Synopsis Kye Verex is trapped. Due to a fluke of genetics, the decisions of the galaxy’s elite, and a lack of finances, he’s stuck on his polluted and noxious home world indefinitely. And it’s slowly killing him. Then his more fortunate sister returns one day, bringing the promise of salvation. Kelsey has always hoped to […]
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Review: The Extra by Annie Neugebauer
Synopsis Ten people head out on a backpacking trip, but the first night eleven set up camp. Everyone remembers everyone else. Who is the extra? “The Extra is exceptional in every way: Extra unnerving, extra eerie, extra tense. Annie Neugebauer pedals in the same alpine paranoia as John Carpenter’s classic The Thing, manifesting a sense of dissociative […]
Review: The Nga’phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon
Synopsis: When a precocious Guardian in Sector Z in New Inku’lulu—an elite space outpost—misuses her sound magic, the Guardians punish her by stripping away her magical ability. Now Chant’L is exiled to Savage Mound, a sound island on planet Wiimb-ó, and grows increasingly vengeful—until she discovers that magic is inborn, never truly lost or taken. […]
Review: Cedar Mills by Dylan James
Synopsis Seeking to understand the recent deaths and disappearances in their town, a disgraced homicide detective and a group of grieving high schoolers unwittingly join forces. But what this ragtag bunch of answer-seekers find will not only force them into a fight to save themselves and their town, but all of humanity as we know […]
Review: Shield of the Mothership (The Hybrid Helix #7) by J.C.M. Berne
Synopsis: Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is still your enemy. Rohan swore he’d never work for the il’Drach again, never again be called Lance Primary, never again kill or risk the lives of his friends on behalf of the Empire. But when the safety of the sector is at risk, when inaction could lead […]
Review: Mushroom Blues (The Hoffman Report #1) by Adrian Gibson [audiobook]
Synopsis ENTER THE FUNGALVERSE SPFBO X 2nd place. Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer. Winner of the FanFiAddict Award for Best Indie Debut, the Literary Titan Gold Book Award, and the Next Generation Indie Book Award. BLADE RUNNER, TRUE DETECTIVE, and DISTRICT 9 meld with the weird worlds of JEFF VANDERMEER and […]
Review: The Immeasurable Heaven by Caspar Geon
Synopsis The Race for Reality Has Begun. The galaxy of Yokkun’s Depth has been settled since time immemorial. There is only one frontier left, and it’s a one-way journey: to pierce the skin of existence and delve the countless younger universes beneath. Running through these universes is the fabled Well, a fissure formed in the […]
Review: The Immeasurable Heaven by Caspar Geon
Synopsis: The Race for Reality Has Begun. The galaxy of Yokkun’s Depth has been settled since time immemorial. There is only one frontier left, and it’s a one-way journey: to pierce the skin of existence and delve the countless younger universes beneath. Running through these universes is the fabled Well, a fissure formed in the […]
Review: Isles of the Emberdark (Secret Project #5) by Brandon Sanderson
Synopsis: All his life, Sixth of the Dusk has been a traditional trapper of Aviar—the supernatural birds his people bond with—on the deadly island of Patji. Then one fateful night he propels his people into a race to modernize before they can be conquered by the Ones Above, invaders from the stars who want to […]
Review: Parallax (Sentient Stars #2) by Amber Toro
Synopsis: An outlaw lost at the edge of the galaxy and an honorable commander who will have to risk everything to save her, Parallax is a heart-pounding, slow burn space opera romance packed with action, adventure, banter, and found family. The tenuous alliances of the United Tribal Axis have fractured, breaking humanity into warring factions. […]
Review: Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel
Synopsis: Xavier Oaks doesn’t particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad’s pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations, and it’s only for a short time. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only… one morning […]
Review: Exodus — The Archimedes Engine (Book #1 of the Archimedes Engine Duology) by Peter F. Hamilton
Synopsis Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. They travelled into space on arkships and found a new home. When the first arkship arrived, it signalled for the others to follow. Those from that first ship evolved into Celestials, establishing themselves as rulers over mankind’s new home. Now, as new arkships arrive, people […]