Based Books For Male Readers Sale
All Titles Free or $0.99; Through Tuesday August 5.
Whether you’re a father, a fighter, a builder, or just a man looking for stories that resonate with who you are and what you face, the Based Book Sale delivers. This is where you’ll find battle-tested wisdom, thrilling adventures, dangerous ideas, and the kind of timeless values that modern publishing tries to suppress. In a literary world flooded with sensitivity readers, diversity checklist characters, and sanitized stories, this sale is a direct challenge to the decline. We offer books that speak to masculine virtues, moral struggles, and heroic ideals.
This isn’t just a discount event, it’s a cultural moment: a chance to reclaim literature from ideological conformity and rediscover what made books worth reading in the first place. Stock the shelves of your ebook reader with stories that don’t flinch, thinkers who don’t bow, and authors who still believe men matter.
The Based Book Sale is a limited time offer, available only for a week, featuring more than a hundred different titles, including a couple dozen new to the sale. When every book is only $0.99 or free, you can afford to take a chance and check out a new author.
The sale starts today and runs through Tuesday, August 5. Most offerings are full-length novels. Others are shorts stories or novellas. And pricing is set by the authors, so check before you buy.
The Sale is over, but please continue to enjoy the excellent book recommendations!
Read on to discover some great based books, especially for men!
(And check out the bottom of the sale for more opportunities.)
Books for Children and Young Adults at the bottom. A few FREE books at the bottom of the post, just above the YA books.
Books for Male Readers
Space Pirates of Andromeda
John C. Wright
Space Opera must be Great! Gallant! Gigantic! Grandiose!
This tale told by a Grandmaster vows to return the glory that was lost!
Remember the days gone by, when science fiction was fun?
Now new hope is here!
If you are weary of weak, wan, woke and wasted works, your wait is ended!
Here is an epic, as grand as any tale of old -- here you will hear wonders told!
Of course there is a Space Princess, and Space Pirates galore, and an Evil Galactic Empire.
Of course there is a super-weapon known only as the Great Eye of Darkness!
Here meet Athos Lone, Ace of Star Patrol, in his one-man mission of vengeance!
The Ancient Mariner, like an iron ghost, when slain, seems to rise again!
The mysterious spymaster called Nightshadow walks in dark worlds but serves the light!
An Imperial Deathtrooper must reverse his loyalties, and fight his own clone-brothers!
Fate has set these unlikely heroes against the Four Dark Overlords
An utmost evil the unwary galaxy thinks long dead!
Can Darkness fail and Light prevail?
Read On! For All True Tales are but Part of a Greater!
Hell Spawn
Declan Finn
My name is Officer Thomas Nolan, and I am a saint.
I can smell evil. I show mercy to the lesser criminals - the desperate. Even those I've put behind bars seem to like me. But now there's a serial killer bringing darkness beyond imagination to my city. I can smell his stench a mile away. But how can I prove it?
How do you do forensics on a killer possessed by a demon?
Galen’s Way
Richard Paolinelli
Millions of years in the future, humanity has been driven out of the Milky Way and now calls the Andromeda Galaxy home. Lost in their murky past are the tales of great knights that held the line against the invasion of a dark force until the rest of humanity could escape their doom. The last and greatest of these knights was Galen Underwood.
Long after that heroic stand, a mercenary by the name of Galen Dwyn has been hired to rescue a kidnapped princess. Enticed by a healthy down payment and a chance to settle an old score, Galen accepts the job, only to find out it's a lot more than he bargained for. Soon Galen finds himself weaving and dodging through a web of political intrigue as the very forces that chase him have set in motion plans that will throw the galactic alliance into civil war. To his surprise, he also finds that the rescued princess might not be quite the spoiled brat he rescued from the clutches of her keeper.
Accompanied by the princess, his former mentor, and a snarky AI, Galen sets out to find a way to outsmart entire kingdoms, keep the princess alive, and avert the deaths of millions. Of course, he'll also learn the reasons behind his namesake's chosen path, as he realizes that the only way to win is Galen's way. * * * * * Dragon Award finalist Richard Paolinelli takes us on a grand adventure in this Space Opera offering set in the first book of the Starquest Saga. Set in the 4th age of Dragon Award winner John C. Wright’s Starquest universe that will feature several books by Paolinelli, Wright, and other authors in the months and years to come.
Brutal Dreams
J D Cowan
A Living Nightmare
After awakening in the woods, Christopher Archer finds himself trapped in a world outside of time. Fog monsters, armed gangsters, and a legendary spear, all await his arrival. But what about the fiancé who disappeared months ago?
As Archer explores this eternal midnight, he can only wonder—is this all just a dream, or is there something more hidden in the dark, watching his every move?
There is one choice. He must traverse the nightmare and learn the truth.
The Dream of the Iron Dragon: An Alternate History Viking Epic
Robert Kroese
DRAGON AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVEL
Trapped 1300 years in the past, they have one mission: survive.
In the 23rd century, humanity has been hunted to the verge of extinction by an alien race. When an exploratory ship accidentally travels back in time to Viking age Scandinavia, the human race is given a second chance. Pursued by the power-hungry King Harald, the four surviving crew members join a ragtag band of Vikings as they pillage their way across Europe. It will take all their ingenuity, courage and technical know-how just to survive.
But survival is only the beginning. To save humanity, they must somehow return to the stars. Thus begins a decades-long effort to teach the Vikings to build a craft capable of reaching space—a ship that will come to be known as the Iron Dragon. THE DREAM OF THE IRON DRAGON is the first installment in the 5-part Saga of the Iron Dragon.
"Terrific storytelling, letter-perfect alternate-history, and the highest stakes for humanity imaginable combine to make this a thrilling start to an exciting new Viking saga. Kroese avoids both romanticizing and demonizing the Vikings, showing them to us in all their humanity, while spinning a tale that pulls no punches and leaves us gasping for more." - Lars Hedbor
War Demons
Russell Newquist
When he came home, so did they...
Driven by vengeance, Michael Alexander enlisted in the Army the day after 9/11. Five years later, disillusioned and broken by the horrors he witnessed in Afghanistan, Michael returns home to Georgia seeking to begin a new life. But he didn't come alone. Something evil followed him, and it's leaving a path of destruction in its wake.
The police are powerless. The Army has written Michael off. Left to face down a malevolent creature first encountered in the mountains of Afghanistan, he’ll rely on his training, a homeless prophet, and estranged family members from a love lost…
But none of them expected the dragon.
Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden collides with Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International in this supernatural thriller that goes straight to Hell!
Gun Magus
N.R. LaPoint
The last thing Kenneth Jericho needed was
a gunfight and car chase with human traffickers.
