Star Trek Destiny (Bks 1-3) - A Slice of SciFi Book Review
July 28, 2009 || Category: Book Reviews | 8 Comments
Reviewed by: Samuel K. Sloan (Farpoint Media News Consultant)
Slice of SciFi Rating = 3.5 out of 5.0 Stars
“…for those who, millennia ago, had no choice…this is the hour of their final, inescapable destiny.”
Star Trek novels, for the most part, have always stood about a head taller than any of the TV shows or [...]
Reviewed by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Editor)
“The Strain” by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hagan
Hardcover, 416 pages
Published: June 2, 2009
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Slice of SciFi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
A modern day retelling of “Dracula”
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan originally conceived “The Strain” as a serialized television series for the Fox [...]
“Terminator: Salvation: From the Ashes” — A Slice of SciFi Review
May 7, 2009 || Category: Book Reviews | Leave a Comment
Reviewed by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Editor)
“Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes: The Official Prequel Novelization” by Timothy Zhan
Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages
Published: March 17, 2009
Purchase a copy of “Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes: The Official Prequel Novelization.”
Slice of SciFi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Fan-favorite Timothy Zhan has proven that he can create incredibly readable, highly [...]
“Turn Coat” by Jim Butcher — A Slice of SciFi Review
April 27, 2009 || Category: Book Reviews | 4 Comments
Reviewed by: Michael Hickerson (Farpoint Media News Director)
“Turn Coat” by Jim Butcher
Hardcover, 432 pages
Published: April 7, 2009
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Slice of SciFi Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
“Turn Coat” is the Dresden Files at their very best.
The first week of April is no longer just the time of year to look forward [...]
“Eon: Dragoneye Reborn” — A Slice of SciFi Book Review
December 29, 2008 || Category: Book Reviews | 3 Comments
Reviewed by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Editor)
“Eon: Dragoneye Reborn” by Alison Goodman
Hardcover, 544 pages
Published: December 26, 2008
Slice of SciFi Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
“A fascinating, complex and entertaining (novel) that will keep the pages turning”
The success of the Harry Potter series with both children and adults has opened a lot of doors in the fantasy [...]
“Ender in Exile” — A Slice of SciFi Book Review
November 27, 2008 || Category: Book Reviews | 1 Comment
Reviewed by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Editor)
“Ender in Exile” by Orson Scott Card
Hardcover, 384 pages
Published: November 11, 2008
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Slice of SciFi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s saga holds the distinction of being one of the only series to win back-to-back Hugo Awards. Both “Ender’s Game” and “Speaker [...]
Reviewed by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)
I must admit that when a representative for Michael Grant’s publisher asked me to read and review “Gone,” Grant’s latest Young Adult (YA) novel, I was less than excited. Why? I’m simply not a big fan of YA novels. Call it my age [...]
“Bright Sky” & “Spindrift” — A Slice of SciFi Book Review
July 1, 2007 || Category: Book Reviews | 1 Comment
Reviewer: Debbie Walker (SoSF Contributor)
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Bright of the Sky , by Kay Kenyon
Titus Quinn wakes up on a distant planet six months after he piloted a colony ship through a black hole and it was destroyed. His explanation of spending 10 years in a parallel universe doesn’t fly [...]
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (SoSF Managing News Director)
“Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.” — Buster “Rant” Case
I am going to do something we rarely, if ever, do on Slice of SciFi. I will be reviewing a book. Normally we reserve [...]
Legend of the Blue Diamond Gets Launched
October 27, 2005 || Category: Book Reviews | Leave a Comment
Source: Insight News
Submitted by: Lesmond
Science fiction writer Keshawn Dodds launches new ’space adventure’ book, “Menzuo S.W. (Solar Warriors) Legend of the Blue Diamond”
Science fiction writer Keshawn Dodds has launched his new adventure series, Menzuo S.W. (Solar Warriors) to focus on space exploration and adventure. Dodds’ first book, “Menzuo in the Calling of the Sun Prince,” [...]
Visions and Re-Visions: Re-Constructing Science Fiction - A Review
October 8, 2005 || Category: Book Reviews | Leave a Comment
Source: Fabula
Review By: Julian Desrochers
Submitted by: Lesmond
R.M. Philmus, Visions and Re-Visions: (Re-)Constructing Science Fiction
[Liverpool University Press, 2005, 288 p. ISBN: 0853238995]
This book makes a case for the novel idea that science fiction comes out of The Time Machine as a literature of re-visions as well as of visions.
�Re-vision� in the pertinent sense finds its [...]
Dean Koontz’s FRANKENSTEIN, BOOK TWO: CITY OF NIGHT
August 2, 2005 || Category: Book Reviews | 3 Comments
Source: Dean Koontz-Random House
For all our Dean Koontz fans the saga continues in his new “Frankenstein, Book Two: City of Night.”
This past winter, Dean Koontz unleashed his first ongoing series of books with “Frankenstein, Book One: Prodigal Son.”
This new series is a complete re-envisioning of the Frankenstein myth, bringing the monster and his now-evil [...]
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