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A short novel of two strands Birth of an Artist and The Present All of which leads Henry to a confrontation with a monster below. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about The Painted Darkness – Brian James Freeman
Short horse racing themed collection of average stories. Bluelight Special : True Story – J. Carson Black Bluelight Special : The Bluelight Special – J. Carson Black American Futurity missing. 3 out of 5 Avatar stud. 3 out of 5 2 out of 5
Continue reading about The Bluelight Special – J. Carson Black
Slightly loopy science fiction thriller about what happens when a group of numbered people finally interact – them being clones of a sort of some famous people from history. Edison, Einstein, Robert E. Lee (yeah, cloners really biased to USA). Joan of Arc for some variety. Plus, Vlad the Impaler, Attilla the Hun, Jack the [...]
Fun story about a private eye in a world that has an ever increasing number of superbeings – so much so they have formed their own virtual international nation. Including his ex-wife. He’s just a normal guy with a camera, a car and a gun in a very specialised investigatory niche. Especially as he is [...]
Two crime books and a horror book, three crime books, two horror books and a crime book, or whichever way you want to look at it. I’ll go with the first one. In this omnibus all three books are good with The Skull Ring the pick of the three. You also get an essay, an [...]
A couple loses offspring in a fire. A wife’s investigation brings to light what is really going on with twin brothers – one her husband – their wealthy family, violent past, lovers and the twisted relationship between them. 3.5 out of 5
A secret agent assassin finds out that she isn’t the only one. In fact, there are six other women trained as she has been – identical down to the fingerprints. Only problem is one of them is worth than a ruthless killer under orders. Also a psychopath. Which means she wants there to be only [...]
Continue reading about Flee – J. A. Konrath and Ann Voss Peterson
The old get to go back and solve your own murder story. 3.5 out of 5
The old get to go back and solve your own murder story. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about The Dead Love Longer – Scott Nicholson
A young Chicago detective gets involved when the operations of a crazy bookie crime boss spiral out of control as his underlings frame a hard man – who does not take it lying down. Many criminals to become terminally challenged in this one as two drinks team up. Tequila Abernathy and Jack Daniels. 3.5 out [...]
Continue reading about A Shot of Tequila – J. A. Konrath and Blake Crouch
On the proper colour of gelatin and the right pie for dealing with death. And for dealing with dead people that want to deal with you. 3 out of 5
A reporter ends up in a small town. It is not as dull as he thinks as murders begin to happen. Circulation boosting murders and soon this story is of much greater interest. 3.5 out of 5
The US government has a demon in a hidden complex. Or what may be a demon, but could be an alien. People work there that are desperate enough have agreed to work on studying this thing that eats whole sheep like hamburgers and as it turns out is really smart, knows many languages and has [...]
A baby almost dies at birth until a slight sign of life leads some medics to decide to try and save it, sickly and weak life thought it may have. The boy grows up and gets along in an overpopulated and ruined world, eventually becoming involved with movers and shakers – and theri desire to [...]
Continue reading about Brother To Dragons – Charles Sheffield
This is a solid novel of the good old Satanist menace variety. I like it rather more the second time around. The protagonist has a dysfunctional love life, and is in therapy for her issues. We come to realise that there is something a little off about her as the novel goes along, and she [...]
Continue reading about The Skull Ring Bonus Edition – Scott Nicholson
An encounter between a lover and a honey trap colleague goes terminally wrong. Our man in Vegas decides on the sort of justice you can pay for for the man responsible. 3 out of 5
An different crime story as a murder is investigated by a forensic geologist and others. You won’t read too many that feature biathlon, certainly. An old conflict between volcanologists causes problems. The meandering nature of this prevents too much suspense as the story wanders through the personalities and relationships in this small in danger of [...]
Hellequin’s Flying one. Here’s your blighted world with baroque oddballs coming together under the Big Top. More than one monster would happily take a bit out of this motley crew of, both human and otherwise as the past catches up with more than one denizen in a strange reality. 3.5 out of 5
A graveyard has something not living subsisting there – plenty of bodies to eat. Three boys are friends – the violent father of one of them being a graveyard minder. Add in the girlfriend of a man who was eaten very recently and is rather fancied by the Ghoul for procreation purposes and you have [...]
Farm boy with not so good childhood gets out of there and becomes a dodgy bloke named Ferret. A conflict with an even worse nogoodnik ends up in some deaths, and he moves on to be trained as a martial arts trained warrior priest and leader of the birth of a rebellion about the interstellar [...]
