes. Little do they know he has schemes of his own.</p>
<p>Pierre only has one chance to break free from these meddlesome jerks, a dangerous magic heist that could help him ascend to godhood– but it requires betraying everyone who cares about him.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ulsN4c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>An Inconvenient Presidency<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91pFppFMLjL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="304" /></em></a><br />
by Eric M. Hamilton</h2>
<p><strong>“It’s almost too funny!”</strong></p>
<p><em>On January 20, 2001, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. became the 43rd President of the United States for the second time…</em></p>
<p>Newly elected President Al Gore is given a mysterious device that allows his mind to travel back in time and relive his presidency. He needs it, too! There is always some disaster forcing him to start over. Soon, the time-traveling President begins to suspect there’s more going on with this device than he first suspected.</p>
<p>Read the hilarious story of the President that never was, and discover why history turned out different.</p>
<p><strong>“I started reading and couldn’t stop! What a clever story!”</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3zGgCp9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Thor vs. the Valkyries<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81WAbX+YitL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="292" /></a><br />
by Paul Hair</h2>
<p>No one ever accused Thor of being the silent type.</p>
<p>But he’s a man of few words when a group of Valkyries seize his palace, launch a coup against Asgard, and make his Lady Sif their slave.</p>
<p>With none of Thor’s allies nearby, the Valkyries vow to crush him before they conquer everything else.</p>
<p>Yet surrender never crosses his mind and he rushes headlong into the fight.</p>
<p>Packed with action and drama, “Thor vs. the Valkyries” is a quick tale of treachery and retribution, with an ending that will leave you smiling . . .</p>
<p>…or with your jaw hanging</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pi5BlC" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ice<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71DfgcerPYL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="319" /></a><br />
by James Pyles</h2>
<p>In eons past, the armies of Surtur the fire goddess and Ymir the frost giant waged an unceasing battle for dominance over the Earth. For all those ages, they maintained an uneasy but enduring balance. Then humanity rose from the mud, and with the passage of time, came to fear fire more than ice, devoting their own meager forces to the conflict. Not to be denied, Surtur beat back both mortals and giants, consigning the planet to unrelenting heat and the ice lords to seeming oblivion. Before leaving the material realm, in jest she gave humanity the gift of magic and the curse of the return of dragons.</p>
<p>For thousands of years thereafter, the race of people knew nothing but a world without ice. Spanning the globe in sailing ships, the humans continued to thrive and remembered not the distant past. Then Captain Ki-Moon Yong of the Oceanic Trading Company vessel the Star of Jindo is assigned the task of solving the most profound mystery ever encountered. Another ship has gone missing and her only remaining crewman suddenly commits suicide after visiting the sunken continent of Antarctica. All of the dinosaur species of the south have gone mad, invading the guarded towns and cities on their way north, as if to escape some monstrous terror.</p>
<p>The answers to these enigmas all lie on the continent at the bottom of the world, and Captain Moon must take the Star to a strange research facility to discover them. But once there, he is confronted with a truth so profound and so nightmarish that it will change the very nature of reality. Can the Star of Jindo escape the inevitable in time to warn an unbelieving world of that truth, or will they be consumed in frozen horror?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Er4TvA" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3Er4TvA">Sleeper Agent<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91OlybV9AjL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="319" /></a><br />
by M. Anthony Harris (Author)</h2>
<p>Stephen Matthews is the perfect spy. He just doesn’t know it.</p>
<p>Stephen always thought that his dreams were just that, only dreams.</p>
<p>What he hasn’t yet realized is that when he sleeps, he has the ability to see through the eyes of others around him.</p>
<p>Soon Stephen is approached by a mysterious research center that wishes to unlock the limits of human potential by harnessing the powers of lucid dreaming.</p>
<p>What Stephen doesn’t know though, is that there’s hidden depths to their research. He’s being bred to be the perfect spy.</p>
<p>A true sleeper agent.</p>
<p>Now thrust into a world of violence and terrorism, Stephen must quickly learn to harness his power if he wishes to save his own life and stop an attack that threatens to tear apart America’s information infrastructure.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3R7YblF" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3R7YblF">Sleeper Agent: Cold War<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71fJZ36PkNL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="319" /></a><br />
by M. Anthony Harris (Author)</h2>
<p>Stephen Matthews is the perfect spy and now he knows it.</p>
<p>Recovering from the injuries inflicted in his previous adventure, Stephen and his team are desperately searching for any sign of the mysterious ‘X’ behind the attack that nearly killed Stephen and almost crippled America’s information infrastructure.</p>
<p>With the reemergence of a mysterious illness that caused the townspeople of the tiny village of Kalachi, Kazakhstan, to fall into a coma-like sleep, the team heads to the former Soviet Bloc nation to search for the mysterious Sleeper Agent ‘X’ who’s planning a new, more dangerous attack.</p>
<p>One that would wreak havoc in Kazakhstan and start a war with America that could last for decades.</p>
<p>Now it’s up to Stephen and his team to stop this new threat from ‘X’ and keep a potential war at bay.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/395brAx">A Princess of Mars:<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Princess_of_Mars_large.jpg" alt="undefined" width="200" height="300" /></a></em><br />
by Edgar Rice Burroughs</h2>
<p>A Princess of Mars (1917) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series.</p>
<p>Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction. It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a subgenre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication. Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western.</p>
<p>The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2QCjn36"><strong><em>The Gentleman Farmers<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Z9faV-x9L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="318" /></em></strong></a><br />
by Loretta Malakie</h2>
<p>Maggie Kingsbury, single middle-aged alcoholic lawyer, joins her in-laws Molly and Kevin on a homestead in the mountains of North Carolina, where their trustafarian college frenemies Brock and Sandra have just bought their third home.</p>
<p>Molly commissions Brock to renovate an old Appalachian tobacco barn on their property.</p>
<p>But when maverick hillbilly throwback Uncle Billy shows up to live in their field in a camper van, power struggles ensue.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Kevin has become dangerously obsessed with breeding heritage livestock.</p>
<p>When Maggie’s beloved niece Juliet asks her to take on a mysterious client, Maggie becomes implicated in a national political furor.</p>
<p>The scars of the long war run deep. And hope is a dangerous thing when the real enemy might just be the survivors themselves.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3zMyLRU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rosita and the Beautiful Game<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/714xsIUWOtL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="318" /></a><br />
by Loretta Malakie</h2>
<p>“Rosita met the Lycan at an after-party. Of course. Where else would you meet a werewolf. It was probably about 4 in the morning, and he was on the wane. He was a Lycan on the wane in general, which was why he was even approachable. The embers still smoldered in his eyes, but the spark was out.”</p>
<p>Thus begins an epic game of psychological cat and mouse. For solace, Rosita seeks emotional support from a varied cast of characters:</p>
<p>Josh: Rosita’s college friend. He’s working on his PhD. He thinks it’s all just pheromones and the Lycan is a credit risk.</p>
<p>Caligulito: Rosita’s brother. So-called because he’s a lot like Caligula, only smaller. He thinks the Lycan is a great guy.</p>
<p>The Maiden Aunt: Rosita’s best law-school friend. He’s 23, but he looks 37. So-called because he’s into feeble remonstration.</p>
<p>Margot: Another college friend. Two days into their trip to Costa Rica, Margot tells Rosita that, due to the natural and spiritual setting, she has quit her psychiatric medication cold turkey.</p>
<p>Rosita’s mother: All Rosita’s life, Rosita’s mother has told her to never get married. Now suddenly she’s lighting candles in churches for Rosita to meet a nice boy.</p>
<p>Rosita’s grandmother: She walks with a cane, and Rosita’s worried. Someday she’s going to smack someone with it.</p>
<p>Father Pavel: Rosita’s grandmother calls him “the gloomy Slav.” He accepts small-talk with Rosita as just another cross to bear.</p>
<p>The Vampire: Rosita’s high-school sweetheart. Rosita uses his own “Art of War” dating advice against him.</p>
<p>And Rosita, who is she? Rosita is the girl in the computer lab now googling “hysterical pregnancy” after half an hour spent googling “early pregnancy symptoms.”</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xsWKmw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Love in the Age of Dispossession<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91pacTQLZHL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="318" /></a><br />
by Loretta Malakie</h2>
<p>Coming-of-age novel following a small-town Gen X American girl named Kitty, from her senior year in high school to her life as an extremely unsuccessful lawyer in Manhattan.</p>
<p>The novel begins with three days in the life of a group of high-school friends in 1993, culminating in a fistfight on the village green over the honor of the Prom Queen.</p>
<p>The scene then shifts to New York City. Kitty is called back home for a funeral, and then, years later, someone from her small-town past pays Kitty a visit that changes her life.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/372Ih3F">A Greater Duty (Galaxy Ascendant Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/919sj36O57L._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="310" /></a></em></strong><br />
by Yakov Merkin</h2>
<p>The Galactic Alliance was not ready for war. When it is suddenly invaded by the cold and relentless Tyrannodon Armada, under the command of emotionless, amoral Executor Darkclaw, it is immediately sent reeling.</p>
<p>The invasion was a godsend for some, however, such as Grand Admiral Nayasar Khariah, who had wanted nothing more than revenge on the Alliance following an attack on her homeworld. The arrival of the Tyrannodons presents her with an opportunity, one that she seizes gleefully.</p>
<p>However, Executor Darkclaw, who has been prosecuting the invasion on orders of his master, the all-powerful energy being known only as the High Lord, has started having second thoughts once he unexpectedly starts feeling emotions he does not understand. Suddenly, he finds himself heretically questioning the only purpose he has ever known—irrevocably altering his view of the ongoing war.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, within the Galactic Alliance, Second Scion Dalcon Oresh, member of an order dedicated to preserving the it, struggles to stop the Alliance’s bleeding, the source of which may not be entirely external.</p>
<p>Darkclaw’s newfound friendship with Nayasar will be pushed to its breaking point, Nayasar’s relationships with her closest friends and loved ones will be strained as her quest for vengeance becomes more and more a personal obsession, and Dalcon must determine who he can truly trust.</p>
<p>All the while, the imminent existential threat of the High Lord looms over everything, and the key to stopping him, and saving not just the Alliance, but the entire galaxy, may only be found in the remains of a ancient, powerful race, and the creations they left behind…</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/32rANZj">Light Unto Another World: Volume 1<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81FKKM2KiNL._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="301" /></a><br />
by Yakov Merkin</h2>
<p>As a soldier, Uriel Makkis was prepared for many things. Being pulled through a portal into another world was not one of them.</p>
<p>He soon learns that he was brought to this world for a reason, as the heralded Sword of Light. However, something is amiss, as he first appeared in the middle of nowhere, rather than the capital as intended.</p>
<p>While he is meant to travel there straightaway to learn more, Uriel has no intention of doing as he’s told, not when there are people he can help right where he is.</p>
<p>Back home, he was just an average soldier; here, he can truly make a difference, and Uriel will not let the opportunity pass by.</p>
<p>But it won’t be easy. Uriel will have to rely on his faith, his newfound friends, and the skills and knowledge he brings from back home, as he throws himself headlong into a new conflict, becoming a beacon of light on this new world!</p>
<p>In this new isekai adventure, you can’t just leave the old world behind.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2RyKgEv"><em><strong>The Compleat Martian Invasion: Earth’s Defense Awakens<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81-yycO-woL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="319" /></strong></em></a><br />
by John Taloni</h2>
<p id="block-360ec818-24ea-489b-b2f4-460d4319e84b">With Earth left in shambles by the Martian invasion, Queen Victoria’s daughter Louise must lead the world through a dire emergency: The Martians are coming back. First she must rescue Cavor from his prison on the Moon in order to build a defense fleet. Even with Cavor their efforts would be for nothing without the genius of Nikola Tesla leading the way. And on Mars, unexpected allies fight a rearguard action to help Earth. Meanwhile the Time Traveler repeatedly appears, but is he friend or foe?</p>
<p><strong>Review:</strong> A number of years have elapsed since the Martian Invasion chronicled by H.G. Wells in <a href="https://amzn.to/3lsrqOG"><em>The War of the Worlds</em></a> . The damage inflicted on the Earth was severe, and the protracted process of recovery, begun in the British Empire in the last years of Queen Victoria’s reign, now continues under Queen Louise, Victoria’s sixth child and eldest surviving heir after the catastrophe of the invasion. Just as Earth is beginning to return to normalcy, another crisis has emerged. John Bedford, who had retreated into an opium haze after the horrors of his last expedition, is summoned to Windsor Castle where Queen Louise shows him a photograph. “Those are puffs of gas on the Martian surface. The Martians are coming again, Mr. Bedford. And in far greater numbers.” Defeated the last time only due to their vulnerability to Earth’s microbes, there is every reason to expect that this time the Martians will have taken precautions against that threat to their plans for conquest.</p>
<p>Earth’s only hope to thwart the invasion before it reaches the surface and unleashes further devastation on its inhabitants is deploying weapons on platforms employing the anti-gravity material Cavorite, but the secret of manufacturing it rests with its creator, Cavor, who has been taken prisoner by the ant-like Selenites in the expedition from which Mr Bedford narrowly escaped, as chronicled in Mr Wells’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-First-Men-in-the-Moon/dp/0486414183/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The First Men in the Moon</a> . Now, Bedford must embark on a perilous attempt to recover the Cavorite sphere lost at the end of his last adventure and then join an expedition to the Moon to rescue Cavor from the caves of the Selenites.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, on Barsoom (Mars), <a href="https://www.amazon.com/John-Carter-and-Deja-Thoris/dp/0345331389/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">John Carter and Deja Thoris</a> find their beloved city of Helium threatened by the Khondanes, whose deadly tripods wreaked so much havoc on Earth not long ago and are now turning their envious eyes back to the plunder that eluded them on the last attempt.</p>
<p>Queen Louise must assemble an international alliance, calling on all of her crowned relatives: Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm, and even those troublesome republican Americans, plus all the resources they can summon—the inventions of the Serbian, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tesla/dp/0691165610/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Tesla</a> , the research of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Maria-Sk%C5%82owdowska/dp/073945305X/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Maria Skłowdowska</a> and her young Swiss assistant Albert, discovered toiling away in the patent office, the secrets recovered from Captain Nemo’s island, and the mysterious interventions of the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Time-Traveller/dp/0553213512/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Time Traveller</a> , who flickers in and out of existence at various moments, pursuing his own inscrutable agenda. As the conflict approaches and battle is joined, an interplanetary effort is required to save Earth from calamity.</p>
<p>As you might expect from this description, this is a rollicking good romp replete with references and tips of the hat to the classics of science fiction and their characters. What seems like a straightforward tale of battle and heroism takes a turn at the very end into the inspiring, with a glimpse of how different human history might have been.</p>
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<h2 id="block-ca4990c0-5951-4b7b-89ae-451b24f95bc5" class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/35D1jeq">Crisis on Stardust Station<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81O7ti2NBEL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a></strong></em><br />
by John Taloni</h2>
<p id="block-fca0c2ee-7aa0-4dd1-a211-1f45c6362149">The cats of Stardust Station have long hidden their intelligence from the humans that live there. Now a crisis threatens them both. Can the cats and humans learn to work together in time to save both the station and the planet below?</p>
<p id="block-182ce23e-74fa-46ce-b48b-55d2aa8a69ed">A few hundred years from now, Earth has gone to space…and come back. The remnant of a once vibrant space effort persists in the form of a few hundred solar power satellites that provide half of the world’s power. John Aldrin is one of four people crewing the last remaining space station, with the mission to keep the satellites operating. But Earth has neglected them so long that they are on the verge of breakdown.</p>
<p id="block-b6d03371-f52b-4449-a496-2b43bcaec92d">Benign neglect has allowed something else to happen: In the station’s forest habitat, a group of genetically modified cats have grown to intelligence. Some have been adopted by the astronauts and brought to their living area. Natural telepaths, both groups of Cats have agreed to keep the knowledge of their intelligence secret from the humans.</p>
<p>Their equilibrium is destroyed when a solar flare strikes and knocks out the satellites. The Cats must reveal their secret to save both their station and the world below. But can they convince a skeptical Earth to work with them?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3lna9Xb">Thunder God of Mars: A Superhero Prose Novel<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91uuJybBeYS._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="312" /></a><br />
by John Taloni</h2>
<p>Thor vs. Ares with the fate of Mars in the balance!</p>
<p>An urgent challenge calls Thor to Mars, where hostile forces threaten a new colony’s fragile future.</p>
<p>To aid the colonists he must contend against opportunistic deities from Earth and Mars, as well as the harsh environment of Mars itself.</p>
<p>This Novella-length book is inspired by Thor comics and Ray Bradbury’s “Martian Chronicles,” with a dash of Richard Riordan.</p>
<p>Contains six short stories making one complete arc.</p>
<p>Also includes a bonus story where being normal is enough to be a superhero.</p>
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<h2 id="block-98a9b416-5c9b-4957-875e-c4aaa63515c4" class="wp-block-heading"><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/33tX5Ez"><em>The Long Black</em></a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://amzn.to/33tX5Ez"><em>(The Black Chronicles Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/815behLyqjL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="267" /></em></a></strong><br />
by J.M. Anjewierden</h2>
<p id="block-22fbefe9-3431-44e5-8797-9fc9bcb54c11">Morgan always assumed that if she could survive growing up in the mines of Planet Hillman – feared for its brutal conditions and gravity twice that of Earth – she could survive anything.</p>
<p id="block-a2003de6-0efc-4216-8dba-5f75878db47a">That was before she became a starship mechanic. Now she has to contend with hostile bosses, faulty equipment, and even taking care of her friend’s little girl. Once pirates show up, it’s a wonder she can get any work done at all.</p>
<p><strong>Review: </strong>Any time you try a new author it is kind of like sailing into unknown waters, you hope for a great experience but are often disappointed by the author’s style, the story line is not what you had hoped for, the characters are not even slightly interesting and so on….. A book about a young girl striving to grow up on her own terms, in a universe that is hard on everyone with villains who strive to make it even harder.</p>
<p>Please take a chance on this author! I read both of the first two books in this series in one weekend an am pained to wait for the next installment. The characters are easy to like or dislike as is their role in the book, there are interesting twists and turns, great alliances, despicable villains, victorious highs and characters striving to grow and define the world they inhabit.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/34fZQMm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Black Holiday</em></a><br />
<a href="https://amzn.to/34fZQMm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>(The Black Chronicles Book 2)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81P3ayoHuiL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="275" /></em></a><br />
by J.M. Anjewierden</h2>
<p>Morgan has finally made it, earning an officer’s slot on S.T.E.V.E., the ancient flagship of the Takiyama Merchant House. She’s survived so much to get here, and isn’t about to let lingering nightmares over those events stop her now. That said, even the toughest mechanics need down time. Grudgingly taking some shore leave, Morgan goes to visit the estate of her friend Emily, Baroness Novan. What she doesn’t know is that the first steps towards interstellar war have already been taken by the homeworld she escaped, and important leaders – including Emily – are targeted for Assassination.</p>
<p><strong>Review:</strong> A great installment to the series. This book picks up after the events of the first. Morgan agrees to go on vacation with Lady Novan and Gertrude. Things don’t go according to plan and Morgan has to survive being kidnapped. A lot of action and adventure to keep you on the edge of your seat and wanting the next book in the series.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3CBkgOJ">Running Black</a><br />
<a href="https://amzn.to/3CBkgOJ">(The Black Chronicles Book 3)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81SFTIoeEvS._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="267" /> </a><br />
by J. M. Anjewierden</h2>
<p>An explosion is only the beginning of her problems…</p>
<p>Morgan is finally back to work, having returned from her disastrous attempt at a vacation just in time to watch an accident cause a massive explosion on one of the other freighters.</p>
<p>With the damaged ship out of commission it is up to the crew of <em>STEVE</em> – Morgan included – to frantically get the cargo transferred and depart more than a month ahead of schedule.</p>
<p>But what Morgan doesn’t know is that the assassination attempts were only the beginning.</p>
<p>Missed maintenance isn’t the only, or worst, danger lurking out in the black.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3HpFTFP" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Black Salvage<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81r1mu3Qy9L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="267" /></a><br />
(The Black Chronicles Book 4)<br />
by J. M. Anjewierden</h2>
<p>Morgan and the crew of STEVE have captured the pirates’ command ship, but can they keep it?</p>
<p>After a harrowing battle on the mining station and in the Black they won an incredibly valuable prize – an armed starship that, once repaired, is capable of subspace jumps without a gate.</p>
<p>All Morgan and her skeleton crew need do is make the long journey home and they will be rewarded handsomely.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, not all the pirates are accounted for, and their nimble frigates are still out there somewhere, plotting to take back what Morgan rightfully commandeered…</p>
<p><strong><em>Review: </em></strong>I need the next one! These are so good! I can’t put them down and when I’m not reading them I’m thinking about them. To put into perspective… I read, a LOT. So sometimes I forget the plot of series until I start reading a book and then I remember. I don’t have to with this series. I am impatient and check often for the next book in the series. The characters and story are not forgettable in any way and such a rich and textured story. Love this series.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3tOfbRl" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Battles in the Black (The Black Chronicles Book 5)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81oeO8S3wnL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="267" /></a><br />
by J.M. Anjewierden</h2>
<p>Morgan had a simple plan: sell her captured pirate ship, hire mercenaries, and rescue her parents from her former homeworld. Nothing was going to stop her, not even the pirates trying to take her prize back. All they got for their trouble was two more ships added to Morgan’s forces, but the pirates were only the beginning. The very people she wants to liberate her parents from have invaded her new home, laying siege and cutting them off from the rest of the galaxy.</p>
<p>Desperate for ships and experienced spacers to crew them, Morgan, her crew, and her ships have been conscripted into the Navy of her adopted home, despite the exhaustion of the former and the damage to the latter. Morgan herself has been given the unwanted and laughable rank of Commodore. What for most would be a position of pride only represents the things standing in the way of Morgan’s plan. She has a new plan now; simpler, but also more dangerous.</p>
<p>Survive.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>NOTE! Book 6 in The Black Chronicles, <a href="https://amzn.to/3sICH5f">Homecoming In Black (The Black Chronicles Book 6)</a>, is a “New Arrival.”</strong></h3>
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<h2 id="block-5072f670-24de-4012-9d1a-2d321cb7eb64" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Ru1ktI"><em>Fade<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91puOf1k+eL._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="320" /></em></a><br />
by Daniel Humphreys</h2>
<p id="block-2c50d447-ff64-420e-a3e9-8a03db8bf0b1"><strong>Harry Dresden’s sorcery goes on a Supernatural-style road trip. Cool car sold separately.</strong><br />
Paxton Locke is the son of a Witch.</p>
<p id="block-6a12c7c6-b412-4001-8847-c516050f9921">Family drama is bad enough without adding human sacrifice to the mix. Ten years ago, his mother killed his father in a grisly ritual that Paxton interrupted. Now he criss-crosses the countryside in his RV working as a paranormal investigator while Mother languishes in jail. She’ll never forgive him for interfering…or for stealing her spellbook.</p>
<p id="block-d6794efb-1cac-4d10-ac58-52266e161970">It started as a normal job for Paxton. At least as normal as speaking to ghosts ever was. But then the terrified shade of a murdered boy warns him of a dangerous, newly-freed entity, and suddenly he has to talk to Mother again to save the day.</p>
<p id="block-e4419d98-4b99-41c2-b6f9-a0335d00459c"><strong>In a battle for his very soul, will he be able to endure – or simply fade away?</strong></p>
<p id="block-1fd93bfc-89ae-4583-9fe7-9e9c8d92434a">Dragon Award nominee Daniel Humphreys’ urban fantasy debut brings all the best elements of Supernatural and the Dresden Files, written with his typical engaging style and evocative prose. Avid fans of the genre will be satisfied with the sarcasm, quips, and pop culture jokes found in Fade. Not to mention the spells, action and family drama.</p>
<p>Buy it now!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3cxZHs7">The Buick Eight (Joshua’s Pawn Shop Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/917kOsm3iYL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
A Short Story<br />
by Frank B. Luke</h2>
<p>Joshua’s Pawn Shop. If you find Joshua’s Pawn Shop, you need Joshua’s.</p>
<p>Usually, you don’t even know what you’ve lost, but at Joshua’s you get a second chance.</p>
<p>Years ago, Simon Johnson made a choice that changed his life for the worse.</p>
<p>He’s looking to start over.</p>
<p>After he sells some old jewelry tonight, he’ll send the divorce papers tomorrow.</p>
<p>That’s the plan, anyway.</p>
<p>At Joshua’s Pawn Shop, he’ll be given a different way to start over.</p>
<p>The cost: he’ll have to not only let a tragedy happen, he’ll have to witness it.</p>
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<h2 id="block-fe07c4e5-5b39-4e1e-b199-a2d958855f26" class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/34kZHYl" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rebirths: A Tale of Azuran<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ePq0PtWSL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="299" /></a></em></strong><br />
by Frank B. Luke</h2>
<p id="block-fc54d88a-faf3-49b1-98ce-8d643b913292">Enraged at the Almighty after losing everything, Derke turns to black magic in hopes of restoring his old life. But the evil one demands a terrible price. Derke, once blessed, stands at the edge of a cliff, ready to lose himself to darkness.</p>
<p><strong>Amazon Cusomter Review:</strong></p>
<p id="block-4c2ac885-aea8-43dc-9710-c2bd88916557">I really liked this story. Derke is a priest (miracle-man) whose faith is crushed when he loses his family to a plague. A hope of regaining them is extended by a woman who tempts him to abandon his faith and follow her. Derke does. He leaves all of his former life behind and delves deep into the dark magical arts of necromancy to try and recover his wife and children.</p>
<p id="block-23873be8-ef10-42d4-b0a4-98724e2e2c21">But his faith calls him back. He struggles and fights against what he knows is right in his heart.</p>
<p id="block-7da2c320-cc16-4841-8d38-6f4b35359393">The matters of faith in this story are derived straight from the Christian viewpoint. There is more than simple allusion to the Christian faith, it is a Fantasy story steeped in a Christian world.</p>
<p id="block-e31234d6-4235-4b84-be8e-4db596f799ad">Buy <em>The Lure of Fools</em> and join the fantastic quest today!</p>
<p id="block-5a3e35a7-7e81-4915-874b-42890987ee52">It better be, because ready or not, Marc’s going into action as Flak-Jack, the Bulletproof Man!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2DCt2QJ"><em><strong>Ordinary Superheroes<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91MnSsuFLoL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="282" /></strong></em></a><br />
by Christopher Lansdown</h2>
<p>Millenia ago martian superheroes defeated an ancient evil, who was imprisoned on a moon of Jupiter.</p>
<p>Neglected for centuries, the prison is about to fail, giving the ancient evil a second chance to wipe out all life in the solar system.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the Martians have gone extinct so it’s up to earth’s superheroes to save the day. Worse, there’s only one man who even knows of the threat, and he’s not a superhero. On the plus side, training teams of superheroes to save the world is what he does.</p>
<p>Mr Macho, Mockingbird, and the Mega Ninja were just ordinary college student/superheroes doing ordinary student things like attending class and ordinary superhero things like foiling bank robberies and catching drug dealers until one night when they returned to their apartment and found a strange old man with a mystical amulet sitting on their couch.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, while he can teach them how to teleport to other planets, he has no idea how to repair the prison. Did the amulet pick correctly this time, and will they figure out what they need to do before it’s too late?</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3FFG7Xp">The Devil’s Dictum<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Yq8hASOxL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="309" /></a><br />
Frederick Gero Heimbach</h2>
<p>In a topsy-turvy United States founded by pirates, the personal assassin to the chief justice receives a terrifying order: round up and kill all men who look like himself.</p>
<p>Why does the chief justice want these men dead?</p>
<p>What threat could they possibly pose?</p>
<p>And can the assassin save them—or will he become the final victim?</p>
<p>Spooky, sly and satirical, The Devil’s Dictum recasts J. Edgar Hoover as a Satanic high priest, Calvin Coolidge as a private eye, and Richard Nixon as the pilot of a giant armored robot. Readers hungering for original and mind-blowing alternate history need look no further.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3cwX9dL">Ronald Reagan’s Brilliant Bullet: A Cold Warriors Novel<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91STpK8fWBL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="309" /> </a><br />
Frederick Gero Heimbach</h2>
<p>It’s Ronald Reagan in a jet pack! The author of The Devil’s Dictum returns with another novel that shreds the history books.</p>
<p>The setting is the Cold War and Ronald Reagan has a shiny new toy to play with: a rocket powered suit. He’ll need it to battle the terrifying monstrosity Leonid Brezhnev is building on a secret base in Siberia.</p>
<p>Standing with Reagan are Margaret Thatcher and Billy Graham, each wielding super powers. (If Thatcher in an eye patch won’t turn you on, nothing will.)</p>
<p>Reagan insists on piloting the rocket himself—but the hardware is experimental and just might kill him.</p>
<p>Threats are everywhere: a treacherous Congressman, a wide-eyed nun from the Tudor era, an enigmatic boy genius called R2, talking heads on Mount Rushmore, punks in back alleys and missiles in the skies.</p>
<p>All while signs of a literal Armageddon unfold before Reagan’s steely eyes.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3b56ax6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cherry Drop (Abner Fortis, ISMC Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81KwRcpO6OL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /> </a><br />
by P.A. Piatt</h2>
<p><strong>The ISMC Wants You!</strong></p>
<p>Abner Fortis joined the International Space Marine Corps for two reasons: to escape a life of drudgery building biodomes for his father’s company and to pay off several billion credits in student loans, which the ISMC promised to do.</p>
<p>Every Space Marine starts out as a cherry, though, and Abner is no different. When he makes his first combat drop, or cherry drop, he’s a know-nothing second lieutenant added to the mission roster as an afterthought.</p>
<p>The Space Marines are tasked to support the Galactic Resource Conglomerate (GRC) while they test a revolution in military technology: Precision Crafted Soldiers (PCS). All the Space Marines have to do is kill bugs. Even when a tragic accident leaves Fortis in command, the mission is still an easy breather.</p>
<p>When the Space Marines discover proof of a long-buried betrayal, though, friends become enemies, and their mission goes awry. Does Fortis have what it takes to lead the Space Marines to survival in the face of overwhelming odds?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ND5U9g" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Honor Flight<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91XfvJSjfPL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
by P.A. Piatt</h2>
<p>“Honor Flight” is a stand-alone novel in the Abner Fortis, ISMC universe.</p>
<p>It is set fifty years after the series begins with “Cherry Drop.”</p>
<p>Please enjoy it as the novel that inspired the series.</p>
<p>Fifty years ago, the International Space Marine Corps (ISMC) fought and won a narrow victory against a vicious foe.</p>
<p>Now, Fleet Transport ‘Astral Plane’ is transporting survivors of this battle when a garbled warning is received, followed by orders from the President of the United Nations of Terra.</p>
<p>Her orders are simple: Unconditional surrender, or die.</p>
<p>Abner Fortis and the other Space Marines on ‘Astral Plane’ aren’t about to surrender, but what can two hundred aged ISMC veterans on an unarmed Fleet transport do against overwhelming hostile forces?</p>
<p>It’s no coincidence their motto is DINLI. Do It, Not Like It.</p>
<p>They just have to figure out how.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3fiUiXZ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jinjang<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+zKvDAmtL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="279" /></a><br />
</em></strong>by Iris Paustian</h2>
<p>As different as Night and Day.</p>
<p>Tender One lost her beloved brother, and now someone in this unfamiliar, underground Night Dweller community wants Tender One dead. If she can overcome her culture shock, maybe she can discover the truth before anyone else is harmed.</p>
<p>Nub is fascinated by Tender One and her people—but he is also the prime suspect. Will Tender One reject this stranger who looks nothing like her people? Or will she find the courage to follow her heart?</p>
<p>And then Tender One discovers a dragon’s egg!</p>
<p>As cultures clash, love is kindled and mysteries unfold on Jinjang, the world where a year is but a single day.</p>
<p>Buy it now!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3nHkkbH">Firefly Season 2</a><br />
<a href="https://amzn.to/3nHkkbH">(Time Traders Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91luVS0EJiL._SL1500_.jpg" width="199" height="317" /></a><br />
by Travis J.I. Corcoran</h2>
<p>When you’re a time trader – someone with a ship that can hop sideways across the millions of alternate timelines – the big money isn’t in technology or science, it’s in entertainment. There are some universes where George Lucas didn’t die on the set of American Graffiti but instead went on to make a space fantasy classic. In other universes there’s a movie called “Dune” by Jodorowsky. And in some there’s a guy named Tolkien who wrote a sequel to “The Hobbit”.</p>
<p>Ask any timetrader and he’ll tell you: put three things together – buyer, seller, and product – and that’s where the magic happens.</p>
<p>And by magic, timetraders mean “profit”.</p>
<p>Now the crew of the Sturnus-class timeship al-Din (kaiser Huck, riverman Oive, artificer Johann-stepson-twice-Friedrich, and galfreitag Ginny Mae) have all three of these things lined up, because they finally secured a copy of a certain TV show.</p>
<p>There’s just one problem, and his name is Friedrick Richter.</p>
<p>…or maybe there’s more than one problem, depending on how you look at the situation, because things can get pretty complicated when timelines cross.</p>
<p>So get yourself a stein of mead and a bowl of spiced yam sticks – or pretzels, if that’s all you’ve got in this timeline – pull up a chair, and lend an ear to see how it all turns out.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ehxDgx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Discovery (Polecat Protocol Book 1)</a><br />
by John M. Olsen</h2>
<p><strong>Jericho Jackson</strong> looks forward to finishing one last job: a high-risk, high-pay mining gig on a tiny moon in a distant star system. A string of disasters throws the operation into life-threatening chaos as his team is cut off from outside contact. Even with their specialized training, if the power dies, his crew dies.</p>
<p><strong>Shanna Percival</strong>, his teammate and one-time girlfriend, keeps their equipment in top shape, but her tendency to stick her nose where it doesn’t belong turns up a mysterious cache of data that shouldn’t exist.</p>
<p>Knowledge is power. Her discovery could be the ultimate key to overcoming the growing danger, but time is running out…</p>
<p>John M. Olsen edits and writes speculative fiction across multiple genres and he loves stories about ordinary people stepping up to do extraordinary things. He hopes to entertain and inspire others with his award-winning stories as he passes his passion on to the next generation of avid readers.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3TakKHN">Breakdown (Polecat Protocol Book 2)</a> and <a href="https://amzn.to/3R9NTRD">Emergence (Polecat Protocol Book 3)</a> are New Arrivals</h2>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3PpJY2q">Deathbringer: The Spellswords Saga: Book One (The Spellsword Saga 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71FqvHQuqdL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="303" /> </a><br />
by Blake Carpenter (Author), Michael Gallagher (Editor)</h2>
<p>Inga Alenir is a Swordbearer. She is the latest in a long line of women to inherit a magical weapon called Deathbringer. She’s also dead, murdered on her wedding day by the ruthless and covetous noblewoman Yenda Avard, who steals the sword after killing Inga and her entire family.</p>
<p>And yet, some secrets won’t stay buried. Deathbringer has a will and a consciousness of its own, and even has the power to raise Inga from the dead for a short time. It warns her that she has one week to find and retrieve the sword before death reclaims her—permanently. With each day bringing her doom and final demise ever closer, Inga will have to see just how far she’s willing to go to achieve her vengeance.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">DEATHBRINGER</span> is a compositional mix between the violent, grisly hunt for revenge in the film <span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">THE NIGHTINGALE</span> and the tale of Vasher and his talking sword Nightblood in Brandon Sanderson’s <span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">WARBREAKER</span>. Fans of dark fantasy, of tragic love stories and tales about seeking revenge against long odds will enjoy this debut novel by Blake Carpenter in the world of Agareth where a scorned, young widow fights back against the powerful elites that wronged her, and begins a journey that might turn the entire world against her.</p>
<p><strong><span class="a-text-bold">What Readers are Saying About </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">Deathbringer</span><span class="a-text-bold">—</span></strong></p>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">“I fell in love with these characters… If you love a good revenge story, it’s so good. I had a great time with this one!”</span><br />
—<span class="a-text-bold">The Nerdy Narrative</span> (https://www.youtube.com/TheNerdyNarrative)</p>
<p>“<span class="a-text-italic">I think this one is truly special… The world of Agareth is a vast and uncompromising one, being filled with dangers and factions striking out to meet their own ends, forging their way in a world which appears obsessed with progress. However, seeing our main protagonist, Inga, rise up to the challenge in spite of what’s placed in front of her makes it all the more compelling to read.</span>“<br />
—<span class="a-text-bold">The Lord Otter </span>(https://downstreampulp.substack.com/)</p>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">“Those who like tales of revenge with protagonists who do not lose their humanity or become permanently obsessed by it will enjoy this book. Anyone who wants to see other cultures portrayed in new settings and new ways will find it entertaining as well. The novel should appeal to fantasy fans everywhere but particularly those interested in Slavic and Russian milieus, as the story has the air of </span>Anastasia <span class="a-text-italic">about it. Those who want a new twist on familiar tropes should find this story quite engaging.”</span><br />
—<span class="a-text-bold">Caroline Furlong</span>, <span class="a-text-italic">Upstream Reviews</span> (https://upstreamreviews.substack.com/)</p>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">“Carpenter has a deft, confident style that pulls the reader in and keeps them there, connecting with the characters and exploring their world. He has crafted an exquisitely written, perfectly-paced, throughly gripping tale. I am definitely looking forward to the next installment. Highly recommended.”</span><br />
—<span class="a-text-bold">S. Kirk Pierzchala,</span> author of <span class="a-text-italic">Echoes Through a Distant Glass, Harshest Dawn</span> and more</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">M., Goodreads Review: </span>“<span class="a-text-italic">It’s technically amazing. Snappy, quick paced, action packed, and with memorable characters who are well written and well realized that feel like actual people. Also has a cool early 1900’s Russian inspired semi-Steampunk setting which is super rare to see in Fantasy. 8/10.</span>“</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">K.D. McAllister, Amazon Review:</span> “<span class="a-text-italic">Blake absolutely stuck the landing with a highly satisfying conclusion to Inga’s tragic mission and by books end I was fully invested in her, the supporting characters, the BLADE LORE, and teases of what is to come. You can just tell Blake has so much more he wants to tell us! Buy this so that he CAN! 4/5 stars”</span></p>
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<p><strong>Award-winning, Best-selling author Richard Paolinelli has written dozens of short stories and novellas in addition to his full-length novels and non-fiction books. They encompass a range of genres that include: Science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and horror.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Many have appeared in anthologies or have been published as stand alone stories. This series will encompass all of those stories plus one Sherlock Holmes pastiche never published before.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>All NINETEEN books in master storyteller, Richard Paolinelli’s <em>Dreams of a Storyteller</em> series are only $0.99 each. <a href="https://amzn.to/3PpzeRG">Buy the entire series for only $18.81, here</a>. Or pick and choose individual volumes.</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/45AhtVb" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/45AhtVb">Fairy Door<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81LC4GjRZBL._SL1500_.jpg" width="199" height="298" /></a><br />
by V. A. Boston</h2>
<p><strong>It only took one word: Deal.</strong></p>
<p>After years of neglect from her father, Eibhlin has had enough.</p>
<p>But when a purse of infinite gold, a fairy, and a trade shatter what little relationship she has with her father, she resolves to set things right.</p>
<p>Aided by a magic compass and a talking instrument, she now seeks three magic keys and their magic doors to find the fairy once again and recover what was lost.</p>
<p>She broke their relationship.</p>
<p>Now, she’ll brave the Fae to fix it. If she can get there.</p>
<p>From the fantasy tradition of The Chronicles of Prydain and The Hobbit comes a tale of love and redemption perfect for fans of all ages.</p>
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<h2 id="block-8c68effe-527a-4d9c-8402-20f08ff2ee22" class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2EvA7qj">The Last Ancestor: The Swordbringer Book 1<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ci6StihYL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="323" /></a></em></strong><br />
by Alexander Hellene</h2>
<p id="block-5fc780bc-3417-441d-bc34-1666e96d8e2e"><strong>They killed his father, oppress his people, and threaten them with extinction . . . and one of them is his best friend.</strong></p>
<p id="block-a2c6616c-7557-4928-b910-084b579734e9">The Growlers rule their corner of the planet Yxakh with an iron fist, intent on driving the human refugees from their land. They almost did eight years ago, killing Garrett’s father in the process. Only their guns, and lots of them, keep the Growlers at bay. Now a young man, Garrett burns for revenge, but finds it hard to reconcile this hatred given that his best friend is a Growler youth named Ghryxa.</p>
<p id="block-8218ce00-103c-4fbd-8b22-fe26c4f52e19">Desperate to cleanse his land of the invaders, the Growlers’ High Lord dispatches his trusted heir on a mission to acquire the humans’ superior weaponry. The Earthlings barely won the last war . . . but this time the High Lord will leave nothing up to chance.</p>
<p id="block-ccb62f87-b5d9-4ad6-b497-c25c677f4534">Garrett and Ghryxa run headlong into the High Lord’s conspiracy and find themselves the only thing standing between their two peoples and all-out war. Now Garrett must participate in an ancient rite with the fate of humanity on his shoulders. It’s a chance to be a hero like his father . . . but only if he makes it out of the Growlers’ forbidden city alive.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XjwS93" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Second Sojourn: The Swordbringer Book 2<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71yhtd4egtL._SL1280_.jpg" width="200" height="286" /></a><br />
by Alexander Hellene, Manuel Guzman (Illustrator), Emily Red (Editor)</h2>
<p><strong>Terror strikes the heart of Pysh!</strong></p>
<p>The Global Union has tracked the Canaanites across the galaxy, hellbent on finishing the job of extermination.</p>
<p>But first they need to recover a secret, one that will explain everything.</p>
<p>A distress signal from the East brings Garrett, Ghryxa, and their friends closer to the answers about what happened on Earth.</p>
<p>The lost ship survives! But to find it they must cross the Waran Steppes, and an endless swamp filled with ancient, deadly creatures.</p>
<p>Pursued by assassins, Garrett must make the hard choices and be a hero like his late father.</p>
<p>Escaping the High Lord was just the beginning.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3NEOdWQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Final Home (The Swordbringer Book 3)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61D8Y1PE5UL._SL1018_.jpg" width="200" height="291" /></a><br />
by Alexander Hellene, Manuel Guzman (Illustrator), Emily Red (Editor)</h2>
<p><strong>The Reaper has landed! His mission: find the secret of immortality and destroy any who stand in his way.</strong></p>
<p>With the Global Union closign in and Pysh in shambles, a bitter enemy may be humanity’s only hope.</p>
<p>Garrett and Ghryxa lead an envoy to Kharvalar with a proposal for the High Lord: join forces to fight the Global Union or Yxakh will be doomed.</p>
<p>But Kharvalar, besieged by lizardmen, giant serpents, and ancient foes from beyond the western wastes, has troubles of its own.</p>
<p>Old enmities, prophecies fulfilled, and interstellar war collide in the explosive conclusion to <em>The Swordbringer</em>, with the fates of two planets hanging in the balance!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3JnN3N9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fallen<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+Dg+wdtHL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
by P. Abbott</h2>
<p><strong>An Adventure Into the Stars and the PTSD Mind</strong></p>
<p>Intelligence Officer Brendan Sean Murphy has served his country on the Middle East and Central Asia battlefields. However, his hard-won successes overseas came at the cost of failures at home. These events have drained his soul, leaving him racked with PTSD.</p>
<p>However, his life changes when he intervenes to stop an anti-alien terrorist attack on the subway. Now, he is thrust into interstellar politics with the government naming him an intelligence attaché to the Sabia, a race that closely guards its own secrets.</p>
<p>Militias, corrupt politicians, and countries seeking military aid from the Sabia challenge Brendan’s mission. On top of this, a medical mystery complicates the balance. Brendan’s only chance at success involves accepting the impossible and unutterable. Only then can he learn the secrets in this Fallen world.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3R8k8Bg" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3R8k8Bg">Citadel of Seven Swords (Skarde: The Wandering Sword Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81PJOcF-QeL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="321" /> </a><br />
by Erik Waag (Author), Krzysztof Jr. Porchowski (Illustrator), Daniel P. Riley (Editor)</h2>
<p><em>Sword Swinging Thrills!</em></p>
