Science Fiction Book Reviews

Review: Panther Across the Stars by Lon Brett Coon

Panther Across the Stars by Lon Brett Coon

The travesty of Native American history in the United States is well known, and is a common topic for authors and artists who seek literary – if not literal – justice for the past. In Panther Across the Stars, the debut novel by author Lon Brett Coon, this shadowy and shameful chunk of American history is depicted in a decidedly new way.

While Native American culture and lore overflows with mysticism and spirituality, Coon’s angle leans deeper into the science fiction genre. This novel tells the tale of one young Red Indian brave befriending three otherworldly visitors, and their […]

2018-05-09T10:46:28+02:00April 17th, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |

Review: Miguel Traveler: The Man from Texas by Daniel McFatter

Miguel Traveler: The Man from Texas

Navigating the modern world is hard enough, but waking up and finding yourself in a bizarre and unforgiving future is a much greater challenge. In Miguel Traveler: The Man From Texas, author Daniel McFatter ambitiously takes readers into the future – a vision where society as we know it has broken down, the wasteland has overtaken the promised land, and survival is not promised to anyone.

When the Woman in Black wakes Miguel from his stasis slumber, he embarks on a journey to discover his own purpose – why was he put in stasis? What happened at the end […]

Review: Rise and Run (A Broken Man Novel #1) by RJ Plant

Operation Rise and Run by RJ Plant

From the first few pages of Operation Rise and Run, readers know they are in for a grim, mysterious, and well-crafted novel. Author RJ Plant has delivered a stunning introduction to her vision of the future, not one of atomic destruction or a zombie apocalypse, but rather a fate that seems disturbingly probable, where science fiction and geopolitical realities have brutally collided.

Following the destructive end to the war on terror, the world has turned a new page, one in which power is more centralized – in the Government Directive International (GDI). The reason this book sends shivers, however, […]

2018-06-14T06:44:13+02:00April 3rd, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Path of the Ancients: Space Time Illusion by Ancient Philosophy

Path of the Ancients: Space Time IllusionA daughter’s scientific and metaphysical inquiry after the loss of her father forms the scaffolding of this intriguing novel about the ultimate question: Who am I? A complex but rewarding story guided by Hindu scripture, the novel tells the story of Kalki as she tries to understand the apparent death of her inventor father, Anadi, while posing a number of questions around religion, science, and philosophy.

Path of the Ancients: Space Time Illusion, credited only to the author “Ancient Philosophy,” imagines a near-future India dominated by technology. There, Kalki and friend Shiva combine science and the Upanishads in the […]

Review: The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine

The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine

The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine takes the reader on an adventure through the life of Jaymi, a video game designer living in Los Angeles, that has ventured out on his own after becoming disheartened by his work with a former employer, Bang Dead Games. Once a programmer for Bang Dead Games, Jaymi now embarks on a journey that takes him deep into a magical world of his own creation, where his Beasts from his games emerge out into the real world, or “meat-space,” as they call it, through his programming.

Unhappy with his old company, Jaymi uses […]

2019-01-11T14:51:46+02:00March 21st, 2018|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Raptor Ray by Brent Reilly

Raptor Ray by Brent ReillyRaptor Ray by Brent Reilly is an eccentric show of imagination. It opens on the strange birth of Ray, the poor scaly dino-kid doomed to ridicule, and it gets stranger and stranger from there on out, telling a story that blends together a huge number of sci-fi tropes (time travel, space travel, dinosaurs, cataclysms, the list goes on), as well as non-fictional elements, for a completely inventive read.

The book is rich in information, with facts from the real world and the author’s imaginative fictional world giving the atmosphere of the novel a wholly unique texture. This strange pastiche of […]

2018-04-30T11:01:14+02:00March 15th, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Afterlife Code by J.M. Erickson

Afterlife Code by J.M. Erickson

Sci-fi novels often give readers a distant glimpse into a potential future, but Afterlife Code by J.M. Erickson may provide a peek into future events for this generation. In this story, neural implants have been designed to treat many different diseases and disorders of the brain, but for Dr. Melanie Sage and Robert Cobb, her therapist, an unexpected malfunction of this new technology tosses them into another world…a world they each possess in their own mind.

This thrilling novel combines religious philosophy, scientific exploration, and the limitations of the human mind with brilliant clarity. Rather than giving one picture of […]

2018-03-16T11:20:10+02:00March 14th, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Review: The Freak God by Peter Kornis

The Freak God

In The Freak God by Peter Kornis, an intriguing and eye-opening parable about the value of knowledge over belief, readers witness what gods and humans could achieve if they worked together for honest, honorable goals.

This sci-fi novel is set in a far-flung human colony in the far reaches of space, where the unique atheistic beliefs of one nation there have given rise to a new god – one who does not seek adulation or submission from the humans around him. Readers are given an intimate look at this “non-god god” as he grows up alongside humans, similar to what […]

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