by Addison Fleming | Jan 19, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction
When Selena is fourteen, her older sister Julie goes missing. Despite the lack of clues surrounding her disappearance, Selena achieves some degree of closure, that is until she receives a mysterious call from a woman claiming to be her sister. Now in their twenties,...
by Addison Fleming | Nov 21, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, Science Fiction
Levine’s sequel to Arabella of Mars resumes several months later, with Arabella separated from her fiancé, Captain Singh. Singh and the crew of his ship, Diana, have been captured by the French and sent to work at one of Napoleon’s war camps on Venus. Upon learning...
by Stephen Febick | Sep 19, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Science Fiction, Sponsored
Set in 2021, The Wolves Within Our Walls is a realistic look at a future where the height of technology crumbles and those who survive the attack on the nation are left to wander and survive the best they can. It is a standard dystopian novel in most aspects, but it...
by Brandon Sanford | Jul 10, 2017 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, Science Fiction
“What you have in your hands is precious, not because the works here are being honored, but because they exist. Stories matter. Stories linger in the mind and change us. We want more. We need more – yes, from our beloved favorite authors, but also, and...
by Norman West | Jun 28, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, War & Military
The South does rise again. With pretty much the same result, but the author has imagined a world quite different from the one we know, as a backdrop for this tale of desperate circumstance and savage people. The war is precipitated by the Sustainable Future Act that...
by Julia Gaskill | Jun 23, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Portland Publishers, Science Fiction, Short Stories
There’s no question as to what the book Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories In Extreme Futures is about. It serves as a collection of short stories, focused around the concept of a tumultuous future with, as one might glean from the title, feminist...
