L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 releases its 21st-century edition. This timeless science fiction classic has earned its rightful place in the ranks along with Dune, Hyperion, and Martian Chronicles. For the uninitiated and for those who are merely familiar...

Battle for Eklatros is the first book in the promising Rebalancing the Cosmos Series by Alex Galassi. Eklatros is a peaceful planet, but horrific tragedies occur, and the planet has seen its share of back-to-back conflicts, notably the War for Equality and the Dark War....

Better Off Here is a collection of dystopian short stories by Melissa R. Mendelson. The book begins with the story "In Jellyfish, We Trust," where a young student must pay a hefty price to stay alive. A person fights to live out their numbered days...

Believe by Sohail Malik is a fascinating tale following a young man as he does his best to survive as a religious worshiper in a world where the religious are slaves to the state. Joseph is a firstborn child, which means that at the age...

Carl, the protagonist of Biomass: Rewind by Terry Persun, and his team have a mission: colonize the planet they had decided to call Beauty. Their intelligent spaceship Argentina had dropped them off on the planet after creating them out of biomass. This means that Carl...

Blank by Nanette L. Avery is by far one of the most interesting novellas I’ve read. Imagine the world just reset itself, everything goes blank, and mankind can’t remember the past. No one knows how much time has passed since the blank, no one...

Barons of Oartheca is an ambitious genre-blending space adventure, the second book in James Siewert’s Oarthecan Star Saga, and the merest taste of it will compel you to seek out the first book with haste. It launches into action at lightspeed with a vicious alien...

Book of 5 by Richard T is a collection of 5 stories, all very different. In The Park, we meet otherworldly monks in a monastery. It's transition day, and the new influx of monks is arriving. But then disaster strikes as an Android built by...

Aloe Malone is in paradise. A winning lottery ticket is her key out of a depressing, humdrum life and into the abundance that she always dreamed of during her difficult life. Everything in Blue Haven is perfect, from the tropical location to the lavish condominium,...

At first, Babouc's Vision seems a bit Dickensian, a la A Christmas Carol, as our main character Harl Babouc gets a spectral visit from a phantasm/angel/spirit with a compelling mission. However, in this case, Babouc is more the reporter, tasked with weighing and measuring the good...