In Steven Nimocks’s Severance, Elias Reynor is an investigator with the Neural Compliance Division in 2747 SoundCore, where implants regulate feeling and public order depends upon citizens remaining within approved limits. Nine years of exceptional service have made Elias a strong candidate for promotion, with...

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 Schrödinger's Glass by Chris Grall, a major malfunction happens during the first operational simulation of the particle accelerator outside Chicago. Objects across the region transform into strange, unpredictable artifacts with impossible properties. Some freeze everything they touch, some generate searing heat, and some stop...

A forty-five-year-old gambler named Joey Mumbai gets into big trouble with a sectid mobster, Fat Okko. Joey owes him one million Determinations of Official Worth, or dows. Fat Okko finds out that Joey inherited Space Station Halcyon from his billionaire father. The sectid sees an...

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....

“Space may not have been under Earth's jurisdiction, but it had inherited all of Earth's foibles; corruption chief amongst them.” Space is a cruel mistress in Starship Breaker, a novel by G J Ogden. And it isn't really black, it's gray, morally gray, and that's...

In Sleepers, J. B. Velasquez introduces us to Hugo, a single father whose life in Tucson is currently being held together by sheer luck and a dwindling bank account. To save what’s left of his world, he signs on with Lunatech to earn money while...

Son of Osivirius by Cathryn deVries tells the fascinating story of a new world torn between two human factions living on the recently colonized planet, Osivirius: The Colony, ruled by Commander Tun, and the rebels, a smaller group of agrarian-minded people who have hidden themselves...

In Nathaniel Jungheim's Savages of the Bulk, the year is 2286, and Jacob Dawes prepares to join the Terran Joint Expeditionary Forces after graduating in Chicago alongside classmates Miguel Castal, Priya Patel, and Milla Sefira. During their final night together, a violent rooftop attack destroys...

Kip Cassino's Supplicant is a dystopian sci-fi thriller. In the 26th century, the world is divided into fiefdoms, with 200 powerful individuals ruling their territories and extending their lives far beyond the rest of humanity. KAX is a twenty-six-year-old supplicant who serves Grand Master Tyl...