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The Pit & The Merchant's Legacy    by A. S. Warwick
Price: Free! 16220 words. Published on July 6, 2009. .

Through the ruins of a once proud empire and across a dying world travels Nhaqosa the Minotaur, seeking the long roads home. The lands that he and his followers tread are in the grip of drought and lawlessness, beset by bandits and monsters and seldom does he find a welcome. From the brutal gladiator pits to sinister crystal towers, death is ever present and survival hard won.
Amazon Arena of Mars    by Tara Loughead
Price: Free! 2100 words. Published by Jekkara Press  on July 17, 2010. .

A dangerous old friend stalks out of Bulays' past, as she finds herself back-to-back with Erica Joan Stark in the gladiator arena of the Slave Pits of Valkis! A series planetary romance. Bulays and Ghaavn #11.
Hitler's Forgotten Secret Weapon    by Leonard James
Price: $4.90 USD. 22800 words. Published by Bretwalda Books  on August 29, 2010. .

The last great untold story of World War II, the career of Hitler’s “Super Fighter” intended to destroy the RAF in the Battle of Britain and why it never succeeded. The super-secret Heinkel He113 fighter was designed to be a high-speed, high-altitude fighter that could outperform, outgun and outfight any other aircraft in the world when it entered service with the Luftwaffe in 1940.
Perusia    by N.J. Matthews
Price: $1.99 USD. 115550 words. Published on November 10, 2010. .

Perusia is a novel of historical fiction that follows the experience of 5 boys in Rome and Perusia in the time just after the assassination of Julius Ceasar. Two families are disrupted when the parents of the boys are arrested as a result of corrupt actions by the Senate. Their homes are expropriated and the parents thrown in prison. A Black Prince and a Blind Prophet offer to help.
No Flesh Shall Be Spared    by Thom Carnell
Price: $2.99 USD. 159460 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on November 19, 2010. .

In a near future where society has dealt with the global outbreak of the Living Dead, a highly lucrative international sport, zombie pit fighting, emerges. This isthe story of Cleese, his recruitment and rise to supremacy in this violent world where every match could be his last. The Dead will fall. Friends will die. The question that arises is that of Cleese's fate in the ensuing mayhem.
Marco and the Red Granny    by Mur Lafferty
Price: $3.99 USD. 28220 words. Published on November 29, 2010. .

Marco is a failed graphic artist and writer figuring he's at the end of his career when his ship comes in. The aliens that run the Moon (now nicknamed "Mollywood") want him and his work, and will pay well to get it. But when Marco meets an octogenarian lunar gladiator called The Red Granny, he learns there's a darker side to patronage, and he's not sure he wants in. But it may be too late.
Of Staves and Sigmas    by Geoffrey Verdegast
Price: $4.99 USD. 268850 words. Published on January 9, 2011. .

OF STAVES AND SIGMAS is a transworld fantasy that follows psychiatric patient James Wagner's mystical break from contemporary earth to a violent, mediaevalesque Ergos, where through unremitting ordeal he is forced to consider that his lifelong madness was less a psychological sickness than a visional prelude to the astonishingly palpable reality that has suddenly supplanted his earthly existence.
Empty & Survive To Eat    by C. L. Norman
Price: $2.99 USD. 7030 words. Published on January 28, 2011. .

Empty & Survive To Eat; two short stories in one. In Empty, Rheken fights loneliness by bringing his father back from the dead. In Survive To Eat, enslaved Aetran is forced to fight for his supper and loses himself in the rings.
Old Fashioned Science Fiction    by David Addleman
Price: $2.99 USD. 64480 words. Published on April 10, 2011. .

A collection of 20 science fiction short stories. These stories are "Old Fashioned" in the sense of being about characters confronted with problems; some caused by their s-f environment, some by other humans.
The Parthian    by Peter Darman
Price: $2.99 USD. 233570 words. Published on May 30, 2011. .

The story of Pacorus, a prince of the Parthian Empire who is captured by the Romans and sent to Italy to live out the rest of his days as a slave. But fate intervenes and he is freed by a gang of runaway gladiators led by a man named Spartacus. This is the epic tale of the Spartacus slave revolt, as told by the man who fought by his side.