Book Reviews
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Ready Player Two — Ernest Cline
Ready Player Two follows Wade Watts and the High Five on another quest to find the Seven Shards of the Siren’s Soul and this time the fate of the world, not just the OASIS, hangs in the balance.
The Ninth Metal — Benjamin Percy
In The Ninth Metal (the first book in The Comet Cycle series), Benjamin Percy drops readers into an apocalyptic gold rush that digs deep into how far power and greed can drive us.
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary follows a junior high school science teacher turned astronaut who wakes up on a spaceship in a galaxy far, far away with a foggy memory, two dead crewmates, and a mission to save the world.
The Future Is Yours – Dan Frey
The Silicon Valley equivalents of Kirk and Spock build a quantum computer that allows them to see into the future in the Dan Frey’s latest tech thriller, The Future Is Yours.
We Could Be Heroes – Mike Chen
In his third novel We Could Be Heroes, Mike Chen once again demonstrates his skill for grounding the extraordinary in very real and very relatable emotional stakes.
The Shape-Shifter's Guide to Time Travel – Mark Budman
A shape-shifting prince and a time-traveling teen from the US team up to save a rebel leader determined to liberate the imaginary country of Temnota from oppression.
Some Time Later – Edited by AJ Sikes, BJ Sikes & Dover Whitecliff
Some Time Later is a sci-fi, fantasy anthology that overflows with the fantastical and is fueled by boundless imagination.
Do Not Go Quietly – Jason Sizemore & Lesley Conner
Do Not Go Quietly, edited by Jason Sizemore and Lesley Conner, is centered around those who resist. Those who are fighting to be heard, fighting for justice, fighting for what is right. It's packed full of characters screaming, “Not today.”
Here and Now and Then – Mike Chen
Mike Chen has given us a genre-bending blockbuster of a novel. Kin Steward is a Temporal Corruption Bureau (TCB) secret agent who gets stuck in 1996 after a time travel mission goes awry.