<p>Skarde desires only to be free, yet his mighty sword arm, quick thinking, and daring seem only to keep him one step ahead… <em>of the grave!</em></p>
<p>Trapped on a savage volcanic island, Skarde clashes with an antediluvian wizard, an army of warrior-cultists, and a hidden monstrosity just to live another day. Along the way he finds unexpected friends, mysteries, a curse, and enemies both bold and shadowy.</p>
<p>Skarde, brash mercenary from the far North, travels the boundless world to sate his wanderlust and his desire for coin. Discover the unknown, the dangerous and the wondrous in this first volume of Skarde’s adventures.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3P9IHv5">BEYOND THE GRID: An EMP Survival story<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81idzTDpouL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /> </a><br />
by Connor Mccoy *FREE*</h2>
<p>Jacob Avery doesn’t miss the city one bit.</p>
<p>Years as a homesteader with his loving wife and children has taught him many lessons, but none as valuable as how well-suited he is for a simple, quiet life.</p>
<p>Years after saying goodbye to the city, an unfortunate incident takes Jacob and his family on a drive toward the city.</p>
<p>As they inch closer, it becomes abundantly clear they’ve made the wrong decision.</p>
<p>The dangers he abandoned long ago pale in comparison to what he and his family will soon be forced to face.</p>
<p>The apocalypse is coming and there’s nothing anyone could do about it. Jacob has one mission – Do whatever it takes to keep his family safe from harm or suffer the consequences.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/47S2pUy" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/47S2pUy">Worthy of Prometheus<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71jjOsH2kbL._SL1280_.jpg" width="200" height="314" /></a><br />
by Plum McCauley (Author), Saul Botcher (Illustrator), Jocelynn Cordes (Editor)</h2>
<p>A fantasy adventure with elements of science fiction, “Worthy of Prometheus” delves into Greek mythology to tell the tale of Hephaestus, artisan and metal worker of the gods, who is about to take a risk that is literally worthy of the great Titan himself. Hephaestus is at the verge of introducing to humanity a game-changing invention that will alter the course of civilization forever. But this gift to the human race will likely bring on the full wrath of Zeus. Terrified of punishment, Hephaestus nonetheless plods gallantly forward in secret, determined to improve the lot of mankind. His wife Aphrodite, however, throws the proverbial wrench into the works by first spying on, then informing against, her crippled but brilliant husband. Confronted by Zeus for his crime, Hephaestus is meted out a punishment both novel and completely unexpected.</p>
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<p><strong>–Winner 1st place, eBook category, <em>Reader Views</em> 2014-2015</strong></p>
<p><strong>–Recipient of 2015 B.R.A.G. Medallion (Book Readers Appreciation Group)</strong></p>
<p>—<strong>Finalist in the novella category of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards </strong></p>
<p>“This fast-paced, fantasy novella will appeal to both the young adult and general trade markets. All in all, this is a great book for fantasy lovers [and] fans of Greek mythology.”<strong>–Caroline Blaha-Black <em>US Review of Books</em></strong></p>
<p>“The prose has just the right amount of lush description of the world of the gods, and the characterization gives a little extra inner life to the immortals we already know. A well-written riff on Greek mythology that poses more questions than it answers.” <strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3Ev6ksU">Bovodar and the Bears<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/919oLKMbLLL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /></a><br />
by Jack Mikkelson (Author), Mary MacArthur (Illustrator)</h2>
<p>“And what would you do if two angry bears came pounding on your door, demanding that you hurry out to meet them?” That’s the dilemma for Bovodar Yarkery, who is confronted one day with a gathering of bears who wish to carry him off on their grand adventure. Across hazardous deserts, through caverns, and far up through the forests into the cold North, there stands Kalas Hall, home of an evil polar bear lord, King Valemod. The path is long, perilous, and uncertain, but if Bovodar & the Bears succeed in their mission, untold glory and riches can be theirs… but only if they can overcome the dangers that await them.</p>
<p>This is the complete story of Bovodar and the Bears. Readers can now read about the day Bovodar left his comfortable tree house and trace his journey all the way across the countryside to the journey’s end in the far northern land of Nixwild. Previously a serial, this release is the complete tale of Bovodar Yarkery’s first adventure away from home.</p>
<h2>An illustrated version of this remarkably clever and imaginative YA fantasy is available for free on <a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/fantasy/bovodar-and-the-bears">Arktoons</a>.</h2>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3l3kCHZ">The Thing in the Woods: A Small Town Creature Feature<br />
(The Long War Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91o3CHbxr3L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="308" /> </a><br />
by Matthew W. Quinn</h2>
<p><strong>Seventeen-year-old James Daly thought moving from Atlanta to small-town Edington senior year would kill him, but he didn’t mean it literally.</strong></p>
<p>But his father bought a bigger house to go with a promotion at his law firm, only to lose his job when the housing bubble popped. Now James has to work at the Edington Best Buy to help pay the mortgage they’re underwater on. He can’t wait until he turns eighteen and can leave Edington behind forever.</p>
<p>But when a local boy challenges him to an ATV race near a tree farm most people avoid, things get much worse. James’ rival is slaughtered by a tentacled horror emerging from a nearby pond.The monstrosity has been worshiped by a secretive coven since before the Civil War, and its devotees don’t take kindly to their secrets being threatened.Now with the aid of Amber Webb, a local girl he doesn’t like liking, and a renegade cult member, James must fight to avoid ending up bound to a picnic table and offered up to a monster. He must do battle with both the local cultists and their predatory master, THE THING IN THE WOODS.</p>
<p>★★★★★ Quinn writes effectively and convincingly in recreating a new take on H.P. Lovecraft and the genre. I am not much of a fan of horror, but this work kept the right mix of tempo, detail, suspense, interesting characters, and plot development to keep me engaged. The creepiest horror stories are the ones that take place in setting just like where you live… – John Allred</p>
<p>★★★★★ This is Not Mayberry – This tale of a Lovecraftian cult in the backwoods of a rural Georgia town is both suspenseful and frightening. The creature being worshiped by the cult is an ancient, multi-tentacled monster that lives in a lake in the middle of an isolated tree farm. When high school student James Daly stumbles upon the cult and watches the monster devour a rival classmate, things go downhill fast. Matthew W. Quinn blends together small-town politics, Civil War legends, and more profanity than Lovecraft himself would be comfortable with. This is not Mayberry. Highly recommended for fans of eldritch horror in a realistic, modern-day setting. – Darrell Grizzle</p>
<p>★★★★★ Good Read – A fast-paced horror novel with a likeable hero, a monster with a backstory, and a hidden commentary on social issues in southern small towns. – Alex S.</p>
<p>Grab your copy today! Free with Kindle Unlimited. Although this book stands alone as a creature feature, it begins The Long War series. The next book is THE ATLANTA INCURSION. Fans of STRANGER THINGS and IT will love this tale of small-town terror.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3r2302U">Battle for the Wastelands: A Steampunk Military Fantasy<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/716Yb+-0I9L._SL1234_.jpg" width="200" height="308" /></a><br />
by Matthew W. Quinn</h2>
<p><strong>In a desolate world where dirigibles rule the skies and blood soaks the dry earth, a young man joins the fight against a tyrant who has problems of his own.</strong></p>
<p>Andrew Sutter returns home from a hunting expedition to find drought-wracked Carroll Town under the thumb of a tax collector from the cannibalistic Flesh-Eating Legion. A riot becomes a battle that leaves Carroll Town in ruins and Andrew alone in the merciless Iron Desert. Saved from certain death by the riders of rebel chieftain Alonzo Merrill, Andrew finds himself fighting for their doomed cause.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Grendel, first lord of the Northlands and the Flesh-Eaters’ ultimate master, finds his peace of conquest disintegrating as the warlords under his thumb begin battling one another. He plots a new war to reunite them as the starving Merrills launch their last, desperate offensive.</p>
<p>And Andrew may be the one holding the key to victory…</p>
<p>Fans of Stephen King’s <em>Dark Tower</em>, George R.R. Martin’s <em>A Song of Ice and Fire</em>, L.E. Modesitt Jr.’s <em>Corean Chronicles</em>, S.M. Stirling’s <em>The Peshawar Lancers</em>, and AMC’s <em>Into the Badlands</em> will thrill to this fast-paced first volume of a saga of war and intrigue on a continental scale.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xzy8IY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Anti-Dog Tank And Other Stories<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81mX7BQ-MgL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="308" /></a><br />
by Kevin Trainor, Jr.</h2>
<p>Five short stories about life in the America of the future: during a new Civil War, societal collapse, and a different kind of alien invasion.</p>
<p>Kevin Trainor is an Army Security Agency veteran – Russian/German/Spanish linguist, doing signal intelligence and electronic warfare – who served four years active duty (two years in Germany) and another twelve years in the National Guard and Reserve. Currently living in Las Vegas, where he does tax accounting for H&R Block during the tax season and spend the rest of the year writing, reading, and playing various video games. Used to write about independent baseball for USA TODAY’S BASEBALL WEEKLY when that was a thing, and since then I’ve moved on to non-fiction essays and my first love, science fiction. If you like Robert Heinlein, David Drake, and Keith Laumer, I hope you’ll like my books.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3KRsXdK" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eydis: The Island of the Dragon Bride (The Legend of Eydis)</a><br />
by C.S. Johnson</h2>
<p><strong><em>The clouds in front of him began to shade over, their airy inscriptions spelling out a message of welcome—or maybe a warning—as the promise of land became clear.</em></strong></p>
<p>Eydis.</p>
<p>As an accomplished Viking warrior, Sterlig Kyvansson always found a way to get what he wanted—until he wanted Arja Freydottir. After Sterlig is denied the right to marry Arja, he is determined to do anything in his power to claim her as his own—even if it means slaying the dragon that guards the cursed island of Eydis.</p>
<p>With his brother’s sword at his side and Arja’s hand on the line, Sterlig sets out for Eydis with his friends. When they arrive, they quickly find that the rumors of Eydis are all true, including the irresistible beauty of the Princess of Eydis, Brynja the Bride. With her blessing, Sterlig heads out into battle with the dragon.</p>
<p>But near that battle’s end, Sterlig discovers the terrifying secret behind Eydis’ power. Is it already too late, or can his discovery still make a difference?</p>
<p><strong>With danger, friendship, and a surprising twist, <em>Eydis: The Island of the Dragon Bride </em>is a Viking fantasy adventure from award-winning, genre-hopping author C. S. Johnson. </strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3QivQ8m" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Across the Floors of Silent Seas: A Short Story (Till Human Voices Wake Us Book 1)</a><br />
by C.S. Johnson</h2>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Do mermaids believe in humans?</strong></h3>
<p>While working on a deep-sea diving assignment at the University of California, oceanography student Jay Bishop is dragged into a volcanic tube towards the earth’s core and certain death.</p>
<p>But much to his surprise, Jay not only survives the fall, he finds himself taken prisoner by a community of mermaids and kept alive as a science experiment. Confused and disoriented, Jay’s only hope to escape back to the surface is found in Paga, an elder of the community who believes Jay’s unexpected arrival marks the fulfillment of a terrifying prophecy.</p>
<p>With the community rising against them, Jay and Paga face dangerous choices — and their consequences — if Jay is ever to see home again. Will Jay make it back to the world on the surface? And even if he does, how can his life be the same ever again?</p>
<p><strong>FROM THE BOOK: </strong></p>
<p><em>“Are the others boring you to death, that you’re listening so intently to my remarks, darling?” Jay asked, teasing even though he welcomed her churlish chatter.</em></p>
<p><em>“People confuse boredom for stability, and stability for sanity,” she muttered.</em></p>
<p><em>Jay laughed. “Well, I’m sure some people would never assume we had a solid grip on sanity before we decided to become oceanographers. With several metric tons of water pressure surrounding us at these depths, I’m sure someone would be quick to question our mental facilities and their working order.”</em></p>
<p><em>“True enough, brother mine.” Noelani paused, and Jay knew she was likely rolling her pretty eyes. “And yours especially, since your sanity was barely there to begin with.”</em></p>
<p><strong>FROM THE AUTHOR:</strong></p>
<p>Enjoy this short story adventure tale set before <em>Till Human Voices Wake Us</em>, a science fantasy novel with an unlikable protagonist, sadistic mermaids, and the trip of a lifetime.</p>
<p><strong>WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING: </strong></p>
<p>“Very exciting prequel!! Lots of mystery and suspense. Can’t wait to read the next one!” ~ Dee Bookworm Book Reviews</p>
<p>“This is a very entertaining read, very action filled opening followed by a philosophical middle, with a thrill ride of an ending.” ~ Author C. O. Bonham</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3KRtix2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Moonlight Pegasus: A Standalone High Fantasy Novel</a><br />
by C.A. Sabol & C.S. Johnson *FREE*</h2>
<p>Sapphira is a desert world with little plant life, where the people live in the shadows of gray sunlight, sickened by the Dark Plague.</p>
<p>To cure the people, the Guardian of Dreams sends the Spirit of Truth to bring the light back into his darkened world.</p>
<p>In the form of Pegasus, he enters the world through the pure, innocent dreams of Selene, the reluctant princess and heir-apparent to the throne.</p>
<p>Now, with her brother Dorian as king, another rebellion is stirring.</p>
<p>All eyes are turning to Selene to bring peace through an arranged marriage.</p>
<p>However, Selene only has eyes for her true love—her protector, Etoileon.</p>
<p>As the rebellion unleashes its fury upon the kingdom of Sapphira and the supernatural forces collide, Selene is caught in the middle of all conflicts—the battle for her world, the battle for her love, and the battle for her very soul.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ChFyRH">Slumbering: An Epic Fantasy Adventure Series (The Starlight Chronicles Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/719xY+sDDVL._SL1200_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by C.S. Johnson *FREE*</h2>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>A narcissistic teenager who doesn’t believe in destiny. </strong></h3>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>A city under supernatural attack. </strong></h3>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>An adventure that unfortunately changes everything. </strong></h3>
<p>Sixteen-year-old Hamilton Dinger leads a charmed life. He’s got the grades for the top of the class, the abilities of a star athlete and Tetris player, and the charisma to get away with anything. Everything seems to be going along perfectly, including his plans to ask out Gwen Kessler, as he enters into tenth grade at Apollo Central High School.</p>
<p>Everything, that is, until a meteor crashes into the city, releasing the Seven Deadly Sinisters and their leader, Orpheus, from their celestial prison, and awakening Hamilton’s longtime dormant supernatural abilities. Suddenly Hamilton finds himself reluctantly allied with his self-declared mentor, Elysian, a changeling dragon, and Starry Knight, a beautiful but dangerous warrior, as they seek to protect the souls of Apollo City from the Sinisters and their evil intentions.</p>
<p>Can Hamilton give up his self-proclaimed entitlement to happiness in order to follow the call of a duty he doesn’t want? More importantly, will he willingly sacrifice all he has to find out the truth?</p>
<p><strong>FROM THE BOOK: </strong></p>
<p><em>At the time, I didn’t really believe that anything outside my control would change my life. Or at least, not in a significant, substantial way. My life was all about myself, and I figured I had complete control over that. Anything that happened outside of my control was more or less because I let it happen, and didn’t feel like stopping it.</em></p>
<p><em>It’s funny how one disaster of epic proportion can really make you change your mind.</em></p>
<p><strong>FROM THE AUTHOR: </strong></p>
<p>Welcome to the epic world of The Starlight Chronicles, a young adult fantasy series about a team of fallen Stars with supernatural powers. Follow them through this alternatively snarky and sweet series as they become their city’s resident superheroes, with all the fun and frustration of dragons and swords and homework! Look for Book 2, <em>Calling</em>, as the battle between good and evil continues on!</p>
<p>Perfect for young teenagers or disaffected college students, or adults who enjoy some wry humor with their reading!</p>
<p><strong>WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING: </strong></p>
<p>If you like Narnia, superhero adventures, or coming-of-age tales, definitely give this book a try. <strong>~ Chandler Brett, author of </strong><em><strong>Wolf Code</strong></em></p>
<p>5 STARS! <strong>~ Reader’s Favorite</strong></p>
<p>… Hamilton’s inner progress toward heroism feels touchingly genuine, and there are plenty of good comic moments to keep the story moving … Percy Jackson fans will eagerly await the next volume in the series … A fast-paced, effective teen-paranormal outing. <strong>~ Kirkus Reviews</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2YTmpXS">Beauty’s Curse: A Historical Fantasy Fairy Tale Retelling of Sleeping Beauty (Once Upon a Princess Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81q6ChHUb9L._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="301" /></a><br />
by C.S. Johnson *FREE*</h2>
<p>“I have better things to do.”<br />
“Like what?” Rose asked. “Waste your life on a fool’s journey, under a silly girl’s orders?”<br />
“I have never considered saving your life to be the same as wasting mine, Rosary.” He came and stood in front of her, the ease of his presence replaced by an unusual heat rather than familiar warmth. Rose had never before been bothered by the six inches he stood taller than her, but all of a sudden the shadow of his strength imposed itself on her.<br />
The cursed beauty of the moonlight revealed the clarity and sharpness of his eyes as she gazed up at him. “What if you did waste your life though? What if?”<br />
“If I have wasted my life, I have wasted it on you. Willingly.”</p>
<p>For four years, Princess Aurora of Rhone—Rose to her friends—has searched the world for a way to break the curse placed on her by Magdalina, the wicked ruler of the fairies at war with her kingdom. Under the curse, Rose is doomed to die on her eighteenth birthday after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. And time is running out.</p>
<p>On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Rose makes the journey home with her friends—Theo, a priest with a penchant for revenge; Mary, a young and talented fairy; and Ethan and Sophia, siblings with a troubled past–as pressure from her father, King Stefanos, leaves her with two equally unsatisfying options: Abdicate the throne, or get married.</p>
<p>Enjoy this novella series retelling of the Sleeping Beauty, with new characters, new plot twists, and plenty of action and adventure. Perfect for teen and young adult historical fantasy readers, and check out Part II, “Beauty’s Quest,” as the story continues!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3i3xOOr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Knight’s Quest for the Holy Grail<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bg6eb4x3L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /> </a><br />
by C.S. Johnson *FREE*</h2>
<p><strong>It’s not always the quest for the cup. Sometimes, it’s the quest for what’s in the cup.<br />
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Lance wants nothing more than to be there to fight the dragons for his beloved Princess Alexandra. With his faithful steed by his side, Lance sets out for the magic elixir found only in the Holy Grail. With its strengthening power, facing off an old hag, the bewitching woods, and the strange ogre who lives under a bridge should be easy.</p>
<p>But when it comes to Alexandra’s dragons, things aren’t quite what they all seem to be.</p>
<p>Will Lance’s gift be enough — or will his princess require something even more powerful to sustain her?</p>
<p><strong>Pull up a cup of your favorite “elixir” and enjoy this sweet and snarky satire story from C. S. Johnson, where the dragons are real, even if they aren’t. </strong></p>
<p><strong>FROM THE STORY: </strong></p>
<p>Every knight has a quest, and every quest has its reward.</p>
<p>As a knight-errant, albeit one still in training, with only a year of service behind him, Lance took his duty seriously. But waking up was also a serious business, and that was why, despite the midmorning light flickering over his face, Lance was still half asleep. His faithful steed stepped up to help him, breathing smelly fumes into his face.</p>
<p>“Blah!” Lance sputtered, trying to clear his tongue of the frothy waft. “What have you been eating, Percy?”</p>
<p>His pet’s pungent wake-up call forced Lance to roll over. When the heat of Percy’s breath continued to eat into the shield of his pending sleep, Lance finally gave in to his beast’s rude awakening.</p>
<p>“Alright, I’m getting up. Back from me, you fearsome brute.”</p>
<p>The horse was far from intimidated by Lance’s waking grogginess; instead, he moved closer to his master, nuzzling him with his wet nose.</p>
<p>“You’re lucky you’re the runt of your family,” Lance grumbled, sitting up. He patted down his hair, brushing the chestnut locks out of his eyes, before taking in the full sight of the bouncing creature before him. “Or you would be tied outside, like the ones at my mother’s house.”</p>
<p>Percy gave a small yip, and the nuzzle became a nudge.</p>
<p>“Alright, alright,” Lance muttered, petting his horse’s long, flowing mane playfully. “I know you’re hungry.”</p>
<p>He also knew there was no point in trying to sleep when Percy was hungry—no matter how sleepy he still was.</p>
<p>“I suppose you’re right, anyway, Percy.” Lance yawned and rubbed his hands over his face. “We promised the princess we would save her today, and every knight knows there is nothing more important than completing his quest.”</p>
<p>Lance tossed Percy several treats and stroked his pet affectionately, before he put on his armor for the day. He pulled a breastplate polished to a shine over his head, slipped his feet into protective boots, and even donned a helmet to protect his face from the bright summer sunshine.</p>
<p>Before too long, he stepped outside his quarters. Percy came trotting eagerly after him. With his steed at his side and a grin on his face, Lance set out into the morning to see his princess.</p>
<p>“Princess Alexandra, I am coming for you,” he called out rapturously, eager to see his beloved once more.</p>
<p><strong>FROM THE AUTHOR: </strong></p>
<p>It’s a good romantic tale that hints at the darker sides of depression and mental health, and the troubles we sometimes face when we befriend our demons, with liquid portals, jokes about avocados, strange references to illegal plants, and coffee runs.</p>
<p>What’s not to love?</p>
<p><strong>WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING: </strong></p>
<p>“… An endearing story of love … ” <strong>~ Dee Bookworm</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2XuMUCI">The Heights of Perdition: A Science Fiction Romance Series (The Divine Space Pirates Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Z0soBkuSL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by C.S. Johnson *FREE*</h2>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Falling in love was out of the question … until it was the answer. </strong></h4>
<p>There is nothing Aeris St. Cloud wants more than to win her father’s love and the acceptance of her family unit by joining the Military Academy at New Hope. But after she is captured by the fearsome space pirate, Captain Chainsword, Aerie is certain falling in love with her nation’s arch enemy is the last possible way to earn their coveted esteem.</p>
<p>Driven by vengeance, Exton Shepherd never set out to save anyone. As he circles the war-torn world in his pirated starship, the Perdition, he only sees his father’s ghost lurking around every corner and the looming darkness on the horizon. When Aerie unexpectedly tumbles into his life, he finds he cannot trust her, anymore than he can ignore her. But just like the raging war down on Earth, it’s tempting to think he can …</p>
<p>When the war ascends to the heights of the Perdition, Aerie’s loyalty, and Exton’s heart, are put to the test. But will love be enough to save them — and others — from certain destruction?</p>
<p><strong>FROM THE AUTHOR: </strong></p>
<p><em>The Heights of Perdition</em> is the first book in the Divine Space Pirates trilogy, a futuristic romance series where family, faith, and freedom take center stage.</p>
<p><strong>WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING: </strong></p>
<p>Questions raised about government, religion, and human nature were peppered throughout the narrative, elevating The Heights of Perdition from a mere space fantasy to something much more thought-provoking. <strong>~ Author Jess Jesinghaus </strong></p>
<p><strong>4th Place in Best RF Christian Sci-Fi & Fantasy for 2018</strong></p>
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by Brian Niemeier</h2>
<p id="block-d704a2fb-29e5-4747-9241-549954611264"><em><strong>The future is over.</strong></em></p>
<p id="block-e4969889-657c-46eb-bb53-5649bec4f5b6">Civilization on Earth has collapsed.</p>
<p id="block-e4969889-657c-46eb-bb53-5649bec4f5b6">Oligarchs have established a new order in manmade space colonies at the Earth-Moon LaGrange points.</p>
<p id="block-81744318-cf01-4855-b6f4-7184d104a2cb">A group of powerful colonies form the Systems Overterrestrial Coalition to re-civilize the earth, but grounders view the colonists as hostile meddlers.</p>
<p id="block-81744318-cf01-4855-b6f4-7184d104a2cb">The Coalition counters the rising violence with giant manned robots called combat frames.</p>
<p id="block-5d6eb2e6-1eb9-481e-bdd6-1c1b9732a022">The independent L3 colonies denounce the war on Earth. In response, Coalition Security Director Sanzen takes L3 leader Josef Friedlander’s wife and daughter hostage.</p>
<p id="block-5d6eb2e6-1eb9-481e-bdd6-1c1b9732a022">Amid the tense standoff, Friedlander’s son Sieg launches an unsanctioned rescue mission to L1’s Byzantium colony.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xckw5W">The Mummy of Monte Cristo<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81oA7bUriBL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="296" /></a><br />
J. Trevor Robinson</h2>
<p><strong>Revenge takes time; fortunately Edmond Dantes doesn’t sleep. Or breathe.</strong></p>
<p>In a world of monsters and magic, Edmond Dantes has a pretty good life.</p>
<p>He’s just been made captain of a ship, and he’s about to marry his sweetheart.</p>
<p>But when jealousy, spite, and ambition conspire to frame him for treason, he loses everything.</p>
<p>To make things right, he’ll need to give up the only thing he has left: his humanity.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2xbHqfq"><em><strong>Sanity<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/717LbAo9qVL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="259" /></strong></em></a><br />
by Neovictorian</h2>
<p>Have you sometimes felt, since an early age, that you were an alien, somehow placed on Earth and observing the antics of humans as if they were a different species? Why do they believe such stupid things? Why do they do such dumb things? And why do they keep doing them over and over again, seemingly incapable of learning from the bad outcomes of all the previous attempts?</p>
<p>That is how Cal Adler felt since childhood and, like most people with such feelings, kept them quiet and bottled up while trying to get ahead in a game whose rules often seemed absurd. In his senior year in high school, he encounters a substitute guidance counselor who tells him, without any preliminary conversation, precisely how he feels. He’s assured he is not alone, and that over time he will meet others. He is given an enigmatic contact in case of emergency. He is advised, as any alien in a strange land, to blend in while observing and developing his own talents.</p>
<p>Then he meets a Mystery Woman…and the real adventure begins.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/43Wceym" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Broken Man: The Rise of the Fisher King<br />
Book 1 of 2: The Rise of the Fisher King<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81bgb3YSYtL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a> *FREE*<br />
by Hawkings Austin</h2>
<p>A Shadow Man is stalking the children of Ard, leaving the dead lying in the forest with their eyes black pits.</p>
<p>The people are in a panic, but the investigating Ruad philosophers have no explanation.</p>
<p>Seeking someone to blame, the people of the ancient city of Ard demand the head of the most dangerous person in their midst, the giant Waylaid.</p>
<p>Once great among the Fomor – a prince, a sorcerer, a priest – Waylaid has been cast out by his people.</p>
<p>He has come to Ard with his Bolg apprentice, Piju, to live quietly and study in Brea’s library.</p>
<p>Can he escape the maddened crowed and find the killer without breaking his vow to give up sorcery?</p>
<p>And has he failed to teach his young and impetuous apprentice the most important lesson of them all, that the price of using sorcery is always too high?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3OkfWtk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">T</a><a href="https://amzn.to/3OkfWtk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">h</a><a href="https://amzn.to/3OkfWtk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">e</a><a href="https://amzn.to/3OkfWtk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Bone God<br />
(The Rise of the Fisher King Book 2)</a> *FREE*<br />
by Hawkings Austin</h2>
<p>Prophesy has shaken the foundations of the world.</p>
<p>Three kingdoms search for a king,</p>
<p>while an evil sorcerer has raised a spirit to destroy the fragile peace of the Daen Empire.</p>
<p>Piju fights to free the slaves of Ard, and Waylaid must find a way to defeat a god which has the power to take his bones.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3JsKwB6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pure Poison (A Purity Wellman Story Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81dsQF6IXhL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /> </a>*FREE*<br />
by Hawkings Austin (Author)</h2>
<p>Purity Wellman died in 1958.</p>
<p>The devil stole her soul on her very doorstep.</p>
<p>She returns to a world she no longer understands, but there are still evil men in the world.</p>
<p>The devil’s work is never finished and the family business is never done.</p>
<p>She isn’t going to give up and die, again.</p>
<p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br />
Hawk’s current supervillain title is “Director of Radiation Effects.” In his quest to take over the world, Hawk has landed a series of jobs with NASA, DoD, and Missile Defense. Currently, he’s testing spacecraft for the rigors of the natural (and unnatural) environments that only he can conquer. The recent loss of his sidekick, Vlad (to a paying job) has been painful, but he’s managed to work through the loss to conquer large swaths of Colorado.</p>
<p>Hawk has a number of professional publications in engineering, science, history, and fantasy. He has been performing as a Mad Scientist for many years and is very close, at this point, to taking over (or destroying) the Earth. He can be found blogging on Urban-Fantasy.com, Madsci.us, and tweeting as @Sablehawk. He loves to speak at Science Fiction Conventions, such as Dragon Con, and will be happy – over a beer – to talk about any of these things for hours.</p>
<p>Hawk currently lives in Denver CO and is enjoying the heck out of spoiling his wife and current baby girl with all of his ill-gotten gains.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3zGdauo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Immaculate Corpse (A Purity Wellman Story Book 2)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/810oCWOMTXL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="320" /> </a>*FREE*<br />
by Hawkings Austin</h2>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The devil hasn’t killed Purity Wellman yet.</strong></h4>
<p>But he’s still got time. Life isn’t going to settle down for Purity anytime soon. She might have killed the dark pastor and his demons, but the fallout from the fight is still plaguing her. It looks like her old enemy Don Bello is behind everything. He’s coming for Purity and what remains of her family.</p>
<p>And for anyone that has ever dared help them in their fight. Her brother’s friends and allies are brutally murdered, and it won’t be long before they find her. Purity must push aside her terrible memories of being the devil’s prisoner and fight back. That’s what the Wellmans always do. For, the devil’s work is never finished and the family business is never done.</p>
<p>The second Purity Wellman book picks up right where the last one ended, in the middle of the mystery, magic and battle against evil. Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Sookie Stackhouse in Purity Wellman, a fish-out-of-water resurrected girl trying to find her place in a creepy Appalachian American Gods universe.</p>
<p>Can Purity win against the devil? Or will he claim her soul as his own again?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3b5s2Is" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Divine Dark (A Purity Wellman Story Book 3)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/815XyR4z51L._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="333" /></a> *FREE*<br />
by Hawkings Austin</h2>
<p>Can Purity control the vampire within herself? Or is it lying to her so it can take her power for itself? Purity must find the witches, and stop them. She’s only got a week to do it, and she’s got to do it alone.</p>
<p>The demon from the Dark World is strong enough that she’s beginning to worry it might control her, but Purity barely has time to miss her brother John, much less deal with the monster inside her head. The Forest People speak of a coming doom, brought about by three witches. Purity works to unravel the mystery and save the world. But she’s out-powered and out-classed. The vampire in her head says it can help her. If it stops the apocalypse, her soul might be an acceptable price to pay.</p>
<p>The third Purity Wellman book pits Purity against her most dangerous enemy yet–herself. Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Sookie Stackhouse in Purity Wellman, a fish-out-of-water resurrected girl trying to find her place in a creepy Appalachian American Gods universe.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3CEMYkc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Strange Recollections of Martha Klemm: Sara was Judith<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91TMZ+lhlrL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a><br />
by Julian Hawthorne, P Alexander, Michael Tierney, Robert A Lupton</h2>
<p>“She is not there, she is something else; she is an angel—or a devil come back to peep at us, to be worshiped, to mock us, to kill us, to smile on us as we die, and to go on to another, again to ravish and destroy him! What is she—who is she? No one knows! But she was, before the Pyramids, and when our great Londons and Parises are a jungle and a swamp, she was what men desire and can never possess, the glimmer in the dark, the mirage in the desert, the thing that is, and is not!”</p>
<p>The editor for All-Story Weekly called “Sara Was Judith” “one of the most remarkable stories ever written. It is entirely unlike any story that you have ever read.” Indeed, Hawthorne weaves a strange tale that straddles gothic, romantic adventure, and even body horror in a work that is truly prototypic of what would eventually become known as “Weird Fiction.”</p>
<p>Martha Klemm’s school chum, Sara, is an impossibly bland and uninspired woman living a rather dull and ordinary life—quite the contrast with Martha’s, filled with globetrotting adventure. Sara’s daughter Judith is her exact opposite: filled with life and vibrancy, mystery and mischief.</p>
<p>When a deadly storm drowns the girl saving the young lad who fancies her, Sara, in her one act of passion, hangs herself in her boudoir. Pronounced dead, Sara shocks the mourning household, friends, and doctor when she emerges later that evening, more vivacious than she has ever been… and protesting that she is Judith!</p>
<p>Julian Hawthorne’s final novel for All-Story Weekly is a haunting and beautiful tale of love and betrayal and the struggle between good and evil that Miss Martha Klemm finds herself caught, an active and partial observer, within!</p>
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by Julian Hawthorne, P Alexander (Editor), Michael Tierney (Editor), Robert A Lupton (Editor)</h2>
<p><strong>Doris Dances</strong></p>
<p>Robert “Bob” McIvor Melrose, an eccentric banjo-playing millionaire, was always a child at heart and wanted nothing more than a child of his own. When his gold-digging wife forces him to choose between her and an orphan infant girl he adopted, Bob takes little Doris with him on the road.</p>
<p>Leaving all but a pittance for himself and Doris to live on to his wife, the father and daughter live a simple and carefree life as tramps. Gerda Kent, an artist on the verge of fame, hones her skills and creates her masterpiece capturing the loving father and daughter, Bob picking on his banjo while Doris dances.</p>
<p>Hawthorne delivers a cozy and clever comic romance to warm the heart.</p>
<p><strong>Fires Rekindled</strong></p>
<p>“Yes, it may be that thunders of Armageddon portend that after so many blindfolded ages, the veil of Isis is being lifted at last! Some of us at last may consciously be admitted to intercourse with souls disincarnate, and hear nightingale notes of paradise. How can I doubt it!”</p>
<p>Against the backdrop of the Great War, an American visitor in London doing research on his ancestor is struck by a peculiar deja vu–much stronger than the mere sense he has been to the house where he is staying, he finds he knows of details that he could not possibly, even had he once visited in his youth. The strange sense sends him on a quest for knowledge to uncover a past-life love and solve a century-old possible murder!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3NkMxQW" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Strange Recollections of Martha Klemm: Absolute Evil & A Goth from Boston<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Q-PmHQTmL._SL1500_.jpg" width="201" height="294" /></a><br />
by Julian Hawthorne, P Alexander, Michael Tierney, Robert A Lupton</h2>
<p><strong>Absolute Evil</strong></p>
<p>“Thomas Aquinas says that angels, white and black, can change men into beasts permanently; enchanters could do it, too, but not for long. Seventeenth century witchcraft affirmed that certain natural objects and rites could produce strange effects without aid of God or devil. But the operator must renounce God and Christ, be re-baptised, trample on the cross, and be marked in a certain way—a symbolic transaction. The person could then do only evil—good was forbidden to him, or her!”</p>
<p>Absolute Evil is, in many ways, Julian Hawthorne’s coda on his father’s works pertaining to the theme of Calvinist “doom.” Many of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s villains and tragic figures hearken back to Marlowe’s Faustus, with the worldview that destiny and damnation are unalterable though it was the choices they made through free-will that set them on the road to hell.</p>
<p>Unlike his father’s work on the subject, however, Absolute Evil is an action-packed thriller in which a Presbyterian minister turns himself into a werewolf and haunts the New England beaches.</p>
<p><strong>A Goth From Boston</strong></p>
<p>“Her father assured me with pride that she could—as he expressed it—lick any boy of her age on the Beach. And he said to her once, in my hearing, when she had come in rather late to cook dinner, with that grin of hers, in spite of a black eye and a bloody nose, and with a tale how she had ‘walloped’ her latest antagonist—‘Right-o, Polly, my lass,’ he said; ‘as long as ye lick ’em, ye’re excused; but the first one as licks you ye’ll marry him—mind that!—so be he’s not married already; and that’ll be a lesson to ye never to mix it up with married men, anyway!’ A plain reversion to the Stone Age, you see.”</p>
<p>While on an errand to gently turn down a proposal from Cabot Selwyn, a Professor of Biology, Martha Klemm meets a most intriguing and alluring beauty–working in the service of the good doctor as mere maid!</p>
<p>Fate and the forces of nature conspire to throw the trio together time and again: can the Doctor escape his ivory tower understanding of biology and embrace the human?</p>
<p>Hawthorne explores the dichotomy between the “Prospero” and the “Caliban” within the human spirit, in this adventure on the high seas featuring a delightful Tomboy, a hapless professor, a chad sailor, and of course, Martha Klemm!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3L8IZRN" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3L8IZRN">Dawn of the Black Sun (The Silver Empire series Book 1)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81byVk6ansL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" height="300" /> </a><br />
by Timo Burnham (Author)</h2>
<p><strong>A fisherman’s son who has lost everything.</strong></p>
<p><strong>A wandering master haunted by regret.</strong></p>
<p><strong>An exile wielding a sword that speaks.</strong></p>
<p>Ryushu lives the quiet and boring life of a fisherman’s son until a single day rips his world apart.</p>
<p>Now he must make the journey to the top of the titanic Mount Gharun to learn from the hyo masters–martial artists with the powers of demigods. Can he survive the brutal climb? Does he have the strength, not just of body, but of mind and spirit?</p>
<p>Meanwhile an exile wonders the barrenlands, holding a sword that speaks. He slowly gathers a following as he prepares to take the emperors throne for himself.</p>
<p>Dawn approaches. A Dawn of death and destruction.</p>
<p><strong>The Dawn of the Black Sun</strong>.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/40MJMON">Critical Musings From a Traditionalist : 26 Essays</a> by Jocelynn Cordes (Author)</h2>
<p>The essays in this modest collection cover a broad range of topics, from goal setting (and keeping) to the meaning of community; from our responsibility to be educated citizens to the imperative that we think for ourselves.</p>
<p>Some are politically neutral; others forge into politically charged territory.</p>
<p>But whether writing about Islam, diversity directives, or the inanities of “woke” culture, Cordes writes with impeccable skill and intelligence. </p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3AemjI7">Pulp on Pulp: Tips and Tricks for Writing Pulp Fiction</a></em> <br />edited by Kit Sun Cheah & Misha Burnett<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright tc-smart-loaded" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51sBSFn9pdL.jpg" alt="Pulp on Pulp: Tips and Tricks for Writing Pulp Fiction by [Kit Sun Cheah, Misha Burnett, JD Cowan, Matthew P. Schmidt, James A. Buck, Morgon Newquist, Anthony Perconti, Robert Stultus, D. G. D. Davidson, Christopher Lansdown]" width="235" height="352" /></h2>
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<p><strong>Write Fast. Write Well. Get Paid.</strong> These were the watchwords of old-school pulp fiction: fun, fast-paced, and immensely popular with readers. The pulp era is coming back. Blending timeless lessons from the grandmasters of the pulp era with the genres, tastes and technologies of today, PulpRev forges boldly ahead into the future of fiction. Hugo and Dragon Award nominated writer Kit Sun Cheah teams up with Misha Burnett to compile a selection of essays on the PulpRev aesthetic from some of the leading writers in the movement. Pulp on Pulp covers: * How to plot like a pulp grandmaster * How to write 5000 words a day * The secrets of writing fantastic fight scenes * Worldbuilding and character creation tips * And many more! PulpRev is the Revolution, Revival and the Renaissance of Pulp. Take the plunge into the new pulp era and become the best writer you can be!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3G9ve2n">Escape the City volume 1 (Escape the City: A How-To Homesteading Guide)</a><br />Travis J.I. Corcoran<img decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/713CSCfsFgL._AC_UL232_SR232,232_.jpg" alt="Escape the City volume 1 (Escape the City: A How-To Homesteading Guide)" /></h2>
<p>Escape the City is the perfect guide for people who live in the city or suburbs and want to move to the country.</p>
<p>This is the “missing manual” that tells you absolutely everything you need to know on thousands of topics that you never even realized existed.</p>
<p>Whether you’re interested in shopping for a used tractor, starting garden seeds in a grow tent, logging your own trees, planting a berry patch, breeding sheep, arranging for firewood delivery, making ten gallons of hearty soup from a pig skeleton, installing solar electric power, or fighting invasive species, Escape the City has the information you need.</p>
<p>There are endless books on gardening, farming, and homesteading. Why this book?</p>
<p>* Other books don’t have sufficient breadth. EtC covers absolutely everything related to living in the country.</p>
<p>* Other books have blind spots about the basic stuff. EtC explains the “obvious” stuff: the difference between straw and hay, and between discing plowing and rototilling.</p>
<p>* Other books don’t spell out the details. EtC has checklists, choices for different budgets, and step by step instructions. Escape the City explains all of the basics – everything from buying a tractor to fertilizing gardens – and concludes with dozens of recipes for farm-to-table dishes like Apple Pie with lard crust, Maple Creme Brulee, Pork Stock, Duck Leg Confit, Pork and Pumpkin Soup, Lamb Chops, and even a Whole Pig Roast.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3SSV55X">Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women’s Traditions & Our Future</a><br />by Jessica Marie Baumgartner</h2>
<p>Women are being replaced.</p>
<p>The Western world has embraced modern ideologies which not only destroy femininity and female heritage, but endanger girls and women with harmful rhetoric and life-styles.</p>
<p>“Reclaiming Femininity” displays female history and heritage with an emphasis on the positive role that femininity played for Western culture.</p>
<p>It goes further into detailing how women and girls can reclaim their positive impact moving forward.</p>
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<p>Mary was a virgin, but did she stay a virgin after Jesus born?</p>
<p>Did she live a sinless life?</p>
<p>In his debut work, David Knox explores these and other questions that have become points of contention between Protestants and Orthodox Christians. Using scripture, history, culture, and linguistics, <strong><em>A Case for Mary</em></strong> shines a light on how, and more importantly why they may not be so unbelievable after all. </p>
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<p>I particularly recommend it to politically interested Americans and right wing Brazilians who want self-government for their respective countries. Also, any other person who, like me, has a political involvement, or is influenced by politics, could benefit from reading this book.</p>
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<p>Born in Buenos Aires in 1995, in 2022 I published my first book. It was about politics, which is a vice for me, detailing the dark side of liberalism in Argentina. Watching the Brazilian election of 2022, in the austral summer of 2023 I began to connect the dots, and I wrote a book detailing how the largest Western powers in “parceria” with the global left, managed to conquer the power in the second nation in the Western Hemisphere against the candidate (22).</p>
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<p>All the books I have written are extremely detailed and structured. All the affirmations are documented, I apply a global vision of the issues that I deal with, in addition to projecting the trends towards tomorrow.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/49ODjHi">El lado oscuro de los libertarios</a> (Spanish Edition) by Pablo Villizzianto<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/libertarios.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-6251 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/libertarios.jpg" alt="" width="243" height="384" /></a></h2>
<p>Segun opiniones del ambito no liberal, tanto de derechas como de izquierdas, este libro es denso en informacion. Incluye, sin limitarse a ello, al financiamiento de las embajadas britanica, estadounidense, alemana y holandesa para con el ambito liberal en argentina. Por ejemplo, pagina 120, el jefe de gobierno porteño, tiene como su jefa de asesores a la presidente del cippec, este, en sus balances del 2017, en la seccion cippec en el mundo, se explaya de como trabajan con 3 de las 4 embajadas mencionadas antes, en “…fortalecimiento del congreso…” Este libro incluye el financiamiento de empresarios estadounidenses y britanicos al ambito liberal en Argentina, por ejemplo, del conglomerado industrial Koch. Como ya has podido ver, no se limita a los libertarios locales, sino que penetra en el funcionamiento del ambito liberal. Sin limitarse a lo anterior, incluye el desarrollo del argumento liberal, y de la practica historica del liberalismo asi como del conservadurismo britanico, de la esclavitud. Filosofos liberales, hechos historicos, y atrocidades contemporaneas, nos muestran cuales son sus verdaderos colores, y prueban terminantemente como su predica es un mero chamuyo para acceder a los recursos publicos. Tambien pruebo como lo que mencionaron ellos, del libre comercio de organos, y luego de niños, es un punto comun en su ambito, al punto de que un periodista de infobae, perfil y otros escribio publicamente en su apoyo. Capitulo 3 muestro, en 71 carillas, el caso historico que continua al presente, de discriminacion y odio de caracter etnico, racial y de clase para con el resto de la sociedad. Lo de arriba son solamente 3 de 20 capitulos, el 5, 2 y 3. Todo el libro esta pesadamente documentado. Es tremendamente rico en citas de autores, comunmente filosofos reconocidos, prominentes politicos, periodistas, magisters, doctores en ciencias. Hasta ahora, una persona que ha publicado una variedad de libros, y que da clases en Maestrias, me ha dicho que es un argumento complejo, que no es un libro para cualquiera. No ha sido el unico, y es algo que esta por verse. Pueden escuchar dos entrevistas de 1 hora, donde trato parte de lo anterior en más detalle, en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpl79Vkd6H4 y en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q81iVuAQGy0 Una aclaración, es que en la 1° edicion para Amazon, expandi el indice, y agregue un parrafo, asi que tiene entre 1 o 2 carillas más que la 1° edicion en papel</p>]]></content:encoded>
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<description><![CDATA[Bypass the cultural gatekeeping, support non-woke authors, and get yourself some great books from both established and emerging talent for only $0.99 – many titles free! The sale runs through Tuesday November 28. Fan Favorites: These are some of the most popular titles from previous sales: 198 titles from 101 authors. This is a great […]]]></description>
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<p>Bypass the cultural gatekeeping, support non-woke authors, and get yourself some great books from both established and emerging talent for only $0.99 – many titles free!</p>
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<p>The sale runs through Tuesday November 28.</p>
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<li><strong><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6221">Fan Favorites</a>:</strong> These are some of the most popular titles from previous sales: 198 titles from 101 authors. This is a great place to start, if you’ve never been to a sale before, or if you want to be sure you haven’t overlooked a great deal.</li>
