The Catalyst by Andrea Goyan

 

"The game had a life of its own, a path to follow, and there was little he could do to control the outcome. It was just how things worked. He simply needed to remain flexible".

"...even though I fought it and hated the game with every cell in my body, I too felt its tug. The strange euphoria of living inside another's skin, of being part of a club whose membership all resided within me".

The Catalyst by Andrea Goyan is a gripping, dynamic sci fi, biotech horror thriller.

Blurb:

When human bodies are found with scales and tails, DNA specialist Kat Crocker is assigned to uncover the cause of the mutations and stop them before they spread. But the growing visibility makes her a target. As attacks escalate, the trail leads her to a newly released VR game powered by impossible genetics - and the one man: the mentor who taught her everything, the father she buried years ago.

DNA specialist Kat Crocker aka Double-D works with the police on a trial basis. She dreams of being a "crime scene, DNA identifying, one-woman superhero". In reality she has to deal with mundane tasks, evaluating trivial misdemeanours. That is until there appears a threat of a deadly mutation.

When human bodies are discovered covered in fur, or bearing scales, tails and other impossible genetic changes, Kat Crocker is called in to investigate. Her mission is to identify the possible cause and stop it before humanity could be changed forever.

But trying to solve the case paints a target on her back.

As violent attacks escalate, Kat uncovers a chilling link to a sold-out new VR game driven by forbidden genetic ingeneering. And behind it is the person who young Kat worshipped in the past, and who's been dead for years.

How does this game work? What or who is the Catalyst, and is it possible to stop or reverse the mutations?

The Catalyst has an enticing, disquieting premise: genetics, body horror, VR, and the past interfering with the present. It is in the similar vein to The Fly and Existenz - a biotech horror with a personal emotional backstory.

Just like Existenz, it involves an immersive virtual reality game which blurs the boundary between simulation and reality, where the game's disturbing side effects seep through into the real world, and change the gamer's personality and physical build. It is also highly addictive. 

I found the concept of the new game intriguing and exciting. The story starts strong, and keeps the narrative fast-paced and immersive.

Ambitious, visual and unsettling, The Catalyst raises a lot of thought-provoking questions about the possible use and abuse of DNA. It would make a perfect read for book clubs, and discussions on the future of DNA-safeguarding.

Things that didn't sit well with me:

When one of the female characters is injected with the DNA of a former stripper, her behaviour starts to change. She has an urge to be provocative and perform a pole dance. This episode somehow grates. How is a DNA of a stripper different from a DNA of a housewife or a teacher? A stripper doesn't do what she does due to their DNA. These are mostly exploited people who work in this business to earn money, and not because of their genetics. 

This post is part of the blog tour. Many thanks to Andrea Goyan and Rachel's Random Resources for my e-copy of the book!

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About Andrea Goyan:

Andrea Goyan is an award-winning author and an avid animal person who grew up being called Goat-Girl and Raccoon-Mama. She is a grateful part of a flock of collaborative Magpie Poets whose first collection, An Illegal Feast, was released in 2025.

Andrea also co-hosts MetaStellar Magazine's Long-Lost Friends and Storytime. In her spare time, she walks her dogs and loves to paint, especially animal portraits. Many of her stories are available for free on her website.

A Voice in the Darkness (The Sundering Chronicles Book 2) by Mark Iles

 

"All wars leave scars. Not just the physical but the mental. The memory of watching friends die when there was nothing at all you could do about it."

"He was death incarnate. A nightmare once seen never forgotten. The sight of him was enough to send witnesses into screaming fits and nightmares for the rest of their lives".

A Voice in the Darkness (The Sundering Chronicles Book 2) by Mark Iles is a gripping sci fi/fantasy action-packed thriller with lots of twists and turns you won't see coming.

This sequel to Gardens of Earth was worth waiting for. It expands on the concepts from the previous novel. If you haven't read the first book, I'd suggest starting with it, and you will be hooked.

Blurb:

When children on the colony of Semillion go missing, they return changed, the parents even claim they are not their offspring. Sheriff Andrews soon finds himself investiagating the bizarre situation. what he discovers, leads to him being recalled by the military and sent back to Earth, a place now quarantined and where colonical humans are forbidden to venture.

