If not space, the stratosphere at least. A company founded by people with a “background in aerospace engineering and satellites” is now offering to release your beloved's ashes from 20 miles above the earth with a weather balloon, also to film it for your later memories. Here's Mesoloft's promo video: According to the Huffington Post:…
Overlord by David L. Golemon is the final sci-fi thriller in the Event Group trilogy where armageddon is upon the entire world (available July 15, 2014). The plans of a million years are finally ready for what has always been coming—Armageddon. Finally, the first move is set in motion and the assassinations begin, eliminating…
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Obviously, it's a wonderfully-tempered dog, obviously, not everyone has a drone… but enough with the caveats and concerns about pooper-scooping, because finally, thanks to Jeff Myers, something in today's world is actually better than in George Jetson's! We look forward to the attempts to have drones fill in for Rosie the maid, too. A drone…
XOM-B by Jeremy Robinson is a futuristic paranormal thriller about a unique young man with high-tech characteristics, who will find himself pursued by the world-enslaving Masters as well as masses of former slaves who've become zombies (available April 29, 2014). The first thought that entered my head when I picked up Jeremy Robinson’s XOM-B was…
With the publication of A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle kicked off a Sherlock Holmes phenomenon that has yet to abate. Sherlock and Elementary are just the latest in a long list of “reinventions” of Holmes and Watson. We’re all familiar with the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce movies and Grenada Television’s mostly faithful adaptions of…
Zero Volume 1: An Emergency by Ales Kot and illustrated by various artists is a collection of five comics that follow Edward Zero, the top spy for The Agency who learns he's been working for the wrong side (available March 4, 2014). When I think of spy thrillers, the first thing that comes to…
Pillar to the Sky by William R. Forstchen is a futuristic thriller about a space elevator facing financial, engineering, and political challenges to save a world and humanity in decline (available February 11, 2014). Taking an elevator into space. It’s straight out of science fiction. But like so many other ideas that have been dreamed…
RedDevil 4 by Eric C. Leuthardt is a futuristic thriller about a neurosurgeon brought to assist police with a series of horrifying murders in 2053's St. Louis (available February 4, 2014). Dr. Eric Leuthardt’s debut novel, RedDevil 4, is described as a medico-techno-thiller. It might be described also as speculative fiction, since this neurosurgeon and…
An exclusive excerpt of Shovel Ready, a futuristic hardboiled noir by Adam Sternbergh (available January 14, 2014). Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a blown-out shell of its former self. Now he’s a hitman. In…
