In Debbie Hightower’s Christian speculative novel Forged In Flames, after aliens destroy America, surviving colonists on Planet Equinox try to found a human society shaped by Scripture. Mayor Gabriel Lawson leads New Hope, where teacher Gladys Bardick trains children at Heaven’s Gate school to see...

Árpád Váczi’s 2084 is a science fiction story set in a future world. Readers are taken inside a world where almost every part of human life is controlled. It does not matter if it is politics, surveillance, or technology; they all play a role in...

John Raleigh Boyd's Standing Naked In The Wind, book two of The Royal Society of Esoterica series, begins in 1901 London, when scientist Maxwell Jaxon investigates the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn after Aleister Crowley uses clockwork butterflies to turn concertgoers into unwilling thieves....

The Kilns of Jupiter is the first book of the Quelly Clary series by Russ Colson. The scene is centuries into the future when mankind has colonized several planets in the universe. Spaceships transport people for work and tourism, but somewhere there lurks a danger...

Mich Solo’s novel, Failsafe (The Failsafe Series, Book 1), is a near-future, gripping cyberthriller. Nathan Harris is a sharp data analyst in a U.S. government agency. He is frustrated and extremely puzzled when he encounters an unusual programming problem. He tests a revised code. It...

In Nick Iuppa’s Evolution’s Angels, when four children survive separate disasters, their hospital scans reveal a brain structure that scientists at Leland University have never seen before. Dr. Kathleen Kelly studies Melissa Washington, a Rochester shooting survivor; Ángel Rivera, a Tucson ranch boy; Lillie Allonzo,...

In Eli Quinn’s Godless, every child is branded by a god at age nine, but Cal receives no mark and is cast outside the city’s sanctioned paths. Years later, while working near the Bone Market, he handles a relic taken from a corpse and awakens...

In Richard Paolinelli’s Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe, on Station 1964, a space layover called Norma, private investigator Samuel Archer Spade accepts Natasha Carter’s request for protection from Spencer Holloway, an antiquities dealer linked to a stolen jeweled eagle statue rumored to...

Lynn Hesse’s Part of the Stars begins in 1878, Arkansas, when midwife Myra Logan vanishes after visiting the McCurdy family and wakes inside a mountain cave ruled by pale beings. Her husband Zepeda searches across the winter frontier while Myra’s aunt, Nellie Gatewood, presses officials...

Drones Above, Hell Below by Eric Kay kicks off with an industrial scouting operation gone horribly wrong. Killian is an ordinary pilot trying to earn a paycheck to start a life with his fiancée. But his team's destination is an absolute deathtrap filled with toxic...