Designing a time machine, an inventor learns an important lesson while traveling through time and space in the science-fiction short story Traveler by Chris A Clinkscales. While Scott is working on a breakthrough for his newest engineering design, his wife is upstairs waiting on a...

The Nature Of The Beasts is a work of fiction in the science fiction, thriller, and mystery sub-genres and was penned by author Shawn Corey. The work is intended for the general adult reading audience and contains some graphic violence as well as some mild...

The Ego Cluster by Robert Cole is a frightening glimpse into a world teetering on the edge of the abyss created by climate change, and the related social paralysis due to corporate greed and short-sighted political interests. Scientists discover a set of human genes that...

The Origin of F.O.R.C.E. is the first book in a series by Sam B Miller II. When a small group of humans shoots down an alien spaceship, they realize two things: this is not the last time they will see the aliens, and the aliens...

The Crystalline Planet by S. B. Andresen is a highly symbolic tale on the old topic of good against evil. It is played out on an uncharted planet that emits strong and strange energy lines which catch the attention of Earth dwellers who can see...

The Doomed: Volume 1 by Konstantin Devereaux is a sci-fi novel that explores the different facets of human behavior through its characters. After losing his parents to the Soviet regime at a tender age, child prodigy Alexander Sokolov grows up to become an accomplished scientist...

In a future world, androids who look exactly like humans are programmed as ideal beings incapable of crime (especially murder) until one of them breaks the code and kills a man, and the struggle is on to determine whether androids should even exist. Human law...

The scope of Ian Williams’ collection of six short stories spans the time from the near future to far into the distant future with a range of topics. These cover global issues such as environmental decay and growing waste problems. These also dig into the...

In a distant future, a particularly ordinary guy with nothing to lose sets on an out-of-this-world adventure in Zachary Watson’s The Lost Knight: Awakening. Cieran Kean’s parents died in a car crash, and he has become estranged from his friends after the tragedy. He gets...

The Midas Effect has a very different premise, but it delivers. Author Manuel Dorado turns it into something that is a welcome alternative to the standard superhero and techno-thriller fare. The main protagonist, a young academic named Miguel Le Fablec, is formidable, yet he does...