This Weeks Free Reads and Listens

Edmund Blake is diving down a deserted road trying to escape the rigors of his life. A collection of unlikely events and irrational decisions lead him to discover a house in the woods. The house from a time long forgotten competes with him to investigate. The endeavor leads him to one terror-stricken mystery after another.

The novel is the delivery of a sometimes lucid but often mad physicist recounting the events that led to his admittance into an institution. The story is conveyed in the florid style of the early nineteenth century, leaving the time period and setting ambiguous and surrealistic. Vivid and suggestive devices are used to explore the middle ground between the known and the supernatural.

Mars is from Martian is a story of conflict between humans terraforming Mars and a race of Martians who have been genetically engineered to live in the Martian atmosphere. After a century or so of terraforming Mars, many bases and settlements have been set up. As an interim process to assist in terraforming animals and plants that can live on Mars have been created.

An archeological team discovers ruins to a civilization on Mars. Upon excavation and exploration they discover things not only about Mars but also about them human race.

While dining out with his family, an ex-marine goes berserk and violently kills a congressman. Detective Cliff Ambrose and his partner from LAPD VR (Virtual Reality) investigations department are assigned the case. It is like nothing they have ever encountered before.

The Reality Beneath is a collection of short stories written by SULI Daniel Johnson. They range in length from twenty to eighty pages. They are written in his distinct brand of science fiction that can be defined as stories that make you think. The Reality Beneath encompasses a good example of SULI Daniel Johnson’s unique style. He takes current topics and situations and looks at them from a new perspective. The genre is technically science fiction yet quite often it comes very close to reality broadening the perspective to look at things in a new way.

This novel is part of a series, ‘Young Magic,’ directed to young reader teens and pre-teens. It is sort of a Harry Potter thing but with diversity and better-developed characters. A diverse group of teenagers meet each other and form an unlikely bond. They are witches and wizards from different orders and battle supernatural beings in the paranormal world. They are racially and socially diverse.

Hell is broken up into a series of regions. Each one has a unique theme. The trio navigates through some of them interacting and relating to each. The meet god, demigods, historical figures and celebrities. Always they are assisted or hindered by a sentient being with dysfunctional split personalities the Hitchhikers guide to heaven and hell.