Loki’s Ring is an artificial alien world that humans don’t really understand. Even though humanity has spread out to cover many different planets and star systems, they leave Loki’s Ring alone. There are plenty of other places to explore in space after all. But now greed has brought humans there, and they’ve unleashed something that could destroy the entire known universe
Read MoreSilver Sable has made a deal with the devil in Cath Lauria’s Silver Sable: Payback. Well, Doctor Doom anyway so close enough. Doom has been trying to track down the Clairvoyant, a future-telling machine, and has failed. He believes Silver Sable can succeed where he failed. Silver is reluctant to help but feels trapped. She’s certain that telling Doom no is
Read MoreHere’s your chance to get to know some of the characters from the upcoming movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The Road to Neverwinter by Jaleigh Johnson shares the origin story of a group of thieves at the center of the film. First, they meet, then they try to pull off the heist of a lifetime. If they succeed they’ll
Read MorePeople are once again going missing in Arkham. This time it’s a college student and a professor. The police aren’t connecting the two yet. But Elliot Raslo, the best friend of the missing student, Chester, knows they’re connected. For one thing, Chester and the missing professor were collaborating on Chester’s special research. The research that Chester has been obsessed with for
Read MoreA terrible curse known as the Drought of Girls has inflicted the matriarchal society of the Five Queendoms for the past fifteen years. An entire generation without females has left the citizens of the queendoms fearful of the future. But with the death of the sorceress Sessadon, the drought has ended. Hope has returned but the change affects each of the
Read MoreFor most of his life, Alan Rickman kept diaries. After his untimely passing from pancreatic cancer in 2016, it was decided to edit and publish these journals to allow his fans to see a more intimate side of the beloved actor. With a foreword by his dear friend Emma Thompson and an afterword by his lifelong love and wife Rima Horton,
Read MoreDoric was abandoned by her parents in the woods when she was just a little girl. Luckily the wood elves found her and took her in. Since then, Doric has done everything she can to be useful. She figures this is the best way to assure that the elves don’t get rid of her as her parents did. When her guardian
Read MoreWe take another little trip to our favorite small town in The Last Ritual by S.A. Sidor. This time, young reporter Andy Van Nortwisk is reporting on the grand reopening of the Silver Gate Hotel after a fire shut it down a year ago. Andy is lucky enough to score an interview with one of the famous guests that have been
Read MoreA suffering refugee population on a remote planet, a dangerous war criminal, and a (slightly) disgraced intelligence officer looking for their next move. These three things come together on Ordeve, a planet with a long and complicated history, in Una McCormack’s Star Trek Picard: Second Self. [Note: While I am reviewing this novel independently and honestly, it should be noted that
Read MoreMal has been walking for a long time. He’s looking for somewhere better, somewhere that isn’t poisoned by the toxic things humanity has done to the Earth. He started his journey with a large group of friends and family but one by one they all died. Now it’s just him. Mal is looking for the mythical “shining city”. If he can
Read MoreIn the year 2259, the U.S.S. Enterprise heads off to a planet so remote that it is only known by its surveyor’s catalog entry, FGC-7781 b. They’re investigating the disappearance of Braidwood, a civilian anthropological expedition that had been missing for almost a year. What they discover on FGC-7781 b is something that no one was expecting. Find out just what
Read MoreIn this latest book review from my reading nook here at The Cosmic Circus, I’m reviewing the novel that started the Marvel: Xavier’s Institute series, Liberty and Justice for All by Carrie Harris. In this introductory novel, two young students of the New Charles Xavier School go on a training mission. It’s their first time flying solo and it’s supposed to
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