Aliens come to earth – small ones – and they proceed to take over people in nasty biological fashion. Their aim is larger, to build a gate to bring a much bigger crew from. One of their targets manages to resist them to some degree and we follow his horrible exploits to the conflict that [...]
Sauralopithecus! A Roman hunter discovers a lizard-ape monster. An Emperor thinks this would be rather good entertertainment. Yeah, he is nuts. He sets off with a partner, who happens to be working for aliens that are rather worried about the beastie. Enough to kill everyone on the planet to get rid of it if it [...]
Continue reading about Killer – David Drake and Karl Edward Wagner
An encounter with a strange alien form of life leaves a group of early Saturn explorers very changed. Later, post Solar System War their existence they feel is threatened by some whose memories are being recovered by a specialist – that they thought they had killed. Problem for them in this second of the Cold [...]
Continue reading about The Ganymede Club – Charles Sheffield
The most recent job John Rain was involved with was for higher stakes. Energy supply. After four years off Rain gets approached again. This time he and Dox, along with Treven and Larison are hired to take out two yank Defense honchos who are apparently planning fake terrorist attacks on the USA to allow them [...]
A detective working on some murders finds something disturbing – a vampire. He also ends up as one and ends up trying to trace the vampire, bringing him deep into another world and also a change of cop career locations. 3.5 out of 5
A young man goes back to the old town. Well, the old hamlet if you like. His problem is what goes on at the church there. A good, new-fangled snake cult. Complete with supernatural entities and rituals involving such. Young women, bad things, etc. Snakes, supernatural and crazy Californian hillbillies in this polished horror novel. [...]
Hilger showdown. Which shows that even smart guys can do dumb things. Hilger and what is left of his crew kidnap Dox as a lever to get Rain to perform some assassinations for them. All part of a greater do something about the oil plot involving suborning a port official. So yeah, Rain wants to [...]
Continue reading about Requiem For An Assassin – Barry Eisler
Here’s a three-way teamup for Rain and company as a dying Tatsu has a request. Finally get rid of Yamaoto so he can expire in peace. Rain agrees and convinces Delilah to help. Things get messy when Midori and his son are endangered by Rain’s existence as they are a link to find him. Yamaoto [...]
A lot is packed into this novel, the third of a series of which I have not read the other two. A special unit of cops gets some dangerous situations in a unit that bears the series name. Their lead also had Internal Affairs and FBI problems. As well as wanting some vigilante revenge about [...]
The Shadow has to deal with a madman who wants all the world’s gold supply – employing his own titular method of getting rid of people to help him to get there. Even if they are Secret Service agents. 3 out of 5
This time it is the Mossad that wants Rain to remove someone – thanks to Delilah’s recommendation. And interestingly a couple of small sections are told from Delilah’s point of view – sign of increasing importance? Things go pear-shaped when he is about to knock off his explosives expert target and the man’s kid walks [...]
The second Icarus project book follows on from the first, as Jet and Iridium deal with the breakdown of the drug and mind control of the Extrahuman population of the USA. To do so involves one of the good old methods – ask some of the less nasty villains rotting in prison for help. Which [...]
Continue reading about Shades of Gray – Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge
A young policewoman is involved with a detective in the same force. A distinct no-no by the regulations. He is trying to solve multiple poisoning murders and deal with what happens after they get caught. They both have other women expressing interest in them as a result of the case, which doesn’t make things easier. [...]
A third solid entry in this series as now High Priest Acatl has to deal with murder and worse in a magical epidemic. As he has grown to realise more and more, these things are usually the results of a power struggle from those passed over or yet to come into more power – even [...]
Continue reading about Master of the House of Darts – Aliette de Bodard
Not quite as strong as the first two. Here Rain follows through on his plans to decamp to Brazil for security reasons, in a couple of stages. However, the CIA pulls him back into, wanting him to dispose of an arms dealer. It isn’t as simple as that though, pointing out that the CIA right [...]
The son of Philip of Macedon? Alexander of Macedon. Yeah, that Great guy with the big black horse that took a fancy to taking over the world. First he has to survive being a kid and kidnapped into another universe that still has centaurs and minotaurs. Then getting Greece together with Parmenion’s help so they [...]
First of the Ghost Files series apparently. A couple as ghosthunters. With the woman providing the paranormal power and the bloke the support. Fairly lighthearted for dealing with the dead as the pair banter back and forth in this investigation of a young girl’s spirit from old history of the school. So if looking for [...]
