Review: EXODUS: THE ARCHIMEDES ENGINE (BECOME THE TRAVELER) by Peter F. Hamilton

Release September 17 2024

I am awestruck at the vast capacity of the imagination of SF author Peter F. Hamilton. The breadth and depth of his World Building, multilayered and multicultural, the depth of Far-Future Scientific achievements, Genetic Engineering, Transhumans, effective immortality through transmission of Consciousness...an amazing 928 pages, engrossing, intriguing, highly suspenseful, yet peopled with characters both comprehensible and beyond our current comprehension.

Forty thousand years into the Future: can you imagine? Peter F. Hamilton can, and brings this Future vividly to his readers.

First in a duology: so anticipating the next novel!!!

Distinctly a Best of 2024 and of this decade!

HIGH SUMMER READATHON 2024

Coming in August!

High Summer Readathon

Titles Read:
1. ON VICIOUS WORLDS by Bethany Jacobs. SF. Book Two, THE KINDOM TRILOGY.

2. MOTHER OF DARKNESS (BOOK TWO, CARNIVAL OF TERROR) by Ian Fortey and Ron Ripley. Horror. Scarestreet.com.

3. WE DO NOT WELCOME OUR TEN-YEAR-OLD OVERLORD by Garth Nix. SFF.

4. THE CHAMBER by Will Dean. Thriller/Locked Room Suspense.

5. LAKEBED. NG ARC Mount TBR. SFF/Horror. 08/04-08/05.

6. LINGERING. KU Virtual.

7. LATENCY. NG ARC Current and own Kindle.

8. THE DISSONANCE. Libby Virtual and NG ARC

9. TWO SIDES TO EVERY MURDER. Libby Virtual

10. A COSMOLOGY OF MONSTERS. NG ARC Mount TBR.

11. ANGEL OF VENGEANCE. NG ARC Current.

12. LUNACY. KU.

13. HAUNTED SECRETS: TALES OF ELOISE VOLUME 4. Scarestreet.com ARC.

14. THE LEFT-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF LONDON. NG Mount TBR.

15. THE NIGHT ENDS IN FIRE. Libby Virtual new F.

16. MISSING IN MISKATONIC. CLP ARC, new Release, KU

17. THE SINISTER BOOKSELLERS OF BATH. NG ARC MOUNT TBR.

18. THE FOOTAGE. KU Virtual Camp Horror.

19. THE GIRLS FROM HUSH CABIN. NG ARC Mount TBR. Thriller/Mystery

20. THE CRYPT OF THE MOON SPIDER. NG ARC. Release August 27.New Weird. SF/Fantasy/Horror/Alternative History/Bizarro.

21. CAT-A-LYST. SF/F/Metaphyysical.

22. TOWN OF SHADOWS. ARC Scarestreet.com

23.CITY OF THE BEAST, Isabel Allende. Fantasy/MagicalRealism.

SCI FI SUMMER!!

SCI FI SUMMER SIGN-UP

A Summer for me focusing on Female and Feminist SciFi and Speculative Fiction.

🛸 = SF 🌈 = Pride 🦸‍♀️ = Feminist 🏴‍☠️ = Horror

Titles 📚:
1. CARNIVAL OF TERROR VOL. 1, by Ian Fortey and Ron Ripley. Scarestreet.com ARC. Release June 4.🏴‍☠️
2. THE NIGHT SINGERS by London Clarke. Release May 28. 🏴‍☠️🛸🦸‍♀️
3. FALLING DOWN [THE BOY IN THE BOX #1] by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo Del Toro.🛸
4. PEDAL FASTER by Christoffer Petersen.🛸
5. THE FEMALE MAN by Joanna Russ. 🛸🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️
6. THE TRAITORS by C. A. Lynch. 🏴‍☠️🦸‍♀️.
7. DRAW YOU IN, Vol. 1 by Jasper Bark. Horror/SF. 🏴‍☠️ 🛸 🦸‍♀️ 8. COLONY ONE MARS by Gerald M. Kilby. 🛸🏴‍☠️🦸‍♀️
9. STARRIGGER by John DeChancie.🛸🏴‍☠️
10. WARMTH OF THE SUN. Author ARC. Release June 13. SF.🛸🛸🛸🛸
11. HAUNTED SECRETS: TALES OF LEO MORELAND VOLUME 2. Horror. ARC. Release June 12.🏴‍☠️
12. "SULTANA'S DREAM," 1905. India. Everand Virtual. Feminist SF.🛸🦸‍♀️
13. THE SHORE OF WOMEN, Pamela Sargent. 🛸🛸🛸🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️🌈🌈🌈
14. SCIENCE FICTION IN COLONIAL INDIA, Mary Ellis Gibson.🛸🛸🛸🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️
15. WHEN SHE WAS ME by Marlee Bush. psychological Thriller.🏴‍☠️🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️
16. ERUPTION by Michael Crichton and James Patterson.
🛸🏴‍☠️ 17. HAUNTED SECRETS: TALES OF ELOISE VOLUME 3. scarestreet.com ARC.🏴‍☠️
18. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT by Riley Sager. New.🏴‍☠️
19. DRAW YOU IN: SECRET ORIGINS. KU Virtual (CLP)🏴‍☠️🛸
20. THE MIDNIGHT FEAST. 🏴‍☠️ Libby Virtual.
21. MOTHMAN'S HAPPY CRYPTID HALLOWEEN. Series. Children. 🛸
22. SIGHTSEEING WITH ALIENS. Series. Children. Non-Fiction.🛸🛸🛸
23. RED THUNDER by John Varley. 🛸🛸🛸🛸 SF.
24. PSYCHOACTIVE [DARK TIDES 16]. SF/Horror.🏴‍☠️🛸
25. I'M A GAY WIZARD IN THE CITY OF THE NIGHTMARE KING. 🌈🛸
26. HAUNTED SECRETS: TALES OF FRANK BENEDICT. 🏴‍☠️
27. BUTTERBALL GOES TO THE BEACH.🐕 Own Mount TBR. Children.
28. CAMP LANIER by Sylvester Barzey. NG ARC Release July 16.🛸🏴‍☠️🛸🏴‍☠️ Total Titles 28. SF=19.