The intention is to recruit ex-commando Seethan Bodell, who's living with the survivors of The Sundering and the mythological creatures that now inhabit the world.

Earth is still ruled with an iron fist by the alien Spooks, but there is something else going on behind the scenes, a new and deadly threat.

To succeed, Andrews and Bodell need to call on that grand tapestry of inhabitants: the shapeshifters, elves, the ravening pack of werewolves that Seethan now belongs to, and even the dead; in the hope that it will be enough to prevent an escalating situation that could so easily lead to war.

Sheriff Andrews lives among the colonists of the green planet Semillion, enjoying the relative peace and quiet, and pondering about his recent past. It was he who'd agreed the peace accord with the alien Spooks. The interstellar conflict had ended, yet the Admiralty decided he should take responsibility for the disaster, even if the dramatic chain of events had been utterly outside his control.

Semillion appears peaceful, "the forests flush with life and filled with bird song, air fragrant with the scent of flowers, loud and soft calls of unknown creatures, and the heady welcoming embrace of nature all around him. If Eden had ever existed it had to be like this".

However, this Eden has problems of its own.

Andrews is tasked with solving the mystery of the missing children. Some of them disappear for a while only to re-appear without remembering anything about what might have happened to them.

When daughter of the local widow goes missing, her mother is distraught. Andrews and his Deputy begin the investigation, following the possible clues, only to discover that the dreadful disappearances are just an indication of a much bigger problem, going beyond the Semillion's colonists.

There are "strange things going on out there in the forest".  As his Deputy says, "The shadows in these woods suck the life right out of you, Sheriff. It's an ominous feeling, like being watched all the time by God knows what. Go on, tell me you don't feel it. Everyone does".

To find the answers to their problems, Andrews has to go back to Earth. He has no choice. The trip could well end in a disaster, as the alien Spooks who rule the planet refuse to grant access to Earth to any colonial humans.

The surviving humans live in primitive conditions, without modern technology. What's more, the creatures of myths and legends now inhabit the same space as the humans.

Andrews hopes to find ex-commando Seethan Bodell and recruit him in the dangerous mission. Yet Bodell has undergone a huge change, having become a werewolf. "Seethan wasn't your average werewolf. He was a war veteran. A man who cared. Someone who'd learned to use his PTSD strategies to temper his murderous and manic lycanthrope urges, tools to keep the darkness away".

To succeed in their mission, Andrews and Seethan have to work out their differences. In fact, there is a lot in common between two war veterans. They also need to challenge their own fears and wipe away the preconceptions. 

To confront the embodiment of the interstellar evil, all the diverse groups inhabiting the Earth, have to unite and fight together: humans, elves, werewolves and shapeshifters, and even the dead. 

The first book was a thrilling mix of dystopian sci fi, fantasy, horror and high-octane action. While all these elements are still present in the second book, it leans heavier on the fantasy side. Plus there is a strong philosophical undertone, with the insights into PTSD, its effects and methods to cope with it. 

This dark tale raises deep philosophical questions about the survival of human species, futuristic technology, the devastating effects of colonialism and unchecked exploitation, and many others.

Though set in the future, the book is a commentary on the present state of humankind. 

The story pulls you in and refuses to let you go. The shocker of an ending hints at the next book in the series, and I'm hoping it won't take too long for the Book 3, as I really want to know how certain plotlines will develop. Highly recommended. 

About Mark Iles:

Born and raised in Slough, Mark Iles began studying the martial arts when he was 14 and joined the Royal Navy at the age of 17. A voracious reader he used to devour up to three paperbacks a day - primarily science fiction, fantasy and horror - by the likes of John Wyndham, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, Ray Bradbury, Brian Lumley, Frank Herbert, Stephen King, and a plethora of others.

After The Falklands War Mark was drafted to Hong Kong, where he began writing features, for a variety of martial arts magazines, and short stories for a wide range of markets.

In 2012 he decided to challenge himself and undertook an MA in Professional Writing, followed by Diplomas in Copywriting and Proofreading. With over 200 short stories and articles under his belt the book he wrote for his MA Project, A Pride of Lions was published by Solstice - followed by two other novels, a short story collection, and four novellas. His novel Gardens of Earth, book I of The Sundering Chronicles, was published by Elsewhen Press in 2021.