Continue reading about Ghost College – Scott Nicholson and J. R. Rain
A man goes on holiday, looking for a fairdinkum old fashioned Welsh put to stay it. He finds one including the odd inhabitants who don’t look too happy. The couple that owns the place are happy to feed and beer him but when he asks for a room they encourage him not to stay. As [...]
Continue reading about The Bell – Paul Lewis and Steve Lockley
Dead Man 1 A man goes skiing with his more competent girlfriend and ends up getting caught in an avalanche. Some history found out in flashbacks of the relationship between him and his best friend as three months later he thaws out and comes back to life. His best friend now something evil that needs [...]
Continue reading about Face of Evil – Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin
A special forces operation in Afghanistan comes across something disturbing. Taliban enemies that don’t die if you shoot them. Also like to bite their foes. As tends to happen in these things, this disease spreads exponentially. Those affected show the ability to actually learn. Use tools like rocks and then guns and even vehicles. In [...]
A gangster is happily doing what they do when another wants to hire him to work for him and run some stuff. He doesn’t like this idea, but taking over would be ok. Things escalate, everybody dies, mostly. 3 out of 5 http://www.munseys.com/diskfour/fastonedex.htm
Simple kid’s book as the author explains in an intro for this republication. A spaceship’s overdrive fails, much damage to craft, so bailing out to a planet is necessary, where three disparate characters have to try and survive the environment and aliens. An intuitive synthesist, a logician and a strong guy. 2.5 out of 5
A Fish and Game officer helping with a study on bear populations sees a plane crash. This gets him, his Sheriff ex-wife, his big black dog Bane who invites himself along for a plane escape and the reporter who survived the sabotaged plane involved in a secret special forces and submarine conflict between the USA [...]
It would appear Eisler writes classy but brutal spy novels. The assassin John Rain has moved from Tokyo for business reasons: to make it harder for his enemies to get to him. Therefore, they get to his hacker friend the old fashioned way. With a prostitute paid to turn his head. As well as Japanese [...]
Ranks of Bronze finds a Roman Legion shanghaied and put to work for a group of interstellar traders. These rapacious types have agreements to solve conflicts by conflict – but only at the technology level of the locals. So if you have primitive barbarians with swords and shields – you send in your slave legion [...]
Stellar catastrophe dooms Earth and the solar system – and seedships are sent out to enable the human race to survive. On a settled planet the last of such ships arrives, needing assistance with their ice shield to enable them to make it to their final destination. A planet that has some tectonic issues. Sort [...]
Continue reading about The Songs of Distant Earth – Arthur C. Clarke
Your standard cheesy thriller with murdered parents, Atlantean nazis, SAS guys teaming up with good looking scientists, megalomaniacs who may or may not have ulterior genocidal motives – on both sides. An ex-friend from the past that won’t mind shooting you for money. And, of course, a lot of blowing up of stuff. 3 out [...]
Continue reading about The Hunt For Atlantis – Andy McDermott
The Al-Buraq, a ship capable of instantaneous interstellar travel starts doing its thing with its crew. What they run into isn’t very nice. Something is devouring large swathes of interstellar real estate. And what do you do if this is actually something alive? A maker, destroyer or universal being and the means to communicate with. [...]
Continue reading about The Unreasoning Mask – Philip Jose Farmer
Here’s a fun space opera that takes a rather more Blake’s 7 take on the Federation as opposed to Star Trek. A woman, brought up by said Federation to be a highly trained agent – finds out she has a brother with a scientific inclination. Despite this being not supposed to happen then stick together. [...]
A reporter who suffered through an abusive childhood starts looking into some strange killings. Ones that do not make sense. This leads him into investigating ViGen corporation – who are working into advanced medical research. What they are really up to is a lot nastier – mind control via drug. all in the aims of [...]
Opened the second of this series first apparently, but no big deal. Space adventure with a guy and his robots. And strange boojum things and all of course being a long way from home. Shipworlds, meerkat-like aliens. And our protagonist is no emo whiner loser. Pretty much nothing fazes him, which is very entertaining. Although [...]
Continue reading about Strange Attractors – Jeffrey A. Carver
God Stalk is an interesting novel. A fantasy novel set in a city and with a ton of stuff thrown in. No interminable farmboy wanderings or 7 page descriptions of a pants leg. Jame, a little like Telzey Amberdon has that je ne sais quoi — and you certainly don’t know what she is going [...]
