Free: I, Starship

I, Starship

He woke up a century later, only to be drafted to be the governing AI for the first interstellar starship. This bestselling space opera is FREE for a very limited time. Free on Kindle.
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Last Light in the Dark

Last Light in the Dark
A military salvage team is sent to investigate the Veil, a sphere of absolute darkness that has swallowed an entire solar system. No light escapes, no signal returns, and everyone sent inside has vanished. On an abandoned moon base they find fresh scratch marks, a radio operator insisting everything is fine, and beneath the surface an ancient alien city that should not exist. When their dropship is destroyed, the team must cross the lunar surface to escape, hunted by swarming creatures and a two-hundred-year-old supersoldier still carrying out his mission. But even survival means staying trapped within the Veil, a prison nothing has ever escaped. A relentless sci-fi horror thriller blending Alien’s claustrophobic terror with the cosmic dread of Annihilation. $2.99 on Kindle.
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Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny (Sci-Fi Galaxy series Book 1)

Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny (Sci-Fi Galaxy series Book 1)
When Teagan Ward claims seven babies, conceived artificially after she donated her eggs to a medical experiment aboard a rotating space habitat, are her children, she triggers a fight that consumes her life in a race against time to free her from the clutches of an unscrupulous doctor and a power-mad general.

Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny chronicles a gripping tale of sacrifice and redemption in which desire and ambition collide. As a ruthless mining consortium tightens its grip on the lucrative interstellar asteroid mining business, Teagan finds herself at the epicenter of a battle for control that spans the planets. Her seven children, born in a lab as part of a daring experiment to populate future space colonies, become pawns in a larger game of power and ambition.

Only the fragment of a distant solar system discovered in a captured asteroid has the lure to win her freedom and unlock the children’s destiny. When a greedy businessman, an unethical scientist, and an unhinged general all covet its remarkable energy, one of the children spies an opportunity to orchestrate the reunion they’ve long desired.

Born in Space is the first book in the Sci-fi Galaxy series of speculative science fiction novels. If you like strong female characters, moral dilemmas, and stories of alien encounters, then you’ll love Jeremy Clift’s rocket-fueled tale of romance and resistance.

In the tradition of Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and William Gibson, “Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny” is an enthralling journey into the depths of space and the human spirit. For fans of “Interstellar” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” this sci-fi gem promises an unmatched immersive experience. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Free: The Enchanted Donkey: The Priestess of War

The Enchanted Donkey: The Priestess of War

A young man, Giannino, and his super-powered donkey, Archimedes, travel back in time, are captured by the Carthaginian army, and fall under the spell of a beautiful priestess of the occult. Free on Kindle.
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The Chaos Squad Complete Series Boxed Set

The Chaos Squad Complete Series Boxed Set
A catastrophic mistake ended Marc Black’s career. Now he’s getting one shot to earn it back. Recruited into the Vanguard Syndicate, Marc finds himself leading a chaotic squad of individuals. When their final test drops them into a black-market operation, Marc discovers redemption doesn’t come from a simulation. It comes from deciding whether his team is worth dying for. Grab this trilogy today! $0.99 on Kindle.
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FIRST CONTACT: LEMURIANS

FIRST CONTACT: LEMURIANS

First contact changed everything. Humanity thought space was empty. Until a single discovery ignited war across the galaxy! Start the explosive 12-book FIRST CONTACT saga today. FIRST CONTACT: LEMURIANS is just $0.99 or FREE in Kindle Unlimited. Perfect for fans of epic space battles, alien civilizations, and binge-worthy military sci-fi adventure.

Visit my website and sign up to my email list to be eligible to win a signed copy of FIRST CONTACT: LEMURIANS (U.S. residents only.) https://sites.google.com/view/scottickesbooks/home $0.99 on Kindle.
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Diplomat’s Apprentice Complete Series Boxed Set

Diplomat’s Apprentice Complete Series Boxed Set
Persuaded to go with her uncle on one diplomatic mission, Anwyn arrives at a planet in the midst of a violent uprising. Space battles, daring rescues, dramatic chases, firefights and yes, even diplomacy, all make for a more exciting trip than Anwyn imagined. She will need to learn to think before she acts if she wants to survive her journey.

