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The Exploding Spaceship Good SF Reads: The Prison in Antares, Silenced, and Mothership

Posted on 2016-02-28 at 22:46 by angelablackwell
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Review of The Prison in Antares: Dead Enders Book Two by Mike Resnick (Pyr, Dec 1, 2015)

Nathan Pretorius hasn’t even healed completely from the previous mission before he and his team are sent off on a new one. The stakes are high for the Democracy because many die every time the Coalition uses their Q-bomb. A Democracy team came up with a defense but Coalition forces killed all but one of them and then kidnapped the survivor!

So Nathan is tasked with getting this man back into Democracy hands at all

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Absconded Ambassador by Michael R. Underwood

Posted on 2016-02-23 at 18:47 by angelablackwell
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Review of The Absconded Ambassador by Michael R. Underwood (Tor.com, February 23, 2016)

This is the second episode of Genrenauts, the multiple-world-hopping adventures of Leah. This time she and her crewmates are off to sort out a breach in a science fiction setting. They go to Ahura-3, in the space opera region. Ahura-3 is a hub for ships and commerce from dozens of species with thousands of languages and variances both cultural and biological; this is not exactly a good operation location for a newbie

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Recent Good Fantasy Reads: Vendetta, Blood Hunt, and Son of the Black Sword

Posted on 2016-02-22 at 21:13 by angelablackwell
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Review of Vendetta: A Deadly Curiosities Novel by Gail Z Martin (Solaris, Dec 29, 2015)

It’s the further adventures of Sorren, Cassidy and Teag from the Trifles and Folly Antique Shop which take us into some secrets of Sorren’s past as they try to determine who is destroying places and people connected to Sorren. When you are a centuries old vampire, the number of enemies you have can be quite large, but few will go to the lengths of bombing your businesses and trying to kill your loved ones and

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The Exploding Spaceship reviews The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

Posted on 2016-02-16 at 17:40 by angelablackwell
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Review of The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (Tor.com, February 16, 2016)

This novella is a Cthulhu Mythos story set in 1920s New York. The New York depicted is from the viewpoint of a young black man named Charles Thomas Tester. Tommy Tester is a hustler or conman because he saw his father work at an honest trade for a Negro’s wage and get ripped off repeatedly by the white bosses. Tommy learned to play the guitar like his father, but his singing voice is not nearly as nice as his father’s

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Lustlocked by Matt Wallace

Posted on 2016-01-26 at 22:25 by angelablackwell
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Review of Lustlocked by Matt Wallace (Tor.com, January 26, 2016)

This is the second Sin Du Jour novella (the follow-up to Envy of Angels), and continues the adventures of two intrepid chefs, Lena and Darren. Their lives are much stranger than those of chefs in normal New York restaurants; events catered by their employer are considered successful if no members of the staff are killed!

This adventure revolves around the wedding of the prince of the goblins to a normal human. This causes some political

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Patchwerk by David Tallerman

Posted on 2016-01-19 at 6:16 by angelablackwell

ColumnLogoColorSmallReview of Patchwerk by David Tallerman (Tor.com, January 19, 2016)

This is a science fiction adventure about a fight in a cargo hold between two scientists and the woman who has bounced her allegiance from one to the other. However, the cargo they fight over is a reality altering machine which causes different realities to become dominant. The changes in realities change the three main characters' species, their sex, or their cultures depending on the alternate selected.

At least five different versions

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster

Posted on 2016-01-12 at 20:11 by angelablackwell

ColumnLogoColorSmallReview of The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster (Tor.com, January 12, 2016)

The Tor novella program is starting out 2016 with a wonderful new story of a teenager who hasn’t quite gone through the trials to be an adult, and who is traveling across the world to save her country from a disastrous invasion.

Shina manages to get passage on a ship mainly because the owner is in desperate need of cash. The other members of the crew are not thrilled to have her aboard at first, but when they discover her secret they

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Shootout Solution by Michael R. Underwood

Posted on 2015-11-17 at 7:9 by angelablackwell

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Review of The Shootout Solution: Genrenauts Episode 1 by Michael R. Underwood (Tor.com, November 17, 2015)

Leah Tang is trying to be a comedian, but her nerdy routine is unappreciated by just about everybody in the bar except a very intense black guy in a coat. He turns out to be so interested that he wants her help to repair nerdy stories. She gets to travel to an alternate reality which is like the old west.

She ends up having the adventure of a lifetime while trying to sort out why a western story

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Domnall and the Borrowed Child by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

Posted on 2015-11-11 at 3:3 by angelablackwell

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Review of Domnall and the Borrowed Child by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (Tor.com November 10, 2015)

This is a delightful Celtic fairy tale about what happens to the Sithein of Scottish fairies and their Cu Sith when humans have populated the entire area. Domnall is old enough to remember times when it wasn’t dangerous outside. He is tasked to find bluebells but creating a faerie ring has been deemed too dangerous so they are going to take the dew back home to use in the celebration.

Their community has become

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Rising Tide, Gold Throne in Shadow, Wake of Vultures and The Geomancer

Posted on 2015-11-05 at 5:36 by angelablackwell

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Review of Rising Tide by Rajan Khanna (Pyr, October 6, 2015)

This is the second volume of the steampunk-airships-with-zombies series which started with Falling Sky. It is the adventures of Ben Gold (one of the few Jewish steampunk characters Your Humble Reviewers have ever seen) as he travels the western coast of the United States many years after a disease which turns people into zombies has hit. Society has fallen apart and it is basically chaos with a few places held by various groups.

Ben has lost

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