A Voice in the Darkness is the second in the series. Now a 9th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo, Mark is still involved in martial arts and has also written both a book and an app on the subject.

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Mark Iles – Elsewhen Press

 

Passageways: Short Speculative Fiction by Lisa Fox

 

"Hope was a living thing to nourish, that would grow in its own time. And through the parched ruins of her garden, she'd planted its seeds, willing them to thrive, if only in her own heart".

Passageways by Lisa Fox is a selection of stories that vary in genre and emotional message. The works collected in Passageways are a combination of fairy tales, dystopia, sci fi, supernatural/ghost, gothic and magic realism, take your pick.

Blurb:

Passageways: Short Speculative Fiction

Twenty-seven speculative short stories celebrating the value of the journey: how lessons learned travelling the path between two points often transcend the goal of reaching the destination. These tales - including science fiction, fantasy, and horror - introduce characters who traverse unusual and often unsettling routes toward their desired objectives.

A man ventures through the depths of his beloved's subconscious to save her, only to discover a deep-rooted secret that could destroy everything. A young girl and a newly found friend travel to the Middle of Nowhere, desperate to find a way Out. A teenager struggles to escape the clutches of a demonic blanket inherited from a deceased family member. An "ugly" vampire goes through hell on earth to find his true self and his one true love. A woman revisits her past to determine whether it's time to pull the plug on a scientific experiment that's sustained - and devastated - her family for decades.

Passageways is the second short story collection from author Lisa Fox, following her acclaimed debut Core Truths. In these pages, readers voyage through darkness and light, fear and faith; toward understanding and peace. Sanctuary. Self-awareness. Being heard. Being loved. As speculative literary fiction, the stories in this anthology harmonize the excietement and otherworldly escapism that genre-based tales offer with the lyrical poeticism of language that makes storytelling sing.

In The Uncanny (1919, essay) Freud says, "an uncanny effect often arises when the boundary between fantasy and reality is blurred, when we are faced with the reality of something that we have until now considered imaginary, when a symbol takes on the full function and significance of what it symbolizes, and so forth".

You could argue, that Passageways deals with the theme of the uncanny masterfully.

To understand the philosophy behind the collection of stories, let's listen to the author, who says "A "passageway" is defined as a means of getting into, through, or out of something... But in literature, and in life, the passageways that connect past, present, and future are far more complicated."

Each of the characters appearing in these stories have their own path to follow and venture through their own unique passageway.

"Some stories are short, quick-hit microfiction pieces that carry a theme, an emotion, a moment as if on a curt autumn breeze. Others enable the reader to linger with the characters and their dilemmas, walking the path from one point to the next with trepidation, with empathy, or perhaps even joy through tears..."

Stories are short and often abrupt, as if you're walking along the endless corridor, opening the numerous doors and having a glimpse inside, like a modern-age Alice in Wonderland, with a perspective being distorted, and illusions in abundance.

Some of the stories are so short that they appear as vignettes, brief and evocative, without a definite ending.

Most of the tales are pretty sad and bordering on hopeless and helpless, even those that have a "happy end" are rather bitter sweet than joyful. 

"There's a Monster in Jacob's Bedroom" carries the undertone of "Not now, Bernard!" by David McKee, and has an almost precise quote from the modern classic for children, "There's a monster in here that wants to eat me". It's a cautionary tale that makes you wonder, if there's a monster inside of us that raises its head when we're being ignored by people who are supposed to love us.

There is a morbid fasination with the theme of dying and redemption, or the absence of moral vindication.

Several stories, like "In the image of Evie", could be a potential trigger. It has the vibes of My sister's keeper, and asks a similar question: Is it moral to do anything to save your child's world?

My personal preference is for the sci fi/dystopian narrative rather than fantasy/fairy tales (Self-Actualisation, The last of the Kalachi, etc).

And if you've ever lost a much loved animal companion, be ready to bawl your eyes out, reading the last story, A Time for Understanding.

