My Sci Fi Club February 2017 Subscription Box Review – Science Fiction Box

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My Sci Fi Club is a subscription that delivers 2 books and 1 DVD in the realm within the realm of science fiction. My Sci Fi Club has other versions that are similar, but this box in particular goes with a harder sci-fi tone.

The contents of the box this month!

Watchmen DVD – $3.79.  The film based on Alan Moore’s 12 issue run, Watchmen is a film that visually lived up to what I was looking for. I hated that the ending was changed as there would be bigger ramifications for the United States for their “hero” nearly destroy the world. Another note; why is this a full-screen version of the film? I guess I’ll have to find a tube TV to so that it is truly formatted to fit the television.

In an alternate 1985 United States, superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the Doomsday Clock — which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union — moves closer to midnight.When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion — a disbanded group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers — Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future.Their mission is to watch over humanity… but who is watching the Watchmen?

The Hydrogen Sonata – $15.19. This book is part of the Culture series of novels by Iain M. Banks. They sound like they are full of intrigue and The Hydrogen Sonata sounds like a fun read.

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.

An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they’ve made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.

Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted – dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago.

It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous.

Zero World – $7.47. This book, by author Jason M. Hough, sounds like it is a lot of fun. I like a good spy tale and if you can intermingle with sci-fi technology I’m definitely in!

Published in rapid succession, Jason M. Hough’s first three novels, The Darwin Elevator, The Exodus Towers, and The Plague Forge, earned mountains of praise and comparisons to such authors as James S. A. Corey and John Scalzi. Now Hough returns with a riveting near-future spy thriller that combines the adrenaline of a high-octane James Bond adventure with mind-blowing sci-fi speculations worthy of Christopher Nolan’s Inception.

Technologically enhanced superspy Peter Caswell has been dispatched on a top-secret assignment unlike any he’s ever faced. A spaceship that vanished years ago has been found, along with the bodies of its murdered crew—save one. Peter’s mission is to find the missing crew member, who fled through what appears to be a tear in the fabric of space. Beyond this mysterious doorway lies an even more confounding reality: a world that seems to be Earth’s twin.

Peter discovers that this mirrored world is indeed different from his home, and far more dangerous. Cut off from all support, and with only days to complete his operation, Peter must track his quarry alone on an alien world. But he’s unprepared for what awaits on the planet’s surface, where his skills will be put to the ultimate test—and everything he knows about the universe will be challenged in ways he never could have imagined.

My Sci Fi Club is a really great subscription box. Two novels and a DVD (even though this month was a full-screen version) is a pretty cool way to enjoy some science fiction. I look forward to reading these books and finding out what is in store for next month.

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