What a delight, I finally could read a sci-fi again. I really missed it with all the other books I have read for writing a review. My love is sci-fi.And here was a story I throughout enjoyed, from the first page to the last. Always thinking “Do they make it?”I don’t want to say anything more for ...
The first part of a series, but it didn't convince me enough to read the other books. The background for the story was a bit over the top in how it was set up. It also didn't really try to explain the inconsistencies inherent in the various governments, or how they came to be. That I could deal w...
What a book. I started it this on the recommendation of a friend, and after page one, I was completely lost in the story of Joash and his companions. Heppner has a marvellous way of bring a story to life, and he does this through the narration of Joash, who must be a young adult. In a world set i...
Flames roared around her. Tormented shadows writhed on the walls. Above, stalactites threatened like swords of Damocles. Drifting fumes exuded a sulfurous stench. The knightrix wore an enclosed helm with silver wings and she wore silver mail. A leather-clad maiden named Br...
They ran single file, one warrior following the next, their callused feet slapping dirt, sand, or rock. Through gorges, uphill, and across the plains they moved. Cyrus felt their stares, and every time he looked around, he caught one of the warriors watching him. They obvi...
The next day, as the sun rose, Shem trudged up the mountain alone, dewy grass wetting his sandals. Halfway up, he dusted moss off a rock and sat until he regained his wind. He didn’t want to make this trip, but he rose and continued. He passed stands of birch and, later, pines. Robins sang, and...
When we flew over the sandy beach, I finally managed to reconnect by using a secondary emergency pack. N7 had already arranged the timing with Ella upstairs in the Achilles. I confirmed that everyone was ready. “The orbitals have gone onto high alert,” Ella told me. “It’s time for our surprise, t...
It was chilly down here. Lion Guardsmen marched her through underground corridors, their boots crashing against the tiles. They wore body armor and carried heavy revolvers, the Chairman’s personal guards. Each man’s thick, impassive face, showed indifference to her suffering. Shun Li, the Police ...
Tan met with Sub-Strategist Circe aboard the defensive satellite orbiting Callisto. The large Galilean moon was mostly ruins below, although a new dome was under construction on the surface. The two women sat before a large holoimage in an heavily protected chamber. Behind their chairs were Greci...
The professor and his team were hard at work at their stations. The captain motioned Ludendorff near, staring at him fixedly as the Methuselah Man approached. “I have just finished speaking with Shu 15,” Maddox said, injecting a pompous tone into hi...
He had extra-thick lenses in his glasses and had strangely protruding eyes. Those orbs measured her as he sat behind his desk. He didn’t smile or blink, but watched, perhaps weighing her worth and trustworthiness, with her life in the balance.Shun Li tried to appear confident and ooze sincerity. ...
The distances closed rapidly. From their 60-degree arc, the HB missiles swarmed at the Bangladesh. Flashes winked in space as the proton beam destroyed HB laser missiles. One after the other they ceased to exist. By firing, the missiles had made themselves vulnerable to ta...
So she paced back and forth in front of the living quarter’s stained glass window. With the simple expedient of breaking the window, one faced the castle’s outer perimeter. By poking one’s head through the supposedly broken window one would peer directly down into the moat. From this very window ...
The gloomy chamber depressed Shem. It was under the palace as Nimrod had said. Uruk had opened a trapdoor and ushered him down a small spiral staircase into the earth. With a key, he had unlocked a heavy door and shoved him in. Most of the time, it was pitch-black. When ...
-- Naram the Prophet “You can’t wear those rags,” said Keros. “They’re all I own,” Bessus said. They sat cross-legged at a low wooden table deep in a tavern. Low wicks in ship’s lanterns provided the illumination. Slave-girls danced in a sandpit, while two Nebo pipers half-heartedly blew their re...
Commodore Blackstone shouted. “Why aren’t the Doom Stars firing?” Heads turned on the Vladimir Lenin’s cramped command bridge. Commissar Kursk frowned. Only General Fromm remained unmoved at the outburst. Blackstone, Kursk and Fromm stood around the...
Ham buttoned his coat and combed his hair. He enjoyed the butterfly feeling in his stomach. Rahab was to be his wife. Tonight…ah, tonight he would be like Adam seeing his Eve for the very first time. They would become one flesh. His father called it a mystery. &nbs...
Marten said it was due to their boldness. After capturing the liner, forty-nine hours passed before anyone else learned what they had done. Living on stims for the next forty-nine hours, allowed Marten and his crew to ferry the needed supplies to the meteor-ship which he h...
-- Ezekiel 37:2 “I am not convinced of your methods,” Tarag snarled. “High One,” Mimir said, as he bent on one knee, “he’s a stubborn man. And I was under the impression time was critical.” A fire crackled. Sabertooths licked the last bits of meat off wild goat-bones. The air was sharp, the stars...
All around Paul Kavanagh, men swore and gripped their armrests tightly. Outside, the wind howled like a legion of arctic demons. Each change in pitch sent the plane lurching in a different direction. There were eight new Blacksand employees in the plane’s passenger seats. From the rearmost one, P...
It would be via a laser lightguide link. The carrier was still in orbit around Hades IV. Antietam headed toward the Laumer-Point linking this system to the Hermes System. The majority of the fleet did likewise. Fletcher sat in the conference chamber...
Beor and the Scouts took the wounded Minos and a captured Olympus to Lord Japheth. “I’ve come to you for fair judgment,” Beor said, and he explained how he had turned back from his trip to Shem, deciding the punishment for Hilda had been too harsh. He said that he thanke...
The Adok starship had returned to the Solar System. Maddox recovered from Jump Lag first. He used the time to study the Solar System. An initial analysis showed him the Earth was still intact. He slumped back against his chair. Until that moment, he hadn’t realized just ho...
-- Genesis 3:24 The beasts had slain his daughter. Irad had found the bloody remains in a cave. It had been a ghastly sight. The beasts had feasted on his only child. Grief filled Irad, and ate at his belly like worms. He, Irad the Arkite, hunter of the Snow Leopard Tribe, and he who wore a cave...