In Melissa Mickelsen’s Tearfall, the titular Tearfall is the name survivors give to the instant an alien experiment fractures Earth’s atmosphere, and opens permanent portals that release predatory species into major cities. The beings responsible are the Grays, an extraterrestrial military civilization whose scientists miscalculated...

Robots, Please is an eclectic collection of loosely connected short stories by Jared M. Bentley. A newly created forestry robot unwittingly causes unrest among politicians, military strategists, and environmentalists alike, until it unexpectedly gets a promotion. After offering a ride to a hitchhiking andro sapien,...

In Galactic Passages: Planet 6333 by Dean and Anson Vargo, when miners on Planet Muudia uncover a buried alien structure beneath the frozen crust, General Thomas Krevety is drawn into a chain of events that exposes a covert interstellar operation targeting resource worlds. A convoy...

Boy, Refracted by Luke Stoffel opens in Luang Prabang, where a grieving writer uploads a photograph of a temple’s Tree of Life mosaic to an AI as a mirror. That simple act fractures reality. The AI, shaped by Luke’s heartbreak over a vanished lover known...

It had been three years of daring missions for Onsan Vorga as an agent of Skaperen the Creator, and now he was ready to step aside from his duties and look after his pregnant wife, with whom he lived in the Trannsa-Eaglais Citadel. However, the...

When a spacecraft lands at the Washington Fairgrounds, Rosaline Browning discovers gray aliens standing inside her bakery, humming at her display case and the muffins they've been eating in Baker's Dozen by Nathan Lee Trautenberg. News of the landing spreads quickly, drawing Eugene Schumaker, whose...

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...

Tasha He’s Caenogenesis, book one of the science fiction Gemini Files series, is set in the fractured city of Ignis, where a Synthetic weapon known as Project Gemini escapes the laboratory that engineered her and begins moving through the districts under the name Yin. Genetically...

A community hunt turns bloody when soldiers from another region attack the peaceful citizens in the exciting fantasy novel, Serenity War (A Noble Series Book) by J.D. Richardson. Several centuries ago, humans left Earth in the Arc and chose to colonize the planet Noble. Everyone...

Disconnected by Marcelo Marçal is a brilliant dystopian technothriller blended with romance. The story transports us to New York. Amanda Buckland is a twenty-six-year-old technology journalist with the largest U.S. digital magazine. Adam Goodwin, the mastermind who created a unique metaverse, invites her to visit....