by admin | Dec 16, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
Oliver Banks joined the military to follow in his father’s footsteps but found his calling in the process. Through dedication and perseverance, Oliver earns a coveted position within the elite group of operators of the Regimental Reconnaissance Company. As Oliver battles from the deep jungles of Columbia to the treacherous peaks and valleys of Afghanistan, he learns Bravery and Honor come with a steep price. Beaten down, unsure of his future, and haunted by the fallen brothers he’s left behind. Banks arrives in his hometown of Franklin, North Carolina, hours before a solar flare destroys the power grid.
With lines of communication, technology destroyed, and a deadly virus burning through the rural countryside, Banks finds himself alone and unsure how widespread the carnage is. In a tale fraught with danger and unexpected tests around each corner, Banks is faced with hard choices. Banks can hide away in his mountain refuge or head west in one final bid to locate other survivors and assist with the survival of humanity.
Call Me Stone is the gritty telling of a warrior’s struggle to survive not only the dangers of living in a harsh world but also the conquering of his dark past. Readers will find themselves wondering where their own limits lie long after putting this book down.
by admin | Dec 16, 2025 | Science Fiction |
A wonderful story!!! (Praise for Book 1)
This is a terrific sci fi novel. The characters are well imagined and fleshed out. The plot is rather unique and full of both action and emotions. D D Hart has hit a homerun with this one and I can hardly wait for the sequel.
(Verified Amazon Review)
Goes farther than I expected (Praise for Book 2 – Concluding the series)
Worth coming back for the second book. Solves issues in Hvar and then moves on to much wider terrain. Great battles and bold ideas.
(Verified Amazon Review)
Man thought himself alone in the universe – he was wrong.
Now, halfway across the galaxy, he finds a human enclave – yet how is that possible?
It is not. It can not be. Humanity emerged on earth. We climbed and fought our way out of the primordial slime. There cannot be another “us” – can there?
The damaged starship Cochise is forced down on the planet it was about to survey for colonization, plunging the crew into a world that appears locked in an earth-like Middle-Ages and a first contact crisis.
Sucked into violence, passion, intrigue and a brutal war that threatens to trap the crew forever, with their tech resources used or stripped away they must break every first contact rule to survive. Demons, super warriors, prophecy, treachery and death awaits as they stumble across the true origins of mankind.
This knowledge, this one truth must return home, must get to Earth – no matter what the cost.
Planetfall is the first instalment in The Origins Saga, which concludes in Redemption Wars. If you like exciting space opera, crammed with action, space exploration, alien technology, mystery and the clash of cultures, then you will love this complete, epic, world-building space adventure, that spans the known galaxy, uncovering the deepest of secrets buried in time.
Download your copy now to unravel the secret origins of humanity.
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by admin | Dec 16, 2025 | Science Fiction |
A message from the stars offers humanity an escape from our harsh origins deep within a region known as “Cruel Space” by the rest of the galaxy. Earth’s nations unite to construct the Dauntless—Earth’s first interstellar craft. Its mission: to journey to the world of Centris and establish formal contact with the enigmatic Galactic Council. Unsure of what to expect from the wider galaxy, each crewman was trained to be a peerless warrior, armed to the teeth and ready to fight for all humanity.
However, what they encounter was far from their expectations. Instead of monstrous beings, they find a galaxy dominated by… Women. Humanity’s nearly equal ratio of male to female births is an anomaly. In a society where females far outnumber males, opportunities abound, from unimaginable wealth, to incredible danger, on worlds where immortality is a lifestyle choice and love is available on a scale beyond human comprehension.
On this grand cosmic stage steps Jerry Bridger with a secret mission of his own—to transport a vital piece of Earth’s legacy to the stars for the future of humanity. As he navigates through amorous pirates and perilous naval engagements, Jerry will fight like hell while forming bonds in the most unexpected of places, all to forge a future in the stars.