A Southern Californian trust fund baby does what you would expect in the late sixties. Apart from only drinking vodka, anyway. And being involved in an Import-Export business with an Iranian friend from his university days. Their other friend buys into the business, and ends up dying when he goes to Iran. The dead man’s [...]
The second of this series is another breezy romp through this softboiled Nightside, again, as everyone’s favorite zombie detective gets involved in the middle of yet another conflict. Lords vs Lords, hew lot vs old lot. Any of that is not really good and preferably to be avoided. Especially with a pregnant vampire girlfriend and [...]
Set in a time around 100 years after 300 Spartans delayed a Persian army, Parmenion is a half-Macedonian Spartan training to be a warrior. And getting lots of racist abuse while doing so. Luckily for him the famous Xenophon (yes, that one) lends a hand and keeps him from getting himself killed after killing in [...]
A man who can see dead things. A cop with a family history that has some nasty stuff hidden in it. Blood draining monsters from beyond mirrors. Maybe an angel, and a complicated family tree. An armless Rwandan psychic. And of course, live people that become not so, being a horror novel. The Thomas Usher [...]
A mass murderer on an interplanetary scale heads for somewhere interesting to him. A planet that was colonised by satanists. A religious order there knows that the longer he is there, the more likely that they will all be dead. So how to kill a born evil death master – with a trained master assassin, [...]
A standalone novel. A guitarist prodigy in a rising fast rock band has plenty of money thanks to their success. Plenty of problems too with being an alcoholic – avoiding the funeral of the foster father that did look after her, having a fractured childhood and now a stalker that invades her life to terrify [...]
For the premise – cities being overrun by nasties, it is a bit on the bland side. Not breezy enough for light adventure fantasy with airships and not enough horror for the weird. Stuck in the middle with endothermic ammunition. Points for the actual gear of the place there. Not zero imagination brass and clockwork [...]
Dystopian American Eighties geekout. As a megarich billionaire game designer leaves his entire massive fortune to the person that can solve a puzzle quest he has left behind post-mortem. Which involves being as obsessed with 1980s American pop culture and geek stuff in the 2040s. So not quite as interesting, if not a yank. Most [...]
If you crossed Roger Zelazny with the bastard drunken night’s lovechild of Simon R. Green and Michael Moorcock that lost a drinking contest with Robert Reed you would get something like this. A young Australian finds out that his family is very strange and in fact rather powerful. Strange dead bodies keep getting retrieved from [...]
A young Southern Rigante man is a protege of an older rogue, warrior and cattle rustler. Not a fan of school, a bit of a hothead. A young woman of the nationality of the rulers is murdered because of her association with him. He takes lethal revenge and heads North, where the Rigante have more [...]
A youg man with off the wall inventing ideas involving moving to an artificial body is drafted into a secret military project. The discovery of an alien ship, to his surprise. This occupies him for a decade until disillusionment causes a parting of the ways and his transfer. Not too pleased, he comes back, breaking [...]
Continue reading about The Black Seas of Infinity – Dan Henk
I read the excerpt and thought this is just another novel – although a Northern Ireland seventies setting appealed as a refreshing change of pace, so I didn’t get back to it for a while. Luckily, it improves enough to go over the 3.5 range enough to round up to 4, with the story of [...]
A somewhat nihilistic bouncer has a friend killed, ending up with her big puppy. Plus a burning desire to flip the life state of the mobsters responsible to mortally challenged – discovering a twin sister and the odd dodgy cop are tied up in this sordid tale. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Beautiful Naked and Dead – Josh Stallings
Our slightly disreputable lacking in memory trader ship captain is in need of a job – so will not turn down a highly lucrative offer from a 700 year old brain in a year to transport a well preserved scientist to a new planetary claim. On an odd, dangerous planet. 3.5 out of 5
This was surprisingly good. The story of a trader captain and her motley crew of AI and aliens in need of a new cargo coinciding with an overthrown ruler on a barbaric planet’s need for escape. His ‘wizard’ adviser – an ex-crewmember of the Gravity Rose. Plotting and entanglements await. Shades of Poul Anderson – [...]
A Well of Souls reboot – with a horribly boring first half of random American ramblings until we see some signs of the Well and transformations later on – but still feels all aimless and padded, glimpses of Brazil and Chang notwithstanding. 2.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Echoes of the Well of Souls – Jack L. Chalker
Forge of the Titans is a good old fashioned psionics novel. Apparently that Greek Titans and Gods legend thing – real, but they are energy entities that can do stuff, not mythological creatures. A young yank naval recruit gets co-opted into a secret program becaus he has latent psionic ability – as apparently did his [...]
