Fields of Gold  by Liu Cixin ★★★★★★ "Are the stars very far?" "They’re getting closer."  Six stars.  Jaw droppingly good...

Letter of the Law by Pat Aitcheson ★★★★½   Whoops!    Hahaha  😈 , best typo ever.

The Secrets of the Last Greenland Shark by Mike McClelland ★★★★★   “Survive. Survive. Survive.”   And then I cried.    I cried and cried wh...

Undertow by Karl Edward Wagner ★★★★½     Oh friends, a full short story: beginning, middle, and oh-shit ending.    We start with stereotype...

Welcome to the world of evil mermaids and maligned beautiful mermen desperate for commitment and insta luv.     Now that’s a scenario in nee...

The Spawn of Arget Bethir ★★★★★   A young monk has violent dreams that lead him to discover the legends that tore apart his family.    Kelly...

My Knowing Glance by Lucy Snyder ★★★★½   “It’s just more satisfying to think that he died out of a deep, soul-wrenching despair rather than...

TipToe by Laird Barron ★★★★★   That sent shivers all the way up my spine and down again for more.    I listened to the end three times.  

Laika’s Ghost by Karl Schroeder ★★★★½   When an American finds evidence of a Russian pyramid on Mars he is hunted down by Google and other g...

Firstborn by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★★★  Yes, six stars.    With shades of Ender’s Game  and Gemini Man  this was the best science fiction sh...

The Butcher’s Table by Nathan Ballingrud   ★★★★★   Hideous beauty, confronting and objectionable grace - everything I ever wanted from Cliv...

The Jaunt ★★★★½   I was wondering about the sweet family trip to Mars, but then the story had a stopover in Providence and I knew where we w...

Girl In Wave: Wave In Girl by Kathleen Ann Goonan ★★★★★   “Unlike earlier children, we have a new power. With the invisible power of litera...

Take Your Daughter to Work ★★★★★   Sex as something pleasurable, soft and warm, is a mammalian concept. In the cold salty dark of fathoms, ...

Blank White Page by James A. Moore ★★★★½   “Whatever makes you think a few buildings brings about a civilized human being?”   I have a soft...

From A Stone by Eric Choi ★★★★★   “It is information. An… an artifact of the mind.”  Hard SciFi! What an unexpected treat!  Government scie...

The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King ★★★★★   "The world needs heroic measures, man. I don't know about long-term effects, and...

"I belong in the refrigerator. Because the truth is, I’m just food for a superhero. He’ll eat up my death and get the energy he needs t...

No Ships Pass by Lady Eleanor Smith ★★★★½ The intro was correct, this story, written in the early 1930s, could have been the basis for Lost...

Predator is one of my favorite movies so I had to read this the second it came out!     I was not disappointed, this was a consistently goo...