Author: tiki god

Inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who’s running the place. Scalzi remains one of my favorite authors, even if his writing style has settled into an extremely easy to read but unchallenging flow of witty dialogue that flows perfectly from page to page, making this a quick read. As a consumer of his personal website, it was fun to see some familiar names of the secret agents and I enjoyed a couple of the subplots and how they were resolved. What’s funny though is that there was a “bonus” story...

Journey into the near future, and an unknown nation that was once the United States of America-a land that’s become shrouded in mystery after walling itself off from the rest of the world without explanation over thirty years ago. I wasn’t sure what to expect with this series, but a deep dive into what makes American the country that it is wasn’t on the menu. Charles Soule and Scott Snyder have spun a story set in a philosophically deconstructed country that’s been at war with itself since the day of it’s founding, but in their version 30 years ago it...

  What if… Carter Burke had lived? For years, fans of James Cameron’s legendary Aliens film questioned whether Carter Burke, a company man more hateable than the Xenos themselves, had actually survived the traumatic events on the terraforming colony Hadley’s Hope. Now the actor behind the beloved villain, Paul Reiser, joins his son Leon and a star-studded team of writers and producers for the twisted escape of a man who should have died! Thirty-five years later, Burke is eking out a cursed existence on a backwater asteroid. With his once-promising career in the toilet, Burke’s only remaining purpose is to...

The launch of a new science fiction adventure series–by the New York Times-best selling author of the Safehold series and the Honor Harrington series The Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability–the kind of stability that member species like the aggressive, carnivorous Shongairi tend to disturb. So when the Hegemony Survey Force encountered a world whose so-called “sentients”–“humans,” they called themselves–were almost as bad as the Shongairi themselves, it seemed reasonable to use the Shongairi to neutralize them before they could become a second threat to galactic peace. And if the Shongairi took a few...

When Una Chin-Riley and Christopher Pike meet at Starfleet Academy after one of his lectures, they immediately become friends. A stellar student, Una is the “poster girl” of her class, and Pike is determined to become a Starfleet captain with his own ship, rhetorically assembling his dream crew. As their friendship evolves, Pike also suspects Una is involved with the Euxhana, a Chionian cultural minority, who are seeking asylum in Federation space, leading to more questions than answers. Twenty-five years later, Una and Pike are working together on the USS Enterprise to settle a Chionian trade agreement when a pro-Euxhana...