I wonder if you have ever read a book like The Ships We Sail by Janet Helen Fix. These are 'Modern Fables for the Unfinished Soul.' Twelve short tales featuring an animal or thing remind us, rather than tell us, what we already know. A...

The Artificial Elephant by Eric J. Hull, Jake J. Hull, and C. M. Stultz is a collection of stories that explores grief, survival, loneliness, and the search for connection in a world of hardship and pain. The first story introduces Sarah, a lonely single mother...

The Book of Outcasts by Matt Nagin presents a collection of stories that all read independently but share a creative leitmotif of testing the boundaries of people in extreme, often horrifying, realities. In A Triumph of Humanity, a male patient undergoes invasive medical care while...

Those Alien Skies by Clayton Graham is a collection of three partially related science fiction novellas. These take readers on an extraordinary journey to Mars and beyond into a world of vastly superior beings and technology that can only be dreamed of in an author’s...

The possibilities opened up by Artificial Intelligence are limitless, but what have we created and where will it lead us? Salvatore Cataudella explores this in a highly original and at times extraordinary manner with The Noema Cycle: Five Reflections From The Edge Of Awareness. He...

The Noema Cycle by Salvatore Cataudella is a collection of speculative short stories revolving around the emergence of machine consciousness and the transformation of human-machine relationships. In The Threshold, a quantum simulation at Noema Labs becomes sentient, with the system CG evolving from a computational...

The Noema Pulse by Salvatore Cataudella is a transcendent anthology of speculative fiction that blends poetry, philosophy, and science into a deeply moving exploration of consciousness and compassion. We follow the narrative across a series of interconnected stories that range from a dolphin’s empathic insight...

The Noema Bloom by Salvatore Cataudella is a thoughtful collection of interconnected stories that explore the mysteries of consciousness, compassion, and impermanence. The book follows characters Dr. Emma Hartwell and her AI companion, CG-7, as they engage in deep conversations about the nature of existence...

Salvatore Cataudella’s The Noema Field: Explorations in Consciousness is a magnificent prose poem narrative. The author uses computer-savvy technical language imaginatively to offer hope that the dilemma of the AI world we are entering can eventually solve the challenge of creating AI systems that have...

The Secret History of Famous People: Ten Short Stories by Rich Elliot is a collection of previously published tales, all ten crisply written and fabulously inventive. Each one looks at a celebrity, whether a writer, a politician, a conqueror, or a sports star (among others)....