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<li><strong><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6223">New Arrivals</a>:</strong> These are new releases and other books that we have not previously featured in a sale or that have not appeared in a while: 76 titles from 55 authors. If you’ve been to the sale before, this is a great place to start for some fresh reads.</li>
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<li><strong><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6250">Non-Fiction</a>:</strong> We also have a handful of non-fiction works as well ranging from politics to theology to writing to homesteading.<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/photo_2023-11-23_12-35-59.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-6340 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/photo_2023-11-23_12-35-59.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="614" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/photo_2023-11-23_12-35-59.jpg 512w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/photo_2023-11-23_12-35-59-250x300.jpg 250w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px" /></a></li>
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<p>Our friends at Castalia House are joining in the Based Book sale, offering <a href="https://arkhavencomics.com/product-category/ebooks/?orderby=price&q=%2Fproduct-category%2Febooks%2F">eight of their titles for $0.99</a>. Those titles are:</p>
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<li><em><strong>The Nine Laws</strong></em> by Ivan Throne</li>
<li><em><strong>Wardogs Inc. #1: Battlesuit Bastards</strong></em> by G.D. Stark</li>
<li><em><strong>Wardogs Inc. #2: Hunter Killer</strong></em> by G.D. Stark</li>
<li><em><strong>Wardogs Inc. #3: Metal Monsters</strong></em> by G.D. Stark</li>
<li><em><strong>Mutiny in Space</strong></em> by Rod Walker</li>
<li><em><strong>Corrosion</strong></em> by Johan Kalsi</li>
<li><em><strong>There Will Be War Vol. I</strong></em> by Jerry Pournelle (editor)</li>
<li><em><strong>Summa Elvetica and Other Stories</strong></em> by Vox Day</li>
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<p>In addition <a href="https://arkhavencomics.com/product/a-throne-of-bones/"><em><strong>A Throne of Bones</strong></em> by Vox Day</a> is only $1.99. And the first eight volumes of their richly-illustrated <a href="https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-junior-classics-vols-1-8-ebooks/"><strong>Junior Classics</strong> are only $19.99</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/"><strong>Arkhaven Comics:</strong></a> Speaking of free entertainment, Arkhaven Comics offers a wide variety of serialized web-comics absolutely free. Genres include horror, science fiction, fantasy, thriller/adventure, comedy and political cartoons. Some of my personal favorites are:</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/superhero/alt-hero">Alt★Hero</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/comedy/hypergamouse" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hypergamouse</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/superhero/flying-sparks" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Flying Sparks</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/superhero/my-sister-suprema" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">My Sister Suprema</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/drama/the-wise-of-heart" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Wise of Heart</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/fantasy/vegfolk-fables" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Vegfolk Fables</a></li>
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<p>You can <a href="https://arkhavencomics.com/product-category/subscriptions/arktoons/?orderby=price&q=%2Fproduct-category%2Fsubscriptions%2Farktoons%2F" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">support Arkhaven</a> for as little as the cost of an ebook a month, keep the servers running, and help fund more exciting, entertaining, and based content.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> From November 24 through November 30, Castalia Library is selling four leather-bound “Library” books at <a href="https://arkhavencomics.com/product-category/leather/?orderby=price&paged=1&q=%2Fproduct-category%2Fleather%2F">a discount price of $69.99</a> for everyone in the USA and the UK. This includes both subscribers and non-subscribers alike; no discount codes are necessary or applicable to the books on sale. Free shipping is included.</p>
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<li><em>The Lawdog Files</em></li>
<li><em>The Jungle Books</em></li>
<li><em>The Black Swan</em></li>
<li><em>Fooled by Randomness</em></li>
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<p><a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/leather-books.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6346" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/leather-books.jpg" alt="" width="812" height="402" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/leather-books.jpg 812w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/leather-books-300x149.jpg 300w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/leather-books-768x380.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px" /></a></p>
<p>Castalia Library is also selling four premium goat-skin “Libraria” books at <a href="https://arkhavencomics.com/product-tag/sale/">a discount price of $199.99</a>. The same rules apply.</p>
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<li><em>Ethics</em></li>
<li><em>Politics</em></li>
<li><em>Summa Elvetica</em></li>
<li><em>The Promethean</em></li>
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<p>Once again, thanks to the Aetherczarina who chipped in to help me execute our latest sale.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[More than seventy new arrivals to the sale! The most ever! These are some offerings either new to the sale or that haven’t appeared for a while. The contributors include science fiction grandmasters, Dragon Award winners and nominees, established mainstream authors, and emerging indie talent. Authors include both established and emerging talent: Tony Andarian, J.M. Anjewierden, […]]]></description>
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<p>More than seventy new arrivals to the sale! The most ever!</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These are some offerings either new to the sale or that haven’t appeared for a while.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The contributors include science fiction grandmasters, Dragon Award winners and nominees, established mainstream authors, and emerging indie talent. Authors include both established and emerging talent: Tony Andarian, J.M. Anjewierden, Hawkings Austin, V.A. Boston, Daniella Bova, Timo Burnham, Jacob Calta, Blake Carpenter, Mel Dunay, Milo James Fowler, Karl K. Gallagher, Michael Gallagher, Abigail Grace, Eric M. Hamilton, M. Anthony Harris, Brendan M.P. Heard, Frederick Heimbach, Robert E. Howard, Becky R. Jones, Joseph Knowles, Robert Kroese, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Connor Mccoy, Jonathan Moeller, Scott Nicholson, Dr. John T. Parce, N.R. LaPoint, T.J. Marquis, Plum McCauley, Jack Mikkelson, Richard Paolinelli, George Phillies, Matthew W. Quinn, Denton Salle, Joe Salem, David Skinner, Glen Sprigg, Michael Tierney, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Erik Waag, Allison Wade, and Yevgeny Zamyatin.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And every title is either free or $0.99! Note: prices are set by the authors, so please confirm before you buy. And some of the offerings are short stories or novellas instead of full-length novels.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Sale Links:</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6081" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Main Sale Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6086" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fan Favorites</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6091">New Arrivals</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6088">Non-Fiction</a></li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3lmdAxm">Son of Grendel: Battle for the Wastelands #0</a></em><br />by Matthew Quinn</h2>
<p><strong>A tyrant’s heir must go into the mountains to face a band of insurgents on its own ground. Not everybody will emerge from the confrontation unscathed, not least him.</strong></p>
<p>Falki Grendelsson, eldest son of the first lord of the Northlands, serves as a company commander in his father’s elite Obsidian Guard. Though many lords would keep their sons close and out of harm’s way, Grendel is determined his son learn the business of war firsthand for the day he puts on his father’s cloak. But when Robert Dalton leads displaced farmers armed with stolen Old World repeating rifles in a raid that kills a favored officer, Grendel sends Falki to make an example of them. Falki has never fought this type of war before. Although the Obsidian Guard has the deadly weapons of the ancient world and dirigibles to rain fire from the skies, Dalton’s insurgents know the land and the mountains hold terrors beyond his increasingly-desperate men.</p>
<p>In order to cement his father’s new order, Falki has to triumph not only over a physical foe who would gladly kill him, but his own demons. And victory over one might mean falling to another… This novella is set a year before the first novel in the series, <em>Battle for the Wastelands.</em></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/47S2pUy" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/47S2pUy">Worthy of Prometheus</a><br />by Plum McCauley (Author), Saul Botcher (Illustrator), Jocelynn Cordes (Editor)<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-162.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6095 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 377px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-162.png" alt="" width="294" height="462" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-162.png 318w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-162-191x300.png 191w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A fantasy adventure with elements of science fiction, “Worthy of Prometheus” delves into Greek mythology to tell the tale of Hephaestus, artisan and metal worker of the gods, who is about to take a risk that is literally worthy of the great Titan himself. Hephaestus is at the verge of introducing to humanity a game-changing invention that will alter the course of civilization forever. But this gift to the human race will likely bring on the full wrath of Zeus. Terrified of punishment, Hephaestus nonetheless plods gallantly forward in secret, determined to improve the lot of mankind. His wife Aphrodite, however, throws the proverbial wrench into the works by first spying on, then informing against, her crippled but brilliant husband. Confronted by Zeus for his crime, Hephaestus is meted out a punishment both novel and completely unexpected.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Review</h3>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>–Winner 1st place, eBook category, <em>Reader Views</em> 2014-2015</strong><br /><br /><strong>–Recipient of 2015 B.R.A.G. Medallion (Book Readers Appreciation Group)</strong><br /><br />—<strong>Finalist in the novella category of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards </strong><br /><br />“This fast-paced, fantasy novella will appeal to both the young adult and general trade markets. All in all, this is a great book for fantasy lovers [and] fans of Greek mythology.”<strong>–Caroline Blaha-Black <em>US Review of Books</em></strong><br /><br />“The prose has just the right amount of lush description of the world of the gods, and the characterization gives a little extra inner life to the immortals we already know. A well-written riff on Greek mythology that poses more questions than it answers.” <strong><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3Ev6ksU">Bovodar and the Bears</a><br />by Jack Mikkelson (Author), Mary MacArthur (Illustrator)</h2>
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<p>“And what would you do if two angry bears came pounding on your door, demanding that you hurry out to meet them?” That’s the dilemma for Bovodar Yarkery, who is confronted one day with a gathering of bears who wish to carry him off on their grand adventure. Across hazardous deserts, through caverns, and far up through the forests into the cold North, there stands Kalas Hall, home of an evil polar bear lord, King Valemod. The path is long, perilous, and uncertain, but if Bovodar & the Bears succeed in their mission, untold glory and riches can be theirs… but only if they can overcome the dangers that await them.<br /><br />This is the complete story of Bovodar and the Bears. Readers can now read about the day Bovodar left his comfortable tree house and trace his journey all the way across the countryside to the journey’s end in the far northern land of Nixwild. Previously a serial, this release is the complete tale of Bovodar Yarkery’s first adventure away from home.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">An illustrated version of this remarkably clever and imaginative YA fantasy is available for free on <a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/fantasy/bovodar-and-the-bears">Arktoons</a>.</h2>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3YZwpdj" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3YZwpdj">Guardian Strike: A Prequel to Arrow Storm, A Military Technothriller</a><br />by Joe Salem<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-163.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6096 alignright" style="width: 175px; height: 263px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-163.png" alt="" width="282" height="423" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-163.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-163-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This gripping technothriller follows Master Sgt Janet Nellis as she leads her Space Force team in a battle of rising tensions between China and the US.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The two countries prepare to battle over Taiwan, in space, in the air and at sea.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As the CCP’s Dr Chen Jianjen leads the development of a nefarious weapon in space, the stakes become ever-higher.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Meanwhile the ROC’s Captain Zhao Lin is ready to fight and die to defend his home in Taiwan.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/44Dv2C3" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/44Dv2C3">Torchship</a><br />by Karl K. Gallagher<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-202.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6146 alignright" style="width: 198px; height: 289px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-202.png" alt="" width="277" height="405" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-202.png 342w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-202-205x300.png 205w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A captain who’ll take any job if there’s enough money in it.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A pilot with an agenda of her own.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And a mechanic with an eye on the pilot.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The crew of the Fives Full are just trying to make enough money to keep themselves in the black while avoiding the attention of a government so paranoid it’s repealed Moore’s Law.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They’re not looking for adventure in the stars . . . but they’re not going to back down just because something got in their way.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-center"><em>The individual books were previously offered.</em><br /><em>This is the first appearance of this two-volume omnibus.</em></h2>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3R8fAe6">Hero’s Metal: Books I and II: Limited Edition Demibus (Hero’s Metal – Dark Fantasy Adventure)</a><br />by T.J. Marquis<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-161.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6093 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-161.png" alt="" width="238" height="394" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-161.png 302w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-161-181x300.png 181w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Young Pierce the spellsword and legendary mercenary band Gorgonbane come together to fight rising <strong>threats </strong>from deep within their <strong>hollow earth</strong>!<br /><br /><strong>Devastating </strong>weapons and magic, over the top <strong>action</strong>, true heroes, and an earth-shaking heavy metal vibe. Great for fans of Conan, Masters of the Universe, and readers who just want a <strong>fun </strong>story.<br /><br /><em>Praise from Periapsis Press:</em><br /><strong>“<em>How Black the Sky</em> is an enjoyable adventure full of hardcore action, valiant warriors, and thought-provoking themes. A great start to the Hero’s Metal series!”</strong><br /><br /><em>Praise from author NR LaPoint:</em><br /><strong>“A fun fantasy romp in a strange universe.”</strong><br /><br /><em>This ‘demibus’ volume collects books one and two of Hero’s Metal –<br />How Black the Sky<br />Out of the Deep<br /><br />It will be available for sale until the release of Hero’s Metal book III, Fear the Four Towers. Get your copy while you can!</em></p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Dawn of Chaos is an omnibus volume that collects previously published books in the <em>Dawn of Chaos</em> series.</h3>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://buy.bookfunnel.com/xd2fh6xnn8" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3PpYBTt">Dawn of Chaos: (Sanctum of the Archmage, Volume One)</a><br />[<a href="https://amzn.to/3PpYBTt" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3PpYBTt">Kindle Link</a>]<br />by Tony Andarian<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-176.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6118 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 360px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-176.png" alt="" width="299" height="449" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-176.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-176-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px" /></a></h2>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em>It wasn’t demons, death, and slavery to the Dark that truly frightened her. It was the woman she would have to become to fight them.</em></strong></h4>
<h5 class="wp-block-heading"><em>Dawn of Chaos: Full Trilogy Edition (Includes Prologue to Chaos, Hell Gate, and Aftermath)</em></h5>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>A new constitution prepares Carlissa for an era of enlightenment. The old order fades, and a promise of freedom stirs the air. In the space of one terrifying day, that promise is shattered in a bloodbath of fire and magic.</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Thousands of years ago, an epic battle was fought between good and evil. The demon lords had opened a door to the realms of hell itself, and their horde threatened to overrun the earth. But the Kalarans, led by the hero Calindra, destroyed their hellgate and drove them from the world.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Great War has long since been lost to myth and legend. The Church struggles for relevance as the people forget their covenant with the gods. A renaissance of freedom and learning stirs the air in the modern age of Carlissa, led by the royal family, and the wisdom of the Archmage.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">All that comes to an end when a dome of shimmering magic appears in the capital city. The people fight desperately to survive in the chaos that follows, and wonder bitterly why the gods seem to have abandoned them. Their only hope lies with the magic of the Archmage — and his, with a free-spirited princess who never wanted to rule. She must find the strength to set aside her bard’s calling and take up a battle against impossible odds, or surrender her land and people to the Black Magus and his demons.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Dawn of Chaos</em> finally brings the award-winning <em>Sanctum of the Archmage</em> role-playing games to the world of fantasy fiction. Get it today and don’t miss this exciting first volume in the series!</p>
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<h2 class="a-section a-spacing-none wp-block-heading"><a style="font-family: Alegreya; font-weight: bold;" href="https://amzn.to/44FiPg7">Magic Abroad (Academic Magic Book 3)</a><br /><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51YzWqqi9-L.jpg" alt="Magic Abroad (Academic Magic Book 3) by [Becky R. Jones]" width="227" height="319" />by Becky R. Jones</h2>
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<div id="centerAttributesLeftColumn">Zoe O’Brien is very much looking forward to teaching summer school and tracking down fairy tales in Ireland. Her hopes for a quiet, academic summer are squashed when the dolphins tell her there’s something wrong in the Aran Islands, and her students are stalked by a… <span class="a-text-italic">something</span> before disappearing. There’s also the possibility that the slightly creepy guy at the train station is her father. So much for a quiet research-filled summer!</div>
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<h2 class="a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container" data-a-expander-name="book_description_expander" data-a-expander-collapsed-height="140"><a href="https://amzn.to/44Fr1gz">Westward, Tally Ho!</a><br />by Milo James Fowler<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/512SV4C5EBL.jpg" alt="Westward, Tally Ho! by [Milo James Fowler]" width="226" height="361" /></h2>
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<p><strong><span class="a-text-bold">How are your survival skills?</span></strong></p>
<p>It’s the late 19th century, and you’re a young English aristocrat lost in the American Southwest. A lynch mob is after you for horse theft. Irritable natives are on your trail. And the woman with you is not the type you’d bring home to your mother. Would you survive long enough to find safety? Or would you curl into a fetal position and cry?</p>
<p>This is where Clarence Oliver Edwards finds himself in Westward, Tally Ho! Bored with his privileged life in England and weary of the relatives who share his family estate, Clarence follows his recently dismissed butler, Guthrie, on a non-stop adventure from the busy streets of Boston to the dusty trails of Santa Fe. What begins as Guthrie’s search for his long-lost daughter becomes a shocking introduction to the American West for Clarence. His idea of proper etiquette is stretched to the limit as he’s bombarded with characters of all types: tough gunslingers, seductive saloon girls, crafty frontier traders, an eccentric Zuni Indian chief, and a wild hermit.</p>
<p>Through it all, Clarence realizes the value of loyalty and the cost of redemption. But most importantly, he discovers a degree of inner strength he never knew he possessed. Will Guthrie find his daughter? Will Clarence survive unscathed? Take a wild ride through the Old West and find out!</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3LdpUxP">BackTracker</a><br />by Milo James Fowler</h2>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">Private eye Harold Muldoon has a big problem: he’s dead.<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51XGq2ZNvlL.jpg" alt="BackTracker by [Milo James Fowler]" width="212" height="338" /></span></p>
<p>Twenty years ago, a monk with a <span class="a-text-italic">kodachi</span> cut off his head. Now his wife Irena is desperately trying to find him. So is Gavin Lennox, power-hungry owner of The Pearl, the hottest night spot in all of NewCity. Cyrus Horton, an eccentric inventor, has also joined in the search. But what they’re really looking for is the <span class="a-text-italic">BackTracker</span>, a time travel device that has caused divergent realities to spiral out of control.</p>
<p>In one of them, Muldoon is still alive.</p>
<p>He was a private investigator, the best at what he did. He solved his cases 100% of the time. Hindsight is, after all, 20/20. And the BackTracker allowed him to change the past. But in the process, his travels through time have unraveled the universe, stretching, tearing the fabric of space-time and sending his own mind into oblivion. He can no longer distinguish between true and false memories; he no longer knows who he was.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-italic">BackTracker</span> is about a hero dealing with the consequences of his actions. It’s about second chances. And it’s about what makes us human despite technology’s power to shape society. But at its core, it’s a story about a man and woman who won’t allow anything to keep them apart – not space-time, not even death.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/47WX2nf">Double Murders are Twice as Bad: Vic Boyo, Doofus Detective #1 </a><br />by Milo James Fowler</h2>
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<p><span class="a-text-bold">Two murders. One detective. Half a brain.</span></p>
<p>1931, New York City: Detective Vic Boyo may not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but that doesn’t stop him from solving cases as only he can. With a little luck and a whole lot of gumption, Boyo sets out to find the murderer of a local cop. Problem is, Boyo’s more interested in a gorgeous femme fatale accused of killing her husband. She’s destined for the electric chair, but Boyo’s got a hunch she might be innocent.</p>
<p>And nobody gets in the way of Boyo’s hunches, not even Vic Boyo himself.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3r0jriI">The Unusual Clients (Suprahuman Secret)</a><br />by Milo James Fowler</h2>
<p><strong>Collects the novellas <span class="a-text-italic">Doppelgänger’s Curse</span>, <span class="a-text-italic">Up in Smoke</span>, and <span class="a-text-italic">Death Duel</span>:</strong></p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">A woman stalked by her double. A detective in over his head.</span></p>
<p>In a city where the cops are on a mobster’s payroll, private investigator Charlie Madison stands in the gap. When a wealthy young socialite asks him to help her catch a threatening stalker, he takes the case. But things aren’t what they seem, and Madison has to act fast before he’s framed for murder.</p>
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<p><span class="a-text-bold">A life ended in flames. A detective sorting through the ashes.</span></p>
<p>Private eye Charlie Madison saw plenty of bloodshed during the war, but he’s never seen a billionaire burst into flames in his office. Until now. Searching for answers, Madison uncovers more than he bargained for: a bizarre mystery of human combustion that’s smoking with jealousy, revenge, and murder. Add a pair of cops on his tail who are more interested in putting him out of business than seeking justice. It’s just another action-packed day for the Charlie Madison Detective Agency. Now accepting…unusual clients.</p>
<p><span class="a-text-bold">An honest cop impaled through the chest. A detective fighting his way to the truth.</span></p>
<p>Private eye Charlie Madison saw his share of murder and mayhem during the war. But he’s never seen anything like this on home soil. The culprit can’t be human. A mandroid, then? Cyborg? Madison’s investigation takes him deep into the underground world of extreme fighting—duels to the death, showcased beneath the city’s biggest casino. Along the way, he discovers a new steroid quietly coming out of Little Tokyo. If rumors are true, it can turn a man into a killing machine.</p>
<p>Before vengeful police can find and execute the murderer, another officer is found slain. With rogue yakuza, the Russian mob, and Federal agents in the mix, Madison must put the pieces of this violent mystery together before the city loses another good cop. Problem is, the killer may be one of his own clients.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3sMPQtw">Serpent Sword: A Steampunk Military Fantasy (Battle for the Wastelands Book 2)</a><br />by Matthew W. Quinn (Author), Matthew Cowdery (Illustrator)</h2>
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<p><span class="a-text-bold">Killing a cannibal overlord was just the beginning. Now there’s a war to win, and the odds are getting worse.</span><br /><br />For capturing a dirigible from the cannibalistic Flesh-Eating Legion and rescuing rebel chieftain Alonzo Merrill, Andrew Sutter earned a promotion. Now the rebel armies are carving a bloody swath toward the old capital of Jacinto. Victory seems near as the man-eaters crumble before the Merrills’ salvaged Old World arsenal.<br /><br />But Grendel, first lord of the Northlands, marches south to turn back the tide. Although he had planned to betray the Flesh-Eaters and replace them with his son by Alonzo’s captive sister Catalina, Grendel cannot let the rebels’ defeat of the Flesh-Eater ruler go unavenged. He brings with him hundreds of thousands of reinforcements and Catalina herself as bait.<br /><br />With Jacinto under siege and enemy armies drawing ever-nearer, Andrew and his friends must descend into the occupied city of Long Branch to rescue Catalina and confront the dreaded first lord himself.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pm2MP1">365 Infantry: The 2022 Collection</a><br />by Jacob Calta (Author, Editor), Kevin Jacob (Illustrator), Alexander Hellene (Editor)<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-160.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6092 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-160.png" alt="" width="241" height="312" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-160.png 386w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-160-232x300.png 232w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><em>“This is a man who has a vision…to bring fun back into your life by any means. Trust me, this is someone you’ll be seeing a lot of in the years to come!” – </em>J.D. Cowan, author of <em>The Last Fanatics</em> and <em>The Pulp Mindset</em></strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For the brave wolven warriors of the 365th Infantry, the fight against the strange creations of the sentient computer A.C.E.S. is a nonstop war for the freedom of the Wastelands and those in the heart of the distorted metropolis Haven. A war of nerves, a war of force, and a war waged in denim, leather, & chrome.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Creator Jacob Calta takes readers on a fantastic journey into a savage world, a post-apocalyptic circus that is as much a celebration of classic science fiction as it is a salute to hot rods, chopped hogs, and heavy metal, all with a unique and stylish vision from the multi-talented author, composer, and filmmaker. Enjoy 25 exciting tales across multiple series within the setting, including a brand-new spy thriller NEVER BEFORE RELEASED! Hop in and hang on for the most savage hounds this side of the Bomb!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3fHq7sA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Penny Dreadful and the Clockwork Copper (Clockwork Justice Book 1)</em></a> <br />by J.M. Anjewierden</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Accidentally-sentient clockwork Viva-3 may look human, but to the brutal secret police she’s an expendable tool.<br />Sent undercover to find the identity of the city’s vigilante hero, all she wants is freedom. Perhaps the hero could be friend rather than foe?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Review: </strong>This is a good, slightly different, take on Victorian Steampunk, set in a city/state that is increasingly revealed as truly and deeply dystopic. The heroines (one a rebellious young upper-class woman, the other an inexplicably self aware organic android) find themselves defending themselves, and others, from the corrupt state, the true depths of the corruption of which, I’m not sure the young uppercrust scion every does truly grasp.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There’s a lot of world building going on here, and this is a nice introduction. Anjewierden could go a lot of interesting places with this world if he chooses to expand on this work.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3fFOBSS" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Keepers of the Wind</a></em> <br />by J.M. Anjewierden<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Keepers-of-the-Wind.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5045 alignright" style="width: 247px; height: 330px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Keepers-of-the-Wind.jpg" alt="" width="302" height="403" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Keepers-of-the-Wind.jpg 375w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Keepers-of-the-Wind-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For a thousand years the outlawed priestesses of Meda have preserved the religion of the Fris, safeguarding what scraps and fragments they could.<br />For a thousand years the Alven Empire stamped out all other religions in favor of their false gods.<br />But the Alven dug too deep, releasing the demons of earth, terrible monsters they cannot hope to fight.<br />All that can stand against them is Fleur and the other priestesses.<br />Five young girls.<br />Alone.<br />Even as Fleur’s powers weaken, the Goddess sees fit to drop a mysterious Alven–half-dead and without his memories–into her life. Can she trust him, or is he a threat to her people?</p>
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<h2 id="block-4f0e4ae0-c6b4-46f8-87ae-e14de8508f02" class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/35Ye3iV">Armored Heart</a></em></strong> <br />by J.M. Anjewierden</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-b6c02a09-aa3e-4b5a-b7b1-71ac5b3adf30">May returned home from the Second Augment War having left parts of herself behind, emotionally and literally. An inventor at heart, she built herself cybernetic legs to regain her mobility, and then a suit of powered armor to regain a purpose in her life as the superhero Escuda.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-ac475222-5d70-4fe7-bf01-c109b26c5eee">But can she balance being a superhero with a love life?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-a77a2205-28c7-480e-b790-b9627199af38">The country’s most celebrated superhero, Steel Patriot, has moved to her town. Sure, Escuda will be able to work with him easily enough, but can May get his attention, while also dealing with a new breed of supervillain on the rise?</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3PtorGe">Two Become One …Again: A Tale of Rekindled Love</a><br />by Abigail Grace (Author), Brian McCoppin (Illustrator)<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51IxtsaI8zL.jpg" alt="Two Become One ...Again: A Tale of Rekindled Love by [Abigail Grace, Brian McCoppin]" width="220" height="341" /></h2>
<p>Sarah and Paul have been married for over a decade, but lately, they feel like strangers in their own home. The constant demands of work and raising children have left them feeling drained, disconnected, and desperate to find a way to reconnect with each other.<br /><br />They decide to take a leap of faith and attend a marriage retreat in hopes of salvaging their relationship. As they navigate the challenges and joys of the retreat, they learn to communicate better, understand each other’s needs, and ultimately rekindle the love they thought was lost.<br /><br />Will their newfound connection be enough to withstand the challenges that await them at home? Can they continue to prioritize their relationship amidst the chaos of everyday life?<br /><br />Filled with heartwarming moments and thought-provoking lessons, “Two Become One… Again” is a story of hope, love, and the power of faith to heal even the deepest wounds.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/44DyPPP">Stellar Stories Vol. 2: Science Fiction & Wonder</a><br />by David Skinner<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-165.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6098 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-165.png" alt="" width="219" height="331" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-165.png 331w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-165-199x300.png 199w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nine stories of rockets and robots, monsters and Martians, fistfights and beauties, wonders and awe…</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><br />A daredevil from Jopitar plans an impossible act and seeks the aid of a girl who cannot burn.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A young man sets his heart on the intimate companion of the artificial Man in the Moon.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Outlaws in the Martian desert point Hamlin Becker and the sisters Day to a revelation.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A girl who communes with the planet Pluto hires a boy who can spray-paint with his mind. And more!</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3PpJY2q">Deathbringer: The Spellswords Saga: Book One (The Spellsword Saga 1) </a><br />by Blake Carpenter (Author), Michael Gallagher (Editor)</h2>
<p>Inga Alenir is a Swordbearer. She is the latest in a long line of women to inherit a magical weapon called Deathbringer. She’s also dead, murdered on her wedding day by the ruthless and covetous noblewoman Yenda Avard, who steals the sword after killing Inga and her entire family.</p>
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<p>And yet, some secrets won’t stay buried. Deathbringer has a will and a consciousness of its own, and even has the power to raise Inga from the dead for a short time. It warns her that she has one week to find and retrieve the sword before death reclaims her—permanently. With each day bringing her doom and final demise ever closer, Inga will have to see just how far she’s willing to go to achieve her vengeance.<br /><br /><span class="a-text-bold">DEATHBRINGER</span> is a compositional mix between the violent, grisly hunt for revenge in the film <span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">THE NIGHTINGALE</span> and the tale of Vasher and his talking sword Nightblood in Brandon Sanderson’s <span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">WARBREAKER</span>. Fans of dark fantasy, of tragic love stories and tales about seeking revenge against long odds will enjoy this debut novel by Blake Carpenter in the world of Agareth where a scorned, young widow fights back against the powerful elites that wronged her, and begins a journey that might turn the entire world against her.<br /><br /><strong><span class="a-text-bold">What Readers are Saying About </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">Deathbringer</span><span class="a-text-bold">—</span></strong><br /><br /><span class="a-text-italic">“I fell in love with these characters… If you love a good revenge story, it’s so good. I had a great time with this one!”</span><br />—<span class="a-text-bold">The Nerdy Narrative</span> (https://www.youtube.com/TheNerdyNarrative)<br /><br />“<span class="a-text-italic">I think this one is truly special… The world of Agareth is a vast and uncompromising one, being filled with dangers and factions striking out to meet their own ends, forging their way in a world which appears obsessed with progress. However, seeing our main protagonist, Inga, rise up to the challenge in spite of what’s placed in front of her makes it all the more compelling to read.</span>“<br />—<span class="a-text-bold">The Lord Otter </span>(https://downstreampulp.substack.com/)<br /><br /><span class="a-text-italic">“Those who like tales of revenge with protagonists who do not lose their humanity or become permanently obsessed by it will enjoy this book. Anyone who wants to see other cultures portrayed in new settings and new ways will find it entertaining as well. The novel should appeal to fantasy fans everywhere but particularly those interested in Slavic and Russian milieus, as the story has the air of </span>Anastasia <span class="a-text-italic">about it. Those who want a new twist on familiar tropes should find this story quite engaging.”</span><br />—<span class="a-text-bold">Caroline Furlong</span>, <span class="a-text-italic">Upstream Reviews</span> (https://upstreamreviews.substack.com/)<br /><br /><span class="a-text-italic">“Carpenter has a deft, confident style that pulls the reader in and keeps them there, connecting with the characters and exploring their world. He has crafted an exquisitely written, perfectly-paced, throughly gripping tale. I am definitely looking forward to the next installment. Highly recommended.”</span><br />—<span class="a-text-bold">S. Kirk Pierzchala,</span> author of <span class="a-text-italic">Echoes Through a Distant Glass, Harshest Dawn</span> and more<br /><br /><span class="a-text-bold">M., Goodreads Review: </span>“<span class="a-text-italic">It’s technically amazing. Snappy, quick paced, action packed, and with memorable characters who are well written and well realized that feel like actual people. Also has a cool early 1900’s Russian inspired semi-Steampunk setting which is super rare to see in Fantasy. 8/10.</span>“<br /><br /><span class="a-text-bold">K.D. McAllister, Amazon Review:</span> “<span class="a-text-italic">Blake absolutely stuck the landing with a highly satisfying conclusion to Inga’s tragic mission and by books end I was fully invested in her, the supporting characters, the BLADE LORE, and teases of what is to come. You can just tell Blake has so much more he wants to tell us! Buy this so that he CAN! 4/5 stars</span>“</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3syeZYS" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3syeZYS">Swords and Maidens: Eleven Tales of Chivalry and Valor</a><br />by N.R. LaPoint (Author), Declan Finn (Author), L. Jagi Lamplighter (Author), Michael Gallagher (Author), & 7 more<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-170.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6112 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-170.png" alt="" width="237" height="356" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-170.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-170-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">From magic battlefields where horses fear to tread, to flying fortresses, fantastical otherworlds, a planet infested with eldritch abominations, and lands ruled by fear, heroes will fight for what is worth fighting for. Knights in gleaming armor, soldiers, Middle Earth’s most deadly Elvish assassin, hunters, and kings. All will risk their lives to defend the defenseless, to destroy monsters, to preserve the lives and honor of fair maidens.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">See a soldier fight to rescue a besieged princess from marauding, magitech barbarians, an immortal knight fight for a farmstead, a husband and wife fight for the honor of a fallen comrade against a deadly dragon, a hunter seek to recover a maiden’s stolen soul, an elf defend a woman from assassins, a deposed king fight for his kingdom, and more!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/47XNckW" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/47XNckW">Death Planet (Dinosaur Warfare Book 1)</a><br />by N.R. LaPoint<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-171.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6113 alignright" style="width: 236px; height: 353px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-171.png" alt="" width="292" height="437" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-171.png 334w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-171-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Vidarian scourge has swept through many star systems,<br />killing and enslaving in an endless invasion.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When his home world is targeted, Ambrose Weaver flees with a crew of exiles.<br />Hunted down and forced to crash land on the mysterious planet Typhon,<br />they soon find their escape from sure death<br />has only led them to new troubles and prehistoric dangers.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The dinosaurs are only the beginning.</p>
<p>Can Ambrose and his crew brave primeval jungles<br />and survive a planet filled with horror?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://books2read.com/u/mV856l" data-type="link" data-id="https://books2read.com/u/mV856l">Castle Brave</a><br />by Hawkings Austin [<a href="https://amzn.to/45VLChB" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/45VLChB">Kindle Link</a>]<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-201.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6145 alignright" style="width: 245px; height: 368px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-201.png" alt="" width="273" height="410" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-201.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-201-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Vani Army’s Special Forces Forward Division has one job.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They get behind enemy lines and do unto them First and Hardest.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The SSFD are the lurking monsters that make enemy soldiers fear the dark.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Infiltrate, Assassinate, Extract.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They never deal with civilians.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This mission, they’ve got a civilian target and a civilian advisor.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They aren’t behind enemy lines and planning has been rushed.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As the screwups mount, it looks like they should turn around and head back to base.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But, there is a greater purpose.</p>
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<h2><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/33aHah9">Aye, Robot (A Rex Nihilo Adventure) (Starship Grifters Book 2)</a></em></strong> <br />by Robert Kroese</h2>
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<p><span class="a-text-bold">Praise for Aye, Robot</span><br />“Once again, Kroese gives me a story I can’t put down with a hero I can’t bring myself to despise. A brilliant sequel to one of my favorite space romps of all time.” – Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool<br /><br />“With this book, Robert Kroese has planted his flag atop Sci-Fi Humor Mountain and dared everyone to knock him off. If this isn’t the funniest book you read all year, there’s something wrong.” – Paul P.<br /><br />“I’ve never laughed so hard while reading a book.” – Greg O.<br /><br />“Mr. Kroese is the Douglas Adams of our generation.” – Ellen C.<br /><br /><span class="a-text-bold">The Newest Name in Piracy Starts with Arrrrr</span><br />Rex Nihilo, interstellar con man… and space pirate? When space grifter Rex Nihilo hijacks a cargo freighter on a whim, he decides that he and his long-suffering robot sidekick Sasha have found their calling as space pirates. But when the ship’s cargo turns out to be a cryogenically frozen religious fanatic who holds the secret to a vast galactic conspiracy, Rex and Sasha find themselves on the run from *real* pirates–as well as agents of the oppressive Malarchy, crazy space cultists and the trigger-happy goons of the Ursa Minor mafia. If Rex is going to get out of this jam alive, he might just have to save the galaxy… again. Aye, Robot is a sequel to Starship Grifters, but it’s not like it’s going to make any more sense if you read that book first, so you should probably just buy this book now while you’re thinking about it. SPECIAL BONUS FOR PEOPLE WHO BUY AYE, ROBOT IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS*: Get an exciting scifi novella,The Yanthus Prime Job, absolutely free!<br /><br />*Probably also available for people who buy it after that. But maybe not! There’s no way to know!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3nww0ym" data-type="URL" data-id="https://amzn.to/3nww0ym"><em>Distopia (Land of Dis Book 2)</em></a> <br />by Robert Kroese </h2>
<p><strong>Praise for Distopia<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Dystopia.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5141 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Dystopia.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Dystopia.jpg 332w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Dystopia-199x300.jpg 199w" alt="" width="241" height="364" /></a></strong></p>
<p>“Best thing I’ve read in a long time.” – T. Holland</p>
<p>“A book that equals some of Pratchett’s work in the vein of aburdist fantasy, the author tackles politics, religion, economics, corruption, heroism, myth and reality, sacrifice and fanaticism in a way that’s both fun and fast paced, and completely logical.” – Robert D.</p>
<p>“If you like Terry Pratchet, you’ll love this book. A perfect mixture of comedy, fantasy and suspense.” – Andrew B.</p>
<p><strong>Here Be Dragons…</strong></p>
<p>A fearsome dragon roams the Land of Dis, and only one man can stop it: an awkward young missionary named Wyngalf.<br /><strong><br /></strong>Accompanied by a beautiful stowaway named Evena and an oddball goblin who has been shunned by his clan, Wyngalf wants nothing more than to prove himself to his superiors. Unfortunately, his proselytizing has hit a snag: his would-be converts are too busy being terrorized by a dragon to worry about spiritual concerns. Wyngalf realizes that in order to prove his faith, he must summon the courage and resourcefulness to defeat the dragon. But getting rid of a dragon is more complicated than it seems….<strong><br /><br /></strong>At turns riveting, hilarious and sweet, Distopia is perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett and The Princess Bride.<strong><br /><br />Hop aboard. The Land of Dis awaits you!</strong></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3sJjTmd">The Chicolini Incident</a><br />by Robert Kroese</h2>
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<p>A hilarious introductory adventure featuring interstellar con man Rex Nihilo and his longsuffering robot sidekick Sasha.</p>
<p>Robert Kroese’s sense of irony was honed growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan – home of the Amway Corporation and the Gerald R. Ford Museum, and the first city in the United States to fluoridate its water supply. In second grade, he wrote his first novel, the saga of Captain Bill and his spaceship Thee Eagle. This turned out to be the high point of his academic career. After barely graduating from Calvin College in 1992 with a philosophy degree, he was fired from a variety of jobs before moving to California, where he stumbled into software development. As this job required neither punctuality nor a sense of direction, he excelled at it. In 2009, he called upon his extensive knowledge of useless information and love of explosions to write his first novel, Mercury Falls. Since then, he has written 18 more novels. His latest series is Codex Babylon.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/45VUtzV">Practical Exercise</a><br />by George Phillies</h2>
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<p>Adara Triskittenion has been admitted to the school of her dreams, Dorrance Academy, the premier magical research university of the Commonality of the Timeless. Her objective: Become a faculty member and stay forever. Her family, House Triskittenion, the Hall of the Three Kittens, still has claims on her time. For most of the year she has books to read, courses to ace, but first that trivial test of combat magic skill, the Practical Exercise.</p>
<p>Readers are perhaps familiar with fictional magical academies allegedly modeled after English Public (meaning private, boarding) Schools. Dorrance Academy is not one of these places. Dorrance resembles an American research university, except that the ‘science’ majors are fields of sorcery.</p>
<p>A minor authorial aside: As it happens, your author is also a research scientist, a retired physics professor. Once upon a time, many decades ago. I was a student at America’s Dorrance Academy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I have woven into the tale a fair piece of advice on how to succeed at such a school. If you are headed off to such a place, please keep my advice in mind. You may correctly assume that some of the modest vignettes are lightly disguised real occurrences, including ‘construction line’ and ‘personal self-aggrandizement’.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/4629ccL">Eclipse: The Girl Who Saved the World (Eclipse — the Girl Who Saved the World Book 1)</a><br />by George Phillies (Author), Brad Fraunfelter (Illustrator)</h2>
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<p>Eclipse —<br />World’s Greatest Tween Superhero<br />World’s Most Terrifying Tween Supervillain<br />Opinions differ.<br />She’s caring, daring, deadly<br />…and here to save the world<br />whether it likes it or not.<br /><br />Meet Eclipse.<br /><br />She’s twelve. She’s hardworking, bright, self-reliant, good with tools, vigorously physically fit, tough as nails, still young enough to disguise herself as a boy. She’s also a persona: She flies, reads minds, and is not afraid of necessary violence.<br /><br />She had a bit of a problem with her mom. Her mom threw her out of the house. Then Mom blew up the house and disappeared.<br /><br />Now she’s procured the Holy Namestone, the Key to Paradise. And everyone in the world will be happy to kill her to get their hands on it.<br /><br />Meet Trisha.<br /><br />She’s not quite a year older than Eclipse. She’s friendly, considerate, really good in school, athletic, does more than her share around the house. She’s also a persona. She has superspeed…an hour of housework in a minute. She flies, including from here to the next galaxy in an hour.<br /><br />She also has a bit of a problem with her parents. They always treat her with complete contempt, totally grounded her, and won’t say why.<br /><br />Her brother and sister are personas, too. Year-younger sister Janie is a budding world chess and go champion. She also reads minds, sees distant events, and can kill with a glance. Her twin brother Brian is incredibly good with tools, builds fantastic models from scratch, has a nearly unbreakable force field, and summons plasma beams that cut battleships in half.<br /><br />Eclipse is Volume 1 of the This Shining Sea series. Volume 2, Airy Castles All Ablaze, will be a major rewrite of my much older novel This Shining Sea. There will be a Volume 3, Stand Against the Light, and a Volume 4, Of Breaking Waves, because Eclipse still needs to save Spindrift from having died.</p>
