Two agents of the nearly defunct FBI, Mason and Zahra, are given a seemingly open-and-shut murder case, but their prime suspect reveals a dark secret – the real killer was actually inside the victim’s mind, puppeteering the young boy to his death. In this tech-mad carnival mirror of America’s fractured future, citizens can escape the brutality of life by existing online in a fully immersive augmented reality, but like any digital space, […]
In a dystopic world where the virtual universe constantly crosses over into real life, those who are hungry for power have new, terrifying means to achieve their aims by infiltrating people’s minds. Rose is a mind hacker who is a prisoner in the Southern States of America, accused of having murdered a child by pushing him off a balcony. Two FBI agents sent by the Western States of America sense that something […]
A character-driven leap through a gateway to the future, Archipelago by H R Hawkins is an immersive thrill for fans of cosmic drama and technological prophecy. When a splinter civilization on the edge of the galaxy reaches out with a bizarre message after fifty years, it pulls a long-lost son back into the chaos and beauty of liberated space, for a work of top-shelf sociological science fiction.
Assigned to a high-level delegation to the distant Archipelago cluster, Ren Markov represents multiple interests seeking to re-establish contact after a violent coup cut the “Arc” off from the rest of the galactic […]
A Weapons System Officer wakes up to fractured memories on a devastated and nearly lifeless experimental warship in Prompt Excursion by Lewis S. Kingston, a creative and original work of science fiction.
Johansson is a captivating and fearless protagonist from the very first page, showing a relentless drive to survive, despite nearly impossible odds. As she navigates the clutter and chaos of her slowly returning memories, she begins to piece things together – a mission gone wrong and an explosive attack, which has left her alone on a strange ship, lost in the vastness of space. Sending calls for aid […]
A gritty work of sci-fi that feels ripped from a near-future headline, Naimera: Sapient Quest by Michael Ganzberger is the thrilling second piece of his biosynthetic space saga. After proving their incredible capabilities in bringing down the world’s most dangerous man, the NAIMERA program is enlisted once more for a task that just might end up saving the species.
On Earth, reports of mirage-like flying saucers and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena with impossible abilities have become harder to hide or explain away, heating up an already dangerous arms race for the recovery of this presumed alien tech. Under the guise of […]
In a future world populated by Earth’s exported prisoners, children have ceased to age, remaining trapped in a stagnant physical state, even as their minds progress. Having become enemies of Drimys – a murderous and power-mad king still grieving the apparent demise of his brother, Sergen and his rabble-rousing crew must fight back to prevent the torture and massacre of those deemed “different.” The residents of the dystopian planet Eiyesa must prove that age means nothing […]
A science fiction adventure with some downright Shakespearean twists, Legends of Earth by David Gwinn is a breathless mash-up of police procedural and space opera that is a page-turner from the first page.
When a seasoned cop is pulled into a mind-boggling new case – a woman single-handedly cutting the power and knocking over banks in broad daylight – Officer Sharpe has no idea how deep this new rabbit hole will go. He certainly doesn’t expect it to carry him to the other side of the galaxy – to a planet that seems to desperately need his help.
Tass, the […]
Mason, a curious cameraman, is pulled into the surreality of psychic connections after a beautiful woman begins frequenting his dreams. In the real world, she remains comatose in a mental institution, yet the British government has taken a classified interest in her cognitive abilities. At the same time, a clan of religious zealots is using blackmail, extortion, and murder to climb America’s political ladder, and the connections between the two are disturbing. […]