Richard Cutler’s Carbon Neutral follows Admiral Neil Dodson, who commands four enormous colony ships on a thirteen-year voyage from humanity’s first settlement outside the solar system to Tau Ceti. His crew must locate a habitable planet and build a wormhole Gate that will connect the...

In Craig W. Stanfill’s Carbon Zero, Abigail Thompson is an MIT doctoral candidate interning at Intelligenics who creates Xerxes, an artificial intelligence designed to manage networks. During a Fourth of July cookout in Somerville, Abigail demonstrates Xerxes by letting it enter her apartment’s devices. When...

In Marsell Morris’s Alien Offensive Book 1: Nanobot Storm, billions of ten-sided metal objects descend across Earth, reaching every continent and ocean. Each device rights itself before releasing a crystalline mist. Soon, animals of every species begin hunting people with coordinated aggression, leaving cities deserted...

Murder on Argus (Particle Death Book 1) by Shawn Conners is a science-fiction murder mystery set in deep space. Earth has long since died, and the survivors of humanity live in deep space on massive stations and suitable planets where habitation is possible. Ruling over...

In James Kinsley’s Parallels, Jeff is a programmer in England whose relationship has ended when unsettling episodes place him inside the life of Jezz, a mercenary fighting the Eltiy’ch, alien invaders occupying western China after First Contact. Jeff wakes up from battles with sensations and...

In Robert Phillips’s 2100, James Lawson is a Canberra businessman who awakens after sixty-five years in cryosleep as medical micros treat the brain tumor that sent him there. His fortune is largely gone, and Australia has become a communal society that relies on medical micros...

The Quantum Gate by Bill Combs is the first book in The Ascension Chronicles series. The story is a metaphysical thriller that blends quantum theory with history and the supernatural. Ethan Cross, a disgraced physicist cast out of academia for his "wild" theories of quantum...

Q. Turner crafts a spellbinding dystopian world in Blood Sacrifice, where the walled Empire of Isulum is a pressure cooker of addiction, caste, and artificial life. It opens with Rita Shor, an impoverished, grieving Ishti woman who lost her children to a pandemic. After years...

Echo of Atlantis: The Ūmdëdŭ Codex by KP Gillen is an enthralling YA fantasy with likeable characters. It has been sixteen years since Grand Elder Elijah Brightwater and his council successfully defeated Maximilian Obsidian, who wanted to open a dimensional gate. The next generation has...

Russ Colson’s Minding Earth is a fascinating anthology that pulls readers right into a series of thought-provoking scenarios where science meets human nature. In one standout piece, a skeptical geologist named Nate decides to investigate a time-travel company, convinced their dinosaur tours are a corporate...