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Posted on 2013-07-26 at 18:28 by angelablackwell

Review of Resurrection Inc. by Kevin J. Anderson (trade paperback, Wordfire Press, released June 5, 2012)

The dead walk the streets with their identities blanked, animated by artificial hearts pumping blood substitute through their veins and arteries and their nervous systems stimulated to function by brain-implanted microprocessors. In this world, the company known as Resurrection Inc. gets all the not-badly-mangled corpses dropped off at its door by the local private police force, where they are

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews High-Opp by Frank Herbert

Posted on 2013-07-24 at 05:47 by angelablackwell

Review of High-Opp by Frank Herbert (Wordfire Press, released April 5, 2012)

Wordfire Press has released a never-before-published story written by Frank Herbert, best-known for the Dune series of novels.

High-Opp is only 100 pages long, but that is all Frank Herbert needs to bring to frightening life a dystopian society with rigid class distinctions as well as total government control over food, housing, transportation and employment.

Daniel Movius, an upper mid-level office cog who has worked his

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The Exploding Spaceship Release Day Edition Part 2: Review of Noah's Boy by Sarah A. Hoyt, Beginnings by David Weber et al. and Wolf in Shadow by John Lambshead

Posted on 2013-07-03 at 03:52 by angelablackwell

Review of Noah's Boy by Sarah A. Hoyt (Baen, July 2, 2013, trade paperback)

Noah’s Boy is volume three in the Shifter series of urban fantasy from Sarah A. Hoyt. In this universe, people shift into all types of creatures from mice to dragons. Kyrie and Tom own The George, a shifter attracting diner in Goldport, a college town in Colorado. Rafiel, their customer, friend and a local policeman, is investigating several unexplained deaths, many of which appear to be shifters. So in their efforts to police

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The Exploding Spaceship Release Day Edition Part 1: Review of Thieves' Quarry by D.B. Jackson and Crazy in the Blood by Lucienne Diver

Posted on 2013-07-02 at 18:52 by angelablackwell

Review of Thieves’ Quarry by D.B. Jackson (Tor, July 2, 2013, hardback)

Thieves’ Quarry is the second book of Ethan Kaille’s adventures as a thieftaker conjurer in Boston in 1768. It’s September and tensions are high as British ships are arriving and it is rumored that many troops are going to land in order to deal with the rebellion situation.

As the ships sit offshore, Ethan watches his brother-in-law talk to some British Naval officers who have come onto the dock. Later when he reaches his dwelling,

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The Exploding Spaceship goes to Con Kasterborous and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center!

Posted on 2013-06-18 at 22:12 by angelablackwell

Con Kasterborous ( www.conkasterborous.com ) is a Doctor Who convention in Huntsville, Alabama, which also happens to be the location for the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the US Army’s Redstone Arsenal. Con Kasterborous was until this year a rather small local convention where area fans came to groove with other Doctor Who fans after the season was over. But this year marked the first time they had a media guest, Caitlin Blackwood, who played young Amelia Pond

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews New Wen Spencer, Orson Scott Card, and Ari Marmell

Posted on 2013-06-14 at 02:11 by angelablackwell

Review of Eight Million Gods by Wen Spencer (Baen hardcover June 4, 2013)

Eight Million Gods is the story about a young adult American author named Nikki Delany, who is on the run from her mother, and she runs to Osaka, Japan where she has friends from the internet. While in Japan she is doing research for her second novel; the book is under contract and she is really stressed about completing it on time, because her muse strikes suddenly and causes her to write in torrents but the multiple scenes of her

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The Exploding Spaceship Goes to ConCarolinas!

Posted on 2013-06-12 at 18:56 by angelablackwell

Review of ConCarolinas May 31-June2, 2013

The Charlotte Hilton University Place hotel used for the convention is in a good location to reach it from the interstates (I-85 and I-40) and the surrounding area has both fast food restaurants and sit-down restaurants within walking distance. The hotel also has a catering area setup to feed some people on site, but the food is only adequate so unless you are in a rush, I would definitely go elsewhere. The temperature in the meeting spaces was fine, but there

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews the Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 edited by Catherine Asaro

Posted on 2013-06-12 at 03:19 by angelablackwell

Review of Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 edited by Catherine Asaro (Pyr, May 14, 2013)

This volume showcases those works published in 2011 that were on the 2011 Nebula ballot. All the stories were enjoyable and it was convenient to get them in one volume. Many of the items appearing on the Nebula ballot are not from places the average reader would be able to access after the ballot is out because the magazine volumes in which they appeared have long since left the bookstore shelves. If you miss issues of

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Kevin by Paul Kupperberg (A Teen Family Reading Review)

Posted on 2013-05-19 at 21:11 by angelablackwell

Review of Kevin (from Archie Comics) by Paul Kupperberg (Grosset& Dunlap paper-over-board novel, April 18, 2013)

Kevin Keller is the first openly gay kid at Riverdale High. He had a comic miniseries which was very successful, so he went to an ongoing series which is now on its eighth issue. The second issue of that series dealt with Kevin’s first high school prom. Kevin had been elected class president in issue four of the miniseries, so it fell to him to select a theme for the prom and get all the

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The Exploding Spaceship Visits the Doctor Who Experience Cardiff, Wales.

Posted on 2013-05-18 at 18:24 by angelablackwell

In honor of the finale of this season of Doctor Who, Your Humble Columnists present a review of our trip to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff Bay. First of all, pay attention when you buy tickets because they offer a package deal with a brochure, a t-shirt, some postcards and a cool certificate that says you flew the TARDIS, which looks expensive at first until you realize that most of the stuff you can’t buy even at the Experience. They even have a way to buy a family-of-four package. When buying

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