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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Transgalactic and World Divided Book Two of the Secret World Chronicles

Posted on 2013-05-08 at 22:43 by angelablackwell

Coming to paperback this month, Transgalactic by A.E. van Vogt and World Divided Book Two of the Secret World Chronicles by Mercedes Lackey, Cody Martin, Dennis Lee and Veronica Giguere.

In case you missed it last year when the hardback was released, Mercedes Lackey has a second book in her (and her co-authors) superhero series. It goes to paperback this month.  Echo and CCCP including John Murdock continue to battle the Thulians. In this volume a rare chance at some intelligence on the Thulians allows

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Portal by Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor and House of Steel: The Honorverse Companion by David Weber

Posted on 2013-05-08 at 22:09 by angelablackwell

Portal (Baen, May 7 2013 hardcover) is the third volume of hard science fiction adventure from Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor following Boundary and Threshold.

The previous volume left the heroes crashed on Europa with no one near Earth knowing what happened to them, and the survivors did not know if there were any of their fellows remained alive on the ship still in orbit about the Jovian moon. This volume picks up directly from that point with communication being re-established and Earth trying to build a

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Blood Trade by Faith Hunter

Posted on 2013-04-28 at 04:43 by angelablackwell

Blood Trade (Roc, April 2, 2013) is the newest novel by Faith Hunter. It is the sixth novel featuring skinwalker Jane Yellowrock.

In this volume Jane and her work companions, the Younger brothers, return to Natchez, Mississippi. There is a Naturaleza vampire problem there again, and some friends from Jane’s past appear on the scene to cause additional complications.

The love triangle of Rick, Jane and Bruiser heats up when both guys are called in to assist on the case. Jane's relationship with Evan

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Heretic by Tony Daniel and David Drake

Posted on 2013-04-02 at 18:19 by angelablackwell

Review of The Heretic by Tony Daniel and David Drake

The Heretic (Baen, April 2, 2013) is the newest volume in the General series. In previous volumes, Raj Whitehall had been selected by the sentient battle computer Center to be the father of the future in a revived Federation. Then Raj and Center had succeeded on planet Belleview so they were copied into thousands of probes and sent into space.  This volume tells of how they adopt a young local on planet Duisberg to start the cycle again.

The problem

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The Exploding Spaceship Middle Grades Family Reading Edition: Review of Mirage by Jenn Reese

Posted on 2013-03-20 at 04:22 by angelablackwell

Review of Mirage by Jenn Reese (Candlewick Press, March 5, 2013).

Mirage is the second volume of the Above World middle grades science fiction series by Jenn Reese.

Most middle grades books in the science fiction and fantasy area are fantasy; an actual science fiction adventure without fantasy elements is rare.  This series is science fiction set on an Earth where groups of humans were adapted for different extreme environments because of planet-wide ecological issues.  Different groups of people live

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Golden Age of Death by Amber Benson

Posted on 2013-03-18 at 04:02 by angelablackwell

Review of The Golden Age of Death by Amber Benson (Ace Feb 26, 2013)

This is the fifth volume of Amber Benson’s stories about Calliope Reaper-Jones (Callie), the daughter of the Grim Reaper. The Reaper himself is deceased, making Callie the CEO of his company Death, Inc. Callie is like many 20-somethings, with worries about her job and its future, her family and her boyfriend.

However, her job is now to be Death and to survive the attacks of the ender of Death who killed her father. When the situation

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The Exploding Spaceship Teen Family Reading Edition: Review of The Cadet of Tildor

Posted on 2013-03-15 at 03:26 by angelablackwell

Review of The Cadet of Tildor by Alex Lidell

The Cadet of Tildor is a new Penguin teen fantasy book which came out January 10, 2013.

This is a teen coming-of-age tale featuring a female military academy cadet named Renee de Winter. She is a nobleman’s daughter who wants to prove her place is with the elite soldiers, she tries her hardest to survive to graduation even when downgraded on her fighting skills.  Will she be one of the two cadets cut at the end of the term?

Renee is a small, quick female

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The Exploding Spaceship Release Day Edition Review of Shadow of Freedom and A Few Good Men

Posted on 2013-03-05 at 21:39 by angelablackwell

Review of David Weber's Shadow of Freedom

This is the newest Honor Harrington book, but since this volume depicts events which are occurring simultaneously with those in A Rising Thunder (the previous volume), Honor herself is not present.

The story in Shadow of Freedom is told from three main viewpoints: Michelle Henke and various components of her Tenth Fleet, Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat plus their shipmates, and the Mesan Alignment headquarters personnel. We see how Anton and Victor make the

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Queen is Dead by Kate Locke and Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card

Posted on 2013-02-22 at 16:36 by angelablackwell

Review of The Queen is Dead

This is the second volume of Locke’s Immortal Empire series. The Spaceship reviewed the first volume, God Save the Queen, in our 2012 fantasy reads here: /2012/12/25/what-to-do-with-that-gift-card-part-1-fantasy-reads-for-2012/ .

Xandra Vardan continues her adventures in a quest to find the people who are experimenting on halvies (half-blood vampires or werewolves).  She begins to accept that she is the queen of the goblins and this is in turn places obligations on her from

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The Exploding Spaceship Roadtrip to Shevacon in Roanoke, VA

Posted on 2013-02-16 at 05:26 by angelablackwell

Your Humble Reviewers took a roadtrip to Roanoke, Virginia the weekend of February 8-10 to attend Shevacon at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center.  The hotel is a Doubletree hotel, which means you get chocolate chip cookies when you check in. The rooms are spacious and clean, although they are a bit pricey for a convention hotel; however, the location is so good that the expense is justified. The hotel bar serves good (though expensive) food and drink, but the appetizers and entrees are big enough for

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