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...

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...

Heather Ogden brings us dystopian fiction for young adults in The Betrayal. In the city of Libertis, one man rules. Valerius Arabella is ruthless, holding the city in an iron grip. Break the rules, try to change them, and you will get caught and sent...

Transcendent by Laren Ruby is a gripping dystopian novel set in 2051, weaving two storylines into a single, deeply compelling story. In one thread, Dr. Marielle Stevenson is a scientist at Fort Hood watching her Super Soldier serum project produce results that terrify her, as...

David R. Beshears’ The Shylmahn Trilogy is a thrilling and expertly crafted science fiction read. The three novels are set in Washington State. In Book One: The Shylmahn Migration, Earth is invaded by a highly intelligent and technologically advanced alien race from deep space. Within...

The Golden Age by Alexander Exelmans is a thought-provoking philosophical play set in a future where artificial intelligence has transformed human civilization into a work-optional society. The story follows Zachary, a former Mars colonist who returns to Earth after years away only to discover that...

The Nightshades: Until Equinox, Book 1 by Talia Wall follows Briar, a young woman who is barely keeping her life together after experiencing so much loss and tragedy. Living in a city where humans and Vampyres are constantly clashing, she ends up getting pulled into...

In Lance Jepsen's The Last Orbit, Nicole Gordon survives by salvaging wreckage from the dangerous debris fields that orbit Earth. Her mode of transport is the deteriorating banger of a vessel, Tethys. During a routine recovery operation, she discovers the ASV Mnemosyne, a missing arkship...

In Jason Middleton’s The Last Harmonic, at a diplomatic event in Geneva, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presents a reset in relations with Russia, marked by a symbolic button that conceals a critical translation error and signals a deeper shift already in motion. Years later,...