What started as a bad morning only got worse.
A flash of light sends Ken to a strange world
filled with magic, hideous monsters, beautiful women,
and seemingly unlimited ammo.
With pistol in hand,
Ken is thrown into a race against time
to stop a local ganglord's reign of terror.
But is the thug the brains behind the violence,
or is someone - or something - else
pulling his strings?
Operation Vampire
Steven G. Johnson
Written by military historian and former editor of Mania comics/sf/fantasy magazine Steven G. Johnson.
Weird World War II
Sgt. Mick Murphy, a death-walker elf, and his recon company must save Allied troops from mass slaughter by Austrian vampires flooding out of a secret compound located in the Alps. Mick, his dwarf buddy Dave, and war-weary soldiers head up into the mountains to seek and destroy it.
They come across a mountain town where every single man, woman and child has been bitten and turned into a vampire. Skirting the area, the youngest GI steps on a mine. He will certainly die any second until Mick grabs him and hangs on, hauling him back up out of death. Mick can do that because his old man was an elf, able to walk between the worlds of life and death.
The company makes contact with primitive dwarves who believe, annoyingly, in tribal magic. They gift Mick with a crystal bomb which is supposed to explode when sunlight touches it. Moving on, they finally locate the vampire compound, a school for bloodsuckers, built around an old tower where the Old Ones sleep.
Mick sets up the crystal bomb to activate at dawn and hopefully blow the Old Ones up—when a coffin crashes open and a vampire springs out, shrieking like a gut-shot dog with a faceful of fangs. He's absolutely unkillable; silver bullets—even wooden stakes—don't bring him down. He's un-dead and can't be made dead again, so Mick uses his elf ability to haul the old vamp up from death where he dies from the trauma of his wounds.
The squad makes a quick exit just before dawn but are spotted and pinned down by machine guns. The crystal bomb goes off, blowing the castle apart. Will Mick and company make it out alive?
Read the sample for a taste of this action-packed, wondrously written story by an expert on WWII history, blended with the weird and supernatural.
Fade
Daniel Humphreys
SON OF A WITCH
Family drama is bad enough without adding magic and human sacrifice. Ten years ago, Paxton Locke’s mother killed his father in a mysterious ritual that – thankfully – went incomplete. Now, Paxton makes his living as a roving paranormal investigator, banishing spirits while Mother languishes in jail. When a terrified ghost warns him of a dangerous, newly-freed entity, Paxton faces a fight far beyond simple exorcism. In a battle for his very soul, will he be able to endure – or simply fade away?
A Cold and Mortal Spring: A Flintlock Fantasy
G. Scott Huggins
What price would you pay to save your nation and your loved ones?
While on patrol in the grasslands far from the halls of power, Captain Aethal Paaling discovers evidence that an ancient terror has reached the rich soil of his home. The Lotus, a prolific growth whose addictive leaves devour their victims from within, turning their hosts into horrible, terrifyingly violent mockeries of humanity. Created at the dawn of history by the twisted power of a godly relic called the Well, the return of the Lotus may be a harbinger of even more horrors to come.
Carrying the fatal news to the capital, Aethal discovers that even in the face of death itself, the Lords will fight to keep their secrets and their power. With only the guidance of his legendary Greater Rifle and the aid of the Phoenix Lancers, the soldier must find his way through the halls of a forgotten holy order and into deep dens of crime seeking answers.
It is a race against time, because the Lotus may have already taken root among those he loves... and fighting it may cost him everything, including his soul.
"I really, really like this book. A lot. If you want heroes, honor, dastardly villains, and an existential threat to all human life, all wrapped up in battles, bloodshed, assassinations, treason, and men and women prepared to die for honor, you will too." ~ David Weber, author of the best selling Honor Harrington series.
Titan (Mammon)
Robert Kroese
A 2021 Prometheus Award nominee!
"Mammon will scratch your itch for cranky libertarian sci-fi. Looking forward to the next part!" - John Carmack, creator of Doom and founder of Armadillo Aerospace
"★★★★★ This is a compelling page turner and, once again, Kroese... not only gets the economics of hyperinflation absolutely correct, but, in the best tradition of science fiction, “shows, not tells” the psychology which grips those experiencing it and how rapidly the thin veneer of civilisation can erode when money dies." - John Walker, Founder of Autodesk, Inc., co-author AutoCAD, author The Hacker's Diet, operator of Fourmilab
"★★★★★ Kroese did his homework on financial bubbles, panics, mass psychosis, social collapse, cryptocurrency, and hyper-inflation.... [B]etter than Lucifer's Hammer, and spookily realistic." - Hans Schantz, physicist and author of The Hidden Truth
"★★★★★ You can see the foundation of the book’s apocalypse in today’s headlines, and that should scare the hell out of anyone. Cannot wait for book two." - T. Cannon, Amazon reviewer
By the year 2032, the U.S. federal debt has surpassed $50 trillion. The American empire is on the verge of collapse.
An entrepreneur named Kade Kapur has an idea for rescuing the debt-ridden United States: the government will issue stock in a company with exclusive mining rights to an asteroid whose orbit will soon bring it near Earth. The asteroid, which contains $10 trillion in valuable minerals, is officially called 2015 RK 16 Maimonides, but it soon comes to be known by another name: Mammon.
Fortunes are made and America seems to have avoided an economic collapse. But when the plan to capture the asteroid goes awry, the sky will fall....
Death Planet (Dinosaur Warfare Book 1)
N.R. LaPoint
The Vidarian scourge has swept through many star systems,
killing and enslaving in an endless invasion.
When his home world is targeted, Ambrose Weaver flees with a crew of exiles.
Hunted down and forced to crash land on the mysterious planet Typhon,
they soon find their escape from sure death
has only led them to new troubles and prehistoric dangers.
The dinosaurs are only the beginning.
Can Ambrose and his crew brave primeval jungles
and survive a planet filled with horror?
The Big Sheep
Robert Kroese
Los Angeles, 2039. The city is a fractured relic of itself, split between the glittering veneer of corporate control and the anarchic chaos of the Disincorporated Zone—a no-man’s land abandoned after the economic Collapse of 2028. Crossing that border requires cunning, nerve, and ideally, someone else to go first.
Enter Erasmus Keane, an eccentric “phenomenological inquisitor” (read: private eye with delusions of grandeur), and his reluctant partner, Blake Fowler, a former security specialist who’s somehow become the adult supervision. When Esper Corporation’s prize genetically engineered sheep vanishes without a trace, they’re hired to track it down—a task that quickly goes from bizarre to existential.
