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 Mendy Sobol’s The Eternal Blue Sky, humanity has left Earth and built colonies on distant planets, where people regain the dreams lost elsewhere in space. Elderly war veteran Eric Stratton lives outside Noahstown until Jenny Harvard arrives, asking him to explain the Dream Wars,...

Richard Cutler’s Carbon Neutral follows Admiral Neil Dodson, who commands four enormous colony ships on a thirteen-year voyage from humanity’s first settlement outside the solar system to Tau Ceti. His crew must locate a habitable planet and build a wormhole Gate that will connect the...

In Craig W. Stanfill’s Carbon Zero, Abigail Thompson is an MIT doctoral candidate interning at Intelligenics who creates Xerxes, an artificial intelligence designed to manage networks. During a Fourth of July cookout in Somerville, Abigail demonstrates Xerxes by letting it enter her apartment’s devices. When...

In Marsell Morris’s Alien Offensive Book 1: Nanobot Storm, billions of ten-sided metal objects descend across Earth, reaching every continent and ocean. Each device rights itself before releasing a crystalline mist. Soon, animals of every species begin hunting people with coordinated aggression, leaving cities deserted...

Murder on Argus (Particle Death Book 1) by Shawn Conners is a science-fiction murder mystery set in deep space. Earth has long since died, and the survivors of humanity live in deep space on massive stations and suitable planets where habitation is possible. Ruling over...

In Deception, D. Rebbitt’s first book in The Cyborg Wars series, Prince Gregor of the frontier world of Evergreen, an independent principality beyond the Human Empire, drifts through a privileged life. His father, Emperor Mikolavich, wants to unite Evergreen with the neighboring enclave of Berane,...

In James Kinsley’s Parallels, Jeff is a programmer in England whose relationship has ended when unsettling episodes place him inside the life of Jezz, a mercenary fighting the Eltiy’ch, alien invaders occupying western China after First Contact. Jeff wakes up from battles with sensations and...

In Robert Phillips’s 2100, James Lawson is a Canberra businessman who awakens after sixty-five years in cryosleep as medical micros treat the brain tumor that sent him there. His fortune is largely gone, and Australia has become a communal society that relies on medical micros...

The Quantum Gate by Bill Combs is the first book in The Ascension Chronicles series. The story is a metaphysical thriller that blends quantum theory with history and the supernatural. Ethan Cross, a disgraced physicist cast out of academia for his "wild" theories of quantum...