Monthly Archives: February 2016

Gabriel’s Redemption by Steve Umstead

This is a basic hard Sci-Fi shoot-em-up, with plenty of hi-tech weaponry and high-rolling manpower (and womanpower) to wield it.    The setting is the near future, when an asteroid strike has realigned the world’s power blocs. Umstead gives us just enough “historical” detail to make a satisfying background, without boring us with unnecessary detail. […]

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Lily by L. M. DeWalt

When I am asked to review yet another vampire novel, I always have one question to pose. What is so different about this one? Why should the reader pick this book out from all the potboilers in which this genre abounds? In the case of Lily, I was pleased to find a positive answer; the […]

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