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 […]
Science Fiction
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 (Get Lost #1) 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 […]
Review: Sauúti Terrors edited by Eugen Bacon, Cheryl S. Ntumy & Stephen Embleton
Synopsis: Co-editors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S. Ntumy bring us a powerful and haunting collection of short stories from the groundbreaking Sauútiverse, following the success of Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology. Sauúti Terrors tells of the doomed, the damned, the shunned, the cunning, the destroyers, the noxious, and more, in the worlds of the […]
Review: Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater #1) by Christopher Ruocchio
Synopsis Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.It was not his war. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from […]
Review: The Martian Incident by Ryan M. Patrick
Synopsis A crashed UAV on Mars. A top-secret recovery mission. Danger at every corner. When a mysterious aerial drone is shot down on Mars near the American colony of Columbia, NASA accident investigator John Cameron joins a joint DOD team to recover it. But, as a sandstorm moves in to blanket the area, the Americans […]