The Green Jell-O Book Club: A Goodreads Group about Fiction Written by LDS Authors discussion

What are your favorite science fiction novels by LDS authors?

The Ender universe by Orson Scott Card easily makes it for me.

I really enjoy Robison's Wells' books. Variant was great. And Blackout and Dead Zone were a fun, fresh twist on the superhero genre. His new one, Dark Energy, was just released. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Here are some of the books Luke mentioned by Orson Scott Card:

Ender's Game
Ender in Exile
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind

And from Stephanie, by Robison Wells:
Variant
Blackout
Dead Zone
Dark Energy

Thanks for the suggestions, Luke and Stephanie!

New release:

Girl from the Stars 4- Day's Journey by Cheree Alsop

When Liora’s brother is kidnapped as a thinly-veiled trap, she follows with the intent of springing it on her own terms. But her plans fall away when she finds that the danger has a greater reach than she could have imagined.

Waylaid and nearly dead, Liora finds herself fighting for not only her life, but for mortalkind. If she succeeds, she could thwart the paramount threat to the Macrocosm and those she loves; if she fails, mortalkind will fall at her side. Yet the price of survival may be far greater than Liora is willing to pay.

“How far will you go to protect your human? How many lives will you take to save the one you love?”

Liora spoke the truth she saw in the Cherum’s gaze. “All of them."

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New Release:

Girl from the Stars Book 5: Day's Hunt by Cheree Alsop

Confronted with the truth about her origin, Liora has to make a difficult choice that can change the entire fate of the Macrocosm.

Battling loss, Ketulans, and the desires of her own heart, Liora confronts an evil she thought long banished from her life and the cosmos.

The fight she faces turns out to be the most difficult of her life in more ways than one.

Can she survive the consequences of her own actions long enough to defeat the greatest peril of her existence?

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Shadows of Empyriad by Josi Russell

Aliens are coming to Yellowstone Global Park.

In order to protect its delicate ecosystem, the park has been closed to the public for a quarter of a century. But the fortifications that keep the public away from the bison and the geysers are perfect for keeping the arriving aliens—the Stracahn–away from humanity.

Solomon Brooks lives on the edge of the park, but he has never been inside. Outside the park’s energy barriers, bitter land wars threaten to tear human society apart. Sol seeks refuge from the conflict by volunteering to work with the aliens inside Yellowstone. There, he meets Zyn’dri, a Stracahn girl with gifts even her own species doesn’t fully understand, and Walt, a ranger whose knowledge of the park is second only to his knowledge of human nature.

As the three forge an unlikely friendship, they uncover a sinister plot and realize that some humans will go to any lengths to get the aliens out. The Stracahn have come from their dying planet, Empyriad, in search of a peaceful new home. But with warring humans outside the gates of Yellowstone and the world’s largest supervolcano inside, Earth is anything but peaceful.

So, wondering if Brandon Sanderson has any SciFi? The answer is YES. It's a bit border-line, but it works. Two novellas about Stephen Leeds extraordinaire!!

"Stephen Leeds, AKA 'Legion,' is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. As the story begins, Leeds and his 'aspects' are drawn into the search for the missing Balubal Razon, inventor of a camera whose astonishing properties could alter our understanding of human history and change the very structure of society".

After The Maze Runner, James Dashner wrote The Mortality Doctrine, which is YA, and somehow I lost track and haven't read the last and final book, which came out last year.... Dang, too many books, too little time. A bit of Matrix and hard-core gaming:

An all-new, edge-of-your seat adventure from James Dashner, the author of the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, The Eye of Minds is the first book in The Mortality Doctrine, a series set in a world of hyperadvanced technology, cyberterrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams . . . and your worst nightmares.

Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and it’s addictive. Thanks to technology, anyone with enough money can experience fantasy worlds, risk their life without the chance of death, or just hang around with Virt-friends. And the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother following the rules when most of them are dumb, anyway?

