Monthly Archives: October 2015

Bookshelf: Homunculus & the Cat

The cat has no name, and she won’t get a name until she discovers a deeper iteration of her self that reveals it. She has nine lives. Well, eight, after her death in Alexandria at the hands of a Japanese … Continue reading

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Bookshelf: First Chosen

Julianna is a Duchess in her own right, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, a marriageable young lady, and the child of fate.  Gods and goddesses watch her path, some protecting her and some seeking her destruction, and … Continue reading

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Bookshelf: Space Operae

Space Operae is the independent publication (and elaboration) of a story previously published in two novellas in the Space Eldritch and Space Eldritch II: The Haunted Stars anthologies.  Set among those other tales of Lovecraftian space opera, the two Space Opera … Continue reading

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Bookshelf: Lamentation

Ken Scholes’s Lamentation begins with the eradication of the ancient city of Windwir, home of the Androfrancine monastic-technological order.  It leads us in fast-paced, Kevin J. Anderson-esque adventure-focused storytelling through the impact, the fallout, and the maneuvering of the powers … Continue reading

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Bookshelf: Fire with Fire

Chuck Gannon’s debut novel and first Caine Riordan book, Fire with Fire, is Jack Ryan in a first contact story. Caine is a writer and researcher, sometimes a journalist and spy, and a polymath. His inability to waste mental energy … Continue reading

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Bookshelf: Beat

Nik Granjer doesn’t believe in the Bug. The Bug is the disease that wiped everyone else out a century ago.  And it’s not that Nik doesn’t believe that the Bug once existed, but viruses just don’t live that long without … Continue reading

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For Starters

Zarah looked at the other prisoners and furrowed her brow. “A voice can consent or protest,” she said softly. “When the power to do both those things has been taken away, what point is there to speech?” “Well,” Jak said, … Continue reading

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