Rating: 5 out of 5 When I bought Linda Addison’s horror collection How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, I didn’t realize there was quite a bit of poetry in among the stories. I’m not much of a…
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Review: “Salvaged,” Madeleine Roux
Rating: 5 out of 5 In Madeleine Roux’s Salvaged, Rosalyn Devar works as a salvager, going out to “dead” spaceships to clean up the bodies. It’s a cruddy job for someone as highly-educated and competent as she is, but she…
Review: “Salvation Day,” Kali Wallace
Rating: 5 out of 5 Kali Wallace’s Salvation Day is a space horror/science fiction tale that kept me glued to my seat. Jaswinder (Jas) Bhattacharya, 22, is the sole survivor of the release of a bio-weapon on board the exploratory…
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Review: “Biofire,” Ray Garton
Rating: 4 out of 5 Ray Garton’s novel Biofire: Author’s Preferred Edition is a blend of thriller, bio-thriller, horror, and science fiction. Genre-bending books can be really fun, and I enjoyed this one. It’s a re-issue; apparently the author considered…
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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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Short Take: “Wound Upon Wound,” Steve Stred
Rating: 5 out of 5 Steve Stred’s Wound Upon Wound: The Collected Serial Novella is short but powerful. Ash, 16 years old, is the older sister to Caleb. The two of them go out to hang out in the park…
Review: “The Cost of Survival,” J.L. Stowers
Rating: 3 out of 5 For the first half of J.L. Stowers’s science fiction novel The Cost of Survival: Book 1 of Genesis Rising, I figured I’d be giving it a 2/5. Instead, by the ending I felt it had…
Review: “The Hammer Falls,” Travis Heermann
Rating: 5 out of 5 When I was a teen in the 80s I was totally addicted to cyberpunk. It’s been a while, but I just read Travis Heermann’s The Hammer Falls and loved it. You’ll certainly recognize a lot…
Review: “Forgotten Stars & Distant Seas” J.B. Rockwell
Rating: 5 out of 5 J.B. Rockwell’s Forgotten Stars & Distant Seas is mostly sci-fi, but it also contains a nice dose of horror in the latter half. Captain Tom Faraday has been dumped in a babysitting role–his ship guards…
Review: “Faithless In Death,” J.D. Robb
Rating: 4 out of 5 Just so you know right off the bat, J.D. Robb’s (Nora Roberts) Faithless in Death (In Death, 52) is not action-packed. These books go back and forth, showcasing different styles of mystery and murder, different…
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