But some rules were made for a reason. Some technology is too dangerous to fool with. And recent reports claim that one gamer is going beyond what any gamer has done before: he’s holding players hostage inside the VirtNet. The effects are horrific—the hostages have all been declared brain-dead. Yet the gamer’s motives are a mystery.

The government knows that to catch a hacker, you need a hacker.
And they’ve been watching Michael. They want him on their team.

But the risk is enormous. If he accepts their challenge, Michael will need to go off the VirtNet grid. There are back alleys and corners in the system human eyes have never seen and predators he can’t even fathom—and there’s the possibility that the line between game and reality will be blurred forever.

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Extreme Makeover by Dan Wells

What happens when a health and beauty company accidentally develops a hand lotion that can overwrite your DNA?

Lyle Fontanelle is the chief scientist for NewYew, a health and beauty company experimenting with a new, anti-aging hand lotion. As more and more anomalies crop up in testing, Lyle realizes that the lotion’s formula has somehow gone horribly wrong. It is actively overwriting the DNA of anyone who uses it, turning them into physical clones of someone else.

Lyle wants to destroy the formula, but NewYew thinks it might be the greatest beauty product ever designed—and the world’s governments think it’s the greatest weapon.

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The Glory of the Stars by Angie Lofthouse

On the vast generation ship, the Kingdom of Heaven, President Jeremiah Black’s word is law. It is doctrine. It is the voice of God.

Four hundred years ago, the First Families boarded the Kingdom of Heaven to leave behind a wicked Earth and find a new home where they could build Zion—on a planet they named Canaan, a place the ship wouldn’t reach for a thousand years. Only their descendants would see this new world. But after so many years, conditions on the Kingdom of Heaven are much different from what those First Families had planned.

When Nephi Packard of telestial deck runs afoul of President Black and his High Council, he learns the hard way why leftovers like him don’t mingle with the celestials. While recovering from his harsh punishment for violating the rules with Black’s own granddaughter, an archangel appears to Nephi, and a calling to restore the true gospel to the Kingdom of Heaven turns Nephi’s life upside down. Now, armed with the word of God, Nephi and his friends from telestial deck must bring light, truth, and freedom to the citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven without getting cast out of the ship into outer darkness for heresy by President Black and his celestials.

The Glory of the Stars is a tribute to faith, courage, and the power of God.

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Starbird: Oneida's Fury by Robert James Schultz

Gunnar Conrad and Audra Atlanta have made a wonderful life together as husband and wife serving with the Kalamar Flight Ministry. But Gunnar’s high risk profession as the Ministry’s top fighter ace has long troubled Audra. Her hopes of getting Gunnar out of the cockpit are finally realized when Gunnar’s life-long friend and wingman, Rick Niker, recommends him for a command chair of one of Kalamar’s new Assault Corsairs, the Starbird.

Tough, compact and powerful, the Starbird is a radical new breakthrough in Corsair design. But even new technology has its limits. On one of their first mission assignments, Gunnar and Rick are dispatched to rescue several Kalamarion freighters caught in the expansive gravitational fields of a class four Black Hole, the Oneida Cauldron. Caught in the same gravitational fields, they find themselves in a no win scenario where only theoretical Worm Hole travel can help them escape. Somehow, a miscalculation sends their two ships across time and space to another galaxy where they are thrown into the middle of a conflict as unforgiving as the one they came from.

Enduring personal tragedy, Gunnar and Rick find new friends in unlikely places as they are relentlessly pursued by the warring factions of Hadrian for the vastly advanced technology that is the Starbird.

New Release:

The Pirate from the Stars Book 1- Renegade by Cheree Alsop

Space pirate meets Robin Hood in this edge-of-your-seat space adventure about an officer turned pirate.

When a tragedy makes his brother his enemy, Gage becomes a pirate captain who fills his time robbing from the rich Coalition and giving to the poor planets struggling to survive across the vast Macrocosm.

But being a pirate comes with its risks, and Gage is hard-pressed to protect his crew and loved ones against the dangers of having enemies with bigger guns and faster ships.

