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 […]
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Book Review/Tour: Duckett & Dyer: Dicks for Hire by G.M. Nair
Synopsis Michael Duckett is fed up with his life. His job is a drag, and his roommate and best friend of fifteen years, Stephanie Dyer, is only making him more anxious with her lazy irresponsibility. Things continue to escalate when they face the threat of imminent eviction from their palatial 5th floor walk-up and find […]
Book Tour: The Last Gifts of the Universe by Rory August
Synopsis A dying universe. When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations, a sea of lifeless grey planets and their ruins. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is that they are the last civilisation left in the universe, and whatever […]
Review: The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart
Summary: An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. From the author of The Warehouse…. “An engrossing and thought-provoking sci-fi mystery that is also an achingly beautiful meditation on grief and the pain of lost love.” (S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears) […]
Book Tour: Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick
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 […]
Book Tour Review: Oil and Dust (The Elemental Artist, Book 1) by Jami Fairleigh
Synopsis When all has been lost, we find ourselves… Out of the ashes of destruction, a new world has arisen. The plagues of the past—the worship of greed and pursuit of power—are gone. Now, the communities that remain in this post-apocalyptic world focus on creating connections, on forging futures filled with family and love. And […]
Book Tour: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
Synopsis Some places you won’t find on any maps. Others, are only on maps… Nell Young has lived her life in and around maps. Her father, Dr David Young, was one of the most respected cartographers in the world. He’s also just been found dead — in his office at the New York Public Library. […]
Review: Dark Theory (Dark Law #1) by Wick Welker
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 […]
Review: Aur Child by I.S. Lee
Synopsis Nordic noir meets hard science fiction in I.S. Lee’s deep, twisting Aur Child. Prepare to be lured into a multi-faceted, uncertain futurescape where the boundaries between right and wrong, good and evil, and heroes and villains are blurred by the complexities of their reality. When a fisherman unwittingly discovers clues about other people wielding […]
Review: Mickey7 by Edward Ashton (Audiobook)
Synopsis: The Martian meets Multiplicity in Edward Ashton’s high concept science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an “expendable,” refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place. Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. […]
Review: The Engineer (A Chronicles of Actaeon Story) by Darran Handshaw
Synopsis “We are born in the shadow of fading memories and fallen dreams, living our days within the decaying bones of an age long gone.” When the Engineer, Actaeon, arrives at Pyramid in the heart of Redemption, nothing goes according to plan. Mysterious raiders pursue him relentlessly across the shattered remains of the ancient metropolis, […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 13: Space Ooopera (with Adrian Tchaikovsky, J. S. Dewes & Jonathan Nevair)
Join host Adrian M. Gibson and authors Adrian Tchaikovsky, J. S. Dewes and Jonathan Nevair as they explore the wonders of space opera in a galaxy far, far away. During the panel they discuss the (often confusing) fundamentals and origins of space opera, aliens vs. the human experience, the shifting perspectives of the genre, subversion of outdated genre conventions, mythology and history as a framework for modern sci-fi stories and much more.