What. A. Ride. I was recommended this book by one of my favorite authors on Twitter, so I went in expecting it to be a dark narrative, with plenty of fantastical elements, and I wasn't disappointed. In fact, I found myself going, "Wow. WOW." as I read, particularly as the unfolding plot grew larger and larger. I am rarely caught off guard by plot twists and even though part of...
Review: The Library at Mount Char
Review: The Great Martian War: Invasion
I’m not a science fiction reader. Yes, an odd statement to make when I’m writing sci-fi regularly as well as watching it. Truthfully, I find it hard to connect to a lot of the classic sci-fi heroes and the often convoluted styles of the original sci-fi masters. They’re amazing stories, don’t get me wrong, but as a consumer of genre fiction, I usually pass on the sci-fi epics. The Great...
Review: Shy Grove
When Gary’s crazy aunt dies, he inherits her house in the town of Shy Grove. Along with his wife and son, he moves into the house to catalogue her belongings, as well as try to work on their relationships. But from the first night, strange things happen in the house. Whispers in empty rooms, shadows in corridors, and changes in Gary’s personality hint that there is something wrong. And not just with the house...
Across the Great Rift
There is a lot happening within the pages of this novel and many of them very thought-provoking. We embark with characters in the midst of what seems like a simple mission for a highly advanced society–colonize untouched parts of the galaxy–but the plot quickly escalates when sabotage and murder lead to the upheaval of plans of the daring “Gate” builders and their team. You have honest and rather humble characters...
Mara
Finished novel concerning broken goddesses, hopeful little boys, and of course, birds.
Essay – The Cloned Body in Utopian and Dystopian Literature
In a world where governments continue to grow in both power and size, the body of a citizen of a state is subject to the powers that maintain their society. In societies where governments lead to the creation of a need-based relation with its constituents’ bodies, this is a crucial element to the success of their society’s security and stability. However, in the course of this goal of maintaining order, individuals become fodder, and this can be seen with great clarity in the works of fiction...
Max Mirona – Book 1
MAX MIRONA is a story about a globetrotting exotic dancer named Max who becomes one of the few humans saved from Earth's destruction. His rescuer, Ral, is an alien and as Max quickly learns, there is a wide and wild universe full of even more species than humanity had ever dreamed. As these two lonesome souls take their own first steps into their new lives, along with an uncomfortably sentient AI named BIL and a fiercely unfriendly cat, Max and Ral inadvertently become entangled in a galactic conspiracy two thousand years in the making.