“Ender in Exile” by Orson Scott Card Hardcover, 384 pages Published: November 11, 2008 Purchase a copy of “Ender in Exile” 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 […]
“GONE” — A Slice of SciFi Book Review
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 if you […]
“Bright Sky” & “Spindrift” — A Slice of SciFi Book Review
Reviewer: Debbie Walker (SoSF Contributor) © A Slice of SciFi Book Review: 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 […]
“Rant” — An Uncle Sam Review
I am going to do something we rarely, if ever, do on Slice of SciFi. I will be reviewing a book. Normally we reserve this kind of review for one of our sister websites and programs called “The Dragon Page: Cover to Cover,” but since the publisher was kind enough to send me an advance reading copy for review here, I thought it best to print it here. [Read more…]
Legend of the Blue Diamond Gets Launched
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 […]
Visions and Re-Visions: Re-Constructing Science Fiction – A Review
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 […]
Dean Koontz’s FRANKENSTEIN, BOOK TWO: CITY OF NIGHT
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 […]
