Genre: Space Western, Sci-Gi
Reviewer: H.L.
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About The Book
The year is nineteen aught ninety. The planet: Gore Gulch. The shotgun: a sawed-off two gauge punt gun that specialist Black Magic calls “The Deuce.”
Five powerful men just pissed off the wrong woman. Five worlds are on her hit list, and even John Herbert Wilson Thomas, the President of the Republic, will find himself in her sights before her rampage is over.
A thrilling tale of revenge in a high-noon sci-fi setting, Black Magic: Shotgun Spacebabe is an action-packed, tongue-in-cheek trip through the stars with a woman too tough to bleed and too pissed off to die.
The Review
Black Magic, once a renowned soldier in the army, has discovered something that made her tear off her medals of honour. She’s angry, armed, and has a bone to pick with five very specific people responsible for the evil and catastrophic unleashing of a deadly disease that crippled more than eighty worlds.
At just under 30,000 words, this novella is packed to the brim with non-stop action, violence, swearing, torture, sex and gore. The heroine, Black Magic, is a stone-cold badass and absolutely brutal in her methods. She’s tough, fierce, and foul-mouthed – and when she and her trusty shotgun, the Deuce, are coming to kill you, you’d better count your hours.
Although I can’t recommend Magic’s vigilante methods in real life, her rampage to find and murder the five most powerful men in the republic responsible for unleashing the devastating rotter virus is incredibly satisfying.
If you’re after a fast, bloody sci-fi read, Black Magic: Shotgun Spacebabe is the book for you.
The Reviewer
H. L. is a Jewish Australian writer of LGBT+ fiction. She holds a Master of Arts in International Relations (2015) and a Bachelor of Media in Communications and Journalism (2012), both from the University of New South Wales.
She has been writing stories since she was old enough to hold a pen. She is the author of M/M fantasy romance novels Heart Of Dust and Soul Of Ash, Books 1 & 2 of the Death’s Embrace series.
She has had two speculative short stories published: “The Collector” in the 2014 Future Times Award Collection A Tick Tock Heart, and “Entente” in the 2020 Twisted Stories Award Collection Just Alice.
