Picture this: an incredibly powerful race of aliens known as the Gdaba halted the human exploration in space and all but wiped humanity out. The remainder of the human fleet splits up – one half cloaks and stops moving, the other continues flying to draw the Gdaba away. The half of the fleet that cloaked…
Del Rey and A Bitter Draft are at it again with a special giveaway. This time one lucky winner will receive the entire trilogy that is Jason M. Hough’s Dire Earth Cycle. I reviewed the first book, The Darwin Elevator, back in July and loved it. If you haven’t heard a thing about the series, here’s the blurb for the…
Literature, as a whole, is a very interesting entity. Pick a book on any site, be it Amazon or Goodreads or wherever else – you’ll see part of the spectrum that forms people’s varying opinions on said book. It could have very average, mediocre ratings – say a 3 or a 3.5 star rating on…
Tor is a powerhouse publisher, packed with great authors. I was skeptical that next year could possibly match the scale of great new debuts and other releases of this year. After browsing Tor’s 2014 catalog, it’s probably safe to say I was dead wrong. From Tor’s 2014 Catalog: “On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof…
I stumbled across Campbell’s Sea of Ghosts back in May, and what caught my initial interest was the cover. A man in heavy diving gear trudging out of the depths with some fierce looking weapons strapped to his back – but the book dropped further and further down my list while more books were added. It…
