Rise Reviews

Roarke by Frances Pauli Divine Destinies, 2010 $3.99 (ebook) Frances Pauli cranks up the tension right off the bat with her sci fi romance, Roarke, with a lot of questions begging for answers. But what hints at the beginning of a nail-biting thriller instead turns into an introspective story where the problems are more about [...]

Support the Little Guy is an e-zine devoted to promoting the Twitter campaign by the same name. It is published on a bi-monthly basis, and contains 3-6 stories, poetry at times, and reviews of short fiction that are published online. Episode #2, titled Jingle Bells, contains three short stories and five reviews. The stories are [...]

December brings us Albedo One issue #39, bringing with it six stories, one of which being from Mike Resnick. A quick glance shows that a few of them even have awards pinned on them. 2009 Aeon Award winning story “Frogs on my Doorstep” by Annette Reader starts us off with a tale about a girl [...]

The first edition of Panverse contains a sampling of novellas that cover a wide range of territory within science fiction and suit a large number of tastes.  As the Introduction states, “…the novella is long enough to allow for a satisfying level of worldbuilding and character development which would notbe possible in a short story, [...]

What if you could experience one of the great disasters in human history without getting hurt? What if you could be an astronaut on the Space Shuttle Columbia, join the Battle of Gettysburg or even watch the plane coming at you from inside one of the Twin Towers?

Jase Delaney, head of the Delaney Corporation, provides that opportunity through a hologram program in his newest endeavor, Living History. But is it disrespectful to the millions of people who died in those tragedies to profit from their re-enactments?

It’s hard to classify a collection like Sheep and Wolves because it fits into some many genres. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Horror. Dark. Humor. The seventeen stories within these pages range between all of these, and even seem to create some new corners to hide in, waiting for you to come by to leap out and [...]

Art Gordon is a human who is broke and signs on to be the housekeeper for an all-female Tanni’Anneray science vessel. The Tanni’Anneray are short, brightly-colored aliens that look somewhat similar to cats. The ship is headed to a star that has gone white dwarf in order to do scientific studies. When they arrive, there [...]