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Hard SciFi

Review: Iron Truth (Primaterre #1) by S.A. Tholin

July 13, 2022 by Paige Leave a Comment

Iron Truth is in the finals of the first ever SPSFC. I read it as part of the judging process.

Wow, just… wow. I knew Iron Truth was a chonker going in but I didn’t expect to get such an incredible, epic story. Where Iron Truth starts and where it ends are two very different places plot-wise. This isn’t a slow paced book, instead you get through into a story of epic hollywood cinema proportions that will hurtle you along. Not only that but the story itself is addictive and unputdownable so you won’t mind in the slightest.

Filed Under: Hard SciFi, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: Iron Truth, S.A. Tholin, Self Published

Book Tour/Review: Daros by Dave Dobson

June 11, 2022 by Naty (NatyReadsBooks) Leave a Comment

Synopsis: High above Daros, sixteen-year-old Brecca Vereen prepares to unload a cargo of trade goods aboard her father’s ship, the Envy’s Price. Nellen Vereen shows her a mysterious artifact bound for a contact below, one that will earn them a lot of credits, and one that they definitely won’t be declaring to customs. Materializing out […]

Filed Under: Aliens, Artificial Intelligence, Blog Tour, Book Tour, Fiction, Hard SciFi, Reviews, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction, Self Published, Space Opera Tagged With: Book Blog, Book Review, Book Tour, Books, Escapist Book Tours, Science Fiction, Self Published

Review: Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

May 11, 2022 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Many sci-fi fans speak of the Golden Age of Science Fiction as something that has long since passed. Whether it’s the 1930’s, ‘40s or ‘50s, the days of Asimovs, Heinleins, “Doc” Smiths, Bradburys and more are a forlorn memory… right? From my perspective, the answer is “Hell no!” The last decade or two has seen a stunning resurgence of sci-fi and space opera that recaptures the magic of far-flung galaxies, grand ideas, scientific marvels, strange aliens and more, but at the same time delivering fast-paced, engaging narratives and characters who are actually relatable. One author who stands at the forefront of this modern movement is Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Tchaikovsky showed his natural talent for the genre with the 2015 novel Children of Time. Since then, he has honed his craft with every release (and he releases a lot of books with unbelievable frequency), and his new series The Final Architecture, starting with last year’s Shards of Earth, is space opera at its very best.

Filed Under: Aliens, Hard SciFi, Reviews, Science Fiction, Space Opera Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time, Eyes of the Void, Orbit Books, The Final Architecture

Review: Resilient (Book #2 of The Fractal Series) by Allen Stroud

April 15, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis AD 2118, Earth. The world is about to change as a terrorist strike obliterates the planet’s biggest solar farm. AD 2118, Mars. Phobos Station is ready to receive an emergency shuttle full of wounded miners, but when those miners turn out to be insurgents, Doctor Emerson Drake realises he’s trapped and must fight to […]

Filed Under: Hard SciFi, Reviews, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Thriller Tagged With: Flame Tree Press, Science Fiction

Book Tour: Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick

March 22, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis Terraforming — the mega-scale engineering of a planet’s surface to one more Earth-like — is now commonplace across the Solar System, and Pluto is set to be the most ambitious transformation yet. Four billion miles from the Sun and two hundred degrees below zero, what this worldlet needs is light and heat. Through captured […]

Filed Under: Book Tour, Hard SciFi, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Gollancz, Science Fiction

Review: Dark Theory (Dark Law #1) by Wick Welker

March 1, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis A robot yearns to remember. A thief struggles to forget. A galaxy on the verge of chaos. On the fringe of a broken civilisation, a robot awakens with no memories and only one directive: find his creator. But in the village of Korthe, Beetro finds only radioactive pestilence, famine, and Miree — a tormented […]

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence, Dystopian, Hard SciFi, Mechs/Robots, Reviews, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction, Time Travel Tagged With: Fantasy Books, Science Fiction

Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch

February 7, 2022 by David W Leave a Comment

Synopsis An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation—and fears that all of humanity may be next—in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion “You are the next step in human evolution.”At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Hard SciFi, Reviews, Science Fiction, Thriller Tagged With: Blake Crouch, Dark Matter, Recursion, Upgrade, Wayward Pines

The Cruel Stars (The Cruel Stars #1) by John Birmingham

January 2, 2022 by Dan Smith Leave a Comment

Combat Intellects, mechs with humans written from a source code, old family dynasties, more advanced tech than you can throw a stick at, and that’s just in the first chapter. It’s a smorgasbord of everything that’s cool about modern science fiction; it’s bonkers in all the right ways. It would definitely suit fans of explosive space battles in series like the Expanse and the body-switching, souls uploaded into chips, and other weird tech of Altered Carbon.

Filed Under: Hard SciFi, Reviews, Space Opera Tagged With: Head of Zeus, John Birmingham

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

Review: The Quantum Magician (The Quantum Evolution #1) by Derek Künsken

September 9, 2021 by Bender Leave a Comment

The book follows the exploits of Bel (isarius), a Homo quantus (genetically engineered human quantum computers who crave knowledge about the fundamentals of space/time). Due to a ‘flaw’ in his engineering, he chose to abandon his people and lives as a con-man in outer edges of space.  He gets an offer to move ships across a wormhole where both of its ends are protected by a species called the Puppets. To do his he recruits a team of genius people with diverse talents, each having their own agenda. What happens next makes for the plot of the book.

Filed Under: Hard SciFi, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Derek Künsken, Solaris

Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

June 16, 2021 by chilcottharry Leave a Comment

It’s a blockbuster of a book, a space epic, a race against time, and a novel about cooperation, friendship, and the greatest sacrifice of them all. I cannot recommend this book enough!

Filed Under: Hard SciFi, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Andy Weir, Del Ray

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