Sci-fi
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Blog Tour | Bear Head Book Review
Title: Bear Head Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky Published: 7th January 2021 Publisher: Head of Zeus Genre: Sci-fi, Rating: 4/5 stars Mars. The red planet. A new frontier for humanity, a civilization where humans can live in peace, lord and master of all they survey. But this isn’t Space City from those old science-fiction books. We live in Hell City, built into and from a huge subcontinent-sized crater. There’s a big silk canopy over it, feeding out atmosphere as we generate it, little by little, until we can breathe the air. It’s a perfect place to live, if you actually want to live on Mars. I guess at some point I had…
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A Chain Across The Dawn | Blog Tour
Hello everyone, welcome to my stop on the A Chain Across the Dawn tour! Today I have a sneak peak of chapter 2, for you all. Check out the tour post on my Instagram too, and follow the rest of the tour! Check out the extract below! Title: A Chain Across the Dawn Author: Drew Williams Published: 8th August 2019 Genre: Science Fiction Series: The Universe After #2 Bigger spaceships. Bigger explosions. Bigger planets. Bigger problems. It’s been three years since Esa joined the ranks of the Justified after her rescue from the fanatical murderers the Pax. Together, Esa and her mentor Kamali travel from planet to planet,…
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Book Review- Ascension
Title: Ascension Author: Victor Dixen Published: 28th June 2018 Pages: 496 Genre: YA, Sci-fi Series: Phobos #1 Rating: 5/5 stars ‘This thrilling space odyssey will keep you turning pages late into the night.’C. J. Daugherty, author of NIGHT SCHOOLSix girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world’s craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars.Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up…
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Book Review- Awakened
Title: Awakened Authors: James S. Murray, Darren Wearmouth Published: 26th June 2018 Pages: 304 Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi Series: Awakened #1 Rating: 3.5/5 stars The star of truTV’s hit show Impractical Jokers—alongside veteran sci-fi and horror writer Darren Wearmouth—delivers a chilling and wickedly fun supernatural novel in the vein of The Strain, in which a beautiful new subway line in New York City unearths an ancient dark horror that threatens the city’s utter destruction and the balance of civilization itself.After years of waiting, New York’s newest subway line is finally ready, an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning communities across the Hudson River. The shining jewel of this state-of-the-art line…
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Annihilation- Movie Adaptation Review
Title: Annihilation Written/Directed: Alex Garland Adapted from: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Released: Netflix March 2018 I read and reviewed the novel that this movie is adapted from at the end of 2015, and to put it lightly I really didn’t enjoy it. You can check out my pretty scathing review here. However, despite this I was intrigued to see how a director would go about adapting such an interesting and also a visually demanding idea in novel form into a movie. In terms of the visual aspects, the movie is beautiful. I watched it on my laptop and it was stunning, the landscapes and scenery that we see, but also the…