Book Review
Slow Train to Arcturus
by Todd Mercer
Veteran sci-fi writers Eric Flint and Dave Freer present a mechanical engineer/biologist named Kretz who’s investigating a gargan-tuan craft transporting planetoid-sized artificial habitats through deep space in "Slow Train to...
Book Review
The Almost Murder and Other Stories
by Todd Mercer
Brooklyn-born actress Theresa Saldana appeared in Raging Bull and on the TV series The Commish; she founded the Victims for Victims support organization. Her fiction debut, "The Almost Murder and Other Stories" (Piñata Books,...
Book Review
Dooley Takes the Fall
by Todd Mercer
Quintuple winner of the Arthur Ellis Award Norah McClintock profiles a teen struggling and failing to regain normalcy after incarcera-tion for burglary and assault in "Dooley Takes the Fall" (Red Deer Press, 978-0-88995-403-8). Dooley is...
Book Review
Weeping under This Same Moon
by Todd Mercer
After the fall of Saigon, nineteen-year-old Mei Phuong escapes Vietnam on an overloaded boat with her younger brother and sister in tow, destination unknown. Conditions onboard deteriorate until Mei sees a woman prepare to leap to her...
Book Review
Triskellion
by Todd Mercer
Rachel and Adam Newman, fourteen-year-old twins from New York, are shipped off to live with an unaffectionate grandmother in a peculiar English town on the moors whose insular residents share a complicated secret. Will Peterson’s...
Book Review
Quondam
by Todd Mercer
The winner of the Indie Excellence Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction steers a sure course away from the wreckage-strewn shoals common to the genre delivering a well-conceptualized story which seems to reflect real history yet...
Book Review
EV Management
by Todd Mercer
Dr. Brammar takes a dim view of certain improvement paradigms like Lean Manufacturing which promise miracle savings through little more than streamlining work stations or production lines. If every second of waste is cut from the making...
Book Review
African Girl
by Todd Mercer
The quest for racial equality and human rights ties together disparate elements in the highly original speculative novel "African Girl". The story begins with a little girl named Lea living in the fictional country of Nathan which could...