Childhoods End – Arthur C. Clarke The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city–intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify Earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, Read more…
Warbreaker (Warbreaker #1) – Brandon Sanderson Warbreaker is the story of two sisters who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years Read more…
Clay’s Ark (The Patternist #3) – Octavia E. Butler In a frightening near future, an alien disease is poised to become a devastating global epidemic—unless someone can stop it Blake Maslin and his two daughters are driving to Flagstaff when bandits swarm their car. At gunpoint, the marauders kidnap one Read more…
Mind of My Mind (The Patternist #2) – Octavia E. Butler From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author comes the stunning story of telepathically sensitive Mary and her fight to free herself and her people from an immortal being who uses them for their bodies. In this stunning Book Two Read more…
Wild Seed (The Patternist #1) – Octavia E. Butler Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally Read more…
Vicarious – Rhett C. Bruno The real world is only where you breathe… In High Earth, entertainment is everything. Virtual Worlds. Games. Steaming shows. Simulations—there’s something for everybody. You don’t ever even have to leave your home. For Asher Reinhart, nothing compares to Ignis: Live, a reality show that pushes Read more…
The Institute – Stephen King In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a Read more…
Dune (Dune #1) – Frank Herbert I FINALLY DID IT!!! After TWENTY years of wanting to read it but being overwhelmed by the sheer reputation and scope, I have FINALLY READ DUNE!!!! In a nutshell, Dune it is about a young man named Paul Atradies. Paul’s father is a Duke and his mother Read more…
Elsewhere – Dean Koontz Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Southern California. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Read more…
Pushing Ice – Alastair Reynolds 2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn’s ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it Read more…