In Debbie Hightower’s Christian speculative novel Forged In Flames, after aliens destroy America, surviving colonists on Planet Equinox try to found a human society shaped by Scripture. Mayor Gabriel Lawson leads New Hope, where teacher Gladys Bardick trains children at Heaven’s Gate school to see...

Árpád Váczi’s 2084 is a science fiction story set in a future world. Readers are taken inside a world where almost every part of human life is controlled. It does not matter if it is politics, surveillance, or technology; they all play a role in...

In Steve Doherty’s Crossroads, in 1948, American counterintelligence officer Jonathan Preston learns that Uchito Tsukuda, a former Japanese intelligence commander, is moving weapons to North Korea while searching for a legendary Masamune sword. Tsukuda believes the blade can restore his power, but Preston sees a...

John Raleigh Boyd's Standing Naked In The Wind, book two of The Royal Society of Esoterica series, begins in 1901 London, when scientist Maxwell Jaxon investigates the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn after Aleister Crowley uses clockwork butterflies to turn concertgoers into unwilling thieves....

M. Soler’s 6060 Vision blends speculative fiction with sci-fi to create a frightening world. In 6060, Earth has been ravaged by a solar phenomenon known as the Glow, which accelerates evolution into lands filled with hyper-adaptive flora and new sentient forms. Sam is the narrator,...

Mars Colony Rescue is the fourth book in the Interstellar Refugees series by Daniel Ellrick, and this story introduces new adventures and high-stakes missions. Comet Icaro is headed toward Hellas Planitia with the potential to turn Mars into a frozen wasteland. The worst could happen,...

The Kilns of Jupiter is the first book of the Quelly Clary series by Russ Colson. The scene is centuries into the future when mankind has colonized several planets in the universe. Spaceships transport people for work and tourism, but somewhere there lurks a danger...

A call for help unravels a plot to return native land to its rightful owners in R.L. Keck’s Absence of Mercy. The story features two explosive crises. In Wyoming, a radical “Professor” is said to be falsifying soil contamination reports, and E.J. Lonetree is dispatched...

In Eli Quinn’s Godless, every child is branded by a god at age nine, but Cal receives no mark and is cast outside the city’s sanctioned paths. Years later, while working near the Bone Market, he handles a relic taken from a corpse and awakens...

In Richard Paolinelli’s Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe, on Station 1964, a space layover called Norma, private investigator Samuel Archer Spade accepts Natasha Carter’s request for protection from Spencer Holloway, an antiquities dealer linked to a stolen jeweled eagle statue rumored to...