It’s funny how the release of a new book takes you down certain paths. When Biohack hard-launched on Amazon about three weeks ago, I imagined that I’d be doing more speaking about indie publishing, as I did at my book launch party in San Francisco. (For 99 percent of new authors, self-publishing is by far the smartest way to go.) But it turns out that a lot of the buzz around “Biohack” is turning out to be about the novel’s premise of an evil Silicon Valley-style biotech startup that goes into the business of genetic enhancement based on the mind-blowing advances in reproductive technologies since the power of CRISPR gene editing was unlocked just six short years ago. In my book,

Title: Hell Divers III: Deliverance Author: Nicholas Sansbury Smith Pages: 352 My rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Release date: May 15, 2018 If you’re familiar with Nicholas Sansbury Smith’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller series “Hell Divers,” then you already know the lad can write and tell stories that will keep you turning the pages. If you’re not, well, all you need to know is that “Hell Divers III: Deliverance,” the third entry in the series, is as good an introduction as any to the author’s storytelling talents. In fact, I think this may be Smith’s most absorbing and accomplished work yet.