** 2022 SPSFC SEMIFINALIST **
Cyberpunk and space opera collide in a thrilling new trilogy from the author of the acclaimed Aurora Rhapsody saga.
(Exin Ex Machina is a new entry point for the AMARANTHE series--newcomers are welcome)

When man and machine are one and the same, there are many crimes but only one sin: psyche-wipe. The secrets it has buried could lead to a civilization's salvation, or to its doom.

The Asterion Dominion is at peace with its neighbors and itself. Its citizens enjoy great freedoms and all the luxuries their biosynthetic minds can imagine, design and create. But beneath the idyllic veneer, something is going wrong. People are going wrong, driven to commit inexplicable crimes without motive or purpose. And once imprisoned for those crimes, they simply vanish.

Psyche-wiped and dumped in an alley 5 years ago, awakened into a culture where ancestral memories stretch back for millennia, Nika Tescarav's past is a blank canvas. But if whoever erased her did so in the hope of silencing her, they should have tried harder.

Someone must speak for the lost.

Someone must uncover how and why they became lost.

Someone must find the lost.

Nika is that someone.

ASTERION NOIR
700,000 years ago, the Asterions fled persecution for their pro-synthetic beliefs. In the safe harbor of a distant galaxy, they have evolved into a true biosynthetic race and built a thriving society upon the pillars of personal autonomy, mutual respect and boundless innovation.

Now that society is fracturing at the seams. Beneath lies built upon lies, the shocking truth as to why threatens the future of not merely the Asterions, but all life in the universe.

Enter a world of technological wonders, exotic alien life, enthralling characters, captivating worlds—and a terrifying evil lurking in the void that will shatter it all.

Fans of Neuromancer, Blade Runner and Altered Carbon will love this intense, action-packed science fiction noir thriller with a space opera twist. Explorations of artificial intelligence, the value of memories and what it means to be alive intermingle with mysteries, conspiracies, intrigue, rebellion and lost love.
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• NOW AN EXCITING TV SERIES FROM CRACKLE •

To protect his young family from merciless corporate tyranny, Samuel Hyst signs up for the hazardous life of a salvage marine, the foot soldiers of a militarized deep space operation. Hazard pay is high for a reason, and Samuel must endure grueling tours of duty in the abandoned scrapyard quadrants of a war-torn universe.

Endless wars rage across every galaxy, leaving damaged starships, rusted factories, and broken planets in their wake, all ripe for plunder by the desperate and the daring.

Samuel must seize his destiny in frenzied combat against murderous scavengers, horrific monsters, and the elite mercenaries of rival corporations.

Left with no choice but to fight, he must win freedom with a combat rifle and his blowtorch.

Eighty missiles. Twelve get through. Barely a scratch.

When crystalline warships emerge from nowhere above Joint Base Sagittarius Arch, Colonel Mateo Larra discovers humanity’s weapons are nearly useless. The Kin’s living vessels absorb punishment that would vaporize a battleship, while their energy weapons carve through Coalition shields like tissue paper.

But the Kin are just slaves to something far deadlier… the Home, a moon-sized organism that has devoured civilizations for millennia. It doesn’t want resources or territory.

It wants biological material.

Outgunned and isolated in a hostile galaxy, Larra must defend humanity’s first trans-galactic base with whatever he has: untested pilots, civilian volunteers, and a sheer stubborn refusal to die. While mysterious six-armed aliens watch from the shadows and League spies work within, the Colonel faces an enemy that has never known defeat.

One space station. One wormhole. One chance to stop an unstoppable force.

Humanity hangs in the balance . . .
. . . in this galaxy-spanning adventure

Admiral J. Vance Hamblin was Fleet's brightest star—until politics and jealousy forced him into early retirement. Now the Empress herself has summoned him back with an offer he can't refuse, but returning means facing an enemy no one can see.

Something alien lurks in the shadows of power, puppeteering the galaxy toward enslavement. As Hamblin races to expose the truth, he discovers his greatest challenge isn't just the mutiny brewing among his former colleagues—it's the invisible forces that have already infiltrated the highest ranks of the Empire.

With assassination plots targeting him and the Empress, Hamblin must rebuild trust with the very officers who betrayed him. But how do you fight an enemy that hides in plain sight? How do you save humanity when you can't even tell who's still human?

Time is running out. The stars are no longer safe. And in this deadly game of shadows, humanity is the prize.

RECRUIT is Star Wars meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers—a pulse-pounding military sci-fi thriller where loyalty is currency and betrayal lurks behind every command.

Begin the adventure that will keep you guessing until the last page.
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