The deep-ore mining vessel, Marion, is in orbit above the inhospitable planet LV178 from which the Kelland Mining Company is extracting precious trimonite. During a shift change, the Marion’s crew of 10 are concerned by the lack of contact with the remaining 40 crewmembers on the surface. They soon discover what’s happened to them when […]
Review: Assassin’s Creed (Graphic Novels)
March 27, 2014 by Leave a Comment
As a player — and fan — of the Assassin’s Creed on the Xbox 360, I was delighted to have the opportunity to review graphic novels based on the game. The first collection, The Ankh of Isis Trilogy (Titan Books) comprises three sequential tales called, repectively, Desmond, Aquilus and Accipter, named after characters in the narrative. Desmond […]
Book Review: TALUS AND THE FROZEN KING by Graham Edwards
March 26, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The manic energy of modern day our modern Sherlock Holmes is a difficult thing to transpose to a book. To take such a character and place them in the Stone Age without the aid of modern technology runs the risk of creating a story so at odds with itself that any trunk it’s hidden in […]
Audiobook Review: THE MARTIAN by Andy Weir
March 21, 2014 by 3 Comments
Fans of space exploration and science will salivate over The Martian. Andy Weir‘s debut novel combines dramatic survival in a unique environment with laugh-out-loud humor. Our astronaut has been stranded on Mars after a freak accident convinced his team that he was dead. He is a biologist and an engineer, and a brilliant one at […]
Book Review: TECHNICOLOR TERRORISTS by Andre Duza
March 20, 2014 by 1 Comment
I was first introduced to Ande Duza‘s (NSFW) work in the Orange edition of the Bizarro Starter Kit. His contribution was a Roger Rabbit/Cool World-esque novella called “Don’t F(bleep)k with the Coloureds” about cartoons coming into the real world. Recently, I also read his collaboration with Wrath James White called Son of a Bitch, a […]
Book Review: THE DOCTOR AND THE DINOSAURS by Mike Resnick
March 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
It’s April, 1885, and famed shootist, John “Doc” Holliday, is dying of consumption. He is visited at his sick bed by shape-shifting medicine man and great Comanche chief, Geronimo, and offered a deal: another year of life in exchange for completing a mission to prevent the desecration of sacred Indian ground by paleontologists Edward Cope […]
Interview with new reviewer of Magical Realism and Horror, Ben Arzate
March 13, 2014 by Leave a Comment
If you would like to be a part of our review team, head over to our Goodreads group shelf “review requests,” pick a book you would like to review, then email us at adventuresinscifipublishing@gmail.com. Include the book of your choice and a link to a review you’ve written. Not everyone will be accepted, but it […]
Audiobook Review: Apocalypse Z by Manel Loureiro, Narrated by Nick Podehl
March 12, 2014 by Leave a Comment
At first, I really gobbled this one up. I’m a sucker for the onset of zombie apocalypses and how a small group or close narrator perspective will survive. This reminds me of one of my favorite zombie books, Day by Day Armageddon, in its journalistic format, prepping to bunker against the oncoming horde. In Apocalypse […]
Book Review: ANNIHILATION by Jeff Vandermeer
March 10, 2014 by 4 Comments
There are times when I begin to grow tired of science fiction. This happens when I pick up a string of novels that feature the same overused tropes with formulaic characters in a familiar, yet modified setting. But when you have an author like Jeff VanderMeer, you know at a minimum you are in for […]
Book Review: WORDS OF RADIANCE by Brandon Sanderson
March 6, 2014 by 2 Comments
Radiant Words. Brandon Sanderson’s second installment of the Stormlight Archive, Words of Radiance, was easily my most anticipated book of 2014. I’ve read The Way of Kings three times but couldn’t wait to spend more time in the world of Roshar and its compelling characters. If you like Brandon’s stuff and enjoyed the first book, […]
