Orbs

I was incredibly relieved by how good this is. Straight, hard sci-fi can be really rough these days, but this was very well-written, smart, suspenseful, and action-packed. The military tone was proper “guy sci-fi” but with the interesting use of a female protagonist, who thank goodness was well-char......more

So, it's a 3 solid star read for me. I love the sense of humor of the author. However, I find there are somethings wrong with this book. Firstly is the change between characters. So many POV's. I kinda think it was too much. I realize that to tell this story it was needed, but meh. Not too happy abou......more

This is the first book that I have had the rare experience of being a beta reader for. It was an interesting experience as well - reading drafts, offering your views and having them taken seriously by the author, reading the re-writes, offering more opinions and then finally reading the edited and p......more

There is a potentially good story in here but the writing was pretty bad. I could hardly stand it, made it to 39%, and had to call it quits. The story was progressively getting better but the abysmal writing was too distracting.......more

Earth is dying and humans are set to head for space. Mars to be specific. Sophie and her team are selected to test out a Biosphere facility that can sustain life and vegetation. However, their research doesn't last long as aliens arrive and start consuming everything in their path to get the resource......more