A sixteen-year-old girl receives a rare diamond from her father on his deathbed. It had been hidden for many years, but due to his fevered state, he never reveals how the diamond was obtained. Fearing it was stolen, she keeps it hidden, but suspects that it came from the same planet where he contracted his illness. With her father gone and the rift with her mother growing wider, she becomes a thief to support herself and creates a new identity. Never knowing her true name, she calls herself Kia and begins training as a translator. Read More »

Joseph Marquand is on a mandated vacation when he gets the call. Although there are other lupe hunters on the force, this case is unique in its location. Though Marquand had his sights set on a quiet bed and breakfast and a few dart games with his buddies, the force has a different agenda. What Triple S wants, Triple S gets, and he soon finds himself on the way to the moon. Read More »

In the important ways, New York 2050 is not much different than New York 2011. Yes, there are great technological advances and cutting-edge fashion, but people remain much the same. There are still workers, lovers, criminals and cops to catch them. Lt. Eve Dallas is a Homicide cop Read More »

There are crimes of rage, passion, greed, madness, and yes, even crimes of stupidity, but Lt. Eve Dallas is faced with murders that do not seem to fit any pattern she has ever seen, and she is an experienced homicide detective. As she searches for links between a limo driver, a paid escort and a world-renowned chef, she finds dead ends, misdirection and hints that something (or someone) Read More »

When the Unified Authority realize they are losing the war against the Enlisted Man’s Empire, the clones, they change their tactics, releasing a virus that only affects clones. By the time Wayson Harris and his commanders realize what is going on it is too late. There is only one whom it will not kill: Harris, who was created without the fatal gland. Read More »

The Ghost Ops were a small, elite team of Special Operators who do the ultimate in risky, dirty jobs. Coming from a variety of military branches, each brings exceptional skills, tightly focused determination, and all share a unique background. None have family ties or had any semblance of a normal upbringing. It was this very lack that made them ideal candidates for Ghost Ops because their personal identity is removed from the system – all systems. They no longer exist in the databases of the world and live and work completely undercover and non-existent.
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Six weeks after nearly shorting out his brain and his telepathic ability with it on a big case, police department-consultant Adam finds himself trying to hide from his co-workers the fact that his telepathy still remains at less than full strength. To make matter worse, his former homicide detective partner (of sorts), Isabella Cherabino, has been actively avoiding him due to the mind-link Read More »

TimeWarp, Inc. opens with a battle in Eastern Gaul, 51 BC. Titus Cotta is a veteran Centurion under Gaius Julius Caesar’s elite 10th Legion. An early twist is the discovery that Titus is actually an ex-Special Forces Sergeant, Mike Garvin, who has been living in Caeser’s time for the past nine years. In the midst of the battlefield, someone from the future appears to tell Mike that he is being called to another mission. Read More »

Riggs is a retired intelligence officer who just wants a little peace and quiet. Still mourning the loss of his wife, his only desire is to be left alone. After being coerced into one last mission by the government, he is about to make a discovery that will change his entire belief system. But will he come out the other side better or worse? Read More »

Weber and Yadira meet under dire circumstances; Yadira is a part of a kidnapping ring, while Weber is an I-Marshal (think intergalactic marshal/police/detective). The two find themselves neck deep in a shadowy slavery ring that is headed by something darker and more demonic. It turns out that both Weber and Yadira have secrets that are just as big as the war that is brewing. Weber has an angel side, and Yadira is not who she seems. Read More »

God’s War blew me away. This was a fantastic book. The author creates a futuristic world on another planet colonized by Muslims and embroiled in a devastating war between the Nasheenians and the Chenjan people. The war has exacted a steep cost on both sides, leading to the loss of most of the men of fighting age. The Nasheenians are a society more or less dominated by women. Read More »

This is a series of short stories written by Philip Jose Farmer. Science Fiction stories, they concern humans and their interaction with aliens set in futuristic settings.

In The Lovers Hal Yarrow hates his life. He is a Jack Of All Trades in the discipline of linguistics, following various master’s work so he can share important information with those to Read More »

Wayson Harris finds himself as the highest ranking member of the Enlisted Man’s Navy after the treacherous attack by the United Authority. It now falls to him to figure out a way to outsmart the UA as well as save the remaining planets housing humanity from the inevitable attacks by the Avatari.
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A group of scientists from 2070 travel back to 12,000 B.C. to study humanity of the Ancient Magdalenian culture for a period of four years. While there they discover many things about themselves and humanity as a race. Though the other members of the team begin to notice that their leader, John Gribardson seems to almost be at home in this primitive surroundings, almost as if he belonged there… Read More »

Wayson Harris is back. This time he is no longer in charge of the Enlisted Men’s Navy, though he is still a force to be reckoned with. When a group of religious fanatics from Mars attempts to attack Harris on Earth, he suspects further unrest from the cramped inhabitants of the Mars Colony Base. Read More »

Rebel’s Consort tells the story of one possible future. In this future, we meet Analena Maresco, codename Piper, and Trace Boden, code name Onyx, both solders in their right fighting against the tyranny of the Regents where they live. Piper, as a rebel, uses her cyber-enhanced arm as an edge to aid her in saving as many children as she can from the experimentation of the Regents. Read More »

The Eclectic Prince is one of the weirdest books I have ever read. It is told in acts rather than chapters, and follows Val Fitzcannon (Valentine) over the course of years. It begins with the death of his sister and his subsequent move to Spain with his uncle. Val is a rather twisted, sick individual, and his life seems to spiral away from our own reality. Read More »

Dreadnaught continues the adventures of Admiral Black Jack Geary, a military hero who awakes from a hundred years in stasis to help the Alliance forces win the war against their enemies, the Syndics. The war is over now, and getting home brings its own set of issues. For one, Geary is considered a threat to the existing government because of his overwhelming support in the military and among the citizenry. They fear that he will exercise that power to take over the government. Read More »

Asrial might have been born of the House of Dilaryn but the princess no longer was considered royalty even to herself. She was a rim rat, scavenging from abandoned planets in hopes to survive on her own piloting her own starship, The Castel. Finding such a cache of relics on the remote planet was going to retrofit the ship and give her only living family extra income as well. The man she found beside her bed was not a pleasure bod or an escaped grounder who somehow got past the ships security; in fact, he didn’t even show up on the scans as being on The Castel.

Romir Gadana had no idea how long he had been in his prison before being called forth by his new master. The “ship” she had brought him to was nothing like he had ever seen or imagined. Read More »

There are several narrators in the House of Comarré series, so I’m going to structure this review a bit differently than normal.

Mal and Chrysabelle: A good chunk of their story revolves around their feelings for each other and what that means for the cursed vampire and former comarré, or blood servant. The main mysteries in their lives revolve around the possible identity of Chrysabelle’s brother, the effects of melting down the ring of sorrows and using it to replace Chrysabelle’s signum, and the attempted retrieval of the vampire baby.

Doc and Fi: Fi is, obviously, still not happy with the “benefits” Doc received when he became pride leader. She makes a pretty bold stance to get back what she lost, and I have the feeling the repercussions are going to be severe.
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