Posts Tagged ‘science fiction’

Pump Up Your Book Presents The Ark Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Liddell Nolen’s THE ARK virtual book tour May 4 – June 26! Title: The Ark Author: Laura Liddell Nolen Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: 239 Genre: YA Scifi Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook There’s a meteor headed for Earth, and there is only one way to survive. It’s the final days of earth, and sixteen-year-old Char is right where she belongs: in prison. With her criminal record, she doesn’t qualify for a place on an Ark, one of the five massive bioships designed to protect earth’s survivors during the meteor strike that looks set to destroy the planet. Only a select few will be
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Bookwright Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you George R. Dasher’s BOOKWRIGHT virtual book tour April 20-May 1! Title: Bookwright Author: George R. Dasher Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Science Fiction Format: Kindle/Paperback/Hardcover With his ship crippled and his crew dead, Jarl Hawkins fights for survival in space as his dying spaceship, the Cassiopeia, drifts out of control. But there is nothing he can do, and his own death is certain. Oddly enough, rescue comes in the form of an old wizard named Kvasir, who offers Jarl his chance at a new life on Vanir, a planet unlike anything Jarl has ever encountered. There, the King fights his rivals for control of his
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Desert Rising Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kelley Grant’s DESERT RISING virtual book tour April 13-30!   Title: Desert Rising Author: Kelley Grant Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Kindle “It frightens me, knowing the One has called up two such strong individuals. It means that there are troubled times in our future, and you must prepare yourselves.” The Temple at Illian is the crown jewel of life in the Northern Territory. There, pledges are paired with feli, the giant sacred cats of the One god, and are instructed to serve the One’s four capricious deities. Yet Sulis, a young woman from the Southern Desert, has
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Apex Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Aer-ki Jyr’s APEX virtual book tour April 6-30! Title: Apex Author: Aer-ki Jyr Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Pages: 368 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Kindle A new dawn is coming. It’s been eons since Humans controlled the universe, after their defeat by a mysterious enemy. With their downfall came a virtual dark age in which culture and technology stagnated. But now trade is once again flourishing as Human artifacts resurface throughout the galaxy, resurrecting long-forgotten advancements. And one such discovery may very well alter the course of the future forever. An epic space adventure, Aer-ki Jyr’s Apex is a breathless race to the ultimate
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Berceuse: The Song Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Trynia Merin’s BERCEUSE: THE SONG book blitz April 6 – April 17!   Title: Berceuse: The Song Author: Trynia Merin Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 350 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Now that Trisha Maypierce is safely back on Earth, she has forgotten much of her last adventure, or has she? Everyday life on earth suddenly becomes far more surreal when she invents a new polymer, and her life is possibly in danger. Her protection, Temporal Anthropologist Professor Esmentaur, who must study the link between his charge and the being Berceuse they encountered on Avious. More questions are generated then answered, as
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Peer Through Time Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David T. Pennington’s PEER THROUGH TIME virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: Peer Through Time Author: David T. Pennington Publisher: Quantaj Publishing Pages: 371 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle In 2079, a time travel experiment sends physicist Carmela Akronfleck further back in time than she’d intended. Though she’s still in her small northern California town, the year is 1936 and she must learn to live without the technology she’s come to rely on. Her neurological implants should be dormant, but she receives a cryptic message, periodically accompanied by an audio transmission from the future. It’s the voice of her former
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{Science Fiction} Peer Through Time Blog Tour Sign Up

David T. Pennington will be touring May 4-29 with his science fiction, PEER THROUGH TIME! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Peer Through Time Author: David T. Pennington Publisher: Quantaj Publishing Pages: 371 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle In 2079, a time travel experiment sends physicist Carmela Akronfleck further back in time than she’d intended. Though she’s still in her small northern California town, the year is 1936 and she must learn to live without the technology she’s come
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Iron Ring Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Auston Habershaw’s THE IRON RING virtual book tour February 10 – 27! Title: The Iron Ring Author: Auston Habershaw Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Pages: 192 Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Format: Kindle Tyvian Reldamar—criminal mastermind, rogue mage, and smuggler of sorcerous goods—has just been betrayed by his longtime partner and left for dead in a freezing river. To add insult to injury, his mysterious rescuer took it upon himself to affix Tyvian with an iron ring that prevents the wearer from any evildoing. Revenge just got complicated. On his quest to get even, Tyvian navigates dark international conspiracies, dodges midnight assassins, and uncovers the
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  • January 15, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Our Dried Voices Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book Tours is pleased to bring you author Greg Hickey‘s Our Dried Voices  (Dystopian / Science Fiction) virtual book tour March 2-31.     Title: Our Dried Voices Author: Greg Hickey Publisher: Scribe Publishing Company Publication Date: November 4, 2014 Pages: 234 ISBN: 978-1940368931 Genre: Dystopian / Science Fiction Format: Paperback, eBook (.mobi / Kindle), PDF   In 2153, cancer was cured. In 2189, AIDS. And in 2235, the last members of the human race traveled to a far distant planet called Pearl to begin the next chapter of humanity. Several hundred years after their arrival, the remainder of humanity lives in a utopian colony in which every want is satisfied automatically,
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(Dystopian / SciFi) Our Dried Voices by Greg Hickey – Blog Tour Sign Up

