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Quantum Heights

Book one of the Dead Path Chronicles
Richard A. Valicek

2018 Finalist
326 Pages
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2018 Finalist
In the Elysian city of Alamptria, after another two of the king’s agents are delivered in caskets, dead, encased in dirt, and clutching pocket watches, the king dispatches two knights to investigate: Caprius Seaton, the king’s son and strongest warrior, and newly-minted agent Calista, whose prowess as a fighter is unmatched, yet whose history is riddled with secrets.
The pair set out to solve the mystery of their missing agents, starting first with a visit to a clock shop owner in Koriston, who guides them to an eccentric portrait artist named Enlora in far off village of Jethro. On their way to meet her, trying to add up the clues, they are ambushed by a swarm of vampires, hundreds strong. The duo’s magical claymores enable them to best the beasts, only to escape to the artist’s mansion where she seduces Caprius as Calista prowls about and discovers Enlora is a vampire. Now able to piece together the puzzle, they journey to Hotel Quantum Heights for their largest siege on the humans yet.

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Soul Mirrors

Wiley Haydon

2018 Honorable Mention
384 Pages
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2018 Honorable Mention
Twins Thomas and Ashley Ross knew at a young age that their gift—the ability take on another person’s memories—would eventually be used for the “good” of humanity. But it would come at a price.

Contracted with the government from age twelve until their eighteenth birthday, the twins would be forced to endure the destructive process that had taken the lives of many other children like them.

As each day passes, they wonder if survival is even possible, or worse: will it even matter when they’re already broken beyond repair?

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Disruption

Singularity's Children, Book 2
Toby Weston

2018 Honorable Mention
261 Pages
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2018 Honorable Mention
Techno-Optimist, Sci-Fi adventure: Disruption is a thrilling ride into a baffling future--satirical, witty, and unexpectedly thought-provoking.

Singularity's Children brings to life a world on the brink. A decade after economic collapse sent governments toppling like dominoes, the corporations are back on top. Intelligent machines do our dirty work, while the unnecessariat underclass suffocates beneath blankets of computer-generated propaganda.

Governments and corporations enforce a precarious status-quo, but technology is a contagion that won't be contained. Beneath the radar, hacker Kin are beginning to scratch away society's fragile veneer with the rogue tech escaping their Fabs.

Disruption picks up where Denial left off, continuing the subversive, fast-paced action:

Keith's flirtation with corporate disobedience leaves him out of options. Without friends or funds, the Forward's military machine looks like his only choice and ultimate destination.

King Niato has begun construction of New Atlantis, an Island utopia, and experiment in pan-species society. It is a beacon for the Kin who are laying the foundations of an alternate reality.

When Stella is dragged down into the human filth that underlies this new world order, can a vengeful dolphin, a wounded soldier, and two exiled hackers save her from the darkness?

Disruption takes us deeper into an action-packed riot of haves and have-nots; a vivid alternate future filled with Buddhist commandos, stolen Femto-tech, AI Sages, and Quantum Consciousness. It is a thrilling, mind-bending read--a provocative excursion into a near-future civilization struggling to survive the endless maelstroms technology is unleashing.

The Singularity's Children Series: As the Third Millennium dawns, the world is slipping beyond human comprehension. Citizens are bewildered and angry; kept in line only by vast programs of computer-driven propaganda. Leaders are in Denial, clinging to the illusions of an idealised past, unable to move beyond corporate greed and political charade. But an emerging movement of techno-optimists can see post-scarcity utopias glittering on the horizon and have started building a collaborative future for all of Singularity's Children...

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Seeds

The Journey Begins
Cary Allen Stone

2018 Honorable Mention
252 Pages
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2018 Honorable Mention
Conditions on Earth are both dangerous and dire. The leaders of nuclear-armed countries are on high alert, prepared for war. The Strategic Extra-Earth Development Site has spent years preparing a ship to leave for Titan, one of Saturn's moons. The unhinged President orders the launch of all warheads. The subsequent nuclear holocaust kills all living things on Earth. The ship is able to depart with the last of humanity to build a new world.

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The First Conception

Rise of Eris
Nesly Clerge

2018 Bronze Medal
328 Pages
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2018 Bronze Medal
**INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – BRONZE MEDAL**
2018 Science Fiction – Readers’ Favorite

**VOTED ONE OF THE BEST THRILLER NOVELS OF 2018**
Editor’s pick by Best Thriller’s book review

“One of the year’s best thrillers.” —Bella Wright, Best Thrillers

“The writing in The First Conception: Rise of Eris is flawless and there is a musicality that accompanies the prose, making it an enjoyable read.” —Divide Zape, Readers’ Favorite

“The plot is fast-paced and the writing is clean, swinging deftly between thought-provoking philosophy and creative narration.” —SPR

You may not know who I am, but you know what I’ve done. I’m the one who altered human conception around the world in an unimaginable way, unimaginable to all but me—a seed planted while I was young. People had to be punished for what they did. The punishment had to be specific. I became a medical doctor, researcher, and vindicator of the verbal, physical, and sexual assaults perpetrated against women by men for eons. Including me. I’m not alone in my work. A great number of women share my ultimate goal. All except one. I’ll find the betrayer. Until then, men are beginning to pay for their sins against us. And I’m just getting started. Dr. Katherine Eris Barnes—remember my name. Although, I don’t know how you’ll be able to forget it.

