Kill or Cure: Medicine and Healing in SFF
Steff Humm
Humans are fragile creatures. Flesh breaks easily and even the most healthy, brawny and athletic of us fall prey to sickness from time to time. Depending on the severity of…
science fiction
Shift Omnibus by Hugh Howey
Jeff Seymour
This review contains spoilers for Wool. If you haven’t read Hugh Howey’s Wool, stop here and go do so immediately. You should do this first because Wool is one of…
Orleans by Sherri L. Smith
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
I find the post apocalyptic genre simultaneously interesting and frustrating. I think that it has a lot of interesting potential to comment on social trends and social experimentation, but I…
Love in SFF – From True Love to BFFs
Leo Elijah Cristea
Romance in SFF is one of those things that people either love, hate, or are frankly indifferent about. I’m not one of those; I will eagerly admit that I love…
The Atlantis Gene by A. G. Riddle
Joie
The age-old question of “where did we come from?” is given another twist in A. G. Riddle’s debut novel, The Atlantis Gene. Mythology and science fiction combine to create a…
Autodrome by Kim Lakin-Smith
Hierath
Eddie Izzard used to do a sketch where he talked about how you only get car chases in movies, never in books. And the reason you don’t get them in…
Moth by Daniel Arenson
In 2014, I’ll be wading into the river of indie sci-fi and fantasy, panning for gold. If you’ve read a great indie book, one that’s every bit as good as…
The Whatnot by Stefan Bachmann
Dan Hanks
I can only imagine that after writing an astonishing debut novel (and one of Fantasy-Faction’s best of 2013), it would be difficult to maintain such high quality in any subsequent…
Something More than Night by Ian Tregillis
A. E. Marling
If you’re thirsty for pulp fiction flavored with angels and cosmic rays, then Something More than Night by Ian Tregillis was written for you. Enter a not-too-distant future where a…
Balancing the Scales – Read More Female Authors in 2014
It still astounds me sometimes that the literary world is not equal, that people are necessarily inclined to undertake a specific effort in reading more books by female authors, that…
The Deaths of Tao by Wesley Chu
Victoria Hooper
The Prophus and the Genjix are at war. For centuries they have sought a way off-planet, guiding humanity’s social and technological development to the stage where space travel is possible.…
Hive Monkey by Gareth L. Powell
The attack macaque is back! Fresh (well, ish) from saving the world from nuclear meltdown in Ack-Ack Macaque, our titular monkey is having a bit of a meltdown of his…