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MONSTER MOVIE! – Chuck Wendig
Ethan Pitowski is afraid of just about everything, so when he (along with the entire class) is invited to a classmate’s house to watch a horror movie, Ethan isn’t too keen on the idea – even though it is the most popular by in school. Ethan’s friends, knowing of Ethan’s fears, encourage him to attend Continue reading
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WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE – John Scalzi
For no reason that anyone can understand, Earth’s moon one day quite unexpectedly turns into a massive, round cheese ball (or, as NASA refers to it – “a newly developed organic matrix”). The moon appears to have the same mass but it has increased in size. It is also causing some massive ejections of its Continue reading
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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS: ASYLUM – Una McCormack
Una Chin-Riley is the poster girl for Starfleet: smart, driven, and dedicated. She’s a by-the-book student, not afraid to ask questions and to quote the manual when she thinks something is being done incorrectly. And like all really good students, she’s also active in extra-curricular activities. She’s often the lead in the Academy-produced opera and Continue reading
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LOST TO ETERNITY – Greg Cox
STAR TREK WEEK In 2024, investigative reporter Melinda Silver tries to track down whatever happened to Gillian Taylor, an influential marine biologist who walked away from a great job at Sausalito’s Cetacean Institute, never to be heard from again. Slowly, Melinda begins to put together a picture of the people she had been with – people Continue reading
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TRIPLANETARY – E. E. “Doc” Smith
CLASSIC SCI-FI WEEK Nevia is a planet many light years away from Earth. The planet is running out of iron – an essential source of energy for the aquatic inhabitants. The Nevians have developed technology that can pull the iron out of just about anything … including human blood. The Nevians attack an unsuspecting Earth Continue reading
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ICEHENGE – Kim Stanley Robinson
CLASSIC SCI-FI WEEK Kim Stanley Robinson is one of my favorite, working authors, and has been since I started reading his work in the late 1980’s. It’s nice to see that his older work is being reissued to be found by new audiences or re-discovered and re-enjoyed by those of us who’ve read it before. Continue reading
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BANDIT HEAVEN – Tom Clavin
I am fascinated by the American West. I’m not sure when this started – quite possibly it began with the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid movie of 1968, followed by my reading of The Wild Bunch by James D. Horan in the mid-1970’s. But it’s not just the history that attracts me, but the landscape as well. Add Continue reading
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THAT WHICH STANDS OUTSIDE – Mark Morris
Todd Kingston and Yrsa Helgerson meet when Todd rescues Yrsa from a mugging one night in London. They quickly develop a strong friendship and romance. When Yrsa’s gets word that her mother has died, she has some angst about going back to her Nordic home. Todd encourages her to be there for family and offers Continue reading
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GIRL ON THE MOON – Jack McDonald Burnett
It’s not too far into the future and humans have decided it’s time to get back to the moon. There is an ulterior motive, of course … this is where the alien race wants to meet. Man has not been to the moon since 1972 (Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt), and there has never been Continue reading
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THE WIZARD OF OZ AND OTHER WONDERFUL BOOKS OF OZ – L. Frank Baum
Penguin Classics has put together three Oz books under one cover: The Wizard of Oz; The Emerald City of Oz; and Glinda of Oz. These are NOT the first three books in the Oz series. They are the first, the 7th, and the 14th (the last written by Baum). I’m not entirely sure why we get these specific Continue reading
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RED SONJA: CONSUMED – Gail Simone
Red Sonja, the She-Devil of Hyrkania has spent most of her life doing whatever pleases her. Whether it be fighting or taking a bed partner, Sonja has never spent much time thinking beyond the moment. But when she meets some travelers who insist that her home territory needs her help. Sonja’s homeland, once ravaged by Continue reading
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ATOM BOMB BABY – Brandon Gillespie
Ashe is a teenage girl wandering a dystopian landscape all alone. Before she was even born, an alien race appeared from another dimension and wiped out nearly the entire planet. To combat the alien Kraal, the military corps chose to ‘cleanse’ the planet with a blanket of nuclear bombs. After her family was exiled from Continue reading
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