Category: Sci-Fi
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DNF at 27% – The Martian by Andy Weir
I just don’t get the Hype. Audible: Running Time: 10hrs 59min Publisher: Audible Studios Publication date: 01 Jan 2020B082BGX3CG Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm forces his crew to evacuate…
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Review – Blood Red by Jason Bovberg
Kindle: 276 pages Publisher: Permuted Press Publication date: 07 April 2014 ASIN: B00JK1UW4E First Line – “Rachel!” Rachel is 19. She doesn’t know how to handle her new stepmother, let alone the end of the world. But after finding her stepmother dead, Rachel is suddenly racing against time—and terrifying, unnatural forces—to survive a gruesome apocalyptic…
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Review – Earthfall by Mark Walden
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens Publication date: 07 July 2012 ISBN: 9781408815663 First Line – “The boy ran down the rain-soaked street, weaving between abandoned cars.” Sam wakes to see strange vessels gathered in the skies around London. As he stares up, people stream past, walking silently towards the enormous ships which emit a…
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Review – Within the Light by Carly Fall
Paperback: 458 pages Publisher: Westward Publishing Publication date: 31 October 2011 ISBN13: 9781479128662 First Line – “Noah had seen a lot of dead bodies in his time.” When Abby and Noah meet, there is an explosive attraction between them that neither can deny… As a shy, awkward, social misfit, Abby has gone her whole life…
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Review – Lexicon by Max Barry
Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Mulholland Books Publication date: 20 June 2013 ISBN13: 9781444764659 First Line – “He’s coming around.” At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren’t taught history, geography, or mathematics—they are taught to persuade. Students learn to use language to manipulate minds, wielding words as weapons. The very best graduate…
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Review – Exodus by Paul Anthony Jones
Paperback: 302 pages Publisher: 47North Publication date: 11 June 2013 ISBN13: 9781477805060 First Line – “Commander Fiona Mulligan had made a habit out of watching the sunrise” Reporter Emily Baxter survived the alien red rain that blanketed and annihilated the human race. But after the downpour, and the lethal contagion it spread, came an even…
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Review – Brilliance by Marcus Sakey
Paperback: 418 pages Publisher: 47North Publication date: 23 July 2013 ISBN13: 97816121836408 First Line – “The radio host had said there was a war coming, said it like he was looking forward to it, and Cooper, coatless and chilly in the desert evening, was thinking that the radio man was an asshole.” In Wyoming, a…
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Review – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Paperback: 384 pagesPublisher: CenturyPublication date: August 18th 2011ISBN13: 9781846059377 First Line – “Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.” It’s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We’re out of oil. We’ve wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and…
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Waiting On Wednesday – The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating. This Weeks Choice: THE FUTURE OF US by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. Expected Publication Date: November 21, 2011 (US) January 5, 2012 (UK) Blurb taken from Goodreads: It’s…
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Cover Reveal – Wicked As They Come by Delilah S Dawson
OMG! I want to read this book so bad, I can almost TASTE it! Due to be released in Spring 2012 and I CAN NOT WAIT!. So I’m trawling google for book reviews, news, cover pics… and this pic hover’s onto the radar WOW! Meet Criminy Stain. Steampunk, Vampire’s, Top hat’s, Circus Freak’s…. Oh yeah,…