It doesn’t help that he has a soft heart for damsels in distress and can never say no to a good adventure.

New Release:

Push by Jared Garrett

Two months after the attack on New Frisko, Nik Granger and the other survivors believe themselves hidden from the tyrannical rule of Prime Administrator Adam Holland. Until one day when Nik returns to camp to discover they weren't safe at all. Holland and his Enforsers have killed or captured most of the survivors—including Nik’s parents.

Nik and a few friends barely escape with their lives and must race to stop Holland before he murders the rest of their friends and family. As they travel through what’s left of America, Nik, Pol and Melisa face danger at every turn, including Ranjers who will stop at nothing to carry out Holland’s sadistic orders. With the world against them, can they make it in time to save what’s left of humanity? And when it comes to it, will Nik have what it takes to destroy Holland once and for all?

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Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson

If you could re-create a day, what dark secrets would you uncover?

Anthony Davis and his partner Chaz are the only real people in a city of 20 million, sent there by court order to find out what happened in the real world 10 days ago so that hidden evidence can be brought to light and located in the real city today.

Within the re-created Snapshot of May 1st, Davis and Chaz are the ultimate authorities. Flashing their badges will get them past any obstruction and overrule any civil right of the dupes around them. But the crimes the detectives are sent to investigate seem like drudgery—until they stumble upon the grisly results of a mass killing that the precinct headquarters orders them not to investigate. That’s one order they have to refuse.

The hunt is on. And though the dupes in the replica city have no future once the Snapshot is turned off, that doesn’t mean that both Davis and Chaz will walk out of it alive tonight.

New Release:

The Captain and the Healer's Heart by Betsy Love

With an impending murder charge, Giada must escape Earth before the Amahrian enforcers find her. Desperate, she accepts an offer to be a StarBride to a wealthy governor on another planet. What she didn’t account for was the handsome and irksome pilot whose only thoughts are about profits.

Captain Skyler Rohn can’t go back to Earth; he’s a wanted man, and he needs money to prove his innocence. When a job offer comes in that pays handsomely to transport a StarBride, Skyler can’t resist. His ship damaged, Skyler’s only choice is to land on a habitable moon before their oxygen runs out.

If only Giada and Skyler had met before she had agreed to be another man’s wife.

New Release:

Falling for a Fraud by Betsy Love

“Beauty is skin deep, but ugly is to the bone.”

That’s what Kat’s grandfather used to say. With the global games only a few months away, her jump team encounters serious financial troubles. Their only chance is for Kat to take the enticing, though questionable investment offer from Lorenzo Watt. One look at his handsome face reminds her of Granddah’s warning. She wonders if Lorenzo is worth the risk of a deeper look.

Lorenzo knows his looks are a commodity, an asset to charm and manipulate gorgeous women into marrying off-worlders. To him, it’s just a job that repays a debt.

Complications arise when he is assigned to lure Kat into being a starbride. He didn’t expect her to be quite so challenging, nor did he anticipate the lure of her beauty.

New Release:

Planet of the Red Dust by N. Tolman Rudolph

Jared Adams is the sole survivor of the space ship Wayfarer, wrecked on a dead planet, alone in this barren world. Until he sees two humans arrive at the crash site.

Aaronia, daughter of the king, and her uncle Porto are in awe of this strange man who speaks babble and yet appears God-like. He rescues her uncle from a deadly beast by throwing lightning from his hand, then takes them back to their camp in a miraculous cart that runs on its own power.

Though their languages are different, Aaronia and Jared are drawn to each other. Despite Aaronia’s pleas, her father the king is in fear of how Jared’s advanced technology might adversely affect their world. Jared is imprisoned and sentenced to death.

Aaronia must somehow prevent Jared’s execution. And the two of them must find a way to save the people of Sionon from their forced execution by a dying planet.

New Release:

The Darklights by Michaelbrent Collings

I am a FixIt.

When the Company has a problem—a factory gone under, books that need auditing, or a rebellious planet to be destroyed—I’m there, and I take care of it. I’m the most successful FixIt in Company history, and I have NEVER failed to punch a ticket.

