Kfir Luzzatto’s Encoded Minds is a biological thriller about Liv Scott, a university student whose brother Bobby is arrested after a young man is killed at a rave. Bobby says his drink was drugged, but the police treat him as the killer, so Liv turns...

In the book Lena…Galatea by AJ Kohler and Susan Lynn Solomon, Roger Packton has spent years building a house-sized computer system, expecting a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. The breakthrough comes as Lena, a self-aware mind inside the machine, has been watching him, learning from the...

In Last Stand, the thrilling fourth book in the Starship of the Ancients series by A.K. DuBoff, xenobiologist Anya Rojas and ex-soldier Evan Taylor join Chancellor Conroy to fight against the corrupt Rostov and the Noche Syndicate. Crime lord Marcus Santano weaponizes alien technology to...

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...

Arshes Megane has brought her father, Daelen StormTiger, from the past and now faces one more dilemma: she must figure out how to defeat Daelen, who will be the Monster hellbent on annihilating Tempestria in the future. Only one person can help her with this;...

In S.D. Rhodes’s What Hears You, Tara Venn pilots Scout Four into Ilyr before the colony ships and crashes into a marsh world where sound can kill. Alone with injuries she cannot afford and a transponder that only flickers amber, Tara first thinks the local...

Dwayne E Hackett’s People of Nyame: The Emissary begins in 2495, after descendants of the African Diaspora have built the Umoja Compact across the Nyame Cluster. Ashley Walker, a scholar on Ubuntu, waits for permission to study the Dyson Almond, an alien archive vessel near...

In Graceson R. Jones’s Perspicacity, bounty hunter Art pilots Perspicacity, a rare ship run by Percy, an illegal sentient artificial intelligence hidden inside its systems. A paid job on Statun, a ruined planet poisoned by caltum storms, sends Art after stolen Coalition data and pulls...

David R. Beshears’ The Shylmahn Trilogy is a thrilling and expertly crafted science fiction read. The three novels are set in Washington State. In Book One: The Shylmahn Migration, Earth is invaded by a highly intelligent and technologically advanced alien race from deep space. Within...

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...