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<p><span class="a-text-bold">Originally appearing in the pulp fiction publication “Weird Tales” throughout the 1930’s, Conan: The Barbarian complete collection is the complete collected stories of Conan the Cimmerian as written by Robert E. Howard. This eBook, which is optimized for Kindle, re-tells all 18 stories of Conan.</span><br /><br />Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films<br />The various stories of Conan the Barbarian occur in the pseudo-historical “Hyborian Age”, set after the destruction of Atlantis and before the rise of any known ancient civilization.<br /><br /><br />Stories included:<br />Cimmeria — A Poem<br />The Phoenix on the Sword<br />The Scarlet Citadel<br />The Tower of the Elephant<br />The Slithering Shadow/ Xuthal of the Dusk<br />The Pool of the Black One<br />Rogues in the House<br />Gods of the North/The Frost Giant’s Daughter/The Frost King’s Daughter<br />Shadows in the Moonlight<br />Queen of the Black Coast<br />The Devil in Iron<br />The People of the Black Circle<br />A Witch Shall Be Born<br />Jewels of Gwahlur<br />Beyond the Black River<br />Red Nails<br />The Hour of the Dragon<br />The Hyborian Age<br />Robert E. Howard- Biografy and more!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3r0Ay42" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3r0Ay42">Final Exam (Cameron Vail Book 1)</a><br />by Glen Sprigg<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-174.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6116 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-174.png" alt="" width="240" height="300" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-174.png 260w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-174-240x300.png 240w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A clever detective and a young reporter: the classic crime-fighting team, looking for their first big break.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A puzzling murder, a prominent victim, and a web of deceit throw a peaceful college campus into chaos and spur the pair into action.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They face two small problems: the police hate amateurs butting in on an investigation, and their exams start next week.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The first Cameron Vail mystery, Final Exam brings the old-school mystery genre into the modern age.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Check out his blog, Sprigg’s Scribblings, at <a href="http://gcsprigg.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">gcsprigg.blogspot.com</a>.</h2>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3sHBlaz" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3sHBlaz">Apprentice</a> <br />by Glen Sprigg<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-172.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6114 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 337px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-172.png" alt="" width="289" height="405" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-172.png 357w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-172-214x300.png 214w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A summons from his master, the most powerful wizard in the world.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A quest that must not fail.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A horror unimagined.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sent by his master on a mission of utmost importance, the apprentice wizard Jandar finds himself embroiled in a struggle for the soul of a people. With only his magic, his wits, and a gift from his master, Jandar must find a way to free the people from a terrible fate. But in doing so, he will face the ultimate challenge, and a fate undreamt.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pobddx">A Universe of Possibilities: A Sampler Anthology</a><br />by Glen Sprigg<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-175.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6117 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 383px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-175.png" alt="" width="286" height="457" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-175.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-175-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Science fiction, fantasy, superheroes, and more!</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This sampler anthology showcases the author’s stories across several different genres.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Inside, you will find ten short stories with a wide variety of styles that will whet your appetite for more to come.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Seek out the author’s other works, and enjoy!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3R7U8Wx" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3R7U8Wx">Wild Stars V: The Artomique Paradigm</a><br />by Michael Tierney (Author), DarkFilly (Illustrator)</h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">75,000 years ago, an immortal being from another universe known only as the Ancient Warrior led mankind on an exodus to the stars in the face of a massive alien invasion. While the branch of humanity remaining behind survived the Marzanti attempt to terraform earth into a paradise for aquatic alien nightmares, their cousins settled in the distant reaches of space known as the Wild Stars.<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-177.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6119 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 311px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-177.png" alt="" width="287" height="372" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-177.png 260w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-177-231x300.png 231w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px" /></a></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Artomique Paradigm takes place at the first formal reunion of Earth and their Wild Stars cousins. Erlik, the son of the Ancient Warrior, and former President Bully Bravo hope that a summit between the myriad factions now populating space will bridge gaps and build trust throughout the galaxy. However, the Artomique Corporation aims to become one of the dominant players in Earth and interstellar politics using the stolen Wild Star technology they acquired in the late 20th Century. For them, this meeting is an opportunity to solidify Artomique Earth’s dominance over the stars and implement the Artomique Paradigm.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A secret alliance between the Artomique Corporation and space pirates led by the notorious Red Queen threatens to turn the balance of power in the galaxy upside down!</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Artomique Paradigm is the 5th installment in Michael Tierney’s Wild Stars series.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/45AhtVb" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/45AhtVb">Fairy Door</a><br />by V. A. Boston<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-203.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6147 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 360px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-203.png" alt="" width="277" height="416" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-203.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-203-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>It only took one word: Deal.</strong><br /><br />After years of neglect from her father, Eibhlin has had enough.<br /><br />But when a purse of infinite gold, a fairy, and a trade shatter what little relationship she has with her father, she resolves to set things right.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Aided by a magic compass and a talking instrument, she now seeks three magic keys and their magic doors to find the fairy once again and recover what was lost.<br /><br />She broke their relationship.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now, she’ll brave the Fae to fix it. If she can get there.<br /><br />From the fantasy tradition of The Chronicles of Prydain and The Hobbit comes a tale of love and redemption perfect for fans of all ages.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://parce.gumroad.com/l/sheepskin1" data-type="link" data-id="https://parce.gumroad.com/l/sheepskin1">Sheepskin Volume 1, From the Records of Dr. John T. Parce</a><br />by Dr. John T. Parce [<a href="https://amzn.to/3P29FVu" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3P29FVu">Kindle Edition</a>]<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-204.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6148 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 397px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-204.png" alt="" width="275" height="455" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-204.png 302w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-204-181x300.png 181w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dr. Parce is missing.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A desperate investigator is publishing the documents Dr. Parce left behind. The first record details the psychologist’s treatment of the mysterious Patient #307.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The patient, calling himself “Snapper,” reveals his past to Dr. Parce. Snapper claims to hail from an alternate world populated by animals. The interviews, essays, and drawings given by Snapper weave an extraordinary coming-of-age tale about oppressed sheep, corporate pigs, and the search for a primitive power lurking deep inside the earth. Snapper’s bizarre world is rife with loss, love, and an ancient strength he must find in himself if his people are to survive.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"> As Dr. Parce is drawn in by Snapper’s fantastical story, his skepticism wears thin. How far did he allow himself to be entangled in this patient’s delusions? The investigator may be left wondering which one of them has truly lost their grip on reality.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/45ENUC4" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/45ENUC4">Tears Of Paradox (Storms Of Transformation Book 1)</a><br />by Daniella Bova<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-178.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6120 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 360px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-178.png" alt="" width="282" height="423" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-178.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-178-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>NEWLY REVISED AND EDITED 2021 RE-RELEASE!</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>When the sharks are in charge, it’s no longer business as usual.</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Slowly but surely, Air Force veteran, devoted husband, and auto mechanic Jason Wallace finds himself existing in a country transformed by a malevolent ideology. In the new America, human and individual rights are history. Life is cheap. Death is gain. Division and destruction are the name of the game.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At the behest of shark-like overlords, gangs of teens terrorize suburban neighborhoods, and parents come to fear their own children. Yet dark as things are, Jason still dreams of becoming a father.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The sharks have instituted a new way of doing business, where families are anathema. When Jason’s dream finally meets reality he must find a way to save his child from their crushing jaws.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/45WDTjt">Silent Order: Iron Hand</a> <br />by Jonathan Moeller *FREE*</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41TcI+Ygt1L.jpg" alt="Silent Order: Iron Hand by [Jonathan Moeller]" width="235" height="353" /></p>
<p>The galaxy is at war, but wars are won and lost in the shadows.<br /><br />To the galaxy at large, Jack March is a privateer of the interstellar Kingdom of Calaskar and a former Iron Hand commando of the malevolent Final Consciousness. In truth, he is an alpha operative of the Silent Order, the most efficient and feared intelligence organization in human space. When there is a crisis, Jack March is the man to call.<br /><br />But there are many forces that wish to enslave or destroy humanity.<br /><br />And when a mission leads March to a lawless asteroid space station, he might be the only one left to stop those forces…</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Z6Na6q" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3Z6Na6q">Silence and Starsong Magazine: <br />Spring 2023, Volume 1 Number 1</a><br />by Joseph Knowles, Frederick Heimbach, & 8 more<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-179.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6121 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 382px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-179.png" alt="" width="270" height="430" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-179.png 314w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-179-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The inaugural issue of Silence and Starsong Magazine contains stories in a variety of genres from science fiction and horror to fantasy and action/adventure. There are authors you already know and love as well as promising newcomers. All share a common goal: to inspire wonder and awe through stories of high strangeness and other modern fairytales for grown-ups.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>A Matter of Honor by Jason McCuiston</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Decades of religious war have forced friends and foes under one roof for the night. Will bonds of friendship and fragments of a common faith be enough to protect them from a supernatural enemy?</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>A Wanderer of Ur by Gaston Nerval</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Long ago, much more easily did strange beings pass through the veil between earth and heaven. Thark ventures into the wilderness, seeking out the terrors that cause the cities to tremble.</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Archangel by </strong><strong>Frederick Gero Heimbach</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>American missile silos promise annihilation by the heat of a thousand suns. In Czarist Russia, however, even more sinister weapons lurk beneath the ocean</em>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The Two Godly Fishmongers: A Tale of Strange Providences by Kevin White</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>In Merrie Olde England, two feuding fishmongers encounter a strange providence that takes them beyond their earthly sphere. As they break from their everyday affairs will they also break off their quarrel?</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Free Lunch by S. Kirk Pierzchala</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Sally knows that the most crucial part of dealing with the uncanny is: don’t eat mystery food. Free meals may have strange strings attached.</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Have Ye Offered Unto Me by Zachary Grafman</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>The day-to-day life of an academic is accompanied by worries that seem mundane to most of us. Yet, what is discussed in the lecture hall or inscribed in dusty tomes, does not always remain in the realm of speculation.</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The Gamer by Nathan Karnes</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>The gamer had frequented dull locales in the past, but rarely so mundane as this. This was dangerous. In his profession it was almost guaranteed that something exciting would happen about the same time that he carried out his business</em>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The Secret of Phelim Darke by S. Kirk Pierzchala</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>All the gurus will say that “communication is key” for married couples. For some couples, however, the secrets between them are almost beyond imagination</em>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The Shadow of the Stain by Patrick Lauser</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Two sisters discover the heavy cost that comes from deeds carried out in secret. What’s done in the dark will inevitably be brought into the light.</em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Hidden Empire by T.R. Alexander</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>In the world of espionage and counterintelligence, the men who secretly guide the ships of state will take whatever advantages they can get. When Joseph Cartwright is dispatched to CIA headquarters, he discovers just how far the agency is willing to go.</em></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/44F1kgb">Under the Menhir: A Fantasy Novella</a><br />by Allison Wade<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-180.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6122 alignright" style="width: 238px; height: 367px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-180.png" alt="" width="265" height="409" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-180.png 324w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-180-194x300.png 194w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>A dangerous secret is buried deep under the Menhir du Champ-Dolent.</em><br /><br />Jean has fled from Italy to let go of the past and start a new life. The old picture of a Menhir in northern France has brought him to the small town of Dol de Bretagne.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He doesn’t know why he’s there, and for sure he wasn’t expecting to find himself in the middle of a fight that’s been going on since the beginning of times.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Facing an Irishman with an eyepatch that claims to be his brother, helped by a circle of druidesses and a mysterious woman who bears the weight of an unforgiving fate, he’s about to discover a legend that could change the fate of humanity.<br /><br />A fantasy story born in the cradle of the Megalithic culture, following the steps of Celtic tradition until the present days.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A novella of myths, magic, and hard choices.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3YZKx6l" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3YZKx6l">Echoes of Memory</a><br />by M. Anthony Harris<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-191.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6133 alignright" style="width: 224px; height: 358px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-191.png" alt="" width="224" height="358" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-191.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-191-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you can’t trust your memories, what can you trust?<br /><br />This question gnaws at Aris Ravenscroft after foreign memories invade his mind and nearly get him killed during an assassination attempt on the Emperor, a hero beloved by all.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A hero he’s sworn to protect.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Kestrel, a street-smart orphan, also finds his mind filled with memories that aren’t his.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Memories that say that his world is nothing like it seems.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now the duo must make sense of the alien memories while unraveling the mystery of the Emperor’s true colors while dodging attempts on their lives by the mysterious Inquisitors, crooked politicians, and a host of dangers in a world where the greatest villain is the biggest hero.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Er4TvA" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3Er4TvA">Sleeper Agent</a><br />by M. Anthony Harris (Author)<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-190.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6132 alignright" style="width: 225px; height: 359px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-190.png" alt="" width="225" height="359" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-190.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-190-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Stephen Matthews is the perfect spy. He just doesn’t know it.<br /><br />Stephen always thought that his dreams were just that, only dreams. What he hasn’t yet realized is that when he sleeps, he has the ability to see through the eyes of others around him.<br /><br />Soon Stephen is approached by a mysterious research center that wishes to unlock the limits of human potential by harnessing the powers of lucid dreaming. What Stephen doesn’t know though, is that there’s hidden depths to their research. He’s being bred to be the perfect spy. A true sleeper agent.<br /><br />Now thrust into a world of violence and terrorism, Stephen must quickly learn to harness his power if he wishes to save his own life and stop an attack that threatens to tear apart America’s information infrastructure.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3R7YblF" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3R7YblF">Sleeper Agent: Cold War</a><br />by M. Anthony Harris (Author)<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088KLDD5Y?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_1&storeType=ebooks"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" style="width: 235px; height: 375px;" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41zbCuA1H+L._SY300_.jpg" alt="Sleeper Agent: Cold War" width="235" height="375" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Stephen Matthews is the perfect spy and now he knows it.<br /><br />Recovering from the injuries inflicted in his previous adventure, Stephen and his team are desperately searching for any sign of the mysterious ‘X’ behind the attack that nearly killed Stephen and almost crippled America’s information infrastructure.<br /><br />With the reemergence of a mysterious illness that caused the townspeople of the tiny village of Kalachi, Kazakhstan, to fall into a coma-like sleep, the team heads to the former Soviet Bloc nation to search for the mysterious Sleeper Agent ‘X’ who’s planning a new, more dangerous attack. One that would wreak havoc in Kazakhstan and start a war with America that could last for decades. Now it’s up to Stephen and his team to stop this new threat from ‘X’ and keep a potential war at bay.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3YZR2WJ" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3YZR2WJ">Texas Otherworld (Hall of Heroes Book 2)</a><br />by Denton Salle<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-182.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6124 alignright" style="width: 223px; height: 356px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-182.png" alt="" width="265" height="423" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-182.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-182-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Texas is a big and sometimes strange place. Often stranger than you guess when the monsters and myths of Eastern Europe have somehow ended up here. All of them, from frisky water spirits to things that eat your soul.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Happily there is a deal. Sort of. An old one that goes back to Tsar Boris-Michael and Prince Yaroslav the Wise. And along with the deal, a group of people stuck with enforcing it. It’s not even a job ’cause most of the time they don’t get paid.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Twelve tales from the Hall of Heroes, who have the obligation to keep the Compacr and help people to deal with problems. Problems like the water king stealing your girlfriend, a draugr kidnapping a sheriff’s deputy, or a Christmas legend gone bad. And those are the easy days.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Za2izW" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3Za2izW">Jiao Tu’s Endeavour: Episode 1: The Kidnapped Mousling</a><br />by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt (Author), Anthony Perconti (Foreword)<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-192.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6134 alignright" style="width: 228px; height: 364px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-192.png" alt="" width="273" height="436" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-192.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-192-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>On a multigenerational colony ship five hundred years off course, a lagomorph warrior must survive using only his wits and his sword.</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jiao Tu has been hired to rescue a young kidnapped mousling. A tip leads him to the Below, home to the engines that keep the world in motion. His mission has hardly begun when an encounter with a monstrous being plunges him into the midst of a struggle not only for control of the Below but for the world itself.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Teamed with an untested ratling warrior and the ratling leader of a gang of thugs, Jiao Tu must stop the monster and save the mousling—and the world—before it is too late.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Leigh Brackett’s planetary romances, Gene Wolfe’s <em>Book of the Long Sun</em>, Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane stories, Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo, and the wuxia tradition starting with <em>Water Margins</em> and <em>Journey to the West</em>, Uitvlugt has created a world all his own that promises a far-future adventure unlike any other.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">— “<em>Jiao Tu’s Endeavour</em> is a rarity in the Sword & Planet genre. It’s like nothing that came before it. Drawing from John Carter, Usagi Yojimbo, and <em>Orphans in the Sky</em>, Uitvlugt has created a fantastic tale no fan of pulp adventure should miss.”<br />— Henry Vogel, author of the <em>Scout</em> series</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">— “In a world filled with anti heroes, Jiao Tu is a breath of fresh air. His virtues are on display for all to see. The mysteries around him unfold at just the right time. A real page turner.”<br />— A.M. Able, author of the Uplift Protocol series</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">— “An adventure of mystique and mystery in an industrial jungle. Every moment drips with intrigue!”<br />— T.J. Marquis, author of <em>Life City</em><br /><br />— “A loving homage to the pulps of old, an intriguing blend of Sword, Sorcery, and Planet. A story where the hero is morally strong, not just skilled and of strong will, is a delight.”<br />— D.J. Schreffler</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>This volume contains the complete first story arc compiled from the web serial </em>Jiao Tu’s Endeavour<em>, as well as the bonus stories “The Festival of Sweets” and “The Last Oracle.” Read more about the lagomorph warrior and his adventures at </em><a href="https://jiaotusendeavour.wordpress.com/">https://jiaotusendeavour.wordpress.com/</a></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3Z4hpus">After: The Shock (AFTER post-apocalyptic series, Book 1)</a><br />by Scott Nicholson *FREE*</h2>
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<p>“One of the most thrilling writers working today. Miss him at your peril.” – Blake Crouch, Wayward Pines<br /><br />“Nobody thrills like Nicholson does. Nobody.” – J.A. Konrath, Origin<br /><br />The first book in the AFTER post-apocalyptic thriller series from an international bestselling author.<br /><br />AFTER: THE SHOCK<br /><br />A massive solar storm erases the world’s technological infrastructure and kills billions. While the remaining humans are struggling to adapt and survive, they notice that some among them have…changed.<br /><br />Rachel Wheeler finds herself alone in the city, where violent survivors known as “Zapheads” roam the streets, killing and destroying. Her only hope is to reach the mountains, where her grandfather, a legendary survivalist, established a compound in preparation for Doomsday.<br /><br />Other survivors are fleeing the city, but Zapheads aren’t the only danger. Rogue bands of military soldiers want to impose their own order in the crumbling ruins of civilization. When Rachel discovers a 10-year-old boy, she vows to care for him even at the risk of her own life.<br /><br />And the Zapheads are evolving, developing communal skills even as they lay waste to the society they will eventually replace.<br /><br />—<br /><br />Look for the sequel, THE ECHO, as well as the ZAPHEADS spinoff series. The NEXT series is coming in late 2015. Scott Nicholson is author of more than 30 books, including The Home, Liquid Fear, Creative Spirit, The Red Church, and Mystery Dance. His website is www.AuthorScottNicholson.com.<br /><br />“Scott Nicholson knows the territory. Follow him at your own risk.” – Stewart O’Nan, A Face In The Crowd<br /><br />“Like Stephen King, he knows how to summon serious scares. My advice? Buy everything he writes.” – Bentley Little, The Haunted</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3L8IZRN" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3L8IZRN">Dawn of the Black Sun (The Silver Empire series Book 1) </a><br />by Timo Burnham (Author)<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-198.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6142 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 360px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-198.png" alt="" width="296" height="444" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-198.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-198-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>A fisherman’s son who has lost everything.</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>A wandering master haunted by regret.</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>An exile wielding a sword that speaks.</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ryushu lives the quiet and boring life of a fisherman’s son until a single day rips his world apart.<br /><br />Now he must make the journey to the top of the titanic Mount Gharun to learn from the hyo masters–martial artists with the powers of demigods. Can he survive the brutal climb? Does he have the strength, not just of body, but of mind and spirit?<br /><br />Meanwhile an exile wonders the barrenlands, holding a sword that speaks. He slowly gathers a following as he prepares to take the emperors throne for himself.<br /><br />Dawn approaches. A Dawn of death and destruction.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The Dawn of the Black Sun</strong>.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3sEEesJ" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3sEEesJ">Slaying a Tyrant (Ancestors of Jaiya Book 1)</a><br />by Mel Dunay<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-194.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6136 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 384px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-194.png" alt="" width="279" height="446" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-194.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-194-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Journey to the country of Jaiya, in a world not quite like ours.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Here the humans wield magical powers and fight against an Empire which seeks to enslave them, but they share their world with insect people and trollfolk, and stranger things lurk in the shadows…</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Vanti would be happy to spend her life in dance and choreography, but her family chooses her as their champion in a deadly gladiators’ tournament.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To save her country from enslavement, she must defeat King Obiar the Conqueror and his magical powers.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But will the brooding trainer named Gurion be her guide in the battle to come…or a dangerously handsome distraction?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Note: Tyrant is meant as a standalone. However, the heroes in the later books in this series are descended from Vanti and Gurion, who are also the ancestors of some of the characters in the original Jaiya series.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/45E90R7">We</a><br />by Yevgeny Zamyatin *FREE*</h2>
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<p>The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell’s 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand.</p>
<p>In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful ‘Benefactor’, the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity – until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul.</p>
<p>Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.</p>
<p>It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/45UzflP" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/45UzflP">It Came from the Lunchbox</a><br />by Eric M. Hamilton *FREE*<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-199.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6143 alignright" style="width: 239px; height: 369px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-199.png" alt="" width="274" height="423" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-199.png 324w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-199-194x300.png 194w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Third grader Kamal Amir discovers a lunchbox that has been abandoned for thirty years. <strong>And the contents are alive! </strong>Having absorbed several decades’ worth of classes, the mysterious creature inside the lunchbox promises to help Kamal with his schoolwork and improve his relationships. But the creature’s promises aren’t entirely true. As Kamal gets to know him better, he realizes that the creature may have another agenda.<br /><br /><strong>It Came from the Lunchbox</strong> is a thrilling, suspenseful, and humorous children’s horror story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. With its memorable characters, fast-paced plot, and creepy atmosphere, this book is sure to scare and delight readers of all ages.<br /><br />Paying homage to great children’s horror series like <em>Are You Afraid of the Dark?</em> and <em>Goosebumps, </em>if you love to laugh and have a good scare, this is the book for you!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3R8k8Bg" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3R8k8Bg">Citadel of Seven Swords (Skarde: The Wandering Sword Book 1) </a><br />by Erik Waag (Author), Krzysztof Jr. Porchowski (Illustrator), Daniel P. Riley (Editor)<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-200.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6144 alignright" style="width: 240px; height: 386px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-200.png" alt="" width="277" height="445" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-200.png 311w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-200-187x300.png 187w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Sword Swinging Thrills!</em><br /><br />Skarde desires only to be free, yet his mighty sword arm, quick thinking, and daring seem only to keep him one step ahead… <em>of the grave!</em><br /><br />Trapped on a savage volcanic island, Skarde clashes with an antediluvian wizard, an army of warrior-cultists, and a hidden monstrosity just to live another day. Along the way he finds unexpected friends, mysteries, a curse, and enemies both bold and shadowy.<br /><br />Skarde, brash mercenary from the far North, travels the boundless world to sate his wanderlust and his desire for coin. Discover the unknown, the dangerous and the wondrous in this first volume of Skarde’s adventures.</p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3P9IHv5">BEYOND THE GRID: An EMP Survival story </a><br />by Connor Mccoy *FREE*</h2>
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<p>Jacob Avery doesn’t miss the city one bit. Years as a homesteader with his loving wife and children has taught him many lessons, but none as valuable as how well-suited he is for a simple, quiet life.<br /><br />Years after saying goodbye to the city, an unfortunate incident takes Jacob and his family on a drive toward the city. As they inch closer, it becomes abundantly clear they’ve made the wrong decision.<br /><br />The dangers he abandoned long ago pale in comparison to what he and his family will soon be forced to face. The apocalypse is coming and there’s nothing anyone could do about it. Jacob has one mission – Do whatever it takes to keep his family safe from harm or suffer the consequences.</p>
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<p><strong>Award-winning, Best-selling author Richard Paolinelli has written dozens of short stories and novellas in addition to his full-length novels and non-fiction books. They encompass a range of genres that include: Science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and horror.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Many have appeared in anthologies or have been published as stand alone stories. This series will encompass all of those stories plus one Sherlock Holmes pastiche never published before.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>All NINETEEN books in master storyteller, Richard Paolinelli’s <em>Dreams of a Storyteller</em> series are only $0.99 each. <a href="https://amzn.to/3PpzeRG">Buy the entire series for only $18.81, here</a>. Or pick and choose individual volumes.</strong></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These are some of the top offerings from previous book sales. Authors include both established and emerging talent:</p>
<p>James Alderdice, Tony Andarian, Jon del Arroz, Hawkings Austin, Leigh Brackett, Jonathan P. Brazee, Jim Breyfogle, Henry Brown, Rachel Fulton Brown and the Dragon Common Room, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Carlos Carrasco, Kit Sun Cheah, Paul Clayton, Warren Fahy, Declan Finn, Milo James Fowler, Peter Grant, Eric M. Hamilton, Paul Hair, Harry Harrison, Chris Haught, Julian Hawthorne, Frederick Gero Heimbach, C.S. Johnson, Becky Jones, Michael Kayser, Joseph L. Kellogg, Robert Kroese, Christopher Lansdown, Moe Lane, N. R. LaPoint, Frank B. Luke, Loretta Malakie, T.J. Marquis, Yakov Merkin, Michael McCloskey, BP McCoppin, Yakov Merkin, Morgon Newquist, Russell Newquist, Richard Nichols, Brian Niemeier, Andre Norton, Christopher G. Nuttall, Jonathan Oldenburg, Chance Paladin, Thomas Plutarch, Francis Porretto, Eric Postma, James Pyles, Justin Robinson, Denton Salle, Hans G. Schantz, Richard Sezov, David Skinner, R.H. Snow, Glen Sprigg, John Taloni, Kalkin Tivedi, Henry Vogel, David Weber, H.G. Wells, David J. West, Fenton Wood, Page Zaplendam.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And every title is either free or $0.99! Note: prices are set by the authors, so please confirm before you buy. And some of the offerings are short stories or novellas instead of full-length novels.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/396tqGM">T</a><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3RbeNck">he Thing From HR: a Cthulhu, Amalgamated novel</a></em><br />by Roy M. Griffis</h2>
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<p><strong>Amusing…inventive…clever. Fans of H.P. will enjoy <em>The Thing From HR</em></strong><br />—<strong>Paul Guay,</strong> co-writer <em>Liar, Liar, The Little Rascals, Heartbreakers</em></p>
<p><strong>What’s a nice Shoggoth like him doing in a dump like this?</strong></p>
<p>Narg was content working as a Damnation Services-10 in HR. Sure, he was related to one of the Elder Gods, but a little nepotism never hurt any Thing.</p>
<p>His life was just wailing and gibbering, right up until his Uncle needed a small favor from his nephew.</p>
<p>All Narg had to do was go down among the humans…and pretend to be one of <em>them</em>.</p>
<p><strong>These are not your Grandfather’s tales of Eldritch Horror: </strong>this is the untold story of the ghastly, unappreciated (and entirely expendable) minor monstrosities that support the Inscrutable Plans Of Dark Gods And Elder Things Beyond The Knowledge Of Men.</p>
<p>The <strong>Cthulhu, Amalgamated</strong> series is a comic romp full of action and mystery, including, of course, Sanity-Shattering Horror<em>––and that’s just the paperwork</em>.</p>
<p>Even H.P. could not conceive of the Corporate Terrors that await <strong><em>The Thing from HR.</em></strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3AQtEjE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lost Causes</a><br />by Richard Nichols<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-67.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5854 alignright" style="width: 269px; height: 428px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-67.png" alt="" width="269" height="428" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-67.png 314w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-67-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px" /></a></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">IF YOU LIKE JAMES BOND, JASON BOURNE OR JACK BAUER, THEN YOU”RE GOING TO LOVE JOHN BUCHAN!</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">John Buchan is a relic from a bygone age, a man constantly at odds with the modern world; a man who finds sanctuary in the only role that brings him peace of mind – as an assassin for a top-secret British government agency called the Mill. Specializing in what they call ‘ungentlemanly warfare’, its operatives are instructed to kill their targets wherever they find them, irrespective of boundaries, laws, jurisdictions or circumstances. Day-to-day, Buchan lives a simple, anonymous life in the Belgian countryside, restlessly roaming the battlefields of the Western Front in an attempt to kill time. All the while he waits patiently for the message that will signal the start of his next mission. It’s a message that will arrive, the way it always does, hidden within the solutions of the Daily Telegraph’s cryptic crossword puzzle. And when it does arrive, it’s like he’s been reborn, because in Buchan’s world being on a mission is the only time when things really make sense; the only time he feels truly alive. He barely remembers the time before he was recruited by the Mill.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">His name wasn’t John Buchan then. In those days he was known as Charlie Hook, a happy-go-lucky, rugby-playing, ex-Rhodesian Light Infantry trooper turned Gurkha officer with an eye for the girls. But Charlie Hook is long dead, and so too are his memories of the events that led to him becoming a professional killing machine. Buchan is getting older now. Retirement beckons, but the man he calls Control has one last mission for him. It involves a ruthless army of some of the world’s worst terrorists, an equally ruthless drug lord, an enormous hurricane and seemingly unsurmountable odds. But it also offers Buchan a last, desperate chance to take revenge on those that took his young life – and love – away from him all those years ago, and he plans to go out with a bang.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Set against a backdrop of unprecedented worldwide socio-political upheaval, Lost Causes is an old-style thriller that moves from the modern-day Ypres Salient and London to the badlands of Northern Ireland and the exotic but deadly jungles of southern Mexico. Mixing the kind of plot found in an Ian Fleming novel with the unashamed masculinity of an Alistair Maclean or Wilbur Smith hero and the tough, muscular prose of Mickey Spillane, Lost Causes is a startlingly intelligent and original work that interweaves dramatic action, sudden violence, stunning plot twists and subtle humour to entertain and inform in equal measure. It will especially appeal to anyone bored by the stale unambitious writing, and inane, politically-correct sensitivities of so many modern novels; as well as anyone looking to understand the sinister and dangerous forces that have plagued our lives for decades and which now threaten to destroy our civilization altogether.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Richard Nichols studied philosophy and psychology at Edinburgh University. He was a businessman for several years before turning his hand to writing. He enjoys watching rugby and visiting battlefields. He hates crossword puzzles.</p>
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<h2 id="block-17fd4259-7f6b-4673-a598-5def4ff38843" class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3D2zy2Y">Hell Spawn</a></em></strong><br />by Declan Finn</h2>
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<p><em><strong>The #1 Amazon Bestseller from three time Dragon Award nominee Declan Finn!</strong></em></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-bf7783e0-2c64-42c6-8cfd-7d8cf43bf1ae"><strong>My name is Officer Thomas Nolan, and I am a saint.</strong><br />Tommy Nolan lives a quiet life. He walks his beat – showing mercy to the desperate. Locking away the dangerous. Going to church, sharing dinner with his wife and son. Everyone likes Tommy, even the men he puts behind bars.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-36ee5720-74ed-4343-b6ed-03375360c1e6">Then one day a demon shows up and he can <em>smell</em> it. Tommy can smell evil – <em>real evil</em>. Now he’s New York City’s only hope against a horrifying serial killer that preys on the young and defenseless.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-555b4d59-b9e4-4196-b185-69657f04efc2">But smell alone isn’t enough to get a warrant. Can Tommy track down the killer and prove his guilt?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-6097012c-8600-4743-bda2-9f77c1aee74a">Dragon Award Nominated Author Declan Finn returns with his typical action-packed, Catholic influenced style, in this groundbreaking horror series about an honest, religious man given the powers of a saint to fight demons in the Big Apple.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-7bd0b9b0-5121-4f2c-ae1b-ef6217748181"><strong>How do you do forensics on a killer possessed by a demon</strong>?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/2Y7GDrI" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Hidden Truth</a></strong></em><br />by Hans G. Schantz<strong><a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Hidden-Truth.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5013 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Hidden-Truth.jpg" alt="" width="285" height="455" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Hidden-Truth.jpg 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Hidden-Truth-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px" /></a></strong></h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Change the past. Control the present. Rule the future.</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-47d33b7d-ba8d-457e-8c0c-5817f9fe51ae"><strong>They’ll do anything to hide the truth.</strong><br />When high school student Peter Burdell uncovers a subtle clue in a dusty book buried deep in a forgotten Appalachian library, he realizes someone altered history. Who’s been lying, and why?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-a5a35764-68c9-4524-bde5-c50b376404cf">His discovery lands Peter in the cross hairs of the deadly Cabal whose Deep State agents changed the past to control the present, so they can rule the future. Aided by family and friends, Peter races against the odds to expose the conspiracy and uncover the answer to the most important question of his life:</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-19f51810-e820-48c5-98d9-4dec51ee7b8f">What is <em><strong>The Hidden Truth</strong></em>?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-f70dec78-d7f7-427a-8b1b-3dc24cce1f3c"><strong>Reviews:</strong> <a href="https://upstreamreviews.com/?p=762">“Umberto Eco <em>wishes</em> that he had written these books.”</a></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-063ffeee-0e20-4a92-95a2-408635662097"><strong>Hans G. Schantz’ THE HIDDEN TRUTH is most highly recommended. </strong><br />It is a gem of a book, a rare find, combining a charming coming of age story, diamond-hard science fiction speculation, a conspiracy thriller, a touch of trenchant political commentary, and, uniquely, a challenge written into a science fiction book of the reigning scientific orthodoxy of the day….</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-063ffeee-0e20-4a92-95a2-408635662097">This trilogy works on several levels. In style, theme, in social commentary, in genre, in plot-weaving and world-building, the craftsmanship is top-notch.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-063ffeee-0e20-4a92-95a2-408635662097">Stylistically, it is written in the same journalistic prose as a Heinlein juvenile, but, frankly, is better. Not only are some of Heinlein’s more dubious moral lessons absent, the work attempts something more ambitious: introducing a real theory of physics in the midst of a fictional adventure yarn.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-063ffeee-0e20-4a92-95a2-408635662097">Thematically, it is a bracing and inspiring coming-of-age story telling young readers and reminding older readers what it means to be a man, a man of integrity, in a world where no one is there to dig you out of a mess.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-063ffeee-0e20-4a92-95a2-408635662097">It works as social commentary. As in a Heinlein juvenile, there are memorable quips and trenchant observations about political realities peppered throughout the dialog, which have as much application in our world as theirs.<br /><a href="http://www.scifiwright.com/2020/09/the-hidden-truth-by-hans-g-schantz/">Review by John C. Wright</a></p>
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<h2 id="block-fe07c4e5-5b39-4e1e-b199-a2d958855f26" class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/34kZHYl" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rebirths: A Tale of Azuran</a></em></strong><br />by Frank B. Luke<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51vVO8lE06L.jpg" alt="Rebirths: A Tale of Azuran by [Frank B. Luke]" width="225" height="337" /></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-23873be8-ef10-42d4-b0a4-98724e2e2c21">But his faith calls him back. He struggles and fights against what he knows is right in his heart.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-7da2c320-cc16-4841-8d38-6f4b35359393">The matters of faith in this story are derived straight from the Christian viewpoint. There is more than simple allusion to the Christian faith, it is a Fantasy story steeped in a Christian world.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-5a3e35a7-7e81-4915-874b-42890987ee52">It better be, because ready or not, Marc’s going into action as Flak-Jack, the Bulletproof Man!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2XgFCly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Black Amazon of Mars</a></em></strong><br />by Leigh Brackett *FREE*</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel—ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures—at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Classic sci-fi from the writer of The Empire Strikes Back.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Review:</strong> I picked this up because Gary Gygax recommends Leigh Brackett in his Appendx N to the 1st edition AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide Unfortunately, it is not the beginning of her Mars series, as I discovered, but nearer the end. Even without knowing the protagonist’s backstory, however, it’s a great pulp space opera story in what some authors call Old Mars – the Mars of the pulps, full of ancient cities consumed by endless deserts, canals bearing life-giving water, frozen cities under the polar ice caps, etc. I really liked this one – I’m going to read more! But this is the easiest Brackett book to find on Amazon, so it is where I started!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3cxZHs7">The Buick Eight (Joshua’s Pawn Shop Book 1)</a><br />A Short Story<br />by Frank B. Luke<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Buick-eight.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5230 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Buick-eight.jpg" alt="" width="253" height="404" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Buick-eight.jpg 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Buick-eight-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Joshua’s Pawn Shop. If you find Joshua’s Pawn Shop, you need Joshua’s.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Usually, you don’t even know what you’ve lost, but at Joshua’s you get a second chance.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Years ago, Simon Johnson made a choice that changed his life for the worse.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He’s looking to start over.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At Joshua’s Pawn Shop, he’ll be given a different way to start over.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3b4mazr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Centrism Games</a><br />by Rachel Fulton Brown and the Dragon Common Room</h2>
