The Artist Instance

Author: Faruk Brbovic

Category: Science Fiction

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Deal starts: December 31, 2025

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The reality-shattering stakes of Dark Matter meet the poetic soul of This Is How You Lose the Time War.

She paints the patterns. They are doorways. And they are breaking the world.

Anela Foster survives the brutal winters of Lake Placid by painting things she shouldn't be able to see. Recursive loops. Impossible angles. Geometries that vibrate with a low, distant hum. She thinks she is just capturing a nightmare to fill the void that haunts her sleep.

She is wrong. She isn't just painting the void. She is waking it up.

When Elysia Harrington—Manhattan's most enigmatic artist—walks into her bar, the nightmare begins to bleed into the waking world. Elysia doesn't just see the art; she feels the vibration of it. She recognizes the impossible truth hidden in the brushstrokes.

The connection between them is instant, electric, and terrifyingly familiar.

Swept away to a life of high-art and shadows in New York City, Anela finds herself falling for the one person who makes the world feel real. But as their desire deepens, the laws of physics begin to fray. Shadows detach from their owners. Time skips a beat. The impossible patterns in Anela's art start to appear in the city streets.

The system is watching. The room is tightening.

Now, Anela must choose: Stop painting and save the world from collapsing, or follow the path of her art to the terrifying truth behind the sky.

The world is thinner than they thought. And they are the only ones holding the knife.

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For readers who crave the mind-bending depth of Ted Chiang, the poetic precision of Piranesi, and the defiant intimacy of This Is How You Lose the Time War.

Enter a novel where breath becomes an act of rebellion, where love becomes a door, and where staying human is the most dangerous thing two women can do.

-- Book 1 of the Instance Subworld series. -- Book 2 coming February 2026. --

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Planet Fred

Author: Jim Stein

Category: Science Fiction

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Planetary log: The stupid jungle ate the crew…
I’ve befriended an alien slug…
That is all. –Nancy Dickenson, mission botanist

When the jungle slaughters Nancy’s crew, the botanist finds herself stranded. Armed only with her expertise and the dubious help of a prankster slug, she sets out to exact revenge. But when aliens and human mercenaries descend on the undeveloped planet for a cutthroat competition, things get…complicated.

Nancy goes from survivor, to prisoner, to advisor while destroying the evil flora. But there’s a pattern to the madness gripping them all, and solving the underlying mystery could change everything.

Can one human scientist and a morally ambiguous mollusk outwit the opposition before the game turns deadly?

The City Below

Author: Kory M. Shrum

Category: Science Fiction

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A new science fiction thriller from the bestselling author of the Shadows in the Water series.In the meticulously controlled world of Zone 2, Commander Grace Buteo has dedicated her life to keeping citizens safe from cybercrime, terrorism, and threats from the outer zones. But when an IED meant for Grace kills her husband and son, her belief in the city she protects begins to fracture.Desperate for purpose, Grace immerses herself in a high-profile investigation: the theft of twenty-six artificial organs from a powerful genetic engineering corporation. What begins as a routine case soon exposes cracks in the city’s perfect façade—and raises unsettling questions about the people closest to her.For fans of Philip K. Dick’s provocative science fiction and J.D. Robb’s In Death series, The City Below is a gripping blend of mystery, technology, and moral suspense.Praise for The City Below????? “Wow! Great read—an incredible amount of detail.”????? “A powerful new science fiction novel featuring a strong female lead you can’t help but root for.”????? “Rich, immersive worldbuilding with fully realized characters you instantly connect with.”????? “A chilling blend of The Matrix and 1984.”????? “Science fiction that captures the full scope of a future world.”????? “A fantastic work of science fiction with a compelling hero—and anti-hero—to follow.”????? “Captivating!”

You Knew the Price

Author: Susan Kaye Quinn

Category: Science Fiction

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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.

Martian Jump Gate

Author: James David Victor

Category: Science Fiction

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Deal starts: December 29, 2025

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Humanity has opened a door that allows for instantaneous travel through the stars. What they find on the other side might mean the end of all mankind.

A military sci-fi adventure from Amazon All-Star author James David Victor.

The invention of jump-gates has allowed instantaneous travel throughout the solar system, and beyond. Captain Shoji Mora will lead the first expedition through the jump-gate to Mars in a gigantic space robot known as Tin Man. Their mission soon turns from mining and exploration to defending humanity from an alien invasion. Can the giant space robot defend mankind from certain destruction at the hands of a superior alien armada?

Mars Jump Gate is the first book in the Tin Man Space Opera Adventure. If you like fast-paced sci-fi adventures, make Tin Man your next epic space adventure.

Download Mars Jump Gate and see if the giant space mech known as Tin Man can save humanity!

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First Strike

Author: J. T. Skye

Category: Science Fiction

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Deal starts: December 29, 2025

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He’s no hero and not interested in galactic rebellion. He just wants to run space cargo.

But alien warlords of the Empire want him dead - with a billion credit price on his head.

Now, every soldier with a gun and a spaceship wants to cash in.

But, humans are not easy to kill, especially a battle hardened Marine warrior from Earth.

He is uncertain about where his life is going, but knows one thing - he hates the arrogance of the wealthy elite who promised the billion credit bounty.

And, he’ll use his advanced weaponry, brilliant tactics and cutting edge A. I. to make them pay with their precious, jewelry studded lives if it is the last thing he does.

They thought it should be easy - after all, he’s just a human.

But they didn’t send enough ships… not nearly enough war ships.

And, he’ll put a large hole in their space fleet, just to show them how much they underestimated his battle skill.

An action driven, military science fiction and space opera thriller you just can’t put down, so warn your family and friends you’ll be away for the duration on an epic adventure.

Click Buy Now or Read For Free - put on your battle armor and web into your ship-couchas you join Captain Derek Hamilton and his elite warrior crew on the ride of a lifetime, culminating in the exciting conclusion for Book 1 and the perfect next step for this exciting series - Galactic Rebels.

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