Join her adventures with this boxed set! $1.99 on Kindle.
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Reckoning!

Reckoning!
The year is 2085.

As promised, artificial intelligence has taken over seventy percent of the workforce once employed by humans, leaving many struggling.

As the American people fight to survive, they grow weary of watching corrupt government officials put their selfish interests above the will of the people, and demand they be replaced by Damian Malone’s cyborgs. A genius in robotics and genomic testing, Malone has perfected the manufacture of artificially intelligent cyborgs that run ninety-five percent of people’s homes and businesses.

When the populace witness his latest innovations, they become desperate to see the United States run by the cyborgs’ logical algorithms rather than the malfeasance and corruption of current human leadership.

What the country is unaware of is Malone’s second passion: The environment.

A strong conservationist, he uses his vast wealth and leverage over current President, John Langdon, to establish a new branch of government called the Department of Environmental Preservation (DEP), and appointing Dr. Stephanie Wolff as its leader.

Dr. Wolff, a prominent figure in the conservation movement, works tirelessly to end corporate animal testing and all forms of animal cruelty worldwide.

With forty percent of the world’s animal populations facing extinction due to human interference, she welcomes the opportunity offered by President Langdon and Malone to use the vast might of the United States to aid her ambitions, but then a series of events, both home and abroad, change her perspective forever.

When a hunting party in Africa goes missing, and an American Senator is murdered, she is brought into the workings of Dr. Malone and his company, AlonGen, with the results shaking her to the core.

Along with FBI Special Agent David Stryker, the two must decipher Malone’s intentions, and hope they are capable of saving the world when things go horribly wrong. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Reckoning!

Reckoning!
The year is 2085.

As promised, artificial intelligence has taken over seventy percent of the workforce once employed by humans, leaving many struggling.

As the American people fight to survive, they grow weary of watching corrupt government officials put their selfish interests above the will of the people, and demand they be replaced by Damian Malone’s cyborgs. A genius in robotics and genomic testing, Malone has perfected the manufacture of artificially intelligent cyborgs that run ninety-five percent of people’s homes and businesses.

When the populace witness his latest innovations, they become desperate to see the United States run by the cyborgs’ logical algorithms rather than the malfeasance and corruption of current human leadership.

What the country is unaware of is Malone’s second passion: The environment.

A strong conservationist, he uses his vast wealth and leverage over current President, John Langdon, to establish a new branch of government called the Department of Environmental Preservation (DEP), and appointing Dr. Stephanie Wolff as its leader.

Dr. Wolff, a prominent figure in the conservation movement, works tirelessly to end corporate animal testing and all forms of animal cruelty worldwide.

With forty percent of the world’s animal populations facing extinction due to human interference, she welcomes the opportunity offered by President Langdon and Malone to use the vast might of the United States to aid her ambitions, but then a series of events, both home and abroad, change her perspective forever.

When a hunting party in Africa goes missing, and an American Senator is murdered, she is brought into the workings of Dr. Malone and his company, AlonGen, with the results shaking her to the core.

Along with FBI Special Agent David Stryker, the two must decipher Malone’s intentions, and hope they are capable of saving the world when things go horribly wrong. $0.99 on Kindle.
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JOURNEY TO WHERE

JOURNEY TO WHERE

A contemporary “scientific romance” in the tradition of Wells and Burroughs.

A radical experiment in Time leads to a wild trip for five scientists who find themselves in a world of danger and the struggle for freedom, where humans are not the dominant life form. Instead, dinosaurs have evolved into two species of intelligent bipeds, one powerful and ruthless, the other contemplative and wise. They share a world once advanced, now primitive.

The scientists must learn to communicate and coexist with these dinosaur species, which initially view them as no more than exotic pets.
One of the humans is determined to recreate the original experiment in this primitive world so they can return home. Assuming there is a home, or even a universe, to return to.

Another scientist is looking to rise to power in this new world, even if it means the death of his traveling companions.
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ENCODED MINDS: A BIOLOGICAL THRILLER

ENCODED MINDS: A BIOLOGICAL THRILLER

In a world ravaged by bacteria that can store and transmit memories, Olivia Scott must revive her terrifying childhood visions to prove her brother’s innocence and stop the rise of the mind-controlling Collective before humanity is absorbed into its hivemind. $2.99 on Kindle.
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Stolen Ring Time

Stolen Ring Time
When Kyle gets pulled out of his hibernation pod, after being stuck in suspended animation for twenty years, the only thing that hasn’t changed is his appearance.