But just as they start sniffing out clues, in walks Priya Mistry, a glamorous television star convinced someone’s trying to kill her. When Priya disappears—and then returns with no memory of ever hiring them—Keane and Fowler find themselves tangled in a convoluted conspiracy.
Two cases, one looming catastrophe, and zero respect for conventional detective work.
With nods to Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Big Sheep is a madcap sci-fi mystery that skewers both noir and dystopia with razor wit and relentless absurdity.
Somewhither
John C. Wright
Ilya, as he has secretly dreamed, is called upon to save the mad scientist's beautiful daughter. With his squirrel gun, his grandfather's sword, and his father's crucifix, Ilya races to save the girl, and, incidentally, the world.
So it is, Ilya Muromets is a big, ugly, motherless boy who does not look like anyone else in his Oregon town. His father is often absent on mysterious Church missionary work that involves silver bullets, sacred lances, and black helicopters. One night, Professor Dreadful sends a warning to Ilya that his Many Worlds theory correct, but that his experiments have opened a door that should have remained closed, and his beautiful daughter, Penny, is in trouble.
The 2016 Dragon Award-winner for Best Science Fiction Novel, Somewhither is the first part of A Tale of the Unwithering Realm, a new science-fantasy series from science-fiction master John C. Wright. It is an adventure, it is a romance, and it is a coming-of-age story of a young man who is not a man, in a world that is only one among many. It is a tale of a greater and darker evil with longer reach than anything he could imagine, of pain beyond measure, and of the faith required to surmount all three. It is a story of inexorable destiny written in the stars and the stubborn courage that is required to defy it.
White Ops
Declan Finn
The Pharmakoi rampaged across dozens of star systems, taking on the toughest races in the Galaxy in their campaign of conquest. But they are only the beginning.
Sean Patrick Ryan sees that another race is behind the Pharmakoi expansion ; a race that wants to test our galaxy for weakness, and who needs to be eliminated from within. To fight the enemy in the shadows, Sean will put together a strike team to light up the darkness— with nukes if necessary.
They will get the job done at any cost.
They will be White Ops.
Reservations
Richard Paolinelli
DEATH STALKS THE RES
Who – or what – is killing members of the Navajo tribe? RESERVATIONS, the first book of the Jack Del Rio political mystery/thriller series, is set near Gallup, New Mexico, where the Navajo, Hopi and Zuni reservations lie adjacent. Three tribal leaders have been murdered - murdered in a fashion that suggests the deeds were carried out by COYOTE, a legendary supernatural evil trickster feared by many Native Americans.
The tribal president contacts an old friend in the FBI for assistance in solving the crimes and preventing more murders. Star agent, Jack Del Rio, is dispatched to New Mexico where he finds a situation tangled in political intrigue. Jack must work his way through those issues on his way to solving the mystery. Sparks fly as Navajo police officer Lucy Chee is assigned to assist him in his quest.
Question is can Del Rio and Chee solve the mystery and find the killer before he strikes again? Because the killer is on the hunt and he has his sights on Del Rio himself.
The Broken Man: The Rise of the Fisher King
Hawkings Austin
A Shadow Man is stalking the children of Ard, leaving the dead lying in the forest with their eyes black pits. The people are in a panic, but the investigating Ruad philosophers have no explanation. Seeking someone to blame, the people of the ancient city of Ard demand the head of the most dangerous person in their midst, the giant Waylaid.
Once great among the Fomor - a prince, a sorcerer, a priest - Waylaid has been cast out by his people. He has come to Ard with his Bolg apprentice, Piju, to live quietly and study in Brea’s library. Can he escape the maddened crowed and find the killer without breaking his vow to give up sorcery?
And has he failed to teach his young and impetuous apprentice the most important lesson of them all, that the price of using sorcery is always too high?
The Bone God (The Rise of the Fisher King Book 2)
Hawkings Austin
Prophesy has shaken the foundations of the world. Three kingdoms search for a king, while an evil sorcerer has raised a spirit to destroy the fragile peace of the Daen Empire. Piju fights to free the slaves of Ard, and Waylaid must find a way to defeat a god which has the power to take his bones.
Awake in the Night Land
John C. Wright
Don’t be caught out in the Night Land.
AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND is an epic collection of four of John C. Wright's brilliant forays into the dark fantasy world of William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel, The Night Land. Part novel, part anthology, the book consists of four related novellas, "Awake in the Night", "The Cry of the Night-Hound", "Silence of the Night", and "The Last of All Suns", which collectively tell the haunting tale of the Last Redoubt of Man and the end of the human race.
Widely considered to be the finest tribute to Hodgson ever written, the first novella, "Awake in the Night", was previously published in 2004 in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection. AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND marks the first time all four novellas have been gathered into a single volume.
John C. Wright has been described by reviewers as one of the most important and audacious authors in science fiction today. In a recent poll of more than 1,000 science fiction readers, he was chosen as the sixth-greatest living science fiction writer.
Colony Launch
Jon Del Arroz
Humanity is at war... ...many citizens want no part of it.
Governor Antony Lemkin has done the unthinkable as a politician--voluntarily stepping down from his post in protest of Earth's escalating war with the Aryshans. With war drums beating and the machinery of government going full force, there's little he can do to but voice his dissent, until mega-industrialist Fabio DePino presents him with a plan: build a new Earth, far away from humanity's conflicts. But will Earth's government simply let colonists leave their control?
Fans of Babylon 5 and Robert Heinlein's classic The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress will love this new space colonization adventure by #1 Bestselling author Jon Del Arroz!
Star Core: Wild Space
M S Olney
Among the stars, the rules are different.
In a war-ravaged solar system where Earth clings to the remnants of its fractured colonies, the only thing more dangerous than venturing into the unknown is what lies within it.
The elite Star Core have been tasked with an impossible mission: to infiltrate the uncharted territories beyond the Kuiper Belt—known as Wild Space—and neutralize a threat that could plunge the entire system into chaos. But Wild Space is no ordinary frontier. It’s a lawless expanse filled with rogue warlords, ruthless pirates, and remnants of humanity’s darkest secrets.
The Star Core’s mission will push them to their limits, testing their courage, loyalty, and their very humanity.
When the team uncovers the shocking truth about a legendary war criminal thought long dead, the stakes are raised higher than they ever imagined. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, the Core must navigate a deadly game of cat and mouse, where every decision could mean the difference between survival and oblivion.
Filled with heart-pounding action, relentless suspense, and deep space intrigue, Star Core: Into Wild Space is a thrilling ride that will leave you breathless. In the farthest reaches of space, where the lines between friend and foe blur, how far will they go to protect the future of mankind?
Prepare for a journey like no other, into the heart of darkness, and beyond.
