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Alt History

Review: Tales From Another Dimension by Robbie Sheerin

November 30, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis How will HG Wells react when he wakes 200 years in the future on a strange planet, faced with a terrible truth? Two young brothers make a frightening discovery about their neighbours.  Do robots secretly want to rule us all? A scientist goes to the extreme in order to change the future of mankind. […]

Filed Under: Aliens, Alt History, Artificial Intelligence, Dystopian, Mechs/Robots, Reviews, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction, Soft SciFi Tagged With: Science Fiction, Short Stories

Review: Expect Me Tomorrow by Christopher Priest

September 15, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis An epic, decades-spanning science-fiction mystery from the award-winning author of THE SEPARATION and THE PRESTIGE.  A petty thief who called himself John Smith was arrested in 1877 for theft through fraudulent behaviour. He was convicted and sent to prison.  In 1852, Adler and Adolf Beck’s father died on a glacier, and their lives separated. […]

Filed Under: Alt History, Mystery, Reviews, Science Fiction, Soft SciFi, Time Travel Tagged With: Gollancz, literary fiction, Science Fiction

Review: Lost in Time by AG Riddle

September 6, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis Control the past. Save the future. One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered. For Sam, the horror is only beginning. He and his daughter are accused of the crime. The evidence is ironclad. They will be convicted. And so, to ensure his daughter goes […]

Filed Under: Alt History, Reviews, Science Fiction, Time Travel Tagged With: HeadofZeus, Science Fiction

Review:  Roman Britain’s Pirate King by Simon Elliott

August 26, 2022 by Mada Leave a Comment

Synopsis: In the mid-3rd century AD Roman Britain’s regional fleet, the Classis Britannica, disappeared. It was never to return. Soon the North Sea and English Channel were over-run by Germanic pirates preying upon the east and south coast of Britain, and the continental coast up to the Rhine Delta. The western augustus (senior emperor) Maximian […]

Filed Under: Alt History, Historical, Historical Fiction Tagged With: Roman Britain Pirate King, Simon Elliot

Review: Nexus Point (Book #1 of the Time Ranger Series) by K. Pimpinella

August 17, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis Winner of a 2021 Canada Book AwardQuarter Finalists in SPSFCEditor’s Pick, BookLife/Publisher’s Weekly The year is 2198. Earth has unified under one government — Utopia. War has ravaged the planet, forcing many citizens to immigrate to space stations and colonies. As human life expands into space, the Nexus Point and its abandoned station are […]

Filed Under: Alt History, Military SF, Reviews, Science Fiction, Time Travel Tagged With: Friesen Press, Science Fiction

Review: Mercury Rising by R.W.W. Greene

May 20, 2022 by Tom Bookbeard Leave a Comment

A neo-retrofuturistic fest that looks at humanity through a curious lens while an alien menace has guns that go ZARK!

Filed Under: Aliens, Alt History, Blog Tour, Book Tour, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Angry Robot, R.W.W. Greene

Author Q&A: R.W.W. Greene – Author of Mercury Rising

May 11, 2022 by Tom Bookbeard Leave a Comment

“Doubt is more interesting than surety. Doubt is a powerful place to exist because it’s a position of openness and flexibility. Do I take this path or that one?”

Filed Under: Aliens, Alt History, Author Chat, Blog Tour, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Angry Robot, R.W.W. Greene

Review: Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings

May 9, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven’s freighter the Jonah breaks down in a strange rift in deep space, with little chance of rescue — until they encounter the research vessel Gallion, which claims to be from 152 years in the future.  The Gallion’s chief engineer […]

Filed Under: Aliens, Alt History, Reviews, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction, Soft SciFi, Space Opera, Time Travel Tagged With: Rebellion Publishing, Science Fiction

Lucia by Steven A. McKay

December 8, 2021 by Blaise Ancona Leave a Comment

Synopsis At eight years old, Lucia is torn from the life she knew. Her village burned to the ground and parents murdered by Romans, she is kidnapped, sold and shipped abroad to the Villa Tempestatis in Britannia to serve the young Roman army officer Castus.Faced with a bleak future of decades of servitude to her […]

Filed Under: Alt History, Historical, Historical Fiction, Reviews

Review: Sinopticon by Xueting Christine Ni (Translator and Editor)

November 20, 2021 by Paige Leave a Comment

collection. Xueting Christine Ni has done an incredible job in translating and editing these stories. They showcase some incredible Chinese Sci-Fi talent that I would never otherwise get to experience.

Filed Under: Alt History, Artificial Intelligence, Cyberpunk, Dystopian, Hard SciFi, Mechs/Robots, Reviews, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction, Time Travel Tagged With: Rebellion, Xueting Ni

Review: Sinopticon by Xueting Christine Ni (Translator and Editor)

October 28, 2021 by Tom Bookbeard Leave a Comment

An incredible omnibus of Chinese Science Fiction compiled and edited by self-confessed geek, translator and author of From Kuanyin to Chairman Mao, Xueting Ni.

Filed Under: Alt History, Artificial Intelligence, Hard SciFi, Mechs/Robots, Military SF, Reviews, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction, Time Travel Tagged With: Rebellion Publishing, Solaris, Xueting Ni

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