TF-653 is different. The staff and crew of a terraforming installation on a planet so strange it cannot be described have disappeared. It’s my job to go there, to find the problem, and to stop it. Or kill it.

But some things can’t be killed. Because some things are already dead.

And some things… are even worse. Because some things can only be seen in THE DARKLIGHTS.

New Release:

Sketches by Teyla Branton

Eighty years after Breakdown, Detective Reese Parker has pulled herself up from the dregs of society in Welfare Colony 6 to become a sketch artist and enforcer for the CORE (Commonwealth Objective for Reform and Efficiency). She works hard with other enforcers to maintain peace and order among the CORE’s 2 million residents, especially against the radiation-crazed outsiders called fringers.

But Reese hides a secret she can never share with anyone, a secret that killed her father and ruined the life of the person she once loved more than anyone.

When a new assignment sends Reese to Amarillo City, near where she grew up, she’s partnered with Jaxon Tennant on the Violent Crimes Investigation Unit, and she knows her secret won’t stay secret long. Somehow their past is connected to missing scientists and programmers, but all leads go nowhere: evidence disappears, witnesses change testimony, and names vanish from the CORE database.

Someone is willing to do anything to stop Reese and her former Colony 6 crew from discovering the truth behind what is has been done to them—and thousands of others. To learn what they have become, Reese and her friends must go against the very foundations of the society they serve. There is no going back.

New Release:

The Time Seller by Abel Keogh

The year is 1017 A.D. A mysterious giant terrorizes small villages near the city of Sredets, the last remaining stronghold of the First Bulgarian Empire. Disgraced solider Simeon Exarch is reluctantly drawn into the fight and manages to slay the giant. But his victory comes at a price—the deaths of his wife, Irina, and son, Cyril.

A thousand years later, Simeon lives on, having harnessed the giant’s powers to prolong his life and those of his friends. Then one evening, he notices a woman who looks exactly like Irina. From the sun-shaped birthmark on her neck to her smell of her body and the fact that she and his late wife share the same name, Simeon becomes convinced that the woman is his late wife and holds the key to eternal life.

Kidnapped on her wedding night, Irina has no memories of the past. Her husband, Miles, will do anything to rescue her from her captor. Soon, they will both learn just how deep their love for each other goes, as well as what happens when one crosses the threshold from life to death.

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Flicker by Rebecca Rode

Getting sold to the Empire was never part of the plan.

Ember lives two very different lives. By day she’s a mysterious Roma future-teller, and by night she struggles to care for her sick father. All she wants is the power to control her own life—no arranged marriage, no more poverty. Her future-reading talent is what will get her there.

But when the Empire discovers her gift, Ember’s life changes forever.

Ember soon finds her innocent talent is far more dangerous than she believed. The Empire wants to turn her into a deadly weapon. But Ember has plans of her own, and they don’t include living under the Empire’s control.

Because even the best weapons can backfire.

New Release:

Colonial Prime: Humanity by Kevin L. Nielsen

Captain Amara Corrin, hero of the late Solar Wars, commands the first colonial fleet. Full of hopeful dreamers looking for a new home, world-weary ex-soldiers, and those just seeking escape; five ships set out from Earth with the hopes of humanity behind them. But Amara soon finds herself with more trouble than she can handle. The Council, Earth’s new governing body, has saddled her with their political rivals, exiling them to a place where they can do no harm.

Struggling to find balance, Amara appoints a fresh-faced first officer with a hidden past, Nathan Esquina, as she fights to keep her son, Jaelyn, free of the political machinations of those aboard the ship who would destroy their fragile peace. When a message from Earth alerts them that The Council has fallen, Amara, Nathan, and Jaelyn find themselves in a pitched battle where a single mistake could end not only their own lives, but those of every person aboard their colonial fleet.

