Claim Your Luck! The Backworlds and The Rifters are Free Everywhere #Giveaway

Fantasy, Sale, Science Fiction Books, Space Opera, Speculative Fiction / /

The Rifters and Backworlds are free at every retailer! This steal of a deal may not last! Grab your copies now!

The Rifters: After losing her job and being robbed at gunpoint in NYC, Daelin Long moves to Settler, Oregon, to reconnect with her sister and start her life over. Only, her sister is missing, and there’s a phantom stealing heads. And those aren’t the only odd things about Settler, Oregon.

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The Backworlds: Craze gets booted off the planet by his father. His pa tells him their moon isn’t big enough for them both and gives Craze a ticket for the next space transport. Cut off from everyone he knows with little money and no knowledge of the worlds beyond, Craze must forge a new life and make his father regret this day.

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#MPaxDimension Report: My Two Genres

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When I started writing, I knew space opera was my thing. And I really liked weird. What I didn’t know is that a blending of sci-fi, fantasy, and steampunk is also my thing.

If you’re just beginning your writing journey, you may think you know your genre, and maybe you’re lucky enough that you do, but most of us write a lot of words until we figure out what color our genre is.

Sure I like other types of stories, but I seem to keep crafting stories in these two. Space opera is well established. The other, well, I think that is uniquely me.

Progress report:

The Afterworlds, Backworlds Book 9: 35,000+ words now written. I’m having fun with this one.

The Psychic Astronomy Shoppe: Complete at 20K. It now awaits the publishing process.

 

 

 

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#SciFi Worth Reading: Cage of Souls #BookReview

Book Review, Science Fiction Books / /

Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a richly woven tapestry on a future Earth that resembles an alien planet. Inhabited by monsters and mechs, the residents are surrounded by a planet bent on destroying them.

It starts with the main character on his way to prison. There are only two civilized places: the main city and the prison.  The creatures attacking the boat on the way to the ‘Island’ were horrifying and fatal. They were as alien as if they came from another planet.

This story was thick with lots of atmosphere and character and layers and ideas. Through the terror of the prison, we learn that life outside the prison isn’t any easier. Once the darkness of the Island has steeped into the  psyche, the city is made known. Its inhabitants and culture didn’t seem like freedom either. To me, it seemed like a different type of prison.

In this epic, we’re human to the end with all our flaws. I was constantly searching for what had made our world this way. The characters didn’t know so the reader is left to infer with hints and clues here and there. Which was rather fun.

It’s not a quick read, but it’s a story worth knowing from cover to cover. And if you care to delve into the mirror written in the pages, it’s easy to see our current culture and society. Makes me wonder about the bars of my cage…

The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity.

Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle’s darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants.

The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

 

 

 

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#SciFi #MovieReview : Zone 414

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A daughter goes missing in the only place where humans and androids are allowed to interact. It’s a zone free from crime. So the creator of the androids says…

It’s actually not a bad movie.  If you think ‘Blade Runner’ through the whole thing, you’d not be mistaken. The setting and parts of the story seem inspired by Blade Runner. And also by Logan’s Run. At least, Husband Unit and I thought so.

This movie has the slowest moving taxi in the galaxy, and the Husband Unit and I think that should be a movie of its own. It made us laugh every time it came on screen.

I had to wonder why androids would smoke or eat or drink, but logic isn’t required to have fun watching a movie. Otherwise, very few movies would be fun.

Parts of the plot could have been bridged more smoothly,  but the ending didn’t make us groan or want to throw something. So, that’s always a good thing.

There was some good social commentary if you wanted to give any thought that way to the topics stirred up by the plot.

We give this movie a 1.5 beer rating.

 

Here’s the trailer:

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