Happy SciFi Month to all who celebrate!

I’m not sure what all I’ll read this month but let’s see what’s close at hand on my ereader and on audio.

“When two Texas farmers unearth a thousand-year-old flying saucer, their simple country life takes an intergalactic turn for the absurd. Donny, a die-hard UFO conspiracy buff, finally gets his “I told you so” moment – dragging his sarcastic and skeptical friend Pablo into the most chaotic, side-splitting space adventure of the century.”

I like funny sci fi so we’ll see how this one goes.

“The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. 

When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved. The UN Expeditionary Force hitched a ride on Kristang ships to fight the Ruhar, wherever our new allies thought we could be useful. So, I went from fighting with the US Army in Nigeria, to fighting in space. It was lies, all of it. We shouldn’t even be fighting the Ruhar, they aren’t our enemy, our allies are. “

I’m not usually a hard sci fi fan but maybe the colonization aspect could be interesting.

“In order to escape being a worker drone in a dismal dictatorship, Sasha joins a group of people seeking asylum on the continent of Galvlohi. Once a world power, deadly nanobots wiped out much of Galvlohi’s population. A century later, cities have given way to wilderness, and descendants of the surivors live insulated and harmonious lives with the land, only opening their borders for refugees like Sasha. It’s the perfect place to start over, to get clean, and to figure out who he is.

But his fellowship is strict about not wandering off, and it’s willing to use violence to get the point across. It’s far from the adventure and freedom Sasha expected to find, and worse, his new life threatens to end before it’s even begun when he’s afflicted with continent’s deadly nanobots. A Galvloan woman saves his life by sharing the anti-malware in her blood, but his heart is irreparably damaged.

He wants to repay the woman’s kindness, and she wants someone to find her missing brother, Corvin, which seems like the perfect job for a novice adventurer. Escaping his fellowship with a debilitating heart arrhythmia might be the easy part. Because no matter how far he travels, he can’t outrun his own problems, and the world is full of people who could be friend or foe and terrifying animals he was sure were extinct.

Then there’s Corvin. And there’s nothing easy about Corvin.”

The blurb on this one wouldn’t have grabbed me but I’ve really liked this author in the past so I’ll give it a try.

“Lileala has just been named the Rare Indigo – beauty among beauties – and is about to embrace her stardom, until something threatens to change her whole lifestyle and turn the planet of Swazembi upside down.

Colonized by the descendants of Earth’s West African Dogon Tribe, the planet of Swazembi is a blazing, color-rich utopia and famous vacation center of the galaxy. No one is used to serious trouble in this idyllic, peace-loving world, least of all the Rare Indigo.

But Lileala’s perfect, pampered lifestyle is about to be shattered. The unthinkable happens and her glorious midnight skin becomes infected with a mysterious disease. Where her skin should glisten like diamonds mixed with coal, instead it scabs and scars. On top of that, she starts to hear voices in her head, and everything around her becomes confusing and frightening.

Lileala’s destiny, however, goes far beyond her beauty. While searching for a cure, she stumbles upon something much more valuable. A new power awakens inside her, and she realizes her whole life, and the galaxy with it, is about to change…”

This one just seemed different from anything else I’ve seen recently.

All of my audiobook listening for a few months has been Nathan Lowell’s space opera series and its offshoots. This is what I’m up to. No summary because they have a tendency to have spoilers so I don’t look ahead. I just listen to the next one. I’m sure I’ll listen to several more during the month.