I enjoyed this book. I usually don't like books like this, but I am more than glad that I read it. The story was wonderful, I wasn't able to guess what was going to happen at all (a rarity for me). I loved how it seems so original and different from any other science fiction book. I can't wait to...
Miles is no longer acting as a Retrieval Artist as he is focused on raising the clone of his daughter, who is herself a computer genius like him. But he hired a reporter to expose the law firm that he thinks got his mentor killed. When that reporter is murdered, despite the protection he had arra...
Centuries ago, the Supreme Ruler of the planet Jibet fled a democratic uprising, taking with him many priceless works of art. Now Quark’s greed leads Commander Sisko and his crew to the lost treasures—and to the Supreme Ruler himself, preserved in cryogenic suspension.The discovery sparks unrest ...
Beauty And The Beast… — Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Andrew Vari, and I'm short (very short), and not exactly handsome. Actually, that's only partly true. My real name is Darius, and if you caught a glimpse of my true form, you might just swoon. It was my arrogance about my looks and ...
Meet Zoe Sinclair, P.I. Her stomping grounds are the neon-lit streets of Las Vegas, where anything can happen. And as a 150-year-old mage, Zoe's tackled all sorts of weird cases. But her latest one is a doozy, because she's helping the Fates. They're three wacky gals who have been booted from the...
When I requested this book to read as an ARC, I did not realize that it was a continuation of a previous book. That being said, I was able to read this one pretty easily without having read the first book. Anytime there was something from the previous book alluded to, the author briefly explain...
The U.S.S. Voyager is in desperate trouble, her systems damaged, her warp engines failing. Without immediate repairs the starship and her crew will be trapped forever between the stars. Captain Kathryn Janeway must guide her ship to an ancient, deserted planet that could hold the key to their sur...
A generation ago, another Starship Enterprise fought off a ship of exiled aliens intent on conquering all of the Alpha Quadrant. Starfleet thought the foe had been repelled forever--until now. The Furies have returned in mighty warships more powerful than before, and Picard and the crew of the U....
Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history -- even to the Cardassian space station that will someday be known as "Deep Space Nine(TM) ."A virulent plague has stricken Terok Nor,...
L.A. psychologist Megan Kineally has always had her feet planted firmly on the ground, which is more than she can say for her pampered clients. So she has to wonder what she's now doing hanging around in Vegas with her brother, Travers, his mysterious new fiancee, his son, Kyle, and three loopy w...
HOLDING OUT FOR A HEROMy name's Vivian Kinneally, and I can't believe this is happening to me. I just moved here to Portland, Oregon, to take over a business left to me by my favorite aunt --- nothing earth-shattering ... or so you'd think, right? I've always been a little bit psychic --- but my ...
Mankind has discovered that a tenth planet exists in the solar system. That planet's hibernating inhabitants emerge every 800 years to stripmine another world for food and resources. This time, that world will be Earth.
Originally posted at: http://longandshortreviews.blogspot.c...If Mr. Disney and director Ron Howard could team up to update and tweak a live action story of Sleeping Beauty with more twists than a Twizzler, they’d probably choose to base it on Utterly Charming. Nora is the skeptic who has a dash ...
An entire solar system begins to disintegrate into cosmic rubble, and Captain Kirk suspects that rumors of a new Klingon superweapon are all too true. The Tautee system houses a flourishing pre-Warp civilization not quite ready to join the Federation, so the Prime Directive limits Kirk's ability ...
2018: COUNTDOWN TO APOCALYPSE Two worlds are locked in mortal conflict. The aliens of the Tenth Planet must harvest Earth's vast resources soon--before their world's elliptical orbit hurls them back into deep space for another 2000 years. If they fail, their species cannot survive the long journ...
This book is one of Rusch's first published novels, and it shows. I thought the book had a lot of promise in the beginning--and it wasn't bad--but it got too complicated too quickly, trying to fit too many characters and too many plots into a fairly short book.There are two threads at the beginni...
Rugad, the Fey King, has his sights set on the Blue Isle, scene of a violent clash between its human natives and the magical Fey. He is returning to finish the invasion begun years ago but thwarted by a shocking discovery.
A long time ago....a very, very long time ago....I picked up a novel by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and tried to read it. Nothing at all wrong with the narrative, but I was in my mid thirties with young children and some of the descriptions of character skinning someone so they could wear their skin a...
