It had been a long time since I read science fiction, but I decided to expand my reading to new genres and picked up Empire (In Her Name: Redemption, #1) by Michael R. Hicks. I found it to be a wonderful blend of epic fantasy and sci fi.So read it, loved it, and immediately bought Confederation, ...
Of course, this is the best of the series so far. I love it! Reza Gard awakens in a hospital on earth after having been in a coma for months. Charged with murder and high treason, he finds himself the scapegoat for a daring plot. I hate to give away the story so I'll just say that the plot is...
Summary:Epic book, a must read. A space opera with fantasy and romance thrown inPlotline:Huge plot expertly told with the threads brought together. The 2 weaknesses of the this book are too few characters are explored and the goodies are really good, and the baddies really bad. Would have been...
This book (the second in The Last War trilogy) is a worthy follow-up to First Contact.As usual the characters are great, both the progression of old characters and newly introduced ones.The greatest thing about these books is that you don't know what's going to happen. Not crazy plot twists, to t...
It had been a long time since I read science fiction, but I decided to expand my reading to new genres and picked up Empire (In Her Name: Redemption, #1) by Michael R. Hicks. I found it to be a wonderful blend of epic fantasy and sci fi.So read it, loved it, and immediately bought Confederation, ...
“There!” she cried, pointing toward the two ragged figures trudging toward the kazha. Tesh-Dar stepped forward, her eyes narrowed into tight slits against the glare of the sun. The human’s Bloodsong had grown in strength as the night had worn on, clearly audible to the senses of her spirit. Only ...
Exhaustion threatened to weigh him down, but he was at the same time buoyed by a sense of growing excitement. The computer, like most things German, was a marvel of precision engineering. He had spent his allotted time digging through the guts of the device, trying to ferret out what might be goi...
It simply was, and was driven by the imperatives basic to survival in what it instinctively knew was a hostile environment. By its own definition, any environment in which it did not have predatory dominance was hostile. It had traveled a long way from its point of origin, the strange metal crech...
He glanced at the caller ID, sure that it would be Clement, but saw with some surprise that it was Richards, out in Nebraska. “Dammit,” Jack muttered, hitting the answer button. “Dawson here,” he said. “Make it fast, Richards. I’m expecting a call from Clement…” “Didn’t you hear?” Richards interr...
Like the great, snarling beast for which the legion had been named, the men of Hercules stormed forward, attacking on three sides while their rear was guarded by the flames of the castrum’s burning wall and north gate. None of the men under command of Caesar were fool enough to think they would s...
Ferris looked on in horrified amazement as the people in the crowd on the Iranian side lunged away from something in their midst like a school of fish responding to a threat. Even at this distance, he could see the glistening black exoskeleton of a harvester. The panic set off a chain reaction th...
They had first driven the priests and priestesses from their ancestral home, leaving the temple little more than a smoldering ruin, before turning their attention to the various kingdoms that opposed Syr-Nagath and the rightful ascension of the Ka’i-Nur. With a flick of his powerful wrist, he cl...
Around her, warriors hacked and clawed at one another along a battle line that ranged for leagues on either side of where she fought. The air was filled with the sounds of screams and snarls, of metal crashing upon metal, of flesh torn and bones crushed. She was intoxicated by the coppery smell o...