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: “Screams from the Void,” Anne Tibbets
Rating: 4 out of 5 Anne Tibbets’s horror/science fiction story Screams from the Void owes “Alien” a nod for the basic premise (alien creature gets loose aboard spaceship and starts killing everyone), but it has plenty of original material to…
Review: “The Taking,” Dean Koontz
Rating: 5 out of 5 Dean Koontz’s The Taking: A Novel is a fascinating genre blend of cosmic horror and alien abduction science fiction. Molly Sloan wakes up to a bizarre and furious downpour outside. The rain is ever-so-slightly glowing,…
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…
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…
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…
Review: “Leviathan Wakes,” James S.A. Corey
Rating: 5 out of 5 For some reason I just up and decided to read James S.A. Corey’s Leviathan Wakes (Book One of The Expanse) even though my TBR stack is sky-high already. I’m so glad I did. Julie Mao,…
Non-Review: “Antlands,” Genevieve Morrissey
A non-review is something I do when I couldn’t finish a book. I won’t rate it on review sites, but I’ll tell you why I stopped reading it so you can get some idea of whether the book would appeal…
Review: “Lost Solace,” Karl Drinkwater
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 In Karl Drinkwater’s science fiction/horror novel Lost Solace (1), Opal, a rogue soldier, has stolen a ship with an experimental AI on board. She hacked the AI and gave it her little sister’s name, Clarissa.…