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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: , , , , , |

Sleeping Giants

Alien Secrets, International Intrigue, Rouge Teams Author: Sylvain Neuvel It starts in the US, in a little town in South Dakota, but then it goes worldwide. It begins with a cryptic hand – a giant glowing hand, coming out of the earth, covered in words from an ancient language. What powers this hand? What does it mean? Where is it from? How did it suddenly rise above the soil to be found? And where, most importantly, are the other pieces of this giant body? When assembled, will the robotic entity be used for good or evil? The US is involved, and [...]

2024-01-15T22:11:01-07:00January 15th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Annihilation

An Adventure in a Cursed Land Author: Jeff Vandermeer Area X is a mystery, a deadly portion of land, contaminated, cut off, and expanding. For decades doomed expeditions have been sent into the heart of this land to study it, to understand what happened, to try and stop the land from further encroaching. Those who do return are different: mad, sickened, dying. Yet expeditions continue, and this is one such incursion into a beautiful, cursed land. There are three women on this expedition, lead by a psychologist, who at turns manages the expedition and hypnotically controls the volunteers. The other members [...]

2023-07-22T15:00:17-07:00July 22nd, 2023|Tags: , , , , |
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