Nat’s House of Echoes is an engaging fantasy novel that focuses on Rian, a teen boy who can hear strange frequencies inside the mechanical structures of his world. After spending his childhood working with fishing nets in a waterlogged community, he travels up to a...

Matthew West-James’s Burning Salt begins with the Jaka, an ancient civilization that has learned to cross between universes through the Nexus after earlier expansion nearly destroyed them. When a rupture starts sending three-dimensional matter into a planar universe, every crossing tears through the two-dimensional environment...

N. Joseph Glass’s Harbinger of Darkness follows Arenna Estanova, a former Earth military commander who now leads an asteroid survey crew aboard The Outlier. Six years after the war between Earth and Mars, Arenna wants the rules and routine of civilian work until her team...

Boris Plamenov Konstantinov’s After Hope follows humanity after a poisoned Earth has forced survivors into seven sealed domes and the decaying settlements around them. Teresa Rodriguez, Chancellor of the United Nations Earth Council, discovers that the water keeping the domes alive may be contaminated. In...

Mihail Băeșu’s Pastborn follows Adam Connor, who wakes up in 2199 with almost no memory of his life and discovers that Earth now belongs to robots. Humans have been illegal since Bill 1 was passed in 2113, yet Adam is technically permitted to exist because...

Russell Cornhill’s Older Than Evil, book three of The Year Reality Broke series, follows Lukas as he crosses the southern continent on the next stage of the quest to defeat the Ultimate Evil and find his missing brother Tomas. The gods who designed his world...

Nature Against by Delenda Carthago starts in a sterile dome city where a computer system controls every human decision. We follow Ziyue, a woman who is done with this forced perfection and just wants an exit from the system, but the rulers won’t even let...

The Vanity of Hope is the first book in the Apostle series by G.W. Langdon. The story follows Thomas Ryder and his fiancée, Sarra Chambers, as they are kidnapped by alien pirates in Alice Holt Forest in 1499. As a result, the lovers are separated...

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...