In a book I can best describe as an urban fantasy-humor-reality game show, a man named Jim is taken away from his root beer-to-induce-suicide night... to play a game of few rules but many risks. Tested and trained, he's mostly informed by other fringe players of the game, because his mentor Oz is not really... Continue Reading →
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
Earth in the 22nd century is a place of environmental disaster... a place of stagnant radiation and fighting over the last remnants of healthy land. Nigeria's civil war has been raging on for years and years. Caught on opposite sides are two young women, Onnyii and Ify... On the rebel Biafran side, Onnyii is a... Continue Reading →
The Free Citizen by TJ Sedgwick
A high-octane scifi run-and-gun filled with alien parasites, cloaked ships, and all means of smoking guns. Set in the 2082, Captain Calvin Rae is the best soldier in the totalitarian American Union, a nationalist regime that has taken over the bulk of the US and Mexico. Released from his emotions by the chip embedded into... Continue Reading →
The True Bastards by Jonathan French
Trampled by the hoof... run over by hogs... All that French had done in The Grey Bastards and MORE! If TGB was an introduction to this world, The True Bastards is a sequel that takes the badlands to the ranks of a great fantasy epic. Things have not gotten any easier in The Lots since... Continue Reading →
Half Way Home by Hugh Howey
In my mind I will always go back to Wool as being the book that brought me back to my science fiction roots. I had gotten away from science fiction and fantasy for a time as I pursued my career and basically got my act together... but everyone was talking about this book... taking place... Continue Reading →