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Brother Book Review

N.T. Kova

So this one is a weird one. It is not sci-fi, it is good old, regular, normal fiction.  I read it for a writing course I took. Personally, I thought it was meh. The story is about an immigrant family in Toronto and their grief. I think part of the reason I didn’t like it is that it isn’t in my genre and I prefer to read about odd situations and imaging what I would do in them.  As an immigrant myself, I can imagine myself well in the situation described in Brother and there is nothing overly exciting about…

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Our Lady of the Ice – Review

N.T. Kova

Our Lady of the Ice is an interesting piece of sci-fi. It takes place in the domed Antarctic city, what feels like the 1950’s . Our main protagonist is a young PI hoping to earn enough money for a visa to the mainland. However, everything gets a lot more complicated when she takes a case for a rich aristocrat. I’d say, read it! It has a good pace, interesting mysteries to uncover, and a good sense of tension. The story telling takes place through multiple characters and it is used to explore the world and the mysteries. The book also…

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The Big Book of Science Fiction Review

N.T. Kova

The Big Book of Science Fiction is an anthology of a century’s worth of sci-fi short stories. It is a large collection with 1216 pages! Before each short story, there is a short biography of the author, which sometimes helps frame the story you’re about to read. Considering that some of the stories were written in the early 1900’s, the framing helps explain why there are two moons on mars, for example. However, sometimes the biography is not very interesting. Too often there is a long list of the author’s publications, which doesn’t add much to the story ahead. So,…

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Fallen World Book Review

N.T. Kova

Ugh… This one is a little difficult to review. The author, Simon Emery, reached out to me through an Indie Database, which contains useful contacts for indie authors (self-published, or published by small indie publishers). He gave me his eBook for free for a review (to be fair the book is like US$2.5). When I started reading the book, Fallen World, I got frustrated. The book needs a line editor! Grammatical issues, word repetitions, pronoun confusion, all of those things made it hard to read and took me right out of the story. I’d often have to track back and…

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Revenger Book Recommendation

N.T. Kova

I’m not going to bury the lead – skip it! Right away, the book starts with lots of new words that have a different meaning in the Revenger’s world. And it would be ok, if it wasn’t ten new words per paragraph leaving me with the feeling that something happened, I’m just not sure what. To note, I consume a lot of science fiction, so the normal sci-fi concepts are not new to me.

Time Shards Book Recommendation

N.T. Kova

Time Shards by Dana Fredsti and David Fitzgerald is a good sci-fi novel. We follow multiple characters as they navigate through a time broken world and encounter horrors both natural and man-made. The main protagonist, a young woman, is portrayed well and doesn’t suffer from the usual sci-fi tropes. The story is interesting and pulls off misdirection well. There are a few bumps. The beginning is a bit long and I would’ve definitely cut at least one scene. It felt cliché and uninspired (et tu, Brute). Toward the end there is at least one moment of colossal luck, which irritated…

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Infinity’s End Book Recommendation

N.T. Kova

At the moment I am reading Infinity’s End edited by Jonathan Strahan. It is a collection of sci-fi short stories by 14 different authors and is the seventh and last part of the Infinity Project. The project collected sci-fi stories with particular themes in each volume. I did not know this when I picked the book, but since these are short stories it did not affect my read.

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