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Contagion

It's In the Water Author: Erin Bowman Zombies? Isolation? Creepy space planets with ice cold waters harboring wavy black seaweed? Inept crews, running out of oxygen with no true weapons? A parasite with an insatiable desire for a host? A self-destruction warning echoing down blood-soaked corridors? Sign me up because these are some of my favorite things! Contagion is told from several viewpoints, and we begin the book by briefly meeting our characters / future zombie chow. There’s Thea, the intern who has landed it big by working for the famous Lisbeth, an aging scientist with a specialized study of Corrarium, [...]

2024-09-02T16:10:08-07:00September 2nd, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

Dune

Fear is the Mind Killer, and Dune is the Mind Number Author: Frank Herbert Dune has long been on my list of must reads, and I am probably the only person on the planet who a) didn’t know even the basics of the plot and b) has never seen any of the movies. I went in knowing only that Dune was mostly set on a desert planet and there are giant worms. And honestly, I came out with about the same amount of knowledge. Dune is a Game of Thrones like story of betrayal, interplanetary politics, mysterious religions with centuries of [...]

2023-01-31T18:41:26-07:00January 31st, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , |

Luminous Dead, The

An Atmospheric Horror Sci-Fi Mashup Author: Caitlin Starling In the dark of a dangerous cavern on a foreign world, two women find themselves and each other. Gyre has always led a hard life on a bleak planet. Its caves were her only consolation and now, they are her only way to escape. She may be young, but she does have grit and some expertise. She hopes it will be enough to get her off planet and put her on the road to finding her mother. Taking a dangerous job with scant information and a suspiciously large paycheck is no problem for [...]

2022-07-26T09:21:47-07:00July 17th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |
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