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Discover the best self-published books in the Science Fiction category. Handpicked by indie authors and loved by readers, these titles are a must-read for fans of Science Fiction. Find your next favorite read from our global community of independent writers.

Remanence

★ GOLD WINNER · 2026 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS - SCIENCE FICTION ★​"A far-reaching, ambitious, and immersive fusion of chilling futurism and literary fiction... a nerve-shredding, highly intriguing read." - IndieReader​"Gripping, haunting, and moving. Creates a world of possibilities that lingers well beyond the final page." - Sam Hesni, author of Stereotypes and Scripts​When consciousness refuses to die, love is the pattern that survives.​For three centuries, one man has lived through absolute optimization. Emotion is suppressed; humanity is streamlined into efficient code. He has perfected the art of the reset, discarding sixteen thousand AI configurations the moment they began to ...
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Multiverse Truckers

The Earth is split from pole to pole by the Rift: layered slices of various multiverses, all smooshed up against each other like pre-sliced bread. The first explorers came back damaged, mad or both. But intrepid drivers and their nuclear-powered AI big rigs can travel it, drivers like Seph and her AI truck, Buc. Then, something happens that could change everything... 

Join Seph and her snarky AI truck Buc as they travel the Rift, dodging dinosaurs and monsters and temporal anomalies while trying to deliver their cargo on time. Intact? Well, that's another matter...

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The Ballad of Malik Blayne

Omega Station is built in layers. The rich live in domes on the airless surface, with every luxury. The poor live beneath the surface of the planet, stacked level by level toward the molten core that keeps the whole place alive. Everything useful flows upward. Everything else flows downward, where the rules only apply when it’s convenient for the people above.
Malik Blayne lives between those lines...where the flow from above turns toxic.

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The Furlites of Aroriel: Eyes in the Dark Book III

The second mission of the Sunpyne, to retrieve the Voziak, proves far more difficult than expected. Commander Geupetus and his crew discover the critical importance of an astounding turn of events, when a wormhole throws both ships into an astonishing situation. In primitive conditions, the crew of both ships must now fulfill an unknown destiny in which their Felakoons play a prominent role, and set history on its proper course. They cannot fail this mission.

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The Furlites of Aroriel: Eyes in the Dark Book III

Book Three of Three   (Full color interior.)

The second mission of the Sunpyne, to retrieve the Voziak, proves far more difficult than expected. Commander Geupetus and his crew discover the critical importance of an astounding turn of events, when a wormhole throws both ships into an astonishing situation. In primitive conditions, the crew of both ships must now fulfill an unknown destiny in which their Felakoons play a prominent role, and set history on its proper course. They cannot fail this mission.

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Out of Time: A Time Travel Novel

In the 2150’s, a scientist discovers time is actually fluid; past, present, and future all exist at the same time. What he doesn’t know, is if the current timeline can change when something is changed in the past. The US government wants him to find out.

Explore the intriguing world of time travel in my novel. Discover how the past, present, and future intertwine. Read more!

Available to buy the ebook & audiobook from the author, or the ebook is available everywhere else but Amazon at the moment. Various versions of the paperback is also available online.

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The Last Mission of the Seventh Cavalry: Book One

A combat mission over Afghanistan becomes something no soldier has ever trained for.When their aircraft is struck and a platoon of the Seventh Cavalry bails out, they don’t land in a war zone they recognize. Instead, the 13 soldiers hit the ground two thousand years in the past—in a world of empires, iron weapons, and wars fought face to face.Cut off from their own time and surrounded by forces that will kill them without hesitation, the men and women of the Seventh must choose quickly: remain outsiders and perish, or intervene in a history that was never meant to be altered.As modern weapons collide with ancient armies, courage, discipline, and ingenuity are pushed to their limits—and...
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Mission Pleistocene: Cyborg Squad Book 2

Cyborg Squad has recruited new members, just in time to investigate an anomaly that’s not behaving the way the first one did. Bravo One, located in Northern Canada and one of the earliest portals discovered, is showing a terrifying and threatening new feature—it’s already bigger than Clem’s anomaly and it’s growing larger by the day.Only one solution: Cyborg Squad has to go through the orb into the past and blow the portal up before it’s too late.But when one of Clem’s team disappears on the new assignment and a superior officer arrives to take over from Captain Pinkerton-Smythe at exactly the wrong time, Clem finds things moving just a little too fast to suit her.Not to mentio...
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Mission Tethys: Cyborg Squad Book 3

