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Review: Trapped in Time by Clay Brandenburg

Trapped 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 […]

T B Markinson2015-02-02T09:02:48+02:00January 27th, 2015|Categories: Lead Story|Tags: Historical Fiction Book Reviews, Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Eternity Shattered by Gideon L. Thomas

Eternity 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 […]

Dakota Kemp2015-01-28T06:56:26+02:00January 26th, 2015|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Monster Squad: The Iron Golem by Christian Page

The 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 […]

Dakota Kemp2015-01-05T13:00:34+02:00December 27th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews, Young Adult Book Reviews|

Review: Everlast by Richard Bard

Fasten 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 […]

T B Markinson2014-12-08T07:20:24+02:00December 8th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Alliance.125: Hirunda by Raita Jauhiainen

Alliance.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 […]

Henry Baum2019-01-21T09:39:55+02:00December 3rd, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Dystopian Fiction Book Reviews, Science Fiction Book Reviews|

An Interview With Author Daniel P. Douglas

Tell 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 […]

Cate Baum2014-11-24T09:53:26+02:00November 24th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Decay by Mark Lingane

Decay 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 […]

Henry Baum2022-04-28T07:34:20+02:00November 21st, 2014|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Truth Insurrected by Daniel P. Douglas

Truth 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.