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Book Review: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

August 18, 2022 by Carolynn

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

I had planned only to review Free Speech from Socrates to Social Media this week. I hadn’t planned on writing a review of The Satanic Verses. It’s a book I haven’t read in a very long-time, but the lesson of the first book and the horrible assassination attempt on Mr. Rushdie’s life do go hand in hand.

I read The Satanic Verses when it first came out, when I was in high school. I was on a Magical Realism kick and had just finished reading House of the Spirits and One Hundred Years of Solitude (both of which I highly recommend.)

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Featured Science Fiction: Breach of Peace (Breach of Faith Book 1) by Daniel Gibbs & Gary T. Stevens

August 18, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Breach of Peace (Breach of Faith Book 1) by Daniel Gibbs & Gary T. Stevens

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Everything is on the table when survival’s at stake.

Captain James Henry is caught between a rock and a hard place – again. Merchant ships operating in neutral space near the Terran Coalition and the League of Sol are disappearing without a trace. The latest report has something the others didn’t.

A survivor.

When news reaches the planet Lusitania during a cargo offload, Captain Henry and the Shadow Wolf’s crew are hired to extract the surviving operative before she’s silenced and the information she has is lost.

But too many opposing forces are at work within the faction-torn republic – and they all want a piece of the prize.

With directives from multiple government contacts, Captain Henry concedes to protect his ragtag crew. Years ago, he surrendered to dishonor and dismissal from the Coalition Defense Force in order to protect his fellow officers. This time he knows how to play the game.

To save his band of brothers and sisters, Jim must walk a fine line between the operative’s survival and the threats against his crew from the League of Sol.

Before the time to negotiate runs out.

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Featured Science Fiction: Breach of Duty (Breach of Faith Book 3) by Daniel Gibbs & Gary T. Stevens

August 18, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Breach of Duty (Breach of Faith Book 3) by Daniel Gibbs & Gary T. Stevens

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It takes more than truth to serve justice.

Captain James Henry is left stinging after the latest firefight. However, lost cargo and payments mean little as a disturbing message reaches into neutral space – his uncle is dying. Uncle Charlie was the one who saved his life after Jim’s disgraceful dismissal from the Coalition Defense Force. He owes the man an enormous debt for giving him renewed purpose.

But only the dead can pay the Ferryman.

Regardless of the risks, Jim and the crew of the Shadow Wolf return to New Virginia to offer final farewells. But the lies that forced him from his homeland continue to taunt, and the schemers buried in the CDF are convinced he’s returned to throw a wrench into their carefully laid plans. Plans positioned long ago like pieces on a chess board.

Ready to be played.

Jim’s resurgence triggers deception from every sector. His old CDF crew from the Laffey, who’ve never forgotten their CO’s sacrifice, are rounded up and imprisoned, while Jim is dragged from his uncle’s bedside. But deceit goes too far when the heart of the Shadow Wolf is threatened.

Now it’s a race to rescue the wrongfully accused and expose the long-hidden truth in a galactic game where there is no second place.

And the heart of the Terran Coalition lies in the balance.

If you love Babylon 5, The Expanse, and Destroyermen, you must read “Breach of Faith,” a space opera sci-fi series that will take you to the heart of duty, sacrifice, and the unseen scars of those who serve.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Breach of Duty, Breach of Faith, Daniel Gibbs, Gary T. Stevens

Featured Fantasy: Stalked By Flames (Dragon’s Breadth Book 1) by Susan Illene

August 15, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Stalked By Flames (Dragon's Breadth Book 1) by Susan Illene

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Bailey Monzac has just graduated college and is leaving town for her parents’ ranch in Texas when a massive earthquake unleashes the unthinkable on the world: fire-breathing dragons. Chaos erupts as people flee for their lives, and Bailey survives only because she is somehow immune to the dragons’ flames.

In the midst of the mayhem, Bailey is helped by a shape-shifting dragon named Aidan, who recognizes Bailey is a dragon slayer and will be an essential ally in the power struggle between—and within—the dragon clans.

Natural disasters intensify and dragons lay waste to the world as civilization all but collapses amid the loss of electricity and running water. Roving gangs prowl the debris-filled streets, and Bailey and her friends manage to find refuge in the university library.

As her relationship with Aidan deepens during private training sessions, Bailey must learn to harness her newfound skills or see everything she knows and loves destroyed. Stalked by Flames is a gritty urban fantasy about a woman’s journey into a dark new reality she never could have imagined.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Dragons Breath, Stalked by Flames, Susan Illene

Featured Fantasy: Captured in Flames (Dragon’s Breath Book 5) by Susan Illene

August 15, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Captured in Flames (Dragon's Breath Book 5) by Susan Illene

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Dragons arrived on Earth nearly a year ago, decimating modern civilization.

Bailey Monzac discovered she was born to slay them the day they appeared. Though she has ruthlessly killed hundreds since then, she somehow fell in love with Aidan—a dragon shifter—along the way. Their relationship hasn’t been easy, and it’s about to be tested again.

Bailey finally got an opportunity to leave Oklahoma and return to her family’s ranch in Texas. The catch is that she and Aidan must join a war against the pure dragons controlling the territory there. They’ll be facing their largest and fiercest enemies yet with overwhelming forces against them. As they prepare for battle, more obstacles emerge that could ruin their plans. Aidan is with Bailey no matter what it takes, but it’s going to be a difficult journey to finally reunite with her family and hold onto the man she loves.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Captured in Flames, Dragon's Breath, Susan Illene

Free Science Fiction: The Pattern Ship (The Pattern Universe Book 1) by Tobias Roote

August 15, 2022 by Carolynn

Free Science Fiction: The Pattern Ship (The Pattern Universe Book 1) by Tobias Roote

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In the year 2020, a landslide off the English coast uncovers an alien Escape Pod that had crashed into a prehistoric swamp. The dormant AI awakens to a very different world it entered millennia previously. Now, it must utilize stored ancient patterning technology to reconstitute its Master. However, this proves no easy mission as it scours this strange new world for essential materials to rebuild its ship.

As a homeless man, Zeke has worked hard to claim a back-alley as his own territory where a restaurant’s staff leave him food scraps. As if things aren’t bad enough Zeke’s escaped a Dark Government agency. He has a partial metal skull, forged from a meteorite and hammered into shape by a Middle-Eastern blacksmith. The strange alloy has irreversibly bonded with his brain and is leaking into his DNA, changing it. Now the DARPA scientists want him back.

When the newly-revived Master discovers that the only source of an essential component for its ship is the foreign material in Zeke’s head, the alien faces a difficult moral dilemma. The Master comes from a species that reveres all biological life wherever it is found, and Zeke will die if the metal cap is removed. It’s left to the AI to find another way?

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: The Pattern Ship, The Pattern Universe, Tobias Roote

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