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UCREVIEW.COM • APRIL 3, 2013 Science Fiction for April 2013 By Henry Leon Lazarus O
ne of the fun part of Fantasy and Science Fiction is the
discovery of secrets - the type of secrets that eff ect lives and can really change things if discovered. Think of this type of tale as similar to a mystery with a lot more moving parts. Hugh Howey tells how survivors of a cataclysmic destruction live in a hun- dred and forty-nine story silo deep in the Earth who have the Wool (hard from Simon and Schuster) pulled over their eyes for genera- tions. Only criminals leave the silo to clean the camera screens and they die. First the sheriff ’s wife discovers there might be a lie in that and is sent out as a cleaner, and then, three years later
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as a cleaner. That sets off a revolt inside. The silo feels very real, and extremely op- pressive. The tale is impos- sible to put down and may be up for an award.
you’d expect, a carpenter and his wife, and Veek, a computer hacker soon fi nd tunnels under the building that go down thousands of feet. The fi nal surprise is mind-blowing and will cost several of the tenants their lives. Wow! Tanya Huff has a very
interesting world where technology is at the Napo- leonic era and the growing Empire decides to attack
the Sheriff follows. So a new Sheriff is picked. Juliette is a mechanic deep in the lower fl oors, and sheis picked by the mayor over the objec- tions of the powerful IT de- partment head. The mayor is poisoned on the way back and Juliette, after only a week on the job is sent out
Peter Clines has blown away the haunted apart- ment building concept. The Kavach Apartment building is a bit weird, as new tenant Nate Tucker discovers upon moving in. It had a great location in Hollywood, great views, and no park- ing. It also had seven legged cockroaches that never ate anything, odd sizes for every apartment and other odd elements. Room 14 (pa- per from Permuted Press) for instance was padlocked shut. Nate gets interested in the building and soon has other tenants, working with him to fi nd out why the elevator never worked and why no power lines enter the building. The other tenants, an artist who likes to sun bathe nude on the roof, a retired publisher who knows more about guns and picking locks than
The Silvered (hard from Daw which I got from the library) Imperial weapons. The dark and dangerous walk to and across much of the Empire to the Capital city has her discovering just how powerful she is, and also discovers the con- sequence by almost going blind. The fi nal confronta- tion proves that interpreting real predictions frequently prove their lack of worth. I really enjoyed this tale which is complete in itself. However I enjoyed the world enough to hope for another tale! Robin Hobb has a sil- very magical metal at the heart of magic in the fi nal book of her Rain Wilds Chronicles. In which the stunted dragons have found their way to the lost city of
river to bathe in the city baths to change into full strength dragons. Here also is the hard work of clean- ing out the well and fi nd- ing the seam of silver that the dragons need for full health. Finally we have the confl ict between The Duke of Chalced who has sent his minions after dragon parts to recover his health and will stop at nothing to get it. This is a must read for fans of Robin Hobb which answers all the questions of how magic works in her strange world.
Douglas R. Brown tells us that there is a tribe of werewolves on an island off of Costa Rica. Bernard Hen- derson captures on and kills the rest before setting up fi rst a fi ght club for were- wolves and then selling the monsters chipped to stay in wolf form, as pets. What
Aydori, a small country ruled by werewolves and their women mages. Insane soothsayers have predicted that six mages could break the empire and fi ve of them are captured. The sixth, Marian Maylon has no idea of her potential because she has not been able to specialize beyond one of the six paths. But the magical tangle of gold that keeps the other women contained has no power over her. It seems only right to try to rescue her fellow mages. Joined by Thomas, a young werewolf who has seen many of his kin and friends killed by
Kelsingra which had wells of the silver that is found in the Blood of Dragons (hard from Harper Voy- ager) that provided all the magic. Here is the tale of the excitement of getting the dragons across the
he’s actually doing is taking homeless men to be turned and then Tamed (ebook form Rhemalda Publishing). Things start falling apart when an EMT, Christine Alt is attacked by a pet gone mad and swallows enough blood to turn. She is helped by Aiden, a killer of rogue werewolves who doesn’t realize he is killing people, and hunted by the people from the Werehouse try- ing to keep the secret. Very exciting.
Mark Alpert looks at the opposite of the ideas the late Martin Caidin created in Cyborg which became The Six Million Dollar Man And also at the modern view of artifi cial limbs. In the near future Jim Pierce builds replacement limbs for soldiers, limbs that are a bit better than the ones that came natural. He uses computer chips hooked to the brain to motivate them. Then his hacker, and estranged daughter, Layla, gets information from
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