Despite my best efforts, there are always books I can’t finish. This updates books stopped and sent back to the cloud as of mid-August 2023.
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Series
Lost Opportunities
Another ambitious series from the indie/self-published scene. How does it measure up?
Read MoreUm, don’t box sets actually go the other direction IRL?
Assassins, AIs, Power Armor, and Explosions, Oh My...
Another industrial-length series, packed with industrial-strength action. This one is genuinely good.
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Time-Shifting Private Eye
Quantum twists on classic boiler-plate noir themese.
Read MoreAn Exquisitely Dark Heart
So black it could only be obsidian.
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McFadden and Banks The Complete Omnibus
Not a personal injury law firm. (There’s lots of personal injury, though.) A whirl through the Zoo universe.
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Gunn and Salvo: The, Um, Final Broadside?!?!
Two mostly honest bounty hunters save the universe in style.
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Nietzsche x K. Gorman = Strong Space Opera
Abysses, archetypes, gods and demons and spaceships and horror and…
Read MoreIron on the Tongue
The second volume of The Reckoning Cycle is even better than the first. Adventure, intrigue and intelligently-drawn characters swirl together in a compelling read.
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The Lost -- And Last? -- Metal
The fourth read in a seven-volume series. Time for a new theme?
Read More“Hang on, and I insist you fasten your seatbelts. No seriously, this spacecraft is not noving until everyone is buckled in.” —Probably the crew’s ship’s computer, at any given moment of crisis.
Gravity Storms And More
Interstellar adventures, intrigue and excitement — and a computer that looks and acts like the captain’s mother.
Read MoreLiberty of Death!?
No, not a typo for “Liberty or Death” — I checked. Complex and with dangerous hints of nuance and darkness!
Read MoreChoose your future adventure carefully.
Future Adventures: The Collection
Future Adventures is a 2019 collection of eight self- and independently-published SF novels, brought together under one virtual cover. Not all are created equal, but it was a great vehicle for finding authors I’d never been exposed to before and will definitely seek out again.
Read MoreNot content with awesome writing, she made an official (and awesome) trailer for the series….
Daylight Savings Update
in Series, Science Fiction, Reading Notes, Mil SF, SFF
I used the extra hour on November 6 to put the finishing touches on this long set of capsule reviews, covering late summer into the autumn. Dive in for some great series, stand-alone, and compilations, as well as one or two you might consider avoiding.
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Immerse or Die: The Novel Smackdown
Exactly like it says! An eight-pack of solid SF from prolific author, critic and treadmill owner Jefferson Smith. Nothing bad, some truly excellent!
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Labor Day Labor of Reading Love
That’s me slaying my procrastination! Hahaha…of course it isn’t. Time to read has been plentiful for the last seven months. Energy to write, not so much. Catching up with this post.
Read MoreMetal On The Move: Metal Legion Complete Series
in Science Fiction, Mil SF, Series
Heavy metal, marching into combat to the sound of…heavy metal!
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