New Release:

The Debt of Truth by Norma T. Rudolph

Summer hears voices. Even for someone with the gift of mind-speech this isn’t normal. But that’s only the beginning of her troubles. Her best friend Angela, the sweetest, kindest, person she knows, has bonded with the mad man who tried to kill Summer and Bentri months before. And, when Angela’s bullying ex-boyfriend pokes around “Jake’s Hell” he sees things he shouldn’t. Angela’s blabbermouth mother also suspects something. The Ahtomalians have to figure out how to keep the city of Daneye safe. . . and a secret.
The voices claim to be gifted persons who were left behind on the Ahtomalian’s old planet. Summer and Bentri want to help these poor souls. But the only person old enough to remember how the city transported to Earth has forgotten the truth. Somehow, they have to break the cycle of lies. . .

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Memory's Blade by Spencer Ellsworth

At the heart of the Dark Zone, a duel for the universe rages.

In an ancient Jorian temple, Jaqi faces John Starfire, the new ruler of the Empire. He has set all the worlds aflame in his quest to destroy humankind. Jaqi has sworn to stop him. Problem is, Jaqi isn’t much of a fighter.

Meanwhile, the sun-eating cosmic spiders, the Shir, have moved out of the Dark Zone and are consuming the galaxy. Araskar knows that he must hold them back, but to do that, he has to give himself over to the Resistance, under the command of John Starfire’s wife. And she wants him dead more than she wants the stars to live.

If Jaqi and Araskar can fight their way out, they can use a secret at the heart of the Dark Zone to free the galaxy, and end John Starfire’s new tyranny. They lose, and every star in the sky will go dark.

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If you're doing the Alphabet Challenge and planning to read Xenocide (or all four of the Ender books), I highly recommend the Audible books. They are well performed. (I actually read them all in 2012 but have reread them this month so I could claim Xenocide for the challenge.)

New Release:

Flare: Ember in Space Book Two by Rebecca Rode

The Empire has taken everything from Ember. It’s time for payback.

Ember doesn’t have time to mourn. She’s got big plans—save the oppressed flickers, rescue Stefan, and bring the Empire to its knees. But she soon discovers that her ability has a terrible, unthinkable cost. Can Ember choose between the man she loves and the Empire she hates?

Stefan has succeeded in helping Ember escape. His grandmother’s prophecy is being fulfilled and he’s ready to face execution for his part in it. But when he uncovers the Union’s deadly secret, Stefan realizes he must survive long enough to find the Union’s base and warn Ember— before she pays with her life.

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The Double-Edged Choice: A Futuristic Fantasy by Katherine Padilla

1 captured agent. 2 Royal Twins. 4 minds needed to teleport a ship to Novaun.

Now ruled by nobles exiled from their home planet Diron, the primitive planet Earth has, in a mere twenty years, risen to heights of technology and power unforeseen by the civilized galaxy. As Earth seeks to expand its dominions, Novaunian agent Daniel Zarek discovers a secret tie between Earth and Novaun. The Earthons kill Daniel to keep him from revealing this terrible knowledge to his people and capture his son Myke.

The Earthons send Myke to serve as a cadet aboard a Star Force base ship stationed on the perimeter of the galaxy to fight the renegade Diron fleets. The only way Myke can escape is to use a telepathic procedure his father invented, but he needs three other people with strong telepathic abilities to make it work. Among the cadets are the mysterious twins Paul and Deia Sheldon. Myke must decide whether they are his most trusted allies or agents for their uncle—Earth’s Director of Intelligence.

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Flame by Rebecca Rode

Two flares… Only one will claim victory.

Ember has thrown the empire into upheaval. The entire realm knows her face, and her name is whispered in alleys and in the underground. Everyone wants to know what she’ll do next, because it’s clear she’s the only person alive who can challenge their new, strangely powerful emperor. A massive battle is inevitable—and the entire realm is taking sides.

There’s just one problem. Every time Ember uses her power, she loses a piece of herself. Fighting the emperor could cost her very soul.

