Trial By Fire is a big book. Six hundred and forty pages big. It’s chewy and complicated. Somewhere near the end, I decided the plot was something like a game of chess. Every page and every point of view represented a move and might hide a clue to next six moves planned by that player.ContinueContinue reading “Review: Trial by Fire (Tales of the Terran Republic #2) by Charles E. Gannon”
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Review: The Circuit: Executor Rising by Rhett C. Bruno
‘The Circuit: Executor Rising’ by Rhett C. Bruno is my kind of book. Earth is dead (yay, apocalypse!) and humanity has taken to the stars. We haven’t gotten far. Still within our Solar System, humanity inhabits a string of Solar-Ark transports that continually travel what is known as the Kepler Circuit. Resources are mined andContinueContinue reading “Review: The Circuit: Executor Rising by Rhett C. Bruno”
Review: ORBS by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
After the solar storms of 2055, portions of our planet are desolate and irradiated. Six years later, Dr. Sophie Winston and her team are sequestered in an underground biome in preparation for a mission to save the world. Three days in, all their chickens are dead. A scan of surveillance footage suggests the birds wentContinueContinue reading “Review: ORBS by Nicholas Sansbury Smith”
Review: Defenders by Will McIntosh
A few of my reviewing friends had very good things to say about Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh. So when Orbit dropped the price of McIntosh’s newest release, ‘Defenders’, to $1.99 (ebook only, courtesy of the Orbital Drop newsletter), I figured it was a good time to take the author for a test drive.ContinueContinue reading “Review: Defenders by Will McIntosh”
Review: Memory (A Miles Vorkosigan Novel) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Summoned home to Barrayar to follow up on an incident where he might have accidentally cut the legs of the Imperial Courier he had just rescued, Lord Miles Vorkosigan finds that his own integrity is not the only thing awry. Simon Illyan, Chief of Imperial Security (Imp Sec) is having trouble remembering things, which shouldContinueContinue reading “Review: Memory (A Miles Vorkosigan Novel) by Lois McMaster Bujold”
Kelly Jensen 