Marine Captain Terrence “Trouble” Tordon and his wife, Ruth, end up on the planet Savannah in search of the drugs that nearly killed them. What they find is a for life “President” who is nothing more than a bully with an ego.Read More »
Kersyn March 28, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
Marine Captain Terrence “Trouble” Tordon and his wife, Ruth, end up on the planet Savannah in search of the drugs that nearly killed them. What they find is a for life “President” who is nothing more than a bully with an ego.Kersyn March 28, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
Bren Cameron, the political liaison between the human settlement and the Atevi people, finds himself in a tangled position as Cajeiri, Tabini’s son, nears his fortunate ninth birthday. Tabini promises his son that Cajeiri may have three young humans from the space station spend time to help Cajeiri celebrate his fortunate birthday. Read More »
Mary March 22, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
After the brutal home invasion that had nearly killed her six months earlier, Avera St. John was considerably more cautious than ever before, and was much more suspicious of the motives of others. Her position as a research scientist with a private firm was often a source of frustration for Avera, and recently she and her research partner were ordered to destroy all Read More »
Mary March 22, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction, Young Adult Comments Off
Finding ways to survive outside mainstream society called for bravery and creativity, and Anya London had an abundance of both, as well as an innate ability for procurement and the desire to return previously stolen objects to their rightful owners. Along with her best friend, Leticia, the two girls had a successful underground business and were able to continue their Read More »
Storm March 14, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction 1 Comment
In the important ways, New York 2050 is not much different than New York 2011. Yes, there are great technological advances and cutting-edge fashion, but people remain much the same. There are still workers, lovers, criminals and cops to catch them. Lt. Eve Dallas is a Homicide cop Read More »
Storm March 14, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
Jenya tunnels her way out of a prison, taking almost one hundred of her captured people with her, and the amazing thing is that she burrows through the rock using her psychic skill – the very same talent that her people scorned and that had made her an outsider. She collapses as soon as the last person is free of the tunnel and would have died had not Flame used his special healing talent to save her.Storm March 13, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction 4 Comments
There are crimes of rage, passion, greed, madness, and yes, even crimes of stupidity, but Lt. Eve Dallas is faced with murders that do not seem to fit any pattern she has ever seen, and she is an experienced homicide detective. As she searches for links between a limo driver, a paid escort and a world-renowned chef, she finds dead ends, misdirection and hints that something (or someone) Read More »
Storm March 11, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
The planet New Galveston has been terraformed and it is Alan Decker’s job to inspect the work and diagnose problems-and New Galveston has problems. An unstable sandy area has appeared and is spreading uncomfortably close to a colonized town. In addition, there are tubes beginning to push through the sandy area, and Alan almost loses his life in an accident when a platform collapses. Read More »
Kersyn March 11, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
Scylla joins forces with other disgruntled residents of the Source and decides it is time for a regime change on Earth, coming through into New York City through a thin spot. The Supernatural Operations Corps are the only soldiers equipped to prevent the fall of humanity to Scylla and her troops. Lieutenant Colonel Jan Thorsson, call sign “Harlequin,” will be forced to lead the assault to save New York City, and the world, from the havoc-wreaking woman from his past. Read More »
Kersyn March 11, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
Colonel Alan Bookbinder finds himself in a situation his whole Army career has not prepared him for-being a latent magic user. After his magic manifests, he is pulled from everything he knows and thrown into a world where nothing is the same. Bookbinder finds himself in command of the Forward Operating Base Frontier, cut off from all resources and surrounded by creatures he only ever read about in fairytales. Read More »
Kersyn March 11, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
Oscar Britton is an Army man, through and through, and as a lieutenant attached to the Supernatural Operations Corp he sees the worst of humanity as they manifest magical powers causing horrible injury and destruction on the people around them. The law states a person with powers must turn themselves in to the SOC, but when they choose to not turn themselves in, these Selfers are taken down before they can harm those around them. Read More »
