Review: Univirtual by Charles O’Donnell
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by John Staughton, Senior Reviewer
1y ago
More than 50 years in the future, the integration of technology, biology, and psychology reaches a fever pitch in Univirtual by Charles O'Donnell, a prescient and thought-provoking work of science fiction. The division between real life and virtual reality has practically disappeared in this tech-obsessed world of tomorrow, but when the leaders of the Millennium ..read more
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Review: Freezing Reign by L.A. Goff
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by John Staughton, Senior Reviewer
1y ago
Tapping into contemporary fears and deep-seated themes of equality and purpose, Freezing Reign by L.A. Goff is an ambitious work of dystopian fiction, and the first installment of a tough but emotional new series. As the Olympian virus continues to rip through the female population of the planet, Mirari Vega's father makes an impossible choice ..read more
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Review: Pandemonium by Bill Harvey
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by John Staughton, Senior Reviewer
1y ago
In a world where psychic agents have entered the battlefields of covert intelligence and geopolitics, Pandemonium is an apt title for this head-spinning novel from Bill Harvey. One of Theta Force's most powerful trainers has disappeared, and Ed Templegard is tasked by the president himself to find him. Templegard's persistent curiosity and ability to enter ..read more
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Review: The Hell Bound Kids by Manson, Anthony Perconti, Sebastian Vice, & Joe Haward
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by John Staughton, Senior Reviewer
1y ago
Co-Authors Manson, Anthony Perconti, Sebastian Vice, and Joe Haward unveil an ominous dystopian world in their novel, The Hell Bound Kids: Wild in the Streets, the first in a longer anarcho-dystopian series. Populated with childish but street-hardened characters like Ghost, Corpse, Pusho, Mimic and more, this is the story of rugged survival in the face ..read more
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The First State by Tshekedi Wallace
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by John Staughton, Senior Reviewer
1y ago
A vicious and power-mad despot rules over London 50 years in the future in The First State by Tshekedi Wallace, a dystopian thriller with chilling echoes of our present-day world. As tensions rise between the metropolitan police and the urban fist revolution, the line between justice and violence blurs more dangerously than ever. With a ..read more
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Review: The Blackest Blue by Luna Wright
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by John Staughton, Senior Reviewer
1y ago
A classic fellowship fantasy with original twists and a dystopian mystique, The Blackest Blue by Luna Wright is an ambitious novel that tackles broad ideas of power, loyalty, and freedom. A young woman living a double life - plotting long-term revenge on a society that demands absolute subservience - seeks to expose the truth, even ..read more
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Review: 2048: Demockracy (The Covid Chronicles) by Peter Moore
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by John Staughton, Senior Reviewer
1y ago
Author Peter Moore launches an entertaining series of standalone novels set three decades in the future with 2048: Demockracy, the starting point of The Covid Chronicles. A conservative-leaning commentary on the cancel culture of today, and the slippery slope that progressive ideals can stumble down, this novel is written in the spirit of Orwell's 1984 ..read more
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Review: The Venus World by Hywel Richard Pinto
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by John Staughton, Senior Reviewer
2y ago
A femme-dominated future falls into fracture and peril in The Venus World by Hywel Richard Pinto, a sprawling slice of post-apocalyptic and speculative fiction. Men are reduced to reproductive necessities after a freak biohazard virus is unleashed on the world, wiping out males across the world in staggering numbers. With their population diminished and their ..read more
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Sheltered: When a Boy Becomes a Legend by Jacob Paul Patchen
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by John Staughton, Senior Reviewer
2y ago
Jacob Paul Patchen transports readers to a smoky and unexpected American battlefield in Sheltered: When a Boy Becomes a Legend, a bold YA American dystopia. After the attack came the invasion, when the men, women and teens were scooped up by black-fatigued men and shipped off to prison camps. The children left behind, however, have ..read more
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Review: Utopia? by R.A. Rowlingson
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by John Staughton, Senior Reviewer
2y ago
Author R.A. Rowlingson launches readers into an eerily familiar dystopian world with Utopia? The titular megacity may be a last bastion of humanity bulging behind massive walls, but there are dangerous powers growing both within and without, in this sinister work of speculative fiction. The masses of the Commune outside the walls are beginning to realize ..read more
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