Tag: Science Fiction

What Goes Up by Katie Kennedy, Books for Boys Review

Share:FacebookTwitteremailTumblrPinterestIntroduction Title: What Goes UpAuthor: Katie KennedyGenre: Science FictionRelease Date: July 18, 2017Synopsis (from Amazon): Rosa and Eddie are among hundreds of teens applying to NASA’s mysterious Interworlds Agency. They’re not exactly sure what the top-secret program entails, but they know they want in. Rosa has her brilliant parents’ legacies to live up to, and …

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Brave New Girls: Adventures of Gals and Gizmos — Cover Reveal!

Share:FacebookTwitteremailTumblrPinterestSpecial note before the reveal from the Brave New Girls team below. I was thrilled to participate in the third installment of this series (Tales of Heroines who Hack), so even though I did not contribute a story to this collection, I am still happy to share information about it. I am a strong believer …

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MarsCon 2019 Roundup Post

Share:FacebookTwitteremailTumblrPinterestSo this morning I woke up after a really fun weekend in Williamsburg, VA attending my first ever fantasy/scifi convention as an author: MarsCon 2019. Actually, it was my first one ever! After spending the first 7 years of my author career staying behind the keyboard, I started getting out last year for the first …

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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) by Marissa Meyer, Books for Boys Review

Share:FacebookTwitteremailTumblrPinterestIntroduction Title: Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) Author: Marissa Meyer Genre: Science Fiction, Fairy Tale Retelling Release Date: January 3, 2012 Synopsis (from Amazon): Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows …

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Ever Upward (The Excelsior Journey, #2) by George Sirois, Books for Boys Review

Share:FacebookTwitteremailTumblrPinterestIntroduction Title: Ever Upward (The Excelsior Journey, #2) Author: George Sirois Genre: Science Fiction Release Date: May 10, 2018 Synopsis (from Amazon): An ancient foe. A divided planet. An impossible choice to make. A newly established link between Denab IV and Earth has endangered both planets, causing Excelsior’s own people to turn against him. With General Hodera …

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SpeedRunner (Tower of Babel, #1) by Adam Elliott, Books for Boys Review

Share:FacebookTwitteremailTumblrPinterestIntroduction Title: SpeedRunner (Tower of Babel, #1) Author: Adam Elliott Genre: LitRPG, Cyberpunk Release Date: June 30, 2017 Synopsis (from Amazon): Launch day. That was what they called it. The day when over four million people vanished in an instant from the island of Manhattan. The day earthquakes ravaged the east coast. The day a …

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Neuromancer by William Gibston, Books for Boys Review

Share:FacebookTwitteremailTumblrPinterest Introduction Title: Neuromancer Author: William Gibson Genre: Science Fiction, Cyberpunk Release Date: July 1, 1984 Synopsis (from Amazon): The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace… Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now …

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Excelsior (The Excelsior Journey #1) by George Sirois, Books for Boys Review

Share:FacebookTwitteremailTumblrPinterest Introduction Title: Excelsior (The Excelsior Journey #1) Author: George Sirois Genre: Science Fiction Release Date: July 22, 2017 (3rd Ed.) Synopsis (from Amazon): High school senior Matthew Peters thinks he’s just writing some online fiction about an alien superhero, Excelsior. But when a woman arrives at his school claiming to be from the distant …

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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet #1) by Madeleine L’Engle, Books for Boys Review

Share:FacebookTwitteremailTumblrPinterest Introduction Title: A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet #1) Author: Madeleine L’Engle Genre: Science Fiction Release Date: 1963 Synopsis (from Amazon): It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the …

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Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 #1) by Scott Meyer, Books for Boys Review

Share:FacebookTwitteremailTumblrPinterest Introduction Title: Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1) Author: Scott Meyer Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction Release Date: March 18, 2014 Synopsis (from Amazon): Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every …

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