Synopsis: Reissued after seventy-five years out of print—and in hardcover for the first time in a generation—David Starr, Space Ranger is the first book in the Lucky Starr series written by the legendary Isaac Asimov, author of Foundation, the Galactic Empire series, and I, Robot. Conway could remember the day, the exact minute, when the […]
Space Opera
Review: The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee
Synopsis: Get ready to be blown away by this searing standalone space opera where corporate samurai fight beneath merciless stars, and death is always a mere breath away. Isako is a legendary swordswoman, but every legend has to come to an end. When her long-time client unexpectedly retires, she plans to follow–to walk out into […]
Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts by Christopher Cantwell, illustrated by Megan Levens
Synopsis: The doomed Starfleet crew members, the red shirts, must track down spies on an isolated planet in this graphic novel. Stranded on the snow-ridden planet Arkonia 89, the crew of the U.S.S. Warren has a small window in which to pin down spies seeking to steal classified secrets and keep Starfleet data out of […]
Review: Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries #8) by Martha Wells
Synopsis: Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells’ bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn’t […]
Review: Residuum: A Darkening Dawn Novella by D.B. Rook
Synopsis Humanity is falling. She has little hope of survival. Charlus Vaughn, a teenage refugee on the run from machine judgement and haunted by her mother’s secrets. When a rogue data-pirate crew pulls her from the brink of execution, Charlus finds a place to belong, but something far older and far more dangerous is watching. […]
Review: The Faith of Beasts (The Captive’s War #2) by James S.A. Corey
Synopsis: The monstrous Carryx empire was built by subjugation and war. Thousands of species are bound to their Sovran’s command in an endless, blood-soaked test: be useful in the eternal conflict or be slaughtered. Dafyd Alkhor, highest among their human captives, is feared and despised by the very people he champions. Ruthless in carving out […]
The Infinite State, Decurion saga book 1 by Richard Swan
Synopsis WHO GIVES YOU LIFE?PATER AETERNUS.Katherine Fuller’s husband is dead. As an esteemed member of Pater Aeternus – governing party of the fascist, galaxy-spanning Decurion Empire – he has left behind an estate of immeasurable wealth. And Katherine is going to inherit it. WHO GIVES YOU PURPOSE?PATER AETERNUS.Life under the Eternal Father is rigidly stratified, […]
Review: The Wrecking Squad (The Wrecking Squad #1) by Nick Snape
The Wrecking Squad is a fun sci-fi novel, with myriad lots of action and twists from start to finish. A great read for those who love or are new to sci-fi.
Review: Lost Cargo (Get Lost #2) by Noah Chinn
Synopsis Life ain’t easy for a pilot in the Void. An easy score turns into a whole lot of trouble, and the race is on to unload some very problematic cargo. Captured by pirates in his beat up chimera, Maurice “Moss” Foote is having a bad day, until he gets a lead on the gig […]
Review: Scrapper by Peter J Aldin
Synopsis: Four years back, she escaped them. Today, they’ve tracked her down. Shelby “Griff” Denayer is a scrapper, her days spent collecting and refining asteroid ores, her nights spent reading 19th Century science fiction. All is well. Life is peaceful. Until her father finds his little runaway. Shelby went against the family code. Now Daddy’s […]
Review: Voidverse by Damien Ober
Synopsis Dune meets Wool in this high-octane quest through the void, where two eternal forces are about to collide in an epic showdown. A HALF-FORMED UNIVERSE.A POWERFUL ANOMALY.A POEM THAT IS PROPHECY. When the Sinker was a child, all she knew was violence. To survive, she fled into the Void—a seemingly infinite nothingness where people live on “rocks,” […]
Review: Nobody’s Baby (Dorothy Gentleman #2) by Olivia Waite
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 […]