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  ⭐⭐⭐   Stars Book Released Blurb From Amazon.com bestselling duo Daniele Bonfanti & Valentina Kay comes a new serial novel of wild space adventure! Modifying bees, genetically and cybernetically, did not save Earth from Eco-Singularity. But the surviving few who made it to Ganymede rebooted civilization as the a covenant of humans and bee-colony superorganisms. Captain Petra, a bee colony, helms the starship Endurance—a self-sustaining ecosystem reminiscent of a Mediterranean village (plus photosynthetic hull, greenhouse main deck, and dark energy sails). With her lover, the alien flowering plant-like Wyk, and her daredevil crew, they travel via the ridiculously dangerous icebreaking process, which implies moving as thought through the mind of the Sentient Universe. In the pilot Episode – and standalone novella – “Poiesis” they encounter a derelict, monstrous ship. Petra, Wyk, and two human crewmates board guts of the ship which look like actual guts, cyber-zombies, a mul...

EXTANT by Michael McBride From the Back Cover ONE OF HISTORY'S GREATEST MYSTERIES. In 524 BCE, Cambyses II, King of Persia, dispatched his forces to the Siwa Oasis to destroy the Oracle of Amun, whose priests refused to legitimize his claim to Egypt. According to historical records, 50,000 soldiers marched into the desert from Luxor and vanished into a sandstorm. NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN. Hoping to discover the lost army’s fate, a team of scientists utilizes satellite archeology to locate ancient ruins hidden beneath the dunes. Subsequent excavation reveals a temple devoted to Sekhmet, warrior goddess of destruction. Hidden within it are chambers filled with bones. THEY NEVER STOOD A CHANCE. The scientists quickly realize that they’re not alone. Something is hunting them inside the buried tomb, a creature that has evolved to live in complete darkness, an extant species that will stop at nothing to make sure that no one ever learns of its existence, because in the end… NATURE ALWAYS F...