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The January Round up of Scifi Books

OK, so we're locked down here. After several wonderfully crisp days, with a tiny bit of snow, today is damp. So I had to make a Yoda meme!

And here are the books you want...


Meet eleven protagonists battling to save themselves and the ones they love. Human, cyborg, clone, or alien, they'll find themselves pitted against intergalactic crime bosses, interstellar mercenaries, a quantum-wave-riding collective mind, and the universe itself. Along the way, there’s plenty of action, adventure, humor, and even some romance.


Jason McKay and Shannon Stark, two young Republic Space Fleet Intelligence officers, are given the leadership of a new special ops unit. The mission? Guard the spoiled daughter of an important senator on a tour of the colonies.
Neither of them thought the mission would be anything more than babysitting…until the aliens invaded the colony.
Implacable, relentless, merciless, the armored creatures slaughter everyone who gets in their way. The team is forced to go on the run with the people they're supposed to protect.
But survival will be the least of their challenges. Because it’s not as simple as an alien invasion, and the truth may be even stranger than they can imagine.
Jason and Shannon are forced to weigh the lives of the people they lead–and the ones they love–against their duty, honor, and planet.


Security Lieutenant Dave is looking forward to some simple cases and patching things up with his wife. His handling of a terrorist attack has gained him acclaim and some new friends in high places, but he is still closely involved with Arancha Station's mob boss.
When the space station manager is killed in a new and worrying way, Dave realises that he's got possibly the biggest case of his career. Unfortunately, as soon as his new boss arrives with reinforcements, he is relegated to monitoring data and assigned a rookie partner to babysit.
Dave needs to find something that will crack the case open before the killer can strike again.


Fifteen years into a twenty-year voyage, war veteran Captain Throttle Reyne is looking forward to taking a break from dealing with malfunctions, glitches, and the hassles of monitoring a thousand colonists in cryo-sleep.
But when her colony ship breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Throttle and her crew must leave the colonists behind to search for help. They find a ship that's not only missing a crew… it's clearly not from their star system.
It's the discovery of a lifetime. All they need to do is tow the mysterious vessel back to their colony ship for further study and Throttle won't ever have to work again. One problem. While they're away, the colony ship is stolen—with the colonists still on board.
Throttle gives chase to a lawless star system on the outer rim. To get their colonists back, they must take on the pirates and ganglords who will do anything—and sell anyone—to make a buck.
They play dirty. But Throttle and her crew play dirtier.


Victory can have unexpected consequences, as Mason Grey, Jessica Sinclair, and the rest of the Federal Space Forces are about to find out.
For Mason, after almost getting killed helping the Special Purpose Branch recover the prototype battlecarrier Independence from enemy territory, he is rewarded with a new assignment. Forming a new special operations squadron from the remains of fighter squadrons decimated by the Ascendancy’s first attacks.
For Jessica, it is being sent on a dangerous journey to Earth to investigate the identity of those who created the Ascendancy, and perhaps discover why the Ascendancy decided to wage war against both the Earth Federation and the League of Sovereign Worlds.
For the Federal Space Forces at large, it is inadvertently giving the Ascendancy the opportunity to achieve a final victory without firing a shot. Namely, by creating a refugee crisis to put further strain on the fleet defending Earth after they expended a large portion of their precious fuel reserves supporting the operation to recover Independence.
The Federal Space Forces will have to turn to their old nemesis, the League of Sovereign Worlds for help if they are to ensure the Earth Federation’s continued existence. But the League is in just as much danger being overwhelmed by the Ascendancy as the Earth Federation. The Federal Space Forces will have to find a way to save their old enemy before they can think about rescuing Earth from an impending invasion.


Celeste is the Grekk Empire's top Envoy, but she harbors a secret.
The Enigma War destroyed humanity. Now, an uneasy peace rules the galaxy headed by the Imperium Alliance with the Grekk Empire working behind the shadows to increase its influence.
On a routine first round of negotiations with the Zandrax, a new species, at the fringe of the galaxy, something is amiss. A storm is emerging with the Zandrax bent on challenging the galaxy's order.
In the midst of this crisis, Celeste encounters a mysterious being, who will challenge everything she knows about herself.
Will Celeste be able to hold onto her secret? Can the Zandrax incursion be neutralized? And, will the peace survive this incursion?


After a tarnished military record leaves her unable to find work on Earth, Margo is hunting for a fresh start. A colonizing mission heading to a new world creates the perfect opportunity—or at least that’s what she thinks.
Strapped into a crashing colony ship, she realizes how wrong she is.
On the ground of their destination planet, the straight forward colonizing mission becomes a scramble for survival. Her new world is harsh and unforgiving. Accidents keep happening. Too many to blame on bad luck alone. The trail of evidence leads Margo to a startling conclusion—one of her fellow colonists is a saboteur.
Tomorrow is the colony’s first communications window with Earth and their only chance to send a message home.
With the fate of the colony at stake, will Margo stop the saboteur before it’s too late?


