In Maureen B. Roberts’ fantasy novel An Era in Anddemar, Sanphire Jaide Vardrewan leads the Order of the Seynlight as stars across Anddemar begin losing their light. His beloved Starwing is the Vidar Quain who guards the Dreaming, a realm connecting living forms across worlds....

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 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...

Q. Turner crafts a spellbinding dystopian world in Blood Sacrifice, where the walled Empire of Isulum is a pressure cooker of addiction, caste, and artificial life. It opens with Rita Shor, an impoverished, grieving Ishti woman who lost her children to a pandemic. After years...

Echo of Atlantis: The Ūmdëdŭ Codex by KP Gillen is an enthralling YA fantasy with likeable characters. It has been sixteen years since Grand Elder Elijah Brightwater and his council successfully defeated Maximilian Obsidian, who wanted to open a dimensional gate. The next generation has...

Russ Colson’s Minding Earth is a fascinating anthology that pulls readers right into a series of thought-provoking scenarios where science meets human nature. In one standout piece, a skeptical geologist named Nate decides to investigate a time-travel company, convinced their dinosaur tours are a corporate...

In Sterling Nixon's Acadia: Children of Acadia, two centuries after extraterrestrial forces conquered Earth, the fortified city of Acadia teaches its citizens that they are humanity’s final survivors. Beyond its walls, insectlike creatures called Roaches patrol a ruined landscape while Acadian soldiers earn social status...

Sage Osterberg and Ulysses Kitilson’s A Red Age imagines Irkalla, a dinosaur-ruled world where the Coalition and the Alliance have spent generations turning old grievances into a modern war. When Alliance commander Himalca threatens the Coalition with Nemesis, a weapon built to split the atom,...