Science Fiction Book Reviews

Review: Paralysis Paradox (Paradox Consecution Book 1) by Stewart Sanders

★★★★½ Paralysis Paradox by Stewart Sanders

Through a lens, and in remiss of time and space, four lives are lived in parallel. Four lives come together, and regardless of sense and argument, come to acknowledge their paradox: they live together, separately.

One lives as brother to the Count of Anjou, the next as a poor working boy, a third as a girl trapped by the unsaid, and the last, a machine. As an otherworldy device ticks long cycles on a distant bookend of humanity, a lost comrade contemplates, and these immiscible consciousnesses coalesce, with abstracted struggles converging on an immense level of conspiracy. Convoluted co-existence […]

2017-03-24T10:28:41+02:00June 25th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |

Review: The SHIVA Syndrome by Alan Joshua ★★★★★

The SHIVA Syndrome by Alan JoshuaBeau Walker is a man of unusual interests. When he’s not teaching at his local college, he enjoys rowing, he takes part in meditation, and he sometimes reads the odd paper on morphic fields, biotelekinesis, and remote genetic reorganization, something he has yet to give up on from his glory days of private research and the Air Force Research Institute. He’s also – reluctantly – an empath, making things difficult when ethics clashes with a lucrative government-funded research position.

Left in a post-dismissal career meltdown following a moral concern, things could hardly be worse for Walker, until he is unceremoniously […]

2017-03-24T10:29:44+02:00June 9th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: The Prince: Lucifer’s Origins by J. M. Erickson ★★★★

The Prince: Lucifer's OriginsThe Prince: Lucifer’s Origins is a science fiction, coming-of-age adventure tale by prolific independent author J. M. Erickson, whose list of past releases include the award-winning Birds of Flight series.  The Prince follows Sergeant Marcia Devin and her scrappy squad of combat veterans – disillusioned members of the royal army who are burdened with a dangerous, career-ending mission for disobeying questionable orders.

That mission is providing safe passage for the young prince Victor Venture IX of the royal family – whose radical opinions have drawn the hostility of the rest of his monarchical relations.  In an attempt to stymie Prince […]

2017-03-24T10:32:45+02:00May 22nd, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: The Muses by N. L. McEvoy ★★★★

montague manorThe Muses: Escaping Montague Manor by N. L. McEvoy is a curious blend of fantasy, adventure, science fiction, and thriller that makes for an entertaining read.

When Sarah and Nickolas McGuire’s parents are seriously injured in a car accident in Colorado, they are whisked away to Australia to live with their great aunt Vivian, whom they have never met.

They are shocked when they meet their aunt, who is young looking and extremely unpleasant. They soon learn that she is a scientist who conducts secret experiments in her lab. They don’t trust her, but they can’t figure out why.

While […]

Review: TZAK: How Time Travel Began by Cindy Shearer

TZAK - How Time Travel Began by Cindy ShearerTZAK – How Time Travel Began by Cindy Shearer is a futuristic novella about one girl’s experience with time travel in a post-apocalyptic America, set in Yucatan, Mexico.

Zola de Chichen, a Maya science student, tells of the times she has encountered time-travelers, and how she herself time travels once she reaches university, in a world where humans can breed their children with any kinds of looks or variants they choose. When a man from the twenty-first century accidentally gets through the portal with Zola, he has to adjust to life over three hundred years in the future.

One would […]

2017-03-24T10:45:33+02:00May 4th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: The Charismatics by Ashley R. Carlson ★★★★★

charismaticsThe Charismatics (Book 1), by Ashley R. Carlson, is a pleasant surprise that will transform readers into instant fans.

Duchess Ambrose Killaher was only seventeen when she was exiled to Shinery, a city of snow and darkness. Ambrose’s arranged marriage turns out to be a disaster and she soon learns her husband despises her. The only person she can trust is her invisible friend named Roan.

Shinery is holding its yearly celebration to celebrate Legalia’s rule, while the poor starve in the streets below. Ambrose can’t keep turning a blind eye to all around her and when she accidentally witnesses […]

Review: A Mathematical State of Grace by Cathy McGough ★★★★

mathematicalA Mathematical State of Grace, a young adult dystopian novel by Cathy McGough, has a bit of everything going on in the story to keep the reader entertained.

Grace Greenway is a sixteen-year-old math whiz. Vincente Marino is a star high school athlete and the only time he gives Grace attention is when he needs to copy her math homework. Grace, on the other hand, hardly ever stops thinking about Vincente. Then a fateful moment brings the two of them together and they have to depend on each other to survive in a new world.

Grace is the perfect […]

The Button Chronicles by Juniko Moody

Button ChroniclesThe Button Chronicles by Juniko Moody is the highly inventive dystopian novel about the very nature of human evolution. Replete with its own inventive language, The Button Chronicles is about a dark 22nd century where mysterious buttons appear from out of nowhere. When pressed, a person disappears, and soon there are buttons for every person on earth, with millions of people disappearing. No one knows where they came from or how the devices work. A suspenseful and thought-provoking read, The Button Chronicles asks serious questions about the nature of reality and how mankind can survive on its current dystopian path.[…]

2015-03-31T04:17:42+02:00March 31st, 2015|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |
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