Our Legacy, The Stars: A Tom Corbett Adventure
James Pyles
Following the adventures of titular character Tom Corbett and pals Roger Manning and Astro, as they tour the galaxy in their ship, Polaris, Starry Eyed Press proudly presents Our Legacy, The Stars, an all-new Tom Corbett literary adventure.
With an all new mission for the crew of the Polaris with the fate of the Earth hanging in the balance, James Pyles continues in the tradition of fun and adventure of the classic series.
Formerly available for Kindle Vella, this episodic tale has been assembled into a complete novel for the first time.
Pyles takes us back to a simpler time in science fiction, complete with all of the warm nostalgic fuzzies that go along with it. - The Literary Post
The Moon and Beyond
John E. Siers
Ian Stevens, director of the Deep Space Research Institute, isn’t interested in conducting research just for the sake of research. While the rest of the world—including the U.S. government—thinks that’s the DSRI’s sole mission, Stevens is actually interested in more—he wants manned space travel and the colonization of the moon.
With NASA defunct, few scientific probes are being launched, and no one even talks about human spaceflight anymore. Stevens is out to change that. A billionaire in his own right, Stevens has assembled a crew of the best scientists and engineers he can find, and the DSRI is secretly building and testing gravity-powered spacecraft.
There’s just one problem—the project would be widely condemned worldwide, especially since there’s no government supervision. Everything they do has to be kept out of sight and away from the prying eyes of the NSA, Homeland Security, the IRS, OSHA, and a half-dozen other government agencies. They’ve got the world's smartest computer on their side, but will it be enough?
As the government gets ever closer to figuring out what the DSRI is doing, Stevens’ plan to establish a permanent settlement on the Moon nears fruition. The race is on—will the government find out and shut down the project, or will Stevens be able to implement…the Lunar Free State?
A Fistful of Demons: An Anthology of the Weird West
Ryan Williamson
Six-Guns and Strange Shooters
Headlined by veteran storyteller David J. West, A Fistful of Demons assembles over twenty of the freshest voices in the Weird West genre into one massive anthology of short fiction that will take you on a wild ride unlike anything you've experienced before.
Weird West, Western Horror, Fantasy Western—call it what you will—the stories in A Fistful of Demons deftly weave together a complex and thrilling blend of North American mythology, magic, alternate histories of American icons, steampunk, and more—all framed in the action-rich setting of the Old West. Famous novels, comics, and games in the genre include Joe R. Lansdale’s epic Deadman's Crossing, the classic RPG Deadlands, John Albano & Tony DeZuniga's award-winning Jonah Hex comic book series, Stephen King's opus The Dark Tower, and R.S. Belcher's bestseller The Six-Gun Tarot.
A Fistful of Demons packs over 600 pages of Weird West stories inspired by the novel The Widow's Son between two covers. No denying it, partner, this tome is fair bursting at the seams.
Stories in the anthology include:
It Couldn't Happen Here by David J. West
Porter Rockwell remembers a time years ago when his foster son and a friend were worried over undead near their home along the Utah lake—it turned out to be just a resting place for Indian dead until they could be buried—but years later when there really are undead troubling the area, Porter is forced to face a situation he never thought would be on his own doorstep.
The Spear of Destiny by Ryan Williamson
Magdalena, a young Mayan woman belonging to an order of demon-hunting priests, nuns, and monks is sent by the Vatican on a quest to recover the lost Spear of Destiny—the very lance that pierced the side of Christ. In her quest she travels to America and is joined by an old friend, the fabled lawman Zarahemla Two Crows. To recover the spear, they must battle cultists, unholy beasts, and conquer a forgotten monastery possessed by an unimaginable evil.
A Reunion on Bloody Island by J. E. Tabor
Orphaned when she was just a girl, Penny grew up among the Lakota who took her in as their own. But when the ravenous dead poured into the Great Plains to drive the foreign settlers from the land, she was forced to flee, whether her people accepted her or not. Separated from the newly wed husband who promised to bring her back home, Penny is confined to a U.S. refugee camp miles from the militarized border on the Mississippi River. With the help of a mysterious stranger serving an unsavory patron, Penny makes a deal to get across and back to her husband and the rest of her family. What Penny doesn't realize is that the deal she made just might be with the devil.
Call Me Rex by Jim Carran
Young Jedediah Burroughs is the lone survivor of a brutal attack on his isolated fort. Seeking revenge and redemption, he partners with a mysterious sword-wielding stranger called Rex to track down the source of the invasion and save whoever he can. But Jed is no warrior and Rex won't always be by his side.
The Devouring Eye by Bradley R. Mitzelfelt
July 13th, 1868. Evil has come to the blossoming city of Minneapolis in the form of an ancient demon. A lone demon hunter, the last descendant of the famed Halez Family, Jacob Halez, is on the hunt and has followed the demon known as Ketev Meriri across the world to the city on the edge of the doomed west. Now, he seeks to confront it and end its reign of terror among the Jewish people, but his efforts may be doomed from the start! One man against a host of demons. Can he succeed, or will he, too, be devoured by the Eye?
And over a dozen more...
KEEP THE GOOD BOOK CLOSE AND YOUR SIX-GUN CLOSER.
Pack Dynamics
Julie Frost
After seven horrific months as a POW, Army Ranger-turned-PI Ben Lockwood just wants a safe, boring life. With his boss on vacation, he takes an easy case of pharmaceutical espionage he can work from his desk.
“Easy.” Ha.
Now he's caught in a three-way collision course between a ruthless werewolf on the hunt for a cure for his dying vampire wife, a mad scientist whose multinational company doesn't even research supernatural medicine--and himself. Ben's nanotech-injected blood holds the key to the vampire's recovery, and the werewolf doesn't much care if he lives or dies in the harvesting.
Ben thought he was done fighting wars when he got home from Afghanistan, but his hard-won sanity and his girlfriend's life are both at risk. He'd rather die than lose either. The battle lines are drawn in a billionaire's basement, and retreat isn't an option. No matter how outgunned he is.
Black Friday
Jan Stryvant
In his junior year at college, studying for his computer science degree, the only things on Sean's mind are doing his homework and getting out of college to get a real job and finally escape the utter poverty he's lived in since his father was killed in an industrial accident when Sean was only eight years old. A gamer and a bit of a nerd, Sean's philosophy in life has been to keep his head down and get his work done, he doesn't have the time or money for anything more.
But when a failed kidnapping attempt leaves him with a gaping hole in his memory, his oldest friend dead, and his mother missing, Sean suddenly finds his whole world turned upside down as he's suddenly thrust into the hidden world of magic and the supernatural. Apparently he's now wanted, dead or alive, by all of the magical societies, though he has no idea why. About the only thing going for him is what his friend did for him just before he died, and the cute track star that lives in the room next to his, that has suddenly taken a very personal interest in his problems.