WINTER'S RESPITE READATHON 2024

WINTER'S RESPITE

SIGN UP

Titles Read:

1. AMONG THE LIVING. Tim Lebbon. Climate Change SF/Horror. Release Feb. 13.
2. HOUSE OF LAST RESORT, Christopher Golden. Sicily, Folk/Religious Horror. Release Jan. 30.
3. GHOST STATION, S. A. Barnes. SF/Horror Space
4. EVERYONE ON THIS TRAIN IS A SUSPECT, Benjamin Stevenson. "Golden Age"-style Thriller/Mystery, about Writers.
5. LOST IN THE MOMENT AND FOUND, Seanan McGuire. (Wayward Children Series). Fantasy.
6. THE TUSKS OF EXTINCTION, Ray Nayler. Near-Future EcoSF.
7. EVERYONE WHO CAN FORGIVE ME IS DEAD, Jenny Hollander. Psychological Thriller/Unreliable Narrator
8. HUNTED HIGHWAYS: ROAD TRIP TERROR. HORROR/APPALACHIA/NOVELLAS
9. WIDOW FALLS, Kiersten Modglin. Suspense/Psychological Thriller. NA.
10. WHALEFALL, Daniel Krause. YA Speculative.
11. THE HITHERTO SECRET EXPERIMENTS OF MARIE CURIE, Speculative, Aanthology
12. A DRAGON'S CHAINS by Robert Vane [A REMEMBERED WAR, Book 1]. Dragon Epic Fantasy
13. LONG TIME GONE SNEAK PEEK, Charlie Donlea. psychological Thriller
14. AWAKE IN THE NIGHT. KU Virtual. Sapphic. Horror.
15. LONG TIME GONE. NG ARC Current. psychological Thriller
16.THE RESORT, Sara Ochs. Release Feb. 6. TWISTY Psychological Thriller.
17. SNOWFALL ON LIGHTHOUSE LANE. NG ARC Mount TBR. Libby Virtual.
18. HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS. (DREAMHOUSE KINGS #1). HOOPLA VIRTUAL
19. THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP, Christian Francis, collection. NG ARC Current.
20. MY DEAR HENRY. NG ARC Mount TBR. Pride. Historical fiction.
21. HAUNTED SECRETS: TALES OF ELOISE. SCARE STREET ARC
22. DRAGONS DON'T EAT MEAT. BOOK 1: THE VALKYRIE BESTIARY. Mount TBR. Urban Fantasy. 23. STORM DRAGONS VOL. 1. Graphic novel. Mount TBR. Epic Fantasy
24. THE WHITE GUY DIES FIRST. NG ARC Current.
25. IN THE LIVES OF PUPPETS. Libby Virtual and NG ARC Mount TBR.
26. DARK TIDES: THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE, APPALACHIAN HORROR.
27. THE FAMILIAR SNEAK PEEK
28. TAVERN OF TERROR VOL. 12 SCARE STREET ARC
29. READER BEWARE: A FEAR STREET APPRECIATION ANTHOLOGY
30. EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE. LIBBY VIRTUAL. FANTASY
31. THE GHOST WHO WAS AFRAID OF EVERYTHING. EDELWEISS ARC.
32. GERNSBACK. online Virtual. SF
33. BURNING CHROME. MOUNT TBR. SF CYBERPUNK.
34. UH OH MY DRAGON'S HUNGRY. EDELWEISS ARC. Children.
35. NEUROMANCER. SF, Cyberpunk.
36. OSGOOD AS SHE GETS. Release February 29.
37. THE HAUNTING OF THE BLACKTHORNE HOUSE. KU Virtual
38. BONDING FIRE. NG ARC Current. Fantasy-Dragons
39. THE RESTLESS ONES. KU Virtual. Horror.
plus HER LOST SOUL by Helen Pfifer, to p. 39.

READ YOUR SHELVES Challenge

READ YOUR SHELVES

Going for:
52 - 150 📚
52 = 1 NetGalley ARC Mount TBR (received prior to 1/01/2024) PER WEEK of 2024
150 = Top goal on Goodreads Group Mount TBR 2024:
includes NetGalley, Edelweiss, Owned 📚, acquired prior to 1/012024.

1. THE GRIFFIN'S EGG by Cole Poindexter, Audio, narrated by Cole Poindexter. NG ARC Mount TBR. Fantasy. MG.
2. THE GRIFFIN'S EGG. Digital. NG ARC Mount. Fantasy. MG.

Review : PARALLEL LIES by John Calia

PARALLEL LIES is both exciting and enlightening: exciting because the plot is non-stop adventurous and suspenseful, constantly pitting various of the characters in situations ranging from weird to outright dangerous, and enlightening as it interweaves Quantum Physics, Multiverses, Near-Future Science Fiction in a Dystopian setting. So while you're intent on the story, your brain is also subtly expanding, and your imagination is pondering "What If?"

PARALLEL LIES [Release November 7, 2023] is a sequel to THE AWAKENING OF ARTEMIS [Release September 2021].

SCI FI MONTH! November 2023

SCI FI MONTH

Artwork copyright:
Yosua Bungaran Cahya Putra

Is it November yet?!!
In some Probability,
it surely must be.

So, collapse that Wave Function,
and

Bring November On!!!