A Fresh List of Free Sci-Fi Reads
This post is an update to one that I did last year (click here to check it out). Since those books are no longer free because their promotions have ended, I wanted to create an updated list for 2022. These books were free as of writing this blog post, but please understand that promotions may end or change depending on when the authors or publishers change the prices.
It Ain’t Over (Cole & Srexx Book 1)
Book Description:
Buy a planet and disappear…
That’s all Cole wanted.
He spent thirteen years hiding on the fringes of society, piloting freighters for criminals and building a stash to do just that.
But life happens when you’re busy making plans.
When Cole chooses to save an ejected castaway and stumbles into a crew of his own, he starts down a path that will force him to choose.
Will Cole protect those who have become his people? Or will he slip away quietly in the night?
Read Now to find out!
Spark (Star Inferno Book One)
Book Description:
A stolen formula. A universe in danger. It’s a good thing Tayne Sondar’s got a backbone made of steel.
A revolutionary formula promises to wipe out birth defects for every unborn child in the universe.
Until it’s stolen.
Enter Tayne Sondar. Starship captain. Member of the Guild of Finders. Owner of a hard-hitting metal skeleton.
Tayne’s more than qualified for the job. But partnering him on his mission are three of the most uncompanionable companions imaginable.
A volcano-tempered, backstabbing murderess. A bluff, plucky walking mountain with a penchant for human flesh. And a pink-furred feline with an eyepatch fixation.
When the thief turns up dead, Tayne and his new comrades scramble to pick up the trail of the stolen formula. Before long, they’re fighting for their lives as the forces that seek to gain from the formula’s destruction turn up the heat.
With time running out, can this crew of misfits recover the formula before it’s lost forever along with the lives of all those it could have saved?
Spark is the first book in a brand new space opera series. If you like fast-paced adventure, pulse-pounding action and nail-destroying suspense, you’ll love Hadwin Fuller’s thruster-hot series.
Pick up Spark and warp into an exciting new universe today!
Midwinter at Bhisho (Seasons of War on Abira Book 1)
Book Description:
Providing aid becomes a fight for survival.
When Imara lands on Abira with the rest of her company, things don’t feel right. And it’s not just the constant, falling snow. Bhisho’s townsfolk are nervous. This makes the Hospitallers wary.
Then, thieves come in the night.
But the thieves aren’t just thieves, they’re citizens of Grabouw, the other town in the valley. The Hospitallers learn that the people of Grabouw are starving, too. Imara and her team are charged with escorting supplies, through the snow, to the other town.
The welcome here is even more chilling.
Imara is certain more is going on than just a shortage of food supplies. A passed note confirms her suspicions. Now, Imara not only has to get her team safely back to Bhisho, but she also needs to report the truth, even if it costs her teams’ lives.
Midwinter on Bhisho is the first story in the Seasons of War on Abira series. Follow Sgt Imara Fermo as she not only deals with her own demons but also struggles to understand the layers of deceptions that drive the civil war on Abira.
Get the book. Get reading. The adventure awaits!
Broken Ascension: A Science Fiction Adventure (Trystero Book 1)
Book Description:
The war is over, and there are no winners. Just a broken galaxy.
Now humans and aliens must share this war-torn galaxy. None of this matters to Drake, though, he’s just an artist. He’s tagging along on the busted up ship Trystero, along with its ragtag crew. Together, they traverse the Demilitarized Zone between Terran and Gra’al borders, taking on any job they can find. Big or small. Human or alien.
The galaxy changes when the crew encounters a derelict alien ship, its crew slaughtered. With his dying breath, a crewman points them to a box. In it? An abandoned alien baby. When their government refuses to get involved, Drake and the crew need to return the baby they’ve been calling Bruce home, a bloodthirsty warlord on their tail.
His quest? Find Bruce and claim the Gra’al throne, declaring a new war on humanity.
Drake never wanted to be a hero… now he’s all that stands in the way of a fragile peace between humans and aliens.
Pattern Black
Book Description:
A city-sized prison with little oversight and a snitch economy is the worst place for an ex-cop. Especially one who is losing his mind.
Once a respected police officer, Mason Shaw’s father threw away his career by going rogue and landing himself in Revival’s privately-run prison, HRO22.
Now Mason is following in his father’s footsteps — he’s an inmate with no hope of parole and only two ways out: Chamber Therapy or a body bag.
Chamber Therapy promises the miracle of criminal rehabilitation, curing prisoners of their criminal tendencies. But the flip-side of Chamber Therapy’s success is its ultimate failure: Pattern Black — the total disintegration of identity that drives the prisoner insane.
