Rodger Fooks’ Where the Feather Falls follows Leo Yonge, a London AI specialist who leaves work for the Greek island of Paxos after becoming uneasy about systems designed to influence human behavior. Hoping for distance from technology that predicts people too well, Leo settles into...

In Quill Holland’s Corrupted Race, years after the Horror is destroyed, and Project RESTORE rebuilds humanity’s damaged worlds, Raith lives on Gaia with his children after having once been Tynan Khidar, the emperor whose identity was overwritten. His attempt at farming is interrupted when the...

Irina Kvistberg’s Continuum follows Lea Voss, a researcher in the Biological Reserve, one of the few places left outside the smooth routines of an optimized future. When an unexplained perceptual event reaches Lea during synchronization, the System labels it harmless noise, yet sealed records connect...

Reed Pederson’s Rise of the AInimals follows Theorin Silverling, heir to Silverling & Sons Circus Extraordinaire, as he steps toward leadership of the famous family business. Theo has spent his life preparing for the circus, but shrinking audiences place its future in question as opposition...

Alexander Heed’s Pulsar: The Time Traveler follows Chase Monadi, an alien from Rhaland whose people developed handheld machines that jump forward through time. After a jump brings him to Earth, Chase spends two years modifying his device so it can travel backward, seeking a lattice...

Larry G Carlson’s Galactic Altruism is a fascinating read that connects the worlds of ocean biology and outer space. We follow Thalassa Brown (Thal), a young woman from Washington who builds a budget-friendly deep-sea sub using Arduino microelectronic circuits. She ends up teaming up with...

In T.R. Schneider’s Siren’s Legacy, the third book in the Zhiva Legacy series, Sirelda Patel, known as Siren Succubus, was raised by pirate warlord Q. Kraig after he killed her family and concealed her true identity. Years later, Siren discovers that Kraig plans to attack...

T.K. Toppin’s The Dark Without follows Dr. Esme Morrant, a genealogist-anthropologist in 7631 whose discovery of an ancient journal threatens everything humanity believes about Sibyl, the woman credited with leading civilization out of a ruined Earth. Scientific testing dates the journal a thousand years earlier...

The Robokid is a science fiction novella by Thomas Chiang. At just fourteen, Eric Miller is already a gifted programmer. After his father gifts him the latest version of the popular family robot, RoboKid, Eric can't wait to personalize its attributes, and he names it...

Mark Munsell’s The Shadow Ephemeris follows Mosaic, an aging Earth-observation satellite whose routine orbit collapses when ground stations suddenly stop answering and a Kessler cascade begins shredding low Earth orbit. With humanity’s commands gone, Mosaic gathers a group of surviving satellites and begins climbing toward...