Synopsis Renowned throughout the land of Ankhana as the Blade of Tyshalle, Caine has killed his share of monarchs and commoners, villains and heroes. He is relentless, unstoppable, simply the best there is at what he does. At home on Earth, Caine is Hari Michaelson, a superstar whose adventures in Ankhana command an audience of […]
Science Fiction
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: 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 […]
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: Red Empire (Rogue Team International Series Book 5) by Jonathan Maberry
Synopsis In the next novel in the Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International series by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, the team faces new and old enemies alike as a bioengineered version of The Black Death surfaces.Hundreds of years after the first waves of the bubonic plague swept through Europe, a new, more dangerous version […]
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: The Tidelings of Dras Sayve (The Apidecca Duology #0.5) by C.B. Lansdell
The Tidelings of Dras Sayve is a low-stakes novella with worldbuilding deep as the seas.