I read an interesting book this month, the sort of hard science fiction story I don’t get to read as much as I used to. Taming the Perilous Skies, by Phil Marshall, is set in the year 2076. The novel explores a world transformed by anti-gravity technology—until that technology catastrophically fails, plunging the globe into chaos. At the heart of the story is Jack Woods, a national security official grappling with personal loss, and Brian Medlock, the aging physicist behind the breakthrough theory known as Persistence. Their intertwined journeys navigate grief, responsibility, and the metaphysical implications of a technology that…
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Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever
A Touch of Whimsy Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever by Greg Cox Pocket Books, New York, 2011 “Miracles break the rules. That’s why we have to lock them away.” –Artie About ten minutes into this novel — the first officially authorized story based on the Syfy Channel’s seriesWarehouse 13 — I wondered if I had wandered into a young adult book. The tone, the attitude and the atmosphere were all about what I would expect of a teenager’s point of view. And then it dawned on me: author Greg Cox has perfectly caught the “voice” of Pete Lattimer, the boyish,…