On the eve of launching a genuinely evolutionary invention, Frances Smith looks forward to another addition to his home and the admiration of a grateful public. His achievements and inventions over the years have earned him the respected title of Niaverine’s most outstanding scientist. All...

Set in a brutal apocalyptic world with two suns, Mathias B. Freese's In The Throes follows the story of a creature that unexpectedly attains awareness. The only thing Gruff's undeveloped mind could fathom as he opened his eyes to the world was that the Close...

Erasures by Omar Imady is a dystopian novel set in the year 2049. Following a world war in which billions of people died and resources became scarce, the remaining population finds peace in predictability. Everything is measured, everything can be predicted, and everything is digitized....

Cynthia Fridsma introduces readers to the first volume of the ATU Chronicles series with Chaos is Bleeding. The 2020 US presidential elections have just ended, and President Donald Trent is refusing to admit defeat. One of his followers, Dick Barnes, riles up a mob and...

The Lightning Seed is the first book in the Messenger series by John Durant, set on the mechanical planet of Ma’a. Evl, a young boy living with his widowed mother, becomes the guardian of the mysterious Lightning Seed, an artifact of immense power. As they...

Steps is a dystopian thriller by Sam A.D. In a dystopian future, overpopulation has led governments to enforce mandatory trackers called SLT on the general populace that limit a person's steps to 60000000, after which they die a painless death. In return, people have found...

Heavy Weight of Darkness is a dystopian science fiction novel by J.M. Erickson. It follows the transformative journey of Willard Bennett, a first-class patrician citizen, who was imprisoned and stripped of his class status and privileges. After he recruits Cassandra Kurtz, she rebels on her...

Inside: Part 1 by Kyra Anderson is a dystopian cautionary tale set seventy years after the Second Revolutionary War. A central government runs the US, and the war is just history for Lily Sandover. However, when Lily’s father is promoted to the central government, she...

In Lena Gibson’s Aftermath, Robin’s life is completely shattered when an asteroid hits the earth, leaving her to scavenge for food and care for her grandfather. They have lived together in hiding for three years, unable to trust anyone. But things change for the worse...

Volk's Bane by Zach Fortier is the second book in The Overseer series, which began with book one, Volk, when over 100,000 gamers made contact with aliens. In Saudi Arabia, an AI named Sophia becomes a citizen, and Spinners, innovative gadgets, become wildly popular. Viktor...