Kersyn March 5, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
When the Unified Authority realize they are losing the war against the Enlisted Man’s Empire, the clones, they change their tactics, releasing a virus that only affects clones. By the time Wayson Harris and his commanders realize what is going on it is too late. There is only one whom it will not kill: Harris, who was created without the fatal gland. Read More »
Kersyn March 5, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
Alex Romanov is a spesh, a human that has been genetically modified. Alex’s specialty is as a pilot spesh, an ability that allows him to care for the lives of his crew and passengers above all else. His first mission after he recovers from an accident that could have taken his life is to pilot the ship, Mirror, and take two non-human Zzygou on a tour of human planets. Read More »
Danielle March 4, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
Alliance Admiral “Black Jack” Geary takes a short visit to the home of the ancestors, Planet Earth in the Sol System, where two of his key lieutenants are kidnapped. He tracks them to the condemned moon of Jupiter, Europa, a place where there is no return due to its quarantine status. He has to come up with a plan to get his lieutenants off without breaking a strict quarantine and starting an incident with Sol System authorities. Read More »
Danielle March 3, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
Retribution Falls uses the archetype of a rag-tag group of lovable, rogue adventurers and takes the reader on a journey in more ways than one. I felt as though I was constantly reevaluating everything I encountered in this story as I read. I thought it was going to be a straightforward steampunk adventure, but Wooding challenges the reader in various ways.Danielle March 3, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction 1 Comment
The crew of the Ketty Jay returns for more adventures in The Iron Jackal where their captain, Darian Frey will be forced to face his checkered past head on and a ruthless supernatural threat bent on killing him. Frey is hired by a thief and street rat named Ashua to steal an ancient and valuable artifact. After some twists and turns and lots of things blowing up, Frey contracts a curse from the object, an ancient sword. He is told that he will die horribly when the Iron Jackal comes for him if he doesn’t take the object back where it belongs. Read More »
Danielle March 3, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
Imperfect Sword begins immediately after Perilous Shield ends. General Artur Drakon receives a bombshell from one of his seconds-in-command, the calculating and unpredictable Colonel Roh Morgan. She is holding a bargaining chip over his head, one that she knows that Drakon cannot resist. However, her acts are deemed a betrayal against the fledgling Midway Star System Republic, and she is a prisoner. His co-leader, President Gwen Iceni, demands that he handle the situation without allowing his feelings to get in the way. Read More »
Danielle March 3, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
The Lost Stars series continues with more adventures of the newly formed Midway Independent star system. With the collapse of the Syndicate Worlds empire, star systems are either falling into chaos, or exerting their independence and shaking off the shackles of the corrupt Syndic system. Former Syndic CEOs turned co-leaders of the new government-President Gwen Iceni and Mobile Forces General Drakon-have formed an uneasy alliance. Uneasy because they were trained throughout their careers in the Syndic way: cut any throats in the way of achieving goals, break any and all rules you need to in the process, and trust no one. Yet each wants a different way and a chance for their embryonic government to have real freedom and democracy. Read More »
Virginia March 3, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
In Dawn’s Early Light, Eliza and Wellington are on their way to the Americas, where they will meet up with agents from the Office of the Supernatural and Metaphysical. Along the way, they cannot seem to stay out of trouble. When they liaison with their counterparts, they think they are on a simple mission to explore shipwrecks along the coast of the Carolinas, but what they find is much more involved. The participation of a secret organization, an egotistical inventor, and several assassins keep this intrepid duo hopping. Read More »
KristinD February 22, 2015 Reviews, Science Fiction Comments Off
As the wife of the Vice President and ambassador in her own right, there are all sorts of things Kitty Martini is supposed to do. Insulting the Australian Prime Minister and causing an international crisis is not one of those things. Luckily, Kitty’s various experiences make her a pro at handling a crisis, but she never imagined that a bit of comic interference would be the way to solve her problem. Of course, Kitty never realized that it was also possible to trade places with one of her cosmic alternates who also has a problem. Read More »
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