Steve Parks’s Butterflies of the Cosmic Chaos follows Scott Crockett, a Boston journalist traveling to California for a Rolling Stones concert with Abby Gail “Aggie” Wrightson, his first love and former investigative partner. Decades earlier, Crockett and Aggie became consumed by questions surrounding the Kennedy...

My Dear Humans is a fascinating sci-fi novel by Jean Stranger. We meet Juliet, a robotic wife of her creator, Rayan. A robotic engineer, Rayan spent a decade creating Juliet after his wife left him. It seemed a success, and now Juliet has a business...

Corey Frazier’s ORION: Heavenfall follows Jonathan Garrison, a former soldier who is asked to lead a new team of parahuman operatives for ORION, the orbital organization responsible for protecting Earth from global crises. Nearly twenty years after a disaster almost destroyed public trust in ORION,...

In Orphan of Empire, author S. A. Melia tells the story of Guy Erma, a young undocumented teen raised in a fashion house who dreams of enlisting in the elite Dome Militant defense force. His life suddenly changes during a sparring tournament on Space Platform...

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...