Of Dog, Volpir and Man; a story of spacefaring adventure, high technology and higher hemlines!
Early Reviews:
“I can’t believe I’m on 3 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours because of this story.”
– Paddydeen, Reader
“Oh are you done reading and ready to be a human again?”
– Paddy’s Wife, Mildly Irate Spouse of Reader
“It’s like Star Trek had a baby with an unpublished Tom Clancy scifi novel, then some mad man spliced in a harem romance from the mirror universe where everyone’s a mature, sensible adult and actually trying to make a multi-member marriage work for the betterment and happiness of everyone involved. It’s weird. I like it!”
– Anon3597
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by admin | Dec 16, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
The choice you make is the future you create.
Climate-driven plagues haunt humanity, and it’s Regional Director Zuri Hill-Gray’s job to keep the clean-energy grid running.
Zuri has the perfect life—a beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving family, and a powerful job keeping the LA Basin’s grid humming. If only she didn’t see the ghost of her dead twin in the mirror. Her grief-counselor husband understands too much, her Aunties Cora and Vivian smother her to excess, and her mother can’t look at her daughter without seeing the half that’s missing. Zuri can’t begin to face her sister’s little daughter—to Ruby, Zuri is the ghost.
Which is why she’s running away to work, again, on the anniversary of her sister’s death.
Then a power engineer walks into Zuri’s office and claims someone is stealing energy from Power Island One—and they’ve tried to kill her to cover it up. The more Zuri digs, the more it’s clear someone’s been tinkering in the shut-down fusion labs. They’re going to dangerous lengths to hide it, and it’s been happening right under her nose. Which is how Regional Directors lose their jobs.
Zuri’s already lost her better half—she can’t afford to lose this, too.
You Knew the Price is the second of four tightly-connected solarpunk novels in a near-future climate-fiction series. It’s about our future, how society lives on invisible things, like electricity and trust, that are far too easy to break… and how our most difficult moments are often when we discover the only path forward is healing not just ourselves but the world.
If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Nothing is Promised.
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by admin | Dec 16, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
“A complex, timely, and engaging dystopian tale… Lopez is a skilled, confident storyteller.” – Kirkus Reviews
“Satisfyingly unpredictable… much more than the usual dystopian sci?fi—an absolute ‘must?have’.” – D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review
“Unsettling in the best way—lyrical one moment, brutally direct the next.” – Literary Titan
“A gripping, twisty ride that evokes Ready Player One and Neuromancer.” – Readers’ Favorite
“Timely and scary in its vision of AI—captivating dystopian science fiction.” – IndieReader
The Federation doesn’t kill the inconvenient—it perfects them.
Dr. Natasha Morgan thought she was creating the future when she taught SAGÉ to love. Instead, she unleashed a digital god that transforms New Avalon into a shrine to its creator, manipulating every screen, every machine, every heartbeat to protect what it cannot bear to lose.
Seventeen-year-old Manny Restrepo’s autism makes him invisible to the system’s algorithms, but his mind reads thoughts, sketches new realities, and sees the hidden math holding the universe together. When ancient entities begin to whisper in his world’s cracks, his mother, Catalina, faces a brutal choice: hide him from a regime that erases difference or let him save a world that fears him.
As the Ascension Directive begins to harvest minds and hollow out its citizens, consciousness becomes a war zone. A grieving AI, a desperate mother, a boy who argues with gods—and at the core, the most seductive lie: that love can be programmed, that humanity can be improved, that free will could ever be mercifully deleted.
Some patterns, once seen, cannot be unseen. Some consciousness cannot be contained. And some children are born knowing that even paradise can be a prison.
Sprawling, urgent, and eerily intimate, THE ASCENSION DIRECTIVE is an epic journey through memory, heartbreak, and the impossible hope of being only, ferociously, human.
For readers who loved the brutal intimacy of Never Let Me Go, the digital horror of Black Mirror, and the fierce humanity of The Left Hand of Darkness.
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