Passageways is an inquisitive and elegant study of the ways which define our sense of ourselves. Engaging and engrossing.

This post is part of the blog tour for Passageways.

Many thanks to Lisa Fox and Rachel's Random Resources for my e-copy of the book!

 

Purchase Link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Passageways-Speculative-Fiction-Lisa-Fox-ebook/dp/B0D19Z7S3Q/

Author Bio –

Lisa Fox is a pharmaceutical market researcher by day and fiction writer by night. She survives—and sometimes even thrives—in the chaos of suburban New Jersey life with her husband, two teenage sons, and quirky Double-Doodle dog. Her debut short story collection, Core Truths, was published in April 2023. Lisa’s work has been featured in Amazing Stories, Uncharted Magazine, Dark Matter, Bards and Sages Quarterly, Metaphorosis, New Myths, and Brilliant Flash Fiction among others. Lisa has had work nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for Best Small Fictions and is a previous winner of the NYC Midnight Short Screenplay competition. You can find Lisa and her published work via her website: lisafoxiswriting.com or on Twitter @iamlisafox10800.

 

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Million Eyes III: Ouroboros by C.R. Berry

 "Million Eyes - and everything Million Eyes have done - are part of an endless, repeating cycle."

Her words made a chill slither down Harriet's spine. "Endless, repeating cycle."

The ouroboros."

Million Eyes III: Ourboros by C.R.Berry is the final instalment in the Million Eyes series. 

It could be read as a standalone, as there is a short recap at the beginning of the book, but I strongly recommend reading all three books to appreciate the sheer volume of the original framework and system. 

Book blurb:

Time is the Ultimate Deceiver

On a cold morning in 2219, Cara Montgomery and her husband, Jackson, have a frightening encounter on the beach. An encounter that leads to a war with a depraved and relentless alien race, the Shapeless, changing their lives forever.

Three hundred years earlier, Harriet Turner travels to the future to learn the shocking secret behind Victorian London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. A mysterious barber, Fred, goes with her, but Fred has a shocking secret of his own.

Hunted by the ruthless Miss Morgan and plagued by the visions of a snake eating its own tail, Harriet discovers that the all-powerful Million Eyes isn't the only one with an agenda. Time itself has one too.

Million Eyes is a fascinating merger of genres, from sci fi to time travel, conspiracy and alternative history. All these elements create a series of gripping What If? scenarios. 

It's impossible to give a short synopsis of the book, as there is so much going on, so many conspiracy threads, historical layers and plotlines in this complex narrative.  You have to admire the author for bringing it all together in such a clever, original way. I can imagine a spreadsheet along the big wall with sticky notes and arrows everywhere, creating one alternative history timeline after another, and balancing the real historical events and characters with fictional.

You think you might have found your footing in the warped reality and just about grasp what's going on, then the next page everything you have accepted, has changed again, like in some Dr Strange's reality falling apart, due to an incursion. You really have to pay attention not to get lost in the complex maze of ideas.

Big kudos also for creating some of the creepiest "alien" creatures ever (definitely not for the faint-hearted!).

Million Eyes is a sinister organisation with an agenda. They can easily justify the murder of innocents to implement their plans.

Most of its members believe in their mission, though some begin to have doubts. "What if it isn't working? What if we can't change the future?" "We can change the future.We've already made changes. We've seen them." "But we haven't changed that future. We haven't stopped the Last war. The Apocalypse. Our destruction at the hands of the Shapeless. The whole reason any of us are even here".

To defeat the Shapeless in the future, they must constantly monitor the timeline to stop the Unraveller, who is travelling back in time to interfere with the events that were supposed to happen and to try to undo Million Eyes' rise to power.

Like in the previous books in the series, we encounter some downright evil baddies, without any pity or remorse.

This series will make you think of the ethics of time travelling and trying to change the past in order to "improve" the present or the future. Whatever period of time you choose, there is an eternal struggle for power. 

Harriet Turner, who we first encounter in the previous books as an eleven-year-old street sweeper in the Victorian London, becomes the main protagonist in Ouroboros. The time travelling gives her a clarity of identity and purpose. "For a long time, I didn't know. Living rough, cleaning the streets for rich folk, I had no idea. A girl out of time. But I know now. I know exactly who I am. I'm the woman who saves the world."

