Tag: Science Fiction

Earthstar: The Secret Under The Rainbow by R.J. Norman

Book of the Week: Earthstar: The Secret Under The Rainbow
R.J. Norman (Author)

The Secret Under The Rainbow

The Institute of Space Studies and Advancement built small gated towns around the world; These towns were said to be research facilities. The inhabitants of these towns were the best minds in the world including young geniuses recruited from around the globe. Polaris Town, Tennessee was one of these towns. The Explorers Club, led by Nicholas Andropolus Cruz II were the smartest and most mischievous students recruited by the I.S.S.A. Life was perfect until The Explorers learn that their friends are mysteriously disappearing and other families are taking their friends places.

The Explorers Club decides to investigate and learn that they are part of a secret but dangerous project called The Secret Under the Rainbow. The I.S.S.A and the inhabitants of an alien planet called Canicula are uniting to build a new world inhabited by super beings. A saboteur ruins their plans and puts three worlds in inevitable danger. The Explorers race against time to save the three worlds from nuclear disasters and an untimely demise.

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Earthstar: The Secret Under The Rainbow
R.J. Norman (Author)
ISBN: 978-0615758886

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Doomsday Diaries I by Aaron Powell

Featured Book Review: Doomsday Diaries I
Aaron Powell (Author)

Aaron Powell’s Doomsday Diaries I is about Luke, a 13 year old boy who flees to a bomb shelter with his parents after a large scale nuclear attack has annihilated the Earth. Luke and his parents stay down there for four years, during which he learns weaponry usage, physical exercise, physics and other subjects that Lukes father feels his son needs to survive in the post-apocalyptic wilderness that is the Earth. Luke’s father had no idea how right he would be. Powell’s book will appeal to both science fiction fans and lovers of action-adventure stories.

In the year 2024, Luke was just your average home schooled thirteen year old. When his father gets wind of a worldwide nuclear attack, he has his wife come home, where the whole family quickly prepares to have their lives turned upside down in the midst of world annihilation. They arrive at their bomb shelter, where Luke and his parents quickly adapt to life in an underground bunker. When radios in the bunker pick up the frequency of some soldiers on a mission, the curiosity gets the better of Lukes family. They soon meet up with a Mr. Winthrop, who tells them about a New World Order that has been pulling the strings of the Earths most powerful figures for centuries. Luke and his parents are then separated. It is when Luke goes to a shelter for kids his own age that he meets Kara, a beautiful young woman who is sticking to her morals despite the sexually charged mission of the department to which they’ve been assigned.

Luke eventually escapes, but vows to come back for his love Kara and to find his parents. An interesting theme that runs throughout the book is adolescent sexuality, specifically societys role in shaping the sexual maturity of its young people. This takes place as Luke’s parents teach him to be a loving and sexually responsible adult and goes all the way to the shelter/prison, where sex is in the face of its occupants 24/7. This theme is at times treated with a light, humorous touch, and then develops into something more dystopian.

Powell’s book is in a diary format, which really brings the reader deep into the recesses of Luke’s mind as he lives life underground, fights armed soldiers and emotionally connects with a young woman for the first time. The depth of the characters are such that you will end up rooting for either the bad guys to get their comeuppance or for Luke, Kara and his parents to all have their happy endings. If you’re looking for a thrill ride of a book that gives a haunting portrait of a post-apocalyptic world and has all the action and adventure that you crave in your movies, then Doomsday Diaries I should be the next book on your must read list! Aaron Powell is an author to be watched, as his exciting, entertaining books should be in the hands of more readers.

Doomsday Diaries I
Aaron Powell (Author)
ISBN: 1478101741

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Wool Omnibus Edition

Book of the Week: Wool Omnibus Edition
Hugh Howey (Author)

This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. It is for those who arrived late to the party and who wish to save a dollar or two while picking up the same stories in a single package.

The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.


Wool Omnibus Edition
Hugh Howey (Author)
ISBN: 1469984202

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Book of the Week: Pines

Book of the Week: Pines
Blake Crouch (Author)

Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels…off. As the days pass, Ethan’s investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up more questions than answers.

Why can’t he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn’t anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the world he thought he knew, from the man he thought he was, until he must face a horrifying fact—he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive. Intense and gripping, Pines is another masterful thriller from the mind of bestselling novelist Blake Crouch.


Pines
Blake Crouch (Author)
ISBN: 978-1612183954

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