Synopsis On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university — and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems. Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort […]
Science Fiction
Review: A Gamble of Gods (The Order of the Dragon #1) by Mitriel Faywood
Faywood blends so many different elements into A Gamble of Gods and it is quite unique compared to so many other books I’ve read in the SFF genres. There’s fantasy, romance, science fiction, and comedy facets that all work to make this something fresh.
Review: Wild Massive by Scotto Moore
Summary: Scotto Moore’s Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty. When the Architects of the Multiverse were in their infancy and the cosmos was but a seed in the minds of gods, they called together their Artists […]
Review: Wormhole by Keith Brooke and Eric Brown
Synopsis An eighty-year-old cold case murder investigation stretches across light years, and could risk the future of humanity’s new home. Gordon Kemp is a detective working in the cold case department in London. Usually he works on cases closed ten, twenty-five years earlier. Now, however, he has been assigned a murder investigation closed, unsolved, over […]
Review: Hel’s Eight (Book #2 of the Factus Series) by Stark Holborn
Synopsis Who controls the future, controls it all… Ten “Doc” Low is a medic with a dark past, riding the wastes of the desert moon Factus, dispensing medicine to the needy and death to those who cross the laws of the mysterious Seekers. Cursed by otherworldly forces, she stays alone to keep herself safe, and […]
Review: Ten Low (Book #1 of The Factus Series) by Stark Holborn
Synopsis Ten Low is eking out a living at the universe’s edge. An ex-medic, ex-con, desperate to escape her memories of the war, she still hasn’t learnt that no good deed goes unpunished. Attempting to atone for her sins, she pulls a teenage girl from a crashed lifecraft. But Gabriella Ortiz is no ordinary girl […]
Review: The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
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.
Book Review: The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown
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. […]
Review: Light Years From Home by Mike Chen
Synopsis Every family has issues. Most can’t blame them on extraterrestrials. When Jakob Shao returns to Earth fifteen years after he was abducted by aliens, he’ll have to locate a device which could save not just the world, but the universe. Who better to help him than his estranged family and the two sisters whose […]
Review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Synopsis The sound of a violin plays an otherworldly tune in an airship terminal. That same tune is heard in moments across time and space, transporting the listener backwards and forwards to this same point. This single melody connects lives that are separated by centuries. An exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and […]
Review: Devil’s Road by Gary Gibson
GUNS, CARS AND KAIJU: Fast & Furious meets Pacific Rim. A short but super fun adrenalin pumping pedal to the metal death race with Kaijus,, gangsters and mad scientists….roller coaster fun!
Review: Tales From Another Dimension by Robbie Sheerin
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. […]