HIGH SUMMER READATHON 2023

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HIGH SUMMER Goals:

1. NEURODIVERGENCE in Science Fiction
2. 400 page+ SF
3. Second Chance: Time Travel

Titles Read:

1. JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR (2014) [THE AFTERBLIGHT CHRONICLES]. SF. APOCALYPTIC. PANDEMIC. 400 PP.
2. STELLAR CLOUD. Speculative Short Story Collection.
3. BLACK VAULT, Alma Katsu. UAPs, SF.
4. ROCKET AND ROVER. HOOPLA VIRTUAL. Children's: Rockets 🚀 and Space
5. . ANDRONE. KINDLE First Read August. SF. Future
6. AFTER THE BATTLE ON STARSHIP HILL. Mount TBR SF
7. TIME'S EYE. MOUNT TBR. SF. 2037.
8. SUNSTORM. SF. 2037ff.TBR PILE Challenge #7.
9. SUNSTORM. MOUNT TBR. SF. TBR PILE CHALLENGE #7 9. ICEHENGE. MOUNT TBR. SF. TBR PILE CHALLENGE #8
10. TAVERN OF TERROR VOL 8. SCARE STREET ARC
11. NONE OF THIS IS TRUE. LIBBY VIRTUAL.
12. RED MOON, KSR. TBR PILE CHALLENGE #9. SF.
13. DEVOLUTION. SF/Horror.
14. EVOLUTION.
15. WHAT HAPPENED AT HAWTHORNE HOUSE. Horror/Gothic.
16. GUESTS. WEIRD Horror.
17. RUSTED SYNAPSE.
18. THE BEAST YOU ARE (Short Stories). Horror, Speculative.
19. DEVOLUTION OF A SPECIES [2019]. Apocalyptic SF.
20. ARC LIGHT. WWIII, near Future SF.
21.2034: A NOVEL OF WORLD WAR III. Near Future SF.
22. NETHERSPACE1. Speculative Short Stories.
23. PAWS OF DEATH. COZY.
24. DEMONIC DEPARTURE. SS. UF.
25. THE SPECTRAL EXPRESS. SS. UF.
26. A HOPE CITY HALLOWEEN. SS. UF.
27. MEGALODON: BLOODBATH.
28. SHADOWS OF DECEIT. SCARE STREET ARC.
29. SUMMER BLOOMS. Author ARC.
30. SAVAGE SKIES. NG ARC Current/KU
31. DEEP SIX. HOOPLA. VIRTUAL. VIRTUAL SF.
32. TERRA UTOPIA. NG ARC CURRENT. SF/SPECULATIVE. NOT PROXIMA B.
33. ANCIENT SHORES . HOOPLA VIRTUAL SF
34. INTERSTELLAR. Science Non-fiction
35. HUMANITY'S LAST HOPE. YA SF.
36. BEFORE US. THE ABYSS BOOK 2. SF.
37. THE FRUGAL WIZARD'S HANDBOOK TO MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. LIBBY. SCRIBD. Virtual. SF
38. ARKANGELSK. NG MOUNT TBR and Scribd. SF.
39. X, Jack Croxall. Scribd Virtual SF
40. Z, Manuel Alves. Scribd Virtual SF
41. WHISPERS IN THE DARK. Supernatural Horror (Book 2 of 3)
42. FEVER HOUSE.
43. SURVIVOR ATOLL (STRANDED IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE BOOK 1)
44. SHADOWS IN THE DARK. SCARE STREET ARC. 45. FORSAKEN (STRANDED IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE) 46. ABANDONED (STRANDED IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE) 47. THE ARK (CHILDREN OF A DEAD EARTH 1). SF. MOUNT TBR . NG

Review: BELOW US (THE ABYSS BOOK ONE) by Nathan Hystad

Release July 11
I've read Nathan Hystad's novels for a few years now and have always enjoyed them; with BELOW US, Book One in THE ABYSS Trilogy, Mr. Hystad has batted straight out of the ball park! This novel has it all, for aficionados of Science Fiction, Apocalypse, and Lovecraftian Cosmic Terror. I was enraptured, and honestly, terrified: the danger here is nonstop. Even for readers who don't believe in deep-ocean or underground Horrors, there's earthquakes and sinkholes, there's human devolution as many individuals revert to something less than animals, in the face of hopeless desperation and literally unstoppable danger. Plus there's commutation of Nature and Nature's Laws, there's Genetic Mutation [of humans and animals], there's lemming-mob behavior, and excitingly for me, Mutated Fungi! I am anxious to read Books Two and Three! Yes, we have cliffhangers--multiple! Yes, we have multiple protagonists [remember, in an Apocalypse, too large a gathering attracts too much attention], and many of the protagonists are operating on their own skewed agendas....and the slap-in-the-face, what-just-happened twists! There's lots more, but I don't want to spoil: just read it!!