Time Salvager

Wesley Chu’s Time Salvager presents a bleak vision of mankind hundreds of years in the future.  While technology has advanced to the point of interplanetary travel and colony settlement, supplies are running low.  Luckily for the human race, they’ve perfected time travel!  Using this technology, a select few are tasked with going into the past…

The Year of the Flood

The Year of the Flood is Margaret Atwood’s follow up to Oryx & Crake.  Rather than write a direct sequel, The Year of the Flood’s events occur alongside Oryx & Crake, acting as a stort of expansion on the original story.  The story follows Toby and Ren, two of the three people Jimmy comes into…

All The Flowers Are Dying

The day I started my journey through the Scudder series in 2011, I’ve been dreading this moment.  I somehow managed to stretch the sixteen novels over the past four years in an attempt to get maximum enjoyment out of the series.  It was a great choice, if I don’t say so myself.  While there are…

The Man in the Empty Suit

The Man in the Empty Suit follows an unnamed time traveller as he attends his 39th birthday at the Boltzman Hotel.  While your mind is probably imagining a lavish party with friends and loved ones, you’d be mistaken.  The only people in attendance happen to be multiple versions of the protagonist  who all travel to…

The Killing Kind

Michael Hendricks has a very particular set of skills, skills he has learned over a short career as a covert ops agent stationed in Afghanistan, skills that make him a nightmare for other hired killers.  If you pay him now, that will be the end of it.  You will survive an attempt on your life.…

Ms. Marvel: No Normal

A teenager who longs for freedom from her overbearing parents finds herself inheriting powers from the mysterious Terrigen Mist that spreads throughout Jersey City. The new iteration of Ms. Marvel centres around Pakistani-American Kamala Khan, Marvel’s first Muslim character to headline her own series.  That being said, series’ author G. Willow Wilson isn’t about to…

Spider-Man: Learning to Crawl

Current Spider-Man scribe Dan Slott decides to expand upon the wall-crawler’s origins with a tale set within web-head’s first sixty days.  Struggling to come to terms with his newfound powers and responsibilities, Peter Parker inadvertently inspires a young fan to take up action as New York’s newest superhero, The Clash.  Will Spidey continue to inspire…

The Daughter of Time

While recovering from injuries suffered on the job, Inspector Alan Grant is searching for something to occupy his mind.  Having an affinity for faces, Grant is given a stack of portraits and photos of men and women to study.  After coming across a photo of historical villain Richard III, Grant recalls the murder of Richard’s…