Sandis does not have a lot of control over her own life.  She can be turned into a horrible monster and forced to the bidding of an ancient entity that controls her.  Unlike other ‘vessels’ controlled by spirits, Sandis can be inhabited by different spirits – all of them powerful and all of the evil… Continue reading

Based on a number of Brad R. Torgersen’s shorter works, I felt that Torgersen was one of the best sci-fi writers currently writing and I told him so in a Facebook message (to which he very kindly replied).  But I have been less enthusiastic about his most recent novels, including this, A Star-Wheeled Sky. A… Continue reading

The Mederos sisters, Tesara and Yvienne, are still the talk of Port Saint Frey. They are now in charge of their merchant house as their parents have left town. But incidents from the last book, specifically those surrounding the Gentleman Bandit (whose identity is still unknown). The Guild has sent a special investigator to look… Continue reading

Just around the time the first true Artificial Intelligence appeared on the earth all computers, all databases everywhere were wiped clean (a time known as ‘the seizure’) and mankind was at the mercy of the AI (known as “emergences”). But now the AI’s are gone, ‘living’ in a satellite orbiting Mercury – choosing a ‘self’… Continue reading