A general of competence but ambition wants to score the campaign with the most kudos as his command for the next season. The Prince who is his sponsor suggests a way to do this via an old law which draws him in to an Empire spitting political conflict, with ambitions growing ever greater. The non-Roman [...]
Pocket Universe Fringe. A detective in Empire State – apparently just a city – gets drawn into a case to find a woman’s missing lover, who turns out to be doppelganger. Not the only one. Which leads to the discovery of a parallel universe, two rival superheroes, mad scientists and then of course a battle [...]
A novel set in an area called The Salton Sea – and the people that live there cheap in trailers on the Slab – polluted and nasty as it may be. Even nastier, a monster lurks in the deep, and as the carefully woven strands of the different people in the strand come together they [...]
The Cold Commands definitely has the middle book syndrome going on. The three are separated. Ringil is off doing some slaver slaughtering, Archeth is involved in politics working on keeping people alive and putting together an investigation into a strange island. Egar is busy getting into trouble with other people’s wives and discovering Dwenda cults. [...]
The sequel to Edge is still interesting, with its blend of scary psychology and hypnotist and cyberpunk special forces infiltration as the loss of young family for both Josh Cumberland and knife fighter supremo Matt Carlsen leads to an alliance aimed at finishing the job of taking down the Tyndall Empire and the government. As [...]
A couple of blokes are actually able to do some real magic tricks after some training with a professor. So of course you use them to try and win money at Blackjack in Las Vegas. Which brings them to the attention of the local organised crime magic Cabal, who has to decide whether to bump [...]
A fixup of Moorcock’s Sojan The Swordsman stories so that they resemble a novel with some alteration. An ex-Earthman and now mercenary warrior puts his talents to good use with sword and shield and pistol where he can help or just relieve his own boredom. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Sojan the Swordsman – Michael Moorcock
A man out of place and on the run ends up at a secret project that has created its own universe in a bottle. Agreeing to be their lab rat and with no other prospects ends up a war leader after rescuing both a prince and princess. Now he gets to help them defeat Lovecraftian [...]
Continue reading about Under the Warrior Star – Joe R. Lansdale
You can put this one down as another of the rare novelisations worth reading and rereading. Not often that one of the screenwriters writes the novelisation, either, I suppose. The story of a sheriff who arrests the dumber brother of a wealthy rancher crimelord for murder and has to try and hold out in the [...]
After multiple conflicts and alliances over resources and the environment the same thing continues in the 22nd century, with continuing problems. However, space and the lagrange points are also key military strategic areas. So the spies and enhanced soldiers (or criminals, depending on your point of view) and combinations of the them continue the slaughter [...]
Continue reading about The Mirrored Heavens – David J. Williams
A solid take on the coming of superhumans. This time with your dodgy military industrial complex reasons. A down and out MMA fighter has a flush friend take him to a club to get his mind off his 9th consecutive beatdown – and to score chicks. The woman that draws his attention proves to be [...]
The author states that From Within is an homage to 70s and 80s horror and it certainly comes across that way. Or if you wanted some later work that this would be reminiscent of, then Mark Chadbourn’s Age of Misrule. Both Celtic flavoured horror. Here, however, the battleground is a smaller. A small Scottish town [...]
A solid Polity outing as the story deals with the aftermath of the planet Masada joining the Polity along with all the other things of interest there. Such as the degenerate Atheter Gabbleducks, AI investigation into the same, an Atheter AI and the Technician, a Hooder-like ancient Atheter war machine. Rising Atheter activity also means [...]
A supervillain inventor who has worked his way up from being lamer than Paste Pot Pet into a powered armour force to be reckoned with is the only one capable of saving the world after this universes version of that jerk Tony Stark scres up. The evil Overlord’s brain-enslaving bugs get out when Ultraweapon attacks [...]
Continue reading about Confessions of a D-List Supervillain – Jim Bernheimer
Not as good as the first two in the series, as yet again we get bored by a US presidential election. There’s a conflict in Hell and one bunch want to do the Armageddon on Earth, the others do not. One demon possesses a Republican presidential candidate to get elected and hence Armageddonize. The other [...]
Continue reading about Sympathy For the Devil – Justin Gustainis
Not up to the standard of the first and also a little longer, which doesn’t really help matters. Slowish and thriller are not too good things. The old NRI crew from the first book are drawn back in thanks to the power producing potential of the stones. A supervillain Hong Kong billionaire – crippled, so [...]
