Tuesday, August 8, 2017

"Dominion Rising" by P. K. Tyler and others

REVIEW and GIVEAWAY
Dominion Rising:
23 Brand New Novels from Top Fantasy and Science Fiction Authors
by P. K. Tyler and others

Dominion Rising:  23 Brand New Novels from Top Fantasy and Science Fiction Authors by P. K. Tyler and others

Dominion Rising has just been released and is yours for only $0.99! It's jam-packed with 23 brand new Fantasy and Science Fiction novels, including Mind Raider by P. K. Tyler and S. M. Blooding. Join the Facebook event from 7 to 13 August for a chance to meet the authors and enter some giveaways.


Keep reading for two great giveaways and my review of Mind RaiderMore books and stories by P. K. Tyler: White Chalk (read my blog post), Dead Girl (read my blog post), Heaven's Vault (read my blog post), Alt. History 101 (read my blog post), Mosaics Volume 2 (read my blog post), CLONES: The Anthology (read my blog post), Book of Lilith (read my blog post), Avendui 5ive (read my blog post), Twin Helix (read blog post), The Jakkattu Vector (read my blog post), UnCommon Bodies (read my blog post), UnCommon Origins (read my blog post), UnCommon Minds (read my blog post).

Description
Find all the Sci-Fi and Fantasy reads you've been craving in one fantastic set!
Whether it's alien invasion or dark fairytales, heart-pounding galactic adventures or cyberpunk romance, Dominion Rising will satisfy with a thrilling mix of 23 BRAND NEW novels set in fantastical realms. Sword and sorcery, far-flung galactic empires, alternative history, epic magic, slipstream futures: this collection of carefully selected, exclusive novels is sure to please and delight readers of speculative fiction.
Over five thousand pages packed with aliens, faeries, vampires, gargoyles, warriors, telepaths, space pirates, starship captains, hapless mercenaries, street urchins, robots, cyber-enhanced humans, badass heroines, and lost princesses.
Dominion Rising brings you a galaxy of talented authors, including New York Times bestselling authors Gwynn White, Margo Bond Collins, Tom Shutt, Felix R. Savage and Erin St Pierre; USA Today bestselling authors P. K. Tyler, Anthea Sharp, S. M. Schmitz, K. J. Colt, Dean F. Wilson, Lisa Blackwood, Marilyn Peake, J. C. Andrijeski and Erin Hayes; and award-winning and Amazon bestselling authors S. M. Blooding, Melanie Karsak, Timothy C. Ward, Daniel Arthur Smith, Tony Bertauski, Rebecca Rode, Cheri Lasota, Ann Christy, Becca Andre, Logan Snyder, Ella Summers, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy notable Samuel Peralta.
Dominion Rising is a limited edition Fantasy and Sci-fi collection of unparalleled value. Grab your copy today!
Featuring:
Reign of Steel and Bone by Erin St Pierre and Gwynn White
A stolen weapon. A forbidden romance. One chance to save the world ...

Mind Raider by S. M. Blooding and P. K. Tyler
One weapon to re-write everything. One team to stop it all.

Sorcery & Science by Ella Summers
Urban fantasy. Galactic consequences. Sorcery & Science is a new urban fantasy novel set in the rebooted Sorcery & Science universe.

Spectral Shift by Daniel Arthur Smith
We were never alone.
A prescient rendering of a dark cyberpunk future, a Neon Dystopia with a Lovecraftian flair.

Petra: Immortal Codex, Book 1 by Cheri Lasota
The darker the gift, the higher the blood price. And I have paid it all.

Infinite Waste by Dean F. Wilson
An epic space opera adventure.

Girard The Guardian by Ann Christy
True Vampire ... They're not what you think. True Vampire ... All Will Be Revealed.

Flicker by Rebecca Rode
Even the best weapons can backfire.

Star Compass by Anthea Sharp
Charles Dickens meets Firefly in this SF Steampunk tale of an orphan destined for the stars.

Vengeance: Warships of the Spire by S. M. Schmitz and Lisa Blackwood
When rogue AIs steal everything that matters most, the only thing left is vengeance.

Touching Infinity by Erin Hayes
These space pirates thought they were prepared for anything. They were so wrong.

Death Plague by K. J. Colt
Faced with a disease that could wipe out the nation of Senya, King Cevznik decreed that healers were the property of the country, and belonged to all men. They were beaten, ravished, and enslaved like animals, depriving them of purity and holiness.

Curiouser and Curiouser by Melanie Karsak
Sometimes love is mad.

Ultras by Timothy C. Ward
Forbidden Memories. Ancient Powers. Galactic Uprising.

Maze: The Waking of Grey Grimm by Tony Bertauski
Awareness leaping is all the rage.

Blood for Stone by Logan T. Snyder
Meridia's most notorious investigators meet their match, and nothing will ever be the same again.

The Incurables by Felix R. Savage
A Game of Thrones ... set in 1980s Belfast.

Ferromancer by Becca Andre
Solutions aren't always black and white - sometimes they come in shades of iron gray.

The Other by Marilyn Peake
Fear can blind you to the truth.

New York by J. C. Andrijeski
Born in a cyber world. Hunted by an ancient cult.

Rift Cursed by Margo Bond Collins
Madness isn't the worst that can happen.

The Zoo at the End of the World by Samuel Peralta
A young girl, one of the caretakers at a private zoo, looks after her charges in the weeks before a comet destroys humanity.

Iron Tamer by Tom Shutt
This is not a completed novel. Tom Shutt passed away during the production of this book. The authors of Dominion Rising have included it in honor of his contribution.

Excerpt
Click below to read an excerpt, including one whole book.


