Timothy C. Ward's Blog, page 10
April 16, 2017
Audiobook Review: SURVIVING THE EVACUATION, BOOK 2: WASTELAND (
Surviving the Evacuation, Book 2: Wasteland
Written by: Frank Tayell
Narrated by: Tim Bruce , Ruth Urquhart
Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
Series: Surviving the Evacuation, Book 2
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:08-14-15
Publisher: Frank Tayell
I recently reviewed the first book in this series, London, and described it as ideal zombie fiction, for fans of the genre as a whole, but also for those who’ve come to love a good journal format style.
I won’t get into much more of specifics because I...
Audiobook Review: SURVIVING THE EVACUATION, BOOK ONE: LONDON by Frank Tayell (Narr. Tim Bruce)
Surviving the Evacuation, Book 1: London
Written by: Frank Tayell
Narrated by: Tim Bruce
Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
Series: Surviving the Evacuation, Book 1
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:06-22-15
Publisher: Frank Tayell
One of my favorite reading experiences was discovering Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne. This was about seven years ago, and I probably haven’t found as many books that I’ve enjoyed as much in that time frame. There was a magical kind of balance in the journal format co...
April 15, 2017
Book Review – WAY DOWN DARK by J.P. Smythe
Way Down Dark by J.P. Smythe (The Australia Trilogy, Book One)
Book Description:
Seventeen-year-old Chan’s ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. Generations later, they are still searching . . .
Every day aboard the interstellar transport ship Australia is a kind of hell, where no one is safe, no one can hide. Indeed, the only life Chan’s ever known is one of endless violence. A life of survival. Fiercely independent and entirely self-sufficient, she has...
April 3, 2017
Audiobook Review: THE COLLAPSING EMPIRE by John Scalzi (Narr. Wil Wheaton)
The Collapsing Empire: The Interdependency, Book 1
Written by: John Scalzi
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
Series: The Interdependency, Book 1
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:03-21-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Publisher’s Summary
Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible – until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars.
H...
March 27, 2017
Book Review: TIME LOOTER 1 by Fenton Cooper
This book is definitely not written by Michael Bunker and his off the rails humor side kick, Michael Forbes, oh wait, Forbes West. This is Fenton Cooper, and the book is Time Looter. I’m a big fan of Bunker and his serialized books Pennsylvania and Wick, and so far this has been just the kind of reading addiction I was hoping for. Orbit South is funny in real life, and the character he epitomizes is enough to keep this story riding just to hear what he says next. It just so happens that the s...
Audiobook Review: HELL DIVERS by Nicholas Sansbury Smith (Narr. R.C. Bray)
Written by: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
Series: The Hell Divers Trilogy, Book 1
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:07-19-16
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publisher’s Summary:
An Audible Editor’s Pick of 2016 and An Audible Best of 2016 Science Fiction.
More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging an...
March 19, 2017
Favorite Part of Community
This Sunday while cooking breakfast, I turned on the 30 Minute Author Interviews podcast hosted by Preston Leigh of the website, www.leighgendarium.com, and listened to his Episode 43 interview with Michael Bunker and Forbes West. They are hosting a giveaway for signed copies of Brother, Frank by Michael Bunker and Nighthawks at the Mission by Forbes West. To enter, you just comment on the episode post with your favorite part.
I’ll copy in my comment about what I loved about this interview,...
March 18, 2017
Audiobook Review – THE GOD WAVE by Patrick Hemstreet (Narr. Nick Podehl)
The God Wave by Patrick Hemstreet
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:05-17-16
Publisher: HarperAudio
Synopsis:
A team of neuroscientists uncover amazing new capabilities in the brain that may steer human evolution toward miraculous and deadly frontiers in this spectacular debut work of speculative science fiction—Limitless meets James Rollins—that combines spirituality and science in an inventive, mind-blowing fashion.
For decades, scientist...
March 14, 2017
Audiobook Review: WOLVES by D.J. Molles (Narr. Christian Rummel)
WolvesWritten by: D. J. Molles
Narrated by: Christian Rummel
Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:08-30-16
Publisher: Audible Studios
Synopsis
They took everything—killed his wife, enslaved his daughter, destroyed his life. Now he’s a man with nothing left to lose … and that’s what makes him so dangerous.
Ten years after the collapse, Huxley had built a good life again. He had a loving wife, a farm with fields of golden barley, and a daughter with a strange and wonde...
March 13, 2017
4 novels 99 cents #postapocalyptic #urbanfantasy #sciencefiction
4 novels at 99 cents apiece, and a new Godsknife story. We’re having a big week of sales, with both of my Sand Divers novels (Evolution and A.I.)and my Godsknife: Revolt novel on sale, plus a new story set in the Godsknife universe called Lineage.
Visit my Amazon page or My website to see the all the sales in one handy location.
I only teased about Lineage in the last newsletter, and for those who signed up to my Advance Reader Group, you already have a copy in your inbox. Here’s the scoop o...
