Adventuring is dangerous and unpredictable business, as Gideon Smith learned in Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl. After encountering Egyptian mummies, frog-faced hordes, sky pirates, vampires, and Bram Stoker himself, Gideon Smith has a little advice for his companions.
Acclaimed thriller writers Hilary Davidson (Blood Always Tells) and Jon McGoran (Drift) are no strangers to the game of premeditated murder, a longtime facet in many genres of fiction. The most fascinating ways to kill off fictional characters don’t involve bullets or blades, and poison is just the beginning! In McGoran’s newly released biotech thriller, DEADOUT, the sequel to DRIFT, a giant biotech company creates genetically modified super bees to come to the rescue of the world’s collapsing bee colonies. But their intentions are not what they seem. Here are some other favorite fictional ways that McGoran and Davidson bring murder and mayhem to the printed page…
Stephen Baker's THE BOOST features a very near future where most everyone is outfitted at birth with a "boost"--a networked supercomputer imbedded in the brain. What will life be like in this (inevitable, if we're honest) future world? Well, let's just say there will be pros and cons...
Robots may have started out as machines with people hiding inside, but these days, they’re getting more and more advanced, both in software and hardware. In a world where anyone might be a robot, how will you know if your best friend is real? Well, your best friend might be a robot if…
In Daryl Gregory’s AFTERPARTY we are introduced to the drug Numinous which induces the tangible feeling of the Almighty's love (however the imbiber might be predisposed to imagine Him/Her/It). Unfortunately, an overdose of Numinous can cause a permanent visual and auditory hallucination of however God manifests himself/herself/itself to you... so don't take too much.