Rating: 5 out of 5 In Tim Meyer’s horror novel Malignant Summer, it’s 1998. High school students Randall and Alphie are hiding clues for the annual Great Hunt, in which a bunch of students try to solve a clue hunt.…
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Review: “Persepolis Rising,” James S.A. Corey
Rating: 5 out of 5 30 years later… No, really. James S.A. Corey’s military science fiction novel Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, 7) takes place roughly three decades after Babylon’s Ashes. Laconia, the colony formed by the rogue Martian contingent led…
Short Take: “The Sea Below,” William Meikle
Rating: 4 out of 5 William Meikle’s horror adventure The Sea Below is the sequel to his The Land Below. In that book, two men wanted to search for a treasure supposed to be underground. They hired a “bodyguard,” who…
Review: “Operation Grendel,” Daniel Schwabauer
Rating: 4 out of 5 Daniel Schwabauer’s military science fiction novel Operation Grendel is really intriguing, and it has a fascinating ending, but I can’t make the timeline of events that are critical to the ending make sense. If I…
Review: “Everything Is Horrible Now,” Edward Lorn
Rating: 4 out of 5 In Edward Lorn’s Everything is Horrible Now: A Novel of Cosmic Horror, Father George kills his wife and child, sits muttering on his porch, then, when a neighbor child (Wesley) arrives, shoots himself in the…
Review: “Shadow Warriors,” Nathan B. Dodge
Rating: 4 out of 5 In Nathan B. Dodge’s science fiction novel Shadow Warriors, there are five teenagers leading difficult lives. Cal’s father is perennially drunk after the death of his wife and doesn’t even have enough money to feed…
Review: “Invasive Species,” Ben Stevens
Rating: 3 out of 5 Ben Stevens’s science fiction novel Invasive Species is the start of a series. I did enjoy this volume, but not enough to read the rest. We’re decades post-Storm, when the very face of the earth…
Short Take: “Black Site,” Michael Patrick Hicks
Rating: 4 out of 5 Michael Patrick Hicks brings us the bio-horror tale, Black Site. It’s a blend of science fiction and horror that takes place on an abandoned mining colony, in a lab. All of the characters were vat-grown…
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Review: “The Malan Witch,” Catherine Cavendish
Rating: 4 out of 5 In Catherine Cavendish’s The Malan Witch, Robyn recently lost her husband Simon. Her sister Holly, who owns a remote cabin with her husband, offered to let Robyn stay there for a while so she can…