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Posts Tagged ‘sf’

Release Day: Big-T by Jakob Drud

15th June 2011 by Darwin 2 Comments

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of our first new e-book short story project since Darwin’s Evolutions has migrated into being an e-small press. Here’s a sample. The complete story is available as a Kindle version at Amazon and a Nook version at Barnes & Noble: BIG-T by Jakob Drud A [...]

Review: The Tuloriad by Ringo and Kratman

17th October 2009 by Darwin 9 Comments

I’d sworn off Ringo’s Aldenata universe. Really, I had.  You see, though, I was at the library with my son as he pulled references for a college project and there, on a shelf of new arrivals, was The Tuloriad.  “Okay,” I told myself, “I’ll just check out a page or two.  It can’t do any [...]

Review: Maximum Ride by James Patterson

25th March 2009 by Darwin 3 Comments

Just in case you, like me, managed to miss it, the Maximum Ride series of YA (young adult) novels by James Patterson are best sellers.  Bona fide best sellers.  As in, the kind of success that every author dreams of best sellers, not just “good for YA” best sellers, i.e. movie-coming-out-soon-with-hordes-of-expectant-fans-already-looking-forward-to-seeing-it-because-they’ve-read-the-book best seller. Still, not [...]

Review: Grimspace by Anne Aguirre

10th March 2009 by Darwin No Comments

So, there I was, stuck in Rockford, Illinois. Not that much of a hardship, mind you, considering that I was sucking down a mocha while meandering through the science fiction and fantasy section of the local Borders.  In any event, the book whose cover caught my eye and whose jacket copy eventually opened my wallet [...]

Review: The Third

5th March 2009 by Darwin 2 Comments

To truly appreciate the manga version of The Third, you really ought to seek out the anime version first.  So, for the purposes of this review, I’m going to discuss the both the anime and the manga. The main character of both versions of The Third is Honoka.  With her self-aware AI sand tank, Bogie, [...]

Review: Terminal Mind by David Walton

3rd March 2009 by Darwin No Comments

Conventions.  Very bad for people who really shouldn’t be tempted with stacks and stacks of books for sale. Not that that’s a bad thing, mind you.  However, when you’re a minor player at best with a paltry few panels to attend, you end up spending a lot of time amongst the books.  What’s worse, of [...]

Friday Fiction: High Stakes by Sarah A. Hoyt

26th February 2009 by Darwin 1 Comment

Click. The question is always how far you’re willing to go to get what you want. Kill or be killed? Betray or be betrayed? Win or lose? At each step, you place your bets; you take the result. You don’t cry about it. There’s no one to cry to. Click. If there were anyone to [...]

Review: Claymore by Norihiro Yagi

25th February 2009 by Darwin No Comments

Claymore first came to my attention via the scanlation exchange community.  I’m a sucker for a woman warrior story, especially a story that has such a compelling heroine as Clare.  I soon became enamored of the series not only for its original blending of archetypes that so uniquely identifies Japanese manga, but for the depth [...]

Review: Slow Train to Arcturus

17th February 2009 by katepaulk No Comments

Winner, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel in the 2008 Preditors and Editors Reader’s Poll. Take hard science fiction, add a dash of sociology, a smidgen of satire, and a collection of misfits amongst misfits, and you have Slow Train to Arcturus by Eric Flint and Dave Freer. Slow Train is the most hopeful hard [...]

Review: Maximum Ride by James Patterson and NaRae Lee

11th February 2009 by Darwin No Comments

My daughter snagged this off the manga shelf at Barnes and Noble the other day and immediately gave me the puppy-dog look.  “Can I please have this?” Yeah.  Right.  Like I was going to say, “No.” The thing is, what she had keyed in to was direct evidence that not everyone making money decisions in [...]