The protagonist of the piece is recovering from the death of her lover. She takes herself off to do the hermit thing in Silver John country. No monsters of the supernatural variety though, but a friend who wants her help in finding his own ex-lover. The problem is, there’s a bad guy too, a serial [...]
The fourth in this series goes for an everything plus the kitchen sink – floating past you thanks to hurricane devastation. The vampire voodoo queen of New Orleans, werewolves, werepanthers, zombies, Deep Ones, Nyarlathotep and friends, and the return of Captain Nemo. Along with Chris and his two-headed girlfriend/enemy. On top of this through in [...]
A woman sees an impossibly handsome man come out of the water near a cliffside beach – with a tail at times, no less. This leads to impregnation and a book of magic. The results of which cause problems for two generations of descendants and those around them. The death of the woman brings the [...]
Continue reading about The Devil’s Churn – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The second in this series is a bit slower than the first. The machinations between the various members of the Mexica ruling class continue as the struggle to install a new leader after the last one became mortally challenged gets murderous. Short a few council members and a Guardian our High Priestly protagonist has to [...]
Continue reading about Harbinger of the Storm – Aliette de Bodard
Chris is accumulating followers, whether used to be vampire bloodnut bodyguards, cat-vampires or a yard full of zombies that like to argue about which movies to watch. Various inhuman types are still out to get him, however, whether vampire politicians or Dr Mengele and other assorted evil nazis. A new trick in that he can [...]
Continue reading about Habeas Corpses – William Mark Simmons
Boss has been leading her team of divers and people with the genetic markers to survive the stealth tech all over to try and recover it before the Empire types gets their hands on it. This leads her to a planet that appears to have some – and suffer devastating disasters where the ground just [...]
Continue reading about City of Ruins – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Dead On My Feet isn’t as good as the first book in the series. Overall I think these books are a little longer than they need to be given the style, which means there is a tendency to drag in the middle. Get rid of the Dracula problem for now, then you move on. Who [...]
Continue reading about Dead On My Feet – William Mark Simmons
A military science fiction space opera with a couple of tweaks. A really good officer instrumental in helping his side win a space battle is critically injured in doing so. He gets the ‘we can only freeze him until we have the technology treatment’. He wakes up to discover the side he was fighting for [...]
Continue reading about Exodus – Steve White and Shirley Meier
A solid science fiction thriller. A possible source of cold fusion is to be found in Brazil in ancient stray ruins. The problem is the yet another secret US government organisation’s first team sent in to look for it almost all died. And the only guy left reports monsters. Plus, the head of the organisation [...]
A solid science fiction thriller. A possible source of cold fusion is to be found in Brazil in ancient stray ruins. The problem is the yet another secret US government organisation’s first team sent in to look for it almost all died. And the only guy left reports monsters. Plus, the head of the organisation [...]
So this time Sigma Force only have to deal with bizarre secret societies involving pale Native American Mormons, and European supervillains. And perhaps a tiny problem with a Yellowstone supervolcano as Painter Crowe’s niece gets her activist self into a hell of a lot more trouble than she thought after attempting to blow up a [...]
A genuine delight to come across superhero prose like this. A retired superhero (a teleporter) has moved away from the big city to a smaller community and opened a cafe called Tea and Strumpets. A fun name, and her own style is sort of a swing dancing Bettie Page. So of course she is named [...]
Continue reading about Heroine Addiction – Jennifer Matarese
Monster Hunter Vendetta is a fun sequel. Owen Pitt is now a veteran on the the top Monster Hunter team. The new recruits in training look up to him. Plus the big nasties want to do bad bad things to him. Use him, drive him crazy, sacrifice him to Elder Gods and all that good [...]
Continue reading about Monster Hunter Vendetta – Larry Correia
The final Signs of the Zodiac novel has Joanna trying to survive as a Gray amidst the Shadow and Light conflict, as well as attempt to get her boyfriend back and live long enough to give birth to her kid. This involves some lateral thinking and management given she is currently lacking in the superpower [...]
Continue reading about The Neon Graveyard – Vicki Pettersson
Here’s another Post-Collapse story of a sort from Angry Robot. A little different though in that the protagonists in this novel are a cyborg and an AI. The latter likes to run around physically in a robot body, too. Apart from having come through wars and conflicts, the human race has also had to deal [...]
