February 2020 – scintilla.info
Book Review: Children of Sinai, Shelley Clarke Fiction: Children of Sinai, Shelley Clarke Children of Sinai is an interesting combination of international thriller, science fiction, fantasy, and family story. John and Jen Milburn have a storybook marriage, complete with wonderful twin daughters Holly and Hannah. The one discordant note in their happy lives are […]
February 28, 2020By scintilla.admin Fiction2 Comments 
Book Review: Chasing Solance, Lost Solace Book 2, Karl Drinkwater Science Fiction: Chasing Solance, Karl Drinkwater Opal and her ship, the sentient AI now named Athene, barely survived their encounter with the “Lost Ship.” Still, their mission continues and they seek another lost ship, hoping to find there the opportunity to rescue Opal’s missing […]
Book Review: The Hound of Justice, The Janet Watson Chronicles Book 2, Claire O’Dell Mystery: The Hound of Justice, The Janet Watson Chronicles Book 2, Claire O’Dell Things are looking up for Janet Watson. Her new cybernetic arm will allow her to return to surgery once she has mastered using it. Her job at Georgetown […]
Book Review: The Widening Gyre, The Remembrance War Book 1, Michael R. Johnston Science Fiction: The Widening Gyre, Michael R. Johnston One of the cool things about participating in a blog tour is being introduced to an author I have not read before. The danger, of course, is that I will feel the […]
Book Review: The Warehouse, Rob Hart Fiction: The Warehouse, Rob Hart Some dystopian future novels sound improbable at best. Climate change combined with a global epidemic fueled by alien robot overlords or something like that. They make for great stories, but there is some built-in distance. You know these things could happen, but […]
Quote: Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. – Louis L’Amour Quote: Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. – Louis L’Amour For more on Louis L’Amour, American author see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L%27Amour Books set […]
Book Review: The Blood-Dimmed Tide, The Remembrance War Book 2, Michael R. Johnston Science Fiction: The Blood-Dimmed Tide, The Remembrance War Book 2, Michael R. Johnston I fell in love with Asimov and Heinlein, Anderson and Niven, and many more of the science-fiction writers of the last century when I was a child. […]
Book Review: Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Elizabeth Rush Nonfiction: Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Elizabeth Rush One reviewer calls Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” (Chicago Tribune). I cannot think of a more apt description. This book […]
Book Review: Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton Fantasy: Hollow Kingdom, Kira Jane Buxton I am not sure how to begin describing a book one person called a mash-up of The Incredible Journey and Dawn of the Dead. The apocalypse has come. Humanity is done. Over. Finito. Kaput. Good-bye, people. Hello, animals. S.T. is […]
Book Review: Borne, Borne Series, Book 1, Jeff Vandermeer Fantasy: Borne, Borne Series Book 1, Jeff Vandemeer Jeff Vandermeer may be a perfectly delightful and ordinary person, but his writing is as strange as it gets! The Southern Reach trilogy was a fantasy/sci fi amalgam that zigged and zagged in so many directions that […]