Wormhole is a police procedural set on a world far far away and also an almost ruined Earth. Cold case detectives on Earth must solve an eighty-year-old case that was recently revived after a spaceship thought lost arrives at a new planet. The spaceship sets up a quick path toContinue Reading
Four oddballs meet on a website called Black Paradox to plan for their mass suicide. When that doesn’t work out for them, the comedic horror turns into a bat poop crazy science fiction plot. It’s definitely not a boring twist, but not entirely comprehensible either. I think Black Paradox wouldContinue Reading
If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe is the fourth book in the John Dies at the End universe. And it is a wild, witty, nerdy and thoroughly intellectual ride! Dave, John and Amy are authentic ghostbusters with The Conjuring worldview. They are trying, and failing, to controlContinue Reading
In the cold windswept North, a doctor has come to replace a fallen comrade. But the doctor is not alone. She is hosting a Leech, an organism living in a multitude of physicians simultaneously in this eerie future world. The organism was also within the fallen doctor. But it cannotContinue Reading
Imagine a world where gene editing had gone too far and caused famine and death. Then picture life ten years later, when gene editing is mostly illegal and highly regulated by the world’s governments. That is the near-future world of Upgrade, the latest novel by the author of the WaywardContinue Reading
You are anticipating the best steak dinner you have ever had. Your mouth is watering picturing your first bite. Then, the server puts a large cheeseburger in front of you with an explanation of how the restaurant is out of steak. Sure, the burger looks juicy—but it is no steak.Continue Reading
Locklands is the thrilling conclusion to the Founders Trilogy. An evil being is trying to control the world in this excellent computer programming-based fantasy tale. Just as Lord of the Rings depicted the menacing pre-WWII world at the time of its publishing, so this series depicts our QAnon blockchained worldContinue Reading
Black Tide begins with a romance that quickly turns into an apocalyptic horror tale. Beth and Mike meet over their garden wall and quickly get drunk together. When Beth wakes up alone in Mike’s bed, she has dreamed of an alien invasion. However, it turns out it is not justContinue Reading
In Bountiful Garden, six teenage scientists awaken ten years early from their cryostasis. They have been selected by Earth to begin a new civilization on a planet far away. Their ship is trapped above an unknown planet. The team splits up with three exploring the planet and three attempting toContinue Reading
Sometimes you just want to read some light science fiction. No deep science. No not-so-subtle morals for the real Earth’s ailments. Just adventure and the great unknown. The Kaiju Preservation Society delivers on that promise. Jamie has been demoted from management to a career as a food delivery driver. HeContinue Reading
In the new graphic novel Girl on Fire, Lolo is fourteen but already in tenth grade with her older brother, James. Their father, Billy Wright, owns his own moving company. Their grandmother, Vivian, lives with them in the projects. High school in the inner city is tough on Lolo. SheContinue Reading
The Paradox Hotel sits near the world’s only time travel airport. The uber-rich can vacation in ancient Egypt or Renaissance Italy. The TEA ensure that nothing crucial is changed in the past by the bumbling tourists or stealthy smugglers. January was a crack agent in the TEA. Unfortunately, she gotContinue Reading
I read science fiction for its great and unexpected ideas. While you know what you will encounter in a mystery or romance, reading science fiction is more like a leap into space with no memory of putting on a bungie cord. Mickey7 contains just that type of big idea. TheContinue Reading
Imagine that instead of higher temperatures and rising waters, it was the trees that started the apocalypse. That is the setting in Clean Air. It is ten years after The Turning, when runaway tree pollen killed more than half of the world’s population. The world has rebuilt using robots controlledContinue Reading
The Earth is dead, and humanity has moved into deep-space habitats in Brink Book Four. Bridget Kurtis and Gita Gibrani were habitat police officers working on the mysterious disappearance of Mercury. Soon, the feds stepped in. Both women were promoted and sent to separate habitats. However, they continue the investigationContinue Reading
The Extinction Trials is the offspring of shows like Lost, Cube, and The Maze Runner. Seven people wake up in a lab. They don’t know how they got there. More importantly, they don’t know how to leave. Is the world outside poisoned? Is everyone else in the world dead? TheContinue Reading