Sunday Roundup
Since launching Upstream Reviews, we've received a lot of request from authors wanting us to review their books. So many, frankly, that we will probably never get to most of them. I feel kind of bad about that, so I thought I'd start doing a regular "Sunday Roundup" post of books that have been submitted to us. We don't officially endorse these books, but generally the people submitting to us are sympathetic to the mission of Upstream Reviews, so these authors may be worthy of your support (and we might still get around to reviewing some of these).
No Horns on These Helmets Horns? We don’t need no stinkin’ horns! Long before Marvel and the fat lady singing, there were Northmen who went Viking. They carried axes and swords, worshipped gods such as Odin, Freyja, Thor, and Tyr, and they didn’t have horns on their helmets. Check out some of the most imaginative stories by authors such as Erin Lale, L.J. Bonham, Tyree Kimber, Cynthia Ward, Tony Thorne MBE, Hugh B. Long. Gerri Leen, among others. Sharpen your axes and jump in your longboats, because there are no horns on these helmets! Available on Kindle for $4.99
Quantum Cannibals "A terrific story, told by a gifted story-teller. Do not miss..." --Amazon review The widow Osnat is a revered quantum scientist, religious scholar, protector of her people, ravishing beauty, and occasionally a genocidal brute. From the Bronze-Age to a dystopian post-modern era she struggles to stop the destruction of her family and tribe. In the Arctic cannibals feast on her husband. In a high-tech city, demons try to prevent her birth. In Mesopotamia a local assasin helps a zealot who promises the destruction of all non-believers. As in Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza, nested stories are woven into an astonishing whole. A hi-tech detective fights alongside her Bronze Age great, great... grandmother. A Bronze Age Mesopotamian shaman protects his teacher in the Stone Age Arctic. A Stone Age Arctic scientist is the savior of a post-modern city-state. Quantum Cannibals draws on the author's studies of folklore, cannibalism, shamanism, Kabbalah, primitive art and communications, as well as his years of experience working for and with Native Americans. Available on Kindle for $2.99
Zombie Airman: Infected World Book 1
The night of the plague follows sunset on April Fool’s Day around the world. By sunrise, less than fifteen percent of the world’s population is uninfected. The airborne disease is invulnerable to any air filter or disease barrier. The fifteen percent uninfected are still vulnerable to the disease when spread via bodily fluids as the infected seek to spread their disease. These are the stories of those just trying to survive. Airman First Class Caleb White, dorm rat, burned out on monitoring computer displays eight hours a day in a small cubicle in a large cubicle farm. His few interests off duty, bar hopping, taking care of his beloved truck, and managing to find trouble. A spur of the moment decision sets him up for a night of adventure and more excitement than he ever had in the Air Force. Major General William ‘Willy Pete’ Peters, has a rotten night. Preparing for his third divorce, he wakes to find his one night stand trying to eat him. She ends up having a fireplace poker sticking out of her skull as he learns that’s the least of his problems. By morning, he comes to the realization he is the senior ranking survivor of all the services. Lieutenant Gloria ‘Grits’ Alban awakens among dozens of corpses on a bridge. Her uniform is torn and saturated in blood. She has no memory of the long night. She joins her fellow survivors and finds it hard to accept their stories of zombies the night before. Equally hard to believe is the new abilities she’s slowly learning she now has. Available on Kindle for $2.99