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Get Your Favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

Out of the Dark Fantasy Book

Get Your Favorite Science and Fantasy Books from my reviews. I’ve been busy reading and I try to review every book I read. Here are the very best books I’ve read this month.

If you want free audiobooks, you can get them here, through my newsletter by clicking here. If you want a free ebook (and laughter!), just contact me here and I’ll send you one, Zombie Turkeys, my first novel.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Books – You Begin Here

Out of the Dark - SciFi/Fantasy Book
David Weber’s book

David Weber once again creates a page-turning series. This one focuses on an invasion of the Earth by an alien species sent from a galactic empire.

The Earth is devastated. Half the population is killed from kinetic bombardments. Will the Earth surrender?

With vastly superior technology, the alien species is confident of conquest. Too bad humanity doesn’t know how to surrender.

The plot proceeds somewhat predictably but ends with a surprise twist. Some reviewers hated the twist. I liked it. Maybe I’m twisted?

If you like David Weber’s Honor Harrington series or John Ringo’s Posleen series, you’ll probably like this one

Andy Zach’s review on Goodreads and Amazon

Here Comes Your Fantasy Book Review

Song for the Basilisk - Fantasy Book
Song for the Basilisk by Patricia McKillip

This was my second reading of ‘Song for the Basilisk’, the last one was over 20 years ago.

It’s even better the second time. I read it more slowly and understood the political machinations and the mysteries the author presented the reader. Patricia McKillip definitely has the ‘mystery’ + ‘fantasy’ combination to herself.

The premise is simple. There are four factions contending for rulership of the kingdom. The Basilisk slaughters one that has ruled for hundreds of years. One child escapes to a school for the bards.

The bards are musicians, storytellers, and magicians. But they only come to power by going to the hinterlands, where the magic is.

Meanwhile, the Basilisk rules in peace for 37 years. He has several daughters, one of which grows up learning all his magic.

Ms. McKillip brings all the elements together in a dramatic and surprising novel. It’s one of her best and that says a lot.

Review by Andy Zach on Goodreads and Amazon

Your Last Chance to Get My Free AudioBooks

New review for Zombie Turkeys on Audible! Overall 5 out of 5 stars Performance 5 out of 5 stars Story 4 out of…

Posted by Zombie Turkeys on Saturday, March 20, 2021

New review for Zombie Turkeys on Audible!

Overall 5 out of 5 stars

Performance 5 out of 5 stars

Story 4 out of 5 stars

Dumb…silly…juvenile…couldn’t put it down. Comfort food for that juvenile part of you that never quite outgrew your comic books. Just forget that it’s preposterous (after all, you were already warned by the title; what did you expect?), and go with the flow…

Andy 03-20-21 on Audible

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More Good Things About 2020 That You Didn’t Know

“More Good Things About 2020? Andy, I didn’t know ANYTHING good about 2020.”

“Then you need to read my first post, Why I’m thankful for 2020 – Author Andy Zach. When you’re done come back, then you can come back.”

“Welcome back! Let’s begin with April 2020, the worst month, until later in the year.”

More Good Things from April 2020

You need this blog post in your life:

Your Five Funniest Memes of April, Curated by Me.

Here’s the best of the bunch:

More Good Things
Wear this on your next trip to Walmart.

From my Zombie Turkeys page in April, I had this following book review:

Did you know zombie turkeys may be safely consumed by 11-year-old boys?

Posted by Andy Zach on Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Let’s close out April 2020 with one of my favorite videos by one of my favorite comic musicians:

Maybe May Was Good

More Good Things in May? You bet! My audiobook tour of Secret Supers was one.

Virtual Book Tour More Good Things
Andy Zach’s audiobook tour.

Too bad the tour is over. But lucky for you, all my audiobook excerpts are still available for listening right here. I think the links to all the additional excerpts in the blog posts all still work too. Be sure to leave a comment on these blogs. The authors love engagement, just like I do.

Did you know you can get ALL my audiobooks for FREE IF you subscribe to my newsletter? Try it! Put me to the test! Subscribe here.

All audiobooks follow, each linked to Audible.

Best Science Stories or Science Fiction More Good Things
Click to listen to free sample of Secret Supers.
Zombie Turkeys Laughter
Zombie Turkeys audiobook cover. Click to get!
July Joy My Undead Mother-in-law
Review of My Undead Mother-in-law
More Good Things
Listen to Paranormal Privateers! Click above.
More Good Things
Click and laugh at Oops!

Just June? Not Jejune, but Good as a Macaroon

I love macaroons, so June 2020 was pretty good. See this post:

More Good Things

Your Top 10 Links for June – Plus Book Deals for You

And in this post, my favorite link was:

Do you remember Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? If you do, contact me and I’ll send you a free book.

But wait! There’s more to June 2020. Besides silly memes and ridiculous videos, I also follow science.

Your 10 Best Science Updates of June

Your 10 Best Science Updates of June

And what’s the best of best?

Happy New Year! May this coming year have more excitement and laughs.

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Hello Books, Bye-bye August! Get Free Books Here

Hello Books! I’ll have six books for sale on Saturday at Quadcon in the Northwoods Mall in Peoria.

If you can’t make it to Peoria, you can get them directly from me here:

Life After Life Chronicles
Enjoy all four novels in audiobook, paperback, or Kindle format!

This is the Life After Life Chronicles, a humorous zombie parody. You can also read the Secret Supers series, now two books. The first one is next:

Hello Books Science or Science Fiction
Click to listen to free sample of Secret Supers.

Then the second book in the series follows.

Hello Books Villain's Vacation cover
Villain’s Vacation cover. Click to get your copy on Kindle or paperback.

But your big promotion, your 26 free paranormal and suspense books, comes next.

This giveaway of 26 free Paranormal Suspense books includes My Undead Mother-in-law. Be sure to read this amazing review on Goodreads:

Hello Books My Undead Mother-in-law
My Undead Mother-in-law cover. Click to get yours.

Hello Books – My Undead Mother-in-law

My Undead Mother-in-law (Life After Life Chronicles, #2)
by Andy Zach (Goodreads Author)
Rebecca McNutt‘s review Aug 27, 2020
really liked it

bookshelves: fiction, zombie, comedy, humor, united-states, science-fiction, horror

My Undead Mother-in-law is my second experience reading a book in the “Life After Life Chronicles” (although I’d say it could also hold up as a standalone book for newcoming readers), and it doesn’t disappoint. Here we get a witty, clever dip into modern Americana as the zombies from Book 1 are no longer contained to just one species. As it turns out, the human zombies in this one aren’t your typical bumbling, easily-destroyed zombies akin to something of George Romero’s, paving the way for plenty of unexpected, and often hilarious surprises.

The book mainly follows the increasingly unpredictable life of the Newby Family; mother-in-law Diane Newby has become a zombie purely by mistake, but she hasn’t let it stand in the way of living a full, productive life, even using this newfound malady to her advantage. After all, it comes with many perks that can’t be denied. Diane uses her zombification to try and make a difference in the world around her, while also fighting the discrimination and fear generated by those who are anti-zombie in society. With little to stand in her way but an ever-changing world always making situations beyond crazy, there’s a lot of room for fun and family in My Undead Mother-in-law. (more at site)

Rebecca McNutt’s review on Goodreads

You must note the giveaway ends on August 31st, so click on the image above or here.

Let me know what you think of the giveaway. Click here to send me a note. You can write me for any reason.