I learned something that might prove useful for those who read pdfs (advance review copies, Project Gutenberg copies of books, etc) on Kindle and want to access afterwards the highlights and notes in another application. I read King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard as…
Judith “Jack” Chen is a pirate biologist-engineer that reverse engineers patented drugs for delivery into the hands of those who need the drugs but cannot afford them. Eliasz and Paladin, a bot are investigators sent out by a governmental agency, the International Property Coalition (IPC)…
Besides the fact that in the audiobook Will Wheaton of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Big Bang Theory fame narrates Ready Player One, Ernest Cline has done what other writers of techno-virtual worlds/interactive worlds has been unable to do–at least for me, a reader…
If you have been through surgery or a colonoscopy where general anesthesia is given, you will understand what it is like to see a commercial for water, cola or other hydration, or open the refrigerator, and want something to drink. Your mouth goes dry and…
If you like Marko Kloos’ military dystopian series, you will like Ken Brosky’s The Proving. The specters which resemble dinosaurs, both the flying and the earth-bound kind, haunt the survivors of the Earth. The specters seek out and destroy the survivors who have fought a…
I read thrillers because they are exciting, fast paced, involve the CIA, DIA, and other intelligence agencies, and are set in locales that while less than exotic are places that likely I will never visit, at least intentionally, barring my plane being re-routed. Philip…
If the book was designed as a spoof, then it would be 5****. I have a feeling however that a spoof is not what the author intended. Essentially, it is a dystopian thriller set in Doomsday America. The nation has suffered through a…
Alex Fayman’s Superhighway is a speculative fiction novel that is a mix of techno, science fiction, dystopian, and thriller elements. Superhighway is a good first start for Alex Fayman. His idea, the transporting of humans through the Internet via network fibers is not unlike the “Beam Me…
R.D. Grupa has written a thriller that ought to be read in one or two sittings to do the novel justice. I say this because of the number of plots and characters, two topics which will likely be unfamiliar to most readers—oil pipelines and…
For a debut author, C.A. Higgins’ Lightless is an excellent foray into the world of science fiction that transcends the boundary between man and machine. Like most science fiction that has a dystopian/post-apcolyptic feel, Lightless’ premise is relatively straight forward and not unlike Terms of…