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 Book Review: Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf Official Author Website Buy  Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock   HERE OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO:   Maud Woolf is a Scottish speculative writer with a particular focus on horror and science fiction. Her work has appeared in a variety of online magazines, including Metaphorosis Magazine where her short story ‘The Stranding’ was selected to appear in the Best of Metaphorosis 2020. Over the course of her life she’s worked a number of jobs including waitressing, comic book selling, sign holding and as a tour guide at a German dollhouse museum. When not exploring Glasgow’s labyrinthine system of abandoned tunnels she spends most of her free time watching old hollywood films and attempting to knit. FORMAT/INFO:   Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock  is due publication on January 2nd, 2024 by Angry Robot books in paperback and ebook formats. OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock ...

 Book Review: Star Bound by Rex Burke  Official Author Website Buy Star Bound  HERE OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO:   Rex Burke is a SciFi writer based in North Yorkshire, UK.  When he was young, he read every one of those yellow-jacketed Victor Gollancz hardbacks in his local library. That feeling of out-of-this-world amazement never left him – and keeps him company as he writes his own SciFi adventures. When he's not writing, he travels – one way or another, he'll get to the stars, even if it's just as stardust when his own story is done. OFFICIAL BOOK BLURB:  A storm’s coming, and it’s time to go home. But home isn’t always where you think it is. As rescue looms, the teenage castaways face new decisions and changing alliances. It’s not plain-sailing on New Earth either, where Captain Juno Washington faces a blatant challenge to her authority. As the dangers increase and stories collide, everyone has a choice to make. Be part of something or strike out on your ...

Starter Villain by John Scalzi review   Book links : Amazon , Goodreads ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JOHN SCALZI is one of the most popular SF authors of his generation. His debut Old Man's War won him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation,and Redshirts (which won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel), and 2020's The Last Emperox. Material from his blog, Whatever, has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. Scalzi also serves as critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter. Publisher:  Tor Books (September 19, 2023) Print length: 272 Formats: ebook, audio, paperback A stupid villain threatens, Charlie. A smarter villain offers a service. Starter Villain is awesome. Its selling points include executive-level cats, awful billionaires, and vengeful working-class dolphins. A briskly paced and funny story seals the deal. Charlie’s life sucks. All he wants is to open a pub d...

Book links : Amazon , Goodreads ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  Alex Paknadel is a writer and academic from London, England. His first comics work, the dark sci-fi thriller ARCADIA from Boom! Studios, met with critical acclaim and led to additional projects with a range of publishers including VAULT COMICS (GIGA), Marvel Entertainment, Valiant Entertainment, Lion Forge, and Titan Comics. He is also a founding member of White Noise Studio alongside fellow writers Dan Watters, Ram V, and Ryan O'Sullivan. Publisher: Image Comics ( July 11, 2023 )  Page count: 144 p According to the author, All Against All tries to answer the following question -  “what if Tarzan were the Xenomorph from Alien?”  The answer entails savage violence, exoskeletons vs flesh, stellar art, and strong writing. The story takes place in a distant future ravaged by continuous war. The Operators, parasitic and body-snatching aliens, recreated the most violent earth animals in an artificial jungle. Among them i...

  BOok links: Amazon, Goodreads ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Matthew J. Kirby is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the middle-grade novels The Clockwork Three, Icefall, The Lost Kingdom, Infinity Ring Book 5: Cave of Wonders, and The Quantum League series, the Dark Gravity Sequence, and the Assassin’s Creed series, Last Descendants. He was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start, he has won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, the PEN Center USA award for Children’s Literature, and the Judy Lopez Memorial Award, and has been named to the New York Public Library’s 100 Books for Reading and Sharing, and the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults lists. He is also a school psychologist, and currently lives in Utah with his wife and three step-kids. Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers (April 25, 2023) Print length: 320 pages  I don’t care how many prep classes you take, or how many counseling sessions you go through, or how many waivers you sign, none of it actual...

 Book Review: Twin Landing by Rex Burke Read  Fantasy Book Critic 's review of  Orphan Planet , book one in the  Odyssey Earth series   here Buy  Orphan Planet , book one in the  Odyssey Earth series   here Pre-order  Twin Landing , book two in the  Odyssey Earth series   here OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO:  Rex Burke is a SciFi writer based in North Yorkshire, UK. When he was young, he read every one of those yellow-jacketed Victor Gollancz hardbacks in his local library. He’s sure there are still thrilling SciFi adventures to be told – even if he has to write them himself. When he’s not writing, he travels – one way or another, he’ll get to the stars, even if it’s just as stardust when his own story is done. OFFICIAL BOOK BLURB:    Typical. The colony ship, Odyssey Earth , travels fifty trillion miles without finding a habitable planet, and then two come along at once. The mission is not exactly going to plan for the set...

Three Grams of Elsewhere by Andy Giesler review   Book links: Amazon , Goodreads ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  When Andy was ten, he wrote his first book. Attack of the Dinosaurs was seventeen pages long, variously single- and double spaced, with rough cut cardboard backing and a masking tape and white yarn binding. It was the heart-pounding tale of Alaskan scientists using nuclear bombs to prospect for gasoline and--as happens all too often--inadvertently waking frozen dinosaurs. Without giving away too much, things didn’t end well for the dinosaurs. (Things never end well for the dinosaurs.) He fell in love with writing and promised himself that, one day, he’d write an even longer book. Then, one evening many years later while reading bedtime stories to his daughter and son, he thought: Hmnh. Maybe it’s time. Andy has been a library page, dairy science programmer, teacher, technical writer, healthcare software developer, and official Corporate Philosopher. He grew up in a town in Ohio...

Decorum by Jonathan Hickman and Mike Huddleston review Book links: Amazon , Goodreads ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  Jonathan Hickman (born September 3, 1972, South Carolina) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write Avengers and New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. As of 2015, he is writing the crossover event Secret Wars. Publisher: Image Comics (May 3, 2022) Page count: 408 Are you tired of reading the same old comic book stories? Do you want to explore an entirely new universe filled with unique characters, plot twists, and mind-bending concepts? Look no further than Jonathan Hickman's Decorum . Meet Neha Noori...

 Interview: Rex Burke, author of the Odyssey Earth series Read Fantasy Book Critic 's review of Orphan Planet , book one in the Odyssey Earth series here Buy Orphan Planet , book one in the Odyssey Earth series here Pre-order Twin Landing , book two in the Odyssey Earth series here INTERVIEW Thank you for taking the time to talk to us! Welcome back to the Fantasy Book Critic. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself, and your upcoming series, Odyssey Earth? Thanks so much for inviting me – it’s a real pleasure, especially as I get to talk about writing and books, two of my favourite things! I’m a debut SciFi author, but a long-time writer in another genre – maybe ‘veteran’ is actually the word, seeing as I published my first book in the, erm, 20 th century…and not even in the very late-90s, let’s put it that way. Anyway, if you’re into travel writing and trains, or have ever bought a Rough Guide to places like Barcelona, Sicily, or the Lake District...