Close your eyes and imagine an adventure where a brilliant scientist, two covert agents, a space ship captain, and a sentient AI crystal attempt to save the world from an impending attack from an alien spacecraft. Now open your eyes. Welcome to Crystal Deception.
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The minute I started reading Patrick Carpenter’s Dark Ocean, it grabbed my attention, hook, line, and sinker. The story follows a typical monomyth template with an atypical plot, which works brilliantly. Luckily for Addy, Alex was not to be trifled with. Standing at six foot one and weighing about two hundred-thirty pounds, Alex’s broad-shouldered, buff, and
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Former SFWA President Ben Bova (b.1932) died from COVID-19 related pneumonia and a stroke on November 29. Bova served two consecutive terms as SFWA President from 1990-1992. Bova published his first novel, The Star Conquerors in 1959 and published several novels and short stories throughout the 1960s. In 1972, he took over the reins of Analog following the death
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How should I describe The Protocols of Uma? Imagine yourself aboard a space vessel, returning to your home planet for the first time in 200 years. So far, you’ve spent more than 900 years trying to locate a new home planet for your species, only to fail. Upon your return, you comingle with the natives
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My first attempt to read Ringer ended in failure. Let me explain why. I read before I go to sleep at night. On the nights I read Ringer, I went to bed much later than usual, so my focus lacked the typical razor-sharp edge. Why does this matter? Ringer requires your full attention. To wholly immerse yourself in this brilliant
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The long-awaited follow-up to 2011’s Ready Player One was released on November 24th. Now, if you’ve read my previous blog posts, you know I pre-ordered my copy of Ready Player Two a month ago and patiently (I’m lying) waited for the release date. Well, it’s two days after the release date, and I just finished reading the book. In
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Let’s face it: Ready Player Two is hands-down the most awaited sci fi book this year. We’re mere days away from the release date. The book, a follow-up to author Ernest Cline’s successful 2011 novel Ready Player One, comes out on November 24th. News about the sequel started back in 2015 during an interview with screenwriter
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I just finished reading author P.D. Alleva’s new book The Rose (Vol.1). In less than a day, I journeyed through a post-World War III world manipulated by space vampires and grey witches conducting Nazi-like experiments on humans – and loved it. Alleva’s masterfully woven dystopian science fiction thriller stuck its hooks into me and didn’t
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I love sci fi pulp novels. It’s a guilty pleasure – a relic of the mid 20th century – and a history lesson. These often quick reads feed my obsession with reading over a hundred books per year (check my Goodreads account if you don’t believe me). For that reason, I absolutely loved S. Evan
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Aldous Huxley’s dystopian/utopian novel Brave New World is one of the foundational books of dystopian science fiction. Written in 1931 and published in 1932, Huxley’s book takes troubling circumstances from the 1930s to the utmost extreme, in a satirical manner. The book glosses over events and incidents and focuses more on philosophical ideas. Brave New
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