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Night Blaze    by PJ Lawton
Price: $2.50 USD. 5480 words. Language: English. Published by MuseItUp Publishing  on March 8, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

A new highly addictive and extremely dangerous drug has come from the outlying words to Terra. In a fight for control of this lethal substance, some innocent citizens are killed. One is the child of a wealthy influential bureaucrat. Galactic P.I. Majestic Kane is hired for one simple task, find the source and destroy it no matter what it takes, before more innocent people die.
Tarizon, The Liberator, Tarizon Trilogy Vol 1    by William Manchee
Price: $2.99 USD. 134320 words. Language: English. Published by Top Publications, Ltd.  on March 7, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

A teenager is abducted by aliens when he discovers his father is working with them on an ultra top secret project with the U.S. government.
Black Legion: Assault on Khorram    by Michael G. Thomas
Price: $3.99 USD. 78130 words. Language: English. Published by Swordworks & Miro Books  on March 7, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

Assault on Khorram is the second book in the epic science fiction series Black Legion that tells the thrilling tale of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand Mercenaries. The Black Legion has won its first battle and is ready for greatness and the rewards it brings. Burning with rage from the losses at Cilicia the Legion want payment, and Cyrus has a target that should satisfy even the most avaricious.
Gaea's Chosen: Event Horizon    by Cara Michaels
Price: $1.99 USD. 18400 words. Language: English. Published on March 6, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

Dr. Marcus Gilpin left Earth with the woman he loved, but the very science he put his faith in promised her to another man… Six months after waking in unknown parts of the galaxy, Marcus Gilpin is still recovering from a mauling that nearly killed him. His love gone, his ship lost—a crew of twenty now numbers only five, and he should have been among the dead...
A Union Against All Odds    by David Westover
Price: $0.99 USD. 7620 words. Language: English. Published by Dark Road Publishing  on March 5, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

A Diter-atelur and a Thysanrinae walk into a bar…a gin-joint at the ass-end of the universe. Can their young love bring peace to a decades old conflict, or will it fan the flames of war? This story originally appeared in the 2006 DAW Books anthology COSMIC COCKTAILS
Spider Star    by Michael Brotherton
Price: $2.99 USD. 123780 words. Language: English. Published on March 4, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi.

Colonists on the planet Argo accidentally trigger an ancient, alien doomsday machine in the heart of their star, Pollux. Their only hope of making their star system safe is a desperate trek to a legendary place known as the Spider Star, an interstellar trading post hosted by a dark matter planet. The Spider Star is known as a dangerous place to visit, however. Originally published by Tor.
Clouds of Darkness    by Jeffrey Caminsky
Price: $4.99 USD. 164380 words. Language: English. Published by New Alexandria Press  on March 4, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

The clash of civilizations has never been pretty, especially for the losers. Unfortunately, the 26th Century is no different...except that the conflicts are even uglier when the combatants belong to different species. And when the future of each race hangs in the balance, civilization itself can be among the first casualties.
The Star Dancers    by Jeffrey Caminsky
Price: $2.99 USD. 138420 words. Language: English. Published by New Alexandria Press  on March 4, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

In the Star Dancers, the second book in the Guardians of Peace science fiction adventure series, we see what happens when civilizations and species clash. As the alien culture of the reptilian race known as the Crutchtans, which is suffering from internal divisions, Terra has problems of its own: pirates and privateers are infesting their skies, and tensions are rising all along the frontier.
The Sirens of Space    by Jeffrey Caminsky
Price: $2.99 USD. 64950 words. Language: English. Published by New Alexandria Press  on March 4, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

(3.00 from 1 review)
New starships are nothing but trouble. It's something Roscoe Cook heard his old commander say, often quite loudly. But he never believed it until he got a starship of his own, and faced the task of getting the ship and its temperamental crew ready to sail.
The Radiance    by John Robinson
Price: $4.99 USD. 93080 words. Language: English. Published by Musa Publishing  on March 3, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

They call it the Radiance. No one knows where it comes from or what causes it—only that human intelligence is expanding at a startling rate. Estranged brothers must race against time to find the source of the Radiance. Even more, they must find out how to stop it before it falls into the hands of those bent on destruction. Project, a task force of scientists and military leaders, he declines.