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Published: February 4, 2014 Publisher: Blue Rider Press Genre: Science Fiction Series: Silvers #1 Pages: 608 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: Without warning, the world comes to an end for Hannah and Amanda Given. The sky looms frigid white. The electricity falters. Airplanes everywhere crash to the ground. But the Givens are saved by mysterious... Continue Reading →
The Legion of Flame by Anthony Ryan Another heifer of a book on my reading list this week. Can't wait to dig into this one and here's to hoping I like it better in print than I did audio for the first one. I think I like the cover for The Legion of Flame more... Continue Reading →
Published: June 13, 2017 Publisher: Berkley Genre: Science Fiction Series: Standalone Pages: 368 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 I received a review copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe—and in her own heart—when a... Continue Reading →
Published: August 13, 2015 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Genre: Science Fiction Series: Wayfarers #1 Pages: 404 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: Somewhere within our crowded sky, a crew of wormhole builders hops from planet to planet, on their way to the job of a lifetime. To the galaxy at large, humanity is a minor species,... Continue Reading →
Published: September 26, 2006 Publisher: Knopf Genre: Science Fiction/ Fiction Pages: 241 (Hardcover) My Rating: 3.0/5.0 Synopsis: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The... Continue Reading →
Published: June 20, 2016 Publisher: Self published Genre: Science Fiction My Rating: 2.5/5.0 Synopsis: Walt and Samuel Starboard. Miriam and Virginia Bridge. Four travelers entered the mysterious City-Ship of Marathon, but only three made it out. Now our heroes are faced with a new, more existential threat. An invader from Mother Earth has... Continue Reading →
Published: July 12, 2016 Publisher: Tor Books Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 432 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: Having been haunted by the past and enslaved by the present, James Griffin-Mars is taking control of the future. Earth is a toxic, sparsely inhabited wastelandthe perfect hiding place for a fugitive exchronman to hide from the... Continue Reading →
Published: July 12, 2016 Publisher: Tor Books Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 352 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: Ever since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, they proved that... Continue Reading →
Released: June 28, 2016 Publisher: Tor Books Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 496 (Hardcover) My Rating: 5.0/5.0 Synopsis: A sweeping science-fiction saga of revenge set in a future in which the Roman Empire never fell, by actress Claudia Christian When her mother and brother are murdered, young noblewoman Accala Viridius cries out for... Continue Reading →
Published: June 28, 2016 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 400 (Paperback) My Rating: 4.5/5.0 Synopsis: In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon. Purgatory is... Continue Reading →
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