His home town of Reign is the stage for a decades long experiment.

Androids, stronger and faster than any human being, roam the streets.

People disappear in the middle of night.

Those who remain live in constant fear.

Kyle is recruited by a small group of freedom fighters who desperately need his help.
Facing insurmountable odds, but equipped with an advanced suit of armor, Kyle is thrown into a conflict that he wasn’t prepared for.

With the help of some old friends and new allies Kyle takes the fight to the enemy in hopes of saving Reign and uncovering the identities of those responsible for trapping him in the pod. $0.99 on Kindle.
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The Adventures of Lt. Col. Jay David, Space Dandy

The Adventures of Lt. Col. Jay David, Space Dandy
In a future where humanity gets a clean slate in a brand-new solar system, one loyal envoy is sent planet-hopping to keep the peace—only to discover the system might be unraveling faster than he can hold it together.

Strait-laced Jay David is sure about one thing: the preservation of the Charterist empire is the only way to safeguard the citizens of the Seti solar system from the pitfalls of their progenitors. To that end, he’s worked tirelessly for nearly a decade, deftly signing prefab countries to the Charterist mandate on the three inner planets, all the while dreaming about his fabulous someday civilian clothes.

On the eve of his transition out of civil service, he’s offered the assignment of a lifetime: voyage to the outer planets of the System, orchestrate their signing, and facilitate collective terms for all the Charterist countries.

The timing is no accident–after only 600 years of habitation, Seti’s carefully planned political structure is starting to crack, and Jay suspects certain alarming events of late aren’t as random as they appear. His devotion to the System’s welfare leaves him little choice but to start packing.

But things are different out-System, and Jay’s insulated life hasn’t prepared him for the danger, intrigue, and romance he encounters as tensions mount across the System, and signs emerge of a far-reaching conspiracy.

What does a gentleman do when his innermost beliefs are challenged? When doing the right thing becomes a moving target? When he’s forced to change his entire wardrobe in the middle of it all?

Jay’s about to find out…

Buckle up for a pop space adventure packed with politics, fashion, and unexpected connections. Get your copy today and see what happens when humanity is forced to redefine itself without Earth’s history. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Subtraction

Subtraction
Subtraction is a gripping exploration of ambition, rebellion, and the cost of scientific progress. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Renegade: The Spiral Wars Book One

Renegade: The Spiral Wars Book One
The great UFS Phoenix, cast adrift from Human Fleet, must battle across the galaxy to unravel the greatest conspiracy of all. What they discover will shake the sentient galaxy to its core.Book One of the epic Spiral Wars series, with 24,000 ratings, 4.6 average. Hard physics, gritty battles & swashbuckling adventure! $0.99 on Kindle.
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The Red-Line Trilogy Boxed Set: Three Paranormal Romance Mystery Thrillers

The Red-Line Trilogy Boxed Set: Three Paranormal Romance Mystery Thrillers
Is Destiny enough to save them?

One woman whose unique origins and abilities may be the last hope of a dying, secret community. One man whose sole mission is to keep her alive. But an unknown enemy will stop at nothing to keep them apart and destroy those closest to them.

Their only hope will be their love for each other, but with time running out, it may not be enough.

From Red-Line: The Shift…Sarah Randolph holds the key to survival for a secret community, but first she must endure a dangerous and life-altering change. John Ramsey must protect her, but an enemy wants her for himself.

From Red-Line: Mirrors…Sarah faces a troubling challenge when her newfound abilities inexplicably vanish, jeopardizing her chance to save the hidden community she’s newly joined, and risking the life of the man sworn to protect her.

From Red-Line: Trust Destiny…Sarah’s adjustment to her new role has led her to find love, but also comes at a cost. Because another Red-Line’s desire for her will cost her everything she holds dear.

The Red-Line Trilogy Boxed Set includes the first three books in the exciting and unique Red-Line series. Readers call it “hard to put down,” “excellent,” and “a fun read.” If you crave a light sci-fi urban fantasy, unforgettable characters, unexpected twists, fast-paced adventure, and a paranormal romance you won’t forget, you’ll love this page-turning series by award-winning author J. T. Bishop. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Dawn of Mankind

Commander Reeve expected a routine survey. Tag the rocks, log the readings, go home.

