In Anne M Smith-Nochasak’s River Becomes Shadow, twelve-year-old River leaves her grandmother Flo’s Nova Scotia refuge with her cousin Tag and veterinarian Andrea Parker, heading toward allies gathering near Miramichi. The Elect rule surviving settlements through a theocratic system as rebel hunters search the wilderness...

Joshua Gamon’s Marlowe House introduces an unforgettable alternate 1930s London controlled by a ruthless, all-seeing military police department. Agent Jack King is the model of perfect state obedience, carrying out gruesome orders without hesitation while living a very isolated life in the freezing metropolis. His...

In Steven Nimocks’s Severance, Elias Reynor is an investigator with the Neural Compliance Division in 2747 SoundCore, where implants regulate feeling and public order depends upon citizens remaining within approved limits. Nine years of exceptional service have made Elias a strong candidate for promotion, with...

In Vince Peersman’s Vault, epidemiologist Noah Mercer analyzes outbreaks in a near-future world where billions spend much of their lives inside Vault, a virtual reality platform created by technology billionaire Adrian Valek. At night, Noah races there as Nightshift, until Brazilian racer Thiago Pereira disappears...

Sal Cosenza’s Manhattan: The Rising War follows Lady Liberty, the first giant brought to life by a Schistian stone beating inside her copper frame. Her awakening ushers Manhattan into an era where skyscrapers walk among the people living inside them, including the civic-minded Empire State...

Cassian Dolton’s They Were Torn Asunder follows 11701, a twenty-five-year-old coal miner in the Rénlèi Republic, where the state placement test decides each citizen’s occupation and social standing. Unable to read, 11701 saves for her two annual days of leave so she can retake the...

Ronnie Sacco’s The Resonance Crossing is set in the authoritarian surveillance state of Dominia, and it follows a low-tier reclamation worker named Luca Ashbourne. In a world where people are forbidden to feel and where emotion is medicated, scored, and suppressed by the National Dominia...

In Kritanut Wattana’s Six Days Out, six days before his scheduled release from Ashford Correctional, structural engineer Ethan Cole watches a mysterious illness tear through the prison and escape into a country where systems have collapsed. He sets out for Harlow, two hundred and ten...

The Zone: Fallen Son is the second part of the series by Stu Jones. It follows the story of Chance Griffin, a former super cop turned fugitive after he brought down the corrupt Conglomerate known as the Glom in Neo Terminus. While his wife Hannah...

Walls of Age by Clark Templeton is a riveting medical thriller that takes us to a region divided into the Elite and Commons Districts. Nate Walkins is a scientist working for an Institute in the Commons District on a cure for an aging virus. The...