Science Fiction Book Reviews

Review: Immortal Dawn by Bradly Byykkonen★★★★★

Immortal Dawn by Bradly ByykkonenVinson Gant was just another spice trader, forty years old and doing well for it, running a tidy and profitable routine, enjoying a comfortable life high above the dusty smog shroud of Hazhur. That is, until a favor on behalf of a trusted associate in honorable business practices – the safe transport of their 14-year-old daughter – goes off the rails – literally. When his Hak-9 magnetic railed vehicle crashes in the dirt-poor surface districts, a simple job embroils Vinson and his passenger, Qassi Ferenyu, in an ancient, intergalactic, and almost hopeless conflict between humanity and the galaxy’s purification-frenzied “cleaners.” […]

2017-03-24T11:01:20+02:00March 30th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: Sucker by Mark Lingane ★★★★★

SuckerAuthor Mark Lingane is back with a brilliantly humorous mashup fantasy-sci-fi-Noir, “Sucker.”

Private eye Van H. Avram is your typical Mickey Spillane throwback, just about getting away with doing his job in some kind of chaotic way. But all that changes when a mysterious “skinny blond” corpse is dumped on his doorstep, opening a door into the seedy underbelly of a world of human sacrifices and ancient lores that might just end civilization as we know it. Suddenly, Avram will have to step up as the hero, and save not just the day, but the entire world. But this might […]

2022-04-28T07:33:29+02:00March 2nd, 2015|Categories: Lead Story|Tags: , |

Review: Peer Through Time by David T. Pennington ★★★★

Peer Through Time by David T. PenningtonIn 2079, technology has advanced enough that machines and mankind are becoming more and more indistinguishable from and indispensable to each other. It’s in Northern California where Carmela Akronfleck – a physicist working on the secrets of time travel – succeeds in surpassing one final gauntlet of science, and transports herself to the year 1936.

Taking refuge with a woman named Lasha, they eventually begin to share their secrets: they can both hear voices. When her cybernetic implants malfunction, Carmela receives a message through time of a string of murders, and her sister begins following the final footsteps of deceased […]

2015-02-06T09:05:13+02:00February 6th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Trapped in Time by Clay Brandenburg

Trapped in TimeTrapped in Time, by Clay Brandenburg, is a page-turning time travel novel that transports the reader to 1944 in Nazi Germany.

In 2013, John Cleary, a high school history teacher, is trying to put his life back together. His wife was killed in a car accident. During a camping trip with two of his childhood friends, John is caught in the midst of a meteorological phenomenon that mysteriously transports him to wartorn Germany. He’s trapped in 1944.

Klara Bock, a widow, lives alone on a rural farm. Her only companion is her dachshund, Bratwurst. Klara’s father didn’t support the […]

2015-02-02T09:02:48+02:00January 27th, 2015|Categories: Lead Story|Tags: , |

Eternity Shattered by Gideon L. Thomas

Eternity ShatteredEternity Shattered is the debut novel of author Gideon L. Thomas.  It is a science fiction/action/military adventure that takes place in a galaxy populated by anthropomorphic animals.  The plot follows the desperate adventures of the elite Seraph Corps, a black ops unit made up of the most skilled pilots in the galaxy.

The protagonist, Kuraio Solunar, captain of the now disbanded Seraph Corps, is all too happy to hang up his wings, lay down his weapons, and raise a family with his wife.  He’s done his duty and fought through one bloody war already, and he’s content to live the […]

2015-01-28T06:56:26+02:00January 26th, 2015|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Review: Monster Squad: The Iron Golem by Christian Page

the iron golemThe Iron Golem by Christian Page is the first book in the Monster Squad series, an adventure tale of vintage superpowers for the children and young adult audience.

When Blaine Davis and her friends return from summer break for their seventh grade school year, they have no reason to suspect it will be anything more than a typical, homework filled bore.  Little do they know, however, that the evil Dr. Victor von Frankenstein is searching ceaselessly for heirs of extraordinary powers, and he will stop at nothing to find them.  His diabolical minions are converging on the quiet town of […]

2015-01-05T13:00:34+02:00December 27th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Everlast by Richard Bard

EverlastFasten your seatbelts, folks. Richard Bard’s newest release, Everlast, is a thrilling, fast-paced adventure that will make your head spin.

Everlast is the first in the Everlast Duology and is the follow-up series to Bard’s wildly successful Brainrush Trilogy.

Jake Bronson is back in another thriller that blends science fiction and cutting-edge technology into a whirlwind of a story that takes place on three continents.

In Amsterdam, a scientist is working on a cybernetic life-extension project that will transfer individual consciousness to a personalized avatar. His grandson, in Hong Kong, is working on using the same technology to infiltrate […]

2014-12-08T07:20:24+02:00December 8th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Alliance.125: Hirunda by Raita Jauhiainen

hirundaAlliance.125: Hirunda is the first in Raita Jauhiainen ambitious science fiction series about a post-war dystopia called Gavialis. The city is broken up into seven circles, the first being the least prestigious, the seventh is the most. It is forbidden for people from the lower-caste circles to travel to the higher echelons of society. This is a sterile world, where children are bred selectively in “artificial wombs,” and the civilization is facing catastrophe because too few girls are being born. Boys grow up viewing women as rare and exotic, and women are followed around by a pair of bodyguards.

The […]

2019-01-21T09:39:55+02:00December 3rd, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |
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