Mich Solo’s novel, Failsafe (The Failsafe Series, Book 1), is a near-future, gripping cyberthriller. Nathan Harris is a sharp data analyst in a U.S. government agency. He is frustrated and extremely puzzled when he encounters an unusual programming problem. He tests a revised code. It...

In Nick Iuppa’s Evolution’s Angels, when four children survive separate disasters, their hospital scans reveal a brain structure that scientists at Leland University have never seen before. Dr. Kathleen Kelly studies Melissa Washington, a Rochester shooting survivor; Ángel Rivera, a Tucson ranch boy; Lillie Allonzo,...

In Eli Quinn’s Godless, every child is branded by a god at age nine, but Cal receives no mark and is cast outside the city’s sanctioned paths. Years later, while working near the Bone Market, he handles a relic taken from a corpse and awakens...

In Richard Paolinelli’s Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe, on Station 1964, a space layover called Norma, private investigator Samuel Archer Spade accepts Natasha Carter’s request for protection from Spencer Holloway, an antiquities dealer linked to a stolen jeweled eagle statue rumored to...

Lynn Hesse’s Part of the Stars begins in 1878, Arkansas, when midwife Myra Logan vanishes after visiting the McCurdy family and wakes inside a mountain cave ruled by pale beings. Her husband Zepeda searches across the winter frontier while Myra’s aunt, Nellie Gatewood, presses officials...

Drones Above, Hell Below by Eric Kay kicks off with an industrial scouting operation gone horribly wrong. Killian is an ordinary pilot trying to earn a paycheck to start a life with his fiancée. But his team's destination is an absolute deathtrap filled with toxic...

China’s Master Race for World Domination by Jack Cox Williams is a political thriller that blends espionage, science fiction, genetic engineering, and global power struggles into a fast-moving narrative centered on the ambitions of the Chinese government. The novel begins with President Xi Jinping reflecting...

In Gypsy McKnight’s Escape from the Shadows, Lola Ward was raised in a mountain cabin by Dr. Preston Ward, the scientist who taught her to pass for human before telling her she was built in a secret government lab. When Agent Rowena Thorne resumes the...

The Long Stall: Out of Phase, an intriguing science fiction story by Matt Rook, is a slow-burning narrative that offers a more mysterious take on a disturbance that is not from this world. Lucas’s family owned the Laguna Lodge near a lake, which had a...

Listed by Keith E. Leger is set in a time where parents have the option to list their unborn babies, allowing the market to invest money in their lives. The list in question has an initial share price, which increases if the child proves to...