When renowned archeologist Gav Gendin discovers the wreck of an Ancient starship, with a stasis pod and a still living member of the extinct aliens inside, it should be the greatest triumph of his career. Instead, it ends in disaster and leads to his son, Siv, being placed in cryogenic sleep.
A century later, Siv Gendin wakes to a world in decline, a world where you do what you must to survive. With the help of a snarky, sentient AI companion named Silky, Siv becomes a top procurement specialist.
Enslaved to the Shadowslip Guild, Siv has little hope of ever being his own man. Until they offer him freedom in exchange for completing a practically suicidal mission. His target: a young girl with uncanny abilities. Rival criminal guilds, foreign governments, and religious extremists will risk all-out war to get their hands on her—for good reason.
With her mysterious link to the Ancients, this girl could reshape human civilization, perhaps even bring back the golden age Siv knew as a child. But only if he is willing to defy the Shadowslip and risk everything to keep her safe.


Once Sparker was the most celebrated Squadron Leader in the Commonwealth Empire...
Unjustly discharged, he is reduced to running a freighter business on a forsaken planet.
A spate of vanishing freighters brings him in contact with Mirra, a former refugee from the Outer Terra, whose family is amongst the missing.
Can Sparker overcome the past injustice and arise to help find Mirra's family and uncover the secret behind the disappearing freighters? And, is it but a harbinger of a greater threat rising against the Commonwealth Empire?


An ancient threat returns to conquer humanity. They ruled the planet once and they will do it again. Humans can't fight this war—not without help.
For years, Dr. Ethan Fawkes has been communicating with a mysterious scientist using an encoded signal, and together, they designed the first spaceship meant for war. But when the government orders Ethan to dismantle it, his collaborator reveals a terrible secret. An army of powerful aliens is about to invade Earth, and humans must rush to prepare a defense or risk losing their freedom forever.
Collaboration with an unlikely ally is humanity’s only chance at survival.
Fiona has no memories of her origins, but somehow, she shares half her DNA with the invaders. For this, she lives a life of scorn and shame amongst humans. When the enemy arrives to enslave her village, will she help the humans who hate her or join the aliens who welcome her? The key to victory lies in the depths of her obscure past. Can she remember her true heritage before it's too late?

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Jada Breaker is on track to graduate from Station Alpha when her best friend is murdered in a terrorist attack. Now, all Jada wants is to stop the violence between her home and Planet Earth - and there's only one person standing in her way.
When Rowan Miles is assigned to compete against her, Jada knows it's her responsibility to crush the competition. And that's fine - how hard can it be to outwit a handsome high-school boy from Earth?
Apparently, harder than she thought. And the discovery of a shocking piece of evidence tied to her best friend's death certainly isn't making Jada's life any easier.
As Jada unravels a complex tapestry of lies, cover-ups, and diversions, she's forced to question whether the interplanetary terrorists truly live on the Earth below... or if they're the people she sees each and every day.


It’s 'The Inbetweeners' meets 'Groundhog Day.'
'Reverb: Live, Die, Rave, Repeat' tells the epic story of six young and adventurous students who get to relive the first day of their, no holds barred, holiday to the hedonistic party haven of Magaluf over and over and over again.


Kylla Torrance leads a mission to establish a sanctuary where genetically engineered Augments can live in peace, beyond the reach of the Shan Takhu Institute.
She knows the truth about the Institute's ominous plans to control the ancient alien technologies left behind in the Solar System, and that only engineered humans can fully access their potential.
People like her. And her team.
When someone on the Agamemnon sells her out to pirates, Kylla's plans spin into chaos. Worse yet, a telepathic slave hunter seeks to crush the threat she represents to the Institute's hold on power.
With the help of a mutinous officer, Kylla has one chance to give her people hope for a future, but to succeed they must disappear into the deep.


The mission to the recently terraformed planet of Lisa should be nothing to worry about for the special unit of the Federation Galactic Military. But there are no straight forward missions that deep in the outer rims, and even the simplest of tasks can be fatal. And no matter how much they train and what their experiences might be, some things space marines can just not account for...


Draken Kosset is a soldier of the Halden Army. He wants to become an officer to protect his homeworld but must pass a final test. Will he succeed?


In a Post Apocalyptic far future, there is only one thing that can save the fragile civilizations humanity has cobbled together: the mechs. A ragtag crew of mech pilots must battle the undead hordes, cannibal tribes, and religious cults in a daily race to keep humanity safe. But now a threat worse than anything has surfaced and is growing stronger. The undead have reanimated in their own battle machines and created the rise of the Dead Mechs!


Captain Jonathan Hogart’s first mission to Frequency One seems to be going well. New crew, new flash ship, and a new race of aliens to make first contact with.
But the binary suns start affecting his team in strange ways, the friendly aliens turn out to be not so friendly, and now he finds himself glued to the ground awaiting possible separation if he doesn’t hand over flash relocation technology.
As the sticky situation gets more and more complicated, and the mushroom bugs reveal further surprises, the alien crew discover that it’s not only planet brown and purple that they have to worry about. There is a much greater threat towards the center of the star system.




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