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Paolini’s SciFi Debut Is a First-Rate First Contact Story With Epic Sweep

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/to-sleep-in-a-sea-of-stars-christopher-paolini.jpg “A powerful piece of SF, with intelligent writing and big ideas.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time “Dazzles with otherworldly delights — and unearthly nightmares.” —Newsweek “This is Paolini's best book so far, skillfully done, brilliantly imagined and cleverly executed." —Starburst Magazine “Sure to be one of the…
Dennis Hetzel
October 8, 2020
Fiction

“The Number of Man” Explores Playing God With Clones and Trackers

Sounds like a wonderful world: tracking devices to help find missing children, protect against identity theft, provide instant access to medical information in the event of an emergency. The list goes on. But without legal authorization, who gives researchers, technicians, scientists and others the right to, in effect, play God…
Jim Alkon
May 20, 2020
Thrillers

“Agency” Delivers Dystopian Dilemmas; Full Attention Required

Since the dawn of the genre, science fiction writers have played with notions of reality, alternate universes, technology’s impact and the puzzles of time travel. Today, human technology has advanced to the point that these questions seem less speculative and more urgent, especially the militarization of technology and artificial intelligence.…
Dennis Hetzel
January 16, 2020
Fiction

Time Travelers Tempt Fate With Plan to Save Jesus

When the lords of literature — the same lot who gave us science fiction — gifted us with the marvelous concept of time travel, they opened the doors to endless plot possibilities, no matter how plausible. So if you are going to employ it, why not swing for the fences? That’s…
Jim Alkon
December 11, 2019
Fiction

Losing a Loved One to Supernatural Forces

When Brit Lunden created The Bulwark Anthology, she envisioned a series of bite-sized novelettes, each written by a different author, each with one common thread: their setting, the small, fictitious town of Bulwark, Georgia. Before handing over the reins to her writer friends, Lunden sets up the anthology series with…
BookTrib
April 19, 2019
Fiction

A Grand Adventure Through the Stars Beyond

In science fiction and fantasy, this object often has to be brought from point one location to another, whether it’s a Horcrux, the One Ring, or the Death Star plans. Relics of Andromeda (Gold Dragon Books), Jonathan Michael Erickson’s first installment in a planned sci-fi trilogy called “Songs of Ancients,”…
Jeff Daugherty
April 10, 2019
Fiction

Memories of the Past and a Vision of the Future

In Another Time (Harper) by Jillian Cantor is a wonderful historical fiction novel with deep characters who love books, music and each other. In 1930s Berlin, Max, a German bookshop owner sees Hanna playing what she loves most, the violin.  He is enchanted and in an attempt to get her…
Jennifer Blankfein
March 29, 2019
Romance

10 Hot Romances To Get You Through That Winter Chill

The first snow of the season can be magical, but the stifling winter cold that always follows is anything but enchanting. One way to beat the boredom of the season is to transport yourself with some fantastic romances. From festive to fiery, here are ten BookTrib picks that will take…
Rebecca Proulx
December 20, 2018