#ScienceFiction Archives – scintilla.info
Book Review: Sin:Thetica, Keith Anthony Baird SciFi Mystery/Thriller: Sin:Thetica, Keith Anthony Baird Pennsylvania, my home for the past 21 years, is known for its weather-forecasting rodent. “Punxsutawney Phil” comes out of its burrow in early February to much fanfare and hordes of groundhog fans (groundhogs, also called woodchucks, are large ground squirrels, similar to […]
Book Review: Hurt Runs Within, Zoltan Vincze Thriller: Hurt Runs Within, Zoltan Vincze Mackay Connolly’s life changed when the truck he was driving hit two IEDs. His two companions were killed instantly. He should have been as well. His rib cage was completely and irreparably shattered. […]
Book Review: Sunny, Colin O’Sullivan Science Fiction: Sunny, Colin O’Sullivan Blog Tour, December 18, 2023 I love it when a writer takes a familiar trope and completely revitalizes it. Colin O’Sullivan does just that in his novel, Sunny. Susie Sakamoto is definitely not sunny. She is buried in a deep depression, self […]
Book Review: Spread: Tales of Deadly Flora, R. A. Clarke (editor) SciFi/Fantasy/Horror Story Collection: Spread: Tales of Deadly Flora, R. A. Clarke (editor) Sometimes even after you’ve read a description of a book, you find yourself completely unprepared for the story at hand. Spread: Tales of Deadly Flora is one of those books. A […]
Book Review: Atoned, The Wardens Book 1, Steve J. McHugh Book Review: Atoned, The Wardens Book 1, Steve J. McHugh Blog Tour December 1, 2023 On the surface, this is a multi-genre sci fi mystery, filled with intriguing aliens, a determined investigator, sentient robots, and interplanetary intrigue. It certainly could be read that way […]
Book Review: To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers Science Fiction: To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers Imagine you are on a deep space mission to explore possibly inhabitable worlds and visit previously colonized planets. You spend most of the trip in cryogenic sleep, waking only when you approach your destination. You look […]
Book Review: Karakorum, Don McVey Science Fiction: Karakorum, Don McVey Blog Tour July 28, 2023 From the description of the book: In this gripping sci-fi adventure, Sorcha, a youngster from the outer-edge, discovers a hidden anomaly within the deadly game of Scratch, setting off a chain of events that will test her abilities […]
Book Review: Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky Book Review: Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky Science Fiction and Fantasy novels have long been grouped together. Indeed, as has often been observed, without a scientific knowledge any technological advance can be considered magic. Voices communicating across vast distances: radios or cell phones…or magic? Boxes with tiny actors inside […]
Book Review: One, Eve Smith Science Fiction: One, Eve Smith Blog Tour July 19, 2023 Climate change has caused massive destruction around the world, forcing millions of people to flee and become refugees. Great Britain has responded to the widespread devastation and its human toll by electing the One party. One has implemented an […]
Book Review: The Big Yaya, The Hotel Exotica Book 1, Steven Savanna Science Fiction/Mystery: The Big Yaya, The Hotel Exotica Book 1, Steven Savanna Lucas Honey is a detective with an unusual beat. Rather than belonging to any police force, he is the in-house detective for The Hotel Exotica chain, the largest and […]