Book review: The Void (Alex Hunter 7) – Greig Beck

  When I first showed the cover of the new Alex Hunter novel to my 8-year-old son, he nearly pissed his pants with excitement. I told him in my best movie voice “One day, son, all of this will be yours.” as I held my Kindle in front of his face. I often do this,…

Book review: Extinction Bridge – Geoff Brown & Amanda J. Spedding

The Kindle Worlds books are usually pretty entertaining fair. Nicholas Sansbury Smith’s Extinction Cycle series of military science fiction books are very popular with genre readers, and the Kindle Worlds books are a way for writers who are fans of the series to add their own flavour to the Extinxtion Cycle world. I don’t mind a bit of…

Book review: Recon Marines – P. K. Hawkins

When a group of 40+ battle-hardened marines investigate an enormous ship housing a host of biological nasties, things soon go pear-shaped. It doesn’t take long for our tough-talking soldiers to become locked in a fight for survival against all sorts of bizarre and other-worldly alien creatures. Recon Marines does exactly as it says on the…

Book review: Preservation – Michael Patrick Hicks

This is another deftly written story from Michael Patrick Hicks. Michael’s work often contains a strong social conscience and that is very much the case with this novelette. Preservation is about a cyborg tasked with protecting the South African wildlife inside of a National Park. Poachers are leaving a trail of rhino corpses as they…

Book review: From the Ashes (Extinction Cycle) – Michael Patrick Hicks

I approached this novella with a little trepidation after recently reading and being disappointed with ‘Hell Divers’ – the latest series of post-apocalyptic books from Nicholas Sansbury Smith, but I know that Michael can spin a good yarn, so in I went, armed to the teeth and ready to rock! In a world where a…

Book Review: Extinction Biome – Addison Gunn

Military science fiction is something I don’t dip my toes into very often, which is strange really considering ‘Starship Troopers’ is one of my all time favourite movies. I have read a few in the past and found them to be a little generic, aside from the series by Weston Ochse (Grunt Life and Grunt…