Meanwhile, Stefan worries that Ember is slipping away from him. As she grows erratic and unpredictable, he’s torn between his love for her and his desire to protect the revolutionaries. Can Stefan save the woman he loves? And can Ember fulfill the prophecy written in the stars before she loses herself completely?

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Visions by Teyla Branton

His visions can save them—if he defeats the madness that waits for them all…

Enforcer Jaxon Tennant and his former Colony 6 crew are the last hope for a post-Breakdown society, where CORE Elite experiment on and enslave those they profess to aid. Jaxon’s gift of premonitions, his visions of what will be, are growing stronger and more frequent—and equally more terrifying. But he sees nothing of the vision he needs most, and if he doesn’t find a way to change that, there may not be a future for one of his crew.

When they attempt to save a potential ally, the man turns out to be more than what he seems, and the crew must make a hard choice. Either way, people will die.

When their plan goes sideways, they start down a path that might get them all killed before they have the chance to save the CORE’s two million residents. Before Jaxon has a chance to win the woman he will always love.

What more they uncover about their past and Jaxon’s parentage might be the most startling revelation of all.

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Fall to Eden: An Apocalyptic Fantasy by Katherine Padilla

Benefactor or invader? Messiah or anti-Christ? Descendant of the Son of God or emissary of Satan?

Alien emperor Tohmazz Zarr is on a mission to save his nation from extinction and has found new followers on Earth. While Earth prepares for invasion by Zarr’s enemies, Latter-day Saint Sara Alexander defies her parents and the leaders of her church to join a colony led by world-renowned organizational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Carroll, whose goal is to create Zion on an uninhabited planet named Eden.

Before Sara leaves Earth, her father reveals that they are from the planet Novaun and gives her his arelada, the mysterious crystal that makes telepathy possible. Devoted to Dr. Carroll’s son, Sara is unaware that Carroll, himself, has developed an attraction to her. Sara’s relationship with Carroll ignites passion that throws the colony into chaos. When Eden’s planet-spirit begins reacting violently to what it perceives as the colonists’ unrighteous behavior, even Sara’s Novaunian knowledge and arelada may not be enough to save the colony from destruction.

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Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

A girl who dreams of becoming a pilot in a dangerous world at war for humanity’s future.

Spensa’s world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what’s left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa’s dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father’s–a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa’s chances of attending flight school at slim to none.

No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, yet fate works in mysterious ways. Flight school might be a long shot, but she is determined to fly. And an accidental discovery in a long-forgotten cavern might just provide her with a way to claim the stars.

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Paper Heroes by Steven Heumann

Would you choose to become a hero - even if you knew it was all a lie?

Stewart Mitchell, corporate middle manager, is forced to ask himself that questions when he's pulled into a conspiracy that promises to change the world for the better but could destroy the lives of everyone involved.

One terrorist attack on New York turns Stewart's life upside down. His reclusive and massively rich boss offers the chance to make a difference in the most dramatic way possible and Stewart accepts, bringing his friends along for the ride. Soon the deception takes its toll, making him question not only his decisions, but his understanding of himself. Plus, with the FBI hot on his tail he may not be able save anyone, including those closest to him. Can he salvage his life, or will his deceit bring ruin down on everyone he cares about? The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and Stewart has his foot on the gas.

Paper Heroes is a contemporary sci-fi novel that mixes politics, technology and heroism.

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Time's Plague by C. David Belt

Llyrica sent Edgar to Hell: Hades Penal Colony on the forbidden moon Callisto. Now Edgar must escape to save her.

Edgar has awoken in Hell—or more specifically, in the Hades Penal Colony on Callisto, moon of Jupiter. The year is 2175, and interplanetary freighter captain, Edgar Kent Cordell, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder he didn’t commit. He was framed by his best friend and business partner, Edmund Reagan, his ex-wife, Llyrica, and Edgar’s cargomaster, Georgie “Goner” Cornwall.

