Series Review: The Stolen Child, The Innocent Girl, The Missing Husband, & The Silent Victims, DI Hanlon Series, Alex Coombs Mystery Series: The Stolen Child, The Innocent Girl, The Missing Husband, & The Silent Victims, DI Hanlon Series, Alex Coombs I was completely unfamiliar with the DI Hanlon series prior to being invited to […]
Book Review: Forgotten Lives, Ray Britain Mystery: Forgotten Lives, Ray Britain Blog Tour January 11, 2021 Doug Stirling was supposed to have the weekend off to spend time with his girlfriend. Unfortunately, a murderer had other plans and the detective was called to the scene. A local thug had been killed, expertly knifed […]
Book Review: Children of God, Mary Doria Russell Science Fiction: Children of God, Mary Doria Russell In her first book, The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell tells the story of a tragically doomed mission to Rahkat, a planet in the Alpha Centauri system with not one but two intelligent species coexisting in a very […]
Book Review: The Last Emperox, The Interdependency Book 3, John Scalzi Science Fiction: The Last Emperox, The Interdependency Book 3, John Scalzi In the first two books of his Interdependency trilogy, John Scalzi has introduced readers to the empire and its reliance on “the flow,” the poorly understood force that transports ships across vast […]
Book Review: Axiom’s End, Lindsay Ellis Science Fiction: Axiom’s End, Lindsay Ellis What if your father were the most notorious “leaker” in history? Take Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and multiply the impact of their revelations by 1000. That may approach the impact of the world learning about the Obelus Event. A […]
Book Review: The Big Smoke, Nathan Srith Science Fiction: The Big Smoke, Nathan Srith One of the distinct pleasures in blogging about books is learning about new authors and their debut works. Nathan Srith has just published his first novel, The Big Smoke. If this is any indication, he has a ton of […]
Book Review: Network Effect, The Murderbot Diaries Book 5, Martha Wells Science Fiction: Network Effect, The Murderbot Diaries Book 5, Martha Wells Murderbot is back! Scintilla has previously reviewed the four novellas in the Murderbot series, novellas which individually or collectively have won almost every science fiction award available. Now, in the […]
Book Review: The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell Science Fiction: The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell Some books pose as one genre, but are really quite something different when you get behind the cloak they wear. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell is just such a book. On the surface it is a science fiction […]