Then he orders his crew to drill into an asteroid that shouldn’t exist. A pulse goes out. Something ancient opens its eyes.

For centuries, humanity believed it was alone. It wasn’t. It was simply beneath notice.

The galaxy has been waiting. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Five Hours

Five Hours

At 12:42 p.m. on a Tuesday, every human being on Earth loses consciousness. Five hours later, they wake up. Seven hundred million people are gone. Not dead, not missing in any way that search parties can solve. Just absent. Chairs still warm. Coffee still cooling. A boy’s pen still wet on the page, the ink line stopping mid-stroke as though the hand holding it simply ceased to exist.

The world that wakes up is quieter. Cleaner. The data is impossible to ignore: the air is measurably better. The oceans are healing. The forests are surging back to life with a speed that defies every model ever built. And the math connecting that recovery to the disappearances is almost perfect.

Almost beautiful, if you don’t think about whose kitchen table is empty tonight.

A journalist searches for her son in the only language she knows: data, patterns, the obsessive architecture of a spreadsheet that keeps expanding and never brings him home. A climate scientist holds proof that the planet is thriving and cannot publish it without handing the world a blueprint for the next atrocity. A pastor invents a comforting theology in the first hours of panic and watches it become a monster he can’t kill. And one man, the only person who stayed awake during those five hours, is becoming something that is no longer entirely human. A bridge to an intelligence that doesn’t hate humanity, doesn’t love it, and doesn’t distinguish between a person and a data point.
It will happen again. The only question is what could possibly stop it.

Five Hours is a novel about grief as infrastructure, memory as resistance, and the terrifying possibility that the Earth already knows exactly how to save itself. It just hasn’t decided whether we’re worth the cost. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Into The Shadowland

Into The Shadowland
Hidden in the forgotten corners of the world, our ancestors—the Neanderthals—lie silent. Clever beings, gifted hunters, lost to history’s pages . . . until now.

Lilly Feron never expected her quiet life running a wolf park in Utah to be upended by a single, dead animal. But when a wolf believed to be extinct with a spear tip lodged in its neck turns up on a highway, everything changes.

The weapon, made from Neanderthal bone only a few decades old, should be impossible. After all, these hominids vanished thirty-five thousand years ago.

She learns of a trapper who claims to have seen such a strange wolf, hidden deep in the Bitterroot Mountains. Was it the same animal?

Lilly and paleoanthropologist Austin Walker dig deeper, and uncover amazing truths about the existence of the last Neanderthals. Could they still be out there living in a shadowland?

As the mystery unfolds, they must wrestle with a gripping secret—one that forces them to question everything they thought they knew about history, humanity, and what lives in the wild. All before the authorities put an end to it.

The past isn’t gone. It’s waiting. And it’s about to make its presence known.

“INTO THE SHADOWLAND masterfully blends anthropological science with vivid storytelling, offering a gripping exploration of human resilience, culture, and belief in a forgotten world. With an archaeologist’s precision and a novelist’s imagination, J.M.G. Schmidt reconstructs an ancient way of life that feels startlingly real. Think Neanderthals were just grunting brutes? Think again. This fascinating journey into our deep past will challenge everything you thought you knew about our long-lost cousins.” — Patrick Keeney, Canadian author and journalist $0.99 on Kindle.
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Dino Island: The Lost Girls

Dino Island: The Lost Girls
Rogue dinosaurs are bad…

But things are about to get a lot worse.

My group consists of four beautiful college girls counting on me to protect them, and they have surprise plans for me.

They’re supposed to be off-limits, but these girls are hellbent on taking what they want.

Maybe the dinosaurs aren’t the most powerful things in this jungle… $2.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Broken Sky

Broken Sky

A midnight refinery fire seems like an unfortunate accident until the fuel tank of a distant aircraft bursts into flame at the same moment, exposing secret technology that blurs the lines between time, space, dreams, and memory.