Worse, Revival seems to be hiding what happens to the prisoners once they go Pattern Black.
As Mason makes his way through his new reality, a mysterious Preacher seems to haunt his every move. His only hope is Immunity, a rebel group led by a hacker named Calliope, who’s trying to fight the system from inside.
Can Mason find the truth — and expose the dark secret behind Chamber Therapy — before Revival finds a way to shut him up forever?
It’s Escape from New York meets The Matrix in this fast-paced, heart-pounding SciFi thriller by best-selling authors Johnny B. Truant and Sean Platt.
Johnny B. Truant is also the author of Fat Vampire, a new television series coming to the SyFy channel in 2022.
Shades of Treason (An Anomaly Novel Book 1)
Book Description:
He’s the instructor she can’t forget. She’s the cadet he couldn’t break.
Lieutenant Ramie Ashdyn is an anomaly, a person whose genetics makes her stronger and smarter than the average human. She’s pledged her life to protect the Coalition, an alliance of thirteen planetary systems, but when a top secret operation turns bloody, she’s charged with treason and the brutal executions of her teammates.
The Coalition needs the information Ash’s team stole on their last mission, so they send in Commander Rhys “Rest in Peace” Rykus to get it. He’s the man who’s responsible for turning Ash into an elite soldier… and he’s a man who isn’t, never was, and never will be in love with the woman he trained. Or so he tells himself.
Ash wants nothing more than to clear her name and be the woman her former instructor wants her to be, but the enemy who killed her teammates did more than frame her for treason and murder: they telepathically silenced her mind, preventing her from saying anything that might point to the truth about what happened.
Now Ash is trapped and set to be executed, the truth dying with her. Unless she can prove her innocence. But taking that path could destroy the Coalition she’s sworn to preserve and protect…
Star Rebels
Book Description:
There are rebels among the stars…
Meet eleven protagonists battling to save themselves and the ones they love. Human, cyborg, clone, or alien, they’ll find themselves pitted against intergalactic crime bosses, interstellar mercenaries, a quantum-wave-riding collective mind, and the universe itself. Along the way, there’s plenty of action, adventure, humor, and even some romance.
Written by the freshest voices in science fiction, these stories are short, but they’ll light your imagination like a solar flare. Strap yourself in and join the rebellion! Download this collection today.
About the Star Rebels Stories:
A Tale of Two Ships by Audrey Faye
A KarmaCorp Story
Two ships crash into an unimportant digger rock. The first carries a newborn baby. The second will rewrite her destiny.
Carl Sagan’s Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Universe by C. Gockel
An Archangel Project Story
Sometimes intelligent life is right in front of your whiskers.
Blood Ties by Christine Pope
A Gaian Consortium Story
On the outlaw world of Iradia, Miala Fels and her computer hacker father discover that taking the wrong commission can have unexpected consequences.
Passage Out by Anthea Sharp
A Victoria Eternal Story
Street rat Diana Smythe has long since given up her hopes of escaping Earth, but that doesn’t mean she can’t watch the ships fly in and out of the spaceport and dream…
Arcturus 5 by D.L. Dunbar
A Twenty Sectors Story
Xella went to Arcturus 5 to mediate a simple trade dispute between the Mol and the Dark, but now she’s not sure she’ll get out alive.
Treason’s Course by L.J. Cohen
A Halcyone Space Story
In the midst of Earth’s first off-planet war, a soldier is given a covert assignment and must decide if treason lies in carrying out her orders or disobeying them.
Falling by Pippa DaCosta
A Girl From Above Story
Trapped in a scrappers rig with a woman he’s been hired to kill, Caleb Shepperd is beginning to wonder if this job could be his last.
Starfall Station by Lindsay Buroker
A Fallen Empire Story
After the empire falls, cyborg soldier Leonidas Adler must avoid the Alliance operatives who want him for secrets only he knows, but that’s easier said than done. Worse, his past threatens those he’s traveling with, including Alisa, the freighter captain he has come to care about.
Luminescence by Patty Jansen
An ISF-Allion World Story
Hadie learns the price of being an artificial human when her partner has an accident and becomes unresponsive.
Glome by James Wells
A Great Symmetry Story
Humanity’s first interstellar colony ship has arrived at its destination, only to find an inhospitable death trap of a planet. Crew member Amanda Bowen wishes that was the biggest problem she faced.
Unfinished by Kendra C. Highley
An Unstrung Story
In a world where genetically-engineered humans serve as slave labor to “real humans,” two prototype children, designed to be the most superior models ever created, look to each other to find a way to escape their fate. They may discover that being “artificial” doesn’t mean they can’t love.
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