Your Best Science, Science Fiction, and Fantasy of March is right here. Author Andy Zach scans the internet for you. What’s there?
I’ve got so much for you! Where do I start?
Here’s a science fiction review of one of my favorite books:
Overall 5 out of 5 stars
Performance 5 out of 5 stars
Story 5 out of 5 stars
03-23-22
Another winner by Andy Zach!
Unique and wonderful book for young people. Kids see a whole new side of kids with special needs. Not weird. Just kids who are facing a different sort of challenge than they are. The story is fun and believable. It kept me interested, and I’m an old lady!
At this point in the bloc you get some science fiction. Along with some laughs.
New review for Zombie Turkeys!
Overall 4 out of 5 stars
Performance 4 out of 5 stars
Story 4 out of 5 stars
03-18-22
funny
This is a parody of all those zombie apocalypse books and films. Zombie turkeys are loose in Illinois. It was hysterical when the fresh turkeys in the grocery store came to life. I had fun imagining the governor calling out the National Guard to protect turkey farms and hunt down the zombie turkeys. They were to use specially trained turkey dogs. Give this a try.
We’re Not Done! Your Science Science Fiction Fantasy Continues Below
Enjoy these gorgeous pictures of – cold water invertebrates. Who would have thunk it?
How do I follow up such a nerdy article? With a nerdier video about battery manufacturing and technology.
You see, I’m a nerd. I love all science and technology. But I’ve been especially following Tesla battery and electric car technology. Check out the next video.
What can top these stories? How about this fantasy story below?
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A half-goblin and his pet honey badger battle pirates
When a teenaged Anuka Sandbar, criminally handsome half-goblin, visits the world’s most famous Orc brothel only the sort of fun Anuka is known for can ensue. This short story is an introduction to the beloved hero of the Dragons of Dorwine Series.
Science, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Reviews – I’m bursting with reviews and the latest science news for you. Let’s dive right in!
Cover of Patricia MiKillip’s book
Once again Patricia McKillip shows she is the mistress (mage?) of fantasy through this great mystery fantasy.
What’s so great about it? It begins with a horribly close battle between a besieging army and a castle. Both sides are losing men and neither will give in or negotiate. The world’s greatest mage, Atrix Wolfe, feels compelled to intervene to stop the final battle. He’s filled with outrage at the atrocities of war, and uses all his power to make a terror worse than either army. Both flee before it and the war ends.
The king of the castle dies, with many of his army, killed by the magical thing on the field of battle. His wife dies in sorrow, leaving a baby, Tallis, who is reared by his older brother, now the king.
Unfortunately, Atrix Wolfe loses control of his magic. The thing still kills. Plus there are many magical side effects. An unknown child appears after the battle, mute and dazed. She becomes a kitchen scullery maid, named ‘Saro’.
Atrix Wolfe, horrified by the magical backlash, forsakes magic and goes into hiding. The baby prince Tallis grows up and is sent to mage school. That’s the start of the mystery, twenty years after the battle. Tallis finds a mysterious book. Seemingly a basic book of spells, why was it hidden in a broom closet? It has no author and none of the spells work correctly.
Lovers of mysteries and of fantasy will delight in this classic.
And here’s your science fiction, derived from this article. Reversing aging? Check out my villain in this book: (Hint: the villain is not the undead mother-in-law.)
My Undead Mother-in-law cover. Click to get yours.
I read the whole book in just a few days. This is the first one that I couldn’t figure out what was going to happen before it did! I was even a bit concerned for the Zombies. (Now there’s something I never thought I’d hear myself think!)
The worst part is that I was in a rush to get back to my real life, so I hurried to get to the end…and what happens? I had to get the next book! I’m glad Kindle let me buy their unlimited plan, or else I would have to mortgage my house to find out what happens next! Save yourself the headaches and buy the set. You’re going to, anyway!
Whew! Lots of stories within stories with a wink of incredulity as we read along the pages. Tongue-in-cheek adventures, modern day villains’, and zombies; wait, are they still zombies or not? Yep, we have that zombie virus run amok with various creations to transform them back and forth. How much of a zombie body do you need to regenerate?