Sixteen-year-old Jack lives far from the chaos, on Cirrus, a colossal space station with endless skies, pristine waters, and artificial mountains. Haunted by a recurring dream of fire and shadowy voices, he stumbles upon a crashed drone carrying forbidden cargo and becomes a target of the ruthless corporation determined to profit from Earth’s demise.

Elsewhere on Cirrus, Sarah answers Jack’s distress call. Using her access to a network of surveillance drones, she uncovers a conspiracy that endangers both worlds. Together, she and Jack risk everything to unmask the man behind the scheme and prevent an apocalypse. Free on Kindle.
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This Morning’s Dawn

This Morning’s Dawn
Nelson Newman was destined to be the first human on Mars. Instead, he finds himself intercepted by a centuries old android, then whisked across the galaxy. Nelson’s life quickly descends into a matter of survival, stranded on an alien planet, whose leader holds the fate of two worlds in his hands.

“… a rapid-fire sci-fi space adventure.” Independent Book Review $0.99 on Kindle.
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Space Vault: The Seed Eclipse (Sci-Fi Galaxy series Book 2)

Space Vault: The Seed Eclipse (Sci-Fi Galaxy series Book 2)
Space was supposed to be humanity’s salvation. But now, it may become our doom.

When competing forces vie to control human evolution, Teagan Ward is thrust into the heart of the conflict. Once a captive on the Moon, she was subjected to genetic experiments—but the true prize wasn’t her. It was her daughter, Diana, created to survive in deep space and lead a new breed of humanity.

Now the ruthless Consortium wants her back.

As Earth reels from climate collapse and food shortages, powerful forces converge to control ecosystems, genetic patents, and access to survival itself. Their prize: the Seed Vault, a lunar repository containing the last viable genetic codes for Earth’s crops, food supplies—and maybe humanity’s future.

But it’s not just humans who covet the Vault’s valuable contents.

Protests erupt. Alliances fracture. And Teagan, seeking refuge among the Tritans—an endangered alien species—must protect Diana at all costs.

Meanwhile, Professor Olga Polyakov, the scientist who made Diana possible, is under orders to recover the child before rival factions strike. But as conflict brews between ideologies, worlds, and species, one truth becomes clear: the war for tomorrow has already begun. And only one thing might shape the outcome—a mother’s love.

The vault is the code.
The eclipse is the signal.
The child is the key.

In a battle for survival, what remains of humanity may not be who we were—but who we choose to become.

From a dying Earth to the vastness of space, the fight to protect humanity’s future has begun and one question drives them all: how to protect what remains of human freedom.. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Legacy – Emergence: Book One of the Legacy Space Opera Sci-Fi Adventure Series

Legacy - Emergence: Book One of the Legacy Space Opera Sci-Fi Adventure Series
Lieutenant William Jackson isn’t like any other officer in the GCH. He lives a guarded life, unable to share the truth about who he really is, where he comes from, and what he can do.

Ripped from Earth in the year 2023, he arrives in the distant future, brought there by an enigmatic alien race with their own hidden agenda. Soon he discovers the reason for his abduction – an incredibly rare genetic gift allowing him to activate alien technology left behind by a powerful Ancient race that once ruled the galaxy. Technology so advanced it has the potential to alter the balance of galactic power if it falls into the wrong hands and could mean the difference between keeping humanity safe or being hunted into extinction.

Aided by his trusty AI, Bits, he’s forced to adapt to his new life as he’s conscripted into military service and struggles to survive in a galaxy teeming with danger and enemies’ intent on the downfall of humanity.

This is the story of William Jackson. Soldier. Covert operative. Man out of time. The savior of humanity… or the destroyer of worlds. $2.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Intrepid Bond

Intrepid Bond
Stalked and stranded…
All Noelle wants is some peace and time to recover. But a gorgeous blue alien can’t seem to stop following her wherever she goes. His icy demeanor is enough to drive her crazy.
And his intense looks heat her up inside.

He can’t stay away from the beguiling human…
Ryklin is on the edge of fixation. It’s the only excuse the soulless Detyen has for his obsession with Noelle. The only way to save them both is to leave Nebula Outpost, never to return. If only he could walk away.

When they end up stranded on an abandoned planet, they’ll need to rely on one another to survive. And as Ryklin’s ice thaws, nothing can stop the inferno that flares to life between them. Free on Kindle.
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