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Lifesphere INC: Acquisition    by Talitha Kalago
Price: Free! 47700 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2013. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Sci-Fi & fantasy.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Eli’s future is a life spent scavenging on the Rim. He sells trash to survive, while on the Topside, citizens live in hedonistic luxury. Eli dreams of obtaining citizenship by becoming a handler; bonded with a bio-organic life form called a meka. A grifter named Kalex offers Eli a trade: meka of his own, if he competes in an illegal fight to the death.
The Spiral Arm (episode 1, season 1)    by Peter Boland
Price: $2.99 USD. 29600 words. Language: American English. Published by Adrenalin Books  on May 20, 2013. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Sci-Fi & fantasy.

This is the first novella-length episode in the series. Wren Harper lives on an overcrowded Earth on the brink of apocalypse. Her life is turned upside down when she is picked to be a cadet on board a vast combat training ship heading to a distant planet. She's not a fighter, so why has she been chosen? Will she survive the journey or will the training kill her first?
The Anti-Cousin    by TIMOTHY WAHOME
Price: $0.99 USD. 64850 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias.

Depicting quasi robotic technology, with human features, at intrigue with a shadowy political grouping, warring with apolitical mastermind suspects, in a postmodern EA nation, THE ANTI-COUSIN is Book 1 of the Series The Rise and Fall of the Computeligents.
Ascendant, Episode 3: People's Republic    by Richard Denoncourt
Price: $1.25 USD. 49500 words. Language: English. Published on May 15, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias.

A boy with a terrifying weapon inside his mind must run from the government men who created him, into the arms of a girl who could destroy him...
Rowena's Wing    by T.E. Shanan
Price: $2.99 USD. 112840 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2013. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance.

It's still the winners who write history, although it looks as though Felix is on the losing side. She must figure out how to escape isolation while in the machine that is Seven Towers and meet Rowena and convince her to take her under her wing. As hard as finding Rowena may be, getting to the Pardon Games may be even more challenging.
Out of Her Universe    by Jacqueline Diamond
Price: $2.99 USD. 79400 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias.

Strange perceptions trouble artist Hannah Fleischer, who has no idea she’s from another universe. Brought as a child from a parallel world where history has taken a dangerously different course, she believes she’s found happiness with a handsome police detective. But when the universes unexpectedly reconnect, cascading events thrust Hannah into a crisis that could destroy both her worlds.
Anod's Redemption    by Cap Parlier
Price: $2.99 USD. 128730 words. Language: English. Published by saintgaudens on May 11, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias.

Comfortable in her new life, Anod and Bradley lead the Betans to their new home planet, only to be faced by her betrayer and nemesis. The hunted becomes the hunter. Anod’s heroic actions become legend for her people as well as the Society from which she was banished. The reluctant leader is the Cincinnatus of her era.
Under the Light of Vega    by Joseph Dowd
Price: $2.99 USD. 62870 words. Language: English. Published on May 8, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic.

A physical anomaly, active since the late 1500s, presumably buried deep in the earth, transports two friends to a North America 15,000 years in the future. In a new world, populated only by victims of the anomaly and their descendants, the young pair faces the struggles of adapting to a growing, 400 year old civilization.
Shadows of Marrakech    by Tim Kindberg
Price: $2.99 USD. 66970 words. Language: English. Published on April 27, 2013. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy.

In Marrakech, Chemchi, a Berber girl, enters into a bargain with a brutal slave master. In return for his help, she must track down the son he needs to save him. He awakens her power to see the unseen: a living carpet of shadows, a portal to an uncanny parallel world. Chemchi finds the son. But she also finds out the truth about her mother. And Cracked Marrakech has a mind of its own...
Anod's Seduction    by Cap Parlier
Price: $2.99 USD. 142820 words. Language: English. Published by saintgaudens on April 25, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias.

Exciting, yet introspective science fiction epic by former U.S. Marine test pilot Cap Parlier … Ambushed by an unknown force, Society warrior Anod awakes to find herself among humans banished from Earth centuries earlier. Anod is confronted by the haunting question: what is it that defines someone as human? She learns of her humanness from these descendants of Earth.