This novel is an example of a modern sub-genre blending hi-tech Science Fiction with gladiatorial combat digital games. The creative advantage which this author uses to great effect is the imaginative choreography available to fighters with a creative variety of skills and powers. The technique, as the scenes in this book show, is not to […]
“Alice’s Universe: the Discovery of a New Cosmos – Twice” by Terry Montlick
I enjoyed this story for many reasons. Unfortunately, it’s a book that doesn’t quite know what it wants to be; it hovers between two different genres little interconnection between the two associated readerships. The author hasn’t made up his mind whether he’s writing super-hard-science Sci-Fi or near-future Fantasy Action-Adventure. So, the beginning of the book […]
“Transcription” by Tyler Michael
This is a good attempt at an interesting Sci-Fi idea, but the writing flies in the face of too many tried-and-true writing conventions, and so the novel never really leads us into the world the author has created so meticulously. The first error is one I must admit I have committed in my own writing. […]