Science Fiction
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The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
A weird, scary, mystical, unbelievable story that will keep you turning pages. A story you will thoroughly enjoy, but will not always understand what you are reading. The Company Man Robert Jackson Bennett Orbit April 20...
Read →Morlock Night by K. W. Jeter
When H. G. Wells completed the Time Machine he left some threads loose and dangling. K. W. Jeter doesn't so much as tie up the threads as reweaves them into something fantastic and new as he asks questions that thoughtfu...
Read →Phoenix Rising by Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris
Take Warehouse 13, make it cool and intelligently written, add in some Sherlock Holmes-ish murders and set it during Victorian London and you would have something almost as good as this excellent steampunk novel. Agent E...
Read →Eternity Falls by Kirk Outerbridge
The Miracle Treatment was designed to make humans - rich humans, anyway - immune to aging, restoring the aged to the bodies of their youth. Those who have taken the treatment spend their unending lives with the understan...
Read →Triplanetary by E. E. Smith
Originally published as a four part serial in Amazing Stories in 1934, E. E. Smith, called "Doc" for his PhD, later turned these stories into a prequel to his popular Lensmen series in 1948. Doc Smith was a contemporary ...
Read →Like Clockwork by Bonnie Dee
Victoria Waters, a rich scientist who created synthetic skin to clothe automatons, called Clockworks, is on her way to speak to the Commission for Animatronic Affairs when she is kidnapped by Dash, a member of the Brothe...
Read →The Amazing Screw-On Head by Mike Mignola
Animatronics, self-sustaining heads, zombies, vampires, romantic snakes, martians, mad scientists, President Abraham Lincoln and many more improbable, impossible creations that can only be, and are accurately described b...
Read →Girl Parts by John M. Cusick
After a local girl commits suicide live on the internet, and no one tries to stop it, the high school counselor determines to interview all of the students. In his interview, it is determined that David suffers from “dis...
Read →The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
In the most recent 111th congress, representatives discussed and argued new laws concerning regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) as food (for instance, should cloned animal meat be sold and consumed and if ...
Read →Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka and Fransesco Sedita
BookGateway is dedicated to encouraging people of all ages to get into reading - including children. They offer perspectives that adult readers just won't get. This review is the first by an 8 year old who we will call S...
Read →Master of the World by Jules Verne
I'm going through a phase where I'm reading quite a few classics and - as in this case - books by authors of classics. There is something special about the way that English in literature was used a hundred years ago. I l...
Read →Matched by Ally Condie (Golden Reviewer)
This review by the Golden Reviewer, an 80 year old avid reader. Cassia and her family - father, mother, younger brother Bram and grandfather - live in Mapletree Borough and the entire country is governed by the Society. ...
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