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Dave Dobson's Kenai, a Novel Worth the Trees

You can get away with a lot in a novel when the protagonist is funny. In Kenai, the winner of the third Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC), author Dave Dobson introduces us to Jess Amiko, a disgraced space marine working security on a backwater planet who has lost everything but her sense of humor. Amiko takes a job protecting an archeological dig on Kenai, a planet "at the ass-end of Council space" that hasn't been occupied by sentients for thousands of years. Sounds like ... (read more)

2024/07/25

Those Left Behind: 'All of Us Go, or None of Us Go'

N.C. Scrimgeour's Those Left Behind did extremely well in the second Self-Published Science Fiction Contest (SPSFC), emerging as one of the seven finalists from a field of over two hundred novels. The book begins as a tale of humans desperate to flee their overpopulated, desiccated and dying planet New Pallas, sending a small crew of cybernetically enhanced humans called Exodans and a few humans with vital skills through an ancient and technologically enigmatic wormhole to a distant ... (read more)

2023/08/21