<p>Chivalry is dead. These knights want Fame. And Fama’s a witch. </p>
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<p>Follow a band of very different Knights on their quest to become the most balanced, the most tolerant, the most compromising of everyone on the modern political spectrum. </p>
<p>Each knight dares to liberalize and conserve, but who will win the ultimate prize and stay safely in the centre?</p>
<p>A cautionary tale in heroic couplets modeled on Alexander Pope’s scathing 18th-century <em>Dunciad</em>.</p>
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<p><em>Dr. Rachel Fulton Brown and her merry band of poets have compiled here a fun, pointed collection of verse through the very active Dragon Common Room Telegram chat. The whole point–as I gather it–is that rather than mucking about in the culture wars, we should be out _creating_ culture on our own.</em></p>
<p><em>_Centrism Games_ does just that. It’s wonderful to see these modern knights prove that the pen is, indeed, mightier than the sword</em>.</p>
<p><em>This poem savagely rips the hearts out of political centrists and moral relativists, and makes them eat it.</em></p>
<p><em>Polite Christians and social Conservatives (so-called) will be offended at the prose in ‘Centrism Games’, justly so. Readers both Right and Left will be asking themselves “what would I be willing to do for glory in this world?”, and at each page realize the inglorious catastrophe of the politically correct, postmodern, subjective and relativistic dogmas that praise tolerance and liberty whilst hell is set loose all around us. Readers will be challenged to overcome their revulsion at the themes and language to see the great moral lesson of this modern-Dunciad: every ticket has a hidden price.</em></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2DCt2QJ"><em><strong>Ordinary Superheroes</strong></em></a><br />by Christopher Lansdown<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/ordinary-superheroes.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="244" height="346" class="wp-image-5063 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/ordinary-superheroes.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/ordinary-superheroes.jpg 244w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/ordinary-superheroes-212x300.jpg 212w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Millenia ago martian superheroes defeated an ancient evil, who was imprisoned on a moon of Jupiter.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nineteen-year-old Steve Maxwell just wants to get his feet on the star road to find a better homeworld.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sure, he needs to prove himself to an older, tight-knit crew, but how bad can it be if he keeps his head down and the decks clean?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3HqudT7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">For Steam And Country – A Steampunk Fantasy<br />(The Adventures of Baron Von Monocle Book 1)</a><br />by Jon del Arroz</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The world’s only airship is hers to command!<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Steam-Country.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5064 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Steam-Country.jpg" alt="" width="263" height="395" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Steam-Country.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Steam-Country-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px" /></a><br /><br />Can she save her kingdom from destruction?</strong><br /><br />Zaira Von Monocle is called upon to take command of the legendary airship, Liliana, to help stave off the evil Wyranth Empire’s recent advances. The Wyranth’s army creeps ever closer, ravaging towns and villages along Rislandia’s border. To make matters worse, the enemy invaders have tapped into supernatural forces with incredible destructive power.<br /><br />But Zaira is a simple farm girl, raised away from the excitement of her adventurer father’s life of airships and gadgets. Before he disappeared, he tried to shelter her from the dangers of the world, and their family’s ties to the worst of tyrants, the Iron Emperor of the Wyranth.<br /><br />Zaira must grow up quickly and learn to become a leader before she loses the life her father tried to build for her.<br /><br />Readers who love a swashbuckling airship adventure with high-stakes action will love the first book in this #1 Bestselling YA Steampunk series.<br /><br />Buy For Steam And Country today!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3KRQwDe" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Steam Knight (The Adventures of Baron Von Monocle Book 5)</a><br />by Jon del Arroz</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Courage, Danger, Valor…<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/SteamKnight.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5610 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/SteamKnight.webp" alt="" width="260" height="390" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/SteamKnight.webp 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/SteamKnight-200x300.webp 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px" /></a><br /><br />…all await in Steampunk’s special forces.</strong><br /><br />The Knights of the Crystal Spire are Rislandia’s most elite fighters. Trained from a young age, they alone can face the deadliest enemies of their kingdom and beyond.<br /><br />James Gentry joins the Knights’ ranks, starting as an apprentice on his journey from a simple farmer’s life to the way of the warrior. He must face spies and traitors, soldiers and assassins, and doing so under the watchful eye of a beautiful princess.<br /><br />Does he have what it takes?<br /><br />Fans of strong men relying on the camaraderie of a band of brothers will love The Steam Knight. Read today!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3MVf1yo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stars Entwined: An Epic Military Space Opera</a><br />(The Aryshan War Book 1)<br />by Jon del Arroz</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Earth needs a spy…<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/StarsEntwined.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5066 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/StarsEntwined.jpg" alt="" width="287" height="443" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/StarsEntwined.jpg 324w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/StarsEntwined-194x300.jpg 194w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px" /></a><br /><br />…is he prepared?</strong><br /><br />Lieutenant Sean Barrows is thrust into a plot of sabotage and destruction brought on by the mysterious Aryshan Empire.<br /><br />His assignment: to infiltrate an enemy warship to bring his superiors information on their destructive capabilities and battle plans.<br /><br />But the Ayrshans share telepathic bonds which make them paranoid of outsiders, and try as he may to win the heart of a beautiful Aryshan commander, he can only get so close.<br /><br />To make matters worse, Earth stands on the brink of destruction as the Aryshans develop a new, invisible weapon.<br /><br />Fans of The Old Man’s War by John Scalzi and The Ember War by Richard Fox will love this epic space opera. Read today!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong>On Basilisk Station</strong></em> <br />by David Weber <strong>*FREE* </strong></h2>
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<p><strong>INTRODUCING</strong><br /><strong>HONOR HARRINGTON<a class="" style="color: #005f8f;" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Basilisk-Station.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5056 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Basilisk-Station.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Basilisk-Station.jpg 375w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Basilisk-Station-225x300.jpg 225w" alt="" width="286" height="381" /></a></strong></p>
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<p>The aborigines of the system’s only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2QCjn36"><strong><em>The Gentleman Farmers</em></strong></a> *FREE*<br />by Loretta Malakie<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/GentlemenFarmers.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5163 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/GentlemenFarmers.jpg" alt="" width="256" height="408" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/GentlemenFarmers.jpg 217w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/GentlemenFarmers-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Maggie Kingsbury, single middle-aged alcoholic lawyer, joins her in-laws Molly and Kevin on a homestead in the mountains of North Carolina, where their trustafarian college frenemies Brock and Sandra have just bought their third home.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When Maggie’s beloved niece Juliet asks her to take on a mysterious client, Maggie becomes implicated in a national political furor.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3zMyLRU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rosita and the Beautiful Game</a> *FREE*<br />by Loretta Malakie<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Rosita.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5095 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Rosita.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="459" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Rosita.jpg 314w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Rosita-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Rosita met the Lycan at an after-party. Of course. Where else would you meet a werewolf. It was probably about 4 in the morning, and he was on the wane. He was a Lycan on the wane in general, which was why he was even approachable. The embers still smoldered in his eyes, but the spark was out.”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Caligulito: Rosita’s brother. So-called because he’s a lot like Caligula, only smaller. He thinks the Lycan is a great guy.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Maiden Aunt: Rosita’s best law-school friend. He’s 23, but he looks 37. So-called because he’s into feeble remonstration.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xsWKmw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Love in the Age of Dispossession</a> *FREE*<br />by Loretta Malakie<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/LoveintheAge-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5440 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/LoveintheAge-1.jpg" alt="" width="314" height="501" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/LoveintheAge-1.jpg 217w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/LoveintheAge-1-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The novel begins with three days in the life of a group of high-school friends in 1993, culminating in a fistfight on the village green over the honor of the Prom Queen.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Loretta Buckley Malakie’s novels include “Rosita and the Beautiful Game,” an urban fantasy comic novella about a law student’s doomed love triangle (trapped between an urban lycan and her vampire high-school sweetheart); “The Gentleman Farmers” a funny and heartwarming comic novel about American cultural currents and family; and “Love in the Age of Dispossession,” a tragicomic coming-of-age novel. She holds a BA in History from Cornell University and a JD from Fordham University School of Law. A former expat, she speaks French, Italian, and Spanish. Loretta lives with her husband and four children in Appalachia, where she homeschools her children, cares for her elderly mother, and raises Shetland sheep.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3EpbQgL" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3EpbQgL">Magenta: A Novel</a><br />by Warren Fahy</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What happens when your badge turns… MAGENTA? 1984 for the 21st Century.<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-197.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6140 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-197.png" alt="" width="298" height="452" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-197.png 330w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-197-198x300.png 198w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px" /></a></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Read the sensational novel that captures where the world is headed now before we get there as two tech trillionaires have monopolized the market with staggering advancements in robotics and computer science while arming the world’s worst governments with the most terrifying technology.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Their plan, once every government on Earth has become dependent on their network, is to use a backdoor key that will unravel it all with a single switch: a handheld device which they call “FreeWill.”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One of these tech titans, however, has fallen in love with their global machine and no longer wishes to flip that switch.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As a last resort, his partner hides the device with one random isolated teenager, who doesn’t know he has it, so that when the window of time arrives when it can be switched, her partner can’t stop it.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">His incredibly advanced global machine has one year to find the unlikely guardian she has chosen as we see through the eyes of that solitary teen a world where everyone strives to keep their social credit badge PURPLE and any deviation from acceptable thought can turn them MAGENTA, erasing them from society.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The fate of the human race depends on one misfit teenager who has no idea he’s now being hunted by artificial intelligence at every turn…</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/395brAx">A Princess of Mars:</a></em><br />by Edgar Rice Burroughs<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Princess-of-Mars-2.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5135 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Princess-of-Mars-2-714x1024.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Princess-of-Mars-2-714x1024.jpg 714w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Princess-of-Mars-2-209x300.jpg 209w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Princess-of-Mars-2-768x1101.jpg 768w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Princess-of-Mars-2-1072x1536.jpg 1072w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Princess-of-Mars-2.jpg 1200w" alt="" width="245" height="352" /></a></h2>
<p>A Princess of Mars (1917) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series.</p>
<p>Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction.</p>
<p>It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a subgenre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication.</p>
<p>Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western.</p>
<p>The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment.</p>
<p>This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3OskKOR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bloodbane: Quest of Lance: A Pulp-Lite RPG </a><a href="https://amzn.to/3OskKOR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">N</a><a href="https://amzn.to/3OskKOR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ovel</a> <br />by T.J. Marquis<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-46.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5793 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-46.png" alt="" width="252" height="403" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-46.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-46-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><em>What a horrible night </em></strong><em>to be invaded by psychos from the 65th Dimension.</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Lance Cutfield just wants to get home to his wife and daughter.<br />But in his way stands a legion of Once-men, blood sorcerers, and countless foul creatures infesting the wilderness.<br /><br />Lance must use his working man’s strength, and every tool at his disposal, to bring the fight to his foes.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Little do these ‘Baneborn’ know, they’ve chosen a <strong><em>predator for their prey…</em></strong><br /><br />Quest of Lance is a pulpy gamelit adventure with very lite RPG elements.<br /><br />Elements in this book:<br /><br />Classic NES game story start with a fast pace.<br />Not-so-subtle nods to the Castlevania series, but with lots of variation.<br />Surprising alliances…<br />A simple, gear-based progression system.<br />Lots of combat.<br />Light crafting.<br />Subtle notes of Resident Evil and Metroid.<br />Light sequence-breaking.<br />A masculine hero.<br />Orbs.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3HKU2gw">Life City – a novella</a><br />T.J. Marquis<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/LifeCity.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5295 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/LifeCity.jpg" alt="" width="239" height="382" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/LifeCity.jpg 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/LifeCity-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>THE LAMB LIFTED THEM UP…</strong></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The uplifted animals of Life City are used to destructive alien incursions from above.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Heroic rock band Magikrash makes a living playing music and fighting invaders, but there are some threats they may not be prepared for…</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When a new and disturbing trend pops up in Life City, punk singer Saqi and her bear bassist Barley must discover how to save their brainwashed friends, and the city.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Vibes of classic Saturday Morning cartoons, punk rock and metal, synthwave, and fast-paced adventure combine for an uplifting read with the Lamb at its heart.</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3KWh3z3">Rattan</a><br />by T.J. Marquis</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Rattan was born to build.<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Rattan.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5635 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Rattan.webp" alt="" width="238" height="380" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Rattan.webp 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Rattan-188x300.webp 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></strong><br /><br />She’s even bolted together her own custom robot.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But she’s happy to to report to academy for her nation’s military draft of all second-born children.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But when her best friend is murdered, Rattan is set on a path that she may not return from.<br /><br /><em>Rattan is a science fantasy survival story for teens and up, with a melancholy vibe but no shortage of heart.</em><br /><br />Originally published on Kindle Vella.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2XmrNlq"><em>The War of the Worlds</em></a><br />by H.G. Wells </h2>
<p><strong>“This isn’t a war,” said the artilleryman. “It never was a war, any more than there’s war between man and ants.” ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/WarWorlds.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5158 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/WarWorlds.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/WarWorlds.jpg 321w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/WarWorlds-193x300.jpg 193w" alt="" width="214" height="333" /></a></strong></p>
<p>The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It first appeared in serialized form in 1897, published simultaneously in Pearson’s Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The first appearance in book form was published by William Heinemann of London in 1898.</p>
<p>It is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and that of his younger brother in London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. The War of the Worlds has two parts, Book One: The Coming of the Martians and Book Two: The Earth under the Martians.</p>
<p>The narrator, a philosophically inclined author, struggles to return to his wife while seeing the Martians lay waste to the southern country outside London. Book One also imparts the experience of his brother, also unnamed, who describes events as they deteriorate in the capital, forcing him to escape the Martian onslaught by boarding a paddle steamer near Tilling ham, on the Essex coast.</p>
<p><strong>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3l1geJE">War Demons: A Catholic Action Horror Novel<br />(The Prodigal Son Book 1)</a><br />by Russell Newquist<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/WarDemons.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5265 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/WarDemons.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/WarDemons.jpg 330w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/WarDemons-198x300.jpg 198w" alt="" width="232" height="351" /></a></h2>
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<p>Driven by vengeance, Michael Alexander enlisted in the Army the day after 9/11. Five years later, disillusioned and broken by the horrors he witnessed in Afghanistan, Michael returns home to Georgia seeking to begin a new life. But he didn’t come alone. Something evil followed him, and it’s leaving a path of destruction in its wake.</p>
<p>The police are powerless. The Army has written Michael off. Left to face down a malevolent creature first encountered in the mountains of Afghanistan, he’ll rely on his training, a homeless prophet, and estranged family members from a love lost…</p>
<p>But none of them expected the dragon.</p>
<p><strong>Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden collides with Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International in this supernatural thriller that goes straight to Hel</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3nGMiUQ">Heroes Fall: A Superhero Mystery Adventure</a><br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3nGMiUQ">(Serenity City Book 1) </a><br />by Morgon Newquist & Thomas Plutarch<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/HeroesFall.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5263 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/HeroesFall.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/HeroesFall.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/HeroesFall-200x300.jpg 200w" alt="" width="225" height="338" /></a></h2>
<p><strong>Victoria doesn’t need a cape and a name to be a hero.</strong></p>
<p>Living and working in the slums of Serenity City, she has become its faceless and nameless defender. She turned her back on the glittering world of professional superheroes years ago. If she has her way, she’ll never go back.</p>
<p>But the young and forgotten teens she helps are disappearing from the street, and nobody seems to care. As Victoria unravels this mystery, she is lead back to her old life in the star-studded glamourous superhero circles. No matter how much she hates it, she can’t abandon the helpless when they need her the most.</p>
<p>All clues point back to The Rampage, the terrible day when their mightiest champion Achilles fell to darkness. Will Victoria uncover the truth of what actually happened twenty years ago in time to help her lost boys and girls?</p>
<p>And what will happen when the fallen hero Achilles escapes, and Victoria is the only one who can stop him?</p>
<p>Morgon Newquist blazes on to the Superhero scene with the first Serenity City book, bringing nuance, emotion, and superpowered fights in spades. A solid, engaging launch to the brand new shared Heroes Unleashed universe, Heroes Fall will hook readers right in and leave them wanting more.</p>
<p>Can Victoria solve the twenty year mystery of Achilles’ fall from grace in time to save Serenity City? Or is there another, more sinister player who will destroy the very idea of superheroes?</p>
<p>Unravel the mystery and fight the villains with Victoria. Buy Heroes Fall today!</p>
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<p><strong>Emilia King has made an art of bad choices. Just ask her mother, she’ll tell you every single thing she’s done wrong for years.</strong></p>
<p>When her latest bad choice changes the locks to their apartment and leaves all her stuff on the doorstep, Emilia can’t bear to hear “I told you so” one more time. So she moves in with her grandfather. Then she can have some space to figure out who…and what she wants to be, without her mother breathing down her neck.</p>
<p>What she finds there is anything but peace. Her grandfather battles invisible creatures in the dark. Neighbors torn apart by wild beasts.</p>
<p>Not to mention the moody, gorgeous man across the street with the motorcycle. The kind of man that’s her kryponite.</p>
<p>But when her grandfather falls ill, his position of head of the Neighborhood Watch falls to her. And in this neighborhood, it’s more than measuring grass height or catching petty thefts.</p>
<p>As she uncovers her grandfather’s double life, his mistakes are coming back to stalk the neighborhood in the form of a vicious, shapeshifting beast. Thrust into a world of magic and monsters, Emilia is out of her depth.</p>
<p>Can she save the neighborhood? And do it without falling for the fae across the street?</p>
<p>Morgon Newquist moves into Urban Fantasy with this fast paced, witty urban fantasy series about an unusual Neighborhood Watch. Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bella Forrest will love Hellgate’s female hero, handsome fae, and magical battles.</p>
<p>Join the Neighborhood Watch today and read Hellgate!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ESDyn5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fast Cars and Rock & Roll: The Ultimate Gearhead Novel (A Deke Jones Romp) </a><br />by Michael Kayser<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/fast-cars.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5757 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/fast-cars.jpg" alt="" width="244" height="366" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/fast-cars.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/fast-cars-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Deke Jones finally has a car ready to compete in the Conquistador—a short but grueling campaign covering racetracks all over the Southwest United States. He can’t wait to challenge the rich boys with their expensive toys, but complications begin stacking up on him before the first flag drops.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">First, he is invited to join Stormin’ Norman’s new rock band for a whirlwind tour. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play with a musical genius and he can’t let it pass…but it’s scheduled for the very week he needs for last minute wrenching so his car can make the Conquistador’s tech inspection.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jones also crosses paths with five-time Conquistador champ Bob Tilford, and there’s bad blood between them from the starting gun. It was going to be challenging enough racing against Tilford with his big-time sponsors, high-dollar mechanic and world-class GT car, but Tilford also has tremendous influence over race officials he doesn’t hesitate to use in his grudge against Deke Jones. To keep it all interesting, Deke’s co-driver bails on him at the last minute, with no time to scrounge up a replacement.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3tP2CFh" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shadow Hand Blues: A Cold Case Murder Mystery (A Deke Jones Romp)</a><br />by Michael Kayser<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/shadow-hand.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5755 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/shadow-hand.jpg" alt="" width="249" height="374" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/shadow-hand.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/shadow-hand-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In 1954 budding blues virtuoso Waymon “Tornado” Fuller is executed for the murder of a North Carolina woman. In 1994 nomadic hot-rodder, moonlighting private investigator and blues aficionado Deke Jones stumbles upon Fuller’s guitar, triggering a mudslide of buried truths. Fuller’s innocence is one revelation. Another is “Shadow Hand Blues”–the last song he recorded, which Jones has never heard of.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An impromptu search for the studio where the recording session took place leads Jones to a small hippie town seemingly still enjoying the Summer of Love, where the psychodelic atmosphere turns from surreal to hostile when he begins asking questions.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Vintage Fender Telecaster in one hand, steering wheel of his radical Cyclone Spoiler II in the other, Deke Jones launches a one-man crusade to exonerate the infamous musician and find the obscure recording. The blood trails are 40 years cold, but neither corrupt good ol’ boy cops, sex industry sadists, nor fanatical pyramid-schemers can throw Deacon Jones off this case.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This investigative pilgrimage propels Jones right into the bloodstained fingers of a clandestine power elite Tornado Fuller called the Shadow Hand.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3EmuDsw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Curly Wolf</a><br />by M.R. Kayser<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/curly-wolf.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5754 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/curly-wolf.jpg" alt="" width="238" height="357" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/curly-wolf.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/curly-wolf-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The settlers in the Redbud Valley are peaceable, God-fearing folk who try to follow the golden rule, but they’ve been pushed too far by the mayor of Blue Stone, who wants their land and seemingly has the law on his side.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Just as the nesters are banding together to resist the land grab, Blue Stone’s newest deputy rides through their valley.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Before they realize the sleepy-eyed youngster called Arizona is a veteran gunfighter hired to bulldoze them off their claims, he has already broken bread with them, danced with their daughters…and stolen the heart of one.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Young Theresa Gutierrez believes Arizona is more than a curly wolf with quick trigger fingers and a stone-cold heart, but her parents and neighbors have good reason to believe otherwise.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3MVcQLx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fire Ant (The Navy of Humanity: Wasp Pilot Book 1)</a><br />by Jonathan P. Brazee *FREE*</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">2018 NEBULA AWARD FINALIST: BEST NOVELLA<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/FireAnt.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5426 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/FireAnt.jpg" alt="" width="238" height="357" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/FireAnt.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/FireAnt-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Floribeth Salinas O’Shea Dalisay is an Off-Planet Worker, employed as an exploration pilot by the giant corporation, Hamdani Brothers. Sent on a routine mission to analyze one of the millions of systems in the galaxy, she stumbles across something that could threaten humanity’s very existence. She barely escapes with her life, but in the process, has to shut down her scout’s AI.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As with all OPWs, she has few rights, and instead of being lauded as a hero, the corporation thinks she is lying.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Her managers believe she found something valuable and shut down her AI in an attempt to hide that fact, hoping she can sell that information to the highest bidder.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grounded, and with a huge debt now over her head, Beth has to convince the powers that be that a very real danger to humanity is lying in wait out there in deep space.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3NEms0H" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Legacy Marines (The United Federation Marine Corps’ Lysander Twins Book 1)</a><br />by Jonathan P. Brazee</h2>
<p>Esther and Noah Lysander are the twin children of General Ryck Lysander,<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-114.png" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5927 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-114.png" sizes="auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-114.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-114-200x300.png 200w" alt="" width="238" height="357" /></a> Commandant of the Marine Corps, leader of the Evolution, and Chairman of the Federation.</p>
<p>When they are told that their father and mother have been assassinated, they are both devastated.</p>
<p>Cut adrift, they each decide to enlist in the Corps—but for different reasons. Esther feels it is her duty to carry on the family legacy, confident that she can excel and reach the top. Noah simply wants to earn his father’s pride, even if it is too late.</p>
<p>As children of General Lysander, they are not “normal” recruits.</p>
<p>Seniors and peers are well aware of their background, and the twins can’t escape the public eye.</p>
<p>From under their father’s heavy shadow, the two have to discover his or her personal path in the Corps, even when that seems to pull them apart from each other.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/47Snjmu">Giant’s Walk</a><br />by David Skinner<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-164.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6097 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-164.png" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-164.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-164-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In 1858, young priest Zebediah Goodnow and the orphaned Joanna pursue a murderous Giant and soon find themselves among the Martians.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In 1957, astronaut Scott Winslow Hale takes his sick wife Helen to the shrine of the beatified Zebediah and, soon after, clashes with a stranger named Eddie.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In a tangle of Providential events, perseverance and peace are drawn from the toil of Faith.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/42RoEq4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Street Fighting Man</a><br />by Henry Brown</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nick Polgar leads a double life.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At his day job in Big Tech, he is a mild-mannered NPC who obediently regurgitates all the Current Year Cultural Marxist talking points.<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-155.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6053 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-155.png" alt="" width="240" height="371" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-155.png 324w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-155-194x300.png 194w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Out on the streets, where the ideological culture war flares hot, he is Hockey Man–a skilled brawler armored for modern melee combat, wielding a hockey stick.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">His fistic exploits have earned him infamy on social media; but also a growing army of fellow marauders, fighting back against the RevComs (Revolutionary Communists) who are hell-bent on suppressing dissent and quashing any challenge to The Narrative.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hockey Man just knows the RevComs will inevitably disrupt the demonstration against hate crime hoaxes downtown; and his Enforcers are ready to rumble.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But in the fog of battle, they may be plunging a little too deep into enemy turf.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GxuSE1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hell and Gone (The Retreads Book 1)</a><br />by Henry Brown</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An Amazon Bestseller!<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/hell-and-gone.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5749 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/hell-and-gone.jpg" alt="" width="238" height="359" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/hell-and-gone.jpg 332w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/hell-and-gone-199x300.jpg 199w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This rag-tag gang of has-beens has never worked together before, but Dwight “Rocco” Cavarra has less than a week to train them and lead them on the hairiest operation of their lives.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It’s not bad enough that they have to plow through an African civil war, infiltrate a fortified terrorist encampment and steal a black market tactical nuke from a mob of fanatic sociopaths – there are Israeli wild cards in play: two death-dealing Mossad agents who don’t necessarily share Cavarra’s agenda.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When the mission is compromised before it has even started, Rocco and his Retreads are caught between bloodthirsty local warlords and the genocidal government in a fight to the death. And this battle might be just the first in the next world war.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hell and Gone is a character-driven pulp action thriller that will take you on a wild ride.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3tR26GT" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tier Zero (The Retreads Book 2)</a><br />by Henry Brown<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/tier-zero.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5750 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/tier-zero.jpg" alt="" width="239" height="359" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/tier-zero.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/tier-zero-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When a party of American college girls are sold into slavery by human traffickers, a rescue mission is too dirty, too dangerous, and too difficult for any government to touch. That’s where The Retreads come in.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The pirates thought they found the perfect target: a private yacht foolishly sailing through the Malacca Straits, which could discretely and easily be sold on the black market.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The human traffickers thought the boat was hauling the perfect cargo: young, attractive women who would generate income in brothels around the region.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What made the caper not so perfect was that one of the girls had an uncle who took it personally.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Another Amazon Bestseller from Henry Brown…”One helluva adventure writer.” – Jim Morris (author of <em>War Story, The Devil’s Secret Name</em>)</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">You can take a man out of Special Operations, but you can’t take SpecOps out of the man. Tommy Scarred Wolf calls on his old friend Rocco Cavarra, who still has contacts in the intelligence business. Other survivors of the Sudan mission also rally behind Tommy, signing on for the kind of favor that can never be repaid.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Armed with all the firepower and force multipliers they can scrounge, shadowed by a team of secret assassins, the Retreads ride again, bringing smoke and taking names. <em>Tier Zero</em> is old-school military adventure you haven’t enjoyed since the full-auto glory days of Able Team and Phoenix Force.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3AASYtw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">False Flag (The Retreads Book 3)</a><br />by Henry Brown</h2>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">“Thanks, Hank, for the authenticity. Semper Fi!”<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/false-flag.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5751 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/false-flag.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/false-flag.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/false-flag-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A perfect storm is bearing down on the United States of America, combining nationwide financial devastation, conventional and nuclear terror, and Civil War II. High-placed traitors in the Deep State want to make it worse–not better. The Retreads have overcome some long odds in the Sudan and Indonesia, but nothing like this end game on the home front.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” – Samuel Adams</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Diverse Americans are living their lives the best they can during twilight’s last gleaming–most of them never suspecting the turmoil about to come crashing down all around them. Others see the storm approaching, but don’t know what, if anything, can be done to avoid it.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Joshua Rennenkampf loves his country, but prepares for an economic collapse he believes inevitable. Dwight Cavarra is horrified by what looks like an impending race war, but speaking reason into the pressure cooker of irrational hatred might as well be punching at the wind. Tommy Scarred Wolf pushes back against the fundamental transformation from Rule of Law to a Strong Man police state, but can only accomplish so much by himself.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rennenkampf discovers evidence of what might be a false flag attack in the making. Cavarra is tipped off about a secret hit list of “potential domestic terrorists,” through which he and his friends are targeted. Scarred Wolf has already lost his brother for the sin of poking his nose into government Black Ops; and now must decide whether a little more temporary tranquility for his family is worth the shock and awe to be wrought on the entire country if he fails to take action.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">With harbingers of national cataclysm all around, there will be no averting disaster if the false flag conspiracy turns out to be true. These men, who have put their lives on the line for their country so many times already, now have little choice but to treat the threat as real. And in the tumultuous political climate, their lives, fortunes and sacred honor will all be at risk. Where they go one, they go all.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The bestselling Retreads Series turns the corner from military thriller to apocalyptic fiction. <em>False Flag</em> blazes a fiery trail where other political books fear to tread.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XegM0w">The Gryphon of Tirshal</a><br />by Henry Brown<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-69.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5869 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-69.png" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-69.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-69-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Honor Triad have journeyed to Javo’s native country shortly after its transition from a free republic to a monarchy. The first king of Cemar has hired the three mercenaries to rid the land of the legendary supernatural beast that lives high on Mount Tirshal, outside the city. Neither the diminutive horse-archer Turgar, nor the giant barbarian Krag the Wrecker feel comfortable with the mystical forces surrounding Tirshal, but their lust for gold outweighs their fear. The horrifying truth awaiting they and Javo at the gryphon’s perch is more chilling than the legion of hideous predators they’ll have to fight through to reach it.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is heroic fantasy more than sword & sorcery. There’s plenty of sword, but only a little sorcery in the <em>Tales of the Honor Triad</em>. In <em>Gryphon</em>, there’s really no overt sorcery at all.<br /><br />Tolkien and his legion of imitators have not influenced me much. You can lay the blame squarely on the heads of Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Poul Anderson.<br /><br />Even within the flavor of fantasy I prefer, I’ve found too many fantasy protagonists to be built on a clichéd template: naively chivalrous romantics whose bumbling gullibility acts as a plot device, ensnaring them in trap after trap, which they escape from every time, usually by dumb luck. I envision these characters differently. Javo is the most concerned with chivalry, but not to the point of folly. Krag is far more cunning than his size and tremendous strength leads most to assume, except when it comes to women. Turgar is a calculating pragmatist who deals honestly with friends, but who fights to win. </p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/444aEKz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Bloodstained Defile (Tales of the Honor Triad)</a><br />by Henry Brown<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-70.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5870 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-70.png" alt="" width="241" height="362" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-70.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-70-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">During the bloody wars of an alien world’s dark ages, loyalty, integrity and friendship are rare commodities. Why would anyone guess they could be found in the hearts of mercenaries?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sir Javo left his native Cemar to join the Order of the Black Lancers, and has built a reputation as a champion in single combat. He has never met his match; but that is about to change.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Krag the Wrecker has been promised treasure, a horse, and a lady-in-waiting if his suicide mission succeeds. “Victory or death” are acceptable terms, for a giant barbarian raised to worship Death.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Turgar was once a troop chief in the nomadic armies of Gabom, until framed for a capital crime. Now he hires out his bow to the highest bidder. This job may convince him to re-think his pragmatism.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A great storm, an epic battle, and three dangerous warriors…all on a collision course for a narrow mountain pass that is already a bloodstained defile.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3AF8uVn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">PNW Affliction 1: Recycled </a><br />by Chance Paladin</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is the first book in the PNW Affliction series, book #1.<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-167.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6107 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-167.png" alt="" width="199" height="285" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-167.png 349w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-167-209x300.png 209w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" /></a></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In my opinion the best place to start, because the story starts out small and contained before opening up into the shared story in the subsequent books.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Story:<br />Our hero finds himself away from his home the eve of the collapse, trying to figure out what’s going on and unable to make it back.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Can he find a place to shelter in the darkness before he freezes in the cold, quiet night?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pacific Northwest Affliction 1: Recycled<br />PNW Affliction book #1: Recycled</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Several years after the Pacific Northwest’s collapse, our hero finds himself stuck in an insane asylum.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He wants to save the people there, but how would he get them out?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He would have to find a way out first, if there even is one?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pacific Northwest Affliction 2: The Barless Prison</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/34wFAEL"><em><strong>The Good Fight</strong></em></a><br />by Justin Robinson</h2>
<p><em><strong>Atlas Shrugged Meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Good-FIght.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5030 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Good-FIght.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Good-FIght.jpg 230w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Good-FIght-199x300.jpg 199w" alt="" width="209" height="314" /></a></strong></em></p>
<p>Terry is an ordinary 16-year-old girl in Toronto.</p>
<p>Her days are usually filled up by schoolwork, karate class, and helping out in her mother’s store, but strange things are happening behind the scenes of the city.</p>
<p>People are disappearing and coming back changed, with their identity torn out of them.</p>
<p>A series of close calls with an unthinkable adversary puts a target on Terry’s back.</p>
<p>It’s everywhere, enslaving people, hollowing them out into puppets… and now it wants her.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3vsSlhq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Faith and Empire: Book One of The Holy Terran Empire</a></em></strong> <br />by Carlos Carrasco</h2>
<p><strong>One Faith. One Galactic Empire. And A Thousand Worlds Yet To Convert!<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/FaithEmpire.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5082 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/FaithEmpire.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/FaithEmpire.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/FaithEmpire-200x300.jpg 200w" alt="" width="220" height="330" /></a></strong></p>
<p>In the 51st century, man has spread throughout a great swath of the galaxy without having found any sign of alien life or another habitable world. Instead, mankind has splintered into a score of bio-engineered sub-species spread out across more than a thousand terraformed worlds. The Holy Terran Empire rules over three hundred of these man-made planets. Earth, the One, True World is the Empire’s Capital. The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Rome governs the Empire, hand-in-hand, with the Imperial Family.</p>
<p>Not everyone is pleased with this arrangement.</p>
<p>Zephyrinus Zapatas, a dutiful citizen of the Empire and loyal son of the Church is more than happy with the Co-Dominion of Emperor and Pope. At sixteen, Zeph leaves home, seeking a life of service to the two crowns. He finds his opportunity in an invitation to join the Emperor’s Own, the elite Corps of Imperial Marines.</p>
<p>The Corps’ training is arduous; its moral code, exacting, but; Zeph welcomes the trials and the strictures. The Corps will demand sacrifices. In return, the Imperial Marines offer its recruits little more than a career fraught with peril to life and limb. Zeph accepts the life, however short it might be, because it comes with the chance of achieving his greatest ambition: reaching the rank of Knight Defender of the Faith and Empire.</p>
<p>His training, ambition and his faith will all be tested in the fires of battle against a cruel alliance of space pirates terrorizing scores of worlds.</p>
<p>The Holy Terran Empire is a new space opera series for anyone who can’t get enough sword & blaster action.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3noIN5B">The Trilisk Ruins (Parker Interstellar Travels Book 1)</a></em><br />by Michael McCloskey *FREE*<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Trilisk.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5128 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Trilisk.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Trilisk.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Trilisk-200x300.jpg 200w" alt="" width="214" height="321" /></a></h2>
<p>Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist in a future where humans have found alien artifacts but haven’t ever encountered live aliens.</p>
<p>Of all the aliens whose extinct civilizations are investigated, the Trilisks are the most advanced and the most mysterious.</p>
