In Craig W. Stanfill’s Carbon Zero, Abigail Thompson is an MIT doctoral candidate interning at Intelligenics who creates Xerxes, an artificial intelligence designed to manage networks. During a Fourth of July cookout in Somerville, Abigail demonstrates Xerxes by letting it enter her apartment’s devices. When...

In Marsell Morris’s Alien Offensive Book 1: Nanobot Storm, billions of ten-sided metal objects descend across Earth, reaching every continent and ocean. Each device rights itself before releasing a crystalline mist. Soon, animals of every species begin hunting people with coordinated aggression, leaving cities deserted...

In Adrian Cox’s The Vessel, Isaac Valdez is a laboratory technician aboard a generation ship whose High Stewards teach that every conclusion must remain open. His sister Aurora, confined by a terminal illness, directs his experiments from a room and believes their research may reveal...

Murder on Argus (Particle Death Book 1) by Shawn Conners is a science-fiction murder mystery set in deep space. Earth has long since died, and the survivors of humanity live in deep space on massive stations and suitable planets where habitation is possible. Ruling over...

In Deception, D. Rebbitt’s first book in The Cyborg Wars series, Prince Gregor of the frontier world of Evergreen, an independent principality beyond the Human Empire, drifts through a privileged life. His father, Emperor Mikolavich, wants to unite Evergreen with the neighboring enclave of Berane,...

In James Kinsley’s Parallels, Jeff is a programmer in England whose relationship has ended when unsettling episodes place him inside the life of Jezz, a mercenary fighting the Eltiy’ch, alien invaders occupying western China after First Contact. Jeff wakes up from battles with sensations and...

In Robert Phillips’s 2100, James Lawson is a Canberra businessman who awakens after sixty-five years in cryosleep as medical micros treat the brain tumor that sent him there. His fortune is largely gone, and Australia has become a communal society that relies on medical micros...

The Quantum Gate by Bill Combs is the first book in The Ascension Chronicles series. The story is a metaphysical thriller that blends quantum theory with history and the supernatural. Ethan Cross, a disgraced physicist cast out of academia for his "wild" theories of quantum...

In Retro (The Beast Within) by Mashrur Alam, after his father loses the family’s money, young Montgomery Alum is sent to live with Richard Conwell, a wealthy family friend whose estate conceals ties to terrorist leader Laham Drakuvi. A violent attack destroys Montgomery’s former life,...

Q. Turner crafts a spellbinding dystopian world in Blood Sacrifice, where the walled Empire of Isulum is a pressure cooker of addiction, caste, and artificial life. It opens with Rita Shor, an impoverished, grieving Ishti woman who lost her children to a pandemic. After years...