Synopsis: Four years back, she escaped them. Today, they’ve tracked her down. Shelby “Griff” Denayer is a scrapper, her days spent collecting and refining asteroid ores, her nights spent reading 19th Century science fiction. All is well. Life is peaceful. Until her father finds his little runaway. Shelby went against the family code. Now Daddy’s […]
Science Fiction
Review: Voidverse by Damien Ober
Synopsis Dune meets Wool in this high-octane quest through the void, where two eternal forces are about to collide in an epic showdown. A HALF-FORMED UNIVERSE.A POWERFUL ANOMALY.A POEM THAT IS PROPHECY. When the Sinker was a child, all she knew was violence. To survive, she fled into the Void—a seemingly infinite nothingness where people live on “rocks,” […]
Review: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Synopsis: The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age — a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. […]
Review: Nobody’s Baby (Dorothy Gentleman #2) by Olivia Waite
Synopsis: Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the second entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty’s most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are included, new bodies are graciously provided upon request, and should you desire a rest […]
Review: Sentient (Ice Plague Wars 2) by Michael Nayak
Synopsis Extinction Horizon meets Contagion in this sequel to 2025’s sci-fi thriller Symbiote, where the biological threat has escaped the South Pole and is now wreaking havoc upon Antarctica. The survivors of the South Pole massacre will find that getting off the Antarctic continent may cost them their lives… Months after the events of Symbiote, sunrise has come to the […]
Review: Lost Souls by Noah Chinn
Synopsis Sci-Fi Adventure with a sense of humor! A smuggler, a stowaway slave, and a pirate find themselves on a collision course deep in the no-man’s-land of space, tracking a mystery that’s centuries old. Maurice “Moss” Foote is down to his last hundred credits, which he needs to get his old ship back and start […]
Review: Kara: Seeds of the Universe (Astrex #2) by Peter Beard
Synopsis: A missing sister. A daring heist. A collision course with destiny. The Seeds of the Universe have awoken. The clock is ticking… When Kara is attacked whilst investigating the site of a mysterious cult, her soul unknowingly severs their connection, leaving a bewildered Kara stranded inside The Astrex after fleeing there in search of […]
Review: Prey of Angels (The Hybrid Helix #8) by J.C.M. Berne
Synopsis Rohan has been building alliances and solidifying his abilities, all to keep his friends, his family, his homeworld, and the Empire safe from anything that threatens them, from anywhere in the universe, whether from inside the sector or from a distant galaxy. He thought he was doing a pretty good job. He thought he […]
The Misheard World by Aliya Whiteley
Synopsis Before wars are won, they must be witnessed. Elize Janview is a soldier, one of the few survivors of an unimaginably terrible weapon, which ended the long detente between the North and the South and plunged them back into all-out war. She enlisted with a dream of finding those responsible, of somehow getting revenge […]
Review: Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman
Synopsis A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl. All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do is run the family ranch with his sister, maybe play a gig […]
Series Review: Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer
Synopsis: Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer–a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also […]
The McMurdo Uprising (The McMurdo Rift Book 5) by Bradley Lejeune
Synopsis: THE WAR COMES HOME. A Regime on the Brink. An Infiltrator in the Heart of Power. A Rebellion That Will Burn the World. The last human civil war ended with Earth’s defeat. Now Chancellor Arnold Philby is trying to rebuild an empire on fear, propaganda, and a military he no longer fully controls. For […]