Advent Blue by Roland Allnach is a riveting psychological technothriller. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the interplanetary conflict between Earth and its Mars colony. Will Fortner is a hardworking recluse who is a navigator at the CHOICE Institute. His dream promotion to a...

Former FBI profiler Decimus Farr arrives home to a note, “Your fiancée dies in twenty-four hours.” He’s then sent on a mission to find a series of five boxes, each containing a clue to the next one, with the final one revealing the location of...

Children of Eternity by Macaulay Christian kicks off in a galaxy that’s still dealing with the aftermath of a mysterious signal that reached every planet at once. The signal came with instructions to build a device no one fully understands, but everyone feels compelled to...

“The world didn’t leave us much, but it left enough. Enough to remind us that maybe, just maybe, we still matter.” Perhaps, but the novel Seeker by Glenn S. Robertson would indicate that we are a long way from what we once were. The world...

The Russia-Ukraine war continues, but Russia’s progress is stalled, and victory looks distant. Keen on Russia’s future in the war, Colonel General Gennady Chuikov, officially declared deceased, summons Major Tomas Arshavin of Russian Military Intelligence (GRU) to propose a strategy dubbed the Barca Maneuver. Through...

Mona “Ripper” Ripple and her crew, Karcass Five, take center stage in Jarrett Brandon Early’s Lovestruck Maggot, plunging readers straight into the rugged, alien world of Kalderra. The planet itself is unforgettable: glowing subarashi trees rise from volcanic calderas, a huge violet moon looms overhead,...

In The Orphans of Nilad by Erich and Daniella Sanchack, driven by a sealed letter, EoC leads Kaida, the blue-eyed barbarian Dinger, and the half-elf Kekron ashore to Nilad, a mountain town shrinking under fear after miners vanish, and strange messages begin appearing in the...

Athena Technologies is creating a computer system called God’s Eye, which allows all the alphabet agencies of the US to have equal access to the same information. Some people in the government believe this is too much information to have access to and want the...

Death and destruction are dished out to the syndicate that decided to eliminate their top assassin in the entertaining novel, Bunny Slippers, by Matt Peterson. MARI is an international organization of hired killers, and Bunny has worked for them for decades. When Bunny chooses to...

In Don Stuart’s Descartes' Shadow, born during the Cascadia disaster, Ellie Frye Carver grows up on Vashon Island with unanswered questions about her mother’s death and the father she never knew. Her closest confidante is Patrice, an advanced artificial intelligence who first enters her life...