Genre: Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Satire
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: February 2, 2010
ISBN-10: 0765324350
ISBN-13: 978-0765324351
Author Website: Michael Shea
The Extra by Michael Shea is a laugh-out-loud satire of the film industry that is full of pulse-pounding action, astute social commentary, and super scary giant mechanical spiders.
Set in a future Los Angeles, the story follows several [...]
Posts under ‘Thriller’
Book Review: The Extra by Michael Shea
Book Review: The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer
# Genre: Thriller, Mystery
# Hardcover: 384 pages
# Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
# Publication Date: February 16, 2010
# ISBN-10: 031258749X
# ISBN-13: 978-0312587499
# Author Website: Michael Palmer
In Michael Palmer’s latest medical thriller, The Last Surgeon a former army surgeon suffering from PTSD named Nick Garrity (aka Nick Fury) and Gillian Coates, a smart and sassy nurse, must [...]
Book Review: 7th Son: Descent by J. C. Hutchins
# Genre: Thriller, Science Fiction
# Paperback: 368 pages
# Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
# Publication Date: October 27, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0312384378
# ISBN-13: 978-0312384371
# Author Website: J. C. Hutchins
When a podcast novel gets over 100,000 downloads a month, you can be certain of two things: The novel is exciting, and the audio will eventually become a print [...]
Book Review: Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber
# Genre: Horror, Thriller, Space Opera, Shared World, Adventure
# Hardcover: 288 pages
# Publisher: Lucas Books; 1 edition (Del Rey/Ballantine)
# Publication Date: October 13, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0345509625
# ISBN-13: 978-0345509628
# Author Blog: Joe Schreiber
In a cross between Alien and Night of the Living Dead, Star Wars: Death Troopers is unlike any Star Wars novel to date. Horror [...]
Book Review: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Genre: Apocalyptic Fiction, Science Fiction
Hardcover: 300 pages
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Publication Date: September 15, 2009
ISBN-10: 1597801577
ISBN-13: 978-1597801577
Author Website: Paolo Bacigalupi
In The Windup Girl, Paolo with-the-unpronounceable-last-name (Bacigalupi), uses fiction to provide social commentary on such things as the environment, big business, international relations, and religion. Using themes of abandonment, failure, and the “other”, Bacigalupi provides a [...]
Book Review: The Mirrored Heavens by David J. Williams
* Author: David J. Williams
* Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
* Publisher: Bantam Spectra
* Publication Date January 27, 2009
* ISBN-10: 0553591568
* ISBN-13: 978-0553591569
* Author Website
The Mirrored Heavens, by David J. Williams, is cyberpunk on speed. This novel hits the ground running, and never once lets up the pace, only increasing it by ever larger margins.
The [...]
Guest Book Review: Forsaken by James David Jordan
* Reviewed by Valerie Ottinger
* Genre: Thriller
* Paperback: 400 pages
* Publisher: B&H Fiction
* Publication Date: October 1, 2008
* ISBN-10: 0805447490
* ISBN-13: 978-0805447491
* Author Website
I tend to mentally categorize books as “library” books or “worth buying” books. If a book was average and not awful, I’m willing to read more books by the same [...]
