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Night Sky Mine by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 133,650. Language: English. Published: May 20, 2023 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Cyberpunk
Kelly 2/1 Ista is an apprentice hypothecary, learning to work with the quasi-living computer programs that live and breed in virtual space. She is also a foundling, the only survivor of a disaster on one of the Night Sky Mining Company's mining platforms, and without a real identity, she will never be able to leave the station.
Burning Bright by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 118,540. Language: English. Published: March 20, 2021 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Cyberpunk, Fiction » Science fiction » General
In Burning Bright, Scott tells a passionate, colorful tale of love and death, her best yet. Setting her story on the free-port planet of Burning Bright, nexus of trade, politically balanced between the human and Hsai empires in space, and center of virtual reality gaming for all of civilization, Scott weaves a network of intrigue and suspense.
The Shapes of Their Hearts by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 97,470. Language: English. Published: November 6, 2016 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Cyberpunk, Fiction » Science fiction » General
In The Shapes of Their Hearts, on the planet Idun a computer tape of the uploaded mind of a religious prophet has been allowed to merge with an AI. The result is both a Christian icon—a godlike being venerated by the faithful—and a powerful religious terrorist in its computer avatars off-planet. This is a god of whom many copies exist. Anton Tso's challenge is to stop the terrorism.
Dreaming Metal by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 107,800. Language: English. Published: April 13, 2016 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Cyberpunk, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Five years after the Manfred riots, the question of machine intelligence is still a dangerous one on Persephone, and the coolie rights organization Realpeace is not prepared to let it go. For conjurer Celinde Fortune and her musician cousin Fanning Jones, the conflict is a distant one — until the murder of a popular musician raises the stakes even for the most determinedly uninvolved.
Oath Bound - Book V of the Order of the Air by &
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 102,820. Language: English. Published: December 12, 2015 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
As the threat of European war looms, the Kingdom of Ethiopia is one of the first to come under attack from the Fascist powers. When Dr. Jerry Ballard’s long-anticipated dig in Alexandria is interrupted by the arrival of his old friend Iskinder on a secret mission for the Ethiopian Emperor, Jerry has to make a stand — even if it means delaying his dream of finding the tomb of Alexander the Great.
The Roads of Heaven Trilogy by
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 300,420. Language: English. Published: December 4, 2015 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Now in one complete volume, Melissa Scott's Roads of Heaven Trilogy: Five-Twelfths of Heaven Silence in Solitude The Empress of Earth In a space-faring civilization where a single woman is increasingly disenfranchised, the star pilot Silence Leigh is defrauded from her inheritance by a greedy competitor. Forced to ally with two men, Silence is dragged into a deadly political struggle.
The Game Beyond by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 96,340. Language: English. Published: November 14, 2015 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
The Silvertree Empress is dead, the last of her line. The heir named in her will is an impossibility, her favorite, Keira Renault, member of a family deposed and disgraced generations before — the man she claimed as the power behind her throne. As the Empire’s notables jockey for position behind the various claimants, Keira must defeat his rivals in simulation and reality.
The Jazz by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 113,820. Language: English. Published: November 9, 2015 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Cyberpunk, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Tin Lizzy, a respected Jazz artist with a checkered past, is a theatrical Web site designer who does backgrounds for Jazz productions. When a nifty new script shows up on the web, Lizzy is surprised to learn it came from a teenage boy named Keyz. It turns out Keyz used his parents' access codes to borrow a Hollywood studio's editing program- the true, hidden source of the studio's success.
Mighty Good Road by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 97,550. Language: English. Published: November 2, 2015 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED — HIRE IT DONE! What does a big corporation do when a job is too dirty and dangerous for its own employees? Why hire a freelancer, of course. That's how salvage operators Gwynne Heikki and her sidekick Sten Djuro find themselves commissioned to make their way to the surface of an undeveloped planet where they are to find and return a lost cargo.

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