Songbird by Robin Ive is a dystopian tale about a girl with a beautiful voice, a virgin birth and the imminent destruction of civilization by an evil force. The narrative opens in Brighton, a city beset by looting and corruption, after years of attacks by...

Even a minuscule amount of information about our infinite universe would fill a storage device the size of our solar system. Saving Paludis by Clayton Graham is a superb thriller in which the author accepts that interstellar travel, constrained by the onerous limits imposed by...

Soul Mirrors by Wiley Haydon is a well-crafted psychological exploration of a fictional ability called “reflecting”, and the effects it has on twins who are born with the ability. Thomas and Ashley are the first known twins to have the rare power of being able...

Bill Eckel’s Science Fiction Fantasies, Tales and Origins Volume 2, is a compilation of short stories. He tells stories of how humans evolved and where they came from. One of the stories was a bit different, as it was about a witch fighting a demon,...

The teenage boy remembers nothing from before the Welorin attacked Earth, not even his own name. He survives one day at a time, fleeing the deranged aerobics instructors and lawyers reeducated to crave human flesh; and the snatchers—humans working with the Welorin to capture what...

Shepherds always had partners. Then again there was an exception to the rule; Nakio Atana. Her partners either died or found her incompatible, and so Command allowed her to work alone; she was one of their best anyway. That was why they called upon her...

Solitude’s End: Book 1 of Echo's Way by Mike Waller starts in Corros, a small human colony world loaded with a rich mineral needed by the humans in their war against the Tolleani, an alien species and the only other known advanced beings in the...

From the moment of Ayn’s royal birth, his future was predestined. Ayn was the reincarnation of the great Adin and would save his world from turmoil, disease and war. In Shiva XIV: The Shiva XIV Series Book 1, by Lyra Shanti, we meet the young...

It’s 2248, and artificial intelligence has solved all of the world's problems – or so they thought. Life is a virtual utopia for those who have chosen to have their consciousness constantly updated digitally to ensure them immortal life. Death is no longer a problem,...

Combining Star Wars type action with TV sitcom humor can’t be easy. But, somehow Paul Regnier does it and he makes it look easy. The Iron Gauntlet is the second installment in his very original series called Space Drifters. The genre of both books is...