Across A Wounded Galaxy

Across The Wounded Galaxy (SF/Space Opera)

By Rex Hurst

Bowker

ISBN #978-0999380307

Price $9.99 (Paperback)

Price $3.99 (Kindle)

266 Pages

Rating 4-Stars

A sadistic pirate clan shanghais a forced-grown Gen-Human three months from his decanting bottle. Three aliens track a gleeful villain who is hell-bent on destroying his own world. A military failure on a ruined planet finds only one chance left for his personal glory. All their paths collide together in a galaxy at war. Worlds destroyed. Civilizations ruined. Cities devastated. Join them on this trek across a wounded galaxy

In this character driven science fiction yarn we are introduced to numerous alien races, as well as POVs. It is an exciting tale of war, devastation, and it’s effect on the individuals involved.

I had a difficult time following the story, but it wasn’t due to the author’s writing. The Kindle version kept jumping on me. For instance, from Chapter One it jumped to Chapter Seventeen, and from Page 10 it jumped to Page 84, and this jumping continued. I was constantly forced to search where I was at when the pages jumped on me. I don’t know if this was a formatting problem on this Kindle story, or my personal Kindle, though my Kindle has never done this befofore. I’m not sure if I missed something important in the story, but the problem with formatting kept me confused. The story itself was very interesting, however.

Tom Johnson

Author of WORLDS OF TOMORROW

Landscape of Darkness

Landscape of Light/Landscape of Darkness The Cyber-Threshold war left empty cities and broken bodies scattered across the face of the Earth. Cyber tech was outlawed and new technologies advanced along different lines, utilizing living crystal technologies. In time, mankind spread to the stars. Two hundred years later, the colony world of Lucen 5 receives a shipment of contraband blue dust impregnated with nanobots. Inhalation transforms a human being into a cyborg. Police Captain Sam Mercury races to find the source of the deadly dust before all mankind succumbs to cyber-infestation.

Landscape of Darkness (SF/Space Opera)

By Sara Light-Waller

Lucina Press

ISBN #978-1979663069

98 Pages

Price $7.99 (Paperback

Rating 5-Stars

Right out of the pulp magazines of the 1930s & ‘40s, the author spins her tale of space opera as if she was writing for Amazing Stories in its heyday. Captain Sam Mercury learns of a plot to bombard Neohatten with Heli-Blue, a cloud filled with nanobots. It’s been two hundred years since the war between humans and Cyborgs, and it was thought the Cyborgs long extinct, but now that may not be the case. Also, young Irene Turren has taken her ship to the forbidden sector, Delta 59, to meet someone who may be connected to the Heli-Blue situation. What he finds could be the end of the human race.

This was so much fun. I had to stop and check every so often to make sure I wasn’t reading a Captain Future yarn. Landscape of Darkness is a throwback to the glory days of the pulps, and the author’s writing shines as a fresh new face in an old formula. If you love space opera like I do, you’ll love this wild tale of adventure as mankind reaches outward to the stars while trying to save the human race from machines – the Cyborgs! Highly recommended.

Tom Johnson

Author of WORLDS OF TOMORROW

Worlds of Tomorrow

“Worlds of Tomorrow” by Tom Johnson is now available on Amazon Kindle for $4.99. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HQ2KYTC This volume includes a wonderful cover by Teresa Tunaley.

In the far future, the worlds of tomorrow will bring many dangers to the travelers of the star ways.  Space Rangers like Captain Steve Danger will be hard pressed to protect those settlers on distant planets. Even the Ghosts, the secret police, will have trouble discovering the mysterious galactic thief known as the Forever Man. Here are five exciting tales of our future problems on distant worlds of tomorrow. Space Opera at its best; ray gun blasters and rocket ships, and alien forms of life interacting with Earthman as they travel farther into the far universe.