Blurb For generations the solar system–Mars, the moon, the asteroid belt–was humanity’s great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are…… Continue reading Abaddon’s Gate By James S.A. Corey – An Audiobook Review
Blurb: For someone who didn’t intend to wreck the solar system’s fragile balance of power, Jim Holden did a pretty good job of it. While Earth and Mars have stopped shooting each other, the core alliance is shattered. The outer planets and the Belt are uncertain in their new – possibly temporary – autonomy. Then,…… Continue reading Caliban’s War by James S. A. Corey – An Audiobook Review
Blurb: Humanity has colonized the planets – interstellar travel is still beyond our reach, but the solar system has become a dense network of colonies. But there are tensions – the mineral-rich outer planets resent their dependence on Earth and Mars and the political and military clout they wield over the Belt and beyond. Now,…… Continue reading Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1) by James S.A. Corey – An Audiobook Review
Blurb: For ten thousand years, Cadia stood as a bastion against the daemonic tide spewing forth from the Eye of Terror. But now the Fortress World lies in ruins, its armies decimated in the wake of Abaddon the Despoiler and his Thirteenth Black Crusade. Those who survived, though haunted by the loss of their beloved…… Continue reading Cadian Honour by Justin D. Hill – A Book Review
Blurb: The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct and the half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind, but the last remains of civilisation have…… Continue reading Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky – An Audio Book Review
Title: Marsfall Writer/Director: Erik Saras Voice Cast: Sam Boase-Miller, Shannon Lovely, Dan Lovely, Aba Woodruff, Anya Zicer, Aramis Martinez, James Fouhey, Stephanie Hsu, Merissa Morin, Sergey Nagorny, Jordan Cobb, Yelena Shmulenson & Cooper as Luna Seasons (as of this review): 2 (17 episodes) Website: Marsfall Website My Rating of Marsfall: 4.5 out of 5 Review:…… Continue reading Marsfall – Podcast Review (Seasons 1 & 2)
Blurb: In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy…… Continue reading One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence – A Book Review
Blurb: For thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border – an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness. The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. One has ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, the…… Continue reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer – A Book Review
Blurb: More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search for a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the…… Continue reading Hell Divers By Nicholas Sansbury Smith – A Book Review
Publisher’s Summary: Adrian Tchaikovksy’s critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors,…… Continue reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky – An Audiobook Review
Swords & Spectres 