“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 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...

Transcendent by Laren Ruby is a gripping dystopian novel set in 2051, weaving two storylines into a single, deeply compelling story. In one thread, Dr. Marielle Stevenson is a scientist at Fort Hood watching her Super Soldier serum project produce results that terrify her, as...

Downfall by Abigail Morrison is set in Castia, a snowbound city built in strict levels, where engineering student Rebecca Dalton discovers that strange power surges near the great support pillars may be manufactured. When she investigates one signal, she is attacked and wakes up in...

Cyberwood by Benjamin Sonnek is a thrilling YA sci-fi story following Faye Butler, a girl who’s spent her life in her grandmother’s shadow, waiting to become the next technomantress. Only she never expected it to happen quite so soon. A teleportational gate goes wrong, and...

The Crystal Apple by Thomas Stacey follows fourteen-year-old Steve Tikowski in 1980s Detroit, where a broken bicycle chain leads him to an object no one can explain. Near Michigan Central Station, Steve sees the black glass device appear from a small opening in the ground....