Jack Carter is not used to quiet days in Eureka. With a town full of brilliant scientists, someone is invariably getting into trouble. After a few days of quiet, Carter begins to wonder if he is living in an alternate reality. Any excuse to get out of the office and he jumps at it.
The twin cities of New Barrington and West Sussex on Borrego Bay, California, seem idyllic places: warm breezes, ocean views and a prosperous community. Of course, most of the prosperity comes from the large vampire enclaves that call the area home. The Moon-Chosen Read More »
God’s War blew me away. This was a fantastic book. The author creates a futuristic world on another planet colonized by Muslims and embroiled in a devastating war between the Nasheenians and the Chenjan people. The war has exacted a steep cost on both sides, leading to the loss of most of the men of fighting age. The Nasheenians are a society more or less dominated by women. Read More »
For romance fans looking for something unique, Strange Little Band will be right up their alley. This story has main characters that would make fine villains in a more conventional romantic story.
The world that provides the setting for the intriguing Panthan’s Crucible has been under siege for ten years by the mysterious Panthans, a race of vampire-like beings that prey upon humans. In response to this threat, humans created enhanced soldiers, Wodens, who unfortunately have a penchant for sometimes being overzealous. Sixteen-year-old Laura’s friend, Avery, suffers an attack by Wodens because her green eyes lead the soldiers to identify her as Panthan, since that eye color is the one they Read More »
From birth Sage had always been different, so different he scared his mother as a newborn baby with his ability to focus and follow her with his eyes. He always seemed to be listening, and worse, understanding everything. Once Sage learned to read at an extremely early age there was no stopping him. Not only did he excel in all subjects, but he pushed himself physically, as well, and was far more advanced than other children his age. Read More »
All Kitty Katt-Martini wanted was a normal day out with her daughter-well, as normal as a day in her life can be. Anti-alien protesters, corporate scheming, and the FBI’s concern over a alien-linked super-drug are the least of Kitty and American Centurion’s concerns. Area 51 and Dulce both go radio-silent while a large portion of the A-C security team are supposed to be on a training exercise at those locations, and the entirety of the AC computer system is hacked by someone who is supposed to be a myth. Read More »
This is a second book in a series, and I highly recommend reading the first book, Haunting Blue, first. I also read the in-between novella that isn’t necessarily needed but does flesh out some background of a new character, Haunting Obsession.
Blue (Fiona) has never fully recovered from the events two years ago when her mother was killed and she almost died fighting a ghost. Read More »
Kris and her crew find themselves appointed to the armpit assignments of the galaxy, as far out of the main lights as possible. Kris slides into a bottle to drown her memories of the people who have died under her command. Fortunately, not everyone else has let their situations get them down. When rumors begin to surface about what some of Kris’s family Read More »
This is a series of short stories written by Philip Jose Farmer. Science Fiction stories, they concern humans and their interaction with aliens set in futuristic settings.
In The Lovers Hal Yarrow hates his life. He is a Jack Of All Trades in the discipline of linguistics, following various master’s work so he can share important information with those to Read More »
A group of scientists from 2070 travel back to 12,000 B.C. to study humanity of the Ancient Magdalenian culture for a period of four years. While there they discover many things about themselves and humanity as a race. Though the other members of the team begin to notice that their leader, John Gribardson seems to almost be at home in this primitive surroundings, almost as if he belonged there… Read More »
Rebel’s Consort tells the story of one possible future. In this future, we meet Analena Maresco, codename Piper, and Trace Boden, code name Onyx, both solders in their right fighting against the tyranny of the Regents where they live. Piper, as a rebel, uses her cyber-enhanced arm as an edge to aid her in saving as many children as she can from the experimentation of the Regents. Read More »
The Map of Time is unlike any book I have ever read. Felix J. Palma has crafted a very intricate story that the reader must truly invest in in order to figure out how all of the strings connect.
The latest talk of Victorian London concerns Murray’s Time Travel, a company that leads expeditions to the great battle between humans and automatons in the year 2000. Read More »
The Inexplicables, the terrific fourth installment in the fabulous Clockwork Century series, finds Rector Sherman, orphan, facing his eighteenth birthday with the knowledge he will be required to leave the orphanage where he has lived almost his whole life. A young man without much in the way of prospects, given his penchant for using the sap (the drug made from the Blight gas that has infected Seattle Read More »
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