The Kikiloa Chronicles: Book One by Erik D. Larson is a sweeping, time-bending adventure that opens at the end of time and then doubles back to San Francisco, two hundred thousand years ago, and everywhere in between. At its center are two characters: Kiki, an...

In Schrödinger's Glass by Chris Grall, a major malfunction happens during the first operational simulation of the particle accelerator outside Chicago. Objects across the region transform into strange, unpredictable artifacts with impossible properties. Some freeze everything they touch, some generate searing heat, and some stop...

Dona Masi’s The Taking follows Vera Diparma, a girl in rural New England whose childhood is marked by lights in the sky and missing hours she cannot explain. Her father, John, raised her in an old house near Pangea after her mother, Suzy, disappeared under...

Arshes Megane has brought her father, Daelen StormTiger, from the past and now faces one more dilemma: she must figure out how to defeat Daelen, who will be the Monster hellbent on annihilating Tempestria in the future. Only one person can help her with this;...

In S.D. Rhodes’s What Hears You, Tara Venn pilots Scout Four into Ilyr before the colony ships and crashes into a marsh world where sound can kill. Alone with injuries she cannot afford and a transponder that only flickers amber, Tara first thinks the local...

Dwayne E Hackett’s People of Nyame: The Emissary begins in 2495, after descendants of the African Diaspora have built the Umoja Compact across the Nyame Cluster. Ashley Walker, a scholar on Ubuntu, waits for permission to study the Dyson Almond, an alien archive vessel near...

In Graceson R. Jones’s Perspicacity, bounty hunter Art pilots Perspicacity, a rare ship run by Percy, an illegal sentient artificial intelligence hidden inside its systems. A paid job on Statun, a ruined planet poisoned by caltum storms, sends Art after stolen Coalition data and pulls...

David R. Beshears’ The Shylmahn Trilogy is a thrilling and expertly crafted science fiction read. The three novels are set in Washington State. In Book One: The Shylmahn Migration, Earth is invaded by a highly intelligent and technologically advanced alien race from deep space. Within...

A forty-five-year-old gambler named Joey Mumbai gets into big trouble with a sectid mobster, Fat Okko. Joey owes him one million Determinations of Official Worth, or dows. Fat Okko finds out that Joey inherited Space Station Halcyon from his billionaire father. The sectid sees an...

Imagine a situation where humankind stands at an evolutionary crossroads. The question becomes whether it is ready for the next step. Paul Anthony explores this significant theme in The Awakening of Humanity. He outlines humanity’s prior contact with an advanced civilization from another world. This...