S.A.MELIA
Science Fantasy & Speculative Fiction
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Born of Empire
(2023)
An alien warrior, a lost prince and a paperless orphan, three people who should never have met but must now join forces to save Planet Earth from devastation.
Dive into "Born of Empire" and embark on a riveting journey of intergalactic intrigue and dark conspiracies, where the fate of humankind hangs in the balance.
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Heirs of Empire
(2025)
It should have been easy. King Teodor of Earth had survived pirates, slavery, and the plague-ridden savannah. Back at the head of his Dome Militant, life should be simple. Except now his cousin Tomas rules and, refuses to yield.
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Life should have been simpler. Restored and cleared of treason, Guy Erma wears a captain’s rank. Time to breathe, perhaps. But as an Imperial heir, so much more is demanded of him.
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Her dreams, too, should have been fulfilled. Yet Marline learns she is a Princess of Empire—prey to lords and princes who covet her hand.
The Empire stands on the brink.
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Fast paced and intelligent, author Sally Ann Melia manages to build a wildly imaginative, yet believable, future world populated with purposeful multi-faceted characters in BORN OF EMPIRE, the promising opening of her YA sci-fi series.
IndieReader
"The author's skilful and enveloping narrative will keep readers on edge. "
Praise & Reviews
Melia’s imagination has produced a gloriously mythical yet credible world combined with a spellbinding and beguiling story, making Born of Empire a vivid and strikingly original first novel in this YA science fiction fantasy series.
The Book Directory
"The world-building is divine, and the story is an absolute page-turner."
In this rough world of subterfuge, kidnap, political unrest, and strict hierarchies of power, Guy and Teodor both represent outsiders who are not treated the same as other boys. I
Reader's Favourite
A fantastic start to what promises to be a stellar science fiction series.
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About Sally Ann Melia
All my life I have read and written Science Fiction and Fantasy. I am a massive fan of all things Star Wars, Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, but I can also name all the Stark & Lannister children in Game of Thrones and am addicted to The Expanse, Black Mirror, The Mandalorian, Doctor Who and anything by Andy Weir.
I also love all things SETI, the search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. In my day-job I am a digital marketing specialist who for the past 20 years has worked for tech and defense companies.
I won a prize in the 2018 Giant Leap SF competition celebrating the UK astronaut Tim Peake, and my work has been published by the British SF Association, Interzone and many smaller fanzines.
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