science fiction
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Review of Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I’m extremely picky when it comes to science fiction. The longer a book is, the more I begin to dissect the sentences, which too often contain extraneous syntax. This one is sprinkled with a sloppy dialogue tag and unnecessary gesticulations clutter the dialogue every once in a while. A few…
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Review of Survival: A Sci-Fi/Horror, where reality begins to bite. by Chris Wright
Guided along by smoothly flowing prose, the reader will perceive a consistent building tension in this genre-bending novel. Parts of it almost read like diary entries, and provide intimate details as well as high-level backstory description.Full of subtle tension and propelled by the interactions of realistic characters in a sequence…
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Review of The Secrets of Umami (The Galactic Culinary Society #1) by D.R. Schoel
Following the protagonist, Jeanne, in her perilous descent into an off-world volcano to recover a delicious confection and gain the experience/ clout amid the Galactic Culinary Society, purveyors of synesthetic wonders, was a blast. Well-described locales and well-paced exploration. Cheeky, digestible, and sciency. I was quite impressed by the old-fashioned…
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Review of Song of the Golden Brew (The Galactic Culinary Society #2) by D.R. Schoel
In the second segment of the Galactic Culinary Society series, you will find more atmospheric description and additional otherworldly settings. You will notice a relaxed pacing, punctuated with action, but never threatening to overwhelm the reader’s sense of awe at the universe inhabited by the protagonist. It is a setup…
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Review of Fragments – A Sci-Fi/Horror: The sequel to Survival: The rules of reality have now changed by Chris Wright
In this second installment in the series, the pace ratchets up quickly. We join characters familiar from the first book (but I think this book can even be appreciated on its own, without some of the backstory). It is a good example of descriptions of cosmic proportions, and how paranormal…
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Review of The Race by Nina Allan
Familiar territory for Nina Allan. Another book dealing with a kidnapping, or missing woman. This one had a stronger feminist slant than The Rift, and I felt that the male characters were too two-dimensional, even by the standards of that agenda. The first segment of the book, dealing heavily with…
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Review of Fluffy’s Revolution by Ted Myers
Blade Runner X Homeward Bound. This was top-tier dystopian science fiction. The stakes are high in this wryly humorous anthropomorphic adventure. In its future world like Poul Anderson’s Brainwave, with a touch of Orwell’s Animal Farm mixed in, I was intrigued and won over by the charming and witty characters,…
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Review of Reality Testing (Sundown, #1) by Grant Price
Reality Testing is a colorful novel, generously long, pumped full of so much creativity that the experience of reading it can only be compared to an overdose of science-fiction brand narcotics. Blending a complex web of illusion and reality, with prose that is so tight, sleek, polished, and chromium-plated, it…
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Review of We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1) by Dennis E. Taylor
It didn’t live up to the hype. For me at least. Many other people will enjoy this. Every time I was introduced to an interesting, high-brow scientific concept, I was cringing at the corny humor. The main issue is Bob, the narrator/ commentator, giving a peanut gallery run down of…
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new flash fiction
Check out our flash fiction in Havok on June 12th, 2019 and vote for it!
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Echoes From Dust, a serial novel
The serialization of our novel has begun in Bewildering Stories! Click Here
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How to Train Your Slime, flash fiction
Bull & Cross published a new flash fiction story by L. S. Popovich! Click Here
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4th Quarterly Review 2017
My short story “Cygnus” was featured in the 4th Quarterly Review of Bewildering Stories for 2017. Click Here
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The Heart of Cygnus, a short story
A new story of mine has been published in Bewildering Stories: Click Here
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3rd Quarterly Review
My story, “Eve in the Belly of the Whale” was included in the 2017 3rd Quarterly Review of Bewildering Stories. Check it out: Click Here
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The Last Meeting of Intelligent Organisms
My new flash fiction story has just been published in 365tomorrows. Click Here
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Eve in the Belly of the Whale, a short story
My new short story is available through Bewildering Stories. Click Here:
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1st Quarterly Review 2017
My short story is now featured in the 1st Quarterly Review of Bewildering Stories! Click Here
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The River Waits, a short story
Now available in issue 705 of Bewildering Stories! Click Here
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The Tale of Nathaniel Ravendrake, a short story
Bewildering Stories published my new short story. Click Here
