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 Gypsy McKnight’s Escape from the Shadows, Lola Ward was raised in a mountain cabin by Dr. Preston Ward, the scientist who taught her to pass for human before telling her she was built in a secret government lab. When Agent Rowena Thorne resumes the...

In Mary L Schmidt’s Earth's Last Hope, after seismic activity beneath Yellowstone begins accelerating beyond every existing scientific prediction, President Joyce Zimmerman orders General James Tilson to relocate his family into a classified bunker system beneath Colorado while millions of Americans attempt to escape the...

Exile: Book One of The Dark Mirror Trilogy by Sherri Fulmer Moorer is a wonderful science fiction read. The description begins thus: “Dr. Addison Lybrand’s career ends the moment the object she’s tracking vanishes beyond the heliopause.” What follows after the disappearance of the object...

Escape from Perihelion by Diego Tovar takes place in a scorched, climate-ravaged future, with Earth as a wasteland. The situation is worsened by environmental injustice and extractive capitalism. The people are divided into two classes: the privileged “insiders” of the domed Los Angeles and the...

In Thomas S. Brown’s Echoes of Humanity, when the ship, Ascendant, returns decades after it was declared lost, they find that humanity is now governed by a system called Echo-9 that controls without consent. Beneath the Martian surface, Hera learns that people who have disconnected...

In S.D. Rhodes's Extinction Protocol, after Earth is destroyed, engineer Elias Ward lives inside a sealed Mars colony where their survival depends on strict control of air, food, and movement under Director Hart’s Security forces. As authority tightens, Elias gains access to the colony’s infrastructure...

In Thomas S. Brown’s Echelon: The Cycle Stirs, Maria Kessler survives in the Lower East Spill by mapping patrol routes and drone cycles, until Dr. Elias Roth recruits her to Project Synthesis in Geneva, where her mind synchronizes with an artificial lattice called Echo-9. Through...

Eleven Elements is the first book in the Healing Waters series by Robby Joshi. In the 26th century, humanity is living in a utopian society. Wars, hunger, and social divisions no longer exist. But when this ideal reality is threatened, Commander Max Renner and his...

Elysian's Son by Douglas S. Reed is set in a future ruled by the Unified Sovereign Alliance, where David, a nearly blind boy, lives inside the domed city of Mekhane. After questioning official doctrine at the Academy, he is selected for the Cultivation Project and...