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Healers and Hunters (WARS: The Battle of Phobos – Earthers, Part 1 of 3) by Nathan P. Butler

Before it was a novella, it was a card game.

Reviewed Apr 12, 2011
A rogue scientist has decided to turn over an ultra-rare piece of technology to a dangerous criminal organization, The Cartel - led by a man no one has seen: The Gambler. XeLabs wants their tech back. CISyn wants the tech for intel and corporate power leverage. And The Cartel is more than happy to watch Earther and Mars leaders squirm at the thought of a Maverick gang controlling game-changing technology with hostilities between the two planets at the breaking point. XeLabs' Captain Rogan Hallard has been tasked with recovering both the tech and the scientist under the guise of rescuing a CGC squad marooned on an asteroid in The Belt where the scientist was last reported to be heading. Until help arrives, Sergeant Jossel Swin and his CGC team will be pushed to the brink by a gauntlet of Cartel thugs, the sword-wielding femme fatale Joker Danniko, and a rogue stalker on a murderous rampage. Genres: Adventure, Military Fiction, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Just when you thought it was safe to read on the beach!

Reviewed Mar 29, 2011
Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley worked as a freelance journalist. Genres: bang sticks, blue sharks, dolphins, harpoons, shark cage diving

Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick

Are our lives predetermined down to the smallest details?

Reviewed Mar 4, 2011
Posing the question of who truly controls our destiny, Adjustment Team is a remarkable short story by the prolific science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Ed Fletcher is a real estate salesman with a steady routine. When he leaves late for work one day, his entire life is thrust off-kilter. Arriving at his office, Ed realises the entire world has been transformed into a horrifying black-and-white nightmare. Rushing to get help, Ed begins to question the philosophy of life and, on the brink of a psychotic breakdown, he realises that he might not be in charge of his own fate. First published in 1954, Adjustment Team was adapted into the science fiction romantic thrillerThe Adjustment Bureau in 2011. Genres: Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Sci-Fi, Short stories

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We guess Cage didn't see this one coming.

Reviewed Feb 25, 2011
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller