Science Fiction Book Reviews

Review: Tesla by Mark Lingane

TeslaA thousand years in the future, we follow Sebastian, a young teenager living in the quiet and rural remains of a pocket of civilization after an ancient nuclear apocalypse. As a strange sickness takes his father and consumes his mother, he is left in servitude of his selfish aunt and cut off from the brilliant mind of a teacher, sharing with him a love of near-legendary clockwork and steam power of the past. His luck changes – not all for the better – on finding an envelope addressed to him in a locked jewelry box, and a group of black-suited […]

2022-04-28T07:33:54+02:00August 1st, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Intelligent Design: Revelations by J.M.Erickson

IntelligentDesign-WEBMars – A Noah’s Ark of a civilization headed by Master Architect Janus, is a highly civilized race, making a last-ditch attempt to save Earth’s many species from extinction – more than sixty million years ago, as dinosaurs inhabit the Pale Blue Dot mankind now calls home. The Master Architects, a race something like mythological gods, are guardians of the planets known to exist in the Solar System, experimenting with terraforming the massive orbs that float around them. But when two planets collide and cause a disaster on an unimaginable scale, all is nearly lost.

Millions of years later, Andrea […]

2018-03-16T09:55:46+02:00July 25th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: EXTENDEDCOMPANION by William Krasinski

EXTENDEDCOMPANION reviewCaptain Wilek and other ABC captains have been around for quite some time and they know more than most that breakthrough technology is fantastic. That is until the technology becomes dated. Wilek and the others have survived other attempts to “retire” them. However, Earth is making a comeback and wants to conquer the Off Worlds. Can Captain Wilek survive this latest challenge? His own crew might be his undoing. Wilek is forced to accept a new mate and some of the recruits are bitter. How can he manage them and fight Earth simultaneously?

William Krasinski’s EXTENDEDCOMPANION is an intelligent and […]

2014-07-14T08:59:22+02:00July 14th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: A Specter’s Journey by Ekin Odabas

A Specter's Journey ReviewA Specter’s Journey starts in the middle of a hellish gunfight, as our hero Jackie Clarke blasts his way through the streets to rescue his kidnapped wife, Melody. What a great beginning! Instead of the boring start many use, of their hero waking up in bed, or contemplating life over a coffee, Odabaş throws his readers into the action, immediately gripping his audience and seducing with language. Onomatopoeic writing employed at the off, Odabaş opens with a choice of phrase that colors reading in an unusual and sometimes exciting way.

The reader can smell, see, hear and sense, […]

2014-07-08T12:08:51+02:00July 8th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Future Prometheus II by J.M. Erickson

FP2-WEB“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, says the epigraph for J.M. Erickson’s novel Future Prometheus II, explaining J.M. Erickson’s trilogy title, Future Prometheus.

In Future Prometheus II , we catch up with black ops Lt. Jose Melendez and his team. After attempting a cryogenic experiment to save mankind that was meant to last for just a few […]

2018-03-16T09:56:02+02:00June 24th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Rocket Ship by C. O. B.

rocketshipRocket Ship, by C. O. B., is a moving story that offers profound insight into the world we live in now. While the story revolves around two boys who want to build a rocket ship to escape this world and their problems, the story isn’t so much science fiction as social commentary.

Lincoln and Gary, two best friends, come from different backgrounds. Gary’s parents are wealthy, while Lincoln’s father is in prison and his mother is an alcoholic. Yet, both are outsiders at their school and when Gary moves next door to Lincoln, the two become close friends.

Neither […]

2019-01-22T05:59:10+02:00June 18th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Magic, Machines and the Awakening of Danny Searle by John McWilliams

Magic, machines reviewTyler Cipriani is a programming prodigy and prodigal son to two brilliant parents – a pushy philosopher-scientist who even used Tyler for his own studies growing up, and a mathematics professor whose ambition and love for her son overlap with her bitterness at her now-ex-husband. His life is by no means average, but despite his talent (whether natural or induced) he holds himself back from a proper education and the constant offers of work in his field, insisting on dreams of bike trips and a period of self-exploration.

The stalemate is broken the day Danny Searle stumbles into a chance […]

2019-01-22T15:57:31+02:00June 11th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |

Review: Kisses in the Wind by Forbes Skinner

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Kisses in the Wind is a near-future apocalyptic story written by ex-pat South American writer Forbes Skinner, writes SPR’s Cate Baum.

As attorney Neil Myers recovers from a mental illness in the heart of Washington DC,  he imagines that women have taken over the world. Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama are locked in their struggle to win Democratic Party presidential nominee, and when Clinton’s supporters are ruffled by a snub to womankind, Myers sees what he always suspected: Women are headed to crush males into extinction, and it’s going to happen soon.

While the concept of this book is very […]

2020-08-24T09:12:02+02:00May 30th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |
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