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Journey to the West Valley Wall

M. L. Lloyd

2019 Finalist
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2019 Finalist
Are you feeling lonely and lost?
Are you paranoid to leave the house?
There is a cure for such madness that only requires courage, determination and love.
That’s it, that’s all — it’s that easy!
Oh, and if you lack in all three requirements, your application may still be approved. Also, no doctor’s prescription is necessary to take this trip.
Side Effects may include nausea, hopelessness and crippling panic attacks.
If ready to take this leap — step inside the oppressive mind of an agoraphobic trying to finish his science fiction novel while being tasked with an unthinkable ask!

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Cognition

Jacques St-Malo

2019 Honorable Mention
342 Pages
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2019 Honorable Mention
A book that combines the velocity of Robert Ludlum with the intellect of Michael Crichton. (The US Review of Books)

In a near future, the genetics of intellect are finally within reach. Research suggests how to harness brain evolution, launching a hunt for a missing link―one that would allow to design humans with skills that prodigies of old could only dream of.

The reader is thrown into the thick of unfolding events as a baby is torn from its mother and forced into hiding, to grow up unaware of the pivotal role he will play in the global pursuit for the unique traits he possesses.

As germline engineering and biological enhancement become routine, ancient doubts emerge under new guises: Who are we? Is there a purpose to life? Why is there so much suffering? When faith and science fail to answer these questions, personal greed and national interest quickly fill the void.
 
But gene selection is expensive, and many are excluded from its benefits. The stage is set for tribalism and social discontent on a scale without precedent, and those caught in the fray, whether by choice or by chance, must play roles not always to their liking in the struggle of all creatures against the arbitrariness of existence.

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Seeds

The Journey Begins
Cary Allen Stone

2019 Honorable Mention
250 Pages
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2019 Honorable Mention
SEEDS: The Journey Begins is filled with the enlightenment of a scientific age in which the best scientists in their field have carte blanche to aid space exploration and colonization. But the race to save humanity is not all celebration. A nuclear holocaust kills all life on Earth. The ship leaves just in time. Not only is there an analytical perspective in this story, but a strong emotional one. Though SEEDS: The Journey Begins is a work of fiction, it gives a frightening insight of a future that some fear can come true.

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Home World

Bonnie Milani

2019 Bronze Medal
496 Pages
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2019 Bronze Medal
On a shattered Waikiki two princes risk humanity's future for Keiko Yakamoto's love. Who will she choose - or kill?

Centuries of ruinous war have left Earth little more than a dusty tourist world within the star-flung Commonwealth she founded. Now, amid the ruins of a post-apocalyptic Hawaii, Jezekiah Van Buren has found a way to restore Earth - Home World to the other worlds of the Commonwealth - to her lost glory.

The most ingenious prince even the genetically-enhanced, Great Family Van Buren has ever produced, Jezekiah has achieved the impossible: a treaty with the human polymorphs called Lupans, that will convert these ancient enemies to Earth's most powerful allies. The treaty will not only make Earth rich again, but it will enable Jezekiah to escape the Ring that marks him as Earth's next ruler. Then he'll be free: free to create his own future, and free to marry Keiko Yakamoto, the warrior-trained woman he loves.

Assuming he can convince his xenophobic sister to accept the Lupan's alpha warlord in marriage before the assassin she's put on his tail succeeds in killing him.

Assuming he can thwart another deadly uprising by the interstellar criminal organization called Ho Tong. And before his ruling relatives on competing worlds manage to execute him for treason.

Jezekiah manages to stay one step ahead of his foes, until his Lupan warlord-partner reaches Earth. And these two most powerful men suddenly find themselves in love with the same woman. A woman who just may be the most deadly assassin of them all.

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Tribe of Daughters

Kate L. Mary

2019 Bronze Medal
437 Pages
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2019 Bronze Medal
Honorable Mention in the 2018 SPR Book Awards
Bronze Medal Winner in the 2019 Readers' Favorite Book Awards for Science Fiction
Semi-Finalist in the 2019 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction

In this village, women are not the weaker sex.

From an award-winning author comes a post-apocalyptic dystopian story about power, fear, and love…

Nearly a century after a plague ravaged civilization, a secluded matriarchal society thrives in the mountains. In this village there are no brothers, no fathers, no sons. In this village men exist only to serve the women, and boys have no mothers. In this village men do as they are told and defiance is severely punished.

This is the only life Wilderness has ever known, but when Jameson is brought in from the outside to be her husband, everything she thought she knew about strength and love is tested. As they struggle to find their place in the village, they suddenly find themselves face to face with outsiders who threaten to destroy everything they love, and it doesn’t take long to realize that they will have to work together, men and women alike, if they want to survive.

Tribe of Daughters is marvelous, unique, emotionally moving, amazing, and fascinating, reviewers enthuse, calling author Kate L. Mary a master of world-building. “Everything about this science fiction novel – the possibilities, the plot, the characters, the physical, mental, sexual and cultural concepts, and the writing style fired my imagination and compelled me to keep reading page after page until the book was finished,” says Viga Boland for Readers' Favorite.