Greg Hickey will be touring March 2-31, 2015 with his Dystopian / Science Fiction novel, Our Dried Voices!   We Are looking for: Reviews: (paperback / eBook / PDF) Author Guest Posts Author Interviews Character Interviews Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!       In 2153, cancer was cured. In 2189, AIDS. And in 2235, the last members of the human race traveled to a far distant planet called Pearl to begin the next chapter of humanity. Several hundred years after their arrival, the remainder of humanity lives in a utopian
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  • December 18, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Diabolical Miss Hyde Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Viola Carr’s THE DIABOLICAL MISS HYDE virtual book tour February 2 – February 27!   Title: The Diabolical Miss Hyde Author: Viola Carr Publisher: Harper Voyager Pages: 464 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Paperback/E-copy In an electric-powered Victorian London, Dr. Eliza Jekyll is a crime scene investigator, hunting killers with inventive new technological gadgets. Now, a new killer is splattering London in blood, drugging beautiful women and slicing off their limbs. Catching The Slicer will make Eliza’s career – or get her burned. Because Eliza has a dark secret. A seductive second self, set free by her father’s forbidden magical elixir: wild, impulsive
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Straw That Broke Book Blitz – Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tom Whalen’s The Straw That Broke book blitz November 3 – 28! In his rollicking new novel, THE STRAW THAT BROKE, author Tom Whalen continues his ENCYCLOPEDIA MOUSE series, a challenging and funny roller-coaster ride through the outer margins of science-fiction, philosophy, and word play. Readers who reveled in previous books in the series, such as THE CAMEL’S BACK (called “the Moby-Dick of mice” by poet and critic R.H.W. Dillard) and ROITHAMER’S UNIVERSE (which science-fiction writer Rudy Rucker termed “giddy fun”), are sure to greet the arrival of THE STRAW THAT BROKE with anticipation and joy. Lovers of such visionary
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Darkest Side of Saturn Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tony Taylor’s The Darkest Side of Saturn virtual book tour October 20 – November 14!       Title: The Darkest Side of Saturn Author: Tony Taylor Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 492 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON It’s 1997 at a mountaintop observatory in Southern California where spacecraft navigator Harris Mitchel and astronomer Diana Muse-Jones discover a dangerous asteroid which may hit the earth within two decades. As the asteroid tumbles through space towards an uncertain impact, Harris and Diana fight bitterly over how to announce their discovery. When Harris goes public to a skeptical world—at the cost of his and
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Pump Up Your Book Tours Presents Order Of The Seers Trilogy Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book Tours is pleased to bring you Cerece Rennie Murphy‘s Order Of The Seers Trilogy  (Science Fiction) virtual book tour October 1-31.     Title: Order Of The Seers Trilogy Author: Cerece Rennie Murphy Publisher: LionSky Publishing Publication Date: September 30, 2014 Pages: 164 ISBN: 978-0985621049 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Paperback, eBook, PDF   What would you do if you held infinite power in the palm of your hand? The Order of the Seers trilogy poses this question within a story that fuses action, mystery, and romance within a science fiction adventure that keeps you at the edge of your seat. Captured and enslaved for their extraordinary gift, a group of individuals, known
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{Fantasy Science Fiction} Rhapsody Blog Tour Sign Up

David Lundgren will be touring October 6 – 31 with his new fantasy/science fiction, Rhapsody! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback or ebook) Interviews Guest Posts Character Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you!   In RHAPSODY, the Forest has been completely healed and the battles of Books I and II are over, but a corrosive blackness that has been haunting Raf still seems to be growing in strength. They return to Miern to stop a traitor from assuming control of the city, but find themselves caught up in a
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(Science Fiction) Order of the Seers Trilogy by Cerece Rennie Murphy – Blog Tour Sign Up