WARNING: "Black Friday" contains explicit sexuality, nudity, violence, bad language, attempted murder, actual murder, self-defense, pro-active self-defense, destruction of private property, arson, tantric magic, polyamory, mayhem, gratuitous sex and violence, littering, jay-walking, firearms, a racist goblin, an honest lawyer, and a kindly old gossip who likes to give cookies to kids.
Dungeon Samurai Vol.1: Kamikaze (An Anti-LitRPG Dungeon Crawl)
Kit Sun Cheah
Yamada Yuuki is an ordinary college student with an extraordinary hobby: the classical martial art of Kukishin-ryu.
Until one fateful day when a demon rips through the fabric of space-time, abducts everyone in his dojo, and transports them to another world.
To return home, Yamada and his friends must join forces with other displaced humans to conquer the dungeon that runs through the heart of the world. Standing in their way are endless hordes of bloodthirsty monsters and countless traps. Armed only with steel, faith and guts, they must battle their way through the winding catacombs to confront the demon waiting at the bottom floor.
Yamada was once a student. Now he must become a samurai.
Ys The Fallen
S.C. Vincent
She has a curse. He has scales.
The Kingdom of Ys has been cursed by the Devil, a mighty dragon who seeks celestial conquest. As Princess Dana, one of the last acolytes of a forgotten church, scours the Dracon Lands hoping to find help for her people, she stumbles upon a giant egg. A handsome man named Ru, who has supernatural abilities, breaks free from the shell.
They set forth on a journey to free Ys of the curses by slaying the Devil, all the while facing Dana's evil sister and her insidious machinations. But before the apocalyptic battle begins, they first face their own inner turmoil. Ru confronts his relation to the dragon and his contradictory tendency towards good. Dana treads the line between love and lust as she struggles to remain moral in a fallen world.
Can the curses be broken? Or will their relationship be broken first? The bells of Ys must ring.
The fight for salvation begins now!
Portals of Infinity: Book One: Champion for Hire
John Van Stry
William is just your typical engineer fresh out of college with a stressful job, a boring life, and not a lot of prospects of anything better in the future.
Until one weekend while hiking in the woods he stumbles across a portal to another time, or perhaps another place. The more he investigates this new world the more he realizes that it may just be able to offer him a lot more than the one he's been living in.
However, there are forces at work beyond anything that Will has ever come across before and the local Goddess seems to have taken a liking to him. Will may soon find himself getting an offer and cannot afford to refuse.
And Then She Was Gone
J. Daniel Sawyer
Nya Thales disappeared from under the nose of her helicopter parents, and the cops don’t care. She’s nineteen, obviously free-spirited, and no laws have been broken.
Convinced time is running out, her mother turns to disgraced-cop-turned-PI Clarke Lantham.
Tailed by mercenaries, framed for murder, and forced into hiding, Lantham finds himself drawn ever-deeper into a surreal web of scandal, power, and secrets that threatens to upend the normal rules of reality—all for the sake of a girl whose uncanny face haunts him every time he closes his eyes.
“A mystery so dark and complex you could lose a molar biting into it.” —Seth Harwood, author of In Broad Daylight
Salvage Purgatory
Kevin Steverson
This was no way to treat a war hero!
For Captain Michaelangelo “Miggy” Morrison and the crew of the Cabrillo, being rewarded for duty above and beyond to their nation in the midst of war meant exile to a backwater system at the end of the universe. Now loaned out to a foreign government, their lot in life is to do on-board inspections of vessels entering the Pakrewan system. It is a monotonous, thankless existence.
When news arrives that the war was lost and their world conquered, Miggy and his crew must find a new way to pay for their supplies, their fuel, and even their ship’s berthing spot. With bureaucrats breathing down their neck at the opportunity of taking the one thing they have left—the Cabrillo—they must find work.
Fortunately for Captain Morrison and his crew, trouble always seemed to have a way of finding them… and trouble pays well.
Transmutation Texas (WATCHER of the DAMNED)
R. H. Snow
In a World gone Viral, a Hero shall Arise - join the Revolution with WATCHER of the DAMNED!
The Happening wreaked havoc as Humanity got a hard reset from a deadly gender-cidal Virus - and for TransMutated Survivors like The Watcher, life in Post-Apocalyptic Texas just got a whole lot bloodier and a whole lot lonelier. In a cyberpunk Wild West gone awry, The Watcher was a Rebel without a clue under the System: a brutal, high-tech Social Construct engineered to serve the Enlightened and oppress the Damned. But that's all about to change, thanks to a cheeky chaos agent named Rose...
Now The Watcher must lead a Revolution to save Rose from the System He helped create, or Rose will die - and Humanity will die with her.
Fight the System - Join the Revolution - with WATCHER of the DAMNED!
Hell and Gone (The Retreads Book 1)
by Henry Brown
#1 Amazon bestseller in Men's Adventure, War Fiction and Pulp Thrillers! (November 2016)
This rag-tag gang of has-beens has never worked together before, but Dwight "Rocco" Cavarra has less than a week to train them and lead them on the hairiest operation of their lives.
It's not bad enough that they have to plow through an African civil war, infiltrate a fortified terrorist encampment and steal a black market tactical nuke from a mob of fanatic sociopaths - there are Israeli wild cards in play: two death-dealing Mossad agents who don't necessarily share Cavarra's agenda.
When the mission is compromised before it has even started, Rocco and his Retreads are caught between bloodthirsty local warlords and the genocidal government in a fight to the death. And this battle might be just the first in the next world war. Hell and Gone is a character-driven pulp action thriller that will take you on a wild ride.
Symbiote Wars
Chris Kennedy
James Sutton was an average guy—he couldn’t afford college and really didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life.
But when his sister Holly goes missing, he finds out he’s been living in an urban fantasy: An alien really did land in Roswell in the 1940s… and the US has had a secret alliance with them ever since.
The aliens are symbiotes—capable of bonding with hosts, enhancing their strength, agility, and stamina. The only problem for them was that finding a viable host was difficult… until the symbiotes discover humanity.
Now mankind finds itself in the middle of an alien civil war between two symbiote factions—those who would be our allies… and those who would subjugate us into slavery forever.
Dark Day, Bright Hour
Julie Frost
A choir girl cast into the Pit through an egregious clerical error
Her strapping Guardian Angel
A condemned hitman
... and Derek
--a crossroads demon who's been secretly storing up power for millennia.
He wants revenge on everyone on his extensive list, from Lucifer all the way up to Daddy and every devil and angel between. It's a frankly impossible goal for a low-level guy like him, but "dream big" is his motto and sheer spite keeps him going.
