Just when I thought that the zombie subgenre had reached a saturation point, Jim Beck comes along with Patient Zeroand proves that a clever idea can take an old idea and provide fresh flesh for hungry readers. No pun intended. Beck spins a simple story that is veined with strands of Frankenstein and moments of tenderness […]
Review | Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
2011-09-20 · by ·
Welcome to the future. Humanity has colonized the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond – but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his […]
Review | Robopocalypse by Daniel H Wilson
2011-09-10 · by ·
They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you. In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike […]
Review | The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
2011-07-30 · by ·
Hannu Rajaniemi is smart. As in, he is Mensa smart. With a Ph.D. in string theory and another in mathematics, the founder of a think tank that provides business services using artificial intelligence, he is working with subject matter that just a generation ago was the stuff of science fiction. I almost expect to find him in the […]
Review | Heretics by S. Andrew Swann
2011-03-21 · by ·
After the events of Prophets, the human universe is on the brink of war while, eighty light years away, a being called Adam has arisen to set into motion an attack that has been centuries in the making. Should he succeed, he will rule all of humanity, and all sentient life, as a God. Only […]
Review | The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
2011-01-21 · by ·
I long for the days before the Last Desolation. The age before the Heralds abandoned us and the Knights Radiant turned against us. A time when there was still magic in the world and honor in the hearts of men. The world became ours, and we lost it. Nothing, it appears, is more challenging to […]
