FBI Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready to walk away from the job for good but on his last day, he’s pulled back to Denver with a chilling message: it’s happening again. Seemingly innocent people are waking up on the side of the highway wearing the skin of victims they’ve never met, each with a…
Tag: Science Fiction
The Jellyfish Problem
Marine biologist Dr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Since her best friend Aldo died seven months ago, she’s been hiding away at an underfunded aquarium, finishing the jellyfish guide they were writing together and keeping his voice alive through his notes in the margins. When Nadia, one of the few other humans she’s ever…
Constituent Service: A Third District Story
I absolutely loved Constituent Service by John Scalzi. It was an irresistibly fun, fast-paced sci-fi novella that had me grinning the entire time. In this audio-exclusive novella, we follow Ashley Perrin, a recent college grad who’s just started her job as a community liaison in the Third District—the only part of the city where aliens…
The Shutouts
The Shutouts picks up in the wake of Yours for the Taking, plunging us back into a dystopian future unraveling under the weight of climate catastrophe, government betrayal, and identity politics. Though billed as “set in the same world,” make no mistake, this is a true sequel imo, and you’ll be lost without reading book…
Kaiju Preservation Society
Alright well John Scalzi is now an auto-read author for me. After thoroughly enjoying Start Villian I decided to dive into his 2022 release, The Kaiju Preservation Society and I was not disappointed. We follow Jamie Gray as he deals with unemployment in a COVID-19 world. When he runs into an old college friend who…
Yours for the Taking
It’s 2050 and the Inside Project is ready to accept their applicants. Jacqueline Millender a women’s rights advocate and billionaire has funding and treated the project as her own personal experiment. As arrival of those accepted into the Inside begin to arrive, they notice that the lottery to enter might not be as random as…
Starter Villian
The supervillain business just got a new overlord…or at least Charlie’s long-lost uncle Jake just left him his entire estate which happens to potentially include his reputation as a villain. With Jake out of the picture, his enemies are now Charlie’s enemies and they’re coming to claim what’s theirs. Good thing Charlie has a hyperintelligent…
The Future
The Future is a primarily science fiction dystopian, as a group of billionaires and those closest to them navigate (you guessed it) a future where society has collapsed. As we start the book, we meet our three billionaires who control almost all of technology, and who have utilized all of their resources, money, and connections…
Ascension
When a mountain appears out of thin air in the middle of the ocean, the worlds smartest scientists are recruited to investigate. But the researcher’s handlers are close lipped about who they are working for and what is already known. As the researchers continue their journey up a mountain higher than Everest, paranoia sets in…
The Puzzle Master
In Danielle Trussoni’s June release The Puzzle Master, a football injury left Mike Brink acquired savant syndrome. The injury left him able to solve puzzles differently than ordinary people and gained him fame around the world. When an author serving time for murder sends him a partially completed puzzle, Brink is too intrigued to refuse…