Harriet believes in her mission, but is she deluded? 

When she travels in the future, Harriet is aware of the ominous and forbidding red snake, eating its own tail. "Harriet did some research and learned that a snake swallowing its tail and forming a circle was an ancient symbol called an ouroboros, used to represent infinity. An endless and repeating cycle."

What does the snake signify? Why does Harriet keep seeing it on her travels? Is her destiny truly to save the world, or is there another, sinister reason for her existence and capabilities?

Million Eyes III Ouroboros is a breakneck sci fi caper with non-stop suspence, perfect for fans of alternative history and time travel fiction.

An absolute belter of a book, which pulls you in straight away. Brilliantly plotted, inventive and thoroughly entertaining.

I can absolutely see this trilogy made into a Netflix series. Exciting, pacy and addictive.

Potential triggers: murder, extinction of the human race; it might also be offensive to Christians, as there is an alternative explanation of the life of Jesus and birth of Christiainty.

This post is part of the blog tour for Million Eyes III Ouroboros.

Many thanks to C.R.Berry and Elsewhen Press for my ARC!

You can find reviews of two previous books in the series here:

Million Eyes

and

Million Eyes II: The Unraveller

Author Bio:

C.R.Berry is an ex-lawyer turned full-time writer, whose fiction spans the sci-fi, mystery, conspiracy, historical, fantasy and horror genres - because why have one genre when you can have them all? His favourite characters are usually villains, hence why he likes conspiracy stories, where there are baddies at every turn,

Berry was published in Best of British Science Fiction 2020 from Newcon Press with a short story set in the world of the Million Eyes trilogy. He's also been published in magazines and anthologies such as Storgy and Dark Tales, and in 2018 was shortlisted in the Grindstone Literary International Novel Competition. 

Having completed the Million Eyes trilogy, Berry is working on two further novels. One is a horror called The Puddle Bumps, about a lawyer wo links a mysterious kids' TV show to an old murder case.

The other is a collaboration with his fiancee Katy called Breaching The Wall, a sci-fi adventure about a spaceship tasked with solving the Universe's greatest mystery: why the wall that surrounds it is collapsing.

He lives with Katy in Clanfield, Hampshire, in a house called the Gathered Worlds, named after the intergalactic organisation in Breaching The Wall and, apparently, because they've themed all the rooms.

Their bedroom is a spaceship, their kitchen a 50s diner and their living room a forest. Their office is a nerd's dream, wall to wall with TV and movie memorabilia to fuel the magic that happens there!

Website and social media links:

C.R.Berry - Author of sci-fi & fantasy conspiracy thrillers: 

https://crberryauthor.com

http://millioneyes.co.uk

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Gardens of Earth by Mark Iles

 

"They're an enigma. When it comes down to it, we know almost nothing about them, or their technology".

"They read people's dreams, and can control matter and light with their minds. Quite incredible really. What humans thought of as magic actually exists, in a way..."

Gardens of Earth by Mark Iles (Elsewhen Press) is a heady mix of sci fi and fantasy, with elements of time travel and myths. It's a formidable saga of a post-apocalyptic future, when the aliens take over the Earth. 

This is the first book of The Sundering Chronicles.

"The story tackles war against the Spooks, aliens that invaded Earth in their "ghostly plant" ships seeking revenge for the destruction of their own planet by humans; a future that may be considered either dystopian or utopian, depending on who you ask; and a protagonist coping with his personal demons in an unfamiliar and stressful environment - not to mention immediate threats from a pathological killer, the remnants of Earth's inhabitants now living in a sparse pre-industrial society under the watchful eye of the Spooks, and returning human colonists intent on reclaiming Earth. Underlying all this are issues of social justice, human and android rights, and love that transcends difference".

You might compare it to Lord of the Rings with spaceships and andrioids. 

The very first chapter grabs you by the collar and throws you into a terrifying action scene between the humans and the aliens. 

