science fiction
The Spirit Sherpa by Marc Littman
This is one of those books which is really hard to get into but when you do its quite fascinating, although a little conservative for my tastes, those who are into science fiction will absolutely love it.
An Interview with Steve Whitmore, author of the Broken Vacuum Cleaner & MacKillop Series
Tell us a little about your book. Up for grabs right now I have the first story in a rolling spec fic adventure series featuring the investigative duo from Oblivion. MacKillop is an involuntarily morphing truth seeker, hindered and verbally abused by his broken vacuum cleaner sidekick on their travels about the Cosmos. Hopefully, humor [...]
Second Skin by Peter Darrach
I give this book a four all around. It starts off slowly in spite of a cataclysmic accident in the beginning. The narration takes too long to get to the point. About a quarter of the way into the book, the pace picks up and all the problems that plagued the beginning of the book go away. It is as if the author suddenly understood where the story was going and drove it in the right direction.
Rise Of The Steampunk Empire by Barnabas Corbin
A crew of astronauts fall through time to 1832 and are imprisoned by the autocratic Lord Desbois, who demands the secrets of their advanced technology – for Lord Desbois has seen the future and he is determined to prevent it at all costs…
Review 183: Dead Forever: Awakening by William Campbell
Dead Forever: Awakening (Book 1 of a trilogy) by William Campbell brings us into a world of human beings who have cultivated reincarnation into a procedure essentially as simple as an appendix removal. You die and you get a brand new adult body, complete with all the emotional and experiential memories you possessed at death for an eternity of cycles. Sounds pretty good. Sign me up for bungee jumping, parachuting, etc.
Review 172: The Dead Don’t Cry by Mark Anthony Lopez
The Dead Don’t Cry. Sounds like a horror tale, perhaps set in a graveyard. The rest of the cover of Mark Anthony Lopez’s first novel proclaims it as a, “science fiction epic.” I’m not so sure about epic, but this is definitely science fiction, not horror.
Review 138: Not Fit For Human Consumption by Elmore Hammes
When Henry watches news of a coup in the small territory of Jartanzia and sees (what could be) the picture of a hedgehog, he knows the end is near.
Review 110: Starstrikers by Ken McConnell
First, I have to admit I haven’t read (and thoroughly enjoyed) any space opera-type Science Fiction since Restaurant At the End of the Universe which I read back in grade school. Though I loved the movies, I’ve never been a fan of the mass market books that supported the Star Trek and Star Wars enterprises. So, Ken McConnell’s Starstrikers was both a surprise and a pleasure for me.
Review 74: Elysian Fields
Do you know the picture of the little fish about to get eaten by the bigger fish, himself about to become dinner for a larger fish, and so on? Turn the fish into a variety of mutants and aliens held together by nanobots, and you have a pretty good starting point for reading Elysian Fields. Typically I try to give you a plot summary, a few quotes, and an idea of what you’re getting yourself into by reading the book I am reviewing. In this case I’m going to have to send you in without the wisdom of my council because there’s just way too much for me to try to make it make sense to you.
Book Covers Coming Right Up
If you’ve been reading the POD Diary, then you know I recently purchased an awesome program called Book Cover Pro which I used to design the cover of my own book. I decided to post an ad in the Lulu forum and offer my services to others who are in need of help with their book covers.