A Ray Red by Art Elbin is the first installment in the author's Soul Rays series. It's been classified as a young adult coming of age, but there are so many fascinating elements of science fiction and fantasy that it's hard to fit it into...

In Jewel by TK Rising, the second book in the series, we find Blue Star triumphant over the mighty Godriel, but still left unfulfilled. She yearns for a Universe filled with lush, bountiful lands and blue skies but most of all, Blue Star longs for...

Insynnium is a complex and conceptual work of science fiction penned by author Tim Cole, focusing on the concepts of time and life. The sinister title takes its name from an exclusive sleeping pill, one which restores its sleepers emotionally through powerful, almost magical dreams....

Quinn is the present-day incarnation of an ancient soul, cursed with the memory of his numberless past lives. He is the envoy of an ancient civilization in search of the love and soulmate he lost thousands of years ago. The Emissary by Tamara Veitch and...

Mark Schlack’s strange but compelling novel Replay Earth weaves a complex story line around a collapsing human society on Earth in the not-so-distant future, and an ancient conglomerate of alien beings, intent on fostering intelligent life in the cosmos. In principle, the multi-species Guardians are...

Gillyflower by Diane Wald is a tender and magical story about two sensitive souls who cross a unique kind of path. When Nora Forrest, a talented artist, learns that her longtime crush, Irish actor Hugh Sheenan, will be in Manhattan for the production of...

What the Tiger Said is a gem of literary fiction written by Roger Ladd Memmott. Stress is heavily on the word ‘literary’ in this precise description. Not for any false pretensions of affected literariness, but because this short novel, told with the impetus and in-the-moment...

The Place of Quarantine by Vadim Babenko is an amazing journey inside the mysterious workings of the human brain, how its memory and consciousness remain intact even after death. Theo, a professional theoretical physicist, is shot in the chest by two motorcycle-riding men in...

The Creed — Siren Song is the third book in the Magical Realism Romance Series by Vivi Stutz, a beautiful mix of fiction and the paranormal. Mia is a ballerina who is facing challenges in different areas of her life. First, her boyfriend Gabriel has...

I by Zeyan Zyrus is a book that caught my attention by its very title and I thought I’d be picking up a book on ontology. No, it became something that had the same effect on me as when I read Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke...