Extropia by Jae Darcy is set in a future where the wealthy live wired into a virtual world called the Inside while everyone else survives in the ruins left behind. Bache Parker lost his own connection to that world years ago after a hack went...

Alan Felyk’s The Tatagonian Code follows Daniel Cadence, a Colorado ghostwriter. An unusual meeting with astrophysicist Raleigh Redmond changes his routine when Raleigh claims Daniel has spent seven years connected to a classified project without knowing it. Soon, a blue-green object drops through Daniel’s Subaru...

Tiffany Nieslanik’s Home Planet follows Bryn Rionnag, an astronaut chosen to lead humanity’s first solo mission to Caerus, a distant planet being studied as a possible refuge for an overcrowded Earth. Three days before the launch, Bryn learns she is pregnant, news that could end...

I have just finished reading Imprisoned World by William L Frame. I found this book to be a fascinating piece of science fiction. Imprisoned World introduces us to the basin of Amora, where the people live trapped behind mountains, completely unaware that there is a...

In Steven Nimocks’s Severance, Elias Reynor is an investigator with the Neural Compliance Division in 2747 SoundCore, where implants regulate feeling and public order depends upon citizens remaining within approved limits. Nine years of exceptional service have made Elias a strong candidate for promotion, with...

Time Travel Academy: Kurt Rogers and the Four Crystals of Time by Reginald Williams follows Kurt Rogers, a twelve‑year‑old boy who has spent a year trying to hide an ability that shattered his classroom windows. When an invitation to the Time Travel Academy arrives, he...

Some books entertain you, and others, like A. B. Watts’s Become As God, rewire you. Welcome to Modrinia, the Delivered Kingdom, where magic is outlawed and dreaded to the extent that the citizens only refer to it as “the m-word.” Sleep is a thing that...

It has been more than a decade since the war began on Solara, a world of sprawling lands and isles. It was sparked after the Nightshade Empire, the government that rules most of Solara, launched a persecution campaign against Arcanists, people who can draw on...

Robert F. Glahe’s Rattz On The Prowl follows Christopher “Sludge” Dragoon, a veteran Frontier Space Marine whose mission on Genesis Minor ends with his squad dead and his body carrying ten young Rattz. The creatures are hybrids of Earth rats and Blazant biology whose spread...

S.G. Blaise’s Maddening Marauders, book six in The Last Lumenian series, follows Rhona, a general from the planet Teryn, where elite warriors bond with spirits that give them supernatural battle forms. Rhona never formed that bond, so many of Teryn’s soldiers regard her as unfit...