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SPSFC2021: It’s The Final Countdown!

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Team Red Stars’ SPSFC Top 3

This is tough! Team Red Stars had ten AMAZING books to read for Round Two, but can only pass along three books into the next round of the SPSFC. I am so appreciative of the judges on our team and how much work, thought, and effort went into reading and judging these books. It was a very difficult choice, and as with previous rounds some of my personal favorites did not make the cut! If you would…

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Announcing Our SPSFC Round One Top Ten!

As stated in the previous post right now Team Red Stars has completed our initial reading allotment for the Self Published Science Fiction Competition and have cut 21 books from our 31 book allotment. This leaves us with 10 books to read in full and then advance 3 of those 10 into the next round. This means we have a Top Ten from the first round! Let’s take a look at these 10 books! Here they are…

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SPSFC First Round Cuts For Team Red Stars

Team Red Stars has completed our first round of reading! So we read at least 10-20% of 31 books and then selected ten to read all of before passing three of those on into the next round. This means that we sadly had to select 21 books to cut from the competition. This has not been an easy choice! However at the heart of the Self Published Science Fiction Competition is the goal of bringing…

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Announcing Upcoming Announcements For SPSFC!

As y’all know I have the joy of working with Team Red Stars for the amazing SPSFC and we are almost ready to announce our cuts from our initial allotment of books! We will then follow that with our release of our Team’s Top Ten Books from the allotment. These are the ten we will read in full prior to passing three along to the third round of the competition. So what does all this mean? Well I am…

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What Is This SPSFC You Blog Of?

If you saw my last post and were like “Yes, very nice, but what is this SPSFC of which you blog?” well I am glad you asked! The SPSFC is the Self Published Science Fiction Competition and it is a brand new shiny annual competition designed to take around 300 books that are voluntarily submitted, vet them through ten teams of judges, and select one book as the very best of those 300 books! As…

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Book 46 of....

Book 46 of….

Y’all know I’ve been reading the Horus Heresy for *does imitation of Obi Wan’s voice from Ep IV* “… a long, long time. A long time.” and truthfully I’ve really been enjoying it! Admittedly when I first started reading it the first time through I thought they were moving too fast by the third book and worried they’d have it resolved by the fifth book. Wow was I wrong! I remember getting so…

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A Must Read Author

Every reader has a must read author or two that they absolutely love reading and HAVE to read everything the author has written! It’s an instant buy when you see their books, or a preorder when you hear that they have a new book coming soon. You just have to read their books! Like drop your TBR pile on the floor and grab this book! For me Benjanun Sriduangkaew has become that Must Read Author! I…

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April Fools TBR

What is one book on your TBR that you’ve been saying to yourself for ages that you’ll eventually one day maybe perhaps sometime soon get to it and read it? That ONE book you never quite seem to get to no matter how much you PROMISE you will get to it? Let’s read that book in April! We ALL have one or two of those books that always get shuffled down our TBR no matter how often we set it atop the…

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The Winner Of RedStarReviews Favorite Book Of The Year Award For 2020 is...

The Winner Of RedStarReviews Favorite Book Of The Year Award For 2020 is…

That is a super long title for a blog post and for an award! However it is perfect for the goal of the post which is to unveil the winner of this (potentially) highly sought after award! Each year I select one book out of all the books I’ve read that year and crown it as my favorite! I typically leave out rereads, otherwise I might end up with repeat winners as I like rereading my favorites, but…

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A Snippet Of A Space Opera!

Y’all know I love a good Space Opera! The galaxy wide themes, everything living at stake, huge empires colliding, all of it makes for very dramatic stories! However in the midst of those mighty Space Operas it is easy to miss out on all the little side stories that would combine together into the greater tale. That’s what reading The Long Lost War by Jeff Walker brought to my mind!

This brief…

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Storytellers On Tour: The Wrack

Let me just start out by saying you should read The Wrack by John Bierce! This book is such a unique Fantasy! I’m really happy I had the opportunity to join in on this blog tour featuring this book and thankful to Storytellers On Tourfor allowing me to participate! Please click that link to view the tour schedule so that you can see all the great reviews by other reader/reviewers who also took…

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Welcome To The New Season!

I have arbitrarily decided to end the first season of the RedStarReviews podcast and commence a new season! There are several reasons for this. One is that I figured out how the season and episode numbering system worked! That might be the primary reason. But after twenty episodes it felt right to step back, examine what I am doing, and start in a fresh way!

The podcast is the creative…

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What Is Warhammer40K?

So what is this Warhammer40K I keep posting about, and how does it tie in to Horus Heresy, and if there is there just a Warhammer without the 40K? And what is it all about? Is it a book series? Or a game? Well I am glad you asked, if you asked, and if you didn’t ask but are still curious then hey this post is still here for you!

Warhammer40K (or WH40K for brevity) is the SciFi aspect of the…

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Marriage, Portland, and Modesitt

Keeping with a series I love for this post! The Order War is the fourth book in L. E. Modesitt Jr’s Saga Of Recluce, and it is an excellent book!

A story about how I acquired this first printing because this one was the hardest one for me to acquire! For years I could only find the smaller Book Club edition hardcover. Everywhere I looked the results were the same! I started to doubt there was…

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Ninth Of Nine: Galaxy In Flames

We have reached the end of nine straight days in a row making posts! Wooohooo! This has been a lot of fun and it has encouraged me to post snd engage more regularly so I think overall this has been a positive experience! I hope you’ve enjoyed it too! Thank you for reading along! All the exclamation points!!!!!

Today’s book is Galaxy In Flames which is the third book of the Horus Heresy and it…

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Eighth Of Nine: Fall of Thanes

We reach the end of The Godless World Trilogy by Brian Ruckley in this eighth post. We also reach the best book of this incredible trilogy. Fall of Thanes is why Brian Ruckley earned a spot amongst my favorite authors!

This book is why I describe this trilogy as a darkly beautiful and moving story. Reading this book is like walking along a dark ocean at night, feeling the ocean trying to draw…

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