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Footprints of Thunder

Humans and Dinosaurs, Together Again Author: James F. David What’s better than dinosaurs? Dinosaurs running amok among people, of course! Footprints of Thunder is a science fiction / techno thriller in the vein of a Michael Crichton epic. Science and adventure/action survival merge here when time waves, caused by humanity’s reckless use of nuclear weapons, brings parts of the past into the present and parts of the present into the past. This is happening on a global scale – suddenly and viciously. Cities have gone missing – including Portland. In their place, primordial forests and savannahs have emerged, populated by strange [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-07T20:35:37-07:00October 7th, 2025|Tags: book review, dinosaurs, horror, read, reading, science fiction, techno thriller, thriller|

This World Is Not Yours

Toxic Relationships Destroying Alien Worlds Author: Kemi Ashing-Giwa Vinh and Amara are happily married – sort of. There is that lingering doubt about the sustainability of their marriage. Vinh has left Amara before – left her brutally. But . . . somehow, they are back together and married now, even though their fraught honeymoon is filled with moments of toxicity, unsaid accusations, and past pain. Their marriage is dissolved almost instantly – but not for the reason you suspect. A political rival has destroyed the newly colonized planet’s genetic engineering capabilities, which is how this society ensures its survival. In other [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-05T19:59:10-07:00October 5th, 2025|Tags: horror, relationship, sci-fi, science fiction, space, toxic|

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) [...]

Frances Carden2025-08-17T14:59:44-07:00August 17th, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, Salvation Day, sci-fi, science fiction, space, space horror|