After spending the greater part of his day contending with a broken toilet, Fares Khalil is certain his day cannot get worse. He immediately has to take that back when a mysterious meteor strikes New York City, and an unusual creature decides to empty its...

Extropia by Jae Darcy is set in a future where the wealthy live wired into a virtual world called the Inside while everyone else survives in the ruins left behind. Bache Parker lost his own connection to that world years ago after a hack went...

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...