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...

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...

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...