Black Magic: Shotgun Spacebabe

by E.S. Wynn

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.

224 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

E.S. Wynn is the author of over seventy books and the editor of a number of magazines. Written works include the seven books of the Pink Carbide cyberpunk series, the sci-fi thriller books of The Cygnus War series, the five books of the Modern Creative Writer’s Workbook series, Minerva, The Mars Manuscripts, Raining Chrome, RIM, Cybergothika, The Highforge Legacy, Letters From A Dead Earth, Dark Salvage, Stimulus, Fatal Mistakes, Shores of the Nameless Gods, The Hyperborean Texts, Skin Dreams, Rods of Mars, Cinder Block Houses, Last Five Years, Beyond Oblivion, Decay Americana, 21 Great Days, Dusk Days and Daysleep Dreams, Rash Door, Universal Roleplaying Resource: Planets, Steam Wars, Beyond the Zompocalypse, Voyage of the Tereshkova, Liber Luminopticon, Liber Velum Voces, Through The Fire, Like Oceans of Liquid Skin, Reasons to Stay Single and Quick & Dirty Book Marketing. E.S. Wynn is also the author of 14 additional books ghostwritten for clients or otherwise credited under various pen names.
As an editor, E.S. Wynn currently owns and operates two fiction magazines. E.S. Wynn has also worked as an editor of books, dissertations, articles and short stories, serving a number of clients and friends since 2005. E.S. Wynn's own articles and fiction have been published online and in print in a number of magazines, including the prestigious California Freemason Magazine.

E.S. Wynn is also “The Voice” of the Dark Dreams Podcast, the Blackout City Podcast and a series of mystic heathenry meditations.

Reviews

[Estora]

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.

[Steve Isaak · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's plenty of violence, gore, humor, sex and vengeance in this burn-through novel in which Black Magic tracks down and executes five politicians and scientists - as well as their weapons-wielding defenders - who are not only corrupt, but intentionally released a plague that effectively turns its victims into violent, zombie-like creatures, many of whom Black Magic must also battle to reach her targets.

Black jumps into the action from its first word and doesn't let go until its last. It's an entertaining, bloody and fast science fiction read, one worth owning.


(This review originally appeared on the Reading & Writing By Pub Light site.)