Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: CV-2 Books Published: 2018 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? It’s the 22nd century and humanity has developed wormhole technology, using the wormholes as gateways to colony worlds. And, after a rough 21st century, these colony worlds are rapidly becoming dumping grounds …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Darkwater Syndicate Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? In Tarot of Hate, Antonio Simon, Jr., serves up a tasty smörgåsbord of eight horror tales, spanning sub-genres from the surreal to the too-real. Table of Contents Dogfaced Eve – a man trapped …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Darkwater Syndicate Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Slasher Sam, by Simon Petersen is a fun tongue-in-cheek take on the serial killer film subculture, primarily as it’s represented in late 70’s and early 80’s slasher movies. Peterson draws inspiration from a …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? I saw the funky cover and was hungry for some science fiction, so requested this one. It wasn’t until I featured it as a Tuesday Teaser, I realized it was a re-release …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: DAW Published: 2016 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Joshua Palmatier This is a novella featuring the characters from Bradley P. Beaulieu’s “Shattered Sands” series. Premise: Ceda is a pit fighter who catches the eye of an ehrekh, an evil creature created ages ago by the god of chaos. She …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Hydra Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? He makes the startling accusation while pointing toward Miss Lane… then he drops dead. Thus begins the strangest case yet to land–quite literally–on the doorstep of Jesperson and Lane. According to the coroner, Charles …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Samhain Published: 2012 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Michael D. Griffiths Have you read this book? Dead of Winter, by Brain Moreland proved to be a real treat of me. Between liking horror more as Fall envelopes us and finding out Samhain Publishing has closed their doors, I dug …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: Xlibris Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Not Rated Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? If you’ve been reading my reviews on SFReader, you might have noticed that The Imaginarium Machine, by John Adrian Tomlin, has a different rating from my others: Not Rated. That’s became I …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries, edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, brings us fun stories of your not-so-typical fairy-tale type. Here we’ve got bikers. mobsters, cowboys, assassins, criminals, and all manner of dark-side, noir …
Genre: Superhero Anthology Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Contents Song of Tyrta by Drew Bittner Cold Snap by Ty Johnson Return of the Devis by Torah Cottrill Fire and Brimstone by Walt Ciechanowski Little Sisters of the Hourglass by James …
Genre: Nonfiction Biography Publisher: Athanor Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Like it or not (and it seems Shatner mostly railed against it), Captain James T. Kirk is a global, cultural icon. In William Shatner, a Transformed Man, Hauck exposes some of the man …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Solaris Published: 2014 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? I had already read the enjoyable World of Water which happens to be the second in the series–and spotted that I actually had the first book in my TBR pile… Dev Harmer, reluctant agent …
Genre: Science Fiction Anthology Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? If We Had Known, edited by Mike McPhail, presents thirteen stories of humanity’s future, each one (some more than others) exploring the theme of if we had know what would …
Genre: Military Science Fiction Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 201 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? The Die Is Cast, edited by Greg Schauer, contains 10 stories by Mike McPahil and Danielle Ackley-McPhail. Although The Die Is Cast was published in 2017, most of the stories …
Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? In Yesterday’s Dreams, by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Kara O’Keefe, overwhelmed by the expenses of her father’s cancer treatments, finds herself forced to give up the violin passed down to her by her …
Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? To condense the official blurb: In The Halfling’s Court, by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lance Cosain is the halfling (as in half-human, half-elf, not the Middle Earth kind) leader of The Wild Hunt …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Titan Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Michael D. Griffiths Have you read this book? The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley is a strange sort of Science Fiction. Original and odd, this story takes you in an unexpected u-turn within the first few chapters and then just …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Kristell Ink Published: 2013 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: SJ Higbee Have you read this book? Looking for something enjoyable and interesting to read, I found this offering languishing in my TBR pile… Llew has a gift. Her body heals itself from any injury–but at a cost to anyone …
ODYSSEY’S LIVE, ONLINE WRITING CLASSES DIG DEEP INTO TOP CHALLENGES FACED BY WRITERS The Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit known for offering some of the best programs in the world for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, is offering three live, intensive online classes this winter. …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Vintage Published: 2016 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: Michael D. Griffiths Have you read this book? Version Control by Dexter Palmer is a Science Fiction novel, heavy on the science side and low on the fantastic. The upside is the reader might learn more than a little about …
