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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

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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

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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

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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

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Review: “Babylon’s Ashes,” James S.A. Corey

Rating: 5 out of 5 James S.A. Corey’s Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, 6) follows on the heels of his Nemesis Games. Earth is in dire straights after the “Free Navy” bombarded it with asteroids. Billions are dead and the rest

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Review: “Nemesis Games,” James S.A. Corey

Rating: 5 out of 5 In the previous book of James S.A. Corey’s marvelous series “The Expanse”–Cibola Burn–Holden was sent to mediate a dispute between self-avowed colonists and an Earth corporation who both wanted the same planet. We learned a

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Review: “Cibola Burn,” James S.A. Corey

Rating: 5 out of 5 James S.A. Corey’s “The Expanse” series is such an amazing science fiction tale (with a touch of horror). Cibola Burn (The Expanse, 4) makes it clear that each of these books is just as good

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Review: “Abaddon’s Gate,” James S.A. Corey

Rating: 5 out of 5 I am seriously enjoying James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse series of military science fiction books (with a touch of horror). I’m up to Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, 3). When the alien structure lifted from Venus

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Review: “Caliban’s War,” James S.A. Corey

Rating: 5 out of 5 James S.A. Corey’s Caliban’s War (The Expanse, 2) follows shortly on the heels of Leviathan Wakes. When we last left off, the mysterious alien mass on Eros had been diverted to Venus by appealing to

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Review: “Raptor: A TECH Ops Novel,” John G. Hartness

Rating: 3 out of 5 John G. Hartness’s Raptor: A TECH Ops Novel has a great premise, but some crucial failures as well. It’s quasi-military sci-fi, in that the TECH Ops squads aren’t run by the military, and not all

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