As the population of Earth is growing, the colonisation of the distant planets seems like a logical solution. Except that due to the corporate greed and blundering surveyors, the planet dubbed "Halloween" is not an uninhabited free world available for the humans to seize and establish a colony within. The military units, deployed to protect the human colony on Halloween, have named the aliens "Spooks" for their ability to read people's innermost thoughts, twist their minds and thrive on their fears. The fear is turned into an individual weapon of destruction, in the most horrific way. 

The colony on Halloween is doomed. As a retaliation, the military units nuke the planet. A big mistake, as now the Spooks are taking their revenge on Earth, invading it and executing the humans, one by one.

There is the last minute attempt to save the planet and avert the alien invasion.

A marine combat pilot Seethan Bodell is given a top secret spacecraft which allows you to travel in time. The original plan is for Seethan and his non-combatant co-pilot and secret lover Rose Mills to go back in time, to stop the mankind from ever colonising Halloween. 

However, the mission goes terribly wrong. Instead of the past, Seethan finds himself in the distant future, where technology doesn't work, and where the remaining humans live in a pre-industrial society.

Seethan has been sent home from the front to give him a chance to recover from the PTSD. He has his own demons to conquer. His nightmares are related to the last battle, where he lost his close friends. "As always, he was unable to remember the nightmares. All he knew about them was the rush of adrenalin that made his fists clench, the tension in his shoulders, and the thudding in his chest, as if his heart were trying to dig its ways through his rib cage".

Seethan is in love with Rose, but their relationship is a tricky one. Rose is an android. Many humans openly dislike "the silver freaks" and distrust them. Seethan believes the androids have as much right to a decent life as anyone else. "Back where he came from people were afraid of their [androids'] strength, intelligence, and sense of purpose. Mankind knew that if the machines ever turned against humanity then they'd be in serious trouble..."

The future when Seethan finds himself is the society, surviving after the tragic events of The Sundering, when the world has been decimated, and the reality has changed forever. The Spooks have won the war and now rule the Earth. 

The small tribes of humans are scattered around the planet, living the simple lives, without technology. They are being watched by the Spooks, and punished if they are considered to be disobedient.

Seethan is desperate to find Rose, who he believes has landed in this world as well. He knows that her android body won't be able to survive in the current situation.

The post-apocalyptic society on Earth is portrayed as a place where the old magic is resurrected, with the mythological creatures roaming the wild forests, like werewolves, elves, witches. "The paranormal existed. It always had. The Spooks' arrival had simply rekindled the magic that had once been abundant, but had lain dormant in recent centuries".

Gardens of Earth is power-packed with social and philosophical themes, concepts and ideas of advanced technology, its values and flaws, space exploration, alien life, parallel worlds, time travel, fictional societies being a social commentary on the modern life etc. From sci fi technology and aliens the narrative moves to a more philosophical, almost spiritual fantasy tale.

Edgy, compelling and creepy as hell... 

Different from my usual reads, it is a great discovery. Can't wait to read the second book in the series.

Author Bio:

Born and raised in Slough, Mark Iles began studying the martial arts when he was 14 and joined the Royal Navy at the age of 17. A voracious reader he used to devour up to three paperbacks a day – primarily science fiction, fantasy, and horror – by the likes of John Wyndham, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Brian Lumley, Stephen King, and a plethora of others. After the Falklands War, Mark was drafted to Hong Kong, where he began writing features for various martial arts magazines and short stories for a wide range of markets. While there his first book, Kwak’s Competition Taekwondo was published by Hai Feng.

In 2012 he decided to challenge himself and undertook an MA in Professional Writing, followed by Diplomas in both Copywriting and Proofreading. With over 200 short stories and features under his belt the book he wrote for his MA project, A Pride of Lions, was accepted and published by Solstice Publishing. This was followed by two more books, The Cull of Lions and Roar of Lions – plus 4 novellas and a short story collection, Falling From Grace, and others. His latest novel, Gardens of Earth – first book in The Sundering Chronicles, was published by Elsewhen this October.

Now a full-time writer Mark is working on the second book in The Sundering Chronicles series, as well as another short story collection. Over the years he has risen in the ranks of Taekwondo and now holds a 9th Degree black belt, and loves passing on his knowledge as and where he can.

http://www.markiles.co.uk

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Mark Iles – Elsewhen Press