Now he’s stuck escorting three idiots through Hell—and Derek has a history with the angel, thanks very much.
An infernal rebellion looms along with a premature Armageddon, and the black and withered thing Derek used to call a conscience rears its stupid, stupid head. He's faced with a choice.
Rescue friends he never thought he'd make from a boss he never really thought he'd defy, at the possible cost of his life, such as it is...
Or let it all burn and dance in the ashes.
Saga of the Swordbreaker 1: Dawn of the Broken Sword
Kit Sun Cheah
Li Ming is a small-town boy with big dreams.
In the era of the Five States and Ten Corporations, the immortals of the jianghu stand head and shoulders above the masses. Li Ming aspires to join their ranks.
But the world of the rivers and lakes is fraught with peril. Deception and danger lurk in the shadows. Bloodthirsty beasts roam the wilds. Martial cultivators constantly battle for wealth, glory and status.
Armed with his ancestral swordbreaker, Li Ming enters the jianghu as a biaohang, eager to deliver justice with steel and magic—and to chase the dream of immortality.
But first, he must prove himself worthy.
Author's Note: This series is not a power fantasy. There are no LitRPG / GameLit elements, no unconventional relationships, and no sexual content. It is, quite simply, a cultivation story—in the actual sense of the term.
Pandemonia
Johnson Riggs
"Hierophantic. A sprawling work of unparalleled breadth and brilliance. Few writers living or otherwise have reached such heights in the field of wizard-inclusive speculative fiction. Perhaps the most dangerous work of the 21st century. A swashbuckling indictment of the American nightmare. I’m literally shaking."
- Phil Rot, author of The Raft
"Thanks to this writer’s unbound imagination and relentless wit, modern politics can be enjoyed for what it actually is: a grand farce with, possibly, a silver lining or two. If you’re looking, as we all are, for that elusive perfect balance between Animal Farm and Spaceballs, this book is for you."
- Matthew Louis, founding editor of Gutter Books, Gallows Humor Magazine, & Vigilante Crime. Author of The Wrong Man & Roots Down to Hell
High Fantasy. Low Morale. Farts.
Knight Captain Pickle never meant to start a revolution. He just asked the wrong questions. Once the brine of the King’s Court, he has been jettisoned from Service. Now, he’s on a mythic quest to purify the swampy capital of Quagmerica, where a novel miasma has infected both body and state.
The Kingdom is in chaos: a sinister court physician has unleashed a demonic plague and the burger-chomping warlord-king governs like a pro-wrestler. Pickle’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But he has a really cool sword and he knows how to use it. Unfortunately, that's about it. Fortunately, he has some reinforcements: a disgraced alchemist, a rogue airship pilot, and his wife, a master of opticks, to help him hunt down some relics, battle terrorists, chase dragons, and purify the realm.
Pandemonia is a satirical fantasy quest through deserts, swamps, jungles, and bureaucratic hellscapes. Part epic quest, part political farce, part redemption story. For fans of Discworld, Bored of the Rings, Vox Machina, The Adventure Zone, and also farts, this is your next heroic disasterpiece.
The Widow’s Son: A Novel of the Weird West
Ryan Williamson
KEEP THE GOOD BOOK CLOSE AND YOUR SIX-GUN CLOSER
Pass the bottle, stranger, and I’ll tell you a true story of a West that never was. A tale of the lawman Zarahemla Two Crows and his quest for the widow’s son that led him through the gates of Hell.
A story of the child’s young pioneer mother who joins Two Crows, and the vampire-hunting nun and cavalryman with his steed of steam and iron who come to their aid. A tale of a world where one needs a trusty six-gun at their side and an even greater trust in God to survive.
I’ll tell you of their battle into the heart of darkness, and the faith required to prevent the resurrection of a godlike entity of evil—a power greater than the world has ever known.
I’ll tell you a story, friend, of when the West was weird.
Ryan Williamson’s The Widow's Son is a gritty blend of steampunk fantasy, the occult, and Western adventure “that will take you on a wild ride unlike anything you’ve experienced before.” (Woelf Dietrich, author of The Seals of Abgal)
Gods of War
William S Frisbee Jr
The mission was supposed to be his last.
After more than twenty years in special operations, USMC Gunnery Sergeant Wolf Mathison wasn’t looking forward to retirement when—implanted with an experimental artificial intelligence—he deployed on his last mission with a platoon of Marine Raiders being sent to the Jovian moon Europa.
The USS Jefferson was destroyed en route, though, and only Mathison and three other Marines survived. Trapped in stasis, they were hurled into the outer reaches of the solar system, where they wouldn’t be found for hundreds of years.
Meanwhile, on Earth, the United States is destroyed and a fascist regime rises to power, expanding into the galaxy to plant its boot heel on the necks of humanity. But SOG, the Social Organizational Governance, is not unopposed, and researchers at a top-secret research outpost are working on a solution that will let SOG reign supreme. Unfortunately for the Marines, they’re awakened from stasis at the same time the researchers awaken a threat that endangers the entire human race.
The odds are against them, but that’s nothing new for the Marine Raiders.
Semper Fidelis and Semper Invictus!
Bad Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Case Files of Erik Rugar
Misha Burnett
It’s hard to fight wizards and demons when all you have is a gun and a badge.
The use of magic in the Sovereign City of Dracoheim is regulated by the Lord Mayor's Committee For Public Safety. From the licensing of magi, to the health and safety requirements for magical manufacturing, to the import and export of goods to the Realms of Nightmare, dedicated civil servants ensure that the metropolitan area stays safe from magical mayhem.
Most of the time, anyway.
My name is Erik Rugar. I’m an agent of the Criminal Investigation Division of CPS. We operate outside of the authority of Parliament and are answerable only to the Lord Mayor himself. We get involved when the regular beat cops are out of their depth. If a magic shop gets robbed by junkies, or someone gets vaporized by a fireball, or shapechanging creatures start infiltrating the city, I get the call.
But I’m not a mage; I’m just a cop. I face down magical threats with my keen investigative skills and a trusty revolver.
Welcome to my world.
Includes the short story “In the City of Dreadful Joy,” third-place winner of the 2019 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award!
Blessings of the Damned
S.C. Vincent
An exorcist named Diego ventures into the Wild West to stop the rising vampire army, but when he's possessed by the vengeful spirit of his friends wife, he must fight to save her soul while risking his own.
It’s 1861 and Diego, a trained exorcist, awaits execution in a Texas prison for the murder of local priest George Bianco. As he’s taken to the gallows, the spirit of Marron Bianco, George’s wife, possesses him, saving him from the noose wishing to kill him herself. Bound by guilt, Diego strikes a deal with Marron: he’ll allow her to siphon pieces of his soul if she doesn’t interfere with his mission to destroy the vampire army in Death Valley.
