Category: Science Fiction
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THE FERRYMAN by JUSTIN CRONIN
Welcome to Prospera. An archipelago hidden from the world. Designed by the mysterious Designer this magical place is so different from the rest of the outside world. No death, or want. These citizens enjoy more than one lifetime. While this seems perfect, you know it isn’t going to be. Our focus is Proctor Bennett. Once…
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THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU by SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA
19th Century in Mexico. Carlota Moreau is a young lady who has never been beyond her own home in the Yucatan peninsula. It is a large estate and there is much rebel conflict around them. Carlota is lonely and curious. Why do they never have company? Why must they hide? Well her father is either…
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UPGRADE by BLAKE CROUCH
“You are the next step in human evolution.” Logan Ramsay works for the Gene Police. They shut down unscrupulous gene-editing labs so what happened with Logan’s mother, never happens again. While Logan spent a little time in prison for what happened, his mother chose to drive off a cliff. During a raid gone bad, Logan…
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BLACK TIDE by KC JONES
Black Tide is described as a character-driven science fiction/ horror novel about what happens after a cataclysmic event leaves a world crawling with nightmares. Cujo meets A Quiet Place. Beth is a self-described car wreck. Wasting a life wandering. She’s trying to change and so far she is doing well housesitting. On the Pacific Coast…
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A RIP THROUGH TIME by KELLEY ARMSTRONG
A Rip Through Time #1 With Armstrong finishing up her Rockton series, which we loved, she has given us a new one. A Rip Through Time is the series debut about a modern-day homicide detective from Vancouver who is in Scotland to be with her Nan, who is dying in hospital. She goes out for…
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IRON WIDOW by KIRAN JAY ZHAO
While this draws on a few real characters in history, make no mistake, it is a Sci-Fy, Fantasy, Futuristic tale that touches on the place women still have in society. Second. Disposable. And then it just dives right in to giant fighting machines called Chrysalises, transforming robots that battle with mecha aliens that have almost…
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RABBITS by Terry Miles
Rabbits is a secret, underground game. It is dangerous and people have died. There is no easy way to describe this book. Is anything real? It was hard for me to be invested in any character since I wasn’t sure who or what was real. It just didn’t make a lot of sense to me.…
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THE MIRROR MAN by JANE GILMARTIN
Jeremiah Adams is not satisfied with his life. His wife and son have grown distant. He’s pretty sure she is having an affair. But the dog loves him to pieces. When Jeremiah is offered to be part of an important year long study for his employer, ViGen Pharmaceuticals, Jeremiah jumps at the $10 million dollar…
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They Somebody People by Bob Proehl
This is the sequel to The Nobody People. There is very little backstory so it’s probably best if you have read that one first. It’s seven years after The Pulse, and by now you are either a Resonant or not. And that is pretty much all I know as I couldn’t get into this one.…
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The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
A Sci-Fi adventure. Nia Imani travels through time. Years are like months for her, but not for the people she has loved and known. They age, they die, but not Nia. Solitary Nia. But on one of her stops, she meets a boy that fell from the sky. The people in the area would just…
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