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Chasing Shadows

K.N. Salustro

2019 Silver Medal
246 Pages
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2019 Silver Medal
STAND AND PROTECT Star Federation soldiers live by these words as they work to uphold peace across the galaxy. Founded at the start of the Andromedan War, the Star Federation annihilated its enemies and has gone unchallenged since then. Sometimes, powerful forces surface and demand more attention, be they drug lords, pirate crews, or bounty hunters worthy of Alpha Classification, but the Star Federation stands firm. Following the assassination of one of his subordinates, Fleet Commander Lance Ashburn goes on the hunt for the Alpha Class bounty hunter known as the Shadow. One of the best officers the Star Federation has ever seen, Commander Ashburn comes closer than anyone to eliminating the Shadow, but upon meeting her, he learns that a much larger and deadlier enemy roams the stars, one that could destroy the Star Federation. Caught between the Star Feds and her own dark past, bounty hunter Lissa a.k.a. the Shadow is pulled into a battle with no clean escape. With enemies on all sides, she must choose her allies very carefully. Her decisions could save the galaxy or plunge it into war, and this time, the price of enduring peace may be too high.

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The Immortal Gene

Jonas Saul

2019 Silver Medal
333 Pages
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2019 Silver Medal

"Saul knows how to ratchet up the tension and keep the pages turning." ~ Publishers Weekly


PLAYING GOD HAS CONSEQUENCES



Jake Wood has it made. He is a tough homicide detective with a partner who's like a brother, and he's about to marry the girl of his dreams.

Then Jake learns a close friend is missing and travels to South America in search of him. After a freak accident in the Amazon Rainforest, Jake wakes up in the hospital—eighteen months later. Long presumed dead, he discovers his fiancée is married and pregnant, his house was sold, his job is gone, and his partner transferred to another city to become lead detective on a serial killer case.

Jake buys a cabin in the woods and tries to leave the world behind, until his home is broken into and he discovers he was targeted—but why? When Jake's former partner requests his aid in catching the Blood Eagle Killer, he offers to help find whoever is behind Jake's recent trouble.

This leads to Fortech Industries, a pharmaceutical company secretly researching a way to create an immortal gene. Now they intend to destroy their only error—Jake Wood—who has become something more than human.

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Falcon's Call

Mike Waller

2019 Gold Medal
448 Pages
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2019 Gold Medal
Reader's Favorite Gold Medal winner 2019B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree 2019Chill With A Book Premier Award 2019 Joe Falcon has a problem. He's bored. He needs a new purpose, and a new adventure.When an unidentified vessel appears beyond Jupiter, both Earth and Mars begin a frantic race to claim it, aware that whichever planet succeeds might in so doing achieve advantage over the other. But who should they send?Joe would never consider himself the 'right' person. Drifting around the Asteroid Belt in a converted freighter, working as a surveyor and miner with a crew of oddballs and misfits who, like himself, are running away each from his or her own private demons, he cannot think of a single good reason why he should be the chosen one. But how could he not go?When the surveyor Butterball rendezvous with the Visitor, Joe discovers a ship so immense, exploring its thousands of square kilometers of decks is unrealistic. As the alien vessel responds to his presence in wondrous yet frightening ways, not a trace of its inhabitants can be found. Virtually everything Joe and his team sees defies explanation, and little is what it appears to be. Joe soon realizes he and his crew are expendable and cannot take anything or anyone at face value, including the alien ship's owners. And all the time, the crew is being watched and studied. Then humanity learns that this wondrous spacecraft is not their real problem.Never would Joe have imagined it would fall to him to make the decision that would alter the destiny of two worlds, launching humankind onto the path to a glorious future, or to extinction.Falcon's Call is an action packed dive into the unknown, written in the style of the great, classic, science-fiction stories. If you like surprising plot twists, compelling characters and a hero who actually cares, you must read this new novel by Mike Waller.Pick up your copy of Falcon's Call today, and let your imagination carry you on Joe Falcon's voyage.

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Quantum Heights

Book one of the Dead Path Chronicles
Richard A. Valicek

2018 Finalist
324 Pages
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2018 Finalist
When King Confidus discovers a plan to turn all the people in the city of Elysium into vampires, as disciples to the Dark Lord Makoor, he seeks help from a prophecy written by Felicia – the Golden Fleece. This prophecy states that three agents, known as the “Three C’s,” are destined to stop the Dark Lord, the vampires, and his henchman, the Goncools, from a life of darkness. Confidus chooses his son Caprius, a knight master and brilliant warrior, to journey to the far reaches of Alamptria to discover the location of the vampires’ lair and stop them before their power becomes too great. With Caprius, Confidus sends a young woman, Calista, new as an agent but with a reputation as a fierce and brave warrior. Unknown to all in the king’s council is that Calista has dark secrets that make her more than a mere agent of Petoshine. The two set out, at first uncomfortable with their paring, but soon, they warm to each other, and the truth is revealed, bringing them closer than ever. Caprius feels for Calista, with her broken past, and Calista cannot help but be enamored by his intelligence, wit, and skill as a fighter. Their desires are challenged, mostly because Caprius’ wife is at home under the spell of a vampire sorceress; yet, they push forward, knowing the lives of their people are in their hands. Through numerous battles with vampires, Goncools, and other creatures, death comes close to Caprius and Calista more than once, but their powerful claymore swords protect them against their adversaries. Their journey is also helped by a woman named Cynthia, a striking woman from Caprius’ past, who is on a mission of her own to save the world. In the end, the three will face a fiery battle to save not only themselves, but the mortal world, as well. Richard A Valicek delivers a heart pounding exciting sci-fi fantasy horror.

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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?