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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This series is a follow-up to the previous Thrawn trilogy. The events take place 10 years after the events of the last book. You can find a review of the previous trilogy here. TL;DR review: A fitting follow-up to an already amazing trlogy. Action packed, suspenseful, filled with espionage and multiple viewpoints that will have …
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The Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn is widely considered the series that launched the entire Star Wars expanded universe of novels, and with good reason. The events of this trilogy begin to take place about 5 years after events of Return of the Jedi, and we get to meet Grand Admiral Thrawn. I went into …
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Dark Matter Empire by Alex Zadeh is a sci-if space opera-esque novel that starts with an alien abduction and ends with the fate of our world in the balance. The novel follows Ryan Stathis, an aeronautical engineer who is one night abducted by an alien spacecraft and transported through a wormhole to somewhere in the …
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I first discovered this book in college when "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" show was all the rage but like so many others it languished on my TBR pile for quite a while. I don't know what prompted me to pick up this book recently but I'm so glad I did. Heir to the Empire …
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This weekend we decided to visit the local oxfam bookstore to see if they had any secondhand books that we could add to our collection at home. I came away with the few you see in the image. David Gibbins’ The Pharaoh, and The Tiger Warrior I hadn’t heard of before but since I’ve been …
This duology written by Marie Lu takes places in a dystopian future very similar to that seen in Ready Player One. Here as well we have the general populace hooked onto the use of technology that allows them to roam a virtual world. In this series this virtual space is mainly used for Warcross, a …
Adrian Tchaikovsky is quite well known in the science fiction and fantasy world. His Children of Time series as well as Shadows of the Apt series can convert anyone into fans. Yet it was one of his other novels that got me hooked. Dogs of War is a science fiction novel that revolves around bio-engineered …
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This book had been on my TBR list for quite a while and I’m not entirely sure why I decided to pick it up now of all times (in the midst of a pandemic), but I’m certainly glad I did. The book revolves around a future where historians at Oxford are allowed to travel back …