Praise for the Books
On the Dominion Rising Boxed Set
"From the three books I've read, this is a knock-out of a collection and I can't wait to get my hands on the other books included inside Dominion Rising." ~ Author Will Swardstrom
On Gwynn White and Erin St. Pierre's Reign of Bone and Steel
"One more WOW to review collection! I absolutely loved it." ~ Alice, Goodreads Reviewer
On Marilyn Peake's The Other
"... A clever and very engaging re-interpretation of the Roswell mystery." ~ Nick Manning
On Cheri Lasota's Petra
"You have done for me what even Anne Rice can't. You glued me to the story of Petra in the first sentence! Petra and Lucius are really classy. I love them both so much! You are sensational!" ~ Author Maggie Stewart-Grant
On Samuel Peralta's The Zoo at the End of the World
"If this story is any indication of the rest of the book ... I CANNOT WAIT! "Zoo" is brilliantly written and completely engaging ... I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book!!! If I could give 10 stars, I would!" ~ Donna, Goodreads Reviewer
On Becca Andre's Ferromancer
"Highly recommended! This exciting new series is just what I would expect from Becca Andre - great plot, imaginative yet realistic fantasy elements, all set into a carefully researched real world background." ~ Walt, Goodreads Reviewer
On Daniel Arthur Smith's Spectral Shift
"A fun, fantastic read that could be the start of a terrific series ... Smith isn't afraid to showcase the depths of his story, told in a noir cyperpunk way, a la Bladerunner." ~ Author Will Swardstrom

Mind Raider:
The Kalamatra Rebellion Book 1
by S. M. Blooding and P. K. Tyler

Mind Raider: The Kalamatra Rebellion Book 1 by S. M. Blooding and P. K. Tyler

Description
Humanity has conquered the black, but not their own inherent greed. The four systems surrounding Kalamatra Station provide members of the Elite class with everything they could want: mined minerals, abundant food, and an entire system to call their own, a place of paradise and riches. But for some, that isn’t enough.
Terrans and common spacers suffer under untenable work conditions and crumbling, radioactive stations while the Elite thrive. Now the commoners are threatening to revolt.
With the four systems on the verge of civil war, the Codex Syndicate’s covert intelligence network learns of an Elite weapon designed to alter the common people to their genetic core. The Elite have planned to test deployment on the mutinous Red Sky colony and force their compliance.
Codex Syndicate agent Keva Duste is an ex-military, engineered human with a score to settle. Together with a renegade space captain, an Elite refugee, and two sentient AIs, she must race to locate the weapon and stop the genocide of the human race before it can begin. Can Keva save Red Sky from destruction before the Elite turn this weapon on the rest of the settlements? And if she does, will she ignite a revolution?

My Review
I received this book in return for an honest review.


By Lynda Dickson
Dominion Rising is a collection of 23 Fantasy and Science Fiction novels by 26 different authors. This review is for Mind Raider, the first book in the new Kalamatra Rebellion series by S. M. Blooding and P. K. Tyler.
The book is set in the Black System, comprised of four separate systems, at the center of which is the Kalamatra Station. This world is inhabited by different classes: the Elite, the Families, the military, the spacers, and the terrans, each with their own physical and mental attributes.
Keva is an engineered soldier who is left to die for disobeying a direct order but is rescued and recruited by the Codex Syndicate. Her current mission is to find out everything she can about a bioweapon called Batch D-65. She enlists the help of her AI ILO who is developing a personality of her own, Captain Hale Reeve and his spaceship the Allorian, an Elite woman who constantly surprises her (in a good way), and a bunch of rag-tag hangers-on. Will they be able to locate the weapon before it's too late?
This is a rollicking space adventure, not my usual kind of read but entertaining nevertheless. It's full of likable characters and strong female leads. Coming from a science background, I really enjoyed the scientific aspects of the story. But I would like to have seen a bit more romance! While this book concludes this part of the story and we do get some answers, there is so much more I still want to know. I can't wait to read the next book in the series.
Warnings: coarse language, sexual references, graphic violence.

About the Authors
S. M. Blooding lives in beautiful Montana with her Darling Dork, his two part-time girls, and their cat, Tesla. She enjoys creating with her wonderful husband, doing everything from crochet, to sewing, to art, and, of course, writing. She's lived a pretty colorful life, giving breath to her stories.
She's dated vampires, werewolves, sorcerers, weapons smugglers, U.S. Government assassins, and slingshot terrorist. No. She is not kidding.
She also enjoys going out on paranormal investigations, and when she goes back to Denver, she'll catch an investigation with her team, Colorado Paranormal Rescue.

P. K. Tyler is the author of Speculative Fiction and other Genre Bending novels. She's also published works as Pavarti K. Tyler and had projects appear on the USA Today Bestseller's List.
Pav attended Smith College and graduated with a degree in Theatre. She lived in New York, where she worked as a Dramaturge, Assistant Director and Production Manager on productions both on and off-Broadway. Later, Pavarti went to work in the finance industry for several international law firms.
Now located in Baltimore, Maryland, she lives with her husband, two daughters, and two terrible dogs. When not penning science fiction books and other speculative fiction novels, she twists her mind by writing horror and erotica.

Giveaways
Enter the Dominion Rising giveaway for a chance to win an iPad mini, over 20 paperback books, a Dominion Rising bonus content paperback, or custom Swag! All winners will receive a free copy of the Dominion Rising extra content! Ends 12 August.

Dominion Rising giveaway

Enter the Mind Raider giveaway for a chance to win a box of goodies, including your very own huggable, loveable face-hugger plushie, a Gamora PopFunko, a Firefly Keyring, and a Science Fiction t-shirt! Ends 12 August.

Mind Raider giveaway

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