Kolab Khem lives a structured, predictable life. As a woman born and raised in the United States, the only things she knows about Cambodia, her ancestral land, come from her late grandmother. Kolab is entrusted with taking care of her grandmother's last rites, taking the...

In Alex Andre’s Zero-Day Souls, Zachariah “Zack” Cole designs virtual avatars in NorAm, a future American state where personal scores determine every citizen’s opportunities under the watchful Ministry of Consumer Satisfaction. Zack has always accepted the conveniences of this society, until an ordinary morning begins...

M. Kevin Hayden’s Locked-In follows Aram Sarin, a paralyzed young man surviving in a post-war, climate-ravaged 2049. Aram lives in a luxury penthouse in Ottawa, solely dependent on specialized tech and his cybernetic companion, Gilda. Their quiet, simple existence ends instantly when anti-technology rebels launch...

A People Joined Asunder is the second novel in the Quelly Clary SF series by Russ Colson. The story follows Quelly Clary, a self-taught geoscience expert who is studying a mysterious alien battle station found near Jupiter. The aliens haven’t arrived yet, but everyone knows...

What We Chose to Leave Behind: The Metadata of A Soul by Anindya Sundar Das is a story about Andy who lives with his wife, Sam, in the year 2050. They are both in the Facility, a protected community. Due to the lack of fresh...

Dr. Diana Morgan, a conservator, is at the airport to catch a flight to the American Institute of Conservation’s (AIC) Annual Meeting when she spots her former lover, Blake. However, while rushing to greet him, she sees him being abducted and, on trying to intervene,...

A thousand-year secret, hidden at the edge of the galaxy, is the central plot of Syrenthian Redemption. Troy D. Wymer’s two-part space opera follows Sierra Shalinsky, a disaster medic and symphony metal vocalist. She first fights for the rights of two species to love freely,...

Steve Teets’s Between Worlds follows Rob Gryffon, the host of a popular history television series, whose flight home from a holiday in Costa Rica ends with an impossible discovery. Rob arrives in Miami in March 2029, although he boarded his flight in January 2027, and...

As the World Burns by Aaron Ryan is a gripping sci-fi novel that follows fifteen-year-old Cooper Calloway, the most loved and most hated boy alive. A deep-core seismic experiment went catastrophically wrong when he was two. The result left Cooper with the power to unwittingly...

K.M. Gruchelska’s Seven Point Eight: Virago follows Tahra, a gifted remote viewer working with physicist Paul Eldridge on Project OOBE in 1967. When their experimental machine is disrupted by mysterious beings called the Directors, twelve participants become unresponsive; their consciousnesses apparently scattered across alternate dimensions....