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LATEST REVIEWS
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Sisters, Rivals, Monster Hunters by Caylen McQueen
Sorry, Mother, there’s been a change of plans. It’s pretty horrible to surprise your fiance in bed with his bosomy mother-in-law days before your wedding. Much worse if they are both naked. But this is exactly where Kath finds herself at the beginning of Sisters, Rivals, Monster Hunters. Luckily, distractions abound. What with the fire-breathing…
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Code Reaper by E L Strife
“Tell me about Carysth and Lorre. The truth, or I’ll pop that bubble gut you have–greedy pig.” In a digital future, bodies aren’t the only mess that needs to be cleaned up when someone dies. Just as dead flesh rots, people’s digital bodies also go putrid when they die. Criminals steal identities to take out…
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Killer Gold by Summer Renna
Don’t go to the panic room! It’s IN the panic room! It was just another gig for Zena Starr–okay, maybe a surprisingly lucrative one–but planetary princes have lots of money and being an intergalactic pop star does have its perks–but nothing seems to go right. Her starship is down for repairs, so she has to…
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The Vong Attack by Jordan Bernhardt
Yesss the captain said in a hideous way. No one knows what happened to the Vong. The mysterious alien race lived on Mars millennia before humans even existed. Perhaps they perished in some planetary cataclysm or perhaps they left the system. Only faint traces of their civilization still exist. But when humans begin colonizing Mars,…
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Lord of the Forest by Chris McInally
A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. At first it seems it is an eight-foot tall monster with a mouth full of needle-like teeth, giant antlers sprouting from its head, green blood, and pale, waxy skin that is not quite flesh and not quite wood. The soldiers fleeing defeat at the hands…
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Teenage Space Mercenary by M Harold Page
The best lies are always the big ones. Jason MacNeil isn’t a 500 year-old genetically modified supersoldier named Brigadier Fenris. He’s really just a teenager who escaped from a HappyPlace(tm) software coder workhouse, optimistically termed an orphanage. But he has to act like he is, because his uncle Max is the one who broke him…
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General Alexander Grimm: Savior of the Universe by Profe. Xavier Clemente
A story you’ll wish you could forget. This is a short story full of long shots. First long shot: the text of the entire story is center alligned and bolded. At first, I thought this was a formatting error, but after I sat with the text for a while and read it over a couple…
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Dead Station by Aaron Beardsell
Sometimes the worst really does happen. The Kuiper Belt is a long way from Earth. But nobody lives on Earth anymore. After the Exodus, what’s left of humanity has a made a home on the moon. It’s not an easy place to live, though: there aren’t enough resources. And so people go where they can…
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Synchronize by Joseph Hartz
Yeah, the bird was a telepath. He was also an android. And his name was Death Bird. A conduit can look like anything: a necklace, a bracelet, a wristwatch. People use them to store the blueprints for things: clothes, guns, toothbrushes. When you need something, your conduit materializes it and there you have it. Everyone…
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How to Survive on Planet X19 by Marge Morales
The essential guide to good times on the Planet from Hell! On Planet X19, the air is poisonous and the rain is acid. The plants are all carnivorous and the animals are worse. The bacteria are very unfriendly. Also there are active volcanoes everywhere. And lava worms. And dinosaurs. Did we mention that a rogue…
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Harvest Fever by Jeffery Martin Botzenhart
They thought it was aliens…it was worse. In a few days, things are going to get better for Orrville. In a few days, Orrville will be eighteen and he can leave home. Home is where Henry Lee is, Orrville’s drunk stepdad who steals all his money and gambles it away. For Orrville, the future is…
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Melanin Madness by Hope Bullard
Black people don’t get sunburned as easily. Now, White people are coming for their skins. It’s too hot for anyone to go outside anymore. Definitely not in the direct sunlight. The sun will kill you in less than an hour. You can get a melanoma in minutes. As society begins to collapse, dark-colored people start…
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Water Park of the Damned by Leonard Warren
Unfortunates, romeos, zeds, zombies…no matter what you call ’em, you get to be one when you die. Clio’s lost her faith. She tries to be good. She spends time in prayer. She even hears the voice of God, but she can’t figure out what God is babbling about. The zombie apocalypse isn’t helping, either. Charlie,…
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Wasteland Wonderland Part 1: The Fall of Hector Ramirez by J L Harden
Hector’s problem is that they aren’t going to kill him. Lord knows, he has killed a lot of them: mercenaries, Enforcers, even an Overseer. Hector is good at killing, and he doesn’t mind being the bad guy. But something’s wrong. Maybe it’s because it’s getting hotter and no one can live above-ground anymore. Maybe it’s…
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Time Stamped by Jeff Swystun
Time traveling glamper shares shrimp cocktail with 1850s Canadian outdoorsman. I’ve been waiting for mysterious time-travelers to use their powers for something practical. In the case of Time Stamped, the mysterious time-traveler lands in the middle of the Canadian outback in order to surprise an intrepid (if little-known) explorer. Clancy Ford Whitlock, popularizer of self-guided…
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The Bandaged (The Empyrean Saga Book Two) by Steve Stred
Dr Albert Eldridge built a spaceship, a refuge from an Earth that was quickly becoming uninhabitable, and saved humanity. Now it’s time to kill him. Floods, drought, wildfires, famine, overpopulation, rising sea levels: people don’t make plans until it’s too late. But Eldridge did. He built a space station the could orbit Earth until the…
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Ghost Story & Other Crypto Tales by Brian Michael Stegner
What do you do when you accidentally run over someone’s cryptokitty? In a world where hard-won NFT rights are enforced by the death penalty, and right-click attacks are rare, and nobody talks about the digital refugee crises, the only way to get into the iGarden is to wear a dongle…and nobody likes dongles. You need…
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This Is How It Ends by Desiree Middleton
We trusted dogs. We shouldn’t have. Dogs are out best friend, aren’t they? We love them. We feed them and keep them warm and play games with them. We make them the heroes of our stories. Every child knows Old Yeller, Lassie, Buck, Benji, Clifford, and Scooby-Doo. Dogs are our best friend, aren’t they? We…
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Lonely Power Armor by Tim Akers
Sgt. Maxwell Strong is dead, but his mechanized suit is still on patrol, trying to find its missing war. But the intergalactic war is over, and so are the civilizations that waged it. The people who grow up in the wreckage don’t know the difference between the nature and the leftovers of sentient-ascendant combat operators.…
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Beneath the Dome by Sam Lucas
The Earth is flat, the International Space Station hangs from metal cables, and cosmonauts Yuri and Dimitry are having a great time. Food may be scarce on Earth, and friendship in hard supply, but good cheese, brandy, sausages, and camaraderie are the name of the game for these two while they are in residence on…
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Bodies by A S French
Contrary to popular opinion, murder makes you hungry. Cornelius “Corndog” Klaw keeps trying to kill himself. Luckily, he’s been able to get the drop on himself (four times so far), but the body parts are piling up and now his head is in the fridge with a screwdriver sticking out the ear. He clearly need…