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REVIEW: Solomon’s Paradox – Kelly McClymer

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Solomon's Paradox

About The Book A mother must deal with the shattering reality when science and the courts give her dead son a chance to tie up loose ends in the body of the friend who accidentally killed him. Get It On Amazon The Review Solomon’s Paradox is short – just thirty-three pages – but damn does it pack an emotional punch. McClymer calls it “Mom Sci-Fi,” but I think that sells the story short. Sure, the protagonist is a mother, but this is social sci-fi at its best, taking a fascinating idea and extrapolating it in the most personal terms. The … Read more

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REVIEW: For I Could Lift My Finger and Black Out the Sun – Keith Soares

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For I Could Lift My Finger and Black Out the Sun - Keith Soares

Genre: Sci-Fi Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book My name is John Black and I’m in trouble. I used to be your typical nerd, a total weakling, letting bullies like Bobby Graden push me around. Then one day, Bobby and I got hit by a car. Somehow, the accident changed us, as if something inside us responded. It made us strong. More than strong, actually. It gave us power. That power brought us together, our shared secret creating a friendship despite our differences. Bobby and I could do things no one else could, and it was exhilarating, … Read more

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REVIEW: Seed – Michael Edelson

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Seed

Genre: Sci-Fi Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book Fifty people go to sleep in their own beds and wake up in a compound in the middle of the jungle. Men and women from all walks of life with only one thing in common—none of them know where they are or how they got there. Alex is a paratrooper. Yael is a mathematician. Max is a law professor. They can’t leave— a lethal barrier surrounds the facility, but no one knows if it’s there to keep them in, or to keep something out.  The compound is comfortable and … Read more

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REVIEW: Dropnauts

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Dropnauts - J. Scott Coatsworth

Just got a five-star review for Dropnauts on Amazon: Dropnauts is both a dystopian and a utopian novel, and a novel about what it means to be human, and how, when things are at their worst, sometimes we are our best. We can redeem ourselves, repair out mistakes. As author Lee Hunt says, the novel is “Fast, optimistic and entertaining. Coatsworth’s Dropnauts shows that forgiveness may the best fuel for redemption” (back cover). This is a novel of hope. According to the review in Publisher’s Weekly, “Redemption, perseverance, and identity … Readers will enjoy the diverse cast and high-tech adventure” … Read more

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REVIEW: 2176: The Birth of the Belt Republic – Ted Butler

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2176: The Birth of the Belt Republic - Ted Butler

Genre: Sci-Fi, YA Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book His Principal tricked into a swimming pool of dessert? Corporate blacklisting? Riots? Jail breaks? Rocks against machine guns? Rescues? Gas attacks? Space battles? After corporate blacklisting, Gil’s perfect life went into the trash, but it sure got interesting. The greedy corporation has all the big guns and all the little ones too. The Belters have rocks. Hopeless? Honor student Gil helped set up the swimming pool prank with 300 kilos of dessert. That prank went badly wrong. Gil has to grow up fast. He joins a secret society, … Read more

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REVIEW: Astounding – Kim Fielding

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Astounding! - Kim Fielding

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book Carter Evans is founder and editor-in-chief of Astounding!—a formerly popular spec fiction magazine currently in its death throes. Not only can he do nothing to save it, but stuck in a rathole apartment with few interpersonal connections, he can’t seem to do much to rescue his future either. And certainly all the booze isn’t helping. He snaps when he receives yet another terrible story submission from the mysterious writer J. Harper—and in a drunken haze, Carter sends Harper a rejection letter he soon regrets. J. … Read more

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REVIEW: The Bantam – RJ Theodore

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The Bantam - RJ Theodore

Genre: Sci-Fi Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book Ehli is an iscillian, designed in a lab to serve as a bantam, a ship custodian for a merchant crew. She imagines no future beyond the care of her starship and the quiet hours between ships spent painting in her quarters. But when she discovers a vague clue that undermines the clear purpose of her existence, the satisfaction she once found in her simple routine dissolves into an unsettling, deadly obsession to learn the truth. Her job is to put the needs of her ship and its crew before … Read more

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REVIEW: Firedrake – J. Scott Coatsworth

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Firedrake - J. Scott Coatsworth

Genre: Sci-Fantasy, Dystopian, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Scott, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link About The Book A handwritten note. A handful of lavender roses. And memories cracked like shattered glass. Kerry has had a bad day, and he’s sick of his life in Arco Four. Nothing ever changes, even for a firedrake. Days and nights pass with a quiet air of desperation, as everyone tries to convince themselves their lives in the superscraper have meaning. A strange scribbled note offers him a distraction—and maybe a chance to finally unlock his broken memories. But to … Read more

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REVIEW: Invasion – Scott James Magner

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Invasion - Scott James Magner

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book Lt. Marya Andreison just wanted to get her career back on track. After years of crap assignments and missed promotions, she finally got the deep-space posting she always wanted, only to find bigotry and intolerance are universal. But when an alien transmission only she can decode comes through an unauthorized wormhole, her situation goes from bad to worse to awful. Now she’s on the run, with only her wits, her wedding rings, and a downloaded message that could start an intergalactic war. All Marya wants to … Read more

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REVIEW: The Courier – HL Moore

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The Courier - HL Moore

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Non-Binary Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book The job seemed simple enough: collect the package and deliver it to Europa within two days’ time, no questions asked. If only the client hadn’t lied about there being no catch… A tale from the Jovian Empire. The Review I just finished a new short by H.L. Moore. “The Courier” a quick read at just 32 pages. But boy does Moore rip through the scenery in that brief amount of time. Chen is a high-paid courier (don’t call them a smuggler) who transports valuable objects around … Read more