Posts labeled Science Fiction
Review - Calamity by Toshi Drake
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The Padua's xenobiologist Damon Wild is on his way to a planet where he hopes to plant some saplings he has been cultivating. Unfortunately, the Siwa pirates still won't leave anyone associated with the Padua alone and attack his shuttle. Damon crashes on a small planet and loses most of his memories from a blow to his head. To make matters worse, the planet appears to be on the brink of a global volcanic catastrophe.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - The Blacksmith's Apprentice by Bey Deckard
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Village blacksmith Eyck is a big, muscular guy, but he's really a gentle and kind-hearted man who thinks the caste system is outdated. When he sees a low-caste slave being brutally beaten, he has to intervene. He ends up buying the slave and tells the mute teen boy he's free, but the frightened teenager runs away in the night. Five years later, the young man, now grown up and calling himself Wex, show up asking to be Eyck's apprentice.
Tags: Science Fiction Fantasy
Review - Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
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Prince Kiem enjoys the life of a royal, even if some of his more outrageous behavior sends the emperor into displeasure. When the emperor summons the Prince this time, it's not for another dressing down. It's to announce that Kiem will be marrying Count Jainan, the recently widowed husband of Kiem's cousin Taam. The marriage is necessary to maintain the fragile alliance between the empire and the vassal planet Thea.
Tags: Science Fiction Mystery
Review - Hybrid Incubator by Meraki P. Dark
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Alex has been an avid ecologist since he was a young boy picking up trash in the woods that people carelessly discarded. Unfortunately, even with a doctorate in environmental science, his passion doesn't pay the bills. After another fruitless day of interviewing for jobs he is over-qualified for, Alex feels the need for a drink. Slightly drunk, he agrees to a road trip with another patron who is also a bit down on his luck.
Tags: Kidnapped by Aliens Science Fiction Non Consensual M-preg
Review - From the Noblest Motives by Angel Martinez
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Damien and Blaze are back on the trail of the remaining children who went missing from a Variant school after a new lead comes in. Unfortunately, the trail Damien picks up suddenly disappears. Just as the two are deciding whether or not to quit the search, news comes that their friend and Variant rights activist Shudder has been arrested. His capture and show trial sets off a chain of events that reunites the three men but also places them firmly in the eye of a storm brewing around their rights.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - The Consort by J. Warren
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James Van Ryan is one of the hottest porn stars on Earth as well as its far-flung colonies across the galaxy. He's had a long and lucrative career, but his manager warns him that changes in technology as well as industry fickleness means that his amuse-by date is rapidly approaching. So when the love-struck ruler of a planet on the outer rim makes a proposal to James to be his consort, it seems like the best option.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - The Alien Medic by Eryn Ivers
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The Resistance's second in command, Garret, has always had a bit of a crush on the group's doctor, Maxwell. He spends what little spare time he has with the medic, and even if Maxwell doesn't return his feelings, he still likes doing things for the overworked physician. Maxwell is finding it increasingly difficult to resist Garret's advances. He's gone years without the comfort of another person's touch, but he knows Garret would reject him if Maxwell revealed his secret.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - Release by Marie Sexton
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Misha was orphaned at a young age and grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in luxury behind the thick protective walls of the inner city on the top of the hill. In some ways, Misha was lucky. He was taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that ran all sorts of operations in the city.
Tags: Science Fiction Dystopian
Review - Cross My Heart by H Birchwood, Key Dyson & Raymond Roach
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Security officer Mitch is involved in a life-threatening incident while off duty. He says he's fine, but he's really not. Mitch decides to seek comfort from his old friend Basil, only Basil is with Rich, and everything Mitch does seems to annoy him. Mitch starts to make a mess of things once again, but Rich seems to understand what's going on. It appears that Mitch might finally have the thing he's been dreaming of for years.
Tags: Science Fiction Novella Menage
Review - Violent Horizons by Sam Clover
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Silas has lived with his lover Eshan on a remote space station for as long as he can remember. Eshan takes care of Silas' sexual needs, which keeps him happy. But then, one day, the station is boarded by a man hell-bent on finding something he thinks Eshan has. The man kills Eshan and thinks he's killed Silas, but the young man somehow survives and finds himself on a planet occupied primarily by lizard-like refugees.
Tags: Science Fiction Space Opera