<p>Telisa refuses to join the government because of her opposition to its hard-handed policies restricting civilian investigation and trade of alien artifacts, despite the fact that her estranged father is a captain in the United Nations Space Force.</p>
<p>When a group of artifact smugglers recruits her, she can’t pass up the chance at getting her hands on objects that could advance her life’s work.</p>
<p>But she soon learns her expectations of excitement and riches come with serious drawbacks as she ends up fighting for her life on a mysterious alien planet.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3qTu3jD" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Time Traders</a></strong></em><br />by Andre Norton </h2>
<p><strong>DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIME<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Time-Traders.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5041 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Time-Traders.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Time-Traders.jpg 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Time-Traders-188x300.jpg 188w" alt="" width="205" height="327" /></a></strong><br />Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA’s greatest adversary on the world stage is sending its agents back through time! And someone or something unknown to our history is presenting them with technologies—and weapons—far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition’s ancient source . . . and take it down.</p>
<p>When small-time criminal Ross Murdock and Apache rancher Travis Fox stumble separately onto America’s secret time travel project, Operation Retrograde, they are faced with a challenge greater than either could have imagined possible. Their mere presence means that they know too much to go free. But Murdock and Fox have a thirst for adventure, and Operation Retrograde offers that in spades.</p>
<p>Both men will become time agents, finding reserves of inner heroism they had never expected. Their journeys will take the battle to the enemy, from ancient Britain to prehistoric America, and finally to the farthest reaches of interstellar space.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3fnjyw0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eta Cancri</a></em><br />by Russell May *FREE*<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/eta-cancri.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5085 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/eta-cancri.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/eta-cancri.jpg 314w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/eta-cancri-188x300.jpg 188w" alt="" width="198" height="315" /></a></h2>
<p>Five hundred years into the future, humans have conquered the void of space and spread throughout the galaxy. But we’re about to discover that – in the cold, dark places between the stars – an ancient horror has been watching. And waiting.</p>
<p>On the distant edge of a far-flung planetary system, faith and science are about to go to war with monstrous evil.</p>
<p>Lars Stockwell is one of the last combat Cyborgs still in service. When a remote mining colony falls mysteriously silent, he and his team of black ops veterans are sent in with orders to terminate any threats to human life.</p>
<p>What they discover is worse than anything they could’ve imagined.</p>
<p>Along with a callow data analyst, a rogue Artificial Intelligence, and a spacefaring grifter, Lars and his men find themselves on the front lines of a war between humanity… and Hell incarnate.</p>
<p>if an ancient monster doesn’t devour both worlds first.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/2V1gR8M">Man of the House</a></em></strong><br />by Kalkin Trivedi<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/ManoftheHouse.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5478 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/ManoftheHouse.jpg" alt="" width="244" height="389" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/ManoftheHouse.jpg 217w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/ManoftheHouse-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">By his mid-teens, Jason Olson expected to go to college, find a good job, start a family, and enjoy with them the kind of lifestyle he grew up with as the son of a successful Oncologist. Then one evening, a casual announcement after dinner abruptly changed his prospects.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now some years later, he still managed to start a family, but he’s a lot less confident in himself now than he would have been if life had gone according to plan. He feels like he’s lost his bearings by which to navigate life. Then a family crisis requires that Jason help out with his spit-fire of a niece. Can a man with so little control over his own life handle the extra responsibility without it messing up his life any more than it already is?</p>
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<li>be a hands-on dad instead of a passive dad</li>
<li>handle disciplinary matters yourself, without any yelling, nagging, hitting, or passing the buck to mom</li>
<li>talk to kids (and adults too, actually) about problems in a calm, business-like manner, acting neither like a wimp nor a bully</li>
<li>avoid doing what most parents unwittingly do that escalates conflict</li>
<li>train kids to respond to just two words, to put an immediate halt to misbehavior</li>
<li>avoid anger, frustration, and embarrassment at home or in public</li>
<li>discourage bad habits and prevent the formation of new ones</li>
<li>help kids learn how to manage impulses and resolve negative emotions</li>
<li>respect your children and promote their good self-esteem</li>
<li>watch out for bad influences and sinister characters</li>
<li>cultivate good relationships with your kids, and avoid the mistakes that lead many well-intended dads to heartbreaks</li>
<li>encourage performance and personal growth</li>
<li>reclaim your place as an integral part of the family.</li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3qhcaHc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">All Hallows</a><br />by Kalkin Trivedi<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-16.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5672 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-16.png" alt="" width="242" height="363" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-16.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-16-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A day in the life of Cyrus, who works on a plantation.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The day begins with an accident, and then goes downhill from there after a run-in with a pit-viper and a long day of hard labor. Then he remembers how he got himself and everybody he loved into this mess, and how things used to be…</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3uqxt8R" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Deathworld</a></em> <br />by Harry Harrison *FREE*<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/deathworld.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5069 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/deathworld.jpg" alt="" width="241" height="392" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/deathworld.jpg 283w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/deathworld-185x300.jpg 185w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Harry Harrison’s Deathworld is a 1960 sci-fi classic, nominated for a Hugo. The story is a straight up action packed thriller of a planet that appears intent on killing its human inhabitants. An adventurer with a flair for gambling due to psionic powers assists its leader with acquiring more weapons for their never ending battle with both fauna and flora that continuously mutates to ever deadlier forms that are constantly attacking the small colony. The adventurer checks out the place and finds a dwindling community that is so focused on exterminating nature that they can’t even remember how they arrived on the planet generations ago. Eventually, he goes native and finds others living under better conditions and slowly surmises the basis for the state of affairs which the groups have little interest in pursuing.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While space travel is routine, biological mutation and evolution is front and center. Psionic abilities also play a prominent role. Given the global state of affairs at the time of its publication, the planet is clearly a metaphor for the single-minded stubbornness of large groups (be they colonists or whole governments) to pursue self-destructive paths with expectations of total annihilation of an equally matched enemy, never questioning the overall strategy and constantly upping tactical approaches. Not surprisingly, the story transcends its time and resonates even today.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xQ1HHA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chalk (Raven Mistcreek Book 1)</a><br />by N.R. LaPoint</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Catholic schoolgirl Raven Mistcreek has no memory.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Across the Qualitative Continuum, levels of reality are sinking lower.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A colossal terror lies sleeping. Waiting.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3RyCVCA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Gun Magus</a> <br />by N.R. LaPoint<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/GunMagus.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5609 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/GunMagus.webp" alt="" width="238" height="359" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/GunMagus.webp 331w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/GunMagus-199x300.webp 199w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Low on luck, but not ammo</strong></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The last thing Kenneth Jericho needed was<br />a gunfight and car chase with human traffickers.<br />What started as a bad morning only got worse.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A flash of light sends Ken to a strange world<br />filled with magic, hideous monsters, beautiful women,<br />and seemingly unlimited ammo.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">With pistol in hand,<br />Ken is thrown into a race against time<br />to stop a local ganglord’s reign of terror.<br />But is the thug the brains behind the violence,<br />or is someone – or something – else<br />pulling his strings?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3CI2n3e" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Crimson Moon: The First Book of Kane</a><br />by Glen Sprigg (Author)<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-173.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6115 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-173.png" alt="" width="240" height="383" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-173.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-173-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Stranded on the other side of the world, Kane of Yuthia struggles to find his place in a foreign land.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Growing up in a monastery, the orphaned boy must learn not only the sacred arts of battle, but how to live with honor in a land that will never accept him.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Spanning decades and two continents, the two-volume Book of Kane tells the fantastic tale of one of the great heroes of the Empire of Kumitori.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3CEMYkc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Strange Recollections of Martha Klemm: Sara was Judith</a><br />by Julian Hawthorne, P Alexander, Michael Tierney, Robert A Lupton<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-120.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5933 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-120.png" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-120.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-120-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“She is not there, she is something else; she is an angel—or a devil come back to peep at us, to be worshiped, to mock us, to kill us, to smile on us as we die, and to go on to another, again to ravish and destroy him! What is she—who is she? No one knows! But she was, before the Pyramids, and when our great Londons and Parises are a jungle and a swamp, she was what men desire and can never possess, the glimmer in the dark, the mirage in the desert, the thing that is, and is not!”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The editor for All-Story Weekly called “Sara Was Judith” “one of the most remarkable stories ever written. It is entirely unlike any story that you have ever read.” Indeed, Hawthorne weaves a strange tale that straddles gothic, romantic adventure, and even body horror in a work that is truly prototypic of what would eventually become known as “Weird Fiction.” </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Martha Klemm’s school chum, Sara, is an impossibly bland and uninspired woman living a rather dull and ordinary life—quite the contrast with Martha’s, filled with globetrotting adventure. Sara’s daughter Judith is her exact opposite: filled with life and vibrancy, mystery and mischief.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When a deadly storm drowns the girl saving the young lad who fancies her, Sara, in her one act of passion, hangs herself in her boudoir. Pronounced dead, Sara shocks the mourning household, friends, and doctor when she emerges later that evening, more vivacious than she has ever been… and protesting that she is Judith!</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Julian Hawthorne’s final novel for All-Story Weekly is a haunting and beautiful tale of love and betrayal and the struggle between good and evil that Miss Martha Klemm finds herself caught, an active and partial observer, within!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3CFwvwo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Paths of Cormanor</a><br />by Jim Breyfogle<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-122.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5935 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-122.png" alt="" width="241" height="359" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-122.png 335w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-122-201x300.png 201w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Amara is a young woman of Cormanor, a household whose womenfolk have the ability to transform into cormorants to fly and dive for fish. Kellen is the youngest prince of the realm, a seventh son of a seventh son, and wishes to see these remarkable women for himself.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">During the pageantry upon the lake, Amara’s cousin falls into the water and is spirited away by the Grimly, a malign creature of the elder world! Kellen braves both water and monster to rescue the boy. However the Grimly manages to trap the prince’s soul and mark him for death! Amara tracks the Grimly to her lair, slays the wicked beast, and restores life to the young prince… but a piece of Kellen’s soul is trapped within Amara!</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The death of the sinister Grimly is just the beginning—Kellen must find the means to recover his missing piece of soul, while Amara and her family are haunted by the vengeful offspring of the monster she had slain! Kellen and Amara each must undertake their own harrowing journey, meeting delightful friends and dastardly foes, along the Paths of Cormanor!</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jim Breyfogle’s beautiful new novel of fantastical romance is inspired by Eastern and Northern European myth and fairytale and sure to delight readers of all ages.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3erKBZ5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Oath to a Warlock</a><br />by Denton Salle<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Oath-Warlock-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5615 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Oath-Warlock-1.jpg" alt="" width="235" height="318" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Oath-Warlock-1.jpg 369w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Oath-Warlock-1-221x300.jpg 221w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Peng planned to continue to serve the Master in the stables. After all, magicians lived forever. Qian thought that she would care for her niece and marry who the Master said to. Neither of them expected the Imperial Censor to come</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A fantasy novella set in a China where Rus Vikings changed history.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3zGgCp9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Thor vs. the Valkyries</a><br />by Paul Hair<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/ThorValkyries.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5464 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/ThorValkyries.jpg" alt="" width="238" height="348" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/ThorValkyries.jpg 342w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/ThorValkyries-205x300.jpg 205w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">No one ever accused Thor of being the silent type.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">With none of Thor’s allies nearby, the Valkyries vow to crush him before they conquer everything else.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>2021 !WINNER! in Science Fiction — Los Angeles Book Festival! Readers’ Favorite 5 Star review: Talk to a Real, Live Girl And Other Stories</strong> by Paul Clayton is a short collection of light sci-fi tales. The flagship story is Talk to a Real, Live Girl. Disillusioned with the extreme societal and political changes on Earth and a ruined relationship, Alex leaves home to work at a mine on Kratos, a distant planet. Kratos also offers some free time diversions, one being particularly appealing to men far from home; robot females who are perfect and always willing. Alex has no real interest in them, despite his loneliness. Then, one day he meets Traci, a “real, live” girl. Do Alex and Traci have any real hope of a future together? In the next story, The Lawn, Bob Hanlon struggles mightily to come to terms with his forced retirement and the strange presence that seems to have taken up residence in his overgrown yard. In the third story, Happy Acres, a couple finds their new life on Mars less perfect than what they had been promised. Finally, the first two chapters of a novel-in-progress about the fabled Lost Colony of Roanoke complete this collection of stories. In <strong>Talk to a Real, Live Girl And Other Stories</strong> by Paul Clayton, readers find entertaining stories that almost read like episodes of beloved classic sci-fi TV series. The main story, a poignant tale of loss, new possibilities, and adventure, makes some subtle, near humorous observations about contemporary American society and what the future could hold. The other two stories, while lighter fare and shorter, are no less interesting. These stories are a quick, enjoyable read, and Paul Clayton has a talent for immersing readers almost immediately in their narrative, including the bonus chapters at the end. Any message the author is trying to convey does not get in the way of the basic flow of the stories, which is a desirable feature. He also draws attention to other stories he has written, and readers will find themselves willing to invest time in reading these. Alex has fled a broken marriage and a society on Earth grown hostile toward men. Landing on the mining planet, Kratos, known to its male work force as “Boyz Wurld,” he hopes to lose himself in hard work, drinking, and the illusion of female companionship provided by robots. Will that be enough? In time, Alex finds himself longing to Talk to a Real, Live Girl. Predictably, there aren’t many on Kratos. Then he finds Traci, as well as the dream of a new beginning back on Earth—a normal life—if only the forces controlling Kratos will permit it.A genuine love story, Talk to a Real, Live Girl explores consequences of a #MeToo movement run amok, and of adaptations brave individuals may be forced to make.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3BedEbN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Crossing Over</a><br />by Paul Clayton<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Crossing-Over.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5590 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Crossing-Over.webp" alt="" width="239" height="382" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Crossing-Over.webp 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Crossing-Over-188x300.webp 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>REVIEW by Donna Gielow McFarland for Readers’ Favorite. Crossing Over</strong> by Paul Clayton tells the story of an American family trying to survive the beginnings of the second civil war. Set some time in the not-too-distant future, the existence of two simultaneous presidents has split the country along ideological lines. The protests are becoming violent, sections of the country have formed their own militias, along with the militias of the two warring parties. In the midst of shortages of food and other necessities, gangs and thugs are terrorizing formerly safe neighborhoods. Realizing that it is no longer safe to remain in their home, Mike McNerney decides to pack the camper and flee to Canada with his wife, Marie, and disabled teenage daughter, Elly. Unfortunately, everyone else has the same idea.Once I started reading, I could not put down this well-written and compelling short novel. Clayton’s premise is chillingly realistic. The book does not focus on the politics, but instead focuses on regular Americans who not long before led totally normal lives, and who are quickly turned into refugees as they try to escape the crime and violence taking over the country. The scene at the Canadian border was highly believable, as was the deterioration of Mike and Marie’s relationship as it crumbled under the stress of their ordeal. Complicating matters is the need to protect their beautiful daughter Elly, who is naïve enough to wander off with any stranger. Crossing Over should stand as a warning to anyone inclined to think that violence is the answer to political disagreement, as it paints a picture of how America could slide into chaos far too easily. There is some mature subject matter and language. Recommended for readers who are brave enough to read it.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3OpgCiA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Blue World: Anunnaki Advent; a Short Story</a><br />by Paul Clayton<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/blue-world.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5748 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/blue-world.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="383" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/blue-world.jpg 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/blue-world-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The best laid plans of gods and men go awry on… the Blue World.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Loosely based on Zecharia Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles, The Blue World follows the efforts of the Sumerian gods, the Anunnaki, as they land on earth to mine the gold there in order to repair the damaged atmosphere of their home planet, Nibiru.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Anunnaki miners find gold mining laborious and dangerous, so they genetically engineer a hybrid race to do it for them.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mixing Anunnaki DNA with simian, they create The Human, “those who work.”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Paul Clayton</strong> is the author of a three-book historical series on the Spanish Conquest of the Floridas– Calling Crow, Flight of the Crow, and Calling Crow Nation (Putnam/Berkley), and a novel, Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (St. Martin’s Press), based on his own experiences in that war.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam was a finalist at the 2001 Frankfurt eBook Awards, along with works by Joyce Carol Oates (Faithless), David McCullough (John Adams), and Alan Furst (The Kingdom of Shadows).</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Clayton’s historical novel — White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke — explores the mystery of the vanished English colonists on Roanoke Island. His realistic contemporary novel, In the Shape of a Man, explores the dark side of the go-go lifestyle of turn-of-the-century Silicon Valley workers.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Clayton’s collection of traditional sci-fi and fantasy stories, Strange Worlds, pays homage to the sci-fi greats. Clayton’s novel, Van Ripplewink: You Can’t Go Home Again, is a modern twist on the classic Rip Van Winkle story, that wades into America’s current socio-racial dysfunction. Clayton’s novella, Crossing Over, tells the story of the 2nd American civil war. His latest sci-fi collection, Talk to a Real, Live Girl, tells of a future world where the MeToo movement and the sophistication of robotic companions… collide with unforeseen and astounding consequences.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3enRcnA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Strange Worlds</a><br />by Paul Clayton<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Strange-Worlds.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5593 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Strange-Worlds.webp" alt="" width="241" height="366" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Strange-Worlds.webp 329w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Strange-Worlds-197x300.webp 197w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In the future, the love of a young man’s life is dying. He would do almost anything to keep her alive…except that! In Dog Man, it turns out that Oscar the tomcat was just misunderstood — with deadly consequences… A love sick young man attempts to tap the power of an ancient religion to secure the affections of a girl on their class trip to Christland… The dead come briefly back to life every year when the astral dimensions align in Day, or Two, of The Dead. A cynical young ‘player’, adrift in the modern, amoral age meets God on a mountain top and his life is changed forever — but not in the way he’d ever imagined. Traditional sci-fi/fantasy and satire from the author of Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam. Clayton channels the spirits of Huxley, Orwell and Philip K. Dick in these and ten other intelligent, provocative and highly entertaining stories. WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING “Thank you for writing this. This is the sort of book I was hoping would begin to spring from the Indie world. No way would NYC Corporate Publishing ever allow something with this world view through.” “… I expected Strange Worlds to be about dystopias, supernatural monsters, zombies, and futuristic technologies, but now after reading this collection, I realize that the stories are about us.” “Clayton leads the modern reader through dark and dangerous territory, but the gems they will find there are worth the risk. Very few Indies would have had the courage to put their names to something like this.” “… while you are being taken away to a place and time which is… strange and… disturbing… the humanity of (most of) his characters will make you feel right at home; of course, you’ll want to leave a light on.”</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TM2MsH" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Escape From the Future and Other Stories</a><br />by Paul Clayton<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Escape-From-The-Future.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5592 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Escape-From-The-Future.webp" alt="" width="241" height="385" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Escape-From-The-Future.webp 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Escape-From-The-Future-188x300.webp 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>What if you had access to a time machine and could go back to visit a deceased love… one more time. Would you?<br /><br />In 1962, Bobby Newman’s Grandpa, a basement inventor, loses his wife to cancer, then begins to lose his mind to grief. While tuning up his not-yet-perfected time machine for one last visit with his wife, he ends up going the wrong way… into the dystopian future of 2025. Inexplicably, he sends the machine back.<br /><br />Fourteen-year-old Bobby uses it to lead Mom and Dad on a mission to find Grandpa and bring him back.<br /><br />But Grandpa has other ideas…</strong><br /><br /><em>This volume brings together five of Paul Clayton’s most ambitious stories to date, stories that juxtapose a familiar America of the very recent past with ominous new versions of the country now coming into focus.<br /><br />Clayton’s concern is with ordinary people—their innate wisdom and persistent foolishness, their capacity to do good or harm, and their resiliency—with what happens when time travelers from the 1960s arrive in a city dominated by criminal gangs and corrupt politicians, or when a woman opts for a new procedure to avoid losing her cancer-ridden husband, or when a soldier in Vietnam is granted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to give his elevator speech, or when a man, illegally alive, attempts to stay that way…<br /><br />Clayton shows how people make choices that, collectively, point civilization in new directions, be it toward forcible reclamation of vast tracts of land as primeval wilderness or elimination of those deemed to be nonproductive ‘useless eaters.’<br /><br />This is a first-rate collection of stories by a serious writer.—Stephen Gallup, author of What About the Boy?</em></p>
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<h2 id="block-b766e972-b1a4-4512-810b-dda1477259c0" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3hHR52N"><em>Let Sleeping Gods Lie: A Lovecraftian Gods Horror Story</em></a><br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3hHR52N"><em>(Cowboys & Cthulhu Book 1)</em></a><br />by David J. West<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Sleeping-Gods.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5032 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Sleeping-Gods.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="361" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Sleeping-Gods.jpg 230w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Sleeping-Gods-199x300.jpg 199w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-4d1ebd63-d7ab-450f-9416-64359658a6f9"><strong><em>Let Sleeping Gods Lie</em></strong> is a weird western fantasy in the vein of classic pulp fiction and Louis L’Amour books. If you like frontier justice, larger-than-life characters, and witty humor, then you will LOVE the first installment of the Cowboys and Cthulhu series.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3i6fF2H" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shoot the Devil</a><a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-62.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5828 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-62.png" alt="" width="225" height="359" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-62.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-62-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></h2>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">by N.R. LaPoint, Steven G. Johnson, James Pyles, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Daniel Humphreys, Declan Finn, Russell Newquist, John C. Wright, Corey Comstock, and Michael Gallagher</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ten of superversive’s finest team up to bring you tales from a serial killer’s basement, to the weird west, to the average small town, all featuring “mostly” ordinary men and women fighting back against the forces of darkness.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Review:</strong> A collection varied in style from hauntingly beautiful, to high octane action, all mix with a common theme, overcoming evil. The stories can all be read on their own but some involve characters with an establish history and previous stories. Every story is at least very good and several are excellent, like John C. Wright’s contribution. Overall its a great read and I would recommend to anyone who wants stories that are gritty and real but with a positive message showing human courage.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3yE38XR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>IRON MAIDEN: An Epic Fantasy Adventure</em></a><br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3yE38XR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>(The Iron Testament Book 1)</em></a> <br />by James Alderdice<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Iron-Maiden.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5034 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Iron-Maiden.jpg" alt="" width="237" height="367" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Iron-Maiden.jpg 323w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Iron-Maiden-194x300.jpg 194w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><em>You can take the girl out of the dragon, but you can’t take the dragon out of the girl…</em></strong></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Aisha has the blood of dragons in her veins, but its only ever brought pain and hardship despite giving her incredible powers. Now she wants to serve her country and atone for past sins but things never go how they should. When she rides into the borderlands, she finds a treasure map to the legendary graveyard of dragons. She doubts the hoard of treasure truly exists, but everyone else from bandits to invading armies and even a lusty princess want to get their hands on the map. As Aisha unwillingly begins her quest, she’s not surprised when the blood begins to flow…</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The journey will take her across a cursed landscape brimming with foul sorceries and terrible monsters. The promise of both treasure and revenge is irresistible. Surrounded by bloodthirsty enemies, can she survive and claim her reward?…</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>IRON MAIDEN</em> is an action-packed fantasy in the vein of classic pulp fantasy and rip-roaring eighties movies. If you like desperate battles, larger-than-life characters, and black humor, then you’ll love James Alderdice’s epic tale.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><em>Buy IRON MAIDEN to join a sword and sorcery fantasy today!</em></strong></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This book was previously published as Sowing Dragon Teeth, this is an updated version.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3z6t3q7"><em>BRUTAL: A Sword & Sorcery Fantasy (THE BRUTAL SWORD SAGA Book 1)</em></a><br />by James Alderdice<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Brutal.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5132 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Brutal.jpg" alt="" width="231" height="368" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Brutal.jpg 314w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Brutal-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>He has no name. His past is a mystery. His future is etched in blood…</strong></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Sellsword knows an opportunity when he sees one. When he rides into the border city of Aldreth, he can tell that the power struggle between two feuding wizards needs a solitary spark to ignite into all-out-war. As he sets the corrupt paladins and demonic adepts against each other, he’s not surprised when the blood begins to flow…</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But after the alluring duchess catches his eye, the Sellsword puts himself in harm’s way to protect her and the innocent people of Aldreth. To save the noble few, spells and blades won’t stop the Sellsword from leaving a swath of righteous carnage in his wake…</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Brutal</em> is an action-packed grimdark fantasy in the vein of classic pulp fiction and Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns. If you like gory battles, larger-than-life characters, and witty humor, then you’ll love James Alderdice’s gritty tale.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Buy <em>Brutal</em> to get lost in a bloody sword and sorcery adventure today!</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/44F5Nzt" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/44F5Nzt">THE USURPER: A Heroic Fantasy (THE BRUTAL SWORD SAGA Book 2)</a><br />by James Alderdice<a href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-193.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6135 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-193.png" alt="" width="236" height="375" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-193.png 314w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-193-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Fates weave a tapestry of life and death for young Gathelaus the Sellsword. Now an unexpected opportunity presents itself for the famed mercenary, he has but to claim the blood red crown…</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>The Usurper</em> is an action-packed heroic adventure in the vein of classic pulp fiction and heroic fantasy. If you like Conan the Barbarian, The Witcher and Logen Ninefingers along with vengeful sorcery, savage duels, larger-than-life characters, and witty humor, then you’ll love James Alderdice’s barbaric tale.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3FzJqzd">Helldorado: and other tales of the Weird West (Dark Trails Saga Book 5)</a><br />David J. West<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Helldorado.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5238 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Helldorado.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="371" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Helldorado.jpg 324w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Helldorado-194x300.jpg 194w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>A bitter winter, a bitter war, and a hungry ghost are waiting for Porter Rockwell in Helldorado.</strong></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Maybe Porter Rockwell can’t be harmed by bullet or a blade, but his friends have no such luck as they are thrown into a duel between mining companies fighting for the right to dig up a rich gold vein on the edge of Indian land. Diabolical twists are around every turn as death stalks the streets of Helldorado with either a six-gun or insatiable hunger for blood.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Based loosely on true events, <strong>HELLDORADO</strong> is wild ride into the borders of madness when good men are pushed too far. Along with the new novella are a host of other Porter Rockwell stories collected here for the first time from a variety of previous publications.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>HELLDORADO</strong> is a Western with colorful characters and wit straight out of a Tarantino flick. If you like mixing horror with your pulp, surprise twists, strong and admirable heroes, and Weird Westerns, then you’ll love the next book in David J. West’s Dark Trails Saga.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Buy <strong>HELLDORADO</strong> to join the hunt for gold today!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3hyd1iQ">Which Art In Hope</a></em><br /><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3hyd1iQ">(Spooner Federation Saga Book 1)</a></em><br />by Francis Porretto<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Which-Art-in-Hope.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5170 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Which-Art-in-Hope.jpg" alt="" width="241" height="328" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Which-Art-in-Hope.jpg 368w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Which-Art-in-Hope-221x300.jpg 221w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When the remnant of the anarchist Spooner Federation fled Earth before the genocidal wrath of the States, the fugitives had only the slimmest chance of finding a habitable world orbiting a benign star. Yet 544 years after embarking on their planetoid-ship, they found one that seemed too good to be true. They named it Hope.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For 1200 years, a secret Cabal has elevated powerful psi talents to the the management of Hope’s crust, at the eventual cost of their lives. The alternative was a choice between mass death by heavy-metal poisoning and mass death by starvation. But the pool of psi talents has dwindled till only two remain: Armand Morelon, heir apparent to the richest and most prestigious clan on Hope, and Victoria Peterson, a young woman of great beauty and intelligence immured in poverty and abuse. But one is utterly unwilling and the other is murderously insane. And the survival of Mankind hangs in the balance.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3AV0CP6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Freedom’s Scion</a><br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3AV0CP6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Spooner Federation Saga Book 2)</a><br />by Francis Porretto<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-18.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5698 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-18.png" alt="" width="240" height="383" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-18.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-18-188x300.png 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Sequel to Which Art In Hope.</h3>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As they pass from mortal life, Armand and Teresza Morelon, foremost of all the residents of the wholly ungoverned world of Hope, lay a charge upon their granddaughter Althea: to break the lightspeed barrier, travel to Earth, and determine why no radio emissions from the cradle of Mankind have reached Hope since the Spoonerite Hegira. It shapes the young polymath’s life from that moment onward.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Althea spends her young adulthood playing Hope’s equities market, amassing a fortune for her mission. At 30 she falls in love with Martin Forrestal, a genius of another kind. The two are soon married.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jacksonville is in flux. Armand Morelon had facilitated a mass relocation from the Hopeless peninsula, where Hope’s undesirables had sheltered, to the Jacksonville region. Douglas Kramnik, patriarch of one of the relocated clans, seeks payback for the long-ago diminution of his clan to outcast status. First, he seeks to marry Althea to his son and clan scion Barton. When Morelon matriarch Charisse declines the offer, his resentments swell. They culminate in an attempt to thwart Barton’s betrothal to Althea’s cousin Nora, which elicits an intervention by Althea herself.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Charisse tries but fails to dissuade Althea from going to the stars. Her failure couples to her desire for power, and she begins to scheme. Her attempts to become a local baroness are revealed through a discovery by Patrice Kramnik Morelon of irregularities in the clan’s finances. It costs Charisse her position, but doesn’t end her quest for power.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After Althea and Martin have tested Freedom’s Horizon, a ground-to-orbit spaceplane, Martin presses her with his desire for children. It proves catastrophic: the child is stillborn. The birth leaves Althea in lasting agony. She and Martin are estranged for two years. They reunite after an intervention by Barton and Nora, but the tensions between them have not been dispersed.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hope’s progress has emphasized biotechnology. Hallanson-Albermayer Corporation develops a medipod capable of healing its owner of virtually any ill. Althea and Martin become the first customers. Althea’s medipod provides her with cover for a telekinetic repair of her damaged nervous system. She’s guided by her “dead” grandfather Armand, who has taught her the use of her psi powers, as great as his own.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Althea and Martin establish an orbital lab on the Relic, the planetoid-ship that ferried the original Spoonerites to Hope. Groundside, Charisse abandons Clan Morelon and her husband Chuck without warning, and isn’t seen again for years. Althea soon discovers a way around the lightspeed limit, and a power source suitable for propelling a starship.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When Althea’s starship Liberty’s Torch is ready for its maiden voyage, she finds an unexpected ally in her desire to leave Martin safely behind: Barton Kramnik Morelon, who rose upon Charisse’s resignation to the Morelon patriarchy. Between them, they persuade Althea’s husband to remain on Hope for the three years of her journey to Eridanus cluster, signals from which hint at intelligent life.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At Eridanus, Althea is greeted by representatives of the Loioc, a humanoid race whose males have been deliberately rendered nonsentient, supposedly to put an end to violence among them. It’s their intention that Althea do the same to the men of Hope. Althea escapes their plot and destroys the space station the Loioc had used to suppress interstellar travel, but is infected with the nanites the Loioc women use to suppress the development of intelligence in men.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Althea returns to the Relic, hoping that her medipod has removed the nanites from her body, and discovers that in her absence, Hope has been visited by the supreme evil the Spoonerites fled Earth to escape: warfare.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To be continued in Freedom’s Fury, the concluding volume of the Spooner Federation trilogy.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3U3KO5p" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Freedom’s Fury</a><br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3U3KO5p" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(Spooner Federation Saga Book 3)</a><br />by Francis Porretto<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-19.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5699 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-19.png" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-19.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-19-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Althea Morelon has returned from Eridanus cluster. The Loioc have infected her with a self-replicating nanite that destroys the sentience potential of male zygotes, filling her with a lust for vengeance.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But she has more to cope with than just her nanite infection.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Interclan warfare has broken out on Hope.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Though Althea must remain on the Relic until she’s certain she‘s free of the Loioc nanite, only she can save her kin from subjugation. And there’s more and worse to come.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The State is rising again.<br /><br /><em>Freedom’s Fury,</em> the third volume of the <em>Spooner Federation</em> saga, completes the tale of struggle and survival begun in <em>Which Art In Hope</em> and continued in <em>Freedom’s Scion.</em></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3BtY8Zz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chosen One (Realm of Essences Book 1)</a><br />by Francis Porretto<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-8.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5648 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-8.png" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-8.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-8-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">From his earliest days, Louis Redmond proves to be a prodigy: brilliant, powerful, and great-souled, a trailblazer of the spirit and a natural leader of men.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Armies would follow him into the mouth of Hell.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Yet tragedy dogs his steps, depriving him of family and friends. Hammerblow follows hammerblow, giving him little time to recover.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But Louis is watched over by one who knows all the ways of Man: Malcolm Loughlin, immortal grandmaster of all things martial, who’s trained the world’s great warriors for two millennia.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">His wisdom, enough to elevate Louis to the throne of the world, is available to Louis, for a price…</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A price even a Titan would shudder to meet.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TLYtxD" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">On Broken Wings (Realm of Essences Book 2)</a><br />by Francis W. Porretto<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-7.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5647 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-7.png" alt="" width="240" height="326" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-7.png 368w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-7-221x300.png 221w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Christine has no memory of her past.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She’s been made a sexual slave by the Butchers, a gang of vicious bikers.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After ten years’ agony, she’s freed herself by committing murder and earning a faceful of hideous scars.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But Tiny, the Butcher king, is obsessed with her.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Her sole chance of escaping him lies in trusting a mysterious young man she’s just met.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She takes a chance, the biggest of her life, on her serendipitous rescuer, and he proves more than equal to the task. But Louis Redmond has a few secrets of his own…and they prove to be just as important to Christine’s future as his intrusion into the horror show her life has been…</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3qncVOY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shadow Of A Sword (Realm of Essences Book 3)</a><br />by Francis Porretto<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-6.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5646 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-6.png" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-6.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-6-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Christine D’Alessandro has been away from Onteora County for three years when the death of Helen Davenport draws her back. She is swiftly, albeit unwillingly, enmeshed in a war between two private security companies: Integral Security, owned and operated by Kevin Conway, and Lawrence Security Patrols, owned and operated by Ernest Lawrence, brother to Onteora Chief of Police Raymond Lawrence.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Shortly thereafter, Stephen Sumner, the lieutenant governor of New York, decides to campaign for the presidency of the United States on the Constitutional Party ticket. He approaches Conway about security, and acquires Christine’s services for the duration of his campaign. It proves a fortunate choice: powerful forces are determined to prevent the charismatic and principled Sumner from getting his message to the American people.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sumner proves to be exactly what the nation, crushed by debt, taxes, and near-totalitarian government, has been looking for. That doesn’t endear him to the powers that be or their supporters. One such supporter, political strategist Adam Zlugy, currently in service to President Walter Coleman, sees an opportunity for himself that his affiliation with Coleman cannot equal.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Malcolm Loughlin, Christine’s old mentor, becomes alert to the multifarious threats to Sumner and Christine. They prove to be of a nature that reaches beyond mere politics…indeed, all the way to the forces that governed the creation of the world.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3qgkzuu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Polymath (Realm of Essences Book 4)</a><br />by Francis Porretto<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-4.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5644 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-4.png" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-4.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-4-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Even in his high school years, it was clear to all who knew him that Todd Iverson is special. There are no sciences, no technologies, and no arts he cannot master. There is no field of human endeavor he will leave untouched. He has the power to transform human civilization utterly, and he means to do so.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Todd does have a few little problems. For one, his mother crippled him emotionally by artificially orphaning him, abandoning him to become a nun just after his father’s death. For another, he can’t abide the idea that anyone might be better than he is—at anything. For a third, he might just be a sociopath: the most dangerous sociopath ever to be born among men.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The powers of darkness are aware of him, and they don’t plan to let him work unmolested.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But Todd will not go his way unmentored or unprotected. The most powerful creatures on Earth have resolved to complete his upbringing and bring his strength to fullness:<br />Malcolm Loughlin.<br />Christine D’Alessandro.<br />And Louis Redmond.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Todd will find love and deliberately forsake it.<br />He will know the most terrible kinds and occasions of loss.<br />He will enter the world of business, first as an employee, later as an entrepreneur.<br />And his powers will reach their zenith just as a most improbable figure takes the White House.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For Todd Evelyn Iverson has his eyes on the skies. He has resolved that Man shall leave his species’ womb at long last. As Stephen Graham Sumner and the Constitutional movement rise to prominence, he is preparing to set his foot upon the first rung of a ladder to the stars. It’s a ladder he is uniquely qualified to design and build.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Polymath chronicles the bursting of an Onteora County giant from his chrysalis to spread his wings over the world. It’s the fourth novel of the Realm of Essences series, and begins the story of an American Renaissance.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3KQRy2f" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Statesman (Realm of Essences Book 5)</a><br />by Francis Porretto<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-5.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5645 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-5.png" alt="" width="240" height="344" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-5.png 349w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-5-209x300.png 209w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Stephen Graham Sumner is a lawyer from Onteora County, New York and a descendant of the late William Graham Sumner, one of America’s forgotten great thinkers. We meet Sumner in his mid-thirties: he’s capable and passionate about justice, but his life ambitions are unformed. He becomes general counsel to Onteora Aviation, a defense-industry corporation, and meets those who will mold his ambitions, with particular emphasis on a single figure: Louis Redmond.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In consequence of his reluctant agreement to become the running-mate of the incumbent governor of New York, Sumner develops a vast distaste for what American politics and government have become. Surprised and made optimistic by his unexpected popularity, not merely in New York but throughout the Northeast, he campaigns for and wins the presidency on the Constitutional Party ticket: the first candidate to rise to the White House from a third party since Abraham Lincoln.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sumner’s presidency is not a tranquil one. Foreign military adventures, provoked by Islamic terrorism, lead to horrifying consequences. These, plus his domestic efforts to return American government to its Constitutional origins and his support for maverick inventor and space enthusiast Todd Iverson’s orbital habitat project, cause the rise of an implacable enemy: Ian McIlvaine, U.S. Senator from California. By dint of brilliant though darkly-motivated tactics, McIlvaine succeeds Sumner in the Oval Office, and contrives a downfall for Sumner that no previous president has had to face.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Jh8hMz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tears from Iron<br />(Memories of the Cataclysm Book 1)</a><br />by Jonathan Oldenburg<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-75.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5877 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-75.png" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-75.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-75-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A new epic of military fantasy has arrived. Reviewers call <em>Tears from Iron</em> a “jaw-dropping” “wonderful fantasy” that is “elegantly done” with “one of the best endings of any fantasy novel” and “a great hero’s journey.”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Vistus is a warrior-brother, his prowess in battle matched only by his loyalty to the Syraestari Empire. Ninanna is a sword-whisperer, the personal guardian to the Empress. Theirs is a world shattered by cataclysm and held together only by steel and sorcery. As rebellion and war threaten the Empire, Vistus and Ninanna must join forces or see the prophecies of dead gods destroy everything they have sworn to protect.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>“Tears from Iron by Jonathan Oldenburg is a story of heroism and the spirit of freedom that combines the magic of Brandon Sanderson with intricate worldbuilding seldom seen outside of the Lord of the Rings.” – L. Jagi Lamplighter, author of Prospero’s Children</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>“The beginning of an epic tale that I cannot wait to read more of.” James Young, author of Aries’ Red Sky</em></p>
