Minds of Metal finds Gwen hiking through the forest where she discovers an abandoned laboratory used to experiment with Artificial Intelligence. There, she finds a disassembled female android. At school, she is introduced to Rick, a computer whiz kid, and sparks fly. Determined to reassemble...

In Missing Pieces: The Unleashing of Wynter Mandrel by P.D. Platt, Wynter was fired in a very detached manner by EnerCore Systems after eight years of service. A strange note instructs her to attend an early morning meeting at a place not far from her...

Moonstroke II: Alien Territory by Blaine C Readler continues the saga of Kaitlyn and her nexgen companion. Kaitlyn feels disoriented on Earth and disturbed at how U-P tries to force her into admitting that the space station personnel was at fault for their own abandonment,...

I’m really not surprised that I like a book titled Mayan: Atlantis Returns. Only bad writing and a terrible plot could spoil a book about the return of Atlantis to Earth. Fortunately for fans of ancient mysteries and science fiction action tales, Neil Enoch writes...

The opening paragraph of Mystical Aria: Seeking the Gallion Queen by Jean Neff Guthrie introduces us to a seventh-grade girl, Aria Vanir, who is looking at the stars, dreaming and wondering who lived among them. The aliens who receive her message decide to come to...

MAR Rising by Craig Brusseau kicks off with several scenes from humankind’s history. Starting with the evolution of life on planet Earth, to the years 1588 and 1867, Brusseau introduces the antagonist without identification. These vignettes are short stories in their own right and, to...

Maurpikios Fiddler: The Magical Amethyst of Spes is the second installment of a fantasy series by M.J. Logan. In the first book, The True Meaning of Magic, readers are introduced to young Maurpikios Fiddler with a mission to save his own life and those of...

In Meritropolis by Joel Ohman, the protagonist is 17-year-old Charley. Living in a society after the “Event” that changed the world, Charley is angry at a system that classifies every individual by a merit score imprinted on the forearm. Living in the fortified city...

Living in a small town can have its ups and downs. For Mary, everyone knowing her and her father, who seems to be much too old to actually be her father, is one of the downs. Mary would rather live where she can fade into...

In his ingenious novel My Vacation in Hell, Gene Twaronite explores what hell would be like from the perspective of a young unpopular boy. In hell, John and his friend Virgil face a number of adventurous, even comical situations as they come face to face...