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Salvation Day

“The world not as it is, but as it is meant to be.” Author: Kali Wallace The House of Wisdom is half legend, half nightmare. A once mighty exploration vessel, it orbits now in space, abandoned, all its inhabitants dead, the victims of a virus that spread and killed indiscriminately. There was only one survivor – a lone child named Jaswinder Bhattacharya – who was shot into space in an experimental vessel. And he has said nothing all these years. Flashforward ten years. Jas is an adult man now, traveling on a spaceship with his childhood best friend (and would-be lover) [...]

2025-08-17T14:59:44-07:00August 17th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

War of the Worlds

“This isn't a war. It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.” Author: H.G. Wells H.G. Wells created the entire genre of alien invasion survival narratives. The way we imagine it now – through TV, movies, books, comics, you name it – all points back to The War of the Worlds. Now, I’m a fan of disaster fiction, and I’ve been salivating to get some time with this classic for years. Finally, I had the book and the time, but I quickly discovered that my anticipation outweighed the actual power of the narrative, if not [...]

2025-07-19T14:48:28-07:00July 19th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Revenant-X

Space Zombies, Lost Love, and Secrets Author: David Wellington Disillusioned agent Alexandra Petrova and barely sane Doctor Zheng, alongside the sardonic and irascible robot Rapscallion, have survived the deadly Basilisk, but only through a deeply unnerving pact. The Basilisk will finally allow them entry to the forlorn planet of Paradise-1, but they must do something for it in return. They must reveal the secret that the Basilisk has been protecting for millennia – a secret even the otherworldly being with its ruthless agenda doesn’t know. This dovetails nicely with Firewatch’s mission: get to the planet and find out why it’s gone [...]

2025-06-22T09:56:04-07:00June 22nd, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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