You Sexy Thing follows the adventures of Captain Niko Larsen and her crew of soldiers turned chefs as she tries to escape The Holy Hive mind, earn a Nikkelin Orb, evade space pirates and befriend a living space ship. This is certainly space opera, but I think it could also be classified as space fantasy,… Continue reading New Release: You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo
Heda works in robot maintenance on the moon, and Jay is a tour guide. After a series of hook ups, they’re afraid their relationship is getting serious and you’re not supposed to get serious on the moon. However, everything gets scary when Heda’s precious sixteenth century necklace, rumored to contain the power to raise a… Continue reading Golem by Kim Aaron
Following on directly from the end of Verses for the Dead, Special Agent A X L Pendergast, his ward Constance, and his FBI partner, Agent Coldmoon, are sent to Savannah to investigate a series of strange murders that suggest there’s a vampire on the loose in Georgia. I’ve been a fan of Preston and Child’s… Continue reading Bloodless by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
An entertaining collection of thirteen speculative fiction short stories. Some are thoughtful, some funny, and others are spooky, but each is satisfying on either an emotional or intellectual level. Asthana shows great range, both in the variety of countries and cultures present in the stories and in the themes present in the tales. It is… Continue reading New Release: At the Edges by S A Asthana
Set in the far future, what is left of humanity is separated into agrarian settlements protected by sentient artificial intelligences, and wilder human animal hybrids devoted to the hunt. Overseeing both groups and keeping the peace are the plague birds, powerful AIs that have bonded with their human hosts. They are feared by the people… Continue reading New Release: Plague Birds by Jason Sanford
Iseult Murphy 