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<p><strong>A 2021 Prometheus Award nominee!<br /><br />“Mammon will scratch your itch for cranky libertarian sci-fi. Looking forward to the next part!” – John Carmack, creator of Doom and founder of Armadillo Aerospace</strong><br /><br /><strong>“★★★★★ This is a compelling page turner and, once again, Kroese… not only gets the economics of hyperinflation absolutely correct, but, in the best tradition of science fiction, “shows, not tells” the psychology which grips those experiencing it and how rapidly the thin veneer of civilisation can erode when money dies.” – John Walker, Founder of Autodesk, Inc., co-author AutoCAD, author The Hacker’s Diet, operator of Fourmilab<br /><br />“★★★★★ Kroese did his homework on financial bubbles, panics, mass psychosis, social collapse, cryptocurrency, and hyper-inflation…. [B]etter than <em>Lucifer’s Hammer</em>, and spookily realistic.” – Hans Schantz, physicist and author of <em>The Hidden Truth<br /><br />“</em>★★★★★ You can see the foundation of the book’s apocalypse in today’s headlines, and that should scare the hell out of anyone. Cannot wait for book two.” – T. Cannon, Amazon reviewer</strong><br /><br />By the year 2032, the U.S. federal debt has surpassed $50 trillion. The American empire is on the verge of collapse.</p>
<p>An entrepreneur named Kade Kapur has an idea for rescuing the debt-ridden United States: the government will issue stock in a company with exclusive mining rights to an asteroid whose orbit will soon bring it near Earth. The asteroid, which contains $10 trillion in valuable minerals, is officially called 2015 RK 16 Maimonides, but it soon comes to be known by another name: Mammon.<br /><br />Fortunes are made and America seems to have avoided an economic collapse. But when the plan to capture the asteroid goes awry, the sky will fall….</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3604oIv">Academic Magic: Academic Magic Book 1</a></em></strong><br />by Becky Jones</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Zoe O’Brien has found her dream job at a small liberal arts college teaching the history of Medieval witchcraft and magic.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Academic life is exactly what she expected it to be…until the squirrels stop by to talk with her and her department chair and best friend turn out to be mages.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Zoe discovers a world of magic and power she never knew existed.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She and other faculty mages race to stop a coven from raising a demon on the winter solstice while simultaneously grading piles of final exams and reading the tortured prose of undergraduate term papers.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But first, she must learn to master her new-found powers.</p>
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<p><strong>NOTE, <a href="https://amzn.to/3EsP1bX">Book 3, <em>Magic Abroad</em>, is a New Addition.</a></strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3iatzR2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Frozen Dreams</a><br />by Moe Lane<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-50.png" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5797 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-50.png" sizes="auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-50.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-50-188x300.png 188w" alt="" width="182" height="291" /></a></h2>
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<p>This is going to be the best post-apocalyptic high urban fantasy pulp detective novel you will read today!</p>
<p>Join Shamus Tom Vargas as he Clears a murder Case in Cin City, capital of the magical kingdom of New California.</p>
<p>It’s his job; in fact, you might say it’s his calling.</p>
<p>Moe Lane is a stay-at-home father and unrepentant geek who is interested in fantasy, science fiction, and roleplaying games. He’s had a variety of jobs over the years, from retail worker to political New Media blogger/digital activist; but now he writes books, short stories, and gaming supplements. He finds it all very, very restful. TINSEL RAIN is his latest novel.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3gvJfOy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Record of The Paladins: Book of Oliver</a><br />by BP McCoppin<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-32.png" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5779 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-32.png" sizes="auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-32.png 355w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-32-213x300.png 213w" alt="" width="245" height="345" /></a></h2>
<p>Demons are real.</p>
<p>They walk this world.<br />To combat Satan’s hordes, Christianity relies on its secret weapons: <strong>Paladins</strong>.<br /><br />Oliver has visions. He hears voices. When he meets a beautiful stranger who seems to know why, Oliver must choose to answer the call of Christianity’s mysterious order or never know the truth he’s been searching for.</p>
<p>Dive into the world just beyond the edge of perception, a place where demons terrorize and crusaders wage war.<br /><br />Journey with Oliver as he seeks the answer to the riddle of life: <strong>What is my purpose?</strong><br /><br />Complete in itself,<strong> BOOK OF OLIVER</strong> is the first novel in an epic series, <strong>RECORD OF THE PALADINS</strong>.<br /><br /><strong>Note to reader</strong>: This is a book of faith based heroes who glorify God and seek his kingdom. It contains action, adventure, and villains. These villains are as far from God as one can be and will at times use profanity. There is a light amount of profanity in the final chapter, so fair warning.<br /><br />The demons in the book are vile creatures and may scare younger readers. We do not hold back on how evil Satan and his hordes can be.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/43NGATN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Genius Threads<br />(The Knowledge Well Book 1)</a><br />by Chris Haught<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-104.png" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5917 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-104.png" sizes="auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-104.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-104-188x300.png 188w" alt="" width="244" height="390" /></a></h2>
<p>Humanity is slowly losing its intellect and Dr. Brill Everly is the only one to notice.</p>
<p>Armed with a special gift from his father, Brill begins to unlock the deep genetic secrets of human intelligence.</p>
<p>Forced to reconcile with his lacking emotions and avoid constant government surveillance, Brill teams up with the dashing double agent spy turned academic, Liora Abrams.</p>
<p>Together they begin this journey across the globe to uncover the ancient genetic linkages to human intelligence, which leads to the ultimate discovery of the Knowledge Well.</p>
<p>This globe-trotting quest leads them through the ancient ruins of a Tibet temple, narrowly escaping a Chinese military ambush, only to be ensnared by a drug cartel, finally arriving at the Maori graveyards of New Zealand.</p>
<p>If you like fast-paced adventure, engaging mystery thriller, and romance, you will love the first installment in Chris Haught’s page-turning series.</p>
<p>Buy The Genius Threads, Book 1 of the Knowledge Well series to read Brill’s latest adventure today.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/43Wceym" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Broken Man: The Rise of the Fisher King<br />Book 1 of 2: The Rise of the Fisher King</a><br />by Hawkings Austin<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-153.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6049 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-153.png" alt="" width="240" height="359" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-153.png 334w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-153-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A Shadow Man is stalking the children of Ard, leaving the dead lying in the forest with their eyes black pits.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The people are in a panic, but the investigating Ruad philosophers have no explanation.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Seeking someone to blame, the people of the ancient city of Ard demand the head of the most dangerous person in their midst, the giant Waylaid.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Once great among the Fomor – a prince, a sorcerer, a priest – Waylaid has been cast out by his people.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He has come to Ard with his Bolg apprentice, Piju, to live quietly and study in Brea’s library.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Prophesy has shaken the foundations of the world.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Three kingdoms search for a king,</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Piju fights to free the slaves of Ard, and Waylaid must find a way to defeat a god which has the power to take his bones.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3JsKwB6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pure Poison (A Purity Wellman Story Book 1)</a><br />by Hawkings Austin (Author)</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She returns to a world she no longer understands, but there are still evil men in the world.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The devil’s work is never finished and the family business is never done.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She isn’t going to give up and die, again.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>About the Author:</strong><br />Hawk’s current supervillain title is “Director of Radiation Effects.” In his quest to take over the world, Hawk has landed a series of jobs with NASA, DoD, and Missile Defense. Currently, he’s testing spacecraft for the rigors of the natural (and unnatural) environments that only he can conquer. The recent loss of his sidekick, Vlad (to a paying job) has been painful, but he’s managed to work through the loss to conquer large swaths of Colorado.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hawk has a number of professional publications in engineering, science, history, and fantasy. He has been performing as a Mad Scientist for many years and is very close, at this point, to taking over (or destroying) the Earth. He can be found blogging on Urban-Fantasy.com, Madsci.us, and tweeting as @Sablehawk. He loves to speak at Science Fiction Conventions, such as Dragon Con, and will be happy – over a beer – to talk about any of these things for hours.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3zGdauo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Immaculate Corpse (A Purity Wellman Story Book 2)</a><br />by Hawkings Austin</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But he’s still got time. Life isn’t going to settle down for Purity anytime soon. She might have killed the dark pastor and his demons, but the fallout from the fight is still plaguing her. It looks like her old enemy Don Bello is behind everything. He’s coming for Purity and what remains of her family.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3b5s2Is" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Divine Dark (A Purity Wellman Story Book 3)</a><br />by Hawkings Austin<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/divine-dark-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="208" height="346" class="wp-image-5503 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/divine-dark-1.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/divine-dark-1.jpg 208w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/divine-dark-1-180x300.jpg 180w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Can Purity control the vampire within herself? Or is it lying to her so it can take her power for itself? Purity must find the witches, and stop them. She’s only got a week to do it, and she’s got to do it alone.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The third Purity Wellman book pits Purity against her most dangerous enemy yet–herself. Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Sookie Stackhouse in Purity Wellman, a fish-out-of-water resurrected girl trying to find her place in a creepy Appalachian American Gods universe.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3NWPTZE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Brutal Dreams</a><br />by J.D. Cowan<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/BrutalDreams.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5474 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/BrutalDreams.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/BrutalDreams.jpg 344w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/BrutalDreams-206x300.jpg 206w" alt="" width="231" height="336" /></a></h2>
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<p>After awakening in the woods, Christopher Archer finds himself trapped in a world outside of time.</p>
<p>Fog monsters, armed gangsters, and a legendary spear, all await his arrival.</p>
<p>But what about the fiancé who disappeared months ago?<br /><br />As Archer explores this eternal midnight, he can only wonder—is this all just a dream, or is there something more hidden in the dark, watching his every move?<br /><br />There is one choice.</p>
<p>He must traverse the nightmare and learn the truth.</p>
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<p>Siege on the Shadow Planet!</p>
<p>Ex-punk Two Tone is left for dead and his friend is taken. His assailants: men of mud from some place darker than Hell!</p>
<p>The inscrutable Sarpedon has slithered from the depths to rule a planet that has long abandoned hope for a better tomorrow. With no one to stop his spree of violence, it is only a matter of time before Two Tone’s world is overrun.</p>
<p>Old friends and a mysterious beauty gather by his side, but are they enough? Is it too late for this dying world? If all cats are grey in the dark, will anyone see the panther stalking its prey? Two Tone will find the answers the best way he knows how—through his fists!</p>
<p>Grey Cat Blues tells the tale of a distant planet at humanity’s end. In this place, a man must choose between love and hate. And where his choice leads him might not be where he expects . . .</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3MT1cAK" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Empire’s Corps</a> <br />by Christopher G. Nuttall<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/EmpiresCorps.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5435 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/EmpiresCorps.jpg" alt="" width="219" height="329" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/EmpiresCorps.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/EmpiresCorps-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Galactic Empire is dying and chaos and anarchy are breaking out everywhere. After a disastrous mission against terrorists on Earth itself, Captain Edward Stalker of the Terran Marine Corps makes the mistake of speaking truth to power, telling one of the most powerful men in the Empire a few home truths. As a result, Captain Stalker and his men are unceremoniously exiled to Avalon, a world right on the Rim of the Empire. It should have been an easy posting…</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3zEUuvo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Schooled in Magic</a><br />by Christopher G. Nuttall<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Schooled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5436 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Schooled.jpg" alt="" width="226" height="339" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Schooled.jpg 334w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Schooled-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There, she learns the locals believe that she is a “Child of Destiny,” someone whose choices might save or damn their world … a title that earns her both friends and enemies.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">…and the necromancer is still hunting her. If Emily can’t stop him, he might bring about the end of days.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Book I in the Schooled in Magic series.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After completing her first year of learning magic at Whitehall School, Emily accepts an invitation from Princess Alassa to accompany her on her progress back to her home country of Zangaria, where the princess may meet her future husband. Alassa, who was a spoiled brat before she met Emily, wants to show off her friend – and impress potential suitors.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Brimming with new ideas for magical research, Emily returns to Whitehall School for her Second Year, only to discover that things are going to be different. Her friends have become sports-mad fanatics, her new roommates are strangers to her, her new classes are far harder and one of the teachers seems to actively dislike her. As she returns to the comforting routine of the only place she considers home, she finds that Second Year will be far harder than the first.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As the darkness falls on Whitehall, Emily may be their salvation…or the person who damns them all.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3XothGC" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Providence</a><br />by Richard Sezov<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-56.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5803 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-56.png" alt="" width="238" height="357" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-56.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-56-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Two coasts, two tragedies.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A car accident in the east sends the lives of multiple unrelated people in different directions, some of them on collision courses.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A school shooting in the west takes some lives and saves others.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What are we to make of all this?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Is life just a series of meaningless, unrelated events, or is reality following a plan?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A teacher, plumber, librarian, student, deadbeat, and others learn the answer to this and more during the course of a single, roller coaster of a day.<br /><br />James R. Hannibal, award-winning and bestselling author of <em>The Paris Betrayal</em> says “Richard Sezov holds nothing back in this thoughtful and intense look at God’s sovereignty. He paints an intricate portrait of a dozen lives, steadily blending each stroke to show the Master Painter at work bringing good out of their suffering and sin.”</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3EoGW7G" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nethereal (Soul Cycle Book 1)</a><br />by Brian Niemeier<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-38.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5785 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-38.png" alt="" width="240" height="364" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-38.png 329w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-38-197x300.png 197w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>He was drawing closer…</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>The flow of Teth had carried him to myriad worlds left diminished by his presence.</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Now his search had compelled him to take ship with scofflaws.</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>And he was drawing closer.</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Sublime Brotherhood of Steersmen holds the Middle Stratum in its iron grip.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jaren Peregrine, last of the Gen, raids across fringe space with Nakvin—her captain’s best pilot and only friend, apprentice steersman Deim, and mercenary Teg Cross.<br /><br />Hunted by the ruthless Master Malachi, Jaren and his crew join a conspiracy to break the Guild’s monopoly with an experimental ship.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But when its maiden voyage goes awry, the Exodus flies farther off course than its crew could have imagined.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/372Ih3F">A Greater Duty (Galaxy Ascendant Book 1)</a></em></strong><br />by Yakov Merkin</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Galactic Alliance was not ready for war. When it is suddenly invaded by the cold and relentless Tyrannodon Armada, under the command of emotionless, amoral Executor Darkclaw, it is immediately sent reeling.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">However, Executor Darkclaw, who has been prosecuting the invasion on orders of his master, the all-powerful energy being known only as the High Lord, has started having second thoughts once he unexpectedly starts feeling emotions he does not understand. Suddenly, he finds himself heretically questioning the only purpose he has ever known—irrevocably altering his view of the ongoing war.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Meanwhile, within the Galactic Alliance, Second Scion Dalcon Oresh, member of an order dedicated to preserving the it, struggles to stop the Alliance’s bleeding, the source of which may not be entirely external.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">All the while, the imminent existential threat of the High Lord looms over everything, and the key to stopping him, and saving not just the Alliance, but the entire galaxy, may only be found in the remains of a ancient, powerful race, and the creations they left behind…</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/32rANZj">Light Unto Another World: Volume 1</a><br />by Yakov Merkin<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/light-unto.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5299 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/light-unto.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/light-unto.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/light-unto-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As a soldier, Uriel Makkis was prepared for many things. Being pulled through a portal into another world was not one of them.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He soon learns that he was brought to this world for a reason, as the heralded Sword of Light. However, something is amiss, as he first appeared in the middle of nowhere, rather than the capital as intended.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While he is meant to travel there straightaway to learn more, Uriel has no intention of doing as he’s told, not when there are people he can help right where he is.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Back home, he was just an average soldier; here, he can truly make a difference, and Uriel will not let the opportunity pass by.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But it won’t be easy. Uriel will have to rely on his faith, his newfound friends, and the skills and knowledge he brings from back home, as he throws himself headlong into a new conflict, becoming a beacon of light on this new world!</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In this new isekai adventure, you can’t just leave the old world behind.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2RyKgEv"><em><strong>The Compleat Martian Invasion: Earth’s Defense Awakens</strong></em></a><br />by John Taloni</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-360ec818-24ea-489b-b2f4-460d4319e84b">With Earth left in shambles by the Martian invasion, Queen Victoria’s daughter Louise must lead the world through a dire emergency: The Martians are coming back. First she must rescue Cavor from his prison on the Moon in order to build a defense fleet. Even with Cavor their efforts would be for nothing without the genius of Nikola Tesla leading the way. And on Mars, unexpected allies fight a rearguard action to help Earth. Meanwhile the Time Traveler repeatedly appears, but is he friend or foe?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-838acb35-3f24-41bb-8344-48e820543428"><strong>Review:</strong> A number of years have elapsed since the Martian Invasion chronicled by H.G. Wells in <a href="https://amzn.to/3lsrqOG"><em>The War of the Worlds</em></a> . The damage inflicted on the Earth was severe, and the protracted process of recovery, begun in the British Empire in the last years of Queen Victoria’s reign, now continues under Queen Louise, Victoria’s sixth child and eldest surviving heir after the catastrophe of the invasion. Just as Earth is beginning to return to normalcy, another crisis has emerged. John Bedford, who had retreated into an opium haze after the horrors of his last expedition, is summoned to Windsor Castle where Queen Louise shows him a photograph. “Those are puffs of gas on the Martian surface. The Martians are coming again, Mr. Bedford. And in far greater numbers.” Defeated the last time only due to their vulnerability to Earth’s microbes, there is every reason to expect that this time the Martians will have taken precautions against that threat to their plans for conquest.<br /><br />Earth’s only hope to thwart the invasion before it reaches the surface and unleashes further devastation on its inhabitants is deploying weapons on platforms employing the anti-gravity material Cavorite, but the secret of manufacturing it rests with its creator, Cavor, who has been taken prisoner by the ant-like Selenites in the expedition from which Mr Bedford narrowly escaped, as chronicled in Mr Wells’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-First-Men-in-the-Moon/dp/0486414183/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The First Men in the Moon</a> . Now, Bedford must embark on a perilous attempt to recover the Cavorite sphere lost at the end of his last adventure and then join an expedition to the Moon to rescue Cavor from the caves of the Selenites.<br /><br />Meanwhile, on Barsoom (Mars), <a href="https://www.amazon.com/John-Carter-and-Deja-Thoris/dp/0345331389/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">John Carter and Deja Thoris</a> find their beloved city of Helium threatened by the Khondanes, whose deadly tripods wreaked so much havoc on Earth not long ago and are now turning their envious eyes back to the plunder that eluded them on the last attempt.<br /><br />Queen Louise must assemble an international alliance, calling on all of her crowned relatives: Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm, and even those troublesome republican Americans, plus all the resources they can summon—the inventions of the Serbian, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tesla/dp/0691165610/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Tesla</a> , the research of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Maria-Sk%C5%82owdowska/dp/073945305X/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Maria Skłowdowska</a> and her young Swiss assistant Albert, discovered toiling away in the patent office, the secrets recovered from Captain Nemo’s island, and the mysterious interventions of the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Time-Traveller/dp/0553213512/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Time Traveller</a> , who flickers in and out of existence at various moments, pursuing his own inscrutable agenda. As the conflict approaches and battle is joined, an interplanetary effort is required to save Earth from calamity.<br /><br />As you might expect from this description, this is a rollicking good romp replete with references and tips of the hat to the classics of science fiction and their characters. What seems like a straightforward tale of battle and heroism takes a turn at the very end into the inspiring, with a glimpse of how different human history might have been.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-fca0c2ee-7aa0-4dd1-a211-1f45c6362149">The cats of Stardust Station have long hidden their intelligence from the humans that live there. Now a crisis threatens them both. Can the cats and humans learn to work together in time to save both the station and the planet below?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-182ce23e-74fa-46ce-b48b-55d2aa8a69ed">A few hundred years from now, Earth has gone to space…and come back. The remnant of a once vibrant space effort persists in the form of a few hundred solar power satellites that provide half of the world’s power. John Aldrin is one of four people crewing the last remaining space station, with the mission to keep the satellites operating. But Earth has neglected them so long that they are on the verge of breakdown.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-78a6a037-e9be-486e-b649-ff020c9b382e">Their equilibrium is destroyed when a solar flare strikes and knocks out the satellites. The Cats must reveal their secret to save both their station and the world below. But can they convince a skeptical Earth to work with them?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3lna9Xb">Thunder God of Mars: A Superhero Prose Novel</a><br />by John Taloni<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/ThunderGod.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5160 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/ThunderGod.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="375" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/ThunderGod.jpg 320w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/ThunderGod-192x300.jpg 192w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Thor vs. Ares with the fate of Mars in the balance!</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An urgent challenge calls Thor to Mars, where hostile forces threaten a new colony’s fragile future.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To aid the colonists he must contend against opportunistic deities from Earth and Mars, as well as the harsh environment of Mars itself.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Contains six short stories making one complete arc.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Also includes a bonus story where being normal is enough to be a superhero.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3b28ULr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">B</a><a href="https://amzn.to/3b28ULr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">l</a><a href="https://amzn.to/3b28ULr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ood Pressure</a><br />by Joseph L. Kellogg<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/BloodPressure.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5456 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/BloodPressure.jpg" alt="" width="238" height="381" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/BloodPressure.jpg 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/BloodPressure-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Exsanguinated</em>.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Not a word any cop wants showing up in his report. But when a drained body falls from a skyscraper across national borders, the case lands on the desk of Agent Reylic Antali at the Trans-Metro Police, and it’s up to him and his team to figure out who the killer is, and what they’re after.<br /><br />In a city where four magical races coexist under an uneasy unity, tensions flare up as more bodies land in the morgue. The city seems on the verge of tearing itself apart as Reylic and his Old Magic Task Force race to find the culprit. But what they find may change the nature of magic as they know it…</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Joseph L. Kellogg</strong> is a chemist, originally from the Midwest and currently living in Appalachia with his wife and 2 dogs.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Father Tanner treats the sick and injured on a dusty backwater planet.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Desperate for supplies, he takes a job to treat a visiting alien official, teaming up with Damien Rogers, an out-of-work smuggler, to get him there.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">They’re on the wrong side of enemy lines in the middle of a cold war.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Forced to hide their identities, Father Tanner and his team are stumped by the bizarre patient, whose condition steadily worsens.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To make matters worse, the alien crew catches onto the ruse, and the missionary is forced to turn to kidnapping.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Can they find the diagnosis before their only bargaining chip dies on the operating table?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3fDVrYU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Franklin Pierce in Death of a Vice President</em></a><br />by Eric M. Hamilton<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Death-Vice-President.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5071 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/Death-Vice-President.jpg" alt="" width="238" height="362" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Death-Vice-President.jpg 328w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Death-Vice-President-197x300.jpg 197w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Madness, murder, and mystery permeates throughout this Edgar Allan Poe-inspired thriller!</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It is early April 1853.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Franklin Pierce, the newly elected President of the United States, has suffered the greatest personal tragedy of his life, plunging him into a depression fueled madness.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Vice President, William King, unexpectedly appears at the White House in the middle of the night having overheard details of an international assassination conspiracy that threatens both King and Pierce. Unfortunately, Vice President King is killed without any clue as to who could have done it.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Can President Franklin Pierce overcome his personal demons and discover who killed the Vice President before they kill him too?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Franklin Pierce in Death of a Vice President</em> is a thrilling psychological horror, starring the president from the 1850’s you forgot in 4th Grade. It’s an exciting read, and you don’t have to be familiar with Franklin Pierce at all to enjoy the story (in fact, it may be a better story if you go in knowing almost nothing). This is perfect for the American history-buff and “normal people” alike!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ulsN4c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>An Inconvenient Presidency</em></a> <br />by Eric M. Hamilton<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/inconvenient.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5070 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/inconvenient.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="365" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/inconvenient.jpg 328w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/inconvenient-197x300.jpg 197w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>“It’s almost too funny!”</strong></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>On January 20, 2001, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. became the 43rd President of the United States for the second time…</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Newly elected President Al Gore is given a mysterious device that allows his mind to travel back in time and relive his presidency. He needs it, too! There is always some disaster forcing him to start over. Soon, the time-traveling President begins to suspect there’s more going on with this device than he first suspected.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Read the hilarious story of the President that never was, and discover why history turned out different.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>“I started reading and couldn’t stop! What a clever story!</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3NXxPyn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Fugitive Heir: Matt & Michelle Book 1</a><br />by Henry Vogel<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/FugitiveHeir.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5450 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/FugitiveHeir.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="358" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/FugitiveHeir.jpg 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/FugitiveHeir-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px" /></a></h2>
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<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em>“My parents are not dead!”</em></strong></h4>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Everyone thinks I’m in denial, and have been ever since my parents vanished seven years ago. Everyone thinks I should just shut up and accept the vast inheritance coming my way. Everyone <em>thinks </em>I should let it go and get on with my life.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Everyone is wrong. I know my parents are still alive—but if I reveal how I know, I’ll be drafted into Psi Corps.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My inheritance can fund my search for them. I didn’t count on deadly opposition from the board of the very company I’m about to inherit. There are powerful people involved who will go to any lengths to protect their dark secrets and silence me forever, but these people don’t know about my three wildcards: my rebuilt spaceship, my best friend (who is also my bodyguard), and the psychic powers I’ve kept secret my entire life.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My parents are alive, and I’m going to find them and save them—<em>whatever it takes</em>.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/39q8WfN" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Scout’s Honor: A Sword & Planet Adventure<br />(Scout Series Book 1)</a><a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/scouts-honor.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5488 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/scouts-honor.jpg" alt="" width="228" height="364" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/scouts-honor.jpg 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/scouts-honor-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px" /></a><br />by Henry Vogel</h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After crash landing on a long-lost colony world, Terran Scout David Rice’s life got really tough.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Thrown from the space age to the steam age in the blink of an eye, David is drawn into a desperate battle to save the beautiful Princess Callan from treacherous air pirates and ruthless slavers. Trapped in a world of clashing swords, brutal savages, royal machinations, and desperate rescues, David’s greatest battle is against his growing feelings for the betrothed Princess. With her life and the fate of two kingdoms hanging in the balance, which will David choose: love or honor?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Told in a relentlessly fast-paced style, Scout’s Honor is an exciting homage to the classic tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett, as well as the cliffhanger-driven energy of the early science fiction movie serials. If you long for honorable heroes and feisty heroines, treacherous villains and loyal companions, get Scout’s Honor and join David’s journey.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3VfYNof" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Recognition Run</a><br />by Henry Vogel<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/recognition-run.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5733 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/recognition-run.jpg" alt="" width="231" height="369" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/recognition-run.jpg 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/recognition-run-188x300.jpg 188w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jeanine is on the run from someone very powerful.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She doesn’t know who wants her dead, or why.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">She only knows they have already killed her family, and if they catch her, she’s next.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Drake’s family was in the wrong place at the wrong time.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now, he drifts from spaceport to spaceport, searching for cargo and running from the grief he can never escape.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When Jeanine barrels into Drake’s life, he must push aside his grief and run with her.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But time is not their ally.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When they cannot run from their enemies, Jeanine’s and Drake’s only hope is to run toward those enemies.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Their only hope is to make The Recognition Run.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/2IBbQyc">Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves</a></strong></em><br /><em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/2IBbQyc">(Yankee Republic Book 1)</a></strong></em></h2>
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<p>A young radio engineer travels across an alt-history America, encountering primeval gods, mythical beasts, and tall tales come to life, in a quest to build a radio transmitter that can reach the stars.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="block-cae6a496-b42c-4c48-b74a-f8312d99d23b">It all starts in the mountain town of Porterville.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3FFG7Xp">The Devil’s Dictum</a><br />Frederick Gero Heimbach<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/dictum.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5233 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/dictum.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/dictum.jpg 324w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/dictum-194x300.jpg 194w" alt="" width="220" height="340" /></a></h2>
<p>In a topsy-turvy United States founded by pirates, the personal assassin to the chief justice receives a terrifying order: round up and kill all men who look like himself.</p>
<p>Why does the chief justice want these men dead?</p>
<p>What threat could they possibly pose?</p>
<p>And can the assassin save them—or will he become the final victim?</p>
<p>Spooky, sly and satirical, The Devil’s Dictum recasts J. Edgar Hoover as a Satanic high priest, Calvin Coolidge as a private eye, and Richard Nixon as the pilot of a giant armored robot. Readers hungering for original and mind-blowing alternate history need look no further.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3cwX9dL">Ronald Reagan’s Brilliant Bullet: A Cold Warriors Novel </a><br />Frederick Gero Heimbach<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/51eyZJh9ooL.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5234 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/51eyZJh9ooL.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/51eyZJh9ooL.jpg 324w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/51eyZJh9ooL-194x300.jpg 194w" alt="" width="226" height="349" /></a></h2>
<p>It’s Ronald Reagan in a jet pack! The author of The Devil’s Dictum returns with another novel that shreds the history books.</p>
<p>The setting is the Cold War and Ronald Reagan has a shiny new toy to play with: a rocket powered suit. He’ll need it to battle the terrifying monstrosity Leonid Brezhnev is building on a secret base in Siberia.</p>
<p>Standing with Reagan are Margaret Thatcher and Billy Graham, each wielding super powers. (If Thatcher in an eye patch won’t turn you on, nothing will.)</p>
<p>Reagan insists on piloting the rocket himself—but the hardware is experimental and just might kill him.</p>
<p>Threats are everywhere: a treacherous Congressman, a wide-eyed nun from the Tudor era, an enigmatic boy genius called R2, talking heads on Mount Rushmore, punks in back alleys and missiles in the skies.</p>
<p>All while signs of a literal Armageddon unfold before Reagan’s steely eyes.</p>
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<h2 id="block-27b63b9f-bd65-4b4f-afc6-5323f20f000c" class="wp-block-heading"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/33bUB0p">Dungeon Samurai Volume 1: Kamikaze (An Anti-LitRPG Dungeon Crawl)</a></em></strong><br />by Kit Sun Cheah</h2>
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<p id="block-245e53c6-0835-48af-9fad-e254b0bf3ebc">Yamada Yuuki is an ordinary college student with an extraordinary hobby: the classical martial art of Kukishin-ryu.</p>
<p id="block-245e53c6-0835-48af-9fad-e254b0bf3ebc">Until one fateful day when a demon rips through the fabric of space-time, abducts everyone in his dojo, and transports them to another world.</p>
<p id="block-93c735a9-8b4b-48d2-a829-52c634a92e07">To return home, Yamada and his friends must join forces with other displaced humans to conquer the dungeon that runs through the heart of the world.</p>
<p id="block-93c735a9-8b4b-48d2-a829-52c634a92e07">Standing in their way are endless hordes of bloodthirsty monsters and countless traps.</p>
<p id="block-93c735a9-8b4b-48d2-a829-52c634a92e07">Armed only with steel, faith and guts, they must battle their way through the winding catacombs to confront the demon waiting at the bottom floor.</p>
<p>Yamada was once a student. Now he must become a samurai.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">About the Author</h3>
<p>Singapore’s first Hugo and Dragon Award nominated writer. A blogger and martial artist, he is the Herald of the Pulp Revolution, combining the aesthetics and mindset of the pulp era with modern-day tastes and tradecraft.</p>
<p>Author of the Covenant Chronicles and Song of Karma series.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Pi5BlC" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ice</a><br />by James Pyles<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-111.png" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5924 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-111.png" sizes="auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-111.png 313w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-111-188x300.png 188w" alt="" width="240" height="384" /></a></h2>
<p>In eons past, the armies of Surtur the fire goddess and Ymir the frost giant waged an unceasing battle for dominance over the Earth. For all those ages, they maintained an uneasy but enduring balance. Then humanity rose from the mud, and with the passage of time, came to fear fire more than ice, devoting their own meager forces to the conflict. Not to be denied, Surtur beat back both mortals and giants, consigning the planet to unrelenting heat and the ice lords to seeming oblivion. Before leaving the material realm, in jest she gave humanity the gift of magic and the curse of the return of dragons.</p>
<p>For thousands of years thereafter, the race of people knew nothing but a world without ice. Spanning the globe in sailing ships, the humans continued to thrive and remembered not the distant past. Then Captain Ki-Moon Yong of the Oceanic Trading Company vessel the Star of Jindo is assigned the task of solving the most profound mystery ever encountered. Another ship has gone missing and her only remaining crewman suddenly commits suicide after visiting the sunken continent of Antarctica. All of the dinosaur species of the south have gone mad, invading the guarded towns and cities on their way north, as if to escape some monstrous terror.</p>