Absolutely the last thing Clem Collins expects to find in the middle of the desert…is an ocean.After a mostly successful mission—well, if you leave out a brutal death, a kidnapped team member, and an angry superior officer baying for her blood—at the anomaly designated Bravo One in Canada, Clem Collins is on the move again. Her commanding officer has sent her and part of her Cyborg Squad to Foxtrot One, the newest anomaly set deep in the vast, red sands of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana.At first, the mission brief is the same as the two before: check out the anomaly, blow it up and get on to the next one. But when the central time portal, the orb, starts behaving strangely, well, Clem...
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Mission Devonian: Cyborg Squad Book 4

It ain’t easy being a member of Cyborg Squad, not if you expect to live for another few days. Or, in some case, minutes.Clem Collins barely escaped with her life from the shores of the ancient Tethys Sea. She had hoped for at least a few days of R&R in the elegant safari camp in Botswana near the now-exploded Foxtrot One, but if wishes were horses, ya know? So now she and her team are on the way to Bavaria and the portal designated Charlie One. Three of her team had been doing reconnaissance there while Clem and the rest were in Botswana…and all three of them have disappeared.Even worse, the anomaly is behaving differently this time. No, it’s not filling up with ocean in the middle...
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Mission Permian: Cyborg Squad Book 1

Clem Collins—don’t call her Clementine—is ex-Army and just wants a little R&R while she and her friends work on her dream home: a cabin deep in the woods.But then one day her dog Lizzie the pit bull comes back from a romp in the woods and drops a strange, stinking object in Clem’s lap. The big lump proceeds to wiggle and split and what looks like a tiny dinosaur spills out. Tracing Lizzie’s steps back deep into the woods, Clem discovers a weird glowing dome. Lizzie rushes at the dome and, to Clem’s amazement, disappears into it.Of course Clem follows her dog—wouldn’t you? Inside the silvery dome Clem discovers a floating orb.How could Clem possibly know that the strange o...
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ALIEN EXIT

Alien Exit is driven by a female astronaut, a Palaeolithic mongrel, Glastonbury chaos, steamy sex in space, a journalist and a mad general. All to overcome time-quakes created when aliens depart Earth.

This novel attempts to break tropes: the aliens are not invading, they're leaving; the planet as spheres but s l o w l y.; usual ways to communicate do not work.

key words first contact 

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An Alien Appeal

An Alien Appeal picks up where The Wise Ass left off, expands the roster of mystical and magical characters, reunites Jimmy with his last sibling and finds Jimmy and Everett traveling through space to Proxima b to answer to that planet's elite for Everett's decisions and Jimmy's continued existence.All of Jimmy's wishes come true, including arguing his friend's case before the highest court in this galaxy, but there are prices to pay and Jimmy's life hangs in the balance. Love is tested and irrevocable choices are made.These colorful characters' continuing evolution embraces love, interstellar courtroom drama, loss and tears. Of course, Claire plays her central role in the resolution of it a...
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Where The Ley Lines Meet

The Claire Trilogy taught us the meaning of family and loyalty in every sense of those words through the bonding of Claire the Mule and her family of mystical misfits under the most trying of circumstances.

It's prequel, Finding Jimmy Moran, introduced the world to the magical young boy who grows into the man that leads Claire's family across the galaxy.

Where The Ley Lines Meet is what happens when the mystical misfits and their alien brethren are recalled to earth to reunite and save the world.

The storylines and characters the readers have come to love in the prior four books reappear in this continuation and conclusion of The Claire Saga. Or is it?

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Aberrant Creation

A journey through space, a dimensional slip, and a dark, uncharted region in the galaxy all add up to big trouble.Centuries into the future, at the Space Agency HQ near the centre of the galaxy, Intergalactic Craft 1B sets out to look for reported missing ships. Space Agent Jim Long finds himself in an uncharted section of the universe, forced into immediate action to save the craft and crew. The spacecraft enters a new area that throws everything into a state of chaos. Stranded and shifting into other dimensions, communication with the outside is mysteriously cut off, causing confusion and fear. Mysterious, deadly foes appear in different time shifts, ready to cause mayhem and death. F...
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