Posts labeled Science Fiction
Review - Inversion Point by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen
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Zander, Felix and the crew of the Chaos are back for another adventure in the fourth installment of the “Chaos Station” series. At the very end of the previous book, humanity had just found out about the immanent arrival of a new species at the galactic hub, and “Inversion Point” follows the crew as they meet and try to communicate with the new race, with Zander as Emissary of the Guardians.
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Review - Skip Trace by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen
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The third installment of the Chaos Station series kicks off with the resurrected Zed’s return to his family home, along with the rest of the crew of the Chaos. Not everyone is happy to see Zed back among the living, especially the military, who hoped his death, along with the others they experimented on to create super soldiers, would bury their embarrassing secret program. His lover Felix isn’t too happy to see Zed back in the bossom of his rich and powerful family, reminding him that he doesn’t belong.
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Review - Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen
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Spoiler alert: If you haven’t read the first installment of this series, then you had best stop reading this review now, since we can’t really discuss the second book without reavealing how the first left off. This second volume of the Chaos Station series picks up just a few weeks after the end of “Chaos Station”. Zed is trying to settle in as a member of the crew, but everyone, especially his lover Flick, knows that he is living on borrowed time.
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Review - Astounding! by Kim Fielding
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Carter Evans is the founder and editor of the science fiction magazine Astounding! but the publication, like most print media these days, is on its last legs. Carter can’t afford to keep it going for much longer. Adding to his headaches are the submissions of one J. Harper, a very persistent, and very bad, author who keeps sending in new versions of his work despite numerous rejections. Carter’s drunken attempt to rebuff the writer backfires and he ends up meeting J.
Tags: Novella Science Fiction
Review - More Than Human by Mel Keegan
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By the end of the 23rd century, humanity has established its first colony outside the solar system, on a planet called Eidolon. The achievement required not only advancements in spacecraft engineering, but also cybernetics, since augmentation was required to make humans capable of deep space flight and living on an alien world larger than Earth. As you can imagine, it takes no time at all for cybernetic implants to become mainstream, with everyone from athletes to high class escorts getting augmented to improve their game.
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Review - The Eidolon's Conquest by Yamila Abraham
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In this vision of a possible not-to-distant future, the Eidolon are a genetically engineered race of super-humans, bred by their super-computer master with a thirst for conquest and domination. The Eidolon and their robot army have been locked in a war with the humans for many years. The war is draining resources on both sides, with the Eidolon running low on raw materials, and the humans losing hundreds of soldiers in every battle.
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Review - Event Horizon by Mel Keegan
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The Hellgate saga comes to a rousing if bittersweet conclusion in this sixth and final installment. If you’ve made it this far in the series, you’ll almost certainly find this book hard to put down. The team of soldiers and scientists, both human and Resalq are in the final stages of preparing for their first trip into transpace aboard the semi-sentient Lai’a, to track down the Zunshu who have been destroying the human settlements of the Deep Sky in the same way they almost wiped out the Resalq.
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Review - Flashpoint by Mel Keegan
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With open warfare between the Earth-centered home-worlds and the colonies inevitable after the events of Probe, the team focuses on making the time and place of the next battle one of their choosing. There isn’t any time to waste on a protracted war with Earth, not with the Zunshu automatons destroying more and more human colonies on the edge of Hellgate. The rebels have delved the depths of data recovered from the ill-fated Orpheus and are completing construction of Lai’a, a ship built on the wreck of the Intrepid specifically to navigate the strange currents of time and gravity that make exist on the other side of Hellgate.
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Review - Santuario by G.B. Gordon
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In the distant future, on a far-away planet, there are two human colonies with distinctly different cultures. The Skanians were the original colonists, apparently descended from Scandinavian stock. The later arrivals crash-landed more than 200 years before this story begins. For reasons nobody seems quite sure of, the newcomers were isolated on an island they call Santuario in the sweltering tropics, where they’ve had little contact with the Skanians. Alex is a police lieutenant in a small coastal village on Santuario.
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Review - Probe by Mel Keegan
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The festering colonial rebellion finally explodes into open warfare in the fourth book of the Hellgate saga. The flashpoint of Ulrand, where the inept interference of military engineers from Earth caused an alien artifact to explode, devastating almost half the planet. Festering resentment is pushed into high gear, and when the inevitable vote to succeed comes, Earth sends a fleet of ships to prevent the predictable succession of other worlds from the confederacy.
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