  Cerece Rennie Murphy will be touring October 1-31 with her science fiction trilogy, Order of the Seers Trilogy! We Are looking for: Reviews: Must be able to read all 3 books in the trilogy (paperback – US Only / eBook & PDF – US & International) Author Guest Posts Author Interviews Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!       The Order of the Seers trilogy poses this question within a story that fuses action, mystery, and romance within a science fiction adventure that keeps you at the edge of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Darkest Side of Saturn Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tony Taylor’s The Darkest Side of Saturn book blitz September 1 – September 12!       Title: The Darkest Side of Saturn Author: Tony Taylor Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 492 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON It’s 1997 at a mountaintop observatory in Southern California where spacecraft navigator Harris Mitchel and astronomer Diana Muse-Jones discover a dangerous asteroid which may hit the earth within two decades. As the asteroid tumbles through space towards an uncertain impact, Harris and Diana fight bitterly over how to announce their discovery. When Harris goes public to a skeptical world—at the cost of his and Diana’s
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{Science Fiction Space Opera} Lieutenant Henry Gallant Blog Tour Sign Up

H. Peter Alesso will be touring September 2 – 26 with his science fiction space opera, Lieutenant Henry Gallant! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Author Guest Posts Character Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! In an era of genetic engineering, Lieutenant Henry Gallant is the only Natural (non-genetically enhanced) officer left in the fleet. Many of his superiors, including rival Anton Neumann, have expressed concern he is not up to the challenge. However, his unique mental abilities have proven essential to the defense of the United
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ocean Whirled Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sam Webb’s Ocean Whirled book blast June 2-13!   Title: Ocean Whirled Author: Sam Webb Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 282 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON “An alien underwater race has invaded the ocean and is gradually wiping out every creature in it. The N’harmae (the carers of the ocean) are the main target of this alien race and are nearly extinct. Penure a young N’harmae who has been brought up by the dolphins must save his ocean world from doom and he can’t take on this task alone!””       Sam Webb has always been fascinated by the ocean and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Rising Leviathan Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Austin Dragon’s Rising Leviathan virtual book publicity tour May 11 – June 4!   ABOUT RISING LEVIATHAN   Title: Rising Leviathan Genre: Science Fiction Author: Austin Dragon Rising Leviathan is the latest sci-fi thriller in the After Eden series—a dramatic mix of politics, religion, and intrigue. The saga continues in the Russian Bloc (Yes, Russia “owns” Eastern Europe too) in the year 2096 with the inexplicable death of the Russian president. Or was it murder? As one leader falls, a deadly power rises. Will there be war or more than one? The march to the explosion of World War III continues— the first global
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Pump Up Your Book Presents grydscaen Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Natsuya Uesugi’s grydscaen book blitz April 28 – May 9! ABOUT GRYDSCAEN   Title: grydscaen Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Author: Natsuya Uesugi Publisher: Xlibris EBook: 288 pages Release Date: July 21, 2011 Follow the lives of the main characters as they come together in the backstory to grydscaen:retribution, the fi rst volume of the grydscaen saga. Faid is tired of life on the run in the Echelons, trying to keep his psychic power in check, he founds the Packrats establishing a safe haven for psychics. As a hacker he uses his jack to support his neurocyne habit. Lino is recruited by the Psi Faction and is sent
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{Young Adult/Teen/Dystopian/Science Fiction for Review} The Cloud Seeders by James Zerndt