Diego is determined to stop the vampires that turned his friend George into one of their own and salvage Marron’s corrupted soul, who falsely believes she was killed in cold blood. He believes the only way to save her is to give her parts of his soul, a potentially fatal play.
As they journey west, they uncover the toll the supernatural onslaught has taken on those living on the frontier. The two battle werewolves, bloodthirsty vampires, and Diego’s former rival, Creed. Each battle leaves him weaker, desperate, and closer to death. This only strengthens his relationship with Marron, who becomes more righteous every time she takes part of his soul. With the ability to make interdimensional portals and unlimited ammo, he just might stand a chance against the master vampire and save Marron’s soul.
But there is one thing that he must overcome first: death.
The Prince Awakens
Fred Hughes
Hazard King had always wanted to be an Imperial Fleet officer, just like his father.
But he’s a Prince of the Realm, which make things a bit more… complicated. And when Hazard’s parents tell him that they don’t trust his older brother and want Hazard to be the Crown Prince—the heir to the throne—things go from bad to worse.
And just when they can’t get any worse, the Empress is attacked.
What is a simple fleet lieutenant supposed to do with his mother in a coma, a seemingly invincible enemy on the offensive, a darkness from the past stirring, and his paranoid older brother trying to assassinate him?
What Naval officers do best—improvise. And he’s going to need all his skills, as well as the help of a former spy, a handful of Marines, and a few close relatives, if he’s to defend the Empire against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
The Mighty Sons of Hercules
(Anthology)
Long ago, in ages past...
There were men who travelled the world, seeking adventure, fighting injustice, defending the weak and the helpless, looking to right wrongs wherever they are found:
These were the Mighty Sons of Hercules!
Cirsova Publishing invites you to join eight of the Mighty Sons of Hercules on their daring adventures!
You’ll be amazed by their impressive feats of superhuman strength. You’ll be dazzled by the exotic and dangerous beauties who would seek their downfall. You’ll cheer as they save the innocent from peril and mete out justice to dastardly villains.
Wherever righteousness must have a champion, there you will find the Mighty Sons of Hercules! Whenever there is need and no mortal man can suffice, a Mighty Son of Hercules shall appear!
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The Spear of Destiny
Ryan Williamson
Zarahemla Two Crows is in the saddle again, and the warrior nun Magdalena has been dispatched from the Vatican to ride with him! Together they must race against time to find and secure the fabled Spear of Destiny before an evil power can unleash a plague of terror on the world.
Join Zarahemla, Magdalena, and a cast of brand new characters in this exciting novella-length sequel to The Widow's Son.
Ice
James Pyles
In eons past, the armies of Surtur the fire goddess and Ymir the frost giant waged an unceasing battle for dominance over the Earth. For all those ages, they maintained an uneasy but enduring balance. Then humanity rose from the mud, and with the passage of time, came to fear fire more than ice, devoting their own meager forces to the conflict. Not to be denied, Surtur beat back both mortals and giants, consigning the planet to unrelenting heat and the ice lords to seeming oblivion. Before leaving the material realm, in jest she gave humanity the gift of magic and the curse of the return of dragons.
For thousands of years thereafter, the race of people knew nothing but a world without ice. Spanning the globe in sailing ships, the humans continued to thrive and remembered not the distant past. Then Captain Ki-Moon Yong of the Oceanic Trading Company vessel the Star of Jindo is assigned the task of solving the most profound mystery ever encountered. Another ship has gone missing and her only remaining crewman suddenly commits suicide after visiting the sunken continent of Antarctica. All of the dinosaur species of the south have gone mad, invading the guarded towns and cities on their way north, as if to escape some monstrous terror.
The answers to these enigmas all lie on the continent at the bottom of the world, and Captain Moon must take the Star to a strange research facility to discover them. But once there, he is confronted with a truth so profound and so nightmarish that it will change the very nature of reality. Can the Star of Jindo escape the inevitable in time to warn an unbelieving world of that truth, or will they be consumed in frozen horror?
Little Mouse: A Short Story
Ryan Williamson
Mia's daddy made Mama anxious when he came to visit. He was a large man, even for a grownup, and he frightened Mama. Mia guessed she would be frightened of him too, if he hit her like he hit Mama. But he never did. How could he? Mia was his little mouse. Mia wished she wasn't little. She wished she was strong. She wished she could make it stop. Tonight Mia discovers she can. A short story of paranormal horror, "Little Mouse" received an Honorable Mention in 2015 from the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest.
Books for Male Readers Young and Old
A Rambling Wreck
Hans G. Schantz
There's no partial credit on a question of life and death!
Off to Georgia Tech for the education he'll need to defeat the guardians of the hidden truth, Peter discovers the battle for the future is being fought right on campus. Now he has to infiltrate a conspiracy, find new allies, and thwart a takeover of the school. Peter's most challenging final exam has only one question:
Can a Rambling Wreck stop the Cabal?
And a failing grade will be his last.
Conservative Libertarian Fiction Alliance 2018 Book of the Year Finalist!
"It's sort of like what might happen if one of Heinlein's juvenile heroes (say Kip from Have Spacesuit Will Travel) was thrust into the modern era and was forced to use SJWs Always Lie as his freshman orientation guide while battling the Black Hats."-Orion's Cold Fire
"This is really such an original series of books that it's hard to describe it properly. Like Da Vinci Code meets Harry Potter meets Cryptonomicon by way of Michael Crichton. The author really knows his science and tech AND can spin a fantastic tale." -Bookhorde
Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves
(Yankee Republic Book 1)
by Fenton Wood
A young radio engineer travels across an alt-history America, encountering primeval gods, mythical beasts, and tall tales come to life, in a quest to build a radio transmitter that can reach the stars.
It all starts in the mountain town of Porterville. Twelve-year-old Philo starts a pirate radio station with his friends, and learns that the world is a stranger place than he ever imagined. The Ancient Marauder, the Bright and Terrible Birds, the Mishipeshu, and other creatures of myth and legend populate this enchanting mixture of science and fantasy.
YANKEE REPUBLIC is an old-school adventure series with traditional values and down-to-earth heroes. Escape from the pessimism and propaganda of modern fiction, and take a journey through a mythic America that might have been.
Swan Knight’s Son (Green Knight’s Squire Book 1, Moth and Cobweb.)