Gung-ho leader of the group Diane Newby, husband George, are charging on fighting crime with the discreet eye of the government as their silent partners. Somali pirates, Harrod’s London Store with real bulls in the china shop, parasitic cyborgs, virus-antivirus, bacteria, and other minute details tangle the story line into a braided rug of conspiracies and innovative solutions. And little do they know, but their arch enemy is among their group.
This was a slow read for me because so many things happen that go back into something revealed earlier that I really concentrated to meditate and map out all the subplots that make this a “HOOT “of a read. Andy Zach must keep a storyboard as big as an unabridged encyclopedia! This is a read and reread type of book that will never be loaned out because the reader will want to keep it safely hoarded away for multiple times.
Jeremy Gentle fell flat on his face at therapy. That was normal since he had cerebral palsy. But his new superpower wasn’t normal.
Then things got weirder when his best friend, Dan Elanga, got a different superpower. But Dan was still blind.
Kayla Verdera and Aubrey Wilcosky, two girls in their middle-school special ed class, discovered they too had new superpowers. Kayla was mute and needed a walker. Aubrey lost two legs and used crutches. But they were as powerful as the boys.
What should the four friends do? Jeremy knew if the word got out, it’d be a media circus. Then they started fighting crime, as the Secret Supers. Who knew a disability could be a perfect disguise? No one would ever think of disabled kids as superheroes. Then they ran into problems they never expected.
And the other book on sale is . . .
Villain’s Vacation cover
Four disabled seventh-graders with superpowers take a vacation at Coaster World. They need a break from fighting criminals. Ever since the beginning of the school year when they acquired their unusual abilities, they’ve been training and using those powers to fight crime in their town.
ittle do they know the arch-villain they recently defeated also loves coasters and is vacationing at Coaster World. Worse, the villain wants revenge. Nothing less than turning these teens to a life of crime will satisfy.
Can Jeremy, Dan, Kayla, and Aubrey withstand the villain’s attacks? Or will they become Super Villains?
You can only find out by reading the adventure ‘Villain’s Vacation’.
March Fourth! Science and Science Fiction for You! I cruise the internet constantly and pick up interesting science articles and science fiction. Here are the best ones I’ve found.
But first, a laugh for you.
March Fourth! Science Incoming
I read science articles all the time. I subscribe to GE’s newsletter to get these cool news bits from them. Then I post the best ones on my Facebook page.
Zombie viruses? Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah–
March Fourth! Science Fiction for You Coming Up Next!
Here’s my review of Liu Cixin’s last book in his ‘Three-Body Problem” trilogy.
book cover from Goodreads
Author Liu Cixin concludes his trilogy in fine fashion. He maintains the reader’s interest through 1,800 pages and manages to surprise them time and time again. His characters suffer much but triumph through perseverance.
The Earth and Trisolarian invaders’ conflict is finally resolved. Like most wars, no one wins. But the dark forest view of the universe, where everyone is out to destroy any intelligence turns out to be optimistic. As humanity’s technology advances, they find out more about other civilizations. And they’re not nice.
There is wonderful hard science throughout the series, including string theory, curving space for speed of light travel, and changing the physical constants of the universe, such as the speed of light.
That’s my only criticism, from a hard science point of view. There’s a subplot that hinges on changing the speed of light through a solar system–and Liu doesn’t realize that would wreck the sun in the system. Fusion hinges on converting matter to energy, and if the speed of light is reduced, the energy of the star goes way down, (due to e=mc2 – reduce c and energy goes down) the star collapses, and it no longer warms the system.
What did you like best about Zombie Turkeys? What did you like least?
There were times when the book was laugh out loud funny, but other times it was just cheesy. Also, repetitive use of the word “said” in the dialog portions was obnoxious.
I’m increasing my rating on this book, because I listened to it over a year ago, and it still pops into my head sometimes. I still say “Zombie Turkey” every time I hear a turkey gobble. And I felt compelled to order an autographed copy of the book. All of this says to me that I under-rated it the first time, and need to make it right.
