In 1975, young John Wesley Zooma witnessed the public and violent execution of a well-known member of his community by the police. The incident left him with a deep hatred for the government. More than two decades later, Zooma joined a secret Zulu paramilitary group,...

Mihail Băeșu’s Pastborn follows Adam Connor, who wakes up in 2199 with almost no memory of his life and discovers that Earth now belongs to robots. Humans have been illegal since Bill 1 was passed in 2113, yet Adam is technically permitted to exist because...

Russell Cornhill’s Older Than Evil, book three of The Year Reality Broke series, follows Lukas as he crosses the southern continent on the next stage of the quest to defeat the Ultimate Evil and find his missing brother Tomas. The gods who designed his world...

Nature Against by Delenda Carthago starts in a sterile dome city where a computer system controls every human decision. We follow Ziyue, a woman who is done with this forced perfection and just wants an exit from the system, but the rulers won’t even let...

Guardians of Destiny, the first book of Louise Briony Hallam’s Stone of Souls trilogy, presents the celestial world of Asteria, a realm now threatened by Chaos. The universal forces of creation (Light of Being) and Chaos once fought, and Chaos was defeated. But now the...

Timestream by L. A. Hilden is the first installment in the Echoes of Eternity series. Set in the year 2101, the world has been devastated by a technology known as the Voice of God. Leva, Harper’s mother, vanishes into the timestream in an attempt to...

In S.D. Rhodes’s What Hears You, Tara Venn pilots Scout Four into Ilyr before the colony ships and crashes into a marsh world where sound can kill. Alone with injuries she cannot afford and a transponder that only flickers amber, Tara first thinks the local...

Eliza Sky's attempt to create a new life for herself away from the orphanage she once called home looks to be yielding fruit. She has joined an odd group, young girls of different races with a zest for life she has never experienced and a...

In Kurt Burke's Rebels & Filibusters, Doc Carlile, a former Confederate naval surgeon turned mining claim owner, accepts a paid assignment from Salt Lake City businessman Frederick Butterfield to inspect a massive saltpeter cargo in Panama. The job should place Carlile in charge of moving...

In A Wave of Breath by Tess Collins, Brooklyn's and Martin's lives are abruptly disrupted when the water turns red while they shower together. This marks the beginning of the catastrophic Water Event, a disaster that affects only the United States. Before disappearing, Martin promises...