Sci-fi

Book Review: Borderlands: Debt or Alive – Anthony Burch (12/21/2025) - Note: This copy of Borderlands: Debt or Alive was provided by NetGalley. If you’re looking for anything on a slightly absurd scale with a healthy dose of action and humour, the borderlands franchise never fails to disappoint. While the games were a bit much for me at the time, this book has me considering picking …

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Series Review: The Exlian Syndrome Series – Seth Ring (11/9/2025) - Having gotten me excited with the LitRPG genre again with his Iron Tyrant Series, Seth Ring’s Exlian Syndrome Series brings us a more sci-fi oriented story compared to the above. In a dystopian world where aliens known as Exlians terrorize the local population, its down to a group of awakened individuals who work as the …

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Book Review: Service Model – Adrian Tchaikovsky (8/21/2025) - I have decided that this is the year I shall dedicate to Adrian Tchaikovsky. Having been reminded of his brilliance when reviewing The Hungry Gods, I just knew I had to dive into more of his work. Service Model is the book I decided start with, and it did not disappoint. Service Model is the …

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Book Review: The Man Who Died Seven Times – Yasuhiko Nishizawa (8/19/2025) - Note: This copy of The Man Who Died Seven Times was provided by NetGalley. The Man Who Died Seven Times is one hell of an intriguing title. Originally published in 1998 (according to Goodreads, though some sources say 1995) in Japanese, it is the first of the author, Yasuhiko Nishizawa’s works to be translated into …

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Book Review: The Hungry Gods – Adrian Tchaikovsky (8/12/2025) - Note: This copy of The Hungry Gods was provided by NetGalley. The Hungry Gods is a sci-fi dystopian novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky that is, I believe, a part of his Terrible Worlds: Innovations series of novellas. My first foray into the author’s works was with Dogs of War, and I absolutely loved that book. That …

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Book Review: All Better Now – Neal Shusterman (6/29/2025) - All Better Now by Neal Shusterman is a dystopian novel with more than a passing nod at the COVID pandemic. The story revolves around this virus that seems to be spreading that leaves the people that survive the initial fever stage with a deep sense of calm and happiness. They feel no negative emotions and …

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Book Review: Vanguard Strike – Jarom Strong (5/24/2025) - Note: This copy of Vanguard Strike was provided by NetGalley. The story is set in a future which has just come out of a war that our protagonist, Lax, was very instrumental in. A safe future for everyone else though isn’t on the cards for him. Considered one of the military’s best kept secrets, Lax is …

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Book Review: The Way Up is Death – Dan Hanks (3/26/2025) - Note: This copy of The Way Up is Death was provided by NetGalley. I took my time in writing this review since I needed to sort my feelings out to better understand what I had just read. The Way Up is Death is a sci-fi novel with the premise being a group of individuals are …

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Short Story Review: Trap Line – Timothy Zahn (3/12/2025) - Note: I received an ARC of Trap Line from NetGalley. Trap Line is a sci-fi short story that I wish spawns a full length novel in the future. Timothy Zahn, the author who gave us books about the infamous Thrawn in the Star Wars universe, comes at us with a very different but interesting short …

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Book Review: The Kaiju Preservation Society – John Scalzi (2/5/2024) - The Kaiju Preservation society has everything that makes for an interesting and eye-catching title. We have Kaiju which is the japanese term for a large ancient monster. The most famous kaiju is of course Godzilla who has been gracing our screens for little over 69 years now. The sheer popularity of this behemoth can be …

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