Don Schechter’s Ascendants is set in Boston in 2060, twenty-five years after The Jacobs Institute has turned death into a blood test and divided society into Ascendants and Biomasses. Dr. Rebecca Teller works inside the Institute hospital while trying to protect her daughters, Maya and...

Reckoning! by David Vincent begins when Jim Saunders, an Atlanta orthopedic surgeon, survives a Zimbabwe elephant hunt that should have ended with every witness dead. The animal that leaves him alive has a red mechanical eye, a detail that reaches Dr. Stephanie Wolff, the new...

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...

The Kikiloa Chronicles: Book One by Erik D. Larson is a sweeping, time-bending adventure that opens at the end of time and then doubles back to San Francisco, two hundred thousand years ago, and everywhere in between. At its center are two characters: Kiki, an...

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...

Dona Masi’s The Taking follows Vera Diparma, a girl in rural New England whose childhood is marked by lights in the sky and missing hours she cannot explain. Her father, John, raised her in an old house near Pangea after her mother, Suzy, disappeared under...

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...