Empry is the third book in the Trigon Disunity triolgy, which features the continuation of a story that begins decades in the relative past of the storyline (in the first book Emprise). The second story, Enigma, changes direction and follows the main character, Merritt Thackery, as he discovers the secrets of the universe while working [...]
Continue Reading...Whenever I travel, I try to take at least 1 or 2 good novels that I’ve been meaning to read or re-read, but I just took a trip where I wasn’t able to figure out what I wanted to take with me. I’ve cracked open an ancient Arthur C. Clarke book that’s sitting on my [...]
Continue Reading...Truth be told, I’m a sucker for page-turning science fiction thrillers, and almost nobody does it better than Michael Crichton. Prey was written in 2004, and features a chilling tale of nanotechnology gone awry. The story begins with Jack, a stay-at-home-dad not necessarily by choice, but by requirement. His wife, Julia, works for a startup [...]
Continue Reading...Ask anyone that knows my reading preferences, and one author will probably be at the top of the list: Orson Scott Card. The first Card book that I read, like most people, was the thrilling Ender’s Game. That novel places a young boy on a battle school in orbit, to train to fight the most [...]
Continue Reading...One of the authors that lies somewhere between horror / thriller and science fiction that I enjoy is Dean Koontz. I have no idea how he manages to churn out so many stories year after year, but his tales are uniformly well written, if possibly formulaic. There’s usually a hero with extraordinary powers, and almost [...]
Continue Reading...The second book of Michael P. Kube-Mcdowell’s Trigon Disunity trilogy is titled Enigma, which is a fitting title for this novel. Essentially, it begins where Emprise left off, however detached from that story by about 150 years of advancements. Where Emprise is a story about the descent into and out of a devestated mankind, Enigma [...]
Continue Reading...Well, summer is right around the corner, and with it comes the opportunity for parents to help their children explore more things outside of the classroom. Obviously, a great summer should be filled with campfire stories, roadtrips, and outdoor adventures, but there is also the room to help expand your kid’s mind. For the record, [...]
Continue Reading...As you might have noticed (and hopefully will notice more as you keep returning to the SciFi-Guy.com!), I’m a huge fan of post apocalypse. It’s a difficult genre though, because as popular as Kevin Costner’s movies have been, there just doesn’t seem to be much appeal for the subcategory of science fiction. The demise of [...]
Continue Reading...There are several Science Fiction authors that I’ve tried to follow regularly because for one reason or another, their stories appeal to my reading style. One of those authors is Michael P. Kube-Mcdowell, who has written several great novels, including an intriguing series of books called the Trigon Disunity. The books in the series include [...]
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