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Mercury in Retrograde

Merethe Walther

2018 Silver Medal
326 Pages
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2018 Silver Medal
Aralyn Solari spent the last three years of her life in the galaxy’s worst prison after a compromised run ruined her flawless smuggling record five years prior. Now that she’s free and has the promise of an easy job with a ridiculously large pay off, her last gig should be a cinch. As long as she follows the runner’s standard, anyway: get in, get out, get paid. Then, she can spend the rest of her years retired on Earth, hidden away with some well-deserved credits.

All of that changes, however, when she runs into her ex-boyfriend Caden Madigan: the man she suspects of setting her up all those years ago. Now, he’s wearing a UDA badge and uniform, and says that she’s in danger and being set up again. To Aralyn, the benefit of a huge payday outweighs the risks—or so she thinks until her “easy” job turns sour and she ends up wanted for a crime she didn’t commit, her smuggled goods get stolen, and her ship—down to the toilet paper—gets trashed.

Now, Aralyn’s got no choice but to try a last-ditch effort to get her payload back, get her money, and maybe even some closure… which proves difficult when she finds herself caught in a conspiracy that threatens everything and everyone around her. With government agencies and stone-cold killers on her trail, Aralyn’s life has literally become a ticking time bomb. Caught up in lies, revenge, and a harrowing game of blackmail, one misstep could end with her captured, enslaved, or perhaps even worse: thrown back inside the galaxy’s worst prison for the rest of her life, waiting to die.

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The Autopsy of Planet Earth

R.J. Eastwood

2018 Gold Medal
562 Pages
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2018 Gold Medal
When a single extraterrestrial arrives on Planet Earth and claims his race created mankind only to have abandoned them early in their evolution, a U.S. politician and a doctor are drawn into a world that extends beyond the Milky Way and become the first humans to go where no humans have gone before. Will the alien's arrival save Earth from a destruction caused by the very society that relies on it for survival? Can humankind's missteps, blindly repeated for millennia, be reversed?

With uncanny insight, The Autopsy of Planet Earth delves into human consciousness at breakneck speed.

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Gravity

The Alex Cave Series - Book 4
James M. Corkill

2017 Bronze Medal
329 Pages
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2017 Bronze Medal

An artificial gravity device begins dragging the moon from orbit!

Geologist Alex Cave receives an urgent message about an unusual geologic event in Iceland. Giant globules of molten rock begin floating up out of an ancient glacier.

Alex and his friend Okana descend deep into the lava tube of a dormant volcano and discover a million year old alien artifact of incredible power. Before he can take it to a safe location, it is stolen by Janice Sloan, a ruthless woman dealing in stolen technology. When she turns it on, the device begins dragging satellites from the sky but it won’t shut down.

Alex begins a desperate race to find the artifact while dealing with his live-in girlfriend, who thinks he’s just an adventure junkie, leaving her and her 10-year old daughter on the spur of the moment without any explanation or concern for her feelings. Because of the clandestine nature of the operation, it’s ripping Alex’s heart out that he can’t tell her he is on a top-secret mission to save the lives of everyone on the planet.

And as if that wasn’t bad enough, a massive emerald asteroid with a core of solid gold is on a collision course with Earth and will impact in six-days. In order to change its trajectory, he needs the artifact but he’s running out of time to find it.

How does Alex save humanity from extinction?

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Resurrection America

Jeff Gunhus

2017 Gold Medal
375 Pages
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2017 Gold Medal
Now an International Thriller Writers Association nominee for the THRILLER AWARD. 

USA TODAY bestselling author Jeff Gunhus. In the near-future, the world order has deteriorated after America's exhaustion from endless foreign wars causes her to pull back within her borders. Her enemies and allies alike pursue their own interests, grabbing resources, erecting trade barriers, and launching opportunistic wars. The American Century is a distant memory.

Sheriff Rick Johnson thinks he's left behind the problems of the greater world, retiring from the Marines to become the sheriff of the little town of Resurrection, Colorado. His relationship with Dahlia, his childhood friend's widow, has given him new purpose, along with the responsibility of being a father-figure to her young son. Life isn't perfect, but it's better than he ever expected it would be after seeing the horrors of war. But when helicopters and armored vehicles filled with soldiers in hazmat suits unexepctedly quarantine the town, Sheriff Rick Johnson feels like the nightmares of the outside world have followed him home.
 
While the town follows martial law, Rick isn't buying the official version of events from the military that a virus has been released into the air. As he investigates, the cover story unravels and he discovers the military's presence and the salvation they offer isn't what it seems. Soon he and his ex-flame, scientist Cassie Baker, are entangled in a plot so evil that it could only be bourn from the absolute extremes of nationalism and madness.
 
There are men in Resurrection who are willing to do anything to see America restored to her former greatness, even if the rest of the world must be destroyed to make it happen. But Rick Johnson is a man willing to do anything to protect the people he loves. And he's a force to be reckoned with.  

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Corvette

Ken McConnell

2017 Silver Medal
255 Pages
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2017 Silver Medal
Thirty years before the start of the Great War, a small starship has a deadly encounter with a massive alien warship on the fringes of the Outer Rim. When Lieutenant Armon Vance found himself assigned to the oldest ship in the fleet, stationed on the edge of the known galaxy, he figured his Fleet career was over. In fact he was about to embark on the most important mission of his young career and his captain would rely heavily on him to help them get back alive after encountering a massive military warship of the Votainion Armada. In the spirit of grand Naval adventures of the past, Corvette packs exciting military action into a swiftly moving story of heroics and bravery in deep space.