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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews 23 Years on Fire by Joel Shepherd and also Interviews the Author!

Posted on 2013-09-12 at 06:18 by angelablackwell

Review of 23 Years on Fire by Joel Shepherd (Pyr, trade paperback, September 10, 2013)

This is the fourth Cassandra Kresnov novel.

Four years before the start of this novel, Sandy and Rhian had claimed asylum from the League on the planet Callay, the new Federation Grand Council location, a few years after the war between the League and the Federation ended. Since then about 50 GIs had arrived on Callay and asked for asylum there. GIs are synthetic biological people created in a lab by the League, but

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The Exploding Spaceship Release Day Edition: Reviews of Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo and The Undead Hordes of Kan-Gul by Jon F. Merz

Posted on 2013-09-04 at 00:28 by angelablackwell

Review of Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo (Baen, September 3, 2013 hardback)

Under a Graveyard Sky is John Ringo’s contribution to the zombie-apocalypse genre. In this story the zombies are not hordes of shambling undead, but the living victims of a viral plague brought about by a bioterror weapon, and Ringo uses real science to explain why the infected people act like zombies.

The Smith family (husband and wife John and Stacey and their daughters Sophia and Faith) are doomsday preppers, people who

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The Exploding Spaceship YA Release Day Edition: Review of The Woken Gods by Gwenda Bond and When The World Was Flat And We Were In Love by Ingrid Jonach

Posted on 2013-09-04 at 00:06 by angelablackwell

Review of The Woken Gods by Gwenda Bond (Strange Chemistry, September 3, 2013, trade paperback)

This is a story set in a Washington, D.C., where all the pantheons of gods have been awoken and have been prevented from returning from the afterlife if they die, so dead means dead. As a consequence of this strange turn of events there are regular encounters with gods if you are in downtown DC. The trickster gods of the pantheons serve as a court to determine the outcome of problems between the gods and

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The Exploding Spaceship Special Pre-Release Dragon Con Edition: Review of Torchwood Exodus Code by John and Carole E. Barrowman

Posted on 2013-08-30 at 04:14 by angelablackwell

This book doesn't release in the US until later in September but for those of you at Dragon Con, John and Carole have promised to have copies available so they can sign them. So go find them in the Walk of Fame!

Review of Torchwood Exodus Code By John and Carole E. Barrowman (US paperback Sept 24, 2013 UK Hardback Edition September 13, 2012, UK paperback August 15, 2013)

A new Captain Jack adventure written by the Captain himself along with his sister!

Captain Jack is trying to investigate why some

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The Exploding Spaceship Release Day Edition Reviewing Crux by Ramez Naam

Posted on 2013-08-27 at 18:57 by angelablackwell

Review of Crux: Book 2 of Nexus by Ramez Naam (Angry Robot, paperback, August 27, 2013)

Nexus 5 was released upon the world in the previous book, Nexus. This volume is about the repercussions of that release. Kade watches all the interesting and wonderful things people are doing with Nexus, only interfering when someone is using it to abuse others. He deals harshly with such abusers by using the backdoors in the code, but everyone else wants these backdoor codes as well. His partners who were captured

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Wrath-bearing Tree by James Enge

Posted on 2013-08-13 at 17:41 by angelablackwell

Review of Wrath-bearing Tree:  A Tournament of Shadows Book Two by James Enge (Pyr paperback August 13, 2013)

Morlock Ambrosius has an adventure on his own in Kaen, a land of strange religions, when the ship he is traveling on is destroyed by fire attacks from the Kaen coast. After he makes his way back to the Wardlands, he is sent off on a ship again, but this time Aloê, the girl Morlock thinks he likes, is assigned to captain the ship. She grew up on the water and so is very much at home on a boat, but

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The Exploding Spaceship reviews The Case of the Cosmological Killer: Endings and Beginnings by Stephanie Osborn

Posted on 2013-08-11 at 17:11 by angelablackwell

Review of  The Case of the Cosmological Killer: Endings and Beginnings by Stephanie Osborn (Twilight Times Books, released November 2012)

Endings and Beginnings is the fourth book in a series that brings Sherlock Holmes into the modern day by way of a hard-science fiction time machine incident.

Dr. Skye Chadwick develops a device which allows the user to see and even visit alternate realities. Some of those alternate realities are inhabited by individuals who only exist in the pages of fiction in our

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The Exploding Spaceship Release Day Edition: Review of Warbound by Larry Correia, Pirates of the Timestream by Steve White and Tour of Duty by Michael Z. Williamson

Posted on 2013-08-06 at 21:10 by angelablackwell

Review of Warbound by Larry Correia (Baen hardback, August 6, 2013)

This is the third and concluding volume in Larry Correia's pulps-inspired Grimnoir Chronicles, and it details Faye's experiences hiding from the Grimnoir, attending Whisper's funeral, and seeking a mentor from the elders in Europe. The Grimnoir think she is dead, so as Jake and the others prepare to board the great dirigible airship UBF Traveler, they are all in mourning.

The Traveler is off to Japan to solve the Chairman problem and

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The Exploding Spaceship Family Reading Release Day Edition - Reviews of Control by Kim Curran and Weight of Souls by Bryony Pearce

Posted on 2013-08-06 at 19:18 by angelablackwell

Review of Control by Kim Curran (Strange Chemistry paperback, August 6, 2013)

This young adult science fiction tale is set in modern day Britain and centers on a group of teens who work for the Agency for the Regulation and Evaluation of Shifters, or ARES for short. Shifters are people who can go back over their life choices and take an alternative path; normally, only teens are shifters, but adults can acquire the ability by having that section of a child's brain that grants this power transplanted into

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The Exploding Spaceship Release Day Edition: Review of Three by Jay Posey and Review of Queen of Wands by John Ringo

Posted on 2013-07-30 at 06:03 by angelablackwell

Review of Three (Angry Robot Books, July 30, 2013)

Three: Legends of the Duskwalker Book 1 is a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy about bounty hunter Three and his adventures trying to keep himself and sometimes others safe in a very dangerous world.  After sunset every day the Weir, monstrous beings which used to be human but were taken over by cybernetics, attack humans anyplace they can reach them.  They can track anything which accesses the net, which means most people since implants for communication

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