Category Archives: science fiction
Earth Unaware – Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
An unusual object is noticed by the spotter on a mining ship, El Cavador, far from Earth in the Kuiper Belt. A few ships manned by families search asteroids for metals in this remote region. The new object is quite … Continue reading
Masque of the Red Death – Bethany Griffin
A modern-day plague has swept through the world with alarming force, and there’s no cure. As Araby Worth and her best friend, April, rush through the streets on their way to the Debauchery Club, they see people die in the … Continue reading
Roadside Picnic – Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugasky
Aliens have visited the earth, stopping briefly at several sites and leaving behind their trash in areas known as Zones. Though most of the mystifying debris is extremely dangerous, some of it accidentally proves to be useful. The scientists can’t … Continue reading
Insignia – S.J. Kincaid
There is never a dull moment in this futuristic virtual war game thriller. Corporations rule the world and fight over rights to natural resources on Earth and the solar system. The corporations argue there is no loss of life in … Continue reading
The Long Earth – Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
The Long Earth is a sizzling brain stimulator full of what if scenarios and philosophical musings delivered in doses of witty banter between explorers Joshua and Lobsang. Folks on Datum Earth, our Earth, discovered the Long Earth, an infinite number … Continue reading
The Lost Code: Book One of the Atlanteans – Kevin Emerson
The Earth is dying. Radiation from the sun is extreme. Huge domes, Edens, have been constructed for large pockets of civilization in key places in the world. Within one of the Edens, a summer camp has been built over a … Continue reading
Unraveling – Elizabeth Norris
A truck appears out of nowhere and mows down Janelle days before her junior year. She dies instantly. A severed spinal cord is just one of her massive injuries. As her life flashes before her, Ben appears and she can … Continue reading
A Million Suns – Beth Revis
I reviewed the first book in the planned trilogy, Across the Universe, in October 2011. A Million Suns continues the story with new and somewhat reluctant leader, Elder, facing a mutinous crew now that they are off the pacifying drugs. … Continue reading
The Obsidian Blade – Pete Hautman
Tucker lives a rather boring existence with his preacher father and devout mother. Tucker notices odd shimmerings in the sky, like little holes or disks in the fabric of the sky. One day, dad disappears off the roof near where … Continue reading
Starters – Lissa Price
We’ve got another bleak future in store. This time, civilization has been ravaged by germ warfare. Only the youth and the elderly are vaccinated and survive. The elderly have been surviving quite nicely, living well into their 100s. But there … Continue reading
Above World – Jenn Reese
While most post-apocalyptic tales have humanity living somewhere in space or on the barren lands of Earth, Above World poses a unique alternative. Most of the inhabitants of this world are modified by technology, or tech, in some way. This enables them … Continue reading
Invisible Sun – David Macinnis Gill
Non-stop fighting on Mars! The companion novel to Black Hole Sun does not waste words with background and introductions. Fighters for hire, Durango and Vienne, both exceedingly attractive, steal data from the former corporation of his disgraced father. While they … Continue reading
Blood Red Road – Moira Young
This dusty, gritty young adult dystopian novel is a fast 459 page read. The pages flip very quickly because the story is told in short sentences as the thoughts of Saba, the tough twin of her brother Lugh. Future Earth … Continue reading
Legend – Marie Lu
Legend is receiving a great deal of publisher publicity and deservedly so. The formula is the same as in so many young adult dystopian novels: oppressive government creating a bleak existence for the masses and teens are the catalyst for … Continue reading
Under the Never Sky – Veronica Rossi
Ahhh, this is a good dystopian novel! I finished it days ago and the story continues to linger with me. The premise is familiar: Earth as we know it has undergone change, the evolved humans (Dwellers) live in an oppressively … Continue reading
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