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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet currently sit with the worst reviews in the series. A 77 from critics, a 2.8 of 10 (!!!) from fans, and widespread uproar from the overall community. So what the heck happened? Are they really that bad? And yet… Wolfe Glick, a competitive pokemon player, said they were his favorite pokemon […]

“As I am, you once were. As you are, I must someday be.” The above is a refrain murmured throughout Misha Burnett’s An Atlas of Bad Roads, a collection of his short stories pulled from various start-up short story magazines and anthologies of the past few years. Not Cirsova, though. Not this time. The mood […]

Dao Destruction (The First Immortal #4) – Bruce Sentar Darius and the village of Hearthway have prepared for the winter and even thrived in the middle of it. But as their leader, Dar needs to look to the future, to spring and the war that comes with it. When military recruiters follow their barge down from […]

Avenger (Sovereign Stars #1) – Blair C. Howard Five years after physicist Mark Holder discovered the Slipstream Drive in 2058, humanity reached for the stars and began to colonize the galaxy. For centuries, humans continued to populate system after system without encountering intelligent alien life. Some twelve hundred years later, after many generations of relative […]

The Demon’s Eye – Jon Del Arroz A great evil has awakened. War ravages the kingdoms of Hyrum and Tyril, strange apparitions are appearing everywhere, but the worst part of it all is Jayden finds himself at the center of an ancient prophecy. He once fought for the evil Sorcerer King of Hyrum, but Jayden […]

Previously, I discussed Asimov’s three kinds of science fiction: gadget, adventure, and social. And while this trio better describes the wild and wooly mess of science fiction than the binary set of hard and soft science fiction, new sub-genres have cropped up that don’t quite match the categories Asimov created. Now, Asimov’s categories are descriptions […]

Command Authority (The Last Hunter #5) – J. N. Chaney and Terry Mixon Victory snatched from the jaws of defeat. Commodore Jack Romanoff and his ragtag crew have repaired their ancient battleship, scattered their adversaries at New Copenhagen, and discovered what was really behind the invasion. Now they must make the enemy bleed and begin […]

September 1956’s issue of Amazing Stories held within its pages a short story by Randal Garrett called “The Man Who Hated Mars.” It’s a bit of a morality story, following an inmate, one Ron Clayton, as he tries to flee Mars for the “Green Hills of Earth.” Mostly, he wrecks lives and spacecraft in that […]

Blade and Bone – D. K. Holmberg Sanaron is a city of fog and violence; a place where even the past can disappear. Kanar Reims, an ex-soldier known as the Blackheart, hides a dangerous secret. Exiled from the Realmsguard, he wants nothing to do with the kind of magic that destroyed his life. That is […]

Blue Saint (St. Tommy N.Y.P.D. #12) – Declan Finn Terrorists destroyed a church by supernatural means. Trans surgery patients have disappeared. Chinese spies have been slaughtered. MS-13 are on the march. A hurricane is coming. This is one storm coming straight for Thomas Nolan. Old enemies want him, his city, and everyone he loves destroyed. […]

Apocalypse Redux – Jakob H. Greif The worst thing about the end of the world is we did it to ourselves Isaac Thoma lived to see the last handful of survivors defeat the demonic champion. He is now alone, his past in ashes, the last and most powerful human on a blighted Earth. But what […]

“Then let us pursue without asking what we chase, and when we catch it, let us chase again.” Mangos is the Mongoose, a skilled, boastful, and hotheaded swordsman, while Kat is the Meerkat, a beautiful yet mysterious woman who favors the oblique approach to her well-chosen blade. Together, they’ll take on any job to keep […]