Tag: Sci-Fi
Space Throne: Review and Interview With Author Brian Corley
by Shannon Fox
Space Throne by Brian Corley Parr never meant for any of this to happen. All he wanted to do was pilot the Aurora around the galaxy and avoid his royal duties for a while. Now, in the wake of his parents’ mysterious demise, it’s time to un-fake his death and take up the mantle meant for him since birth. Unfortunately, it won’t be easy. … Read More Space Throne: Review and Interview With Author Brian Corley
The Rise of Endymion
by Shannon Fox
The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons See reviews of books one, two, and three. This review contains SPOILERS. The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time … Read More The Rise of Endymion
Series Spotlight: Xenogenesis
by Shannon Fox
Xenogenesis Series (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Image) by Octavia E. Butler CONTAINS SPOILERS (From Lilith’s Brood, which contains all three novels) Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected — by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet … Read More Series Spotlight: Xenogenesis
Endymion
by Shannon Fox
Endymion by Dan Simmons (Endymion is the third book in a series by Dan Simmons) It is 274 years after the Fall and the universe is in chaos. Raul Endymion, one time shepherd and convicted murderer, is chosen as a pawn in a cosmic game whose outcome will determine the fate of humanity. Selected as a bodyguard to the next messiah, Endymion will cross … Read More Endymion
1984
by Shannon Fox
Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell’s nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff’s attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell’s prescience of … Read More 1984
Author Spotlight: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
by Shannon Fox
In my opinion, these guys have a lock on the thriller genre. And for good reason. In a genre that counts among its authors, Dan Brown, Jack DuBrul, James Patterson, Clive Cussler, Greg Bear, Iris Johansen, James Rollins, Raymond Khoury, David Lynn Goleman, William Gibson, and a bunch more, these guys really only have competition from Michael Cricton, who’s probably the undisputed God of … Read More Author Spotlight: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Series Spotlight: The Hunger Games Trilogy
by Shannon Fox
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. At the risk of sounding redundant, I’m going to discuss The Hunger Games. Everyone on Earth is discussing these books. When they’re not discussing Twilight. Not that I’m categorizing, just that the same crowd seems pretty down with both series. But then they like Harry Potter too, so maybe they have more good judgment than bad. (I … Read More Series Spotlight: The Hunger Games Trilogy
Hyperion
by Shannon Fox
Hyperion by Dan Simmons From the publisher: On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for … Read More Hyperion
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