The “Red Desert” series is Near-Future Science Fiction, its plot concerning a very realistic guess as to how the initial colonization of Mars might go. The story skips back and forth between the colonists and the people back on Earth who interact with them, and readers need to be prepared for the point-of-view jumps that…
Month: February 2016
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“Shifting Borders” by Jessie Kwak
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Don’t let the cover fool you. This is about the most normal paranormal story I have read. It takes place in a prosaic world where raising ghosts is a business matter, ordered by a judge for legal reasons. But then of course there’s the people who can’t, won’t or shouldn’t get the permits. Patricia – responsible…
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The “To Hell with Conventions” Book
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Review of a special genre this week. I’ve declared a holiday for myself on specific reviews, because I’m engrossed in a two-book series that is very difficult to read. I’ll leave it to my regular readers to guess which one it is when the review finally comes out next month. Genre Review: The “To Hell…
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“Hell Holes: What Lurks Below” by Donald Firesmith
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This will be a short review, because this is a short book. Just longer than novella length, at about 100 pages in the dead-tree edition. In my opinion, Amazon doesn’t give you enough information in this respect. eBook buyers beware. This book is a bit of a surprise in other ways. It starts out like…