James Zerndt will be touring January 6 – 31 with his young adult, teen/dystopian/science fiction, The Cloud Seeders. We are looking for reviews and first chapter reveals.  This book is available in ebook and paperback.  Download your free copy at Amazon until Friday by clicking here. Thanks to all who signed up!  We’re full! Book Description: Serve Your Country, Conserve Your Water, Observe Your Neighbor This is the slogan of the Sustainability Unit and of a country gone eco-hysterical. After nearly twelve months without rain and the hinges of the world barely still oiled, Thomas and his younger brother, Dustin, set out across a drought-ridden landscape in search of
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  • October 20, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents External Forces Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Deborah Rix’s External Forces virtual book tour November 4 – January 31! Deborah’s tour is part of an Accelerate Your Power giveaway. Winner will have a minor character named after them in Acceleration, the second book in The Laws of Motion Trilogy by Deborah Rix. PLUS: 1 (One) WakaWaka Power – a solar powered charger and light, 1 (one) Limited Edition EXTERNAL FORCES Black Ops Beanie, and 1 (one) signed copy of External Forces. See details below on how you can enter to win! ABOUT EXTERNAL FORCES   Title: External Forces Author: Deborah Rix Publisher: Dime Store Books Pages: 268
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Pump Up Your Book Presents In Retrospect Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Ellen Larson, author of the science fiction/mystery novel, In Retrospect, as she tours the blogosphere January 6 – January 31, 2014 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT IN RETROSPECT Former elite operative Merit Rafi suffered during her imprisonment at the end of a devastating war, but the ultimate torment is being forced to investigate a murder she would gladly have committed herself. The year is 3324. In the region once known as Turkey, the Rasakans have attacked the technologically superior Oku. The war is a stalemate until the Oku commander, General Zane, abruptly surrenders. Merit, a staunch member of the Oku resistance,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Save JFK: A Mission Thru Time Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Armando Pazos, author of the science fiction novel, Save JFK: A Mission Thru Time, as he tours the blogosphere October 7 – October 31 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT SAVE JFK: A MISSION THRU TIME The book opens on that tragic 22nd November 1963; when the body of President Kennedy arrived at Andrew’s air force from Dallas. The events surrounded his assassination are described by a young agent named Joe Randolph, leaving a profound mark on him for the rest of his life. Then the story goes fifty years into the future, to Thursday November 21, 2013, when the President of
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Master of Plagues Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join D.B. Reynolds, author of the young adult fantasy novel, Master of Plagues, as he tours the blogosphere  September 2 – November 29, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT MASTER OF PLAGUES Mystical powers. Cosmic adventure. Universally dynamic forces. A gifted individual has been commissioned to take part in of all these phenomenal occurrences. Stuart Duffelmeyer is an NYU student who is targeted by eight of his egomaniacal college classmates once they learn he wants to find a beautiful date for the night. His classmates lure him to a sleazy motel where they play out a heinous prank. His night ends in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Untimed Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Andy Gavin, author of the Young Adult Time Travel/Adventure novel, Untimed, as he tours the blogosphere July 1 – July 26, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT UNTIMED Charlie’s the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, his own mother can’t remember his name. So when a mysterious clockwork man tries to kill him in modern day Philadelphia, and they tumble through a hole into 1725 London, Charlie realizes even the laws of time don’t take him seriously. Still, this isn’t all bad. Who needs school when you can learn about history first hand, like from Ben Franklin himself. And
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  • February 19, 2013
  • Book Blasts, Featured, What's New?
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Pump Up Your Book Presents K. Baskett’s No Greater Illusion Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash!

Join K. Baskett, author of the dystopian, No Greater Illusion, as she tours the blogosphere April 1 – 26 on her first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! K. will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash, an autographed paperback copy & one ebook copy of her book, No Greater Illusion! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below starting April 1 and good luck! ————————————————– ABOUT NO GREATER ILLUSION A number of unacquainted adults, from various walks of life, routinely enjoy the benefits of residing in a nation where liberty and justice are among its chief luxuries. Having different statuses of education, income, and ethnicity, all
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Pump Up Your Book Present Order of the Dimensions Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Irene Helenowski, author of the science fiction novel,  Order of the Dimensions, as she tours the blogosphere January 7 through January 25, 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT IRENE HELENOWSKI Irene Helenowski is statistical analyst collaborating with several biomedical researchers who lives and works in Chicago. She recently received her doctorate degree in Biostatistics from the University of Illinois – Chicago. Her interests include attending art exhibits and music concerts of all types, reading about current scientific advances and theory, and creative writing. She is also looking into foundations which help promote the sciences to youth groups. To purchase Order of
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First Chapters: Lady Grace by Sandy Nathan

Title: Lady Grace Author: Sandy Nathan Paperback: 426 pages Genre: Visionary Fiction Publisher: Vilasa Press (March 23, 2012) Language: English ISBN – 1937927008 ISBN – 978-1937927004 About Lady Grace The Earth has been devastated by a nuclear holocaust. Technological wizard Jeremy Edgarton and a few of his friends were whisked off planet moments before the horror by the goldies, a race of super-evolved aliens who seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately for Jeremy, that’s exactly what they were and now he wants out. Jeremy’s mother, Veronica Edgarton, is awakening from a cryogenic sleep in a chamber deep beneath the ice near the North Pole. She is facing life
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