<p>The answers to these enigmas all lie on the continent at the bottom of the world, and Captain Moon must take the Star to a strange research facility to discover them. But once there, he is confronted with a truth so profound and so nightmarish that it will change the very nature of reality. Can the Star of Jindo escape the inevitable in time to warn an unbelieving world of that truth, or will they be consumed in frozen horror?</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/42Y06vu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Transmutation Texas (Watcher of the Damned Book 1)</a><br />by R.H. Snow<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-156.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-6067 alignright" style="width: 236px; height: 354px;" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-156.png" alt="" width="274" height="411" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-156.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-156-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Happening wreaked havoc as Humanity got a hard reset from a deadly gender-cidal Virus – and for TransMutated Survivors like The Watcher, life in Post-Apocalyptic Texas just got a whole lot bloodier and a whole lot lonelier. In a cyberpunk Wild West gone awry, The Watcher was a Rebel without a clue under the System: a brutal, high-tech Social Construct engineered to serve the Enlightened and oppress the Damned. But that’s all about to change, thanks to a cheeky chaos agent named Rose…</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now The Watcher must lead a Revolution to save Rose from the System He helped create, or Rose will die – and Humanity will die with her.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3nEPW1p">After the Sky:<br />(Spirits of the Earth Book 1)</a><br />by Milo James Fowler<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-2.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5584 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/image-2.png" alt="" width="239" height="319" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-2.png 374w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-2-224x300.png 224w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>The meek have not inherited the earth.</strong></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When the bunker airlocks release them after twenty years in hibernation, the survivors find a silent, barren world outside.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Milton is haunted by a violent past he’s unable to escape, despite the superhuman speed the spirits give him.<br /><br />Not interested in bearing the next generation, Daiyna is determined to destroy the flesh-eating mutants lurking in the dark, pierced by her night-vision.<br /><br />Luther is a man of conviction who believes the Creator has offered humankind a second chance, yet he’s uncertain they deserve it—and he’s perplexed by the talons that flex out of his fingers.<br /><br />Willard is a brilliant engineer-turned-soldier who refuses to leave his bunker, afraid of becoming infected and willing to destroy any obstacle in his way.<br /><br />As their lives collide, the mysteries of this strange new world start unraveling, culminating in the ultimate life-or-death decision one survivor will make for them all.<br /><br /><strong>Don’t miss this Post Apocalyptic Adventure with a Paranormal Fantasy twist! It’s perfect for fans of Stephen King, T.W. Piperbrook, and The Walking Dead.</strong></p>
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<h2><a href="https://amzn.to/3EwHw3X">Order of the Blood: Historical Vampire Mystery (The Unofficial Chronicles of John Grissom Book 1)</a><br />by Page Zaplendam</h2>
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<p><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">A Dark, Secret Society<br />A World At War<br />A Mad King</span><br /><br />Bacteriologist John Grissom is determined to find a cure to the vampirism he suffers, but then his world goes sideways when he foolishly decides to pull a thread. Suddenly, he’s left with the choice of ignoring a conspiracy that might destroy the land he loves or going up against one of the most powerful vampire lords in England.<br /><br />Along the way, he comes to a precarious accord with the vampire hunter, Gerhard Van Helsing, and his life of solitude is enlightened with his enigmatic down-on-her-luck assistant, Henrietta Isherwood. The trio find themselves traveling from London to Brighton and back again, from a vampire-proof dungeon to a glittering masked assembly, risking life and limb to stay one step ahead of the vampire earl.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3JoxqVM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Space-Time Conundrum: A Funny Sci-fi Space Adventure (Captain Quasar Book 1)</a><br />by Milo James Fowler</h2>
<p><strong>Captain Quasar is out of time.<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-129.png" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5942 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-129.png" sizes="auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-129.png 344w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-129-206x300.png 206w" alt="" width="241" height="350" /></a></strong><br /><br />Pursued by vengeful Goobalob toll collectors, savage Arachnoid bounty hunters, and formidable Amazonians, Captain Bartholomew Quasar must do whatever he can to keep the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude out of harm’s way.<br /><br />All in a day’s work—except time is not on his side.<br /><br />Torn from the present to relive his past, he vows to keep mistakes from occurring the second time around. But is he doomed to repeat history? Or can he erase his regrets?<br /><br />Villains will be vanquished. Lives will be lost. Bonds will be betrayed. Heroes will be heroic. Join the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude for a hilarious time-travel space adventure the likes of which you’ve never seen!<br /><br /><strong>The Hitchhiker’s Guide meets Star Trek in this series for fans of Galaxy Quest, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Star Wars Legends.</strong></p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3KRsXdK" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eydis: The Island of the Dragon Bride (The Legend of Eydis)</a><br />by C.S. Johnson *FREE*<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/eydis.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5603 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/eydis.webp" alt="" width="239" height="359" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/eydis.webp 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/eydis-200x300.webp 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><em>The clouds in front of him began to shade over, their airy inscriptions spelling out a message of welcome—or maybe a warning—as the promise of land became clear.<br /><br />Eydis.</em></strong><br /><br />As an accomplished Viking warrior, Sterlig Kyvansson always found a way to get what he wanted—until he wanted Arja Freydottir. After Sterlig is denied the right to marry Arja, he is determined to do anything in his power to claim her as his own—even if it means slaying the dragon that guards the cursed island of Eydis.<br /><br />With his brother’s sword at his side and Arja’s hand on the line, Sterlig sets out for Eydis with his friends. When they arrive, they quickly find that the rumors of Eydis are all true, including the irresistible beauty of the Princess of Eydis, Brynja the Bride. With her blessing, Sterlig heads out into battle with the dragon.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>With danger, friendship, and a surprising twist, <em>Eydis: The Island of the Dragon Bride </em>is a Viking fantasy adventure from award-winning, genre-hopping author C. S. Johnson. </strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3QivQ8m" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Across the Floors of Silent Seas: A Short Story (Till Human Voices Wake Us Book 1)</a><br />by C.S. Johnson *FREE*<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/AcrossFloors.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5604 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/AcrossFloors.webp" alt="" width="238" height="340" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/AcrossFloors.webp 350w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/AcrossFloors-210x300.webp 210w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While working on a deep-sea diving assignment at the University of California, oceanography student Jay Bishop is dragged into a volcanic tube towards the earth’s core and certain death. <br /><br />But much to his surprise, Jay not only survives the fall, he finds himself taken prisoner by a community of mermaids and kept alive as a science experiment. Confused and disoriented, Jay’s only hope to escape back to the surface is found in Paga, an elder of the community who believes Jay’s unexpected arrival marks the fulfillment of a terrifying prophecy.<br /><br />With the community rising against them, Jay and Paga face dangerous choices — and their consequences — if Jay is ever to see home again. Will Jay make it back to the world on the surface? And even if he does, how can his life be the same ever again?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>“Are the others boring you to death, that you’re listening so intently to my remarks, darling?” Jay asked, teasing even though he welcomed her churlish chatter.</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>“People confuse boredom for stability, and stability for sanity,” she muttered.</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Jay laughed. “Well, I’m sure some people would never assume we had a solid grip on sanity before we decided to become oceanographers. With several metric tons of water pressure surrounding us at these depths, I’m sure someone would be quick to question our mental facilities and their working order.”</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>“True enough, brother mine.” Noelani paused, and Jay knew she was likely rolling her pretty eyes. “And yours especially, since your sanity was barely there to begin with.”</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Enjoy this short story adventure tale set before <em>Till Human Voices Wake Us</em>, a science fantasy novel with an unlikable protagonist, sadistic mermaids, and the trip of a lifetime. </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Very exciting prequel!! Lots of mystery and suspense. Can’t wait to read the next one!” ~ Dee Bookworm Book Reviews</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“This is a very entertaining read, very action filled opening followed by a philosophical middle, with a thrill ride of an ending.” ~ Author C. O. Bonham</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3KRtix2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Moonlight Pegasus: A Standalone High Fantasy Novel</a><br />by C.A. Sabol & C.S. Johnson *FREE*<a href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/MoonlightPegasus.webp"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5605 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/MoonlightPegasus.webp" alt="" width="238" height="357" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/MoonlightPegasus.webp 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/MoonlightPegasus-200x300.webp 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sapphira is a desert world with little plant life, where the people live in the shadows of gray sunlight, sickened by the Dark Plague.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now, with her brother Dorian as king, another rebellion is stirring.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">All eyes are turning to Selene to bring peace through an arranged marriage.</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ChFyRH">Slumbering: An Epic Fantasy Adventure Series (The Starlight Chronicles Book 1)</a><br />by C.S. Johnson *FREE*</h2>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>A narcissistic teenager who doesn’t believe in destiny. <a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-124.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5937 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-124.png" alt="" width="239" height="359" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-124.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-124-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" /></a></strong></h3>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sixteen-year-old Hamilton Dinger leads a charmed life. He’s got the grades for the top of the class, the abilities of a star athlete and Tetris player, and the charisma to get away with anything. Everything seems to be going along perfectly, including his plans to ask out Gwen Kessler, as he enters into tenth grade at Apollo Central High School.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Everything, that is, until a meteor crashes into the city, releasing the Seven Deadly Sinisters and their leader, Orpheus, from their celestial prison, and awakening Hamilton’s longtime dormant supernatural abilities. Suddenly Hamilton finds himself reluctantly allied with his self-declared mentor, Elysian, a changeling dragon, and Starry Knight, a beautiful but dangerous warrior, as they seek to protect the souls of Apollo City from the Sinisters and their evil intentions.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Can Hamilton give up his self-proclaimed entitlement to happiness in order to follow the call of a duty he doesn’t want? More importantly, will he willingly sacrifice all he has to find out the truth?</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>At the time, I didn’t really believe that anything outside my control would change my life. Or at least, not in a significant, substantial way. My life was all about myself, and I figured I had complete control over that. Anything that happened outside of my control was more or less because I let it happen, and didn’t feel like stopping it.</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>It’s funny how one disaster of epic proportion can really make you change your mind.</em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Welcome to the epic world of The Starlight Chronicles, a young adult fantasy series about a team of fallen Stars with supernatural powers. Follow them through this alternatively snarky and sweet series as they become their city’s resident superheroes, with all the fun and frustration of dragons and swords and homework! Look for Book 2, <em>Calling</em>, as the battle between good and evil continues on!</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Perfect for young teenagers or disaffected college students, or adults who enjoy some wry humor with their reading! </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you like Narnia, superhero adventures, or coming-of-age tales, definitely give this book a try. <strong>~ Chandler Brett, author of </strong><em><strong>Wolf Code</strong></em></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">… Hamilton’s inner progress toward heroism feels touchingly genuine, and there are plenty of good comic moments to keep the story moving … Percy Jackson fans will eagerly await the next volume in the series … A fast-paced, effective teen-paranormal outing. <strong>~ Kirkus Reviews</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2YTmpXS">Beauty’s Curse: A Historical Fantasy Fairy Tale Retelling of Sleeping Beauty (Once Upon a Princess Book 1)</a><br />by C.S. Johnson *FREE*<a class="" href="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/BeautyCurse.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5205 alignright" src="https://d3h5a2.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/BeautyCurse.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/BeautyCurse.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/BeautyCurse-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I have better things to do.”<br />“Like what?” Rose asked. “Waste your life on a fool’s journey, under a silly girl’s orders?”<br />“I have never considered saving your life to be the same as wasting mine, Rosary.” He came and stood in front of her, the ease of his presence replaced by an unusual heat rather than familiar warmth. Rose had never before been bothered by the six inches he stood taller than her, but all of a sudden the shadow of his strength imposed itself on her.<br />The cursed beauty of the moonlight revealed the clarity and sharpness of his eyes as she gazed up at him. “What if you did waste your life though? What if?”<br />“If I have wasted my life, I have wasted it on you. Willingly.”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For four years, Princess Aurora of Rhone—Rose to her friends—has searched the world for a way to break the curse placed on her by Magdalina, the wicked ruler of the fairies at war with her kingdom. Under the curse, Rose is doomed to die on her eighteenth birthday after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. And time is running out.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3i3xOOr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Knight’s Quest for the Holy Grail </a><br />by C.S. Johnson *FREE*<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-33.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5780 alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-33.png" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-33.png 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/image-33-200x300.png 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>It’s not always the quest for the cup. Sometimes, it’s the quest for what’s in the cup.<br /></strong><br />Lance wants nothing more than to be there to fight the dragons for his beloved Princess Alexandra. With his faithful steed by his side, Lance sets out for the magic elixir found only in the Holy Grail. With its strengthening power, facing off an old hag, the bewitching woods, and the strange ogre who lives under a bridge should be easy. <br /><br />But when it comes to Alexandra’s dragons, things aren’t quite what they all seem to be. <br /><br />Will Lance’s gift be enough — or will his princess require something even more powerful to sustain her? <br /><br /><strong>Pull up a cup of your favorite “elixir” and enjoy this sweet and snarky satire story from C. S. Johnson, where the dragons are real, even if they aren’t. </strong></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Every knight has a quest, and every quest has its reward.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As a knight-errant, albeit one still in training, with only a year of service behind him, Lance took his duty seriously. But waking up was also a serious business, and that was why, despite the midmorning light flickering over his face, Lance was still half asleep. His faithful steed stepped up to help him, breathing smelly fumes into his face.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Blah!” Lance sputtered, trying to clear his tongue of the frothy waft. “What have you been eating, Percy?”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">His pet’s pungent wake-up call forced Lance to roll over. When the heat of Percy’s breath continued to eat into the shield of his pending sleep, Lance finally gave in to his beast’s rude awakening.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Alright, I’m getting up. Back from me, you fearsome brute.”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The horse was far from intimidated by Lance’s waking grogginess; instead, he moved closer to his master, nuzzling him with his wet nose.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“You’re lucky you’re the runt of your family,” Lance grumbled, sitting up. He patted down his hair, brushing the chestnut locks out of his eyes, before taking in the full sight of the bouncing creature before him. “Or you would be tied outside, like the ones at my mother’s house.”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Percy gave a small yip, and the nuzzle became a nudge.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Alright, alright,” Lance muttered, petting his horse’s long, flowing mane playfully. “I know you’re hungry.”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“I suppose you’re right, anyway, Percy.” Lance yawned and rubbed his hands over his face. “We promised the princess we would save her today, and every knight knows there is nothing more important than completing his quest.”</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Lance tossed Percy several treats and stroked his pet affectionately, before he put on his armor for the day. He pulled a breastplate polished to a shine over his head, slipped his feet into protective boots, and even donned a helmet to protect his face from the bright summer sunshine.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Before too long, he stepped outside his quarters. Percy came trotting eagerly after him. With his steed at his side and a grin on his face, Lance set out into the morning to see his princess.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Princess Alexandra, I am coming for you,” he called out rapturously, eager to see his beloved once more.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It’s a good romantic tale that hints at the darker sides of depression and mental health, and the troubles we sometimes face when we befriend our demons, with liquid portals, jokes about avocados, strange references to illegal plants, and coffee runs. <br /><br />What’s not to love? </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“… An endearing story of love … ” <strong>~ Dee Bookworm</strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/2XuMUCI">The Heights of Perdition: A Science Fiction Romance Series (The Divine Space Pirates Book 1)</a> <br />by C.S. Johnson *FREE*<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Heights-of-Perdition.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5206 alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/Heights-of-Perdition.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="360" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Heights-of-Perdition.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/Heights-of-Perdition-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a></h2>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There is nothing Aeris St. Cloud wants more than to win her father’s love and the acceptance of her family unit by joining the Military Academy at New Hope. But after she is captured by the fearsome space pirate, Captain Chainsword, Aerie is certain falling in love with her nation’s arch enemy is the last possible way to earn their coveted esteem. <br /><br />Driven by vengeance, Exton Shepherd never set out to save anyone. As he circles the war-torn world in his pirated starship, the Perdition, he only sees his father’s ghost lurking around every corner and the looming darkness on the horizon. When Aerie unexpectedly tumbles into his life, he finds he cannot trust her, anymore than he can ignore her. But just like the raging war down on Earth, it’s tempting to think he can … <br /><br />When the war ascends to the heights of the Perdition, Aerie’s loyalty, and Exton’s heart, are put to the test. But will love be enough to save them — and others — from certain destruction?<br /><br /><strong>FROM THE AUTHOR: </strong></p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>The Heights of Perdition</em> is the first book in the Divine Space Pirates trilogy, a futuristic romance series where family, faith, and freedom take center stage. </p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Questions raised about government, religion, and human nature were peppered throughout the narrative, elevating The Heights of Perdition from a mere space fantasy to something much more thought-provoking. <strong>~ Author Jess Jesinghaus </strong></p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3AECsJ9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rebel Heart (Engines of Liberty Book 1)</a><br />by Graham Bradley *FREE*</h2>
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<p>For centuries the British Empire has ruled territories the world over, maintaining its grasp on its far-flung colonies by way of magic and brute force. Any successful attempt at rebellion is short-lived, as the rebels do not have the benefit of wizardy on their side.</p>
<p>The most recent attempt at secession happened in the New World in 1776, some two hundred years ago. General George Washington nearly succeeded at rallying his countrymen in a military revolt against the Crown. But disunity and infighting ultimately brought them down, and Washington was executed in a public spectacle.</p>
<p>Most people gave up. But not all.</p>
<p>The cleverest and most driven survivors went to ground. They learned from their mistakes. They planned, they plotted, they tinkered and they toiled. They began to develop new weapons and machines that would level the playing field. With technology at their fingertips, anyone could stand toe-to-toe with a British mage and come off conqueror.</p>
<p>The uprising has been a long time coming. The arsenal is as large as it’s going to get. Now all the “technomancer” army needs is soldiers, young patriots like Calvin Adler, who has had enough of the mages pushing him around.</p>
<p>Freedom beckons, if he will but pay the price in blood, sweat, and tears.</p>
<p>This is the New Revolution.</p>
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<p>In this spoof on a classic fairy tale, village hero Gautier must get past his recent spurning by local heartthrob Robinette, who has gone missing from their French mountain town.</p>
<p>When newcomer Danielle arrives in the middle of the night, claiming to have been attacked in the woods by a giant beast, Gautier sets out to find it and put it down…</p>
<p>…only to learn that Robinette might be involved, and that his love for her might not be true.</p>
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<p>Graham took up creative writing in the 3rd grade and has pursued it ever since. Alongside his childhood hobby of drawing on any blank sheet of paper he could find, this talent blossomed into his eventual career goal, and his is now an author-illustrator.</p>
<p>Diving headfirst into just about any speculative genre, Graham prefers sci-fi and fantasy, with a focus on machinery and technology. Colorful worlds and aesthetics are a must, and above all, he wants readers to have fun.</p>
<p>Originally from Nevada, Graham lives in the mountain west with his wife and kids.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3Esg2fd" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sleepless Hollow</a><br />by Graham Bradley*FREE*<a class="" href="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/sleepless.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5743 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/sleepless.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/sleepless.jpg 328w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/sleepless-197x300.jpg 197w" alt="" width="241" height="367" /></a></h2>
<p>Josie Penninger can see ghosts, and it’s been nothing but trouble for her. She learned not to talk about it in her teens, but that didn’t make the trouble go away.</p>
<p>Now that she’s out of college and short on cash, she decides to embrace her abilities and work with local ghosts to solve old mysteries. And since she lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York, there’s plenty of work to keep her busy.</p>
<p>But then, on Halloween night, an old ghost comes to town with vengeance in his heart and a two hundred year-old score to settle. Using highly advanced spectral technology, he traps ten thousand people inside the town borders and uses them to power a machine that will let him alter history. Even if he fails, his machines might kill everyone Josie knows.</p>
<p>Now she has to team up with a spirit who knows far more about her than he lets on, and a freelancing ghost hunter who shoots first and doesn’t bother asking questions at all. The three of them should be able to take down one simple villainous ghost, right?</p>
<p>Unless he has the deadliest warrior-ghost of the region in his corner…</p>
<p>Packed with action, wit, humor, and good old-fashioned fun, SLEEPLESS HOLLOW is an illustrated adventure that ties in fully with Washington Irving’s classic American horror story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”</p>
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<h2 id="title" class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3lF7ozM"><em><strong>Uriel’s Revenge: A Dark Sci-fi Adventure (The Cliptic Book 1)</strong></em></a><br />by David Roome<a class="" href="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/uriel.jpg" data-lb-type="grouped-post"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-5332 tc-smart-loaded alignright" src="https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.168/d3h.5a2.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/uriel.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px" srcset="https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/uriel.jpg 333w, https://aetherczar.com/wp-content/uploads/uriel-200x300.jpg 200w" alt="" width="255" height="383" /></a></h2>
<p><strong>Small-time privateers battle ancient terrors at the edge of the Solar System!</strong></p>
<p>For Brian Zaks, developing his skills as a space pilot and combat maneuvers specialist for Elwood’s Privateers took highest priority.</p>
<p>But he couldn’t ignore fellow privateer and ex-girlfriend Evvie Evans when she begged him for help with her nocturnal hallucinations of a raven-headed demon.</p>
<p>Then Elwood’s treasure-hunting hobby uncovered the lost secrets of an ancient cult, thrusting Brian and Evvie into an interplanetary clash between the cult’s present-day descendants.</p>
<p>Can they defeat a primeval power threatening to upend human civilization?</p>
<p><em>Uriel’s Revenge</em> is a horror-tinged sci-fi adventure. Read it today and escape to the Cliptic!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3qVVp8u">Spengler’s Future: An Outline of the Next Seven Centuries of Western History, as Suggested by Comparison with the Life Cycles of Four Other Civilizations</a><br />by John Reilly</h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><br />This projection of the future into the 27th century uses a simple computer program and even simpler interpretations of the Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West and Arnold Toynbee’s Study of History.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">No, this is not a serious exercise, but it does suggest what the future would look like if the modern age really is analogous to the Hellenistic Age.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Important years include 2080, 2309, and 2603.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ErgXwQ" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/3ErgXwQ">How to choose a false president: chronicle based in data, documents, and journalism</a><br />by Pablo Villizzianto</h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This book is an in-depth investigation into the use of different methods by the most powerful states in the West in order to place their preferred candidates in the most important positions in the most relevant democratic countries that are in their areas of influence.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I particularly recommend it to politically interested Americans and right wing Brazilians who want self-government for their respective countries. Also, any other person who, like me, has a political involvement, or is influenced by politics, could benefit from reading this book.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">About the Author:</h3>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Born in Buenos Aires in 1995, in 2022 I published my first book. It was about politics, which is a vice for me, detailing the dark side of liberalism in Argentina. Watching the Brazilian election of 2022, in the austral summer of 2023 I began to connect the dots, and I wrote a book detailing how the largest Western powers in “parceria” with the global left, managed to conquer the power in the second nation in the Western Hemisphere against the candidate (22).</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I have 10 years of political experience, and a lifetime of affinity with the issue, from when I was a child, and I spoke with my maternal grandfather, who became a representative for Lomas de Zamora in the 60s.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I am a Vocal of the Autonomist Party for the period 2019-2023.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">All the books I have written are extremely detailed and structured. All the affirmations are documented, I apply a global vision of the issues that I deal with, in addition to projecting the trends towards tomorrow.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/45Hjq2j" data-type="link" data-id="https://amzn.to/45Hjq2j">Essential Reverie</a><br />by Steven Matusic</h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Practical wisdom was, for Aristotle, the primary ambition of philosophy. Exploring questions of relevance to a life well-lived was its task, and the practical wisdom at which it aimed enabled individuals and societies to live well and flourish.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Though philosophy has since sequestered itself in academia, cloaked in a veil sewn from obscure language and questions of little consequence, its task of exploring life’s most essential questions is as important as it has ever been. Lucid and rich, <em>Essential Reverie </em>returns philosophy to its original task of exploring in earnest—yet with a spirit of genuine wonder—questions that <em>matter</em>: What does it mean for a life to be grounded? What roles do gratitude, adventure, and passion play in our lives? How do fear and faith each direct us, and how is it that we can go from one to the other in an instant? What might it mean to salvage a squandered blessing?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Beyond its insights into these questions and others, <em>Essential Reverie</em> thoroughly acquaints readers with what it is to <em>do</em> philosophy; it is an immersion in a thinking that remains in awe of life and in search of wisdom.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">About the Author</h3>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Steven Matusic has taught philosophy at West Virginia Wesleyan College for several years, carrying on the good work of introducing young adults to Aristotle. He has done a variety of other work as well, wearing the hats of farmhand, winemaker, and distiller among others. He is a dedicated proponent of the life well-lived. </p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TZr6X5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jury Doody</a><br />by JP Mac</h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Who is the sockless man?</strong><br /><br />Find out in this satirical peek at justice in Los Angeles.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">During a domestic violence case, the author and his juror peers must sift conflicting evidence to uncover the truth: did the defendant strike his wife, or was she a coked-up loon who made eerie noises?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What happened to the defendant’s socks?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Did a juror overhear the defendant ordering pizza–and how did that affect the final outcome?<br /> <br />Can annoyed strangers render a fair verdict?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Be a fly on the wall inside the jury room and witness the chaos as twelve strangers attempt to render justice with one eye on the clock.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This short non-fiction essay is the mandatory minimum you need for a fast fun read.</p>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">About the Author</h3>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An Emmy Award-winning TV animation writer, JP Mac (as John P. McCann) has worked on shows such as <em>Animaniacs</em>, <em>Pinky and the Brain</em>, <em>Kung Fu Panda</em> and <em>7D</em>. In addition to publishing a number of short stories, Mac has written a horror novel based on the H.P. Lovecraft tale “Dunwich Horror,” as well as penning non-fiction ebooks on topics as diverse as New Age marketing and prostate cancer. A former marathon coach, and a big fan of Turner Classic Movies, Mac has not been recalled to jury duty in some time, leaving him free to polish several new horror/fantasy short stories.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3AemjI7">Pulp on Pulp: Tips and Tricks for Writing Pulp Fiction</a></em><br />edited by Kit Sun Cheah & Misha Burnett<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51sBSFn9pdL.jpg" alt="Pulp on Pulp: Tips and Tricks for Writing Pulp Fiction by [Kit Sun Cheah, Misha Burnett, JD Cowan, Matthew P. Schmidt, James A. Buck, Morgon Newquist, Anthony Perconti, Robert Stultus, D. G. D. Davidson, Christopher Lansdown]" width="300" height="449" /></h2>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading">No. 1 New Release in:<br /><br />Words and Language Reference<br />Authorship<br />Authorship Reference</h4>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Write Fast. Write Well. Get Paid.</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These were the watchwords of old-school pulp fiction: fun, fast-paced, and immensely popular with readers.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The pulp era is coming back.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Blending timeless lessons from the grandmasters of the pulp era with the genres, tastes and technologies of today, PulpRev forges boldly ahead into the future of fiction.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hugo and Dragon Award nominated writer Kit Sun Cheah teams up with Misha Burnett to compile a selection of essays on the PulpRev aesthetic from some of the leading writers in the movement.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pulp on Pulp covers:<br />* How to plot like a pulp grandmaster<br />* How to write 5000 words a day<br />* The secrets of writing fantastic fight scenes<br />* Worldbuilding and character creation tips<br />* And many more!</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">PulpRev is the Revolution, Revival and the Renaissance of Pulp. Take the plunge into the new pulp era and become the best writer you can be!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TPeTWc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Case for Mary: An Orthodox Evangelism for Curious Protestants</a><br />by David Knox</h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mary was a virgin, but did she stay a virgin after Jesus born?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Did she live a sinless life?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In his debut work, David Knox explores these and other questions that have become points of contention between Protestants and Orthodox Christians.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Using scripture, history, culture, and linguistics, <strong><em>A Case for Mary</em></strong> shines a light on how, and more importantly why they may not be so unbelievable after all.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://www.baen.com/training-for-war.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Training for War: An Essay</a><br />by Tom Kratman *FREE*</h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An essay and manual on training for war by retired Army lieutenant colonel Tom Kratman, creator of the popular Carrera military science fiction series, including novels <em>A Desert Called Peace</em>, <em>Carnifex</em>, <em>Come and Take Them</em>, and <em>The Rods and the Axe</em>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Kratman’s contention: an army is for winning wars.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And to win wars, you have to train men (and some women) to be warriors, not police or social workers.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Herein Kratman gives guidance and a practical plan of action to officers tasked with training troops—advice than might be equally applied to other crucial training situations, as well.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xPeNUn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hell Desk To Help Desk: Salvation For Your IT Support. (Hell Desk Books)</a><br />by Brian P. McCoppin</h2>
<p>Why is IT support so painful? You have IT Demons!</p>
<p>It is time to exorcise these demons and see the light.</p>
<p>These are stories of real companies with real employees and the changes they made to get out of “IT Hell.” Learn from their journeys and transform your “Hell Desk” to a “Help Desk”</p>
<p>This book is the result of decades of IT support experience. The contributors come from all backgrounds and business types. From small business to mega-corporations, from privately owned to major government entities. All these business and organizations have one common thread, they had IT Demons.</p>
<p>Brian McCoppin is a senior IT professional with decades of proven experience transforming Help Desk and IT support at government and fortune 500 corporations. He interviewed dozens of IT professionals and have taken their learnings to share with you.</p>
<p>Follow their paths to change your Hell Desk to a Help Desk.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TOYiBS" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Biographies of John Charles Fremont</a><br />Hans G. Schantz</h2>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><em>A Brief Historical Monograph</em></h3>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rarely has a character appeared on the American scene of greater color and controversy than John Charles Fremont.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dubbed “The Pathfinder” for having conducted some of the first rigorous scientific explorations of the American west, emigrants used his maps and reports as their guide to Oregon and California.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Fremont was instrumental in the military campaigns which secured California for the United States, only to be arrested and court-martialed for mutiny and insubordination.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nominated the young Republican party’s first candidate for president, Fremont lost the 1856 election in a bitterly contested campaign.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Appointed one of four major-generals at the outbreak of the Civil War, Fremont was placed in command of the Department of the West. Succeeding in holding wavering Missouri for the Union, Lincoln relieved him of his command amid allegations of widespread corruption.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Having earned a fortune from his California gold holdings, he was impoverished by railway speculation. Fremont’s life was a serious of glorious triumphs and dismal defeats. Through it all, he remained a figure adored by some and despised by others.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This short monograph considers the development of the Fremont biography, analyzing works about the life and career of John Charles Fremont in their historical context. The term “biography” will be used in a wide sense, to include works which may deal with only limited aspects of Fremont’s career.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[Bypass the cultural gatekeeping, support non-woke authors, and get yourself some great books from both established and emerging talent for only $0.99 – many titles free! The sale starts Thursday, September 7, 2023, and runs through Tuesday, September 12 to celebrate BasedCon a gathering for authors and fans of science fiction and fantasy who are […]]]></description>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bypass the cultural gatekeeping, support non-woke authors, and get yourself some great books from both established and emerging talent for only $0.99 – many titles free!</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The sale starts Thursday, September 7, 2023, and runs through Tuesday, September 12 to celebrate <a href="https://www.basedcon.com/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.basedcon.com/">BasedCon</a> a gathering for authors and fans of science fiction and fantasy who are tired of woke propaganda.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6086">Fan Favorites:</a> </strong>These are some of the most popular titles from previous sales. This is a great place to start, if you’ve never been to a sale before, or if you want to be sure you haven’t overlooked a great deal.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6091"><strong>New Arrivals:</strong> </a>These are new releases and other books that we have not previously featured in a sale or that have not appeared in a while. If you’ve been to the sale before, this is a great place to start for some fresh reads.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=6088">Non-Fiction</a>: </strong>We also have a handful of non-fiction works as well ranging from history to theology to writing.</p>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/"><strong>Arkhaven Comics:</strong></a> Speaking of free entertainment, Arkhaven Comics offers a wide variety of serialized web-comics absolutely free. Genres include horror, science fiction, fantasy, thriller/adventure, comedy and political cartoons. Some of my personal favorites are:</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/superhero/alt-hero">Alt★Hero</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/comedy/hypergamouse" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hypergamouse</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/superhero/flying-sparks" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Flying Sparks</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/superhero/my-sister-suprema" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">My Sister Suprema</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/drama/the-wise-of-heart" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Wise of Heart</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/fantasy/vegfolk-fables" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Vegfolk Fables</a></li>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">You can <a href="https://arkhavencomics.com/product-category/subscriptions/arktoons/?orderby=price&q=%2Fproduct-category%2Fsubscriptions%2Farktoons%2F" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">support Arkhaven</a> for as little as the cost of an ebook a month, keep the servers running, and help fund more exciting, entertaining, and based content.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Once again, thanks to the Aetherczarina who chipped in to help me execute our latest sale.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[The final total for the Summer 2023 Big Based Book Sale? We moved 441 Kindle Free E-books and 1133 Kindle Paid E-Books. Our next sale is coming soon: Wed. Sept. 6 – Tue. Sept. 12. If you’re not already on my author list and would like to be, contact me. More details are on my […]]]></description>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The final total for the Summer 2023 Big Based Book Sale? We moved 441 Kindle Free E-books and 1133 Kindle Paid E-Books. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Our next <strong>sale</strong> is coming soon: Wed. Sept. 6 – Tue. Sept. 12. If you’re not already on my author list and would like to be, contact me. More details are on my <a href="https://wiseofheart.substack.com/p/big-basedcon-based-book-sale" data-type="link" data-id="https://wiseofheart.substack.com/p/big-basedcon-based-book-sale">Substack</a>. Here’s the detailed breakdown from the last sale:</p>
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<description><![CDATA[Select NON-fiction titles all free or $0.99. Participating authors include Kit Sun Cheah and Misha Burnett, Tom Kratman, David Knox, and Hans G. Schantz. Sale Links: Pulp on Pulp: Tips and Tricks for Writing Pulp Fictionedited by Kit Sun Cheah & Misha Burnett No. 1 New Release in: Words and Language ReferenceAuthorshipAuthorship Reference Write Fast. […]]]></description>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Select NON-fiction titles all free or $0.99.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Participating authors include Kit Sun Cheah and Misha Burnett, Tom Kratman, David Knox, and Hans G. Schantz.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sale Links:</span></strong></p>
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<li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=5861" target="_blank">Main Sale Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=5863" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fan Favorites</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://aetherczar.com/?p=5878">Non-Fiction</a></li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3AemjI7">Pulp on Pulp: Tips and Tricks for Writing Pulp Fiction</a></em><br />edited by Kit Sun Cheah & Misha Burnett</h2>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading">No. 1 New Release in:<br /><br />Words and Language Reference<br />Authorship<br />Authorship Reference</h4>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Write Fast. Write Well. Get Paid.</strong></p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These were the watchwords of old-school pulp fiction: fun, fast-paced, and immensely popular with readers.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The pulp era is coming back.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Blending timeless lessons from the grandmasters of the pulp era with the genres, tastes and technologies of today, PulpRev forges boldly ahead into the future of fiction.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hugo and Dragon Award nominated writer Kit Sun Cheah teams up with Misha Burnett to compile a selection of essays on the PulpRev aesthetic from some of the leading writers in the movement.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pulp on Pulp covers:<br />* How to plot like a pulp grandmaster<br />* How to write 5000 words a day<br />* The secrets of writing fantastic fight scenes<br />* Worldbuilding and character creation tips<br />* And many more!</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">PulpRev is the Revolution, Revival and the Renaissance of Pulp. Take the plunge into the new pulp era and become the best writer you can be!</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TPeTWc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Case for Mary: An Orthodox Evangelism for Curious Protestants</a><br />by David Knox</h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mary was a virgin, but did she stay a virgin after Jesus born?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Did she live a sinless life?</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In his debut work, David Knox explores these and other questions that have become points of contention between Protestants and Orthodox Christians.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Using scripture, history, culture, and linguistics, <strong><em>A Case for Mary</em></strong> shines a light on how, and more importantly why they may not be so unbelievable after all.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://amzn.to/3Bh1EpU" target="_blank">Training for War: An Essay</a><br />by Tom Kratman *FREE*</h2>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An essay and manual on training for war by retired Army lieutenant colonel Tom Kratman, creator of the popular Carrera military science fiction series, including novels <em>A Desert Called Peace</em>, <em>Carnifex</em>, <em>Come and Take Them</em>, and <em>The Rods and the Axe</em>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Kratman’s contention: an army is for winning wars.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And to win wars, you have to train men (and some women) to be warriors, not police or social workers.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Herein Kratman gives guidance and a practical plan of action to officers tasked with training troops—advice than might be equally applied to other crucial training situations, as well.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TOYiBS" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Biographies of John Charles Fremont</a><br />Hans G. Schantz</h2>
<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><em>A Brief Historical Monograph</em></h3>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rarely has a character appeared on the American scene of greater color and controversy than John Charles Fremont.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dubbed “The Pathfinder” for having conducted some of the first rigorous scientific explorations of the American west, emigrants used his maps and reports as their guide to Oregon and California.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Fremont was instrumental in the military campaigns which secured California for the United States, only to be arrested and court-martialed for mutiny and insubordination.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nominated the young Republican party’s first candidate for president, Fremont lost the 1856 election in a bitterly contested campaign.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Appointed one of four major-generals at the outbreak of the Civil War, Fremont was placed in command of the Department of the West. Succeeding in holding wavering Missouri for the Union, Lincoln relieved him of his command amid allegations of widespread corruption.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Having earned a fortune from his California gold holdings, he was impoverished by railway speculation. Fremont’s life was a serious of glorious triumphs and dismal defeats. Through it all, he remained a figure adored by some and despised by others.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This short monograph considers the development of the Fremont biography, analyzing works about the life and career of John Charles Fremont in their historical context. The term “biography” will be used in a wide sense, to include works which may deal with only limited aspects of Fremont’s career.</p>
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