Australia is turned into a fuse of sci-fi standards and wild west in the first installment in a new series by Marianne de Pierres. Peacemaker takes the clichés and turn them on its head. de Pierres creates a story that has the familiarity of a buddy cop dynamic with the […]
Like a dark horse in the jam-packed alternate reality subgenre, The White List by Nina D’Aleo snuck up on me and delivered an entertaining tale. With an espionage undertone, we are introduced to a reality where people are not what they seem. Nina D’Aleo brings to life an eerie premise where […]
Masterful storytelling takes hold in Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan. In Hollow World, we learn that Sullivan can weave a story no matter the time period as he effortlessly brings us into modern-day suburban Detroit and two thousand years into the future. With intrigue and suspense, Sullivan shows a story that […]
Urban Fantasy is turned onto its Science Fiction side in The Furies by Mark Alpert, which brings us a new kind of witch that is simply misunderstood and shows how magic is simply science wrapped in mystery. Alpert brings a refreshing authenticity to his story, creating a believable world which draws the […]
It really bites when you just can’t get into a story and it has nothing to do with the book itself. I just experienced this with The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher. Since I had rare moments of free time to read, I never connected to the story-line or the […]
Nikki and I hope you’ll join us today for Story Time with Literary Escapism, a bi-weekly feature where we showcase various children books that fall directly in the fantasy & science fiction genres, as well as books we’re enjoying with our young children. We’re talking boardbooks, picture books, those books […]
Scientific exploration abounds in James Cambias’s A Darkling Sea. With a clash of intricate alien races, Cambias brings wonder and imagination to a scientific expedition. The setting is beautifully foreign as the underwater world is thirty light years from Earth. Cambias gives us a neat tale of curiosity and survival. On […]
I’ll be honest, it took me quite some time to get into Falling Light by Thea Harrison. This is mostly my fault; because of my huge book slump of 2013, I really didn’t remember much about the first novel, Rising Darkness, other than I knew I really enjoyed it and […]
I’m a fan of Batman, as am I a fan of thrillers and horror. While I really wanted to like “The New 52 Batman”, I found it just a shade too dark for me. The writing seemed to use violence in place of plot twists. There were several loose ends that […]
Ellen Larson tells a science fiction tale with In Retrospect. There is something utterly eerie about Larson’s story and how it unfolds. The backstory truly shines and creates an Earth that is as different from our own as night and day. The society which Larson designs is full of mystery, […]
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