John C. Wright
Gilberic Parzival Moth is a strange and lonely boy who has grown up without a father, raised by a single mother who moves from town to town in fear of something she will not name. His only friends are animals, with whom he has always been able to speak. But when he awakens one night at the Thirteenth Hour, and sees for the first time the cruel reality of the secret rule of Elf over Man, he begins to learn about his true heritage, the heritage of Twilight.
And when his mother finally tells him the terrible truth of her past, he must choose whether to continue running with her in fear, or learning how to fight against ancient powers that are ageless, soulless, and ultimately damned. SWAN KNIGHT'S SON is the first book of THE GREEN KNIGHT'S SQUIRE, the first volume of MOTH & COBWEB, an astonishing new series about magical worlds of Day, Night, and Twilight by John C. Wright.
Best: Baneberry Hall
Frederick Heimbach
As he would be first to admit, Mason Best is a genius. He lied—oops, charmed—his way into Baneberry Hall, the nation’s top prep school, didn’t he? Angel Ferguson, the intimidating student body president, wants him at her side. The headmaster, the trustees, the top jocks: everyone wants a piece of him.
Mason wins at every game he tries—but being best is exhausting. Fortunately, Mason has a tower hideout he shares only with his friends:
Miles Coffin: eccentric boy billionaire, addicted to candy cigarettes
Sapphire Moon: glamour girl, born performer
Eve Shepherd: matriarch of the hideout, with whom Mason is definitely not falling in love
Mason Best: political player – loyal friend. Can Mason be both kinds of person? Can he stay loyal when his political patrons demand he betray the people he loves, one by one?
Mason’s a smart kid. He’ll find a way to make it work. Of course, he will. He’s sure of it.
The Steam Knight
Jon Del Arroz
Courage, Danger, Valor...
...all await in Steampunk's special forces.
The Knights of the Crystal Spire are Rislandia's most elite fighters. Trained from a young age, they alone can face the deadliest enemies of their kingdom and beyond.
James Gentry joins the Knights' ranks, starting as an apprentice on his journey from a simple farmer's life to the way of the warrior. He must face spies and traitors, soldiers and assassins, and doing so under the watchful eye of a beautiful princess.
Does he have what it takes?
Fans of strong men relying on the camaraderie of a band of brothers will love The Steam Knight. Read today!
Tumult's Edge: A Novelette
H. Halverstadt
A tale of sci-fi adventure and mystery, set in the same universe as the Taskiran Legacy.
If Captain Orion Vasquez can't complete his delivery to windy Tumult, he'll lose everything. When space pirates attack his ship, he barely escapes with his life. Alone on the uninhabited side of the frigid, inhospitable planet, his faith is on life support. He's his crew's only hope of rescue...if he can stay alive. When a stray drone turns the inhabitants of Tumult against him, he becomes a fugitive.
Teenage Ry was raised by the pirates. If he comes back without the drone, he doesn't want to know what might happen. If he's found helping the man that the pirate captain has decreed death for, will he be next?
Praise for Gemini's Key, the first book in the Taskiran Legacy:
"An intriguing mystery, a plausible sci-fi setting, and a hero you can really root for. Gemini’s Key is a doorway worth opening." Kerry Nietz, award winning author of the Dark Trench Saga, the Peril in Plain Space Series, the Rhats series, and the Mask series.
"Reid Taskiran is a man searching for his true identity in both blood and soul against the backdrop of an epic future. Gemini's Key is a must read for fans who love mystery and intrigue with their science fiction." James R. Hannibal, award winning author of the Talia Inger series, the Section 13 series, and the Lightraider Academy series.
Tumult's Edge is a story that takes place before Gemini's Key in the same universe, but is not directly connected to it. It's a great introduction to this far-future world of adventure and mystery.
Oath to a Warlock
Denton Salle
Peng planned to continue to serve the Master in the stables. After all, magicians lived forever. Qian thought that she would care for her niece and marry who the Master said to. Neither of them expected the Imperial Censor to come
Yaros wasn't happy with the plan of impersonating the Censor and his retinue. All to keep an oath given to a warlock. How much blood would be shed for a traitor?
When magics and weapons clash, nothing goes as planned. And more than two lives are changed
A fantasy novella set in a China where Rus Vikings changed history.
Escaping Fate (Paradox)
by Henry Brown
Fate is a harsh mistress, and she had Pete Bedauern's number. Marooned in the desolation of a decrepit trailer park, his life a monotonous echo of neglect under the care of a narcissistic single mother, his future looked so dark, he couldn't wear shades. But the explosive arrival of Uncle Si, a figure as enigmatic as he is transformative, knocked Fate senseless and rewrote Pete's future.
Now, Pete is going to need shades.
Uncle Si, marked by life's brutal trials with scars both visible and hidden, is a force to be reckoned with. He is unapologetically raw--a man who's tasted life's extremes, from the depths of despair to the euphoric rush of beating the odds, and escaping Fate's machinations to fight another day. Beneath his gruff exterior and shrouded past, he harbors a profound interest in Pete, offering the paternal attention Pete has long been lacking. Through Uncle Si's guidance, Pete embarks on a profound masterclass on life, love, and full-contact sports.
But Uncle Si is more than just a mentor with worldly possessions and wisdom. He guards a preposterous secret: his clandestine outlaw empire across time and space. Pete steps into the realm of the impossible, catapulted into a time-traveling odyssey toward much more than just manhood. As Pete navigates a labyrinth of alternate realities, he will unravel history's hidden truths, confront a sinister pan-continuum conspiracy, vie for a world championship, decipher the elusive art of success with women, and even save the world.
Well, one world, maybe...
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Sworn to the Light: The Avatar Wizard
Denton Salle
Jeremy’s an innkeeper’s son; he’s not supposed to turn into a black-and-white bear. What if he eats a customer?
If Jeremy doesn’t learn to control the magic that’s claimed him, he could get stuck as a bear forever. But when he discovers his only hope is apprenticing under a wizard lord, dealing with bullies and angry sorcerers, and assisting in a magical war, he’s not sure the alternative is actually worse.
This is bigger than Jeremy, though. The war destroyed the great cities, ruined kingdoms, and spread destruction across the realm. And the ability to end its revivial now lands squarely on his shoulders.
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A great selection. Gonna grab a few myself
Well my TBR list just got a whole lot longer.
I think I'll start with A Fistful of Demons because I love anthologies and Weird West.
If anyone wants a recommendation for a classic -- try Bulldog Drummond by Sapper.
It's not considered politically correct these days, but It was written in the 1920s and yet the way it depicts its protagonist, Drummond, feels so relevant to men today.
It's such a shame that people think something has to be flowery and slow for it to be meaningful. I wrote a whole article analysing the character and found so much depth, but people dismiss it because it's pulpy and full of action.
Stories like the ones on this list are so important. Thanks for bringing light to them.