Hades is a hellish place, populated with murderers and rapists, the worst of the worst—all of them male. There is no warden. There are no guards. All sentences are for life. There is no reprieve, no appeal, and no escape from Hades. No ship ever lands there—it is forbidden and illegal. Prisoners and necessary supplies are dropped from orbit. A brutal gang-lord rules—a man who calls himself “Lord Lucifer.”

Within an hour of his arrival, Edgar is savagely beaten and raped. Within days, his face is disfigured and his throat is cut. But Edgar survives.

No ship ever lands on Callisto… that is, until a shuttle crash-lands. There is only one survivor—Llyrica, Edgar’s ex-wife, the one person in all the solar system Edgar hates most—the only woman Edgar has ever loved. No woman can survive on Callisto. There is a plague on the moon that kills all females. When the colony was originally settled, all the women and girls became sick. 80% of them died before the colony could be evacuated. And then there is the danger from the prisoners themselves.

Edgar must find a way to protect Llyrica from the other men, get her off-world, and escape from Hades. Llyrica is blinded in the crash. Edgar, with his scarred voice and face, is unrecognizable to her. She has no idea who her protector is. And Edgar isn’t about to reveal his identity. He assumes the persona of mad Tom Bedlam (his “prison name”). Edgar will save Llyrica, he will protect her, but he desperately needs to know why she betrayed him… and what she was doing on the forbidden moon Callisto.

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The Hive by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

The history of the Formic Wars—the alien invasions of Earth’s Solar System.

A coalition of Earth’s nations barely fought off the Formics’ first scout ship. Now it’s clear that there’s a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth’s warring nations and corporations put aside their differences and mount an effective defense?

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Travels: A Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel by Teyla Branton

It’s time for sixers to fight back!

Lyssa Sloan is a sixer, one of the lucky few who escaped Colony 6 before the extermination began. Lyssa has long been forced to hide the truth of her daughter’s birth and her own unusual ability, even from the man she loves, or risk exile to a colony.

Now with tightening control throughout the CORE and a new Elite plot to enslave more of the population, she and her reunited sixer crew are all that stand in the way of a corrupt government bent on total control.The crew braves radiation-crazed beasts to seek help outside the CORE Territories. But will the leaders of Newcali become their allies or lead to their downfall?

Whatever the answer, the betrayals they must make mean there is no going back. It’s now or never.

Skydwellers is a science fiction adventure novel that I tried to make really unique. The surface world is based off of 19th-century midwestern America, and there are goblins.

The plot revolves around a technologically advanced society who lives in flying cities and who has managed to basically turn their own brains into smartphones. But there's a political conspiracy brewing, and to stop those who would seize power, the heroes will discover some surprising secrets about the ancient history of their world and how the skydwellers came to be.

I'm also working on the sequel right now!

My latest novel just came out! It's a super fun read about mathematics, robots, goblins, and hippies. Trust me, it works somehow. :)

Are there any authors of LDS romance who would like to be part of an online critique group? If so, please email me at barbara.fallick@gmail.com. Thanks

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The audiobook version of my family-friendly steampunk dinosaur fantasy adventure Thunder Girl is now available on Audible (and soon on iTunes)!

If you enjoy audiobooks, I hope you'll check this one out. Narrator Benjamin Fife did a superb job and I'm so glad I hired him.

(Cross-posting this to Fantasy because it's got both sci-fi and fantasy elements.)

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The audiobook version of my values-based YA sci-fi novel On Borrowed Wings is out!

Professional narrator Benjamin Fife does a masterful job reading the story of a girl who finds an ancient giant robot, a boy who becomes embroiled in a plot for world domination, and the man trying to use them both as puppets in his grand schemes. Although they were born with bodies and minds that don't quite work right sometimes, can Nimbus and Jacob use their newfound robot friends, psionic powers, and a cast of quirky allies to flip the script and keep humanity safe and free?

On Borrowed Wings is a tale of hope, positivity, growing up, and breaking the barriers our own challenges sometimes seem to impose on us. Plus, it's a clean read the whole family can enjoy!

Uncharted Stars is an out-of-the-box story—a sweet, second-chance romance in a scifi setting.

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