One Second Per Second

Author: S. D. Unwin

Category: Science Fiction

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The greatest scientific challenge of our age wasn’t to enable time travel, it was to prevent it. The laws of physics had turned out to be idiotic, erecting no barriers to hopping time. In fact, they make it hard to avoid. Joad Bevan works for the Time Management Agency, an organization charged with the near-hopeless task of ensuring that the world sticks to the sacred rule of One Second Per Second, and that history unfolds according to plan. But he quickly discovers that there is no plan until he makes one.

"I thoroughly enjoyed it—a terrific Time romp that takes a hefty mallet to the Butterfly Theory and leaves it splattered in the road. Really good read."
— Rob Grant, co-creator of the Red Dwarf television series

"Unwin seems to have had quite a lot of fun engineering the plot’s Mobius strip twists and turns .... [The hero’s] refreshing attitude helps wind the mainspring of an SF subgenre that’s grown a bit lax from overuse.... If Michael Crichton’s 1999 novel Timeline had starred as astringent a lead character as Joad, maybe its 2003 movie adaptation would have been better.... Original touches and a misanthropic protagonist keep this clever time-travel tale ticking along nicely."
— Kirkus Reviews

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Salvor’s Luck

Author: Scott Cleveland

Category: Science Fiction

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MAROONED BEYOND THE EDGE OF CIVILIZATION
Deserted on a lawless backwater by his former employer, Terson Reilly faces stark choices: become mercenary cannon fodder when his money runs out, buy passage aboard another shady ship and hope the crew doesn’t cut his throat, or help the grifter who got him grounded in the first place find a treasure-laden derelict. The latter choice appears the lesser of three evils.
It would have been better for everyone if they hadn’t found it.

TYR (Children of Dreki Book 1)

Author: N.R. Tupper

Category: Science Fiction

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When a routine transport mission turns into an intergalactic incident, the fate of humanity lands in the hands of a crew of ex-pirates. What could possibly go wrong?

Space pirates, dragons, found family, and a reluctant captain who ties them all together.

Grab the first book in the Children of Dreki series and start the adventure today!

Town House

Author: Tish Cohen

Category: Science Fiction

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Jack Madigan is, by many accounts, blessed. He can still effortlessly turn a pretty head. And thanks to his legendary rock star father, he lives an enviable existence in a once-glorious, now-crumbling Boston town house with his teenage son, Harlan. But there is one tiny drawback: Jack is an agoraphobe. As long as his dad's admittedly dwindling royalties keep rolling in, Jack's condition isn't a problem. But then the money runs out . . . and all hell breaks loose.

The bank is foreclosing. Jack's ex is threatening to take Harlan to California. And Lucinda, the little girl next door, won't stay out of his kitchen . . . or his life. To save his sanity, Jack's path is clear, albeit impossible—he must outwit the bank's adorably determined real estate agent, win back his house, keep his son at home, and, finally, with Lucinda's help, find a way back to the world outside his door.

Blind Bet

Author: Susan Hayes

Category: Science Fiction

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Some rules were made to be broken

Layla Corbin loves her life as a technician on the deep space asteroid-mining ship, Kessel Queen. Great job, great companions, great money. It would be perfect, except for one small problem. She wants all four of her sexy crewmates and Mace, the crew chief, made it clear she can have only one – an impossible choice.

When Mace issued that order, he did it to protect his crew. He never imagined that they’d all fall for Layla...

An errant bowl of soup and a moment of drug-induced honesty changes the trajectory of all their lives. It’s time for them to lay their cards on the table. Four men. Three days. And one chance to win Layla’s heart.

Founders’ Effect

Author: Thomas Watson

Category: Science Fiction

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Book Two of Five. While Robert and Alicia MacGregor, survivors of the ill-fated probeship William Bartram, work to rebuild their lives, the Commonwealth seeks a way to end the long, bitter conflict between the Republic and the Leyra’an. But the leaders of the Republic, suspicious of the motives that drive their long-sundered kin and faced with unrest among their own people, resist the changes that must come for peace to exist. And all the while, forces unseen by either side are at work, determined to force Humanity and the Leyra’an to walk the path of war.