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SPSFC First Chapter Reads Day 6

Accidental Intelligence by Bryan Chaffin Blurb TALES FROM THE QUANTUM VAULT In his debut novel, Bryan Chaffin transports us to the year 2139, where corporate combines have their own Senate seats, the surveillance-state is all-encompassing, humans live most of their lives in the Omninet, and sentient AIs are partners with the world government. It’s not all bad, though. There are docbots, you…

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SPSFC4 First Chapter Reads Day 5

Above Dark Waters by Eric Kay Blurb Artificial therapy so great, you’ll never log off! (And won’t notice the ads).A near-future sci-fi about brain privacy in the age of unfettered surveillance capitalism. How cyberpunk begins: brainwave reading AIs become not only super-intelligent, but super-emotive.What will companies do when they can read your actual mind? How far will they go to get your…

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SPSFC FIRST CHAPTER READS DAY 4

A Universe Upon Us by Marc B. DeGeorge Blurb When Ceri boarded the colony ship with her parents, they were escaping the destruction on Earth. They’d sleep in stasis for a thousand years, then wake on their new home, free from the ravages of war.But for Ceri, it was not to be.The adults of the Stratford stole her childhood and replaced it with terror. For seven years, they forced her and her…

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SPSFC4 First chapter reads Day 3

A Spectre in the Stream  by Simon Tull Blurb In a world gone mad with bloodlust, can a girl with a fragmented past use her inner monster to save a boy from undying predators? Earth, post-Apocalypse. Prisma longs to understand herself. Two centuries after humanity died, the claustrophobic immortal is grateful she’s not driven by the thirst for blood plaguing every other enslaved survivor. But…

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SPSFC 4: First Chapter Reads Part Two

A Dirge for Cascius by Calum Lott Blurb Chaos seeps into the Valsollas Galaxy. Cascius Carcyde is on the brink of letting his addiction to reliving his sorrows claim his mind. When the Sages demand he take a new partner, Cascius must forfeit his old ways in order to solve the twisted Red Hand murders. To unravel an interstellar mystery and stop the Red Hand, Cascius must pull himself from the…

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The 4th Annual SPSFC: First chapter reads

The SPSFC is an annual competition for self published Science Fiction where books are read, reviewed and ranked by various bloggers and reviewers. From the initial scout pile, each team selects two semifinalists and six finalists and finally one champion. I had been a participant in the SPSFC in its first and second years as an author and in the third year as a judge. Being on both sides, I can…

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Review of The Fall is All There is by C.M. Caplan (Four of Mercies 1)

Blurb All Petre Mercy wanted was a good old-fashioned dramatic exit from his life as a prince. But it’s been five years since he fled home on a cyborg horse. Now the King—his Dad—is dead—and Petre has to decide which heir to pledge his thyroid-powered sword to.As the youngest in a set of quadruplets, he’s all too aware that the line of succession is murky. His siblings are on the precipice of…

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Review of However Many Must Die by Phil Williams (The Blood Scouts 1)

Blurb Wild Wish was trained to do one kill.Saved from a lonely backwater existence by a global war, Wish couldn’t believe her luck when she got into the Blood Scouts. Now she gets to share tents with an all-female platoon of night-stalking, giant-slaying, boat-sinking, battle-swaying legends in the making.The problem is, they keep dying.And they’ve been given their worst assignment yet.The enemy…

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Prologue of Before the End

The house was quiet, and Richard’s heart was hammering in his chest as he ran inside, hoping against all hope that he wasn’t too late. The blood and the bodies he ignored, his eyes searching for Mira. He moved deeper into the house, trying not to look at the signs of carnage. Everything was smashed, the furniture broken and slashed, and blood everywhere. The large screen at the wall was cracked,…

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Review of Shadow's Hand by Noelle Nichols (The Shadow's Creed Saga 1)

Blurb False warriors destroyed their homes. Now two heroes must delve into ancient magic to save their realm from destruction.Kilo lives and dies by the truth of the Shadow’s Creed. So when brutal raiders raze his village, the leader is honor-bound to put aside his fighting staff and help his people rebuild. After discovering the attackers were impersonating Shadow warriors and have befouled his…

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EPIC/ HIGH FANTASY

THE DEATHLESS ONES His wounds heal instantly. Death blows leave nothing but a strange glow. But the slightest misstep in this battle could lead to eternal suffering… Madh craves an ordinary life. After twenty years of hiding his odd immortality from the power-hungry and corrupt, the paranoid young man vows to never interfere in the affairs of the world. But his aimless drifting ends when a…

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PARANORMAL/ VAMPIRE FANTASY

THERE’S ALWAYS A MORNING What do you do when memories from a past life threaten to upend your present? When Mark Albert meets Michael Ramsey at an exhibition, he is drawn to the man. What he doesn’t expect is for Ramsey to be a centuries old vampire or for himself to be the reincarnation of Mathew Ferran, a vampire hunter. The last thing he wants is memories of a past life to disrupt his…

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URBAN/ CONTEMPORARY/ SCIENCE FANTASY

BLUE Magic and murder mysteries. Joe had escaped from prison five years ago. Now Aydin and his team are on the job. All Aydin has are his blue eyes that can see through lies and a memory of Joe escaping him five years ago. When suspicious activity is noticed in Joe’s house one night, Aydin and his team make their move, but what they learn is not what they expect to find. OUT OF THE BLUE When…

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Review of The Tainted Dominion by Krystle Matar (Book 1 and 2)

Review of Legacy of the Brightwash (Tainted Dominion 1) Blurb Follow the law and you’ll stay safe. But what if the law is wrong?Tashué’s faith in the law is beginning to crack.Three years ago, he stood by when the Authority condemned Jason to the brutality of the Rift for non-compliance. When Tashué’s son refused to register as tainted, the laws had to be upheld. He’d never doubted his job as a…

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The Narratess Indie Sale and my Recommendations

So, the Narratess Indie Sale is around the corner. It starts on August 24th and ends on the 26th and have nearly 400 books all indie speculative fiction on sale for free to $1.99. I do have a book in the sale. But this is not about that. There are a lot of books in the sale that I have read and enjoyed and a lot more that I want to read. So, here are my recommendations. The first few are books…

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REVIEW OF THE PHOENIX AND THE SWORD (CRANE MOON CYCLE 1)

BLURB Aili Fallon is desperate.Determined to escape her past, she refuses to let anything impede her training as a combat nurse – until the woman she’s falling in love with disappears in a fiery tempest, leaving Aili burdened with terrible immortality and destroying flame.Gambling with her own existence, Aili crosses into a spiritual realm in search of her lost love — the only person that can…

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REVIEW OF GREYWOLF'S HEART BY C.M. BANSCHBACH (SPIRIT VALLEY DUOLOGY 1)

BLURB A man born for war. A bastard raised in contempt. Only together can they defend their tribe from slaughter.Fierce-hearted Comran is the chief’s son and the favored choice to be the next leader. Then his father chooses Comran’s half-brother Etran for the role, straining the loyalties of the tribe and reinforcing the distance between the two men. When Comran is offered the role of…