Science Fiction Book Reviews

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: , |

An Interview With Author Daniel P. Douglas

daniel p douglasTell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

Truth Insurrected is a science fiction conspiracy thriller in which a former FBI agent, William Harrison, investigates a decades-old extraterrestrial cover-up, conducted by a secretive and deadly group known as the Saint Mary Project, while hired guns and an alien-human hybrid stand in his way of finding and revealing the truth.

How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

I actually wrote the book 20 years ago and, at that time, tried briefly to go the traditional route. There weren’t any initial takers and […]

2014-11-24T09:53:26+02:00November 24th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|Tags: |

Decay by Mark Lingane

DecayDecay by Mark Lingane is the second book in his YA steampunk/science fiction series, “The Tesla Evolution.” Set in a war-ravaged dystopian future, Decay follows Sebastian, his friend Melanie, and others fighting off a cyborg threat to kill off humanity once and for all. Sebastian, along with some other survivors, find that they have enhanced psionic abilities.

Dubbed the “Teslas,” they now need to fight off embittered and terrified humans suspicious of their powers, as well as the cyborgs. Like other effective dystopian novels, Decay offers good commentary on contemporary society. The cyborgs who are hunting down Sebastian seem to […]

2022-04-28T07:34:20+02:00November 21st, 2014|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Review: Truth Insurrected by Daniel P. Douglas

Truth-InsurrectedTruth Insurrected by Daniel P. Douglas is a highly effective science fiction thriller about the charged topic of UFO disclosure. Down on his luck private investigator, William Harrison, becomes embroiled in a worldwide conspiracy of the UFO coverup after witnessing a UFO. As he learns more and more people attached to the conspiracy have been murdered, Harrison must unravel this conspiracy that spans the globe, and make sure that he’s not another one of the victims.

Harrison is a great protagonist and springboard for the action. Injured on the job as an FBI agent, Harrison is bored with chasing after […]

2014-11-20T08:26:29+02:00November 20th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |

Review: The Gertrude Threshold by Christopher Brooks

TheGertrudeThresholdWhat would happen if it were the last day on Earth? In The Gertrude Threshold by Christopher Brooks, a scientific formula named after its creator calculates to the day the last moments of global warming: when Earth crosses that threshold, Earth will burn up taking those last human beings left, who are living in brown tubes underground, with Her.

In the novella we follow one family as they struggle through the last day. Ky, a young, good-natured boy who was born into an apocalyptic world. His grandfather Brandon: grumpy, old and waiting to die to join his wife Lilly. Brandon’s […]

2014-11-17T04:49:05+02:00November 17th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |

The Representative by Thomas H. Cullen

therepresentativeThe Representative by Thomas H. Cullen is a completely unique approach to writing a book, often with less that two sentences per page with many spaces and blank pages between, with an empty black cover. The writing follows a prose-like form, and speaks of a father and daughter, Mariel and Croyan and their relationship, which is enveloping the latter’s current three-Trokan crisis.

This book employs a writing technique that the author insists is “precise”, but it will be up to the reader to both decipher the need for this layout and the actual meaning behind the style of writing. One […]

2014-11-26T15:02:02+02:00November 14th, 2014|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |
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