Me and my big mouth. You might remember a Top 10 List I did recently about my Favorite Features from Other Bloggers which included the Guest Dare feature from The Book Smugglers. I may have mentioned that I’d be up for a dare and Ana and Thea actually took me up on it.
The whole idea of the Guest Dare is to get people to venture outside their comfort zones and try a genre/author they would never read on their own. For me, that genre is science fiction. I love Sci-Fi TV and movies but you’d never catch me browsing the Sci-Fi section at a book store. So, this is how I ended up over at The Book Smugglers today reviewing STARDOC by S. L. Viehl. Go check it out and see if I’ve changed my tune regarding the Sci-Fi genre.
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Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil leaves Earth and accepts a position as a physician at Kevarzanga-2's FreeClinic. Her surgical skills are desperately needed on a hostile frontier world with over 200 sentient species--and her understanding of alien physiology is nothing short of miraculous. But the truth behind her expertise is a secret which, if discovered, could have disastrous consequences between human and alien relations...
I really liked StarDoc, I have #2 in my stack to read soon. I've been trying to read more Sci-Fi and have found some I really like, Ann Aguirre's Sirantha Jax series, Steven Harper's Silent Empire, I think the perception is that it's all science-y and too dry, but that's not necessarily the case! It's also interesting to me to see someone like S. L. Viehl who is writing in two completely different genre's!
ReplyDeleteShaunesay - I picked up Aguirre's first Jax novel recently and I'm hoping it's as good as her Corrine Solomon UF series.
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