Category: science fiction
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House of Echoes by Nat is the first book in the Hundred Hearts series. Rian is a teenage boy, about fifteen, and comes to the house to work. The house is where various people serve the voice that lives under the house and takes its warnings to the general public. Rian goes there because he…
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The Ghost of Serenity by C. C. Lincoln is about a young woman named Reiki. She has just come of age in her remote island village known as Serenity. Though still young she is intelligent and determined which led her to train from a young age in a variety of trades. Longing to be a…
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Time to finish the colonization of Mars with Blue Mars, the third and final book in the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Picking up shortly after the end of Green Mars we see them navigating the aftermath of the successful revolution. Ann is trying to figure out what it means to still be a…
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The Atlantis Gene by A. G. Riddle is the first book in the series The Origin Mystery. Kate Warner is a geneticist working on potential genetic treatments for Autism and she is currently working on a long-term study in Jakarta when she finally sees potential improvement. Almost immediately her study is interrupted when her research…
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Sherlock Holmes & Mr. Hyde by Christian Klaver is the second book in his Classified Dossier series. Having become convinced of the existence of potentially supernatural occurrences after their adventure with Dracula, Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson are more open minded when they are confronted by the resurgence of the continually unsolved case of Jack…
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Moon of the Crusted Snow is the first book in the Moon Duology by Waubgeshig Rice. Evan is a young man living on an isolated Anishinaabe reservation up north when the community goes entirely dark. Since the reliable power is still a relatively new thing for the reservation, none of them are overly worried at…
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Eyes of the Void is the second book in The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky and continues the story of Idris, Solace, and their various friends and allies. It picks up only a short while after the end of the previous book with Idris now working amongst the Partheni in hopes of finding a…
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C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy ends with That Hideous Strength, the only book in the series that does not take place in space. It follows the story of Mark and Jane Studdock, a young and newly married couple. Jane is feeling restricted by married life as she struggles to finish her own schooling when she…
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Run Away To Mars by Michelle Webster is a rather interesting story. Audrid Riley is a scientist and military officer working on Mars who has just celebrated her first anniversary with her husband Torias. Her current project is investigating a rather unusual cave near the base. During an initial exploration of the cave her protective…
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Empery is the third and final book in The Trigon Disunity series by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It picks up quite some time after the previous book Enigma and focuses on the aftermath of Merritt Thackery and his discovery of the Mizari sterilizer. The new galactic Empire is continuing its expansion even as certain members of…