Liam Kincaid’s Operation Lockdown follows Birn “Books” Tylandine and the young agents of the Bayside Insurgents after Fellstone City is sealed under an Imperial lockdown. Books lives inside the Labor Compound with his friends Cheff, Mid, Sable, Lery, and Buttons, a group recently recruited into...

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...

Brent Golembiewski’s Flick of the Switch follows fourteen-year-old Sydney “Syd” Yazzie, a Michigan gamer whose mother accepts five million dollars from a government recruiter to send her to an exclusive academy. Syd expects a school built around video games, but the students are called cadets...

“Everyone knew what they were. Humanoid in shape, monstrous in behavior. Creatures with no soul, no conscience, no desire beyond destruction.” The menace is clear in KOA: Dark Systems by Chris Bankus, a sci-fi tale set in the cold of space sometime in the future....

In R. A. Dines’s How I Hacked the Moon, thirteen-year-old Moon Girl has spent half her life at the Lunar Coding Complex, a corporate school where children maintain the artificial intelligence systems housed in server farms. She is the only fifth-standard Lunie admitted to an...

In Brendan O’Meara’s Sculpted With Steel, book four of the Crafting Humanity series, Federation commander James crosses an engineered ocean into the BlankZone, an isolated territory ruled by the Order. His assignment is to destroy the Odyssey, a military mothership preparing to carry the Order’s...

Time Travel Academy: The Genius List by Reginald Williams is a breakneck sci-fi thriller for fans of time travel. Cindy Sanders is a high school student in Dallas, with the IQ of a genius and a disastrous JROTC record. After solving a time-travel equation, she...

Mark Seader’s Proof of Theory follows Dr. Quinten Trent, a physicist at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, after a one-fifth-second anomaly suggests an object has lost twenty percent of its weight. Quinten believes the reading may point to a way of interrupting gravity itself, so he...

Daniel Royer’s Aben Almighty follows Aben, an Astroknight returning from the Rift war, as his squad is sent to Planet Taggert to secure an alliance with a people who judge outsiders through ordeal. To pass among them, Aben and his team accept mutations that turn...

Jonathan Sears’s Legend of the Last Star Knight: The Dark Realm follows Alex Stone, a Winnipeg teenager flung across time into a galaxy where the ancient Star Knights have become prophecy. Aboard the mining ship The Avenger, Alex works beside Maggie Anderson while hiding how...