It has been more than a decade since the war began on Solara, a world of sprawling lands and isles. It was sparked after the Nightshade Empire, the government that rules most of Solara, launched a persecution campaign against Arcanists, people who can draw on...

Robert F. Glahe’s Rattz On The Prowl follows Christopher “Sludge” Dragoon, a veteran Frontier Space Marine whose mission on Genesis Minor ends with his squad dead and his body carrying ten young Rattz. The creatures are hybrids of Earth rats and Blazant biology whose spread...

S.G. Blaise’s Maddening Marauders, book six in The Last Lumenian series, follows Rhona, a general from the planet Teryn, where elite warriors bond with spirits that give them supernatural battle forms. Rhona never formed that bond, so many of Teryn’s soldiers regard her as unfit...

Jasyn Turley’s Weeks follows Tim and Dakota, soldiers living in Alyeska thirteen years after the Great Calamity turned much of North America into the Dead World. Their latest mission in Colorado has left their brother Phil missing, sending Tim back to Alyeska as Dakota prepares...

Arshes is going after the Monster, her father Daelen StormTiger, to accomplish her ultimate mission: to stop the Monster from annihilating Tempestria. But that’s not the only threat Tempestria is facing. Time is running out as the decaying pocket dimension in which it is trapped...

Kritanut Wattana’s After Us follows Owen, a programmer living in a near-future where artificial intelligence has become part of everyday life. Recently laid off and separated from Jordana and their child, Rowan, Owen is alone in his apartment when every screen delivers the same order:...

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...

In Mendy Sobol’s The Eternal Blue Sky, humanity has left Earth and built colonies on distant planets, where people regain the dreams lost elsewhere in space. Elderly war veteran Eric Stratton lives outside Noahstown until Jenny Harvard arrives, asking him to explain the Dream Wars,...

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...