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Dystopian

Review: The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

January 13, 2023 by Tom Bookbeard Leave a Comment

Lakshminarayan’s narrative style is playful and crushing in equal measure. This makes for a strong debut and a whole new sense of unease about our overreliance on technology.

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence, Dystopian, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Solaris

Book Review: The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

December 23, 2022 by Neil Williams 1 Comment

Synopsis As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears’ failed colony on a distant planet. Faced with constant threats of starvation and destruction in the treacherous minefield of interstellar space, Jacklyn’s crew has reached their breaking point. […]

Filed Under: Aliens, Artificial Intelligence, Debut, Dystopian, Horror, Horror, Reviews, Sci-Fi Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller Tagged With: Alien, aliens, Horror, LGBTQ, Macmillan, Macmillan Publishing, Monster, Science Fiction, sciencefiction, scifi, Space, spaceship

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: TimeLock (Book #1 of the TimeLock novella series) by Peter Berk and Howard Berk

November 15, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis With crime rampant in the near future, the President authorizes a controversial program: TimeLock, a cellular acceleration process that instantly ages prisoners the total number of years of their sentence. In other words-three strikes and you’re old . . . very old. But what happens if you’re innocent? Falsely convicted of murder, 23-year-old Morgan […]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Reviews, Science Fiction, Thriller Tagged With: Science Fiction, Thriller

Review: Stormblood (Book #1 of The Common) by Jeremy Szal

November 4, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis Vakov Fukusawa used to be a Reaper: an elite soldier fighting for Harmony against the brutal, invading Harvester empire.  Harmony made him elite by injecting him, and thousands of other Reapers, with the DNA of an extinct alien race to make him stronger, faster, and more aggressive. And it worked. At a cost . […]

Filed Under: Aliens, Cyberpunk, Dystopian, Military SF, Murder Mystery, Reviews, Science Fiction, Space Opera Tagged With: Gollancz, Science Fiction

Book Tour and Review: Judge Anderson: Shamballa by Alan Grant and Arthur Ranson

October 14, 2022 by Victoria Gross Leave a Comment

Being part of Anderson’s journey through a series of related one-shots was enchanting. Space adventures, the Devil himself, and a mutant gorilla are just some of the things that Shamballa has to offer. And none of them disappoint.

Filed Under: Aliens, Audiobooks, Book Tour, Comics/Graphic Novels, Dystopian, Military SF, Murder Mystery, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: 2000AD, Black Crow PR, Judge Anderson: Shamballa, Judge Dredd, Penguin Random House, Penguin Random House Audio

Review: Across the Sand by Hugh Howey

October 4, 2022 by Scott 1 Comment

Summary: The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations after a disaster has destroyed civilization as we know it, where four siblings struggle to build their futures amid the harsh wastes of endless desert. The […]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Dystopian, Hugh Howey, Sand, Silo Saga

Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch

September 23, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis “You are the next step in human evolution…”  What if you could be capable of more?  What if you could think sharper, read faster, memorise better, sleep deeper? For Logan Ramsay, it’s happening. He’s been targeted for an upgrade. The problem is, it wasn’t his choice. His genes have been hacked.  To discover why, […]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Reviews, Science Fiction, Thriller Tagged With: Science Fiction

Review: The Emergent (Book #2 of the Cosmic Series) by Nadia Afifi

September 22, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis  Neuroscientist Amira Valdez is in danger. Andrew Reznik, the ruthless leader of the fundamentalist Trinity Compound, is using a powerful mind control drug to form an army with a shared consciousness and a single goal — to wage war against the outside world. And he’s determined to capture Amira to study the strange neurological […]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Reviews, Science Fiction, Soft SciFi Tagged With: Flame Tree Press, Science Fiction

Review: Tasmanian Gothic by Mikhaeyla Kopievsky

August 10, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis A modern gothic thriller set in a decaying urban environment and lush mutant wilderness. Solari wasn’t alive when the ozone layer split like a gutted fish above Tasmania and spilled radiation over the edge of the stratosphere, but she’s living with the consequences — the mutations, the gangland war, and the border wall that […]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Fantasy, Fantasy Horror, Gothic, Grimdark, Reviews, Science Fantasy Tagged With: Fantasy, Gothic Fantasy

Review: Drunk On All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

July 15, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis Eddie Robson’s Drunk on All Your Strange New Words is a locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet. […]

Filed Under: Aliens, Dystopian, Mystery, Reviews, Science Fiction, Soft SciFi, Thriller Tagged With: Science Fiction, Tordotcom

Review: The Dex Legacy (Audio Drama, Season One) by Emily Inkpen

July 13, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis  On planet SP714, Nathaniel Dex is a megalomaniacal weapons manufacturer who adopted three children — Varian, Isra, and Ren. Through years of genetic enhancements, he raised these children to become the ultimate weapons. They’re teenagers who are deadlier than entire armies. They’re his legacy. They’re his future. They’re the biggest threat to the planet. […]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Military SF, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Audio Drama, Science Fiction

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