She can modify our anacapa to enter it, or so she tells me. She has also discovered where at least part of the force field comes from.Apparently the force field originates from what we believe to be the center of the Boneyard. Then the field gets reinforced by some kind of nodules or amplifiers a...
Her handling of relations with the Quurzod lead to a battle that causes the Ivoire’s anacapa drive to malfunction, stranding the ship in foldspace. Mae can’t remember what she did wrong on the mission: all she knows is that she’s one of the few survivors. If she doesn’t recall it, she won’t be ab...
It looked a lot like the North Tower had—columns and floor-to-ceiling windows, tables and wooden chairs scattered about—but it wasn’t quite the same. The South Tower’s views were partially blocked by both the North and West Towers. Xihu hadn’t realized until she walked in this room that the North...
Or, rather, calmed himself as much as he was going to. He leaned against the front of his desk, legs spread in front of him, crossed at the ankles, his palms resting on the desk’s surface. He was staring at the clear wall with its frozen image, and he hoped that the expression on his face was one...
The number itself surprised him, even though he knew Space Traffic had more interrogation rooms than all of the other Armstrong authorities combined. Space Traffic handled everything from contraband materials to contraband humans. It was the first line of defense against alien governments trying ...
They are born without it, but with the capacity to learn it. Some lose that capacity as they age, or let it atrophy or never really had a great capacity for it at all. But others never lose the ability to absorb language, and consequently, they crave more and more of it. They want to learn—...
He dressed in the chill silence, pulling on his apprentice robes even though he no longer held that position. He made the bed, as all apprentices had to, with such precision that an inspection later would find the sheet crisp, the blanket folded, the pillow fluffed. He doubted he would sleep here...
I am standing before my entire team. They sit at the large table in my suite, a spread of food before them. The room smells faintly of coffee, exotic spices, and baked bread. Everyone is staring at me, and they all look startled. Apparently, I don’t use the w...
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It is not only the last place Ewing Trekov was seen alive, but it is also the place where he and the other commanders planned their strategy. Military outposts are security minded. They make places like Longbow Station seem lawless. So I’ve come with letters of intr...
wasn’t old. But he was a son of a bitch. Nyquist had to put his badge against the door before Sevryn would open the door. “We’re closed,” Sevryn said. “And I’m out of everything.” Nyquist pushed his way in. The deli was small. It had four tables near the window up front, a display cabinet that wa...
The nearest door is humble enough, with its cryptic sign: L&R: Employees Only. L&R—Licensing and Regulation. Sounds so innocuous, yet everyone is afraid of us. With good reason I suppose. We’re in the main part of the space station, although intuitively, you’d expect us to be on our own l...
Her mother had dragged her to this meal because Athena thought that Spark Walters would want someone his own age to talk to. Cassie hadn’t wanted to come. Athena had had to beg. Even then, Cassie would have preferred to be on the beach, working under the glow of car lights, trying to get rid of t...
He had forgotten that Pydyr was the place that had invented the healing stick. It had been used all over the galaxy long before the bacta tank came into being, and some thought the healing stick was much better. He found his upstairs in the house he was staying in. The healing stick was long, thi...
Central Daylight Time 170 Days Until Second Harvest Vivian Hartlein had spent the early morning standing outside the gates of Graceland until some security guard waved her away. Then she crossed Elvis Presley Boulevard to the now-boarded-up Day’s Inn and sat in its parking lot, staring at the lon...
The day was invariably sunny. She couldn’t remember ever suffering a thunderstorm, even in the afternoon.The kids would complain, as they had at the beginning of every single summer session of their short lives. Why, they would invariably ask, did anyone have to be inside on a day like this?And s...
She had a meeting with Rugar, the son of the Black King. He had sent a Wisp to find her, and it had taken the little creature nearly a day to do so. Solanda was in her cat form, as she had been since the Fey captured this repressed country — and thus very difficult to find. The Nyeians had many f...
Until this afternoon, she hadn’t known there was a medical unit in the Port of Armstrong, let alone that the medical unit had a waiting area. It was hodgepodge of colors—gold walls, orange and green chairs, a pale blue couch that had seen better days, several scarred tables, and signs that popped...