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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.
The People's Republic Of Nowhere    by Maxwell Zachs
Price: $3.00 USD. 43560 words. Language: English. Published on May 18, 2013. Fiction » Gay & lesbian fiction » General.

Imagine a world where laughter is forbidden, where colours are banned and even the sunshine can kill you. Such is life in The People's Republic, a country cut off from the rest of the world, imprisoned by its own walls and sustained by paranoia. Surrounded on all sides by a chemical wasteland it's population exists only to serve production, drugged on the propaganda that they are the last people
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...
Naperville    by Chris Bittler
Price: $4.99 USD. 71400 words. Language: English. Published on May 15, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias.

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2013 Quarter-finalist. In the not-too-distant future, in a country covered by state-sized office complexes, one man goes on a dangerous quest … to find a new office chair.
Age of Majority    by Jason Myers
Price: $0.99 USD. 7260 words. Language: English. Published on May 15, 2013. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Sci-Fi & fantasy.

Artis is a teenager whose inquisitive nature often gets him into trouble with the Adults. When he is caught looking out of forbidden windows in his school, he starts a chain of events that ultimately lead him to the answers he's always sought. Why are all the children trapped in this school? Who put them in there? And how can they escape?
Blessing: 1    by Alexa Liguori
Price: Free! 690 words. Language: English. Published on May 14, 2013. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance.

A very short story told by Lium, a young bodyguard-for-hire whose current job is making it impossible for him to sleep. It's all very frustrating. In this scene, he is spending a lazy summer afternoon down on the docks with his brother. A companion story to Four Times Blessed, a novel by Alexa Liguori
Memory Farm    by Robert Neyland
Price: Free! 1860 words. Language: English. Published by Write On E-Publishing, LLC  on May 14, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Memory Farm is a wake up call for us all and a reminder to reignite our vigilance against slipping into human indifference.
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.