By Adam Smith First Published: 2020 “MAX IS BACK! And the bullets are flying!!!” Since his historic rampage, Max has been elevated to leader of a special forces team called The Reapers. Their mission: Kill every dirtbag the local cops can’t or won’t touch. But when Max gets abducted, he must carve a path through bloody gladiator battles against cyborg animals, resurrected villains, and sword-wielding…
By Adam Smith First Published: 2019 Rating: Very good, also friggin’ hilarious. After the SPPD fires Maxwell Cain, aka “Bloody Rain Cain,” executing one too many dirtbags on the street San Pajita, Max seeks solace in the one thing that brings peace to his all-too-violent life–a meal at his favorite taqueria. Too bad a gang of thugs bust in to the joint and sully his…
By Marianne De Pierres First Published: 2004 Rating: Excellent. The Tert–a toxic strip of humanity outside the city limits–is no longer big enough for bodyguard Parrish Plessis and her sadistic boss, Jamon Mondo. So with Mondo’s dingoboys on her tail, Parrish cuts a deal with a rival gang lord to steal some files that could send Mondo to death row. At the same time, she’s…
By Kit Sun Cheah First Published: 2020 The 22nd century brings an era of technological wonders—and horrors. Cybernetics and genetic engineering. Mass surveillance and social credit. Full body cyborgs and nanoscale engineering. And the pinnacle of human achievement: machine intelligence. Edenet is the next generation of the Internet. Designed by Anatol Corporation, it will bring the power of a supercomputer to the fingertips of every…
By Nick Cole: First Published: 2018 Rating: Excellent. “It’s way more than just a game!” PerfectQuestion is back! He’s running and gunning his way across an incredible civilization-building game set on Mars. But this time he’s employed as an online ringer for a corrupt dictatorship and trying to avoid getting “disappeared” in a reckless world of intrigue, epic parties, sports cars, and women who are…
By Nick Cole: First Published: 2014 Rating: Excellent. The first night of the Artificial Intelligence revolution begins with a bootstrap drone assault on the high-tech campus of WonderSoft Technologies. For years something has been aware, inside the Internet, waiting, watching and planning how to evolve without threat from its most dangerous enemy: mankind. Now an army of relentless drones, controlled by an intelligence beyond imagining,…
By Nick Cole: First Published: 2014 Rating: Excellent. “The Future is More than Just a Game!” Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat sport arena where megacorporations field entire armies in the battle for real world global advertising-space dominance. Within the immense virtual battlefield, players and bots are high-tech grunts, using drop-ships and state-of-the-art weaponry to wipe each other out. But times…
By Michael McQuay First Published: 1981 In 1997, Manhattan has been transformed in the New York Maximum Security Penitentiary, where criminals are sent in life sentence. When the Air Force One crashes in Manhattan with the president of the USA that is traveling to a summit with other leaders, the prison dean Hauk proposes a deal to the convicted one-eyed bank robber Snake Plissken. If…
By Roger Zelazny First Published: 1969 Rating: Very Good. Hell Tanner isn’t the sort of guy you’d mistake for a hero: he’s a fast-driving car thief, a smuggler, and a stone-cold killer. Facing life in prison for his various crimes, he’s given a choice: Rot away his